1 00:00:00,142 --> 00:00:00,886 Great. 2 00:00:01,165 --> 00:00:02,605 Ding, ding, ding. 3 00:00:02,846 --> 00:00:04,363 Agent Barone. 4 00:00:04,614 --> 00:00:10,787 you head out from Atoka, Oklahoma, presumably going home. 5 00:00:11,038 --> 00:00:12,075 What do you do? 6 00:00:12,679 --> 00:00:13,800 Yeah, definitely. 7 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:15,933 think, Barone takes the long way home. 8 00:00:15,933 --> 00:00:18,375 Head over to, to West Virginia there. 9 00:00:18,375 --> 00:00:22,558 she's trying to find something off, off the beaten path. 10 00:00:22,558 --> 00:00:28,123 she has one, one last thing to, get off of her shoulders and out of her backpack, if you will. 11 00:00:28,524 --> 00:00:31,567 So we're gonna, we're gonna do a bit of, back to nature. 12 00:00:31,567 --> 00:00:37,573 What she needs to find is a place in the middle of nowhere where she could dig a deep. 13 00:00:37,573 --> 00:00:49,391 deep hole and put Agent McHale's, Ranger McHale's head into and get the the final dirt and muck of this operation off of her hands. 14 00:00:49,642 --> 00:00:56,811 Yeah, do you memorialize him in any way or is it just a nondescript hole out in the back country? 15 00:00:56,811 --> 00:01:02,973 I don't think she ever wants this thing found and she doesn't want anybody else to go dig in or looking or find it. 16 00:01:02,973 --> 00:01:12,356 So I think this is she may have a mental memorial and you know kind of word of silence in the silent apology for things gone wrong type thing. 17 00:01:12,356 --> 00:01:18,319 But I don't think she she's not you know making a Karen or anything to signify. 18 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:22,770 Hey look here find Barone's dirty mess where things went wrong. 19 00:01:22,991 --> 00:01:29,167 I think she more is getting rid of evidence and saying a silent apology than anything else. 20 00:01:29,419 --> 00:01:37,766 Yeah, you bury it and have your own internal memorial, it sounds like, for the ranger. 21 00:01:38,007 --> 00:01:40,229 Barely knew him, was really friendly. 22 00:01:40,430 --> 00:01:44,153 Can you give me a sand roll? 23 00:01:44,571 --> 00:01:45,637 Yeah, sure. 24 00:01:46,374 --> 00:01:49,654 Sanity is 42. 25 00:01:50,469 --> 00:01:51,873 Okay, and that's under. 26 00:01:53,743 --> 00:01:54,978 oh currently. 27 00:01:54,978 --> 00:02:00,094 aiming for 42 and I got over 54 so Phil 28 00:02:00,345 --> 00:02:06,326 Okay, so the failure still, you gain one SAN from that by getting back to nature. 29 00:02:06,577 --> 00:02:08,665 and you reduce a bond by one. 30 00:02:08,665 --> 00:02:11,868 who, what responsibility are you ignoring? 31 00:02:12,604 --> 00:02:14,763 What responsibility am I ignoring? 32 00:02:14,763 --> 00:02:17,009 I think, let's see here. 33 00:02:17,261 --> 00:02:30,618 Just because I haven't taken a hit to it yet in Well now Let's go ahead and let's do Bradley So let's say, know, I probably am scheduled to see him once a month or whatever 34 00:02:30,618 --> 00:02:39,132 and I've I've been Missed that appointment entirely and I've have hasn't even crossed my mind to you know Give him a call and reschedule or anything like that. 35 00:02:39,132 --> 00:02:40,613 So let's go ahead and do that 36 00:02:40,842 --> 00:02:42,480 Yeah. 37 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,128 So Bradley is your therapist. 38 00:02:44,128 --> 00:02:45,773 So you've missed a few sessions. 39 00:02:45,773 --> 00:02:47,301 therapist, yep. 40 00:02:47,916 --> 00:02:50,959 and yeah, okay, good to know. 41 00:02:50,959 --> 00:02:56,023 So you finish your trek out to home home, I'm assuming. 42 00:02:56,934 --> 00:02:58,345 Yeah, to home home. 43 00:02:58,345 --> 00:03:02,809 Yeah, once once I'm I'm relieved of that there's no more evidence. 44 00:03:02,809 --> 00:03:08,574 I I'm taking the slow road still enjoying a bit of, you know, peace and quiet. 