1 00:00:07,517 --> 00:00:09,199 Okay, what's for dinner, guys? 2 00:00:09,199 --> 00:00:10,790 Are you guys bringing in takeout? 3 00:00:10,790 --> 00:00:13,103 Are you gonna go somewhere? 4 00:00:13,103 --> 00:00:15,406 Barone is starving. 5 00:00:15,406 --> 00:00:17,027 So what are we eating? 6 00:00:17,082 --> 00:00:19,789 What are our options in this hellhole? 7 00:00:20,483 --> 00:00:23,896 Yeah, I'll tell you what, uh there were definitely a couple. 8 00:00:23,896 --> 00:00:31,763 There was a place with all of its lights on, there was a place with like half of its lights burned out, there was a place with pretty much no lights, and there's fast food. 9 00:00:31,763 --> 00:00:35,737 I'll tell you what, Ryan, I think I got to choose last time. 10 00:00:35,737 --> 00:00:38,519 Do you wanna choose what we're eating tonight for dinner? 11 00:00:39,046 --> 00:00:41,751 How about the place with all the lights on? 12 00:00:42,031 --> 00:00:46,334 You know, that rings so fucking true and I could eat a horse. 13 00:00:46,334 --> 00:00:53,289 So yeah, let's get to it and I'll grab the keys and start walking towards the truck. 14 00:00:53,958 --> 00:00:58,438 Great, you take the brain with you or are you leaving it in the hotel room? 15 00:00:58,593 --> 00:01:01,298 We are not leaving that brain anywhere. 16 00:01:01,298 --> 00:01:03,220 Well, I guess Del has it, so. 17 00:01:03,455 --> 00:01:09,805 No, I think you took specific charge of it because of the call with Butterfield, I assume. 18 00:01:11,055 --> 00:01:17,572 I think so, unless you're the only one who knew that it was of like, don't let it out of your site status, right? 19 00:01:17,572 --> 00:01:18,183 Fair. 20 00:01:18,183 --> 00:01:18,573 Yeah. 21 00:01:18,573 --> 00:01:28,491 So knowing that we are going to go out to the wilderness this time, I think she has her her pack act like packed her M4s in the back of the truck. 22 00:01:28,491 --> 00:01:29,612 Everything's ready. 23 00:01:29,612 --> 00:01:38,591 I think before we go out into the public and she does have her backpack on still, I think she's going to take the brain out and she's going to look at down be like, so like I said, 24 00:01:38,591 --> 00:01:41,709 I don't think I'm compromised, but I would rather oh 25 00:01:41,709 --> 00:01:49,162 you know, somebody with all seven heads on their shoulders to uh maybe hang on to this and I'll hand the brain over to you, 26 00:01:49,343 --> 00:01:50,295 How many did you count? 27 00:01:50,295 --> 00:02:01,212 Yeah, I'll take it and I'll just kind of like tuck it into the side of my coat for now, know, swaddle it up in there until we have a slightly more permanent solution. 28 00:02:02,546 --> 00:02:04,949 Um, you have a backpack, right? 29 00:02:05,462 --> 00:02:06,735 I'm sure there's something. 30 00:02:06,968 --> 00:02:08,250 Cool, great, awesome. 31 00:02:08,250 --> 00:02:10,514 And then, yeah, now we'll make our way to the car. 32 00:02:10,514 --> 00:02:12,436 So I don't have the brain anymore. 33 00:02:12,498 --> 00:02:14,400 Who knows, Dell's got it. 34 00:02:15,131 --> 00:02:20,646 You get behind the driver's seat and you take off toward the diner that you ate at earlier. 35 00:02:20,646 --> 00:02:24,769 You get in there, same menu, order some dinner. 36 00:02:25,310 --> 00:02:28,111 Barone, what are you ordering specifically? 37 00:02:30,058 --> 00:02:42,199 Alright, let's see we have fish and chips and country fried steak and steak fried chicken, country fried chicken, fried chicken, um let's go for chicken and then I'll order country 38 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:49,193 fried steak, fried chicken and half a pizza no two three pizza slices I'm getting the works 39 00:02:49,193 --> 00:02:51,115 Okay, okay. 40 00:02:51,115 --> 00:02:51,716 Great. 41 00:02:51,716 --> 00:02:58,460 The waitress comes out, she's still friendly as ever, calls y'all honey and darlin' along the way. 42 00:02:58,460 --> 00:03:02,803 You get your food, everybody has their food in front of them, you're eating barone. 43 00:03:02,803 --> 00:03:07,885 You start with maybe the chicken, right? 44 00:03:07,885 --> 00:03:12,308 So you cut it with the knife and put the fork in your mouth and you take a bite of the chicken. 45 00:03:12,308 --> 00:03:13,669 The chicken itself, 46 00:03:14,370 --> 00:03:15,792 Whatever, it's not great. 47 00:03:15,792 --> 00:03:20,235 But the feeling of the fork on your tongue makes you salivate. 48 00:03:20,235 --> 00:03:25,320 You start to almost drool a little bit once that fork touches your tongue. 49 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,505 You find yourself, you know how when you have like a... 50 00:03:28,505 --> 00:03:38,851 a sore tooth or like if you have ever got your wisdom teeth taken out, you can't stop putting your tongue in the spot where it was or you can't stop pushing on the part of your 51 00:03:38,851 --> 00:03:40,216 mouth that is sore. 52 00:03:40,216 --> 00:03:44,084 It feels like that as you lick this fork. 53 00:03:44,084 --> 00:03:45,865 It's hard to take it out. 54 00:03:48,024 --> 00:03:49,125 Interesting. 55 00:03:49,125 --> 00:03:50,065 Okay. 56 00:03:50,065 --> 00:03:50,365 Yeah. 57 00:03:50,365 --> 00:03:50,625 Yeah. 58 00:03:50,625 --> 00:03:51,206 Yeah. 59 00:03:51,206 --> 00:03:51,746 Okay. 60 00:03:51,746 --> 00:04:00,200 I think I'll, try and maybe not make that known per se, um, that I have a sudden infatuation with metal in my mouth. 61 00:04:00,281 --> 00:04:04,619 Um, but stick to the foods that require, forks entering, entering my mouth. 62 00:04:04,619 --> 00:04:07,791 So all of the, like, yeah, all of the chicken stuff goes first. 63 00:04:07,791 --> 00:04:09,292 I ignore the pizza altogether. 64 00:04:09,292 --> 00:04:10,193 as I'm 65 00:04:10,193 --> 00:04:11,467 Scarfing this on down. 66 00:04:11,467 --> 00:04:14,708 Am I getting less hungry or just more uncomfortable? 67 00:04:15,988 --> 00:04:18,468 You don't feel satiated, but you feel very full. 68 00:04:18,468 --> 00:04:24,333 Like your body is fed, but there's some like yearning for you that's missing by this meal. 69 00:04:24,333 --> 00:04:31,487 And the fork is, it feels, you wanna swallow it, but you don't, so. 70 00:04:32,236 --> 00:04:33,619 Huh, interesting. 71 00:04:33,619 --> 00:04:38,079 Okay, man, I forgot to even wash my hands. 72 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:41,294 I'm gonna get up and go to the bathroom to wash my hands. 73 00:04:41,602 --> 00:04:51,356 Dell across the way, has it at all been like when a politician is in the back of a press briefing and they're blitzed out of their mind on cocaine and he's just like, like rubbing 74 00:04:51,356 --> 00:04:56,051 his tongue all over the fork and he's just like, play it cool, bro, play it cool. 75 00:04:56,829 --> 00:05:00,823 He's not at that, or excuse me, Barone is not at that point. 76 00:05:00,823 --> 00:05:02,946 she, it seems normal. 77 00:05:02,946 --> 00:05:04,207 She's eating a lot. 78 00:05:04,207 --> 00:05:05,478 She ordered a lot of food. 79 00:05:05,478 --> 00:05:09,462 You're maybe assuming how that she's super hungry. 80 00:05:09,462 --> 00:05:13,214 You also saw her go down to the vending machine and get like. 81 00:05:13,455 --> 00:05:17,559 13 candy bars and five bags of chips and some Slim Jims. 82 00:05:17,559 --> 00:05:20,172 And this meal itself is big, but she slows down. 83 00:05:20,172 --> 00:05:21,152 She doesn't eat the whole thing. 84 00:05:21,152 --> 00:05:30,310 It's just the amount of things that she's eating is maybe weird, but Barone is also pretty ripped and yeah. 85 00:05:30,981 --> 00:05:33,976 Hey man, it's bulk season for Barone, okay? 86 00:05:34,148 --> 00:05:36,866 Yeah, I'm probably not judging. 87 00:05:39,006 --> 00:05:49,686 okay in the bathroom after I wash my hands I'm gonna take one of the quarters from my pocket and I'm gonna put it in my mouth and Then I'm go back to the table 88 00:05:50,470 --> 00:05:55,981 Yeah, you, without even thinking about it, you just swallow it. 89 00:05:57,138 --> 00:06:05,445 What no shit All right Hmm, that's gonna have to come up later one way or another 90 00:06:05,445 --> 00:06:07,787 Barone thinking to herself has never... 91 00:06:07,787 --> 00:06:11,970 she's like thinking about how that thing could pass through and do some damage or not. 92 00:06:11,970 --> 00:06:21,885 I think she turns around, goes into stall and relieves the pressure, if you will, of everything that she ate into the toilet to get that quarter back up. 93 00:06:22,299 --> 00:06:25,918 Yeah, roll con and you want to fail. 94 00:06:25,918 --> 00:06:28,339 I want to fail. 95 00:06:28,559 --> 00:06:33,219 Well that's okay because no, my con is 75. 96 00:06:35,219 --> 00:06:39,069 We passed by one, we got a 74. 97 00:06:39,069 --> 00:06:41,770 Oh man, yeah, it's hard to get it up. 98 00:06:41,770 --> 00:06:42,952 It's staying down. 99 00:06:42,952 --> 00:06:45,913 have an iron stomach, I believe, right? 100 00:06:45,913 --> 00:06:50,799 it's definitely not coming up without significant effort. 101 00:06:52,751 --> 00:06:56,825 Alright, well I guess if you're that stubborn and you want to stay in there, so be it. 102 00:06:56,825 --> 00:06:58,086 hm, fine. 103 00:06:58,086 --> 00:07:01,609 And she washes her hands again and goes and rejoins the table. 104 00:07:04,037 --> 00:07:05,319 Why not a half dollar? 105 00:07:05,319 --> 00:07:07,603 Shit, man, I would have started with a dime. 106 00:07:07,657 --> 00:07:10,818 Yeah man, should have just started with the fucking fork itself, right? 107 00:07:11,184 --> 00:07:17,235 Agent Ryan, I'm curious, having your parade rained on earlier, how are you presenting at this dinner? 108 00:07:17,235 --> 00:07:19,115 I'm pretty quiet. 109 00:07:19,115 --> 00:07:22,577 I am not eating beans, surprisingly. 110 00:07:22,577 --> 00:07:25,241 I opted to order a burger. 111 00:07:25,241 --> 00:07:33,360 And I'm not super hungry, so I'm just kind of taking small bites and not really interacting much with everybody else. 112 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:33,672 Great. 113 00:07:33,672 --> 00:07:35,360 Del, what are you doing for dinner? 