I think over the comms, Mo's like, okay, here's a question.
Do we want to try to get this kid out through the front and meet up somewhere else?
Or do you think there's going to be a problem getting him through the cops?
I mean, it'll definitely be good.
I guess which way did you walk when you were talking to them?
Did they follow you to the boat or?
The way I'm imagining it is that I kind of went down and talked with them either on like the deck beach area or something like that.
Or maybe even just like right where the house em lets out and talked with.
Cause that's where we met Sheriff Tower.
And so I was talking to them there.
em So I don't know.
just don't know if I guess my question is, would we be able to sneak the kid through since everybody knows what he looks like or at least some of them do.
So if you're asking me, I would, I don't have the comms on, but if you're talking to me, mole, would say we have to take over this investigation.
A cop just murdered a, like a witness.
So like we need to get the witness out of here for their own protection.
Yeah, that's a good point.
I guess that's what I can say.
So I think when I'm talking with the...
with Sheriff Tower, as I was kind of like...
you know, trying to go in the office there, I'm like, I just got in, it looks like one of the witnesses to this whole thing is uh still alive.
um Unfortunately, I mean, I told you I didn't want to take this over, Sheriff, but this has become quite a fiasco.
I want to do right by you guys, but also we got to figure out what the fuck just happened here.
I'm going to need the witness.
We're gonna need to figure out what's happening.
I'm probably gonna need statements from all of your people.
So that's something you can help me gather.
yeah?
We're gonna need to take statements from you guys too.
Uh, I think this is gonna have to be a, An internal review.
Yeah.
Yep.
I agree.
Um.
What's that department called for cops?
Uh...
it-
Eternal Affairs.
Internal Affairs.
Yeah, I think this is going to be an internal affairs problem.
The good news is that means we're innocent.
Nothing to worry about.
We investigated ourselves and found us
we're totally okay.
have committed no wrongdoing.
Yeah, we'll need to, ah I mean, we'll both need to get statements.
I think right now though, I'm a little worried about tensions boiling over.
I'm happy to provide you with all of our information.
I would like to separate us if we could, and then maybe we can come together.
I know, you know, again, I'm really, I didn't want this to happen, obviously, and I just don't want something rash to occur before we're able to calm down.
Yeah, okay.
Tell you what, why don't you meet us back at the station first thing tomorrow morning and we'll work on statements.
Okay.
Yeah
Yeah, I think Mole is like, okay guys, meet me back at the boat and then walks back out.
Yeah.
Okay.
You guys sort of march to the boat?
You are...
Which of you are soaked in blood?
I mean, probably I am because, uh, Frazier's head exploded when I was holding the notebook for her to write in or whatever.
You also executed a RAV.
Yeah, there's a pillow in the way.
part of the idea here.
super absorbent pillow.
I definitely am covered in blood, both my own and others.
I have most blood on me
metaphorically.
Yeah.
Yeah, Miles is spick and span.
Yeah, he's coming out of this pretty clean.
Yeah Miles, they bring the kid down.
Uh, hey guys, what's...
why...
why do we have this guy?
Something happened to him with the ritual and he...
We need to take care of him, you know, in a good way, somewhere else.
Like, he needs...
help.
not taken care of.
Leon's eyes lit up for a moment there.
Hehehehe, leave rules.
I look at Liam and whichever side of my face is not facing the kid, do a wink.
Honestly, I don't know if-
taken care of, just put the sound effect in from here on out because Liam's just like on it.
Say no more.
yeah, okay.
All right, here I'll take him and I'll go up and grab the kid's hand and set him down next to me.
And I'm going to have my pistol out on my lap.
in the boat.
Yeah, he sits next to you.
He's just sort of staring at his hands.
Thanks
Yeah, let's load up on the boat and I'll turn to him and say, you okay?
see that.
ah
Hmm.
What happened in there?
did the meditation.
We went through the forms.
We did the mantra.
And just like Arav said, yeah, no, I had an out-of-body experience.
You know, like astral projecting.
It's just like he said I would.
End.
What happened?
And I like kind of nudge over to Morrison and Liam with them.
No, I'm asking the kid.
I don't say.
uh, can be a persuader.
a little if you want to if you want to get a little more
Yeah, 91 over 20.
you
I don't know that that's gonna do it.
No, but I do have luck, so I'll make that a 19.
Alright.
