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Agent Ryan, you are walking through the dark swamp.

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You still have your night vision.

3
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You're able to navigate it.

4
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Can you give me another survival?

5
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And then if you're trying to do this stealthy, a stealth.

6
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Survival looking at 50 got 27.

7
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Okay, you're still on track.

8
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You follow the tracks just fine.

9
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Okay, stealthy, don't have much, I'm looking for 13, nope, 42.

10
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Okay, you're trying to be quiet.

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You're trying to avoid any of these other things seeing you.

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Any thoughts that you wanna share with the audience as you're walking toward or following
these tracks?

13
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Yeah, mean, a lot of thoughts and no thoughts at the same time.

14
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I mean, I'm thinking about the encounter I just had and the situation I'm now in and, you
know, kind of thinking like I should have just been the one, should have just volunteered.

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And that still might be the case in three days, but...

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Also contemplating like, you know, what my story is once I do reconnect with Barone and
Dell.

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Great.

18
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You're passing through the swamp.

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On the other side, Barone, as you are packing up to go look for Ryan, what is your tact?

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What are you taking?

21
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Ooh man, so still being dark, anything to see with flashlight, uh my backpack gun, mainly
anything to fight with.

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I probably have my firearm at my side and then my M4 kind of strapped uh catty corner
across my chest, like ready to go.

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uh Gloves on, ready to take on the night to try and find my friend and maybe kill a couple
things in between.

24
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Great, go ahead and give me survival and then search as well.

25
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Okay.

26
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Let us start with survival looking for 37.

27
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I got a 27.

28
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Good there.

29
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And then what was the other one?

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search.

31
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search we got a 56 above 54 so I missed by two

32
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Okay, yeah.

33
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So you set out into the dark swamp, you have your flashlight and you are presumably
following your tracks or are you taking another tact for where you should walk?

34
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Nope, I'm going right back where we started.

35
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anything, I'm thinking in my mind, okay, there's gotta be footprints or impressions
somewhere.

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And maybe if I'm quick enough, Ryan's not too far gone.

37
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So I'm going exactly back where I came from.

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Perfect, great.

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Del, in the cabin, you are sitting there.

40
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Karas is still with you and is kind of putzing around the cabin, organizing some papers,
mumbling to himself here and there.

41
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Do you have any questions with him now that you're alone with him?

42
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Yeah, I want to know what led a man to embed himself in an organization like Majestic in
the first place.

43
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straight to the point.

44
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um Not to split hairs, but I worked for a company called Armitage, which was, uh I guess,
affiliated in ways with Majestic.

45
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was, I am a biologist and a medical doctor as well.

46
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I used to look at things, samples they brought back, things that weren't from here.

47
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It was a good job at

48
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paid well and then one day it wasn't a job anymore.

49
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But um scientific pursuits were always the goal for me.

50
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I was never involved in the, I guess, clandestine or deep state activities of the
organization.

51
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can imagine that being the bleedingest edge, perhaps on planet Earth, my curiosity gets
the best of me sometimes too.

52
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You know how these things happen.

53
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You are just a talented biologist in college.

54
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um Getting your PhD and you get approached by a company, it gives you a lot of money.

55
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And before you know it, you're looking at alien biology.

56
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No sir, I don't know the first fucking thing about that.

57
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Well, I wish I could be in your position.

58
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I'm a simple sugar man, but I'm a...

59
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You are an astronaut and I'm an astronomer.

60
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I have to look from the sides.

61
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Well, it does seem to have ended us both up in the same predicament.

62
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I know it doesn't do well for my heart.

63
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If you're on the way out like you look, I don't know.

64
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I can't imagine this is the end you would imagine for yourself.

65
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No, of course not.

66
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But this...

67
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the promise of a different type of end is...

68
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something I...

69
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yearn for at this point.

70
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When you say promise, who exactly is promising and how much stock can you put in that
promise?

71
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I can't put any stock in any promise.

72
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This is, again, new territory.

73
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uh I am fairly certain that if I were to sing this song I could talk with these little
green men, or maybe even their masters.

74
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This thing carries some power to it.

75
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Just the uh incomplete version that the Verdant Path had.

76
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discovered would bring them.

77
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So, of course, the complete and full version must do something more, right?

78
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you need the other half.

79
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Yeah, I mean, look, our third um did the most investigatory work on uh Finch's aftermath.

80
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It's possible that, you know, he has a footnote or something about a verse or a tune.

81
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But in this year's Swamp, we heard a song, a singing, something or other, if you could
call it that.

82
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Not a night or two ago.

83
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Feels like maybe something else ah has heard this lullaby.

84
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That is the Verdant Path.

85
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The swamp people, lack of a better term, they were human once and they knew the song and
could sing it in a melodic and beautiful way once.

86
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They worshipped with it at one time, but they got too close to the cultures and they
started to eat the swamp, I guess.

87
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is the only way to describe it and then they started to become one with it and now the
version is a it's a disgrace a bastardized version of what they once could sing

88
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I

89
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Yeah, I think I'll just mull that over.

90
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Like, it sounds like...

91
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a way to turn the page to the next chapter, but I'm honestly not sure if we shouldn't just
burn the book.

92
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Yeah.

93
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Yeah, I am quite tired.

94
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I'm going to retire.

95
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If there's anything else I can do to make you comfortable, please tell me now.

96
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Yeah, can you prop that up and he'll kind of like, crook his elbow so that he can put the
firearm in it to point at the doorway.

97
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Of course, I hope you won't be needing that but yes Sure, yeah, he props your arm up and
um Opens the door and leaves to the outside um Doesn't stay in the cabin you hear

98
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footsteps recede in the distance we will cut over to Agent Ryan agent Ryan you are walking

99
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You've long passed the church at this point.

100
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And in the distance you see shadows of trees cast over each other as a flashlight starts
basically um almost looks like police sirens through trees and looks choppy ahead of you

101
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like a strobe light.

102
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Do you go towards the flashlight?

103
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Can I make out who or what, like the shape of who's got this flashlight?

104
00:09:03,564 --> 00:09:05,125
No, it's in the distance.

105
00:09:05,225 --> 00:09:10,469
Agent Barone, you are getting to the area where the ghost town is.

106
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Give me another search and see if you can see Agent Ryan.

107
00:09:15,775 --> 00:09:16,497
Sounds good.

108
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uh Crit fail 99.

109
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Yeah, you know how flashlights are.

110
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Sometimes they can be a little, um they can kind of blind you to what's right in front of
you and you aren't looking in the distance, but you are wandering on the same tracks.

111
00:09:34,926 --> 00:09:39,770
um Unless you're trying to hide Agent Ryan, you're gonna see each other.

112
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Are you trying to hide Agent Ryan?

113
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I'm not, I'm kind of guessing like it's somebody looking for me at this point.

114
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I'm gonna drop to the ground and pretend like I'm crawling.

115
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because my legs kind of fucked up.

116
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eh We're all just a bunch of liars in this party.

117
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You guys are tearing each other apart.

118
00:10:01,908 --> 00:10:11,952
ah Yeah, Barone, you see the form on the ground of Agent Ryan covered in mud, crawling
towards you.

119
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He still has his service pistol and his large satchel that is on his back, but does look
like he's injured as he crawls.

120
00:10:22,396 --> 00:10:25,357
Agent Ryan, can you roll, oh, sorry, sorry.

121
00:10:25,357 --> 00:10:27,658
Agent Ryan, roll me a deception.

122
00:10:28,093 --> 00:10:34,377
Okay, um deception.

123
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Am I supposed to have that on my list?

124
00:10:36,201 --> 00:10:37,723
Because I don't.

125
00:10:38,166 --> 00:10:39,188
is it performance?

126
00:10:39,188 --> 00:10:39,800
Let me see.

127
00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,545
Let me bring up my character sheets.

128
00:10:41,545 --> 00:10:43,268
Neither of those are present.

129
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I Persuade.

130
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Okay.

131
00:10:46,809 --> 00:10:51,547
uh 2461.

132
00:10:51,607 --> 00:10:52,947
Fuck.

133
00:10:53,044 --> 00:11:01,477
Yeah, as you're crawling, um Barone, this is a long distance to crawl, right?

134
00:11:01,477 --> 00:11:08,839
Like you were on the ATV and it took you about six minutes to get from the church to this
spot, right?