114 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:36,263 uh 115 00:07:36,556 --> 00:07:37,536 Uh, yeah. 116 00:07:37,536 --> 00:07:44,220 I kinda imagine this place has a very eclectic menu where they're like, yeah, we could do that. 117 00:07:44,220 --> 00:07:49,203 And so there's like, prime rib on there that they cooked like last Thursday. 118 00:07:49,203 --> 00:07:54,245 But Dell thinks it's like a pretty fancy establishment on account of they have prime rib. 119 00:07:54,245 --> 00:08:00,347 But it comes out like gray and lukewarm, but he doesn't really know any better on account of... 120 00:08:00,348 --> 00:08:02,779 Prime rib is just like what they have in the movies. 121 00:08:02,779 --> 00:08:04,120 It goes down okay. 122 00:08:04,278 --> 00:08:05,639 Yeah, you get a prime rib. 123 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:07,890 It's the best prime rib you've ever had. 124 00:08:07,890 --> 00:08:13,894 um Yeah, so yeah, it's delicious. 125 00:08:13,894 --> 00:08:17,338 Brian looks pretty dour over there. 126 00:08:17,338 --> 00:08:18,508 Barone is eating a lot. 127 00:08:18,508 --> 00:08:21,561 Barone takes off to the bathroom and then comes back. 128 00:08:21,561 --> 00:08:26,364 And are you planning at dinner or are you just gonna set out and start going for it? 129 00:08:28,677 --> 00:08:39,211 No, I think a little plan trying to get Ryan looped into the Barone's idea of the little heist to steal the ATVs. 130 00:08:39,211 --> 00:08:46,539 Let's try and build a little bit momentum on something that's like small potatoes and easy, you know? 131 00:08:46,660 --> 00:08:48,231 But it'll make us feel cool. 132 00:08:50,343 --> 00:08:51,405 Yeah, all right. 133 00:08:51,405 --> 00:08:53,085 So on my thoughts early. 134 00:08:53,085 --> 00:08:54,156 Oh, no, wait, no. 135 00:08:54,156 --> 00:08:54,426 Yeah. 136 00:08:54,426 --> 00:08:56,237 I'll have a banana split as well, please. 137 00:08:56,237 --> 00:08:57,078 Thank you. 138 00:08:57,078 --> 00:09:07,633 so what I was saying before, what we could do is, um, we know that, um, the Ranger station is, empty, here after the sun goes down and she peaks outside, it's dark outside. 139 00:09:07,633 --> 00:09:09,084 So we should be good to go. 140 00:09:09,084 --> 00:09:09,984 I have these keys. 141 00:09:09,984 --> 00:09:15,467 There's three of us, one person to drive the truck, two people to drive each of the ATVs. 142 00:09:15,467 --> 00:09:16,947 We could either. 143 00:09:17,383 --> 00:09:27,668 go back to, well I guess we kind of have to go back the way that we did before and just take the ATVs, we could double up on one of them and maybe you know head out to the site 144 00:09:27,668 --> 00:09:29,241 where the chanting was coming from. 145 00:09:29,241 --> 00:09:30,270 How's that sound? 146 00:09:30,270 --> 00:09:31,103 I love that idea. 147 00:09:31,103 --> 00:09:32,566 Let's do it. 148 00:09:33,624 --> 00:09:34,755 Yeah, fine by me. 149 00:09:34,755 --> 00:09:42,777 I mean, it seems like maybe it'd be good to have a little walkie-talkie and visibility situation set up. 150 00:09:42,777 --> 00:09:45,598 We'd probably be posted up there for a little while. 151 00:09:45,698 --> 00:09:53,962 Maybe we just have some agreed upon protocols, what might call us to action versus observation only. 152 00:09:53,962 --> 00:09:59,133 But yeah, I'm curious to see what Night 2 might hold. 153 00:10:00,897 --> 00:10:04,910 Yeah, I think the name of the game is gonna be Stay Together. 154 00:10:04,991 --> 00:10:13,981 I mean, we've seen enough of those horror movies where if you split the party, obviously you die, and I know I don't want to be alone right now, or pretty much ever again. 155 00:10:13,981 --> 00:10:22,670 So maybe we don't split the party, stay pretty close, and find a vantage point once we park the ATVs near the swamp, I guess. 156 00:10:23,750 --> 00:10:25,352 Yeah, yeah, deal. 157 00:10:25,352 --> 00:10:39,020 Say, when it comes to that algae, if dawn were to rise and there were no nefarious creatures around and we had our way with that swamp, what occurs to you that you might do 158 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:42,612 with that algae, that being out there? 159 00:10:44,878 --> 00:10:45,449 Hmm. 160 00:10:45,449 --> 00:10:53,246 I think in war if somebody retreats they have obviously had it in their mind that they have lost and the will to fight has been taken out of them. 161 00:10:53,246 --> 00:10:58,671 This creature did attack me but it did also retreat as it was defeated. 162 00:10:59,071 --> 00:11:06,516 Del I'm not going to go out my way to kill things that don't necessarily need to be killed but at the same time this is mission number one. 163 00:11:06,516 --> 00:11:11,278 If we need to hunt that down and that is our primary goal here. 164 00:11:12,091 --> 00:11:15,302 You're gonna have to lead the way, but I can follow. 165 00:11:15,654 --> 00:11:18,596 Well, I mean that fish creature... 166 00:11:18,634 --> 00:11:19,458 I mean... 167 00:11:19,458 --> 00:11:27,109 I don't know, maybe it's mighty in its own right, but it seems more like an underling, like subservient. 168 00:11:27,109 --> 00:11:30,872 I'm not so concerned with that as I am... 169 00:11:30,872 --> 00:11:32,954 whatever's bringing them to that place. 170 00:11:32,954 --> 00:11:36,436 That algae, this network, the connection, like... 171 00:11:36,857 --> 00:11:42,261 It seems like something we can't rightly leave behind intact as it is, you know? 172 00:11:42,261 --> 00:11:43,802 If there were some way to... 173 00:11:43,870 --> 00:11:49,050 disrupt this hive, this algae, this connection. 174 00:11:49,590 --> 00:11:50,270 I don't know. 175 00:11:50,270 --> 00:11:52,070 I'm looking for ideas. 176 00:11:52,230 --> 00:11:53,450 Explosives. 177 00:11:54,070 --> 00:11:55,590 Who knows what. 178 00:11:56,178 --> 00:12:00,367 Yeah, I mean, Ryan, tell, do we have any of that? 179 00:12:01,534 --> 00:12:08,689 We got a couple bricks, but I don't know what kind of area we're talking about when we really get down to it. 180 00:12:08,689 --> 00:12:10,649 How about our pilot friend? 181 00:12:10,649 --> 00:12:20,989 Maybe we could do a flyover now that we know where it's located and see what we can see from up above. 182 00:12:22,810 --> 00:12:24,312 Yeah, I'm not opposed. 183 00:12:24,312 --> 00:12:28,790 His window of waiting may have closed, not a problem to give him a try. 184 00:12:28,790 --> 00:12:31,653 Yeah, alright, yeah, sure, let's circle back. 185 00:12:31,653 --> 00:12:36,420 I can tell you right now though, I'm not heading into that swamp unprepared. 186 00:12:36,420 --> 00:12:41,816 mean, this time we're mosquitonet top to bottom with a big old gun in my hand. 187 00:12:41,816 --> 00:12:46,221 Like, in the nighttime, I'm not worried about coming across anybody and being passed as hikers. 188 00:12:46,221 --> 00:12:48,573 Like, I'm coming for him. 189 00:12:49,220 --> 00:12:51,412 Yeah, no, I think that's sound. 190 00:12:51,412 --> 00:13:02,440 Okay, see, it just keeps ticking on my brain that we need to have a plan for whatever this amalgamation is in the middle of this network. 191 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,763 If it's not today, that's fine, but keep it in your minds if you please. 192 00:13:07,244 --> 00:13:07,995 Yeah, for sure. 193 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:11,218 I say we get to next steps when we get to next steps. 194 00:13:11,219 --> 00:13:13,721 Step one, get the check. 195 00:13:13,882 --> 00:13:15,244 Somebody's going to have to pay that. 196 00:13:15,244 --> 00:13:17,567 Step two, fetch the ATVs. 197 00:13:17,567 --> 00:13:22,061 Step three, go to the swamp and hope for a chanting circle to give us next directions. 198 00:13:22,061 --> 00:13:27,028 I think if we don't get that step three, then we figure it out from there. 199 00:13:27,643 --> 00:13:28,283 Yeah, alright. 200 00:13:28,283 --> 00:13:36,364 Yeah, I'll walk on up to pay the check and the woman's like nursing a hand cramp as she is writing out the itemized receipt for the bureau. 201 00:13:38,462 --> 00:13:39,043 Perfect. 202 00:13:39,043 --> 00:13:42,945 You get the check, she gives you very gracious goodbyes. 203 00:13:42,945 --> 00:13:50,648 You get in the car and are kitted up and ready and drive out to Boggy Depot State Park. 204 00:13:50,648 --> 00:13:55,692 It is after nightfall and you know the Ranger station closes by then. 205 00:13:55,692 --> 00:13:58,153 So you just roll in and straight there. 206 00:13:59,989 --> 00:14:00,930 Yeah, I think so. 207 00:14:00,930 --> 00:14:08,665 uh Barone, yeah, with Barone driving, knowing that the Ranger station is closed, I think we go right on in. 208 00:14:08,665 --> 00:14:11,266 I mean, I think we maybe stealth it a little bit. 209 00:14:11,266 --> 00:14:15,519 And when we get close to the station, we turn the lights off and roll the truck in. 210 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:18,922 then, yeah, I mean, let's start from there. 211 00:14:18,922 --> 00:14:23,726 Let's turn the lights off and roll the truck in uh once we get close to the station itself. 212 00:14:24,474 --> 00:14:26,915 Yeah, you're able to flip the lights off. 213 00:14:26,935 --> 00:14:28,436 There's no gate or anything. 214 00:14:28,436 --> 00:14:31,518 Doesn't get enough traffic to warrant that. 215 00:14:31,778 --> 00:14:38,942 And you roll up to the station, you see the ATVs there, the lights are off, there's no truck parked out there. 216 00:14:39,402 --> 00:14:40,284 Okay, great. 217 00:14:40,284 --> 00:14:45,912 I'll assume Dell's back in the back and I'll open the little slidey window. 218 00:14:46,013 --> 00:14:49,328 Alright, have either of you two driven an ATV before? 219 00:14:50,173 --> 00:14:56,275 not in there I've already jumped out to the side to go and make sure the computer monitor is off inside. 220 00:14:57,248 --> 00:15:01,133 Definitely a no on the ATV driving from me. 221 00:15:01,598 --> 00:15:08,003 Alright Ryan, I'll tell you what, you take the wheel here, Dell and I, clearly he's a man of stature so he's for sure done this before. 222 00:15:08,003 --> 00:15:13,480 I'll scoot out of the driver's seat, grab the keys and start walking towards the ATVs. 223 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:19,769 Dell in the office, you see that everything is shut down and it's quiet. 