Hell yeah, my dude.
Yeah, I mean, it's the...
I think we're probably coming up on the end of this scenario.
Maybe.
Hard to tell.
um Spend it if you got it, right?
Yup.
Yeah.
You know, with that luck spend, your, like, calm demeanor is so different from everything else he's encountered today, including Agent Liam.
uh
putting a bullet in his head.
um Yeah, no, he...
Have you ever had an out of body experience?
It's-
No, no, can't say I have.
It's like looking down on yourself from above.
But I went up and up and up and I saw from the top of the house and I could see the whole state.
I could see the US.
I could see everything.
I...
It felt like...
Like...
Like looking through...
a keyhole at the universe.
I could see everything.
For like an instant, I knew everything and I could see everything, but I think something saw me back.
And when I came back, they were dead.
And there's something under my skin.
you
and I can feel it.
there's something crawling under my skin.
And it hasn't stopped since then.
Okay, and you haven't seen it come out from under your skin?
It feels like having an insect walk on the back of your hand, but on the inside of my skin.
Everywhere?
Sorry kid.
I'll put my hand on his if his hand's on his leg.
And just to see if I can feel anything, like if it's like a, if it's subjective or something that's objective.
Yeah, for sure.
No, you don't feel anything.
Okay, well, we'll try to figure out what's going on with this ah and see if we can...
you
get you squared away and then all kind of turn slightly a jar from him, pull out my phone and just like text Morrison and Madison again, brief details of the story, like bullet
point basically like this, this and this and this and fire it up.
probably while you were talking to the kid, I was thinking on the boat ride back since has Madison responded to me at all Okay, then I probably am calling her
Okay, yeah.
So first off, Morrison, you get a text from Miles.
Do you open it?
I mean, are you talking about the text right now?
Yeah, you just got another text.
Probably not.
I imagine I would have been calling Madison already while he was talking to the kid.
Like, as soon as we're in the boat and off the shore, that's my first priority.
Yeah, for sure.
You call Madison.
because we've got to figure out what to do with this kid.
So, beep boop bop boop beep beep beep.
Yeah.
Yeah, hello.
ah What can I do for you, Morrison?
you
ah so it turns out it was our kind of a thing.
ah We eliminated everyone we could.
ah We have one vector ah that can't be eliminated, and I'm not sure what to do with it, but we have it with us right now.
I'm sorry, Morrison, but I don't know what you're talking about.
Uh, what mission are we on right now?
Morrison, you're not on a mission.
Okay, well, turns out we are.
I need you to meet us at the Anna Cortez Ferry Landing in like 30 minutes.
Okay, I'll be there.
Beep.
Not entirely surprised by that, but also excellent.
Do you tell that to the rest of us or what do you say anything from the boat?
I don't think I do.
I think I'm just like-
for the best speed, which that's a sand check.
Sure.
Yeah.
Better you than me.
Uh, 41.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a pass.
1.0.
I do think that as this is all happening, maybe you come back from the phone, uh Moll is like, it's very dangerous if we put these things together, you know, the forms, the
writing, the speaking out loud, I would not fuck with this.
So if we can keep this separate, that would be excellent.
I just, I'm telling you, the lady went through all that stuff right before and...
Bam, her head exploded and we got into the shit we were dealing with now.
So, I'm, we need to keep things separate as much as
I will add to that.
quick question.
sure.
Miles, did you tell anyone you had the book and the pamphlet or did you just send Morrison and Madison an image of
I told them over comms that I had it.
Okay, alright.
Awesome.
I couldn't remember that.
the heels of what Mul said, I Morrison would probably say like, by the way, I saw the images.
If I hear the words, something really bad is probably going to happen to me.
So don't, don't want the words.
Don't want the words in my brain anywhere.
I think I texted you some sort of chant.
don't know if it's what you're talking about, but be careful.
I sent you an image.
If you just give me your phone, I can delete it for you.
Yeah, no questions asked.
Hands over the phone.
Nicely done.
Nice.
I'll hold it down, delete the image.
um
Tax your eBay account.
Did you send...
Did you take a picture of the images, Morrison?
You guys have the notebook.
Yeah, she wrote them in my, like, little investigator notebook.
that to...
No, I didn't get a chance.
As soon as, Frazier finished writing them, I'll help her occluse.
Hey Miles.
This phone is recording.
you
I'll stop the recording on Morrison's phone.