135
00:11:08,839 --> 00:11:18,062
So you're, you know, you can take it at face value, but it does seem a little strange to
you that Ryan is crawling.

136
00:11:18,222 --> 00:11:19,642
so a lot, but you know.

137
00:11:20,484 --> 00:11:23,427
Not not four days, which is how long it would take you to crawl that distance.

138
00:11:23,427 --> 00:11:28,851
way, as soon as I see Ryan's form, that's not the first thing that's most important and
top of mind.

139
00:11:28,851 --> 00:11:35,827
uh Barone starts running like gun out still definitely scanning around but starts running
towards Ryan.

140
00:11:35,827 --> 00:11:37,097
She's like, holy shit.

141
00:11:37,097 --> 00:11:37,948
Holy shit, Ryan.

142
00:11:37,948 --> 00:11:38,308
my God.

143
00:11:38,308 --> 00:11:38,644
my God.

144
00:11:38,644 --> 00:11:39,399
my God.

145
00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:39,849
Stay there.

146
00:11:39,849 --> 00:11:47,124
Stay down and I'll kind of like uh kneel next to Ryan in like, dude, just do a sweep
around.

147
00:11:47,158 --> 00:11:50,828
Knowing that last time somebody was down and we were trying to save them.

148
00:11:50,828 --> 00:11:55,241
We got ambushed immediately So I'm watching eyes open like a hawk for that

149
00:11:55,241 --> 00:12:00,911
Yeah, go ahead, you can roll your alertness and then give me first aid as well.

150
00:12:01,129 --> 00:12:05,489
Sure, so alertness, we're looking for 81, we got 62, success.

151
00:12:05,589 --> 00:12:10,809
And then first aid, have epic fail, 100.

152
00:12:10,809 --> 00:12:12,689
We got 100 on first aid.

153
00:12:12,828 --> 00:12:14,993
snap.

154
00:12:15,998 --> 00:12:17,953
Sorry, I don't need it anymore.

155
00:12:18,482 --> 00:12:26,486
Yeah, given the extreme circumstance here, Agent Perrone, you you look at the wound, it
does seem like it would make Ryan crawl.

156
00:12:26,486 --> 00:12:34,290
Maybe Ryan just has this like extreme lease on life and has been like crawling his ass off
to get here.

157
00:12:34,290 --> 00:12:37,951
But you're, you feel like it's too dark and muddy to do anything about it.

158
00:12:37,962 --> 00:12:39,379
Yeah, absolutely.

159
00:12:39,792 --> 00:12:46,299
And when I see you, right, I'm like, bro, I'm so glad you found me.

160
00:12:46,299 --> 00:12:49,122
I've been crawling for so long.

161
00:12:49,122 --> 00:12:54,358
My leg hurts so bad.

162
00:12:54,546 --> 00:13:06,755
I'll take one glance back and just see footprints go straight to crawling and I'm like
hmm, okay, not gonna fucking, no dog in this fight, absolutely not.

163
00:13:06,755 --> 00:13:09,102
Jesus' footprints.

164
00:13:10,335 --> 00:13:10,835
you

165
00:13:10,835 --> 00:13:13,842
with that alertness I do or do not hear anything.

166
00:13:14,241 --> 00:13:16,926
You do not, it's very quiet.

167
00:13:17,479 --> 00:13:19,864
Ryan is a snotty crier, right?

168
00:13:19,906 --> 00:13:22,933
Like when you, when snotty, like.

169
00:13:23,261 --> 00:13:23,912
definitely.

170
00:13:23,912 --> 00:13:25,965
He's snotty when he's not crying.

171
00:13:27,597 --> 00:13:28,577
Gross.

172
00:13:29,978 --> 00:13:31,709
Yeah, not seeing anything.

173
00:13:31,709 --> 00:13:36,919
I think I put my firearm slung back across my chest and I grabbed Ryan.

174
00:13:36,919 --> 00:13:41,264
I'm like, I don't know what the fuck happened to you, but my God, I'm so glad you're
alive.

175
00:13:41,264 --> 00:13:41,985
Nobody's died.

176
00:13:41,985 --> 00:13:43,285
Nobody's died on my team.

177
00:13:43,285 --> 00:13:43,976
I'm not dead.

178
00:13:43,976 --> 00:13:46,027
We need to get out of here.

179
00:13:46,487 --> 00:13:48,168
Funny story.

180
00:13:48,588 --> 00:13:50,499
The doc or Dr.

181
00:13:50,499 --> 00:13:53,151
Carras, kind of a good guy, not really sure.

182
00:13:53,151 --> 00:13:54,731
That's where we're holding up.

183
00:13:55,092 --> 00:13:55,992
Will?

184
00:13:56,017 --> 00:14:04,818
No, no, he found us and you would know that if you were where you were supposed to be and
then I slap him in the face I'm like what the fuck happened to you Ryan?

185
00:14:05,422 --> 00:14:06,643
Oh, excuse me.

186
00:14:06,643 --> 00:14:12,997
um I don't know why you're slapping me, but I am completely innocent here.

187
00:14:12,997 --> 00:14:13,968
was...

188
00:14:13,968 --> 00:14:15,155
You ran away from me.

189
00:14:15,155 --> 00:14:16,429
You left me.

190
00:14:16,870 --> 00:14:25,196
And all of a sudden, a fucking swamp monster came out of the swamp towards me and I had to
crawl my ass away.

191
00:14:25,782 --> 00:14:27,709
I was saving my life.

192
00:14:27,709 --> 00:14:30,001
You know, all right, maybe I was a little too harsh.

193
00:14:30,001 --> 00:14:32,773
If I could take that slap back, I would, but I can't.

194
00:14:32,773 --> 00:14:34,675
So you're just gonna have to live with it for now.

195
00:14:34,675 --> 00:14:38,599
ah That's my frustration gift to you, but I'm also glad you're alive.

196
00:14:38,599 --> 00:14:42,702
And then I'll start helping Agent Ryan to the ATV.

197
00:14:42,702 --> 00:14:50,929
And Del's in really shoddy shape, but if we get back to him and get together, we could at
least figure out what the fuck to do next.

198
00:14:51,497 --> 00:14:51,916
Yeah.

199
00:14:51,916 --> 00:14:53,443
yeah, I would like to see that, let's go.

200
00:14:53,443 --> 00:15:00,995
You get on the ATV, start heading back, back at the cabin, Dell, you are alone in his
living space.

201
00:15:00,995 --> 00:15:03,197
What are you thinking you wanna do?

202
00:15:04,551 --> 00:15:14,977
I am uh not moving first of all, but scanning for things that look like pockets of
interest, right?

203
00:15:14,977 --> 00:15:31,606
So if there was any sort of bizarre uh trinket or knickknack, if there was a book on the
shelf that looked like it had been particularly worn, if there was a stack of papers that

204
00:15:31,606 --> 00:15:32,086
looked

205
00:15:32,086 --> 00:15:35,358
loose and accessible, those would be what I was hunting for.

206
00:15:35,358 --> 00:15:39,961
I'm looking for uh something that looks like Karas references.

207
00:15:39,961 --> 00:15:47,855
Often uh a book that has been heavily trafficked, a stack of loose papers, or something
weird and unnatural.

208
00:15:47,855 --> 00:15:49,087
Those are the three biggies.

209
00:15:49,087 --> 00:15:51,718
His desk has papers all over it.

210
00:15:51,758 --> 00:15:53,740
You would have to get up and walk over to it.

211
00:15:53,740 --> 00:15:55,130
You can give it a shot.

212
00:15:55,130 --> 00:16:01,144
You'll just need to give me a power roll or sorry, a con roll to attempt it.

213
00:16:01,144 --> 00:16:04,806
And the bookshelf, it's kind of tilted away from you.

214
00:16:04,806 --> 00:16:07,607
You'd have to go up to it and investigate it.

215
00:16:08,287 --> 00:16:13,307
Alright, well it's gonna be con to do either of those I imagine, so I mean no time like
the present.

216
00:16:13,307 --> 00:16:18,078
It's obviously inadvisable, but like, what are we here to do if not investigate?

217
00:16:18,078 --> 00:16:21,389
55 is the number and a critical success, I guess.

218
00:16:21,389 --> 00:16:22,549
let's go.

219
00:16:22,589 --> 00:16:23,089
Dang.