224 00:15:20,387 --> 00:15:21,469 Okay, yeah. 225 00:15:21,469 --> 00:15:25,972 Just for future reference, is there a window that looks in to get a view of the computer? 226 00:15:26,773 --> 00:15:30,477 Okay, I think that's all I was interested in, is just a quick peek. 227 00:15:30,477 --> 00:15:34,880 Then I'll go and find Barone near the ATVs. 228 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:36,481 Cool, great. 229 00:15:36,481 --> 00:15:46,513 I'll have put the keys in one, started it up for you, left it in neutral slash park, whatever, switch to the other one and start that up so you could hop on and we could go 230 00:15:46,513 --> 00:15:48,846 with as little hesitation as possible. 231 00:15:48,846 --> 00:15:50,697 We don't wanna be here longer than we have to. 232 00:15:54,413 --> 00:15:57,846 So you guys drive to that original trailhead or? 233 00:15:59,225 --> 00:16:00,236 Yeah, I think so. 234 00:16:00,236 --> 00:16:11,557 think since, you know, she is very much about route planning and knowing where stuff is and being able to draw a map in her mind, you know, resonates back to her time driving 235 00:16:11,557 --> 00:16:15,841 convoys and knowing the area and having a scout session done, if you will. 236 00:16:15,841 --> 00:16:17,011 That's the point of entry. 237 00:16:17,011 --> 00:16:18,192 We know where we're going. 238 00:16:18,192 --> 00:16:20,724 We know where the hostiles were. 239 00:16:20,724 --> 00:16:23,196 I think that's, that's our point of entry. 240 00:16:24,058 --> 00:16:28,261 Great, you get up there, it gets to the point where the truck can go no further. 241 00:16:28,261 --> 00:16:33,444 So Agent Ryan, you have to stop the truck and you're waiting to get out on the trail. 242 00:16:33,444 --> 00:16:35,816 Which ATV is Agent Ryan jumping on? 243 00:16:35,816 --> 00:16:38,365 I'll jump in with Agent Barone. 244 00:16:40,393 --> 00:16:41,946 Yeah, figures. 245 00:16:41,946 --> 00:16:43,328 hop right on. 246 00:16:43,328 --> 00:16:46,574 um Don't forget your bag or anything else you need as well. 247 00:16:46,574 --> 00:16:52,122 And you'll see she has her backpack on her back with her uh M4 strapped to it. 248 00:16:52,123 --> 00:16:53,404 I'm ready to go. 249 00:16:54,768 --> 00:16:55,888 Great. 250 00:16:55,954 --> 00:16:59,427 Both of you roll me a drive as you're getting out into the swamp. 251 00:16:59,981 --> 00:17:00,743 Sure. 252 00:17:02,328 --> 00:17:03,989 No, 80 fail. 253 00:17:04,685 --> 00:17:05,945 Oh no. 254 00:17:05,945 --> 00:17:08,145 Alright, I'm looking for a 70. 255 00:17:08,145 --> 00:17:10,705 I get a 32 success. 256 00:17:11,485 --> 00:17:12,286 Great. 257 00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:12,913 You don't. 258 00:17:12,913 --> 00:17:16,135 crash or anything Dell, it just takes you a little longer. 259 00:17:16,135 --> 00:17:19,257 Barone, you start out going first. 260 00:17:19,257 --> 00:17:24,580 It seems like Dell's having some trouble keeping it on the trail and following you. 261 00:17:24,580 --> 00:17:27,823 You're going probably a little faster than usual. 262 00:17:27,823 --> 00:17:33,346 So maybe you slow it down a little bit to let him catch up, but you're starting to lose a little time to get out there. 263 00:17:33,346 --> 00:17:39,572 It's not clear if time is important right now, but you're starting to get to the point where the boardwalk 264 00:17:39,572 --> 00:17:42,224 is do you drive on the boardwalk? 265 00:17:43,869 --> 00:17:45,069 Hmm, let's see. 266 00:17:45,069 --> 00:17:54,969 Yeah, probably ATVs are I don't know 300 400 pounds which is roughly two grown people in this boardwalk is Supposed to be able to support much more than that. 267 00:17:54,969 --> 00:17:58,061 So I think yeah, we drive right over the boardwalk 268 00:17:58,061 --> 00:17:58,382 Great. 269 00:17:58,382 --> 00:18:08,395 Starts again, rattling in your heads as you're flying over this boardwalk and you get to the sawgrass. 270 00:18:08,395 --> 00:18:10,717 Are you just pushing through it? 271 00:18:12,482 --> 00:18:14,043 Yeah, we... 272 00:18:14,043 --> 00:18:15,224 well, okay, let's see. 273 00:18:15,224 --> 00:18:23,088 When you say we get to the Sawgrass, so off of the boardwalk, there's kind of a dirt trail for a while and then it splits in the two directions. 274 00:18:23,228 --> 00:18:27,170 And there's like a swampy, moggy area. 275 00:18:27,170 --> 00:18:28,751 Is that where... 276 00:18:28,751 --> 00:18:33,414 that direction, is that where the crash was and where I got assaulted and where we're heading? 277 00:18:33,414 --> 00:18:34,174 Or... 278 00:18:34,688 --> 00:18:49,008 Yeah, so you yeah, so on the boardwalk you can see in the distance the algae area of the swamp right off to your left and to get there it's pretty watery next to the boardwalk 279 00:18:49,008 --> 00:18:55,403 with the ATV you'd have to go through the sawgrass and circle around to where you walked to it before you were assaulted. 280 00:18:55,403 --> 00:18:56,305 Does that make sense? 281 00:18:56,305 --> 00:18:57,247 to say yes? 282 00:18:57,247 --> 00:18:58,047 Sure. 283 00:18:58,047 --> 00:19:07,595 I think that the ATVs, we know there's a clear dry walking path from the boardwalk to the town and then there's the Moggy Swampy area. 284 00:19:07,595 --> 00:19:10,157 I think we don't want to push our luck with ATVs. 285 00:19:10,157 --> 00:19:15,011 We know that this is going to get us to the town and beyond and a quick escape. 286 00:19:15,011 --> 00:19:16,903 I think we leave them on the trail. 287 00:19:16,903 --> 00:19:18,224 Nobody's going to come across them. 288 00:19:18,224 --> 00:19:24,108 So I'm going to pull up and park and say, all right guys, I think it's probably a foot from here on in. 289 00:19:26,746 --> 00:19:38,163 well I was gonna take a thread out of my like sewing patch kit, very thin, nothing to it, and I will tie it tree to tree so that if we were walking back and we couldn't see as 290 00:19:38,163 --> 00:19:45,835 we've stashed them off to the side like under the underbrush or whatever, like we will be notified that we are at the place where they are. 291 00:19:46,340 --> 00:19:47,385 brilliant. 292 00:19:47,842 --> 00:19:50,926 Great, you're able to mark it, no problem. 293 00:19:50,926 --> 00:19:54,820 Dell, you have a night vision scope that is not attached to your rifle. 294 00:19:54,820 --> 00:19:56,733 You can attach it or you can use it. 295 00:19:56,733 --> 00:20:02,600 Agent Ryan, you have the night vision goggles and Barone, you also have a set of goggles. 296 00:20:02,927 --> 00:20:03,308 I do? 297 00:20:03,308 --> 00:20:04,621 Okay great. 298 00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:06,985 Yeah, I forgot about that entirely, yeah. 299 00:20:06,985 --> 00:20:09,248 Alright, goggles on I guess. 300 00:20:09,982 --> 00:20:12,766 Yeah, I'll take the minute to equip mine. 301 00:20:12,766 --> 00:20:17,982 All right, so where are you trying to set up the, quote, ambush or stake out point? 302 00:20:17,994 --> 00:20:24,678 think I want to be able to have eyes on as many places of interest in the swamp as possible. 303 00:20:24,678 --> 00:20:31,203 Like decidedly the place, the origin of the footprints and the chanting circle, any sort of impact point. 304 00:20:31,203 --> 00:20:36,625 Like, you know, maybe this is 30 feet up in a tree and we make a rope nest for... 305 00:20:38,584 --> 00:20:41,150 little canopy for the night. 306 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,453 There are plenty of trees that are still pretty low hanging. 307 00:20:46,453 --> 00:20:51,620 So you wouldn't get 20 feet up in one, but you could get a good 10, 15 if you wanted. 308 00:20:51,620 --> 00:20:52,497 They're small. 309 00:20:52,497 --> 00:20:53,812 If it helps, yeah. 310 00:20:53,812 --> 00:21:05,744 Yeah, you get to the area where the sawgrass was and you assume the ritual happened where you found a lot of the footsteps or excuse me, the footprints and the place where you saw 311 00:21:05,744 --> 00:21:08,658 the trail of something being drug earlier. 312 00:21:09,006 --> 00:21:15,015 and you can set up and hide in the sawgrass or you can walk into the swamp a little bit and get into the tree. 313 00:21:15,015 --> 00:21:25,038 There's not a vantage point that can see through the sawgrass where the ritual likely was because the trees are a little further from that point, but you can go in there if you 314 00:21:25,038 --> 00:21:25,788 like. 315 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:33,180 How exposed would Dale feel being perched up there to other outside observers in the swamp? 316 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,860 Like if he went into the tree to get that vantage point. 317 00:21:38,180 --> 00:21:40,420 How exposed would he be? 318 00:21:40,707 --> 00:21:43,743 you're closer to any flying object that comes over. 319 00:21:43,743 --> 00:21:44,868 That's what comes to mind. 320 00:21:44,868 --> 00:21:50,220 Okay, but not especially to like line of sight people on the ground. 321 00:21:50,689 --> 00:21:54,427 you feel like if they weren't looking, they wouldn't see you up there. 322 00:21:54,992 --> 00:21:57,142 Alright, then I'm gonna go for it. 323 00:21:57,633 --> 00:22:01,853 Great, give me an athletics or decks, whatever's higher. 324 00:22:03,051 --> 00:22:05,411 Yeah, let's try Dex. 325 00:22:05,611 --> 00:22:07,366 Yeah, 47 out of 75. 326 00:22:07,366 --> 00:22:11,363 All right, get up the tree with your pack, have your rifle out. 327 00:22:11,363 --> 00:22:12,968 Agent Brome, what were you gonna say? 328 00:22:13,774 --> 00:22:26,821 I was just gonna say yeah, Barone's gonna help Dell up and be like, hell you, help him up and then take out her M4 at the ready, sitting at the base of the tree, I assume next to 329 00:22:26,821 --> 00:22:27,939 Agent Ryan. 330 00:22:29,064 --> 00:22:33,697 Is the ground like a trail, like a dirt trail at this spot? 331 00:22:34,072 --> 00:22:43,868 You've passed through the trail and have gone into the sawgrass and then passed the sawgrass to the forest, but you can stay in the sawgrass, you can even stay back at the 332 00:22:43,868 --> 00:22:44,259 trail. 