Damn.
know what to be afraid of anymore guys ah but it sounds like everything um what do think we can do with him
Morrison, like, we gonna put him in a storage locker?
I mean, I know that our organization has stored living things before.
um I hope they'd have a plan, because I don't.
Alright, concrete boots?
Toss them overboard?
Yeah, he doesn't need to be killable, he just needs to be containable if we're being honest.
How close are you guys having this conversation to-
I mean, I would say I think we are taking like active measures to not.
Whatever that is.
Like, whispering amongst ourselves.
I obviously would not be standing right next to him having this conversation.
It's fine.
People in the little cabin shack and he's just outside in the rain by himself.
Yeah, we're like you stay outside.
Nobody's driving the boat either
mean, Miles is looking, he's caught up in the moment looking around at heavy things.
He sees like the anchor and stuff like that, but then quickly catches himself and decides like he's not gonna be involved in this conversation.
I mean, we don't have to do that right now.
I'm just saying that like, that's a way to get rid of this.
Yeah, my fear is if he doesn't die, he could just crawl along the ocean floor.
We're not that far from shore, and if he doesn't die, even if it takes him a year, he'll pop up on the shore.
True.
But that's next year's problem, right?
Yup.
I mean also, I don't know what this thing crawling in his skin is.
If that's something that gets out.
No, I know.
I think we see what's going on if Madison has any ideas for us ah before we go through that.
But I'm just saying that that's an option.
Yeah, I mean, his resilience is one thing, but if that's like merely one facet of what we're dealing with, then, you know, we could be in serious trouble.
I didn't want to say this because I didn't want to further add to your all's mental load, but just don't be surprised if Madison is really confused about what's going on when we
land.
Just...
If she acts like she doesn't know about the mission, just, you know, put that in the mental vault as an OPSEC thing.
Just deal with the problem at hand.
I'm not an idiot, Morrison, what's going on?
In your look, I trust you, bud.
And in your non-idiot way, I'm telling you, don't pull at the threads.
Deal with the problem right in front of you.
And we'll figure it out afterward.
And then one step at a time.
I remember we was talking and you said sometimes there'd be things where it's like, yeah, we just don't ask questions about that.
It's just one of those things.
Yeah, it's kinda like the, don't wanna...
I got the images up here, I don't wanna see the words.
Same thing.
I...
I don't know what's going on with Madison, but...
She's still a resource, maybe she can help us contain this thing, even if she's a little bit weird about it.
You know.
She's the Madison we knew before this mission was assigned to us, I think.
So...
Let's just...
Operate on that assumption and move forward.
Can you do that, Miles?
You trust me, bud?
Yeah, I trust you.
And I'll look over at Magpie just thinking about the doctor in the tent who started to get mentally fatigued.
And away you go.
uh I think nothing else of note on the on the boat.
Would you like nothing of note on the boat?
Do you want to cut to you guys meeting Agent Madison at the terminal?
Yeah, I think so.
She walks up briskly.
So, how's everything going?
Can I talk to you for a second?
Yeah, absolutely.
Just you and I.
Yes.
Okay.
Basically what I want to do is tell her, I'm like, look, is this all, this has all been the same day.
It's probably like nighttime now.
Is that right?
far as like, okay.
All right.
It's like a...
it's still probably...
it's like 5pm?
Alright.
That all happened in like the span of 20 minutes.
That last...
chaotic moment.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So essentially, I just tell her my cake.
You met with us at eight o'clock at this landing this morning.
You gave us a mission.
Go out to San Juan Island and look into some stuff.
and her eyes go wide.
say, look, this is our kind of a thing.
Do with me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Kilo Legacy.
That's the op you guys are on.
I am so sorry.
I...
Yeah, no, I must have been confused.
I don't know how I could have...
Mix that up, I'm...
Yeah, okay, get me up to speed.
What have you found?
Yeah, so it turns out that this was our kind of a thing.
I told the guys that you may not remember sending us on this operation, but now you do.
So we can all just kind of join together and talk.
uh And I basically tell the guys, like, hey, come over here.
She remembers now.
She forgot.
And I kind of look knowingly at Miles and Magpie, like she forgot about the operation, but she remembers now.
meaningful longing love.
How do you guys feel about that?
I would probably need to roll sand, so miles away.
Okay.
That seems fair.