220
00:16:23,089 --> 00:16:24,570
Okay.

221
00:16:24,570 --> 00:16:28,413
Yeah, you said curiosity gets the best of us all.

222
00:16:28,413 --> 00:16:39,958
It's getting the best of you and you're able to push through some pain and hunched over
almost to the point of crawling, you get to the desk and start looking through the papers.

223
00:16:39,958 --> 00:16:44,559
You have enough time, you're not pressured by time, so you don't need to roll a search.

224
00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,021
But looking through them, it seems like there's...

225
00:16:48,386 --> 00:16:53,510
scientific papers on different metals, specifically mercury.

226
00:16:53,510 --> 00:16:58,753
There is a DNA analysis that is very technical.

227
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I'm not sure exactly like what it means.

228
00:17:02,736 --> 00:17:07,258
There are a few old photos of him.

229
00:17:07,499 --> 00:17:12,182
Looks like him like at the desert with like groups of people.

230
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And there is finally a

231
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a piece of paper at the bottom that has a bunch of scrawled symbols on it.

232
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And it's aged.

233
00:17:25,713 --> 00:17:31,382
It looks fairly old, like he's been at it for a long time.

234
00:17:31,382 --> 00:17:37,598
not like Torah aged, but like just he has worn it over time.

235
00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:40,726
Yeah, it's been in and out of his pocket.

236
00:17:40,990 --> 00:17:44,874
Here, I'll put it in Slack, or not Slack, but Discord.

237
00:17:44,874 --> 00:17:51,862
these symbols do they look like they are of a similar font to what uh Arthur Finch had
scrawled?

238
00:17:52,825 --> 00:17:53,638
Absolutely.

239
00:17:53,638 --> 00:18:05,980
Yeah, then I guess I am thinking more and more maybe that Agent Ryan might know something
about this song and I am feeling a little foolish for not paying more attention when he

240
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was rattling off all those little factoids sitting in that car.

241
00:18:08,942 --> 00:18:10,385
It was just a fucking lot, man.

242
00:18:10,385 --> 00:18:11,248
It was a lot.

243
00:18:11,248 --> 00:18:14,421
Okay, uh the DNA analysis.

244
00:18:14,421 --> 00:18:19,645
uh I understand that I cannot necessarily parse the science.

245
00:18:19,645 --> 00:18:24,809
Does it seem as though I could determine what the subjects were, right?

246
00:18:24,809 --> 00:18:30,995
Like, whose DNA are we analyzing, and for what, maybe?

247
00:18:30,995 --> 00:18:33,918
Yeah, the way, let me see.

248
00:18:33,918 --> 00:18:35,767
Let get you to roll for this one.

249
00:18:35,767 --> 00:18:42,298
Go ahead and roll your occult.

250
00:18:42,298 --> 00:18:44,309
Hmm, no, not even close.

251
00:18:45,041 --> 00:18:49,881
Yeah, it's a little too cryptic for your eyes.

252
00:18:49,881 --> 00:18:53,427
Like it's not adding up to you.

253
00:18:53,976 --> 00:18:56,998
I imagine I'm also like a little flustered for time, right?

254
00:18:56,998 --> 00:19:02,271
And this is no time to like try and actually read through an abstract.

255
00:19:02,271 --> 00:19:03,812
It's just gonna be way too dense.

256
00:19:03,812 --> 00:19:11,517
So yeah, I think my eyes flit over to em the door and make sure that Karas isn't coming
back or whatever.

257
00:19:11,517 --> 00:19:14,388
And then the bookshelf is probably my next stop.

258
00:19:14,896 --> 00:19:18,080
you get to the bookshelf and what you're tacked with the bookshelf.

259
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,192
So you're just pulling books out, looking for specific books.

260
00:19:21,324 --> 00:19:24,777
No, I'm looking for things that have been uh trafficked, right?

261
00:19:24,777 --> 00:19:31,203
So places that he seems to refer to often or a heavily worn book, right?

262
00:19:31,203 --> 00:19:34,657
So signs of tracks in the dust or what have you.

263
00:19:34,657 --> 00:19:40,080
Yeah, that one will require a search, but also give me a look.

264
00:19:40,737 --> 00:19:41,737
Okay.

265
00:19:41,917 --> 00:19:46,337
Search says no, and the luck says no with a 51.

266
00:19:46,337 --> 00:19:48,808
It doesn't say no, it says fuck you, actually.

267
00:19:48,808 --> 00:19:55,656
Yeah, you're digging through, it's a simple bookshelf, but there is a lot of materials on
here.

268
00:19:55,656 --> 00:20:12,772
There's philosophy, there is biology, there's some military science or some biographies,
there's history, any specific genre you would look for and go like diving.

269
00:20:12,778 --> 00:20:15,148
have to imagine I failed this search on account.

270
00:20:15,148 --> 00:20:17,451
There are too many big fucking words.

271
00:20:17,451 --> 00:20:19,993
I gotta stop saying fucking this episode.

272
00:20:20,033 --> 00:20:21,831
I imagine I failed that search on account.

273
00:20:21,831 --> 00:20:24,266
There are too many big words on most of these.

274
00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:27,658
So I'm gonna go for something that seems a little bit more manageable.

275
00:20:27,918 --> 00:20:36,445
If there are any picture books with aliens in them or uh something that is a little bit
more illustrative, we'll start there.

276
00:20:36,445 --> 00:20:50,016
You're cruising through the spines and you do see a, it looks like an old binding of a
book and it is just called Alien Encounters.

277
00:20:50,677 --> 00:20:57,503
And there is a few books next to it as well that don't have any words on them at all.

278
00:20:57,503 --> 00:21:01,025
They are just hard bound books.

279
00:21:01,186 --> 00:21:03,639
Go ahead and roll me another look.

280
00:21:03,639 --> 00:21:05,649
Yeah, lucky today, 17.

281
00:21:06,181 --> 00:21:20,909
Okay, yeah, as you're pulling these books out, a photograph comes out between this alien
book and the nondescript one and falls down to your feet.

282
00:21:21,422 --> 00:21:27,947
I really wish I was quick enough to catch that because I'm gonna be wincing all the way
down, but I was stupid.

283
00:21:27,947 --> 00:21:34,709
Yeah, go ahead and give me an intelligence role.

284
00:21:34,709 --> 00:21:36,681
where you guys learned my secret power.

285
00:21:36,681 --> 00:21:38,561
86 no good

286
00:21:39,457 --> 00:21:40,537
Okay.

287
00:21:40,678 --> 00:21:42,219
The picture is old.

288
00:21:42,219 --> 00:21:52,348
You see Karas in it and he is sitting with a group of different aged men.

289
00:21:52,528 --> 00:21:56,192
They are at some site in the desert.

290
00:21:56,192 --> 00:22:04,599
There is some makeshift tents and bunkers behind them and you just recognize Karas.

291
00:22:04,599 --> 00:22:07,361
But the photo on the back,

292
00:22:07,795 --> 00:22:12,476
has a date and that date is 1983.

293
00:22:12,476 --> 00:22:25,867
m If I had to imagine Karras 15 years ago, how much do I think this affliction has aged
him in the meantime?

294
00:22:25,867 --> 00:22:27,518
It has aged him a lot.

295
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,355
he looks like he hits the golf course every day.

296
00:22:32,355 --> 00:22:42,417
He looks pretty spry for a, know, he's in his middle ages, but upper middle ages at this
point, but he is not gaunt.

297
00:22:42,417 --> 00:22:45,259
He has a bit of a gut in fact.

298
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,320
Yeah.

299
00:22:46,612 --> 00:22:53,618
I mean, I don't like that prognosis for myself, and I think that's ringing in the back of
my head.

300
00:22:53,958 --> 00:23:00,878
But I will pocket the photo on account of somebody's got to know who these men are.

301
00:23:00,878 --> 00:23:06,045
I think I will return to the couch so as not to be conspicuous.

302
00:23:06,593 --> 00:23:07,554
Perfect.

303
00:23:08,177 --> 00:23:21,294
All right, you pull through the swamp you're cruising and you pull up to this just, I
mean, it would be picturesque during the day, this cabin out in the middle of nowhere.

304
00:23:21,634 --> 00:23:28,338
You hear the gentle hum of a generator somewhere around it and the lights are on through
the front window.