45 00:03:08,574 --> 00:03:15,259 And by that I mean loud metal screams in my ears to drown out the my thoughts on my drive home with all the windows down. 46 00:03:15,259 --> 00:03:17,382 So there's a cacophonous cabin. 47 00:03:17,382 --> 00:03:19,333 But yeah, I think I'll just head home. 48 00:03:20,164 --> 00:03:24,464 Yeah, and since you passed your breaking point as well, what? 49 00:03:24,634 --> 00:03:25,449 yeah. 50 00:03:26,420 --> 00:03:29,860 What mental condition do you think starts to creep its way in? 51 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,803 My thought was, oh, go ahead, yeah, go ahead, yeah. 52 00:03:32,803 --> 00:03:39,721 was just gonna say, we have a list of Delta Green approved mental conditions or is it find something that makes sense? 53 00:03:39,932 --> 00:03:44,153 It's find something that makes sense and I'll add a mechanic, but there is a list of them. 54 00:03:44,373 --> 00:03:52,558 And for me, being betrayed as much as you were, like paranoia sounds like a decent one. 55 00:03:52,558 --> 00:04:03,741 And so what paranoia would do is essentially make it so if you lost more than two San at one time, you would start getting paranoid of the people, the other agents. 56 00:04:04,035 --> 00:04:05,568 specifically other agents. 57 00:04:05,568 --> 00:04:14,341 And it would be hard to get over that paranoia until you rested or made another sand check to get over the paranoia. 58 00:04:14,341 --> 00:04:15,562 Does that make sense? 59 00:04:16,073 --> 00:04:17,405 Yeah, does. 60 00:04:18,650 --> 00:04:21,635 Another s- Yeah. 61 00:04:21,887 --> 00:04:23,828 Okay, yeah, I don't I don't hate that. 62 00:04:23,828 --> 00:04:34,298 I think I'd want to want to avoid in inbuilt character tension that like every time something happens like, all right, well, it's it's it's Ryan against Jordan now, or it's 63 00:04:34,298 --> 00:04:35,971 Ryan against, know, whoever. 64 00:04:35,971 --> 00:04:45,149 But at the same time, I think that does make sense because of, you know, the stuff that happened with Ryan and then, you know, the one person who she just blatantly followed the 65 00:04:45,149 --> 00:04:47,980 rules and orders of then all of a sudden is 66 00:04:48,275 --> 00:04:49,577 betrayed her and doesn't know. 67 00:04:49,577 --> 00:04:54,473 Like I think that makes sense that she's, you know, unsettled by this. 68 00:04:54,524 --> 00:04:58,349 And it could also be paranoia toward the organization too. 69 00:04:58,349 --> 00:05:05,804 Like whoever's hiring you, you're just like, they sent us out here to die and that kind of like thought gets stuck in your head, right? 70 00:05:05,804 --> 00:05:06,706 So. 71 00:05:06,706 --> 00:05:07,807 Yeah, I don't hate that. 72 00:05:07,807 --> 00:05:13,331 having been pretty paranoid and then the one time he kind of like let his guard down, he died, right? 73 00:05:13,331 --> 00:05:16,817 So it's like lesson learned secondhand. 74 00:05:16,817 --> 00:05:17,643 Yeah, for sure. 75 00:05:17,643 --> 00:05:18,014 Cool. 76 00:05:18,014 --> 00:05:18,498 I like that. 77 00:05:18,498 --> 00:05:19,011 I'm into that. 78 00:05:19,011 --> 00:05:20,316 Let's do exactly that. 79 00:05:20,316 --> 00:05:21,137 Great. 80 00:05:21,664 --> 00:05:24,517 Describe your house to me if you can, if you want to. 81 00:05:24,768 --> 00:05:25,850 Describe my house. 82 00:05:25,850 --> 00:05:35,537 My house is is mainly garage the the things that keep me happy are my hands and my tools and my projects, you know, I have Hold on one second 83 00:05:35,788 --> 00:05:36,799 She's man cats. 84 00:05:36,799 --> 00:05:41,764 swear they want in and they want out and they want on your lap and they want on your shoulder and then they want out of the room entirely. 85 00:05:41,764 --> 00:05:42,764 I got. 86 00:05:43,338 --> 00:05:44,166 Okay, great. 87 00:05:44,166 --> 00:05:44,506 Right. 88 00:05:44,506 --> 00:05:55,465 So yeah, so her things that keep her happy are her her projects in her hands and her tools in the things that that around that she can, you know, build on and make it better and 89 00:05:55,465 --> 00:06:03,093 track progress of life because after a certain point like how do you measure for getting better if you're not getting stuff done so her? 90 00:06:03,093 --> 00:06:07,998 Her house is small and tidy-ish, but it is attached to the garage. 