53 under.
Okay, it's a one.
47 under.
It's a one.
How you feeling, Mul?
Think he probably would have to.
I'd prefer him not to, but 60 on a uh 32.
That's a D4.
For those of you taking Sandloss from this, you may pick whether this is Sandloss from the Unnatural, if that's what's freaking you out, because you don't understand what's going
on, or if it's from helplessness, because this seems as though it's something you cannot control and keeps happening around you.
Yeah, unnatural for me.
tick that box under helplessness.
So could have Miles have been looking at the journal in that like last 20 minutes of the ride?
Would he have gotten your information?
What is your accounting?
uh
boy, it is a 50.
Yeah, there's a few things.
One, it details his finances.
It also has a long list of names and addresses at the back that you did not see earlier.
Yep.
uh
It, long list of names and addresses, the finances show an ebb and flow of cash that seems to line up pretty closely with the dates of the names and addresses at the back.
The names and addresses at the back seem to be batched by date.
So groups of four, five or six at a time and right around those dates or soon after the
Ledger shows influxes of cash.
That's all I can glean from it.
There's no margin notes or anything that he's writing about.
Yes, there are, but we'll have to get into those after we do this debrief.
Okay.
Cool.
so I'll update Madison everything that I know.
I wouldn't hide anything, so.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, think mole updates too.
Everything that happened with the tentacle, all that stuff.
There's a block of text in the ledger that seems to be encoded, is what I'm getting at.
So you'll have to take some time to crack that nut.
So what are you telling uh Madison?
Or asking Madison?
Or what are you doing?
Look, Madison, in terms of like this operation, the acute events are handled.
I don't know, where is, uh...
Is it Anthony?
Like, hey, uh, this kid over here...
He, uh, was a witness to the events.
I think he may now be a vector.
We tried to eliminate him.
Well, so we got there.
It turns out that this guy, Rav, was leading what seems like a fairly normal uh meditation retreat.
But this book, and I point to the book that Miles is holding, it sounds like maybe he pulled some stuff from there, a couple of mantras and a couple of thought exercises.
Essentially, it opens up what I can only describe as a wormhole to another dimension inside people's brains, sucks their heads in, tentacles pop out, and then
either after you damage them enough or as I suspect after a period of time they go back inside.
We witnessed this when a lady drew out the forms for us.
I'm not going to show those to anyone because it seems like even recognizing the forms and having the words in your head in combination is dangerous.
We contained that, shoved the tentacles back in the hole more or less, killed Deraev.
We tried to kill this kid but couldn't.
We shot him.
Agent Liam here tried to strangle him to death and he would not die.
We told him, maybe we can help.
There's nothing we could do with him on the island.
So I don't know, kick him up the chain.
He's your problem now.
Like I can't solve this problem unless you want me to like take him to a torture shack and try to like chainsaw him in half or dump at.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, that's why I didn't do that.
Keep an eye on him until I think I can get a crew out here tomorrow morning.
Okay, keep an eye on him.
Get a hotel room, get two hotel rooms, I don't care.
Keep an eye on him.
I'll have a crew here to collect him.
Can I see that book?
I kinda nod towards Miles.
I tell her like, I would have different people analyze this in sections.
Don't have the same person read the whole book.
Sure, here.
Have any of you read the book?
you
the first five pages and then I handed it over to her.
Not the journal ledger, but the...
She opens it to look at the cover page.
No, I don't read Greek.
I don't know what this is.
She passes it back.
Okay.
Also, the police on San Juan Island are going to expect FBI agents to be meeting with them tomorrow morning about one of our agents shooting one of their officers.
Lethally.
ah her eyebrows climb up into her hairline.
It wasn't in sale, so I'll tell you that much.
She stares fucking daggers at Agent Liam.
Alright, I'll handle it.
Listen.
Tomorrow morning at 7.30am I'm gonna have somebody meet you with a box truck outside of the Four Seasons Motel on the edge of town.
Okay.
Alright.
Good luck.
And she leaves.
So what do we do with the kid over there?
Me's compliant.
Let's just bring him with us, so...
Yeah, my concern is if whatever's inside him breaks out.
Maybe we just...
Shit, I'll take him on the boat.
He and I stay on the boat all night.
And then in the morning we come back, meet at the box truck and go from there.
Should we take turns with them if we're gonna do that?
Up to you guys.