305
00:23:28,338 --> 00:23:36,004
You see the outline of maybe Dell shoulder with a rifle sticking up aimed at the door.

306
00:23:36,564 --> 00:23:39,673
and you're able to get off and go inside.

307
00:23:39,673 --> 00:23:40,706
Is that what you're doing?

308
00:23:40,706 --> 00:23:41,987
So kind of weird.

309
00:23:41,987 --> 00:23:45,110
ah This is home for the night.

310
00:23:45,110 --> 00:23:47,152
Kuros has been nothing but nice to us.

311
00:23:47,152 --> 00:23:49,395
We have some talking to do with him.

312
00:23:49,395 --> 00:23:56,962
Come morning, but right now I think beggars can't be choosers and we're just gonna spend
the night in the belly of the beast if that's all right.

313
00:23:56,962 --> 00:24:05,349
I don't have any other options, so I plop myself off the ATV and start crawling up the
steps to the cabin.

314
00:24:05,535 --> 00:24:08,649
Okay, Ryan, don't have to, by God, you don't have to fucking crawl.

315
00:24:08,649 --> 00:24:19,801
And I put his arm over and just practice that deadlift that I've done a bajillion times
and like give him a bit of brace and help his chunky body up those stairs.

316
00:24:20,144 --> 00:24:22,477
This chunky body.

317
00:24:22,641 --> 00:24:25,712
250s around your max and that's what he's pushing.

318
00:24:25,712 --> 00:24:31,624
you're, but you're able to deadlift him up and help him in Dell.

319
00:24:31,765 --> 00:24:33,195
You see them come through.

320
00:24:33,195 --> 00:24:36,687
You heard the ATV, you glanced out the window and saw it was them.

321
00:24:36,687 --> 00:24:39,248
Anything you want to say to them as they come in?

322
00:24:40,472 --> 00:24:42,953
the door comes open and I just yell, bang!

323
00:24:42,953 --> 00:24:45,231
Did not tell you to watch your six.

324
00:24:45,231 --> 00:24:46,862
No!

325
00:24:47,164 --> 00:24:47,664
Fuck!

326
00:24:47,664 --> 00:24:48,585
Fuck!

327
00:24:48,585 --> 00:24:49,046
Del!

328
00:24:49,046 --> 00:24:50,838
Sorry, I meant it.

329
00:24:50,838 --> 00:24:55,654
We thought we'd be super loud and like, obviously it's me and talking to Ryan.

330
00:24:55,654 --> 00:24:56,745
Oh, I found Ryan.

331
00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:57,657
Ryan's safe.

332
00:24:57,657 --> 00:25:05,015
He's not dead, so that's all three of us safe and home and sound and I walk him through
the door.

333
00:25:05,376 --> 00:25:07,815
And I'm like, I thought you said that was in bad shape.

334
00:25:07,815 --> 00:25:09,941
Seems like nothing's changed to me.

335
00:25:10,383 --> 00:25:12,345
no, he's a spry little kid, that's for sure.

336
00:25:12,345 --> 00:25:13,826
No, he looks great, doesn't he?

337
00:25:13,826 --> 00:25:19,720
And I turn around slowly with like eyes decently open like...

338
00:25:20,982 --> 00:25:22,286
Hey doll, you look like me.

339
00:25:22,286 --> 00:25:25,770
Yeah, he looks pretty tore up, especially around the chest area.

340
00:25:25,770 --> 00:25:28,844
Agent Ryan, what do you reveal to Del about where you've been?

341
00:25:28,844 --> 00:25:31,888
I don't offer information unless I'm asked about it.

342
00:25:31,888 --> 00:25:46,545
So I just kind of dropped to the ground when Barone let's go of me and just kind of sit
there and like warm my body a little bit after being out in the cold.

343
00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:47,315
Yeah, for sure.

344
00:25:47,315 --> 00:25:56,020
think I kind of drop you down to the to the couch, not the ground, because you're still
very much my friend and teammate that is half alive.

345
00:25:56,020 --> 00:26:10,738
ah And in doing so, uh I'll set you down and be like, well, tell you, Ryan here got
ambushed as well somehow and crawled six miles all the way back to where I found him on

346
00:26:10,738 --> 00:26:11,689
the ATV.

347
00:26:11,689 --> 00:26:12,760
Isn't that right, Ryan?

348
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,781
And I turn around and look at Ryan with like a skeptical face.

349
00:26:16,706 --> 00:26:18,127
Yeah, she also slapped me.

350
00:26:18,127 --> 00:26:19,508
So there's that part too.

351
00:26:19,508 --> 00:26:26,234
But yeah, I had to crawl quickly away because I was on the edge of the swamp.

352
00:26:26,234 --> 00:26:31,819
And wouldn't you know it, those swamp creatures came back and tried to attack me.

353
00:26:31,819 --> 00:26:34,180
And Barone left me.

354
00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:37,583
I'm glad you're alive, but Barone left me and I had no choice.

355
00:26:37,583 --> 00:26:41,026
So I had to crawl to safety on my own.

356
00:26:41,026 --> 00:26:46,220
And luckily you guys had some pretty thick ATV tracks that I could follow to find you.

357
00:26:46,510 --> 00:26:48,012
Yeah, man, those...

358
00:26:48,694 --> 00:26:52,350
you fought off another assailant in the swamp all yourself?

359
00:26:52,350 --> 00:26:53,753
You must have quite a story to tell.

360
00:26:53,753 --> 00:26:55,827
I mean, I didn't do much to fight it off.

361
00:26:55,827 --> 00:27:04,074
I just quickly crawled away back to the shore and went as far as I could and it didn't
seem to follow me for some reason.

362
00:27:04,093 --> 00:27:04,535
So.

363
00:27:04,535 --> 00:27:06,712
that's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.

364
00:27:06,712 --> 00:27:08,829
You quickly crawled back to the shore.

365
00:27:08,829 --> 00:27:09,546
I did.

366
00:27:09,546 --> 00:27:10,623
I'm a good crawler.

367
00:27:10,623 --> 00:27:13,979
I know for a fact you can't even run a mile, you're not a quick anything.

368
00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:18,038
Well, I don't know what to tell you.

369
00:27:18,038 --> 00:27:22,666
I was able to survive the situation and get my ass halfway here.

370
00:27:22,777 --> 00:27:24,880
So yeah.

371
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,873
Yeah, yeah, me too.

372
00:27:26,873 --> 00:27:36,242
and I'll go grab that whiskey that was sitting on the counter and pour up a third one just
to get a little sipper for everybody and I'll pass it around.

373
00:27:36,242 --> 00:27:39,505
I'm to be like, well, here's to the team back together again.

374
00:27:39,505 --> 00:27:41,498
And I'll hold it out for like a little cheers.

375
00:27:41,498 --> 00:27:44,825
a lot of firsts for you on this uh operation, isn't it?

376
00:27:44,825 --> 00:27:46,594
Yeah, yup.

377
00:27:46,882 --> 00:27:48,227
Living the life.

378
00:27:48,306 --> 00:27:54,140
nice good good burn and she pours the rest on down and sets it on the counter.

379
00:27:54,541 --> 00:27:58,344
Well uh we have some talking to do with Karas.

380
00:27:58,344 --> 00:27:59,515
He's searching for some stuff.

381
00:27:59,515 --> 00:28:04,229
It's too much to figure out right now but you guys look comfy.

382
00:28:04,229 --> 00:28:14,197
I will make a bed kind of there in the corner and I'll go in the corner kind of next to
the door knowing that I'm the only healthy person and Karas' place is probably safe

383
00:28:14,197 --> 00:28:14,958
enough.

384
00:28:15,850 --> 00:28:22,186
But that's where I'll post up for the night, taking care of the team and making sure we're
all safe.

385
00:28:24,532 --> 00:28:32,400
will make sure to point out that uh Kharaz just waltzed off into the swamp when he said
night night.

386
00:28:32,501 --> 00:28:35,104
Wouldn't you have expected, doesn't he have a bedroom here?

387
00:28:35,104 --> 00:28:40,059
Like I ain't been perusing the place, but where's he staying?

388
00:28:40,630 --> 00:28:41,683
No, I'm sorry, what?

389
00:28:41,683 --> 00:28:45,743
He just uh walked off and I'll kind of look out the front window.

390
00:28:45,743 --> 00:28:47,234
I mean, I had no recourse.