333 00:22:44,259 --> 00:22:46,081 It's all near each other. 334 00:22:46,312 --> 00:22:47,182 OK. 335 00:22:47,182 --> 00:22:57,788 Yeah, I was thinking I would be on the dirt trail near the sawgrass, just kind of like making a triangle with our bodies to get kind of full coverage. 336 00:22:58,009 --> 00:23:02,961 Also using my night goggles and ready with my gun as well. 337 00:23:04,024 --> 00:23:04,425 Love it. 338 00:23:04,425 --> 00:23:11,769 Once Barone settles in, she'll kind of uh hunker down next to the tree and look over at Ryan and give a little like okay sign. 339 00:23:11,769 --> 00:23:12,820 Ryan does nothing. 340 00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:13,980 Ryan flips you off. 341 00:23:13,980 --> 00:23:14,900 No, I'm just kidding. 342 00:23:15,085 --> 00:23:20,127 No, I just yeah, I see that and I just give a little head nod. 343 00:23:21,511 --> 00:23:21,862 Great. 344 00:23:21,862 --> 00:23:24,345 So everybody roll me luck, or excuse me. 345 00:23:24,345 --> 00:23:25,987 Del, roll me alertness. 346 00:23:25,987 --> 00:23:27,629 Agent Barone, roll me luck. 347 00:23:27,629 --> 00:23:29,822 And then Agent Ryan, roll me alertness. 348 00:23:29,822 --> 00:23:32,022 Yeah, 002, that'll do. 349 00:23:32,707 --> 00:23:33,588 Jesus. 350 00:23:33,588 --> 00:23:34,740 What'd you get, Agent Ryan? 351 00:23:34,740 --> 00:23:36,629 I got fail 82. 352 00:23:36,985 --> 00:23:37,337 Okay. 353 00:23:37,337 --> 00:23:38,133 Wrong. 354 00:23:38,133 --> 00:23:40,173 Barone rolled a 46 silver. 355 00:23:40,173 --> 00:23:42,813 Luck is just 50-50, right? 356 00:23:43,273 --> 00:23:45,653 So success, 46 of 50. 357 00:23:46,690 --> 00:23:58,764 Great, you're sitting there, Agent Barone, looking around and you're just starting to get settled in and you notice that the swamp is very quiet. 358 00:23:58,764 --> 00:24:02,087 There aren't the insects. 359 00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:05,366 there's not a lot of other things happening. 360 00:24:05,366 --> 00:24:12,598 You would think that you could hear even the ghost town from there if anything was going on there, but it's quiet there as well. 361 00:24:15,155 --> 00:24:29,728 Dell from the tree, you are scanning around and through your scope, through the canopy behind you, not towards the sawgrass, you catch, it almost looks like a hand against a 362 00:24:29,728 --> 00:24:37,664 tree trunk about 10 meters behind you, right behind where Agent Barone is posted up against the tree. 363 00:24:37,664 --> 00:24:44,576 Okay, is the hand like in the process of retracting itself or is it just hanging out? 364 00:24:44,576 --> 00:24:45,619 just there. 365 00:24:46,815 --> 00:24:50,124 Okay, is Barone looking at me? 366 00:24:50,124 --> 00:24:56,379 Could I give a little two finger wave to get attention real quick? 367 00:24:57,177 --> 00:24:59,638 or maybe a red-bellied woodpecker whistle. 368 00:25:00,073 --> 00:25:02,458 Yeah, wanna, inaudible would be preferable. 369 00:25:02,458 --> 00:25:03,823 Sorry, what did you say? 370 00:25:05,621 --> 00:25:10,122 I just said with the luck roll, Barone was actually looking up at you. 371 00:25:10,252 --> 00:25:10,592 Got it. 372 00:25:10,592 --> 00:25:11,434 Yeah, okay. 373 00:25:11,434 --> 00:25:12,376 Then I will... 374 00:25:12,376 --> 00:25:14,519 We've got like some commands down. 375 00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:25,850 I'll give two completely fake nonsense commands and then the third one is like a get-a-load-of behind you, you know, with like a degree of specificity and hopefully you 376 00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:27,723 can see what I'm seeing. 377 00:25:28,667 --> 00:25:31,550 Barone looks at you and mouths, what the fuck? 378 00:25:32,092 --> 00:25:37,810 And then catches the third signal and then spins on her heel with the M4 aimed in the right direction. 379 00:25:38,430 --> 00:25:47,337 Yeah, you look behind you and pass the tree that you were up against. 380 00:25:47,337 --> 00:25:52,343 In the night vision, there's some flicker to it based on the ambient light and... 381 00:25:52,853 --> 00:26:02,219 you just thought you at first think it's just another one of those junkie kids passed out against a tree, like had too many beers or went on too much of a bender. 382 00:26:02,219 --> 00:26:08,773 And you first clock the limp bizkit $3 bill y'all hoodie. 383 00:26:08,773 --> 00:26:12,736 And the kid has a hat laying on his shoulder. 384 00:26:12,736 --> 00:26:15,978 But the fabric is stained with red. 385 00:26:15,978 --> 00:26:19,123 So maybe he's not passed out and 386 00:26:19,123 --> 00:26:25,418 As you scan down his body, there's nothing below his waist other than entrails hanging out of it. 387 00:26:25,418 --> 00:26:26,998 There are no legs there. 388 00:26:26,998 --> 00:26:30,841 The face, now that you notice it, is slack-jawed. 389 00:26:30,841 --> 00:26:35,285 His acne is even white at this point. 390 00:26:35,285 --> 00:26:36,205 There are... 391 00:26:36,306 --> 00:26:47,575 It looks to be tear marks all over his midsection where you can see his skin and you see a filthy converse off to the side with blood all over it. 392 00:26:49,332 --> 00:26:50,176 What do do? 393 00:26:51,266 --> 00:26:53,437 Ah shit, we got him killed. 394 00:26:53,437 --> 00:26:54,983 Um... 395 00:26:55,147 --> 00:26:56,159 Okay. 396 00:26:58,188 --> 00:27:00,872 This doesn't look to have happened just now. 397 00:27:00,872 --> 00:27:04,102 This looks to be something that was old. 398 00:27:06,016 --> 00:27:07,593 It seems earlier. 399 00:27:07,593 --> 00:27:09,211 Yeah, it's hard to tell. 400 00:27:09,211 --> 00:27:09,642 earlier. 401 00:27:09,642 --> 00:27:12,774 Yeah, for sure. 402 00:27:12,774 --> 00:27:20,958 Okay, Barone's gonna look up to Del and do like the sign for like eyes and like on herself. 403 00:27:21,338 --> 00:27:25,442 And then she's gonna start springing that trap. 404 00:27:25,763 --> 00:27:27,033 Let's see what we got here. 405 00:27:27,033 --> 00:27:30,685 And I'm gonna stay low and... 406 00:27:30,986 --> 00:27:34,527 Let's say like crouch walk in that direction 407 00:27:35,701 --> 00:27:39,642 You walk over slowly, go ahead and give me a stealth roll. 408 00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:43,406 impact grenade in teeth. 409 00:27:43,705 --> 00:27:45,265 Yeah right. 410 00:27:45,785 --> 00:27:48,205 Okay stealth we're looking for a 30. 411 00:27:48,965 --> 00:27:49,725 No. 412 00:27:49,725 --> 00:27:50,705 Oh my god. 413 00:27:50,705 --> 00:27:51,805 It's a 77. 414 00:27:51,805 --> 00:27:53,545 That's a crit fail. 415 00:27:53,685 --> 00:28:04,538 Okay, you walk and you get close to the body and there is a god-awful smell coming from it. 416 00:28:04,538 --> 00:28:08,852 It smells like the swamp water mixed with a coppery rot. 417 00:28:08,852 --> 00:28:12,034 You are in a slaughterhouse suddenly. 418 00:28:12,034 --> 00:28:15,917 It just is an overwhelming stench of death. 419 00:28:15,958 --> 00:28:25,338 and you get a little lightheaded and you fall down for a brief second, blackout on the ground and hit the ground. 420 00:28:25,718 --> 00:28:30,958 Agent Dell, UC Barone's form just kind of slapped against the ground. 421 00:28:30,958 --> 00:28:32,078 What do you do? 422 00:28:33,961 --> 00:28:34,611 yeah. 423 00:28:34,611 --> 00:28:47,969 mean, I am leaping 10 feet out of the tree into the muck, pulling my boots the two and a half feet out of the mud hole that I just created and trudging my way over as fast as I 424 00:28:47,969 --> 00:28:49,129 possibly can. 425 00:28:49,682 --> 00:28:50,994 You run over to Brone. 426 00:28:50,994 --> 00:28:53,796 She's on the ground just waking up, blinking. 427 00:28:54,458 --> 00:28:59,423 Agent Ryan, can you roll alertness once again for me? 428 00:28:59,913 --> 00:29:01,238 Yes. 429 00:29:01,334 --> 00:29:07,054 I got a 65 fail out of 45. 430 00:29:07,290 --> 00:29:14,813 Okay, you are staring across, you see Barone take a fall and you're focused on that. 431 00:29:14,813 --> 00:29:23,496 Before you know it, out of the water, a figure starts bolting towards the shore, towards where Del and Barone are. 432 00:29:23,496 --> 00:29:32,538 You don't get a chance to get off a shot, but you see it and it briefly turns around and you see a large gash. 433 00:29:32,538 --> 00:29:34,150 where it was stabbed recently. 434 00:29:34,150 --> 00:29:41,119 And the face is a distorted parody of a human from that distance to the night vision. 435 00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:43,561 And it has a... 436 00:29:45,701 --> 00:29:54,557 deja vu effect on you when it turns and looks at you, there's a grin on its face that you swear you recognize. 437 00:29:54,589 --> 00:29:58,557 Where do do I know where I recognize it from? 438 00:29:59,629 --> 00:30:01,147 Not in this moment. 439 00:30:03,897 --> 00:30:04,768 Dell. 440 00:30:05,251 --> 00:30:05,852 go ahead. 441 00:30:05,852 --> 00:30:06,888 Sorry, Agent Ryan. 442 00:30:06,888 --> 00:30:07,990 No, go ahead. 443 00:30:07,990 --> 00:30:08,889 Go ahead. 444 00:30:08,889 --> 00:30:19,020 Yeah, this thing is charging up now after it's looked back and seen agent Ryan Dell, can you roll me a dodge as this thing dives for your back to gouge it? 445 00:30:19,042 --> 00:30:23,307 yeah absolutely 50 flat is plenty hell yeah 446 00:30:23,326 --> 00:30:36,007 Great, so you hear this thing squishing out of the swamp, you are half expecting this trap and you roll to the side and throw this thing off of you as it makes contact and it lands 447 00:30:36,007 --> 00:30:37,237 on the ground. 448 00:30:38,238 --> 00:30:39,519 It is your turn. 449 00:30:41,086 --> 00:30:55,005 Yeah, the three point landing, the third point is the barrel of my gun, which I put a thumb into to squeeze the plug of Pete out that is now entrapped in there. 450 00:30:55,005 --> 00:31:06,172 And then I am just going to put it on full auto and bring it up blasting so that there's 12 shots in the muck before it gets to the feet of this creature. 451 00:31:06,585 --> 00:31:08,180 Yeah, give me the firearms roll. 452 00:31:08,180 --> 00:31:12,193 You will hit this creature, but we just wanna look for crit fails. 