I'm not gonna ask you to volunteer for that, I mean if you want to, but I'm not gonna tell you to.
We've been through- Fuck, mole, you need to get to a fucking hospital.
yeah.
Yeah, my knee.
I wanna go through that video and find out which one of you fuckers shot me first off.
No one's going through the video.
I think it has audio and visual on it that could...
Trigger events.
Okay.
well, uh, does somebody want to first aid me at least?
Are you just going to let me pull?
Yeah, yeah, and if there's any confusion about who's responsible, you know, I'll certainly be forthcoming about that to an apologetic.
He just coyly come first aid me ah
Well, you know, I know you're supposed to like leave things better than you found it and I'm not sure that's exactly possible but we're gonna try.
Yeah, I'm not sure that's really our M.O.
here.
Give me that first aid.
Yeah, first aid is great.
35, looking for an 80.
All right, give me a D4.
Just want an excuse to use it.
If you're all healthy, then there's no issues.
Yeah, three on that.
Nice.
I am back to- Nice.
Well done.
Yeah, you know, you might not leave him better than you found him, but at least he's not going to bleed out.
Can't get better than perfect, can you?
Yeah.
So one, I fully support your plan of taking this kid out on a boat and sitting there for 12 hours watching him.
That is great.
And I love it.
What Madison's idea was, was you get hotel rooms and lock him in one of them.
Yeah, I just don't want this kid going nuts in a hotel room.
But fuck that is your idea.
No, we're putting one on the boat
Sure.
This is coming out of the trauma of seeing tentacles blast out of nowhere and now this kid's got stuff crawling in his skin.
Yeah, it's boat time.
Fuck that.
I guess either the boat or take him out to outside.
just, I see what you're saying, Morrison.
I don't want, you know, what the fuck are we going to do if something explodes in the middle of hotel?
We could take him out.
I don't know, somewhere remote.
The boat just like, there's still people around, you know, if something happens, I'm not sure how to explain that.
It's still, there are people boating around.
So, night?
In the middle of the channel?
Yeah.
Should we, um, be prepared to...
Well, I mean, what are we gonna do if he starts freaking out?
kick him overall.
laptop battery.
Yeah.
Okay.
I Liam's with you guys, right Liam?
Yeah.
the only one who knows how to use the belt.
uh That's true.
Um.
playing hinges on Agent Lee.
and Agent Liam's boating skills.
Yeah, why don't we, at least the three of us go out there and...
You need to go get sleep.
You're not coming out there.
Sorry bud.
I think that's probably a good idea, Mole is just looking wide-eyed at all of you guys hand through his like shitty hair.
I'll go out there with you, Morrison.
You guys can get some rest.
Sure you don't need to see your family?
They don't, I'm not around all the time, so it's okay.
Alright, maybe uh...
I was just saying, maybe take your kid on a late run tomorrow.
Maybe a little bit later than usual, but...
Get that done.
So, Sam, real quick.
What do you think would be your new disorder for watching a woman's head disappear in a flurry of wriggling worms?
Yeah, that's a good question.
I have an idea if you don't have anything, but if you have something I'd love to hear.
Um, remind me again of what...
Was it...
Did it like explode outwards with all of that stuff?
Was there like a huge amount of...
No, her head collapsed to a pinpoint, and then the point was torn open slowly.
Cause I was thinking maybe delusional parasitosis.
Yeah, I do love that idea.
That's a pretty good one.
I think that's probably pretty good.
Like he felt like when the things were grabbing at him that they weren't just like doing the little bite kind of come around like they were actually Yeah, they were actually like
injecting an egg in him or something like that.
I love that idea.
That sounds good to me.
uh Give me a uh follow-up sand check and pass it.
uh Give me a follow-up sand check at 32 sand.
We just forgot to do this.
75
Okay, this is gonna be great.
I love the idea of an infectious disease person RPing delusional parasitosis.
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
I have the best parasites.
No one has better parasites than I do.
think Parasite's great again.
of a kind.
So, read uh obsession in the uh base rules and we'll treat it like that.
Anytime you uh trigger your obsession, you are unable to do other like long-term actions because you're too busy going to the hospital, getting CT scans done, to find, cutting
your arms up, trying to find out what's inside of them, trying to, that sort of thing.
You're too...
You can't get anything long-term like research done.
And that's if it triggers, if it's an acute episode.