391
00:28:47,234 --> 00:28:52,490
I was in no state to go chasing after him, but yeah, he didn't offer any sort of
explanation.

392
00:28:52,490 --> 00:28:55,934
He just trudged off into the sunset.

393
00:28:55,934 --> 00:28:57,786
Huh, alright.

394
00:28:57,786 --> 00:29:06,625
And I will turn around to see if there's like any other doors like maybe Dell thought he
did and he did it and he went in a different direction and I'll just kind of do a quick

395
00:29:06,625 --> 00:29:07,157
search.

396
00:29:07,157 --> 00:29:12,648
Yeah, give me either search or survival, because it's kind of a tracking too.

397
00:29:12,648 --> 00:29:14,236
Yep, we did good, 15.

398
00:29:14,803 --> 00:29:15,684
Great.

399
00:29:15,887 --> 00:29:20,882
So you see, are you following like where you think he went outside?

400
00:29:21,714 --> 00:29:24,457
gosh, yeah probably a little bit.

401
00:29:24,457 --> 00:29:25,358
hang on, Del.

402
00:29:25,358 --> 00:29:32,112
I'll be right back and I'll grab my firearm and uh yeah, I'll at least see which direction
it went in for sure.

403
00:29:32,478 --> 00:29:35,349
Yeah, you walk out, you see his tracks.

404
00:29:35,349 --> 00:29:37,020
It's not like he's trying to cover them.

405
00:29:37,020 --> 00:29:40,241
They lead about a hundred paces from the cabin.

406
00:29:40,241 --> 00:29:47,404
And as you're walking, you stomp on what sounds like plywood with some dirt on it.

407
00:29:47,404 --> 00:29:52,226
It's just sitting there and it sounds hollow under it.

408
00:29:53,219 --> 00:29:54,951
it sounds hollow.

409
00:29:54,951 --> 00:30:06,510
Alright, duck, I hope you don't mind me snooping a little bit and like just in like a
normal voice I'll be like, forgive me for being thorough and I'll lift it just a little

410
00:30:06,510 --> 00:30:07,290
bit.

411
00:30:07,793 --> 00:30:13,557
Yeah, it lifts up and you see a ladder that goes down into darkness.

412
00:30:13,870 --> 00:30:15,912
ladder into darkness.

413
00:30:15,912 --> 00:30:19,915
uh Okay I...

414
00:30:20,336 --> 00:30:21,857
nope that sounds ominous.

415
00:30:21,857 --> 00:30:23,109
Oh snap.

416
00:30:23,109 --> 00:30:23,672
What should I do?

417
00:30:23,672 --> 00:30:24,886
What should I do?

418
00:30:25,151 --> 00:30:26,629
Jordan, should I go in?

419
00:30:26,629 --> 00:30:41,217
Dell is just spiritually thinking about the fact that he said that when Kharaz hears our
motor coming that he's gonna run underground and he's feeling very validated and confused.

420
00:30:41,217 --> 00:30:42,807
Is he a snake or isn't he?

421
00:30:42,807 --> 00:30:44,839
I thought we were pretty good here.

422
00:30:44,889 --> 00:30:48,441
I don't think you should go anywhere by yourself.

423
00:30:48,606 --> 00:30:50,186
Yeah, yeah, okay.

424
00:30:50,186 --> 00:30:50,506
All right.

425
00:30:50,506 --> 00:30:53,046
If there's a little bit of push, I'd be like, no, you got me.

426
00:30:53,046 --> 00:30:54,566
Okay, let's go down the ladder.

427
00:30:54,566 --> 00:30:56,186
No, think safety is it.

428
00:30:56,186 --> 00:30:57,226
And that's, that's funny.

429
00:30:57,226 --> 00:30:59,986
I thought the exact same thing about being a snake underground.

430
00:30:59,986 --> 00:31:07,006
I think I'll just take note of where that is, put the plywood back on down and go back and
join my teammate.

431
00:31:07,006 --> 00:31:08,466
That's teammates.

432
00:31:08,466 --> 00:31:10,491
That's the most important thing in this moment.

433
00:31:10,491 --> 00:31:16,412
between one person on the team being able to walk and zero people on the team being able
to walk is a big difference.

434
00:31:16,412 --> 00:31:18,021
Absolutely, for sure.

435
00:31:18,021 --> 00:31:19,307
So I head back.

436
00:31:19,307 --> 00:31:21,349
Beautiful.

437
00:31:21,570 --> 00:31:28,940
back in here, Dell, are you sharing any of the pictures or papers you found or are you
guys just headed to bed?

438
00:31:28,940 --> 00:31:42,798
Well, no, I think I definitely do have questions for Ryan in particular about the nature
of his discoveries in Finch's writings and specifically anything that would be akin to a

439
00:31:42,798 --> 00:31:43,330
song.

440
00:31:43,330 --> 00:31:46,978
in context of the paper you found or are you just keeping that to yourself?

441
00:31:46,978 --> 00:31:49,100
Well, yeah, I'm not sharing a paper.

442
00:31:49,100 --> 00:32:07,237
I'm just going to recount the fact that Karras was talking about being interested in
researching the other half of this song and that uh Arthur Finch had maybe been on a lead

443
00:32:07,237 --> 00:32:08,898
uh to something like that.

444
00:32:08,898 --> 00:32:12,331
And that's really what he was most interested in.

445
00:32:12,375 --> 00:32:19,439
And so I was just curious if uh Ryan could refresh my memory on the contents of uh Finch's
writings.

446
00:32:19,439 --> 00:32:27,211
Yeah, I do remember seeing, you know, some symbols scrawled here and there.

447
00:32:27,571 --> 00:32:35,213
Couldn't really make any sense of, you know, what the meaning, you know, necessarily
behind them was.

448
00:32:36,329 --> 00:32:44,215
As far as songs, mean, most of the writings were just all over the place.

449
00:32:44,675 --> 00:32:49,530
No rhyme or reason or, you know, anything song like.

450
00:32:49,530 --> 00:32:52,578
that I can remember.

451
00:32:53,226 --> 00:32:58,490
Yeah, these symbols, did they seem like a language?

452
00:32:58,490 --> 00:32:59,681
Hmm, possibly.

453
00:32:59,681 --> 00:33:11,493
Yeah, I mean, maybe it was something that he was, you know, doodling as he was
communicating or taking that, you know, these drugs, something he was seeing on his own,

454
00:33:11,493 --> 00:33:12,304
I'm not sure.

455
00:33:12,304 --> 00:33:17,540
But there was no like, you know.

456
00:33:17,540 --> 00:33:20,314
Like it didn't seem like there was any purpose to them.

457
00:33:20,314 --> 00:33:26,903
It was just kind of like doodles on the edges of, you know, some of the writings of the
papers and things like that.

458
00:33:26,903 --> 00:33:32,334
Yeah, I imagine it was probably hard to figure out what was meaningful in all that slop.

459
00:33:33,790 --> 00:33:36,081
Okay, well, um...

460
00:33:36,836 --> 00:33:47,291
Yeah, I mean, I guess I will unfold the paper from Karas's desk and I will just ask if
they happen to look anything like this.

461
00:33:47,291 --> 00:33:48,301
Hmm.

462
00:33:48,342 --> 00:33:49,002
Hmm.

463
00:33:49,002 --> 00:33:50,623
Yeah, interesting.

464
00:33:51,444 --> 00:33:55,366
Yeah, I mean, maybe it's hard to say from, you know, just like my memory.

465
00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:58,499
But yeah, it's possible.

466
00:33:58,499 --> 00:34:02,291
mean, I wonder.

467
00:34:02,892 --> 00:34:04,815
Because, yeah.

468
00:34:04,815 --> 00:34:20,919
uh I think I was looking for that exact moment of realization or recognition to see if
there was any sort of flash uh or a greediness even if that was in him.

469
00:34:20,919 --> 00:34:29,262
Yeah, let's, so Agent Ryan, when you see the paper, upon first glance and scanning it, you
have this.

470
00:34:29,262 --> 00:34:29,694
oh

471
00:34:29,694 --> 00:34:36,098
again, somatic subconscious connection to these symbols now.

472
00:34:36,279 --> 00:34:44,244
And when you look at the paper, you realize that there's everything he needs here.