91 00:06:07,998 --> 00:06:13,943 And you could easily see that that's where she spends the most time by the number of projects and things that she has around. 92 00:06:13,943 --> 00:06:26,506 has, you know, in old Indian motorcycle, that's a project bike that, you know, is maybe 15 % done, but there's pieces that were hanged and painted and waiting to dry. 93 00:06:26,506 --> 00:06:28,418 And, you know, another... 94 00:06:28,672 --> 00:06:33,147 a bigger project of, her father's car that's just covered in the corner. 95 00:06:33,147 --> 00:06:42,398 And, know, maybe has the headlights taken out and smart, small bits taken care of and, you know, all sorts of little projects of things that she could fix up and measure against 96 00:06:42,398 --> 00:06:43,699 around her space. 97 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:45,191 Yeah. 98 00:06:45,442 --> 00:06:48,187 You have an answering machine, I presume? 99 00:06:48,294 --> 00:06:49,581 Yeah, definitely. 100 00:06:49,832 --> 00:06:52,684 you have a decent amount of messages on there. 101 00:06:52,684 --> 00:06:55,506 The first one is from Jaden. 102 00:06:56,347 --> 00:06:59,050 It's like clicks on worlds. 103 00:06:59,050 --> 00:07:01,013 It's like, hey, hey there. 104 00:07:01,013 --> 00:07:03,505 Morgan, it's been a while since I've heard from you. 105 00:07:03,505 --> 00:07:04,817 I'm a little worried about you. 106 00:07:04,817 --> 00:07:08,971 We, I don't know, like to stay in touch still. 107 00:07:08,971 --> 00:07:12,925 So just calling you to let you know that I haven't seen you in a bit. 108 00:07:13,065 --> 00:07:13,986 And then. 109 00:07:14,022 --> 00:07:15,062 clicks off. 110 00:07:15,803 --> 00:07:28,187 Next one is Bradley and it's like, hey, I know you've had a lot going on lately, but you know, we had an appointment today and just curious if you were going to come by and we can 111 00:07:28,187 --> 00:07:30,669 reschedule and then it stops. 112 00:07:30,669 --> 00:07:33,911 And then the next one is worlds up. 113 00:07:34,032 --> 00:07:35,372 Hey, this is Bradley again. 114 00:07:35,372 --> 00:07:36,652 Sorry, you couldn't make it. 115 00:07:36,652 --> 00:07:39,713 I just have to call just to make sure that 116 00:07:40,237 --> 00:07:41,937 Everything's safe and okay with you. 117 00:07:41,937 --> 00:07:47,029 I would appreciate a call back and I hope I see you next week. 118 00:07:47,029 --> 00:07:50,603 Looking at your calendar, that next week would have been yesterday. 119 00:07:50,603 --> 00:07:56,106 And the last message is like, hey, Barone, this is Bradley again. 120 00:07:56,106 --> 00:08:01,031 Just again wanted to check if you still wanted the time slot that I have for you. 121 00:08:01,031 --> 00:08:03,072 Please let me know otherwise. 122 00:08:03,172 --> 00:08:09,077 I'll give you one more call and I'll have to give up the time slot unfortunately if I don't hear from you. 123 00:08:09,077 --> 00:08:09,698 Click. 124 00:08:09,698 --> 00:08:17,285 And then the very last message is, Jaden, hey, I don't know what's going on, but again, I'm worried about you. 125 00:08:17,285 --> 00:08:19,598 Let me know when a good time to meet up is. 126 00:08:19,598 --> 00:08:25,052 I dropped by the place and you weren't there, so I hope you're okay. 127 00:08:25,052 --> 00:08:25,914 I know that. 128 00:08:25,914 --> 00:08:30,529 you your new job has you running around quite a bit, but it's been a while since you've checked in. 129 00:08:30,780 --> 00:08:33,160 Barone, missing the mark left and right here, aren't you? 130 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:34,754 Okay, all right. 131 00:08:35,005 --> 00:08:37,365 Okay, I think. 132 00:08:38,064 --> 00:08:51,469 So let's go ahead and give Bradley a call back really quick and do you want to play through it or do you want to just like hey this is what happened on the clock. 