Alright, yeah.
So, who is on the boat?
Morrison
Miles doesn't want to kill a kid.
Are you going on the boat, Miles?
I'm gonna go on the boat.
Sorry, no.
Is it just me and mole that wouldn't be on the boat?
It's up to you.
Do you want to be on the boat?
uh If there's anybody else that's not, then I will also not.
Yeah, Mole's not gonna- Mole's gonna try to get some sle- Like, try.
The boat people.
Are you taking turns sleeping?
assume so, yeah.
Probably before we head back out, if there's like a convenience store nearby, I'll like, you know, get gas station hot dogs or whatever, some Gatorade or I don't know, maybe like
Monster.
What was it that Muldrinks?
Nas.
eh I'm like, I don't know what this shit is, whatever.
guess I'll get some, just in case.
Hey Anthony, there anything you want?
Okay.
Alright.
Yeah, probably get like, yeah, some food.
Definitely like, I don't know, at least five liters of water, like giant water bottles, because it's like an obsession.
It's like you gotta be able to hydrate.
Sure, sure.
Yeah, OK.
We cut to the boat.
You guys are taking turns sleeping.
The night is passing fairly...
regularly.
um Can Miles give me a D6 roll super quick?
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It is Miles's shift.
Morrison wakes him up.
It is...
let's see.
There's three of you sleeping three hours in shifts, so...
Two of us, right?
Magpie didn't go on the boat?
and Liam.
there.
ah You're supposed to be up from midnight to three.
Liam is taking the three to six and then you're gonna boat back over.
So it's midnight and Morrison wakes you up.
It's dark.
Can you roll power for me?
56 under 70.
Okay, yeah, you're good.
Yeah, it's dark, the stars are out.
It seems perfectly peaceful.
uh It seems like Anthony is sort of sitting up, or sitting with his elbows on his knees, really.
He's not laying down.
Is he asleep?
Maybe, you wanna check?
Yeah, I'll go kinda look down at his face to see if he's asleep.
His eyes are open.
Um, he, he looks up at you, uh, and, you see underneath his left eye, a thin feeler worm squirms out from under his eyelid and up past his eyebrow.
Lee.
Yeah, I will assume it's not a strange shadow and then say Morrison, Liam.
Hmm, yep.
Give me a power check, Morrison.
That's a 2, which is definitely a pass.
Love it.
You were talking about tentacles or something.
This kid's, there's something going on.
He's got something coming out of his eye.
Yeah, look at the kid.
The kid's gaze snaps to you, head on a swivel, eyes moving rapid- or, eyes moving not at all, but head moving rapidly to look directly at Morrison.
Where is he positioned on the boat?
He is, you all are in the little cabin area.
He is sitting on one of the benches off to the side.
You've all been sort of sitting, like sleeping upright in various chairs.
Liam was napping in like, Pilots chair.
I assume there's like benches around the inside of that little cabin area where you all were like positioned.
So he's next to a door on one of the little benches.
Can I move him to like the back of the boat?
on the lit, like one of the seats that's like on the edge?
Yeah, sure, as you stand up, so does he.
He stands up very quickly.
I take a step back.
He turns towards the door.
Stand and watch.
He opens the door and steps out onto the deck.
Is there like an anchor with a rope?
I tie the rope around his foot.
He is definitely not going to let you do that.
will let you roll lasso.
Yeah, I'll let you roll uh unarmed combat to grab him before he does what he does next.
Okay, yeah, I'll do that.
That's a 30, which is a pass.
He's going he's gonna roll dodge He got an 83 so you do have him.
Do you want his wrist?
Do you want his shoulder?
What do you what are you trying to do?
I think I'm trying to wrestle.
So as I'm envisioning this boat, it's like there's the front and then there's like an open part in the back that's kind of like recessed down into the boat.
I'm just trying to like, probably like, you know, not quite full Nelson, but kind of like around the, like under the shoulders and around the chest and just like throwing back down
into the bottom of the boat.
Totally, you do that.
He lands with a kind of wet noise.
boat's not wet inside is it?
No.
Yeah the sound didn't come from the boat it came from him.
I just kind of stand there and look cuz I don't know what else to do.
You're just standing and looking at him?
He is weeping, openly, but silently.
you
Like from his eyes.
from his eyes, appears.
You can see where his head hit the deck, more of those tendrils and filaments are squirming across the deck.