453 00:31:12,193 --> 00:31:13,075 uh 454 00:31:13,384 --> 00:31:16,297 All right, not today, just to 10. 455 00:31:16,592 --> 00:31:18,391 Beautiful, gimme lethality. 456 00:31:20,755 --> 00:31:23,615 Beautiful words, beautiful words. 457 00:31:24,135 --> 00:31:26,095 55 for 10 total. 458 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:37,120 All right, your rifle careens up this creature and it's midsectioned and it just hits it one shell after another. 459 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:45,207 And one of them hits it straight in the jaw, tears off its jaw, the back of its head explodes and it flops on the ground beside you. 460 00:31:45,607 --> 00:31:47,768 Agent Barone, you were looking through night vision. 461 00:31:47,768 --> 00:31:51,210 The muzzle flash has temporarily blinded you. 462 00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:52,781 Agent Ryan, yeah. 463 00:31:52,781 --> 00:31:55,833 Agent Ryan also, it's very bright as it's gone off. 464 00:31:55,833 --> 00:32:00,696 You almost like put your hand in front of your like face, but then hit your goggles a little bit. 465 00:32:00,696 --> 00:32:04,658 And there is another one coming straight at you. 466 00:32:04,742 --> 00:32:06,978 Agent Ryan, but it is your turn. 467 00:32:06,978 --> 00:32:12,410 What are you doing as this thing is lifting itself from the swamp right at your feet? 468 00:32:12,410 --> 00:32:15,030 Definitely taking a shot with my gun. 469 00:32:15,208 --> 00:32:20,068 All right, roll your firearms and at this range you have a plus 20. 470 00:32:20,252 --> 00:32:23,872 Okay, thank God, because it's not very high to begin with. 471 00:32:24,852 --> 00:32:29,672 Oh my God, just failed at 44 out of 40. 472 00:32:29,972 --> 00:32:31,828 Oh, that's a crit fail too. 473 00:32:31,828 --> 00:32:35,030 Yeah, yeah. 474 00:32:35,030 --> 00:32:36,531 You are startled. 475 00:32:36,531 --> 00:32:48,781 The muzzle flash has added a strange artifacting to your eyes as you look down and you point down and shoot and realize that you had the safety on. 476 00:32:48,781 --> 00:32:52,503 You will have to take your next turn getting the safety off. 477 00:32:52,503 --> 00:32:58,522 um Agent Barone, you are on the ground. 478 00:32:58,522 --> 00:33:05,601 this dead thing next to you blinking out the artifacts in your eyes as the night vision has blinded you. 479 00:33:05,601 --> 00:33:06,744 What are you doing? 480 00:33:07,411 --> 00:33:18,643 can't well how well how well can i see at this point am i like hey you don't you kind of don't have a turn ish or can i see well enough to do something 481 00:33:20,106 --> 00:33:29,778 you would probably have to use your turn to get up and survey because you are laying on the ground looking up at Dell as he has just blasted this thing. 482 00:33:31,273 --> 00:33:35,269 Um, yeah, I think, the, next thought is, okay, the, trap is sprung. 483 00:33:35,269 --> 00:33:36,601 Maybe they're not the only one. 484 00:33:36,601 --> 00:33:37,912 I think that's exactly what I do. 485 00:33:37,912 --> 00:33:46,540 I'm going to use my turn to get up, get back to back with Dell, and pull the rifle up to the ready and do, do a quick scan around the area if I could please. 486 00:33:46,540 --> 00:33:56,336 Yep, as you're scanning, you clock something coming out of the water at Agent Ryan's feet, and then you see the gun, or you see him pull out his gun and fiddle with it. 487 00:33:56,336 --> 00:33:57,818 You're not sure what's happening over there. 488 00:33:57,818 --> 00:33:59,339 It's a little far away. 489 00:33:59,641 --> 00:34:01,873 Okay, but I don't have time to take a shot yet, correct? 490 00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:10,191 Okay, as I'm seeing it, I'm at least gonna uh reach behind me and tap Del's shoulder and point in the direction of Ryan. 491 00:34:11,690 --> 00:34:12,031 Great. 492 00:34:12,031 --> 00:34:18,979 Agent Ryan, roll your dodge as this thing reaches up to grab your leg and yank you into the swamp. 493 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,799 Kiddoke, I got an 82. 494 00:34:24,359 --> 00:34:26,424 I'm just killing it over here. 495 00:34:26,424 --> 00:34:39,172 You feel the claws wrap around your calf and just yank at you and you slip down and your ass hits the dirt path and it starts yanking you towards the water the claws are starting 496 00:34:39,172 --> 00:34:44,077 to dig into the muscle of your, or muscle through your pants. 497 00:34:44,077 --> 00:34:45,838 Delsin Dusky, it is your turn. 498 00:34:47,361 --> 00:34:53,989 Uh, yeah, help me with the distance of Ryan to creature, creature to water. 499 00:34:55,300 --> 00:35:03,859 So they, the creature is holding Ryan and you are about 20 meters from there. 500 00:35:04,305 --> 00:35:09,293 and the creature submerged still just moving towards the water. 501 00:35:09,710 --> 00:35:14,243 It is moving towards the water and fully out of it right now. 502 00:35:14,243 --> 00:35:21,347 It stood up out of the swamp as if it were like a crocodile in weight laying there and has stood up to get pole Ryan in. 503 00:35:21,347 --> 00:35:23,588 It's bent over, but yeah. 504 00:35:23,618 --> 00:35:31,165 Yeah, it seems like both of these folks have not like maybe been in an active combat situation with night vision involved. 505 00:35:31,165 --> 00:35:42,213 But Dell, kind of like you would see a journeyman welder, like hold the welding torch in one hand and use his mask or his shield and kind of like check back and forth, right? 506 00:35:42,213 --> 00:35:43,273 Not really wearing it. 507 00:35:43,273 --> 00:35:50,386 He's going to use the night vision scope until he fires and there's just like a single shot where he pulls it away from his vision. 508 00:35:50,386 --> 00:35:55,406 and he uses the muzzle flash to like, you know, plug the gap while it's away. 509 00:35:55,446 --> 00:36:00,426 And he's just gonna fire a few single shots as he charges straight towards Ryan's position. 510 00:36:01,246 --> 00:36:03,326 Firearms coming at ya. 511 00:36:03,406 --> 00:36:10,434 That's an 82, which is exactly what my new firearm score is, god damn. 512 00:36:10,434 --> 00:36:11,888 Whoa. 513 00:36:11,888 --> 00:36:12,819 Damn. 514 00:36:13,133 --> 00:36:14,614 get it doll. 515 00:36:15,207 --> 00:36:16,420 Boom. 516 00:36:16,763 --> 00:36:18,543 Lethality, baby. 517 00:36:19,463 --> 00:36:20,783 An 8 and a 3. 518 00:36:20,783 --> 00:36:22,203 11 points. 519 00:36:23,382 --> 00:36:28,873 Yeah, you shoot and it hits this creature right in the head. 520 00:36:28,873 --> 00:36:34,471 Black goo flies all over your face, Agent Ryan, as this thing is. 521 00:36:34,471 --> 00:36:37,033 Seemingly exploded right in front of you to you. 522 00:36:37,033 --> 00:36:48,684 It's like the entire world as it was right on you you just see a split and some flesh fly up in the air and are blinded as your night-vision goggles are covered in its blood and 523 00:36:48,684 --> 00:36:52,307 You feel its grip slacken on your body 524 00:36:54,099 --> 00:36:56,807 Thank God, because that was really painful. 525 00:36:58,349 --> 00:37:00,043 Yeah, I think Dell keeps on running. 526 00:37:00,043 --> 00:37:01,786 He's just like, don't touch my man. 527 00:37:01,786 --> 00:37:04,703 And he like gives a, like a flying drop kick. 528 00:37:04,703 --> 00:37:07,459 Cause like, it's still kind of stuck into you, right? 529 00:37:07,459 --> 00:37:09,973 Not entirely clear that it's dead dead. 530 00:37:11,090 --> 00:37:14,874 Yeah, you kick it fully off of Agent Ryan's body. 531 00:37:14,874 --> 00:37:17,360 It is undoubtedly dead though. 532 00:37:19,658 --> 00:37:22,141 You hear Barone, you're still alive, huh? 533 00:37:22,141 --> 00:37:24,733 And she fires two shots into the ground next to the thing. 534 00:37:24,733 --> 00:37:25,823 I got him. 535 00:37:25,823 --> 00:37:26,564 Don't worry. 536 00:37:26,564 --> 00:37:29,765 It's I got him also too, Del. 537 00:37:29,885 --> 00:37:35,000 And then I'll uh kind of run over and be like, holy shit, is there more? 538 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:35,380 I don't. 539 00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:39,862 And then she's going to spin around to see if any more are coming at him. 540 00:37:40,213 --> 00:37:42,091 Yeah, Dell turns towards the water too. 541 00:37:42,091 --> 00:37:46,384 They'd be brave motherfuckers as we ch-ch-ch the rifle. 542 00:37:46,384 --> 00:37:48,429 They be brave, tell they be brave. 543 00:37:49,208 --> 00:37:52,044 Agent Barone, roll your alertness. 544 00:37:54,011 --> 00:37:54,952 sure. 545 00:37:55,392 --> 00:37:57,932 Alert, we are pretty good at that. 546 00:37:57,932 --> 00:38:02,832 We're looking for 81 and a roll of 56, success. 547 00:38:03,610 --> 00:38:09,168 In the distance, you see one of their heads watching from the water. 548 00:38:09,168 --> 00:38:10,005 What do do? 549 00:38:10,005 --> 00:38:11,988 Oh, fuck, guys, there... 550 00:38:11,988 --> 00:38:13,611 That wasn't a joke, there are more. 551 00:38:13,611 --> 00:38:14,081 Over here. 552 00:38:14,081 --> 00:38:19,080 And I'll, you know, shake my muzzle in the direction. 553 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,944 But I saw exactly where it was, correct? 554 00:38:22,036 --> 00:38:23,882 Yeah, you can fire if you want. 555 00:38:25,317 --> 00:38:26,296 Absolutely. 556 00:38:26,296 --> 00:38:29,967 I whisper under my breath, pop pop, and pull the trigger. 557 00:38:30,730 --> 00:38:31,963 me that firearms. 558 00:38:31,963 --> 00:38:34,563 So we needed a 53. 559 00:38:35,243 --> 00:38:37,363 We got an 81. 560 00:38:37,363 --> 00:38:39,063 So that is a fail. 561 00:38:39,323 --> 00:38:40,524 It's a tough shot. 562 00:38:40,524 --> 00:38:42,587 You know, it's just a little oval in the ground. 563 00:38:42,587 --> 00:38:50,656 You shoot and it goes over its head a little bit, hits the swamp, causes a big splash and the thing dips under the water. 564 00:38:51,978 --> 00:38:53,459 What's everybody doing? 565 00:38:53,654 --> 00:38:55,273 shit, I tried man. 566 00:38:55,273 --> 00:38:57,240 I just he's over there 567 00:38:58,410 --> 00:39:01,185 Honestly, I'm kind of just having fun at this point. 