133 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,020 Yeah, I'll roll luck to see if he's in session or not. 134 00:08:55,420 --> 00:08:57,400 87, he's in session. 135 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,340 So, but you're believe a message. 136 00:08:59,340 --> 00:09:01,440 What do you wanna get across? 137 00:09:01,936 --> 00:09:03,507 hey, sorry about that. 138 00:09:03,507 --> 00:09:06,200 I've been out of town for work for a bit. 139 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:10,564 I definitely have some, some learnings and some things to talk through. 140 00:09:10,564 --> 00:09:15,048 I'm still a bit busy and putting my life back together now that I'm back. 141 00:09:15,048 --> 00:09:21,254 But if, uh if we could schedule, I don't know, uh a week out from now or a couple of days, let me know what works best. 142 00:09:21,254 --> 00:09:22,005 yeah, call me back. 143 00:09:22,005 --> 00:09:22,755 Bye. 144 00:09:23,006 --> 00:09:24,623 Do you call Jaden? 145 00:09:24,874 --> 00:09:27,559 So we've taken quite a bit of hits on Jaden. 146 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:32,320 What is uh a life hit point for a relationship like this? 147 00:09:32,671 --> 00:09:36,433 Yeah, what's his bond at currently with you? 148 00:09:37,123 --> 00:09:37,514 God. 149 00:09:37,514 --> 00:09:41,376 Okay. 150 00:09:41,376 --> 00:09:45,499 Yeah, your relationship with him has irrevocably changed in his eyes basically. 151 00:09:45,499 --> 00:09:46,940 But you can still reach out. 152 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:53,574 You can use fulfilling responsibilities to repair the bond if you want, or you can do other stuff. 153 00:09:53,574 --> 00:09:55,376 That's a good question. 154 00:09:55,376 --> 00:10:07,781 An idea was to lose myself in some books and form a new bond, but if that does the same thing as fulfilling responsibilities and building back an old bond, I think that's kind of 155 00:10:07,781 --> 00:10:08,688 the same thing. 156 00:10:08,688 --> 00:10:13,865 And now that I have a little bit of an answer to what ails me, I don't 157 00:10:13,865 --> 00:10:21,701 know if I'm going to dedicate that much time digging into science and you know, might keep that journal going and do a little bit of study, but I don't think I'm going to lose 158 00:10:21,701 --> 00:10:25,045 myself for a cure if I already have the cure. 159 00:10:25,045 --> 00:10:36,455 I think having lost so many wealth, having feeling like she's lost so many things already, I think maybe it does behoove her to try and keep what she has built. 160 00:10:36,455 --> 00:10:41,639 So I think I will go ahead and do fulfill responsibilities and try and build that. 161 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:51,139 build that back up with my ex spouse because this is somebody you know, I had put enough life force and energy into you know, just to let it die because she was out of pocket for 162 00:10:51,139 --> 00:10:53,539 too long, you know seems irresponsible. 163 00:10:53,539 --> 00:10:54,879 So let's do that. 164 00:10:55,044 --> 00:10:59,607 Yeah, so let's do a scene of how that manifests. 165 00:10:59,607 --> 00:11:01,275 Like, do you invite him out for dinner? 166 00:11:01,275 --> 00:11:03,239 Do you guys work on a car together? 167 00:11:03,239 --> 00:11:08,572 Like, how does the relationship manifest and what can we role play to like bring that to life? 168 00:11:08,572 --> 00:11:09,032 Yeah. 169 00:11:09,032 --> 00:11:10,273 think it's exactly that. 170 00:11:10,273 --> 00:11:19,408 think that they met being mechanics and they both understand, you know, how working with their hands and that's maybe why, you know, stuff didn't necessarily work out because 171 00:11:19,408 --> 00:11:20,239 that's where it stopped. 