Hey Miles and Liam, put your life jackets on.
Yeah, Miles will grab a life jacket, start putting it on.
Are there any fuel canisters, like extra fuel cans on the boat?
Okay.
There's...
Yeah.
What's your demolition?
It's 40.
Okay, that's better than bass, right?
Yeah.
You can absolutely...
You don't have to roll.
Okay, yeah, essentially what I want to do is like probably as much as I reasonable well Probably not even like dump the gas cans out because I don't want to take time I just take
the caps off set them on their sides down there so they're like draining out into the area where he is and I'm like we got to go and then I Use whatever incendiary device I have
nearby ignition source Yeah.
yeah boats would have flares for sure.
Yeah, I just flare it
you know, right into the uh gas.
And then I jump off the boat and I'm like, we got to swim back.
Yeah, the kid screams and screams and screams and just keeps screaming as you swim away with those flames leaping higher and higher and higher.
He is screaming longer than someone should be able to.
Perhaps he really can't die.
Yeah, I was worried about that.
Didn't have another option.
Yeah, we'll just be swimming alongside Morrison and Liam.
Alright, swimming the channel at midnight.
You guys all have the base swim?
soon.
Uh, actually I have better, I have 50.
You put points in swim, I love that.
Uh, yeah, you smoke those fools.
I mean, I wouldn't leave him behind, but yeah.
Yeah, but you you you show him up real bad
You
Yeah, there's police boats and fire boats out there.
um Flashing lights, sirens, of the good stuff.
Where to?
drawer and then find that hotel.
Are you going to do anything at the hotel or should we cut to morning after you check in at 1.30 soaking wet?
Yeah, we can just cut to the morning.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Mullin Magpie, roll power for me, please.
Thank god I'm fucking fifteen on a forty.
Nice.
Yeah.
And 58, um, under 70.
I think that does it.
Yeah.
Okay.
You're all good.
Love it.
Morning comes around.
7.30 rolls around.
Eight o'clock rolls around.
8.30 rolls around.
No box truck.
Yeah, I would have texted on top of, um, I would have probably also been like, Liam, like, who do you got?
Like, do you got anybody that can help us?
I mean yeah, but where's the kid?
Yeah, he's...
dead, right?
Liam, are you asking because you don't remember what happened or...
What happened?
Let me ask you this, Liam.
What happened to the kid last night?
We burned him in the boat.
Okay, I just wanted to make sure that you knew that.
You don't think he's dead, do you?
Shot him in the head.
Yeah, well, I mean we're playing by vampire rules, right?
You can shoot them, can burn them, you can whatever.
Like, I don't know what the rule is to kill this kid, but there was nothing else-
have to be a rule.
That is very true.
Uh, yeah.
I mean, sometimes there is a rule that they can't die from anything.
All that to say, I mean, what the fuck do we do?
Like, the kid's gone.
I'm worried that Madison didn't send people.
She forgot we even did the mission, and now she didn't send the truck.
Did she forget that she told the people and they forgot?
This whole mission is a clusterfuck.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
I say we cut our losses and get the fuck out of here.
Yeah.
No kid.
I'm not really sure what else we could do.
Yeah, no kid, no truck.
What else are we supposed to fucking do?
I mean, as far as our assigned objectives go, we did them to the ability that we can.
We secured the book, we interrogated what's his face, killed him, tried to kill all the witnesses, killed all the ones we can.
The mission's done to the extent possible.
We even handed off to the appropriate people and they failed, which means I don't know what to do with that.
I'm worried about the kid coming back as some kind of weird thing.
I'm also worried about everyone, like this contagious forgetfulness.
Maybe Madison's the new vector.
I don't know.
We were on that boat and swimming all night.
We need to get rest too, so.
We gotta get outta here.
Yeah, I think we gotta get the fuck out of here before this starts coming down on us and affecting our real lives.
Liam, why are you so jumpy?
You- you did good.
You helped us out.
But you've just been kinda squirrely the whole time.
Like, are you- is there something specific you're worried about or are you just a squirrely guy?
It's okay if you are.
Yeah, I watched Elsel die.
Okay, that's all the answer I need.
Was it related to all this?
No, I'm the last one there trying to see if I could fit into a different cell.
Doesn't look like it.
How do you know you just didn't forget?
What happened to them?
I certainly did not forget I can picture their faces as they died.