568 00:39:01,185 --> 00:39:06,976 I don't know how many of these vermin there are, but something tells me we might not even be making a dent. 569 00:39:06,976 --> 00:39:11,450 Well, we do have a direction to make a dent, if you will. 570 00:39:11,552 --> 00:39:13,776 Ryan, how are you, are you okay? 571 00:39:13,776 --> 00:39:18,985 Yeah, and I'm just scooting back on my butt because my leg is pretty fucked up. 572 00:39:18,985 --> 00:39:23,661 But I can see what you're seeing, and I try to take a shot as well. 573 00:39:25,577 --> 00:39:26,655 Yeah, shoot. 574 00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:27,596 Roll it. 575 00:39:28,747 --> 00:39:30,662 got that safety figured out. 576 00:39:30,662 --> 00:39:33,151 yeah, do I still need to the safety off? 577 00:39:33,184 --> 00:39:38,206 You're out of turn order, but yeah, you have enough time to turn the safety off and shoot at where it was. 578 00:39:39,359 --> 00:39:42,751 my god, I got exactly 20, which is what I needed. 579 00:39:43,253 --> 00:39:52,041 All right, you shoot and it hits the exact spot where you think it was or is, but nothing happens as it hits the swamp where it disappeared into. 580 00:39:52,041 --> 00:39:56,000 I have also seen that Mythbusters and know that water actually does stop bullets. 581 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,503 Okay, okay. 582 00:39:58,546 --> 00:39:59,286 Yeah. 583 00:39:59,286 --> 00:40:02,166 And Agent Ryan, can you roll me intelligence times five? 584 00:40:03,454 --> 00:40:04,503 Yes. 585 00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:08,575 43 out of 80. 586 00:40:09,589 --> 00:40:17,338 Yeah, you absolutely remember that when you were looking at the footprints, there were six or seven sets. 587 00:40:17,530 --> 00:40:19,629 You mean back on ritual night? 588 00:40:19,732 --> 00:40:21,275 Back on ritual night, yep. 589 00:40:21,275 --> 00:40:24,697 Yeah, there's probably definitely three or four more out there, guys. 590 00:40:24,697 --> 00:40:36,235 Alright, mean, springing the trap was definitely my plan there to get the upper hand, but I think now that's sprung, we're heading into territory that's not our own, and they 591 00:40:36,235 --> 00:40:37,926 probably have the advantage. 592 00:40:39,682 --> 00:40:48,542 Yeah, I mean, I'm more than willing to hear out your proposals of how we advance from here, but it does not seem like a straightforward proposition. 593 00:40:50,246 --> 00:40:51,439 No, definitely not. 594 00:40:51,439 --> 00:40:54,315 And he disappeared into the water, correct? 595 00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:57,149 Yeah, it dipped under the water right after you took your shot. 596 00:40:57,149 --> 00:40:59,893 And then Agent Ryan was like, pop! 597 00:40:59,893 --> 00:41:01,995 And just hit the water where it was. 598 00:41:03,688 --> 00:41:04,132 Hmm. 599 00:41:04,132 --> 00:41:15,174 Yeah, I mean, I don't think I don't think Barone has any willpower in her to dive back into that water at night time after what happened last time in the middle of the day. 600 00:41:16,958 --> 00:41:18,097 I am. 601 00:41:20,096 --> 00:41:25,811 I'm gonna take a Limp Bizkit body and try and float it out there. 602 00:41:25,811 --> 00:41:40,129 Alright a bit morbid, but sure I'll give him a helping hand And I'll grab the dirty converse and roll it over my hands and be like well Dell Ryan I think they got Cheryl as 603 00:41:40,129 --> 00:41:42,240 well just So everybody knows 604 00:41:43,509 --> 00:41:49,034 Agent Barone, as you're going for the body and helping Del, can you roll your sanity? 605 00:41:50,584 --> 00:41:54,448 absolutely I can ah 606 00:41:54,448 --> 00:41:56,295 rigor mortis biscuit. 607 00:41:57,473 --> 00:41:58,496 God. 608 00:41:58,496 --> 00:41:59,171 my god. 609 00:41:59,171 --> 00:42:00,338 uh 610 00:42:00,338 --> 00:42:01,978 Uh, I failed. 611 00:42:01,978 --> 00:42:04,878 Yeah, my current's 49, I got 76. 612 00:42:04,913 --> 00:42:08,863 Okay, give me a d4 for sand loss. 613 00:42:08,863 --> 00:42:11,483 Roll low two right in the middle. 614 00:42:11,511 --> 00:42:14,372 Okay, are you projecting that or are you just gonna take it? 615 00:42:15,868 --> 00:42:18,136 two, two. 616 00:42:18,136 --> 00:42:18,908 Let's project it. 617 00:42:18,908 --> 00:42:21,146 I haven't had a chance to project recently. 618 00:42:21,146 --> 00:42:22,169 Let's do that. 619 00:42:22,169 --> 00:42:24,753 which bond do you want to project it on of your bonds? 620 00:42:24,753 --> 00:42:26,024 Yeah, sure. 621 00:42:26,024 --> 00:42:28,626 Let's see. 622 00:42:29,968 --> 00:42:30,788 Oh, okay. 623 00:42:30,788 --> 00:42:35,513 Yeah, let's project it on uh Jackie, my uh rival shop mechanic. 624 00:42:35,513 --> 00:42:40,338 She was always the person that pushed her to get better at her skill. 625 00:42:40,338 --> 00:42:48,074 And out here, she's definitely feeling like she's losing that friendly rivalry as she is not getting anything right out here. 626 00:42:48,227 --> 00:42:50,740 Yeah, it's been a tough go at it. 627 00:42:50,740 --> 00:42:54,865 Go ahead and roll that D4 again to see how much you can actually project. 628 00:42:55,250 --> 00:42:55,522 Sure. 629 00:42:55,522 --> 00:42:57,168 We got a one. 630 00:42:57,168 --> 00:42:58,125 I got a one. 631 00:42:58,125 --> 00:43:03,075 so you lose one willpower and one from that bond, but you only take one sanity loss. 632 00:43:03,308 --> 00:43:03,760 sure. 633 00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,715 you're able to get the body out onto the swamp and throw it out there. 634 00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:11,939 Any special description for that or are you just throwing it out there? 635 00:43:11,981 --> 00:43:19,638 I mean it hardly qualifies as chum, but I am effectively trying to chum the waters, right? 636 00:43:19,638 --> 00:43:28,826 Trying to see if we can encourage anything that to come to the surface to disturb it to give us a window to fire even just briefly. 637 00:43:30,959 --> 00:43:32,445 Okay, you throw it out there. 638 00:43:32,445 --> 00:43:33,273 Give me one second. 639 00:43:33,273 --> 00:43:33,867 I'll go ahead, sir. 640 00:43:33,867 --> 00:43:44,347 and so like we might get like a long stick or something like that so that we could prod it at intervals and make it look like it is moving through deeper into the swamp, at least 641 00:43:44,347 --> 00:43:45,958 just a little bit, right? 642 00:43:47,685 --> 00:43:48,607 Beautiful. 643 00:43:50,123 --> 00:43:51,025 Yeah, for sure. 644 00:43:51,025 --> 00:43:54,608 As, Dell is doing that, I think everybody's on high red alert. 645 00:43:54,608 --> 00:44:02,034 So I think, Barone is, you know, in a, um, single knee down position waiting for her shot. 646 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,669 Agent Ryan, are you aiming at the area as well? 647 00:44:06,259 --> 00:44:07,779 I am, yeah. 648 00:44:07,799 --> 00:44:13,619 Pretty not stuttery, because I'm in a lot of pain, there nonetheless. 649 00:44:13,853 --> 00:44:14,474 all right. 650 00:44:14,474 --> 00:44:18,558 So each of you are gonna add 20 % if anything pops out. 651 00:44:20,355 --> 00:44:22,115 see if anything pops out. 652 00:44:24,261 --> 00:44:37,518 This corpse starts to sink a little bit and like a crocodile turning prey over, you see a arm and then a backside pull this thing over and roll on top of it. 653 00:44:37,518 --> 00:44:40,991 So its back is now above the water. 654 00:44:42,133 --> 00:44:43,784 Agent Brone, you can take your shot. 655 00:44:43,784 --> 00:44:45,935 Agent Ryan, you can take your shot as well. 656 00:44:46,007 --> 00:44:54,327 absolutely here we go 53 hmm I failed with a 79 657 00:44:55,959 --> 00:44:58,192 Is that with 20 % plus? 658 00:44:58,711 --> 00:45:01,831 Oh, um, yep, yep. 659 00:45:01,831 --> 00:45:04,831 So it'd be 73 and I failed with a 79. 660 00:45:04,856 --> 00:45:05,776 Pop pop. 661 00:45:07,704 --> 00:45:12,489 two shots off, both of you miss and it goes under the water quickly. 662 00:45:12,489 --> 00:45:14,946 Well, it's not likely to fall for that again. 663 00:45:15,403 --> 00:45:17,543 No, yeah, probably not. 664 00:45:17,961 --> 00:45:20,215 Right, well, options as you see them. 665 00:45:20,215 --> 00:45:23,919 I don't know how much more effectiveness we have on the combat front. 666 00:45:23,919 --> 00:45:31,247 If we care to stick around for ritual chances, I think they're slim, but we's already out here. 667 00:45:31,247 --> 00:45:33,580 What else do you see in our cards? 668 00:45:33,580 --> 00:45:35,142 Hmm. 669 00:45:35,142 --> 00:45:36,722 yeah. 670 00:45:36,722 --> 00:45:40,144 Taking a look back around. 671 00:45:40,145 --> 00:45:51,693 So before when we waded out to the semi-clear area, I could look down and I could see, like a, not an orb, but like an egg-shaped thing in the water, correct? 672 00:45:53,216 --> 00:45:55,179 No, it was a head, right? 673 00:45:55,179 --> 00:45:57,093 The head came out of the water, basically. 674 00:45:57,093 --> 00:45:57,528 Yep. 675 00:45:57,528 --> 00:45:58,378 I'm misremembering. 676 00:45:58,378 --> 00:45:58,748 was the head. 677 00:45:58,748 --> 00:46:00,409 That was the first time we were here. 678 00:46:00,409 --> 00:46:05,724 Not even the second time when we saw something crash, but there was, there was a path before that. 679 00:46:05,724 --> 00:46:12,127 We saw something where something was pulled from the water and drug in a direction and it had pushed the grass down. 680 00:46:12,788 --> 00:46:15,529 Which way was, which way was that? 681 00:46:15,980 --> 00:46:22,232 you would just keep walking deeper into the swamp pass where you found that kid's body. 682 00:46:23,510 --> 00:46:26,273 Okay, yeah, I mean, you're right. 683 00:46:26,273 --> 00:46:35,634 don't, Delvin, I'm sorry, I botched that too, but the only other lead I could think of is when we were here before, there was that path where something was drugged kind of back 684 00:46:35,634 --> 00:46:39,869 that way, and I point in the direction of where it looked like something was drugged before. 685 00:46:39,869 --> 00:46:42,702 That's all I got, because I'm not going in that water. 