172 00:11:20,239 --> 00:11:25,585 They didn't know how to work with their voice or their hearts and hands is what they knew most. 173 00:11:25,585 --> 00:11:27,256 So she knows that she can lean on that. 174 00:11:27,256 --> 00:11:29,077 So I think that's exactly what she's going to do. 175 00:11:29,077 --> 00:11:30,748 She's, you know, going to... 176 00:11:31,178 --> 00:11:37,716 nudge the Indian motorcycle project and ask for a bit of help with that. 177 00:11:37,723 --> 00:11:37,915 yeah. 178 00:11:37,915 --> 00:11:39,105 Yeah, you give him a call. 179 00:11:39,105 --> 00:11:40,359 He's like, hello? 180 00:11:41,013 --> 00:11:42,133 Hey, uh, Jaden. 181 00:11:42,133 --> 00:11:43,073 Hey, it's me. 182 00:11:43,073 --> 00:11:48,393 Uh, I, listen, I'm, I'm, I'm really sorry I've, I've been out of touch for a bit. 183 00:11:48,393 --> 00:11:55,173 There's a lot of, a lot of stuff's happened at work and you know how it goes with the CIA. 184 00:11:55,173 --> 00:12:03,597 There's some things you, you can't really talk about and you just kind of choke on or work past and I'm somewhere in between the two. 185 00:12:03,849 --> 00:12:05,993 You'd fix their cars, Morgan. 186 00:12:05,993 --> 00:12:08,015 Like, what do you mean? 187 00:12:09,411 --> 00:12:20,041 You can't talk about the type of engine they got or if it's a V8 or is there some secret engine that you're working on out there? 188 00:12:20,041 --> 00:12:20,707 Yeah. 189 00:12:20,707 --> 00:12:26,494 V6 turbos and shit and they're just crazy all over the place, which, you know, breaks, breaks my brain a bit. 190 00:12:26,494 --> 00:12:26,955 Yeah. 191 00:12:26,955 --> 00:12:28,917 Yes, some something like that. 192 00:12:28,917 --> 00:12:30,499 Hey, listen, I'm, I'm sorry. 193 00:12:30,499 --> 00:12:37,892 If you want to if you want to swing by, you know, sometime this this weekend and maybe put a little bit of time in the old 194 00:12:37,892 --> 00:12:42,378 in the old Indian, maybe I could use some help and hear what you've been up to. 195 00:12:42,630 --> 00:12:45,174 I'm a little busy, Morgan. 196 00:12:45,174 --> 00:12:45,865 Let me see. 197 00:12:45,865 --> 00:12:48,159 I'll have to get back to you on that. 198 00:12:48,159 --> 00:12:51,763 Go ahead and roll sanity again. 199 00:12:52,014 --> 00:12:54,406 43 and I got a 23 success. 200 00:12:54,406 --> 00:12:56,209 Great, go ahead and give me a D6. 201 00:12:56,461 --> 00:12:57,917 D6 we got a two. 202 00:12:58,252 --> 00:13:00,874 Okay, so you improve the bond by two, right? 203 00:13:00,874 --> 00:13:05,277 So in a day, he gives you a call back and says he's gonna be by this weekend. 204 00:13:05,277 --> 00:13:08,980 And he brings his tool, he has specialty tools for motorcycles. 205 00:13:08,980 --> 00:13:16,286 And you have the same ones, but I presume it's a guy thing, you let him bring his tools out, that he would appreciate that. 206 00:13:16,286 --> 00:13:19,548 And you guys set to work and shoot the shit. 207 00:13:19,621 --> 00:13:25,403 He does bring up, there's something, there's a distance there. 208 00:13:25,643 --> 00:13:29,843 And he's like, you seem strange, Morgan, what's going on? 209 00:13:30,094 --> 00:13:34,694 Why are you so, I don't know, you're just a little different. 210 00:13:34,945 --> 00:13:49,997 Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely a bit, you know, we were never really good about talking uh emotions and stuff and kind of let our hands do our talking, which built up some walls and 211 00:13:50,418 --> 00:13:53,462 sometimes those walls need to stay up for a bit. 212 00:13:53,462 --> 00:13:55,463 And I'll tell you what if 213 00:13:55,933 --> 00:14:05,459 If I ever need to dig into it a bit more instead of just need somebody to lean on for a bit of help and a bit of solitude, I'll let you know. 214 00:14:05,459 --> 00:14:09,132 But if you could respect that just a little bit, I'd appreciate that. 215 00:14:09,132 --> 00:14:12,793 uh Do you want a beer? 216 00:14:13,044 --> 00:14:15,024 Yeah, I'll grab it. 217 00:14:15,084 --> 00:14:17,444 So he knows where it's at. 218 00:14:17,444 --> 00:14:19,624 Pops open the fridge, grabs a beer. 219 00:14:20,044 --> 00:14:34,264 He uses a ring on his right hand, not his left hand, to pop open the beer caps, sets one down, and sits cross-legged under the engine next to you and gets to work. 220 00:14:34,515 --> 00:14:46,873 So there's a bit of actually learned about this when I was looking at, know, and then we kind of uh get fall into it and get get lost in working with their hands and not focusing 221 00:14:46,873 --> 00:14:51,899 on the thing in front of us instead of, you know, the stuff that's fallen and affected around. 