I don't know if I'm going to count this one as a success.
No, no, this is a mission failure.
We...
that vector?
Not contained.
Have a nice one.
Hey man, look, you're welcome.
I'm not trying to be a dick.
I just need to know what, how you fit.
And if you're super anxious, I need to know.
That's all.
Look man, we'll be here if you want us, okay?
Look, here's my number.
I'll see you around.
And I think with that, we're gonna cut to the epilogue for this scenario.
Days pass, and there's no further news about the beheadings on San Juan Island.
There's no further news about a cop killing.
There's a brief article about a boat burning in the channel, but nothing is ever followed up on it.
Days turn to weeks, and eventually each of you
You up one day and the mission is a little less fresh.
It feels a little further away.
It is scabbed over like a wound.
Days pass more and further and eventually you wake up and you don't remember it at all.
It's just a...
it's not a blank spot.
Things just sort of allied together in your memory.
It's not a hole like a missing tooth.
Everything is where it should be.
Yeah, I imagine Miles remembers going to Eastern Washington to actually do the nuclear inspection.
And just like that's how he thinks of that time period.
that day.
Yeah.
It might be the, you might be mixing up like two or three different inspections that you actually did, but yeah, that's what was in that spot.
Yeah, same with Mole.
It's like he went on that retreat that he was told everyone about, even though maybe nobody else really remembers it, but it's so hazy because it's the pandemic and you know,
who knows.
Yeah, I could see Morrison kind of folding it into like, maybe he remembers being on the boat with the kid, but he thinks of it as like a search and rescue thing.
And he's like, yeah, I was on a boat with a kid.
did a search and rescue mission.
I don't know.
I've done hundreds of them.
I don't remember what happened.
Yeah, and Mole for sure remembers it being a nature retreat because that's where he got bitten by like a tick or something like that.
he's like since then, he's since then been like having these recurring nightmares and thoughts about getting bitten and stuff like that.
I think Mul has not, actually.
No, Mul hasn't.
Until next session where the trauma is going to come back.
Cool, cool, love that.
What about Magpie?
What does Magpie remember?
Yeah, I- Is it just another day at the house?
No, I think he goes on a job uh protecting somebody and they're on a yacht out in the sound uh and it's a much more peaceful and enjoyable but very boring job and in his memory
this is just one of those days where he like was a little antsy and he wished that his job was more exciting.
Yeah, and-
This isn't to say there aren't any fabricated memories for any of you.
I think you are mistaken.
Yeah.
The brain will fill in the gaps,
Yeah, it fills in the gaps.
Yeah, no, that makes sense to me.
It's more just like if somebody was like Timber 29th, 2022, what were you doing?
You're like, I could like maybe figure something out if I worked on it.
Look at my calendars or something and that'd be.
It's exactly like that.
So I hope you enjoyed the second scenario of Demnatio Memoriae.
This was Herostratus.
Sam's writing that right down to look up later.
Very fun.
Thank you.
kind of cool that they ended in fire and this guy is an arsonist who destroyed the temple of uh Artemis with fire.
So nice.
I like it.
Well done.
Sick.
was fun as hell.
I'm super stoked to see how this all kind of comes together.
It's really fun how kind of complicated it is, I guess, or how it kind of works.
It is very complicated.
Yeah.
I was very impressed when I read this the first time like it's like this is like a lot of moving pieces
I imagine the next thing is the hardest because of like all the weird things you have taken to account.
could have happened.
Yeah.
I was really almost kind of hoping that you killed mole just to kind of see how far we could push the scenario with it's like stuff.
How much sanity did you lose this session?
Five, I think.
Five or six.
Thanks.
taking five or six sanity at the top of next session in one go.
Oh, I took, um, 11, so...
Were we supposed to reset our sand for this session or not?
Oh, okay, good, I didn't then.
Does that mean that we're going to take like, it's going to double?
You're not going to take double.
Instead of taking cumulative ones, which you did over this session, we're going to treat it as if you.
chunk.
Yep.
One big 11.
as it like slams back into you.
whole day in two seconds.
Just, yeah.
So.
Because what's getting you at the top of next session is not the events that transpired.
that you could have forgotten the events that transpired.
it was like removed from my memory or whatever at least like somewhat obfuscated.
Cool.
I'll just take 11 sand then at the top.
They'll be no problems there