686 00:46:43,084 --> 00:46:45,985 Well, shoot, mean, we's already here if we want to go take a look. 687 00:46:45,985 --> 00:46:47,668 I'm curious just like you. 688 00:46:48,150 --> 00:46:48,857 Yeah, let's. 689 00:46:48,857 --> 00:46:51,103 Ryan, uh how's your leg? 690 00:46:51,221 --> 00:46:52,741 Not very good. 691 00:46:52,741 --> 00:46:56,441 Yeah, is there a way for me to know like how badly I am injured? 692 00:46:56,599 --> 00:46:57,915 Yeah, roll a d6. 693 00:46:59,008 --> 00:46:59,992 I love 694 00:47:01,823 --> 00:47:02,558 sick. 695 00:47:02,558 --> 00:47:03,427 Five. 696 00:47:05,123 --> 00:47:06,779 You can barely stand on it. 697 00:47:06,779 --> 00:47:07,554 no. 698 00:47:07,554 --> 00:47:08,455 Well. 699 00:47:09,327 --> 00:47:10,471 Who knows? 700 00:47:10,892 --> 00:47:16,095 Okay, well I'm probably not uh walking very far from where I'm at then. 701 00:47:18,469 --> 00:47:28,660 Yeah, I think maybe I will go back to the ATVs and fetch up a couple of tent poles I imagine we packed at least one tent in our bag in case we had to spend the night out here 702 00:47:28,660 --> 00:47:36,499 and I'll fix up like you know with duct tape like something that will Splint your your leg to at least make it a little more bearable to walk 703 00:47:36,757 --> 00:47:41,063 Okay, the ATVs are about a 10 minute walk and a seven minute jog from there. 704 00:47:42,802 --> 00:47:45,431 At the ATV, can you roll your alertness? 705 00:47:45,431 --> 00:47:46,513 Oh, sure. 706 00:47:48,696 --> 00:47:52,022 44 critical success. 707 00:47:53,401 --> 00:47:54,223 Nice. 708 00:47:54,223 --> 00:48:08,612 start wrapping, I know, I know, man, you start creating this makeshift leg splint and you catch out of your peripheral vision something low to the ground, stocking up to flank you. 709 00:48:09,132 --> 00:48:11,513 You have first action, what do you do? 710 00:48:11,755 --> 00:48:27,402 yeah, I continue as though I had not noticed with like my path undisturbed and then I am simply going to, it's off to my right, I will roll off to my left and do a quarter turn 711 00:48:27,402 --> 00:48:29,843 and fire, as I do a little back tumble. 712 00:48:30,432 --> 00:48:31,285 Great. 713 00:48:31,594 --> 00:48:32,517 Roll it. 714 00:48:33,283 --> 00:48:38,163 Firearms, 28 is plenty low enough. 715 00:48:38,263 --> 00:48:42,303 Lethality says a 1 and a 7, 8 points of damage. 716 00:48:42,422 --> 00:48:53,214 Okay, you fly backward, the recoil pushes you back even further as you're firing and the three shots hit it. 717 00:48:53,214 --> 00:48:56,857 It is still coming and now it is running fast for you. 718 00:48:56,857 --> 00:49:01,941 It dives for you, roll your dodge, minus 20, cause you're on the ground. 719 00:49:02,169 --> 00:49:05,328 Yeah, no, the minus 20 does me in. 720 00:49:05,328 --> 00:49:16,216 Okay, roll a D6 as this thing runs and dives on you with a death wish and rakes your shoulder down to your chest. 721 00:49:17,711 --> 00:49:19,467 one man I hope it was worth 722 00:49:20,268 --> 00:49:22,574 Yeah, so you take one damage. 723 00:49:22,574 --> 00:49:24,317 It's a little bit of a scratch. 724 00:49:24,317 --> 00:49:25,620 It feels deep though. 725 00:49:25,620 --> 00:49:26,962 You start to bleed. 726 00:49:26,962 --> 00:49:28,363 It is back to you. 727 00:49:30,553 --> 00:49:34,181 I mean, it was my favorite shirt after all. 728 00:49:34,424 --> 00:49:35,946 Yeah, I think... 729 00:49:37,543 --> 00:49:53,064 I think I have a combat knife on the end of my gun that will kind of like swivel out almost like a bayonet that affixes into place and I'm gonna do one of those and just like 730 00:49:53,064 --> 00:49:55,196 charge this thing right in the sternum. 731 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,236 Yeah, it's laying on top of you. 732 00:49:58,236 --> 00:50:02,104 You just have to reposition to stab it in the side of the sternum. 733 00:50:04,011 --> 00:50:04,658 And it's gonna. 734 00:50:04,658 --> 00:50:08,381 as a majestic looking but we're gonna try it all the same 735 00:50:08,381 --> 00:50:10,253 you're fumbling on the ground with it. 736 00:50:11,352 --> 00:50:11,880 That's right. 737 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,395 Is this a melee weapon? 738 00:50:13,565 --> 00:50:15,056 Yep, melee weapon. 739 00:50:15,918 --> 00:50:23,529 Okay, yeah, let's try no 59 just a little too high. 740 00:50:23,529 --> 00:50:33,429 All right, the maneuver is too high and goes over its back and it cuts it a little bit, but does not find purchase. 741 00:50:33,809 --> 00:50:35,389 It comes back at you. 742 00:50:35,389 --> 00:50:42,009 It opens its mouth and tries to come down to bite at your neck. 743 00:50:42,429 --> 00:50:43,600 Roll a dodge. 744 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:44,991 note 84. 745 00:50:45,004 --> 00:50:51,831 Okay, it digs its mouth into your collarbone, just missing your neck. 746 00:50:51,831 --> 00:50:53,553 It starts to rip out a chunk. 747 00:50:53,553 --> 00:50:55,954 Give me another D6 of damage. 748 00:50:57,856 --> 00:50:58,782 6. 749 00:50:58,981 --> 00:51:00,797 Hey, what's your HP at? 750 00:51:02,248 --> 00:51:03,037 CX. 751 00:51:03,138 --> 00:51:03,997 Okay. 752 00:51:05,699 --> 00:51:09,693 Okay, you are very, very injured. 753 00:51:09,693 --> 00:51:11,840 You have one more action before you pass out. 754 00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:12,861 What do you do? 755 00:51:14,310 --> 00:51:16,421 Yeah, I mean, it's just like up on me, right? 756 00:51:16,421 --> 00:51:25,946 So I had gone for a stab, gun interposed between us, it grapples onto me, like thrust up towards my chin. 757 00:51:25,946 --> 00:51:32,709 I'm going to draw it down to get it underneath its rib cage and I'm gonna brat-brat right up through its spinal column. 758 00:51:33,661 --> 00:51:34,233 Fire it. 759 00:51:34,233 --> 00:51:35,853 No whammies, baby. 760 00:51:35,853 --> 00:51:38,733 That's an 83. 761 00:51:39,193 --> 00:51:41,573 Which is... 762 00:51:41,573 --> 00:51:43,113 Yeah! 763 00:51:43,473 --> 00:51:44,561 Yes, I do. 764 00:51:44,561 --> 00:51:45,213 All right. 765 00:51:45,213 --> 00:51:49,417 It tries to claw at you, but it's dark and misses. 766 00:51:49,417 --> 00:51:53,700 Give me a contest to see if you can stay awake. 767 00:51:54,380 --> 00:51:56,900 That's 20-0 and I needed a 55. 768 00:51:56,900 --> 00:51:57,523 We all right. 769 00:51:57,523 --> 00:52:01,069 Okay, you're able to stay awake. 770 00:52:01,450 --> 00:52:04,317 You cannot shoot your firearm. 771 00:52:04,317 --> 00:52:06,420 What can you, what are you going to do? 772 00:52:07,786 --> 00:52:12,012 Yeah, there is a knife in my boot at all times. 773 00:52:12,012 --> 00:52:19,179 And it's coming out and like all of, I guess all of these maneuvers have looked relatively practiced, right? 774 00:52:19,179 --> 00:52:23,102 As though it's like, what is the best thing to do in this situation? 775 00:52:23,102 --> 00:52:29,156 Allow me with as much surgical precision and practiced hand, carry that out. 776 00:52:29,156 --> 00:52:39,856 When this knife comes out, there is a wild flailing like somebody who, you know, has no skill with this thing at all. 777 00:52:39,856 --> 00:52:44,836 It is like pure primal instinct stabbing. 778 00:52:45,196 --> 00:52:47,076 And it seems good enough with a 30. 779 00:52:47,076 --> 00:52:48,196 That'll hit. 780 00:52:49,669 --> 00:52:54,352 It critically failed its dodge, so you're able to stab it where? 781 00:52:55,717 --> 00:52:56,718 It's on my neck. 782 00:52:56,718 --> 00:52:59,214 We're kind of like dogpiling on each other. 783 00:52:59,214 --> 00:53:06,549 It's this like very futile rush to see who can snuff the other one out the fastest. 784 00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:10,837 All right, give me a D6 for damage. 785 00:53:11,543 --> 00:53:11,868 Yeah. 786 00:53:11,868 --> 00:53:12,701 Three. 787 00:53:13,051 --> 00:53:26,000 All right, you are able to, you don't even know if it's you or its own flailing that does it, but you able to hack through half of its neck just by chopping frantically and you 788 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:35,147 feel its head start to split off and go ajar as its wound starts bleeding all over your chest and you pass out. 789 00:53:35,323 --> 00:53:37,164 with this thing on top of you. 790 00:53:37,164 --> 00:53:43,044 Agent Ryan and Agent Barone, you hear a few gunshots and a shout in the distance 791 00:53:53,990 --> 00:54:08,421 Del, as you are fading in this godforsaken swamp, you look up to the sky and see the pinpricks of starlight far in the galaxy, staring down at you, uncaring, but those lights 792 00:54:08,421 --> 00:54:11,983 start to remind you of a place. 793 00:54:12,547 --> 00:54:15,690 A place in the past before you were sober. 794 00:54:15,912 --> 00:54:21,555 The place was called the Cherry Pit, kind of bar that smelled of secrets and spilled beer. 795 00:54:21,555 --> 00:54:28,419 It was Tuesday, which meant the silence was almost as thick as a cigarette smoke hanging in the air. 796 00:54:28,539 --> 00:54:30,901 Just a few patrons sitting around the bar. 797 00:54:30,901 --> 00:54:33,192 You were there, nursing a bourbon. 798 00:54:33,192 --> 00:54:36,524 It was mostly ice at this point and water. 799 00:54:36,966 --> 00:54:44,041 watching motes of dust dance in a single beam of light coming off of a KUR sign in the window. 800 00:54:44,903 --> 00:54:53,449 You were halfway through your third drink, which meant you were starting to feel the edges of your own private darkness start to soften. 801 00:54:54,390 --> 00:54:58,753 Just then, the door opened and the night got a whole lot heavier. 802 00:54:59,054 --> 00:55:06,460 Three of them walked in, big men who seemed to take up more space than their bodies required, noisy, brutish. 803 00:55:06,652 --> 00:55:07,993 They even smelled. 804 00:55:08,454 --> 00:55:10,736 They wore leather vests over their flannel shirts. 805 00:55:10,736 --> 00:55:14,579 Their faces were roadmaps of bad decisions. 806 00:55:15,221 --> 00:55:19,185 But it was the ink on their neck that told you the real story. 807 00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:22,368 Jagged, ugly SS lightning bolts. 