473
00:34:44,244 --> 00:34:57,073
Like this is the entire cryptic, or sorry, this is the entire lexicon of symbols that he
would need to.

474
00:34:57,317 --> 00:34:59,818
finish this ritual in front of you.

475
00:35:00,699 --> 00:35:09,256
If you wanna try to disguise any reaction to this, you can try, but it'll be a contested
role.

476
00:35:09,256 --> 00:35:13,500
So you would roll your charisma versus his humanant.

477
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:18,475
Okay, m I'm guessing my charisma's, it's 50.

478
00:35:18,475 --> 00:35:21,698
It's not too bad.

479
00:35:21,698 --> 00:35:23,630
Yeah, let's do it.

480
00:35:23,630 --> 00:35:25,130
As well, fuck it.

481
00:35:27,398 --> 00:35:28,876
27.

482
00:35:29,554 --> 00:35:30,826
16.

483
00:35:32,621 --> 00:35:34,112
ha ha ha.

484
00:35:35,094 --> 00:35:36,986
God damn it.

485
00:35:37,444 --> 00:35:44,269
but the higher number in a success, in a contested success takes the cake.

486
00:35:44,269 --> 00:35:51,356
So Ryan is successfully able to mask the reaction on his face when he realizes that
everything is here written down.

487
00:35:51,356 --> 00:35:54,502
But that is curious to you, Ryan.

488
00:35:54,502 --> 00:35:59,333
Because what they just told you is he was looking for something, right?

489
00:35:59,333 --> 00:36:03,192
Like, why would he be looking for something else if he has everything he needs?

490
00:36:03,192 --> 00:36:05,408
Maybe he doesn't know he has everything he needs.

491
00:36:05,408 --> 00:36:06,268
So.

492
00:36:07,205 --> 00:36:11,596
Yeah, do you say anything about this to Dell or Agent Brown?

493
00:36:11,693 --> 00:36:17,430
No, I, you know, continue with my story of

494
00:36:17,430 --> 00:36:23,484
kind of looks maybe, maybe, you know, symbols look like symbols to me.

495
00:36:23,484 --> 00:36:29,318
And it is possible that some of these match what was in Arthur's drawings.

496
00:36:29,318 --> 00:36:34,833
But yeah, I am curious as to why Cross wants this information for sure.

497
00:36:34,833 --> 00:36:39,876
Yeah, and why he feels comfortable asking us for it as well.

498
00:36:40,179 --> 00:36:45,443
Well, that might be my fault or to my credit.

499
00:36:45,443 --> 00:36:46,624
I'm not really sure which one.

500
00:36:46,624 --> 00:36:55,811
uh And as she's like, you know, making a little home for her, like by the front door and
like starting to nest down a little bit.

501
00:36:56,612 --> 00:36:57,003
Yeah.

502
00:36:57,003 --> 00:37:08,923
So our mission here is to find out as much as we can about Majestic and Majestic's weapons
and find Karos and silence him in one of two ways.

503
00:37:08,923 --> 00:37:09,863
One being

504
00:37:09,863 --> 00:37:21,701
Death the other one being he flips to our side Karas already wants to wants to die and
exit this world and if If we can help him do that.

505
00:37:21,701 --> 00:37:27,380
He is willing to be open with as much information as he possibly has I mean, I'm

506
00:37:27,380 --> 00:37:30,808
what do you mean he wants to die and exit this world?

507
00:37:31,351 --> 00:37:35,054
yeah, no, he wants to be that and I point over to the jar with the brain.

508
00:37:35,054 --> 00:37:40,739
He wants to be that brain there in a jar for God knows what reason.

509
00:37:40,739 --> 00:37:50,928
uh But if he wants to do that, which means he stops leaking and we get our information, I
call that a win-win for the boogeyman.

510
00:37:50,928 --> 00:37:52,646
so you wanna put his brain in that jar.

511
00:37:52,646 --> 00:38:08,634
I'm not sure how to get to the resolution of this, but if he wants that and it stops him
from being our enemy, then by all means, maybe if this, I can imagine something that does

512
00:38:08,634 --> 00:38:17,752
that is maybe not 100 % about peace, so if it's of any danger, I'm more than happy to send
a couple.

513
00:38:18,553 --> 00:38:28,757
Bullets of lead straight through its body in some capacity whatsoever, but if it's no
danger and leaves us alone, then, you know, maybe as the uneducated new teammate, maybe

514
00:38:28,757 --> 00:38:32,784
it's the wrong call to say, let's find by all means.

515
00:38:32,784 --> 00:38:36,049
Okay, well, mean, interesting.

516
00:38:36,049 --> 00:38:46,067
I guess I'm looking forward to meeting him and talking to him more about this because,
yeah, I don't know why anybody would just want to put their brain in a jar.

517
00:38:46,067 --> 00:38:54,793
You know, I've learned to not ask too many questions and understand as little as humanly
possible in a lot of situations here, so...

518
00:38:55,174 --> 00:38:56,614
No, I don't know either.

519
00:38:56,614 --> 00:38:59,527
Del, by the way, he's for sure a snake.

520
00:38:59,527 --> 00:39:03,409
yeah, he is sleeping under the ground outside right now for sure.

521
00:39:03,870 --> 00:39:05,617
I fucking knew it!

522
00:39:05,821 --> 00:39:06,383
Mm-hmm.

523
00:39:06,383 --> 00:39:08,239
Yeah, I owe you a beer for that one.

524
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:09,842
That's that's on me

525
00:39:10,790 --> 00:39:16,646
Yeah, when we get out of here, I'm getting one of those uh Mexican Cokes in the glass
bottle.

526
00:39:16,929 --> 00:39:17,371
Yeah.

527
00:39:17,371 --> 00:39:24,683
I buy you one of those helmets with like two cups on it and we could just do like one
Mexican Coke in each one and you could suck that sucker on down.

528
00:39:25,406 --> 00:39:27,253
I like what you're slinging.

529
00:39:27,253 --> 00:39:28,817
um

530
00:39:28,817 --> 00:39:29,790
potion.

531
00:39:30,968 --> 00:39:38,118
Yeah, um I am sure I had a pertinent thought, but it has escaped.

532
00:39:38,731 --> 00:39:44,462
You still have the photo, but yeah, if you want you guys can also go to bed.

533
00:39:45,156 --> 00:39:48,982
Yeah, it was about more information about the brain in the jar, right?

534
00:39:48,982 --> 00:39:55,649
We contacted our agency and we sent some things back to be examined further.

535
00:39:55,910 --> 00:40:03,379
And I recall that they know that we have the brain in the jar, but did we hand that off to
get more intel on that as well?

536
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,971
No, we have that with us.

537
00:40:05,971 --> 00:40:14,288
That's what he found in our backpacks and led him to be like, I know you're not just bird
watchers doing the documentary.

538
00:40:14,629 --> 00:40:18,828
So no, that's here and literally on the table next to us right now.

539
00:40:18,828 --> 00:40:37,368
Okay, I think my inclination then would at least be to try and get contact with
Butterfield before we either helped or hindered Karos uh to finish out his plan to

540
00:40:37,368 --> 00:40:38,998
de-brain himself.

541
00:40:39,019 --> 00:40:47,529
On account of, like, that sounds like an okay plan if this thing is entirely benign, but
we have

542
00:40:47,529 --> 00:40:52,185
only the idea that it is of significant importance and should never be let out of our
sight.

543
00:40:52,185 --> 00:40:54,614
So I'm not about to like go make in another.

544
00:40:54,614 --> 00:40:55,806
Mm-hmm.

545
00:40:55,806 --> 00:41:05,279
Yeah, I mean I'm open to either I figured we get it here and if it starts doing spooky
dangerous stuff We just pump it full of lead, but I'm I'm perfectly fine with trying to

546
00:41:05,279 --> 00:41:09,105
make contact and Doing a sit rep if you will

547
00:41:09,105 --> 00:41:13,797
Headed to bed, talking about the photo, what's next?

548
00:41:14,715 --> 00:41:15,131
Uh.

549
00:41:15,131 --> 00:41:18,742
I guess, did you want to make that phone call right now?

550
00:41:18,742 --> 00:41:20,162
we have a means to?

551
00:41:20,162 --> 00:41:25,142
thought last time we went to the gas station.

552
00:41:25,815 --> 00:41:26,718
We did.

553
00:41:26,882 --> 00:41:28,548
Yep, no sat phone.