222 00:14:52,558 --> 00:14:54,070 Yeah, one step forward, right? 223 00:14:54,070 --> 00:14:58,424 You don't wanna sit there and stay in the depression, right? 224 00:14:58,424 --> 00:15:01,587 You wanna keep going in a direction. 225 00:15:01,587 --> 00:15:03,329 And this is the direction you're going. 226 00:15:03,329 --> 00:15:04,731 After a while, he's laughing. 227 00:15:04,731 --> 00:15:08,985 Give him a few 30 minutes under the engine, some grease on his hands. 228 00:15:08,985 --> 00:15:11,538 He's just like he was before, right? 229 00:15:11,538 --> 00:15:12,020 But. 230 00:15:12,020 --> 00:15:21,416 You can tell in the quiet moments, there's a curiosity behind his eyes as he looks at you and he's respecting your space, but you can tell his wheels are turning, there's something 231 00:15:21,416 --> 00:15:22,297 different about you. 232 00:15:22,297 --> 00:15:33,605 And he also rips you about not wearing a tank top, because you're always in a tank top when you're fixing engines and now you have like a full on sleeve shirt and everything. 233 00:15:33,666 --> 00:15:34,424 yeah. 234 00:15:34,424 --> 00:15:34,624 Good. 235 00:15:34,624 --> 00:15:35,035 Yeah. 236 00:15:35,035 --> 00:15:35,415 Yeah. 237 00:15:35,415 --> 00:15:41,916 She would definitely cover up, especially like she doesn't really want any, any questions of, of anything else, but absolutely. 238 00:15:41,916 --> 00:15:47,354 She would, she would be more in a, in a cover all then than not, which is her, her tax before. 239 00:15:47,354 --> 00:15:47,972 oh 240 00:15:47,972 --> 00:15:48,802 Yeah. 241 00:15:49,404 --> 00:15:54,318 And so with the amount of time that spans in this home scene, you can do one more thing. 242 00:15:54,318 --> 00:15:55,729 Do you know what you want to do? 243 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:58,916 Hmm. 244 00:15:58,916 --> 00:16:03,015 I think if you give me a couple minutes, I could probably figure something out. 245 00:16:03,430 --> 00:16:04,771 Yeah, that's great. 246 00:16:04,771 --> 00:16:14,482 Yeah, I would think like you could do special training if you wanted to improve a skill or learn a new skill, you could improve one of your base stats too, if you like. 247 00:16:14,482 --> 00:16:17,003 You can also go to therapy. 248 00:16:17,254 --> 00:16:20,076 You you've already gained a decent amount of sand. 249 00:16:20,182 --> 00:16:21,735 for somebody in this. 250 00:16:21,735 --> 00:16:28,512 But you can also, if you go to therapy, you have the chance of getting rid of your disorder that you just got. 251 00:16:28,512 --> 00:16:30,734 first, you know, things like that. 252 00:16:30,734 --> 00:16:34,584 Yeah, yeah, for sure. 253 00:16:34,584 --> 00:16:37,716 play parts of the game and since since I work so hard to get it. 254 00:16:37,716 --> 00:16:41,057 uh Let's let's definitely do that. 255 00:16:41,057 --> 00:16:46,286 So right now I do have a check mark on Bradley with one in Jackie. 256 00:16:46,286 --> 00:16:50,981 I still have a check mark on Jackie, but I don't have a number next to it. 257 00:16:51,232 --> 00:16:55,953 Yeah, so your number would be, it would start at nine. 258 00:16:55,953 --> 00:17:02,041 uh I don't believe, yeah, it's your charisma is what your bond starts at. 259 00:17:02,242 --> 00:17:03,583 Okay, got it. 260 00:17:03,583 --> 00:17:07,218 then, then Jaden is nine minus two now with that repaired. 