808 00:55:22,368 --> 00:55:26,331 The kind of tattoos that were a statement of intent. 809 00:55:28,114 --> 00:55:29,937 How would you look at these guys as they came in? 810 00:55:29,937 --> 00:55:32,232 I would do my best not to. 811 00:55:32,232 --> 00:55:33,748 Not on account of... 812 00:55:35,967 --> 00:55:37,369 I abide it. 813 00:55:37,831 --> 00:55:47,852 It's just, I've seen them roll through and usually just best to clear the way till they get out of your space. 814 00:55:47,852 --> 00:55:52,656 Yeah, they moved in heavy bovine almost. 815 00:55:52,656 --> 00:55:54,238 Men of certainty. 816 00:55:54,238 --> 00:55:58,881 Looked like they've never lost a fist fight and they didn't plan on losing one tonight. 817 00:55:58,881 --> 00:56:00,162 Then you saw the waitress, 818 00:56:00,162 --> 00:56:00,923 Abigail. 819 00:56:00,923 --> 00:56:10,760 She moved through the gloom of the cherry pit like she owned it, the palm all dangling from the corner of her mouth, smoke curling up past her eyes like she had seen too many 820 00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,110 closing times. 821 00:56:12,511 --> 00:56:18,215 She was pretty in a way that, eh, your hard life could only show you. 822 00:56:18,215 --> 00:56:27,361 She was a hillbilly princess, a spine made of rebar and a confidence that you hadn't seen much in your times. 823 00:56:28,196 --> 00:56:30,728 And she said, what can I get you fellas? 824 00:56:30,869 --> 00:56:33,872 Her voice low, gravelly purr. 825 00:56:33,872 --> 00:56:34,953 She didn't look impressed. 826 00:56:34,953 --> 00:56:36,614 She didn't look scared either. 827 00:56:36,955 --> 00:56:43,541 The biggest man, he had a beard of rust and a gut straining the buttons of his shirt. 828 00:56:43,541 --> 00:56:48,907 He grunted and pointed a thick greasy finger at something in the back of the bar. 829 00:56:48,907 --> 00:56:50,738 The other two men walked to the back. 830 00:56:50,738 --> 00:56:54,519 Back there you saw a Native American. 831 00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:55,679 Maybe he was Hispanic. 832 00:56:55,679 --> 00:56:57,580 It was hard to tell in the dark. 833 00:56:57,660 --> 00:57:02,522 You didn't frequent the same bars a lot, so you didn't know any of the regulars. 834 00:57:02,642 --> 00:57:07,605 And two of the men walked up to him and you started hearing a little scuffle in the back. 835 00:57:07,605 --> 00:57:13,399 Yeah, I think I would drink the dregs, my third drink. 836 00:57:13,420 --> 00:57:21,946 I would loudly announce that I was standing up from the bar the way the bottom of that glass contacted the wood. 837 00:57:21,987 --> 00:57:32,745 And then I'm going to stand up and make an obvious pass towards the restroom swaying in their direction. 838 00:57:34,385 --> 00:57:42,802 As you get closer, you hear one of the men laughing and grabbing the man by the shirt, and you hear get the fuck out of here. 839 00:57:43,042 --> 00:57:44,864 And you're stinking up the joint. 840 00:57:44,864 --> 00:57:53,210 Come from the conversation and you get even closer and they throw him past a pool table and he stumbles toward the door. 841 00:57:53,431 --> 00:57:57,553 He stands up with a semblance of dignity and tries to. 842 00:57:57,878 --> 00:58:06,657 dust his shirt off, then the third man at the bar who he was closer to now grabs him and pushes him out the exit and then starts laughing. 843 00:58:07,671 --> 00:58:23,623 I'm gonna take four large steps like a track athlete going for a long jump, but the long jump is going to be with an outstretched Superman arm into the square underside of his jaw 844 00:58:23,623 --> 00:58:35,671 um coming from the backside of him, and I am not waiting until his skull hits the ground before I am charging towards the second one furthest from the door. 845 00:58:36,751 --> 00:58:46,383 You connect, you hit him in the jaw, you feel a telltale crack of some of his teeth snapping in his mouth. 846 00:58:46,485 --> 00:58:54,134 There's probably gonna be blood and tooth matter coming out as he slams against the ground of this dirty bar. 847 00:58:54,389 --> 00:59:02,687 and that second one spins around and gets his arms up and you are in a gridlock with him as you've jumped onto his chest. 848 00:59:02,687 --> 00:59:10,334 He's a big beast of a man and he's holding you up and you can hear the third already running to aid his friend. 849 00:59:11,303 --> 00:59:13,114 Yeah, not a lot of time. 850 00:59:13,114 --> 00:59:19,106 Does he have, are we like grappled arms occupied then at that point? 851 00:59:19,106 --> 00:59:38,475 um I think I will um drop my weight down to my heels and I will leap up and skyrocket my forehead into his nose um with as much spring power as my 852 00:59:39,496 --> 00:59:40,969 legs can offer. 853 00:59:40,969 --> 00:59:47,415 you squat and jump as hard as you can under the weight of his arms. 854 00:59:47,415 --> 00:59:56,703 It hits him in both the chin and the nose and you see his head fly back and blood starting gushing out of both his mouth and his nose. 855 00:59:56,703 --> 01:00:03,750 um He pulls you in tighter and just spits a glob of bud in your face and starts to squeeze you. 856 01:00:03,750 --> 01:00:17,509 As he's squeezing you, you feel something slip between your ribs into your side as you're assuming you were just stabbed by the other man and it twists. 857 01:00:17,509 --> 01:00:23,254 The agony shoots through your body and you black out for a second as this man is squeezing you. 858 01:00:23,254 --> 01:00:25,455 Any thoughts as this is happening? 859 01:00:27,099 --> 01:00:35,846 Yeah, I think the feeling of unfairness, I think, is maybe what Dell is still wracked with. 860 01:00:35,846 --> 01:00:38,088 Not for himself, that doesn't really matter. 861 01:00:38,088 --> 01:00:48,267 Just the notion of how someone could live their life walking into a place like this and just upending it for everyone else all of a sudden. 862 01:00:48,267 --> 01:00:49,665 Like that, that's no way to be. 863 01:00:49,665 --> 01:00:59,415 as you're thinking that, they feel like they could be your last thoughts as you feel the blade exit and then enter your side a little above where it had before. 864 01:00:59,656 --> 01:01:07,444 And you hear what must be Abigail shouting from behind the bar and coming around. 865 01:01:07,725 --> 01:01:11,199 You find yourself on the ground and... 866 01:01:11,199 --> 01:01:22,960 You see her in between these two men as they're standing over you, one bleeding profusely out of his face, looking pissed, the other one holding a bloody knife in his hand. 867 01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,323 You can't hear what she's saying. 868 01:01:25,323 --> 01:01:32,369 You just hear the murmur of them talking and some baited shouts from the men at her. 869 01:01:34,517 --> 01:01:36,326 What's on your mind as you're seeing this? 870 01:01:36,326 --> 01:01:41,197 We're in my plan for anyone to come to my rescue. 871 01:01:43,201 --> 01:01:49,911 And as that occurs to me, m maybe that was the plan all along. 872 01:01:50,554 --> 01:01:53,017 Was I gonna leave this place tonight? 873 01:01:53,458 --> 01:01:55,032 Well, now I'm not so sure. 874 01:01:55,032 --> 01:01:57,633 You see her continuing to talk. 875 01:01:57,633 --> 01:01:59,884 Their rage does not look abated. 876 01:01:59,884 --> 01:02:09,039 And then a key moment, she places her hand on the man who has a knife in it on his wrist. 877 01:02:09,039 --> 01:02:12,940 Maybe there's a sudden flash of fear that you feel for her. 878 01:02:13,121 --> 01:02:19,904 But then you see with her hand there, his face calms and he looks down at it. 879 01:02:20,334 --> 01:02:22,568 and he looks to you and then he looks at her. 880 01:02:22,568 --> 01:02:24,872 She's still talking the entire time. 881 01:02:24,872 --> 01:02:33,907 And then her other hand goes to his shoulder and she gets a little closer to him and you see him completely diffuse in front of you. 882 01:02:33,907 --> 01:02:34,728 m 883 01:02:37,512 --> 01:02:38,898 Yeah, I think... 884 01:02:41,020 --> 01:02:53,689 think it never occurred to me that an altercation could come to an end like that, especially one that had started as it started. 885 01:02:54,791 --> 01:03:04,157 well, suddenly I'm wondering if maybe I ever had the tool to beat all three of them, or if I was kind of doomed from the start. 886 01:03:05,199 --> 01:03:07,670 Maybe there's something else out there to know. 887 01:03:10,096 --> 01:03:22,004 You watch as the men start to back off from your body on the ground and the world goes black. 888 01:03:22,004 --> 01:03:31,753 You don't see anything anymore and you're left to your deep, comatose thoughts for some time. 889 01:03:31,753 --> 01:03:38,246 God only knows how much longer later uh you wake up in heaven. 890 01:03:38,387 --> 01:03:40,128 It's white all around. 891 01:03:40,328 --> 01:03:44,978 There's a comfy bed under you, something you're not used to sleeping in. 892 01:03:45,518 --> 01:03:49,102 By your side is your hillbilly angel, Abigail. 893 01:03:49,102 --> 01:03:53,026 Somehow she is still protecting you for some reason. 894 01:03:53,415 --> 01:04:02,536 and you look over and she's reading a book, Pride and Prejudice, and she looks up and sees you coming to. 895 01:04:03,905 --> 01:04:14,187 Yeah, I think I will sputter some of the mostly dried blood out of my throat. 896 01:04:14,187 --> 01:04:18,151 I'll say, oh no, they killed you too. 897 01:04:20,447 --> 01:04:24,109 You see a huge smile erupt across her face. 898 01:04:24,270 --> 01:04:28,914 She stands up and you feel those hands on your chest now. 899 01:04:28,914 --> 01:04:33,757 You understand why that man was diffused in that moment. 900 01:04:35,198 --> 01:04:36,679 It's all ripped away. 901 01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:46,386 You cough blood and black bile spurts out of your mouth as you look at the pinpricks of stars. 902 01:04:46,741 --> 01:04:51,478 above your head in that God-forsaken swamp and then fully lose consciousness. 903 01:04:51,478 --> 01:04:54,864 This time Abigail will not be coming for you. 904 01:04:54,864 --> 01:04:57,166 She will not be your guardian angel. 905 01:04:57,528 --> 01:04:59,810 You feel completely alone.