554
00:41:29,098 --> 00:41:34,953
Yeah, so I surely do, I promise you that, but uh it seems like we're gonna have to sit
tight.

555
00:41:34,953 --> 00:41:43,101
I guess my inclination would be then to buy us time with Kharos before we do anything
dramatic.

556
00:41:43,101 --> 00:41:49,235
I mean, not like we can't do anything, just don't put the man's brain in a jar before we
know what the heck that even means.

557
00:41:49,235 --> 00:41:50,001
Yeah.

558
00:41:50,001 --> 00:41:59,067
I'm trying to think though how we would get out of this swamp, away from this area, do
that thing and come back.

559
00:41:59,468 --> 00:42:01,570
That sounds like a lot of time.

560
00:42:01,570 --> 00:42:13,619
think, I think as Barone, we are trusted agents to, and you know, are trusted to complete
the mission at whatever cost.

561
00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:17,704
I think we take it under our own power and do what we think is best.

562
00:42:17,704 --> 00:42:18,848
That sounds fine and fair.

563
00:42:18,848 --> 00:42:21,247
Was he talking about, like, doing this tomorrow?

564
00:42:21,247 --> 00:42:25,148
Like, wake up and unzip his noggin?

565
00:42:26,017 --> 00:42:28,530
You know, I am not sure about that.

566
00:42:28,530 --> 00:42:40,265
I figure he probably wants to do it sooner than later and not gonna lie, Del, if I could
get out of this swamp tomorrow, sooner, tonight, I absolutely would.

567
00:42:40,265 --> 00:42:45,831
I never wanna see a swampy mosquito or smell this putrid smell ever again.

568
00:42:46,258 --> 00:42:48,222
Yeah, no, I do get that.

569
00:42:48,222 --> 00:42:55,419
guess if we could perhaps encourage him to do it later rather than sooner, that's all I
was advocating.

570
00:42:55,419 --> 00:42:59,928
Right, well I guess let's talk to him in the morning and figure it out then.

571
00:43:00,814 --> 00:43:07,754
And I'm just kind of sitting on the couch just like listening to them have this
conversation back and forth.

572
00:43:07,754 --> 00:43:16,746
I have my own motivations in this and am thinking already about how to.

573
00:43:18,678 --> 00:43:23,501
not stall this.

574
00:43:23,501 --> 00:43:35,016
yeah, I'm just listening to you guys and then obviously haven't met this person yet, but I
know what his motivations are and I understand what my motivations are and it seems like

575
00:43:35,016 --> 00:43:36,396
they are in alignment.

576
00:43:36,396 --> 00:43:44,230
so I again, feel kind of like on the outs as far as like what the next steps are.

577
00:43:44,627 --> 00:43:51,478
and obviously can't like reveal what my you know agenda is so

578
00:43:51,530 --> 00:43:52,778
Yeah, um.

579
00:43:52,778 --> 00:43:53,078
kids.

580
00:43:53,078 --> 00:43:55,769
um

581
00:43:55,769 --> 00:44:07,829
think I will, you know, seeing that we have kind of decided that next steps are to be
taken tomorrow, I will just give kind of a flippant, like, well, good night, and I will

582
00:44:07,829 --> 00:44:15,572
casually toss the photo of Kharos onto the little table in between us, and I will roll
over to go tonight.

583
00:44:15,572 --> 00:44:17,734
Anybody grabbing the photo taking a look?

584
00:44:18,693 --> 00:44:24,806
If it's within reach and I can get to it while still pretending to be very injured, then
yes, I, yeah.

585
00:44:25,581 --> 00:44:28,388
Roll your intelligence times five.

586
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,999
Intelligence is 80.

587
00:44:34,999 --> 00:44:36,678
16.

588
00:44:37,813 --> 00:44:41,774
You look at the photo, scan it with some time looking at it.

589
00:44:41,774 --> 00:44:50,778
There is a young man right to Karas's left, a young Butterfield by your estimation.

590
00:44:50,778 --> 00:44:57,783
It looks exactly like him if he were just coming into his career potentially.

591
00:44:57,783 --> 00:44:59,103
Can you roll San?

592
00:44:59,353 --> 00:45:00,144
Okay.

593
00:45:00,144 --> 00:45:01,924
Nope, 77.

594
00:45:02,690 --> 00:45:04,183
Okay, roll me a D4.

595
00:45:05,308 --> 00:45:07,518
Yeah, let me get that out.

596
00:45:08,579 --> 00:45:10,439
and I got a two.

597
00:45:10,439 --> 00:45:13,509
Okay, you lose two Sanon unless you wanna project.

598
00:45:13,737 --> 00:45:19,783
my God, have low saline as it is.

599
00:45:19,884 --> 00:45:25,417
I will fuck it, I'll take it.

600
00:45:25,417 --> 00:45:28,972
I'm gonna take it, cause I'm crazy.

601
00:45:29,457 --> 00:45:35,039
You're also low on willpower, so projecting would potentially put you in a psychotic
state, but yeah.

602
00:45:35,039 --> 00:45:36,020
is true.

603
00:45:36,020 --> 00:45:37,762
That is very true.

604
00:45:37,762 --> 00:45:40,301
If I'm not already there, right?

605
00:45:41,393 --> 00:45:46,983
you realize that this is Handler Butterfield next to Keras.

606
00:45:47,550 --> 00:45:57,843
Is there any indication in the photo of like when this was taken at all or what the
context of the photo is?

607
00:45:57,927 --> 00:46:00,614
It's about 15 years ago on the back.

608
00:46:01,876 --> 00:46:07,407
And are they like chummy chummy, like Trump Epstein next to each other?

609
00:46:07,429 --> 00:46:12,357
Or is it a different type of relationship photo?

610
00:46:12,357 --> 00:46:16,491
No, it looks like one of those group photos of a project, right?

611
00:46:16,491 --> 00:46:24,040
Where maybe they were working on something and somebody was like, let's take a group of
all the people at the dig site or the whatever site.

612
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,394
So, but they are standing next to each other.

613
00:46:27,394 --> 00:46:33,064
So they used to work together is what I'm gathering, right?

614
00:46:33,064 --> 00:46:34,456
Yes, right?

615
00:46:35,188 --> 00:46:36,377
Seems like it.

616
00:46:37,012 --> 00:46:38,424
Yeah, that's very interesting.

617
00:46:38,424 --> 00:46:39,885
just cause I'm curious.

618
00:46:39,885 --> 00:46:43,058
He didn't, he didn't, Butterfield didn't tell us about this.

619
00:46:43,058 --> 00:46:48,533
he, uh, presented carossus like this new person.

620
00:46:48,533 --> 00:46:49,464
don't know anything about.

621
00:46:49,464 --> 00:46:52,282
He wasn't like this one guy I used to work with, right?

622
00:46:52,282 --> 00:46:58,443
He made it seem like Arthur Finch was the only reason he knew of Kerasa's existence.

623
00:46:59,103 --> 00:47:00,605
Sneaky cat snake.

624
00:47:00,605 --> 00:47:04,427
I mean, he does not have to tell us shit, but yeah.

625
00:47:04,427 --> 00:47:11,072
Okay, well then this makes me extra curious about what Butterfield will say once we call
with our update.

626
00:47:11,072 --> 00:47:12,873
If we call with our update.

627
00:47:14,374 --> 00:47:14,885
Yeah.

628
00:47:14,885 --> 00:47:15,576
Off to bed?

629
00:47:15,576 --> 00:47:17,390
Are we doing like any watches?

630
00:47:17,390 --> 00:47:18,894
Is everybody just going to sleep?

631
00:47:18,894 --> 00:47:19,725
Feeling safe?

632
00:47:19,725 --> 00:47:20,856
What are you thinking?

633
00:47:20,939 --> 00:47:33,748
I'm sleeping right next to the door and I think ah I'm pretty much like put my foot in
front of the door so when that opens it hits my foot and I am up and awake but I mean I

634
00:47:33,748 --> 00:47:41,695
have taken a beating I'm just as tired as everybody else so I need some sleep too man or
I'm not I'm not nothing's getting better

635
00:47:41,695 --> 00:47:43,866
Sounds good.

636
00:47:44,247 --> 00:47:52,093
Barone and Dell, can you roll me a con roll as you're sleeping?

637
00:47:52,585 --> 00:47:53,836
87 no good.

638
00:47:53,836 --> 00:47:55,761
48, success.

639
00:47:55,761 --> 00:47:59,565
Del, you are feeling extremely hungry.

640
00:47:59,565 --> 00:48:04,838
This thing inside of you is needing to be fed.

641
00:48:04,838 --> 00:48:06,129
Like you just know it.

642
00:48:06,129 --> 00:48:13,114
You're very paranoid and pessimistic about this thing already, but it's a type of hunger
you've never felt.

643
00:48:13,134 --> 00:48:21,940
Barone, you also feel extremely hungry, like uncharacteristically hungry like you were in
the hotel room before.

644
00:48:22,279 --> 00:48:27,139
you are able to steel yourself against it and still get some sleep.

645
00:48:27,139 --> 00:48:28,371
Okay, great.

646
00:48:28,371 --> 00:48:40,693
And when he pulled out those, when uh the doc pulled out those capsules, did he leave
those on the counter by chance and leave those with us or did he take it with him?

647
00:48:41,306 --> 00:48:47,623
He left them on the counter, they're capsules that are in, like they're just capsules in a
white bottle.

648
00:48:47,623 --> 00:48:51,178
There's no prescription label or anything.

649
00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:56,412
I mean, yeah, I assume this is he ground up metal and put them in capsules himself.

650
00:48:56,412 --> 00:49:01,146
I don't think there's like, it's not a corner for big pharma.

651
00:49:01,146 --> 00:49:02,167
I don't think so.

652
00:49:02,167 --> 00:49:04,449
Yeah, that tracks that totally makes sense.

653
00:49:04,990 --> 00:49:10,234
Yeah, I think the first thing in the morning, I'm gonna probably go go grab that.

654
00:49:10,234 --> 00:49:11,545
But all right, great.

655
00:49:11,545 --> 00:49:18,531
I will uh smash my stomach, give myself a little punch, shut up in there, and then try to
get some sleep.

656
00:49:19,410 --> 00:49:23,207
Del, what are you doing to satiate this as you're trying to sleep?

657
00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:29,586
Yeah, I'm tossing and turning and I'm not really liking this uncomfortable sensation.

658
00:49:29,980 --> 00:49:38,964
I have to imagine I've been on a lot of watches where bodily functions could not be
attended to and this is like a different kind of gnawing.

659
00:49:38,964 --> 00:49:46,149
And I look at the bullet in the whiskey glass and it sounds really good but I am not going
to

660
00:49:46,605 --> 00:50:01,989
uh Allow anything that has come into contact with alcohol to enter my mouth And I am going
to Just like quietly mutter to the room anybody else feel like a hot meal and I'm gonna

661
00:50:01,989 --> 00:50:05,746
take my Pistol and I'm going to shove it down into the couch.

662
00:50:05,746 --> 00:50:09,848
I'm going to Wrap a blanket around it.

663
00:50:09,848 --> 00:50:14,551
I'm going to fire a single shot into the back of the uh the couch

664
00:50:14,551 --> 00:50:17,086
and then I'm going to swallow the hot shell casing.

665
00:50:17,086 --> 00:50:19,050
What the actual fuck, Del?

666
00:50:19,050 --> 00:50:20,664
What is- what's happening?

667
00:50:20,664 --> 00:50:23,409
And I'll sit up with my rifle, like, ready to go.

668
00:50:23,409 --> 00:50:25,111
What are you shooting at?

669
00:50:25,533 --> 00:50:26,957
Are you crazy?

670
00:50:26,957 --> 00:50:27,255
Yeah.

671
00:50:27,255 --> 00:50:34,094
I don't know what the hell is going on because nobody told me about like what happened to
Dell.

672
00:50:34,094 --> 00:50:37,599
And so I'm like, my God, why are you shooting your gun?

673
00:50:37,599 --> 00:50:45,909
And I'm like, I like go to reach for my own gun and I'm like dropping it because I was
deep asleep when this happened.

674
00:50:46,049 --> 00:50:57,515
Yeah, the shooting of the gun becomes very secondary as I take that spent shell casing and
I just start to like bite down on it and compress the walls in my mouth.

675
00:50:57,716 --> 00:50:59,057
And I'll just say...

676
00:51:01,473 --> 00:51:03,529
Price of living, I suppose.

677
00:51:03,529 --> 00:51:14,659
I don't really know what to make of it, but apparently we got something inside of us now
and they're hungry.

678
00:51:15,490 --> 00:51:19,671
I mean don't say us, don't be a snitch, Del.

679
00:51:20,692 --> 00:51:22,532
Ryan, kind of weird.

680
00:51:23,112 --> 00:51:35,196
We're not aliens per se, but we definitely have uh metal-eating tiny monsters inside of us
and it makes us all normal humans still also.

681
00:51:35,196 --> 00:51:41,908
We just need to eat metal once in a while and I think I'll be fine, perfectly fine, but
Del for sure would have been dead if we didn't do that.

682
00:51:41,908 --> 00:51:43,298
So hey, there's the update.

683
00:51:43,298 --> 00:51:50,860
uh No guns for no guns for anybody else and I'll walk around and I'll fucking grab
Everybody's guns out of their hands.

684
00:51:50,860 --> 00:51:52,403
I'm like no no for you.

685
00:51:52,403 --> 00:51:53,204
No for you.

686
00:51:53,204 --> 00:51:57,067
You guys are going crazy And I'll start walking back towards the door

687
00:51:57,067 --> 00:52:03,169
You know, okay, but Del, there's an easier way to get a bullet out of your gun.

688
00:52:03,169 --> 00:52:06,010
Just saying, you don't have to shoot it.

689
00:52:06,010 --> 00:52:10,052
So if you want to eat bullets, fine.

690
00:52:10,052 --> 00:52:13,553
You know, everything's fucking weird now, so whatever.

691
00:52:13,553 --> 00:52:19,725
But can you just, you know, not shoot a gun to get a bullet out of it, please?

692
00:52:19,725 --> 00:52:20,815
Thank you.

693
00:52:22,416 --> 00:52:26,170
They only come out of my gun one way and I'm not gonna eat the gunpowder.

694
00:52:26,170 --> 00:52:27,443
That shit'll give you cancer.

695
00:52:27,443 --> 00:52:28,244
Right, fair.

696
00:52:28,244 --> 00:52:36,051
uh not gonna lie, I maybe peed a little when you scared me awake, but uh that was pretty
badass.

697
00:52:36,051 --> 00:52:36,771
That was pretty cool.

698
00:52:36,771 --> 00:52:37,402
That was pretty cool.

699
00:52:37,402 --> 00:52:38,833
Also, no guns.

700
00:52:38,833 --> 00:52:40,755
So no more of that.

701
00:52:40,755 --> 00:52:42,076
Also pretty cool, Del.

702
00:52:42,076 --> 00:52:43,974
uh Go to bed.

703
00:52:43,974 --> 00:52:53,273
imagine that you're feeling really good about the fact that you have a reason to take
Dell's gun away from him that he will actually not fight you on this time because when you

704
00:52:53,273 --> 00:53:03,163
were sleeping by the door, he had already gone to sleep with that rifle pointed at the
door and his finger is sure twitchy when he sleeps.

705
00:53:03,803 --> 00:53:05,742
no, I didn't even think about that.

706
00:53:05,742 --> 00:53:10,310
All right, so with the bullet, can now get a Knight's Rest.

707
00:53:10,310 --> 00:53:18,515
Everybody give yourself a D6 of willpower points back if you've spent willpower, and then
you can take one hit point each.

708
00:53:18,515 --> 00:53:22,234
So roll a d6 and whatever you get, you get that back in willpower.

709
00:53:22,234 --> 00:53:26,694
Of course I roll a one.

710
00:53:26,914 --> 00:53:27,873
Cool.

711
00:53:27,873 --> 00:53:29,961
got a healthy plus four.

712
00:53:29,961 --> 00:53:31,425
I'll take that.

713
00:53:32,302 --> 00:53:33,380
And then what did you say?

714
00:53:33,380 --> 00:53:34,681
We get what else?

715
00:53:34,681 --> 00:53:35,895
Hit points.

716
00:53:36,365 --> 00:53:38,021
Just one hit point back.

717
00:53:38,211 --> 00:53:38,507
Okay.