261 00:17:07,218 --> 00:17:13,484 So it's at seven and then Bradley is at eight and then there Jackie is at nine. 262 00:17:13,484 --> 00:17:18,690 Cause I didn't record what I took to hit it. 263 00:17:18,690 --> 00:17:19,921 Okay, great. 264 00:17:19,921 --> 00:17:22,602 I wonder if I take that for something else. 265 00:17:22,602 --> 00:17:26,450 um Shoot. 266 00:17:26,450 --> 00:17:28,857 I thought there was a, I've lost my edge. 267 00:17:28,857 --> 00:17:32,827 I used to have somebody that I competed against, Rival Shop Mechanic. 268 00:17:33,447 --> 00:17:33,726 Yeah. 269 00:17:33,726 --> 00:17:33,966 that. 270 00:17:33,966 --> 00:17:34,647 Yeah, you're right. 271 00:17:34,647 --> 00:17:35,208 You're right. 272 00:17:35,208 --> 00:17:36,068 Yeah. 273 00:17:36,319 --> 00:17:37,533 It was just one. 274 00:17:37,533 --> 00:17:39,458 I believe so, yeah. 275 00:17:40,846 --> 00:17:42,381 Maybe, yeah, yeah, 276 00:17:42,381 --> 00:17:43,333 it is now. 277 00:17:43,333 --> 00:17:44,984 So let's do that. 278 00:17:44,984 --> 00:17:47,817 So skills actually, let's do a skill. 279 00:17:47,817 --> 00:17:49,299 Let's do a fun skill. 280 00:17:49,299 --> 00:17:52,131 Let's do, what's coming up? 281 00:17:52,131 --> 00:17:57,218 What do we have coming up that I might need a bit of help on? 282 00:17:57,469 --> 00:17:59,348 Alertness is pretty good, navigate. 283 00:17:59,348 --> 00:18:03,579 So the interesting thing is you have to fail the skill check in order to gain more of the skill, right? 284 00:18:03,579 --> 00:18:07,475 So you have to be kind of bad at it in order to get better at it, more likely. 285 00:18:07,475 --> 00:18:11,718 So like maybe picking something that you're middle to bad at could be better. 286 00:18:12,058 --> 00:18:12,772 You know what I mean? 287 00:18:12,772 --> 00:18:23,282 Yeah, so like my my low things are like 30s and then I have some 60 70 and 80 and then a lot of fucking nothing. 288 00:18:23,282 --> 00:18:24,906 There's nothing at all. 289 00:18:24,906 --> 00:18:26,817 So on average, you're going to add 11 to it, right? 290 00:18:26,817 --> 00:18:27,927 It's 3D6 worth. 291 00:18:27,927 --> 00:18:40,093 uh And so thinking about something that you'd be happy to have 10 more skill at and that you, if something has a 30, that means you've got about a 2 thirds chance of actually 292 00:18:40,093 --> 00:18:41,473 benefiting from it. 293 00:18:41,993 --> 00:18:46,570 Whereas we'd love a 70 to be an 80, but it's just probably not going to. 294 00:18:46,570 --> 00:18:47,188 Yeah. 295 00:18:47,188 --> 00:18:58,806 not going to unit, you know what we have used a decided amount of that she is really bad at and then maybe she's she's learning to get better at and so human right reading people 296 00:18:58,806 --> 00:19:09,752 so like we could tie this back a little bit to you know learning from Ryan and not reading him right and then not not reading butterfield right and then learning from Dell and then 297 00:19:09,752 --> 00:19:14,737 now setting these barriers with with Jaden to be like hey I'm here putting in time. 298 00:19:14,737 --> 00:19:20,672 to like help our relationship back to where it was just a little bit, but like, you know, don't push boundaries. 299 00:19:20,672 --> 00:19:27,137 She's learning to communicate and you know, take taking Mark of the things that she didn't quite get right. 300 00:19:27,137 --> 00:19:29,480 And she's learning a little bit about people. 301 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:38,917 And I think that would that would make sense to be something that we could, you know, learn off of and grow as a person too, which means add some skill back to. 302 00:19:39,355 --> 00:19:44,386 Yeah, yeah, you're doing this, you're living this with Jaden. 303 00:19:44,386 --> 00:19:51,508 You're trying to patch it up and he's sussing you out and you're starting to recognize that he's sussing you out, right? 304 00:19:51,508 --> 00:19:55,269 So you're being in tune to these signals. 305 00:19:55,269 --> 00:19:57,530 And you even grab a book, right? 306 00:19:57,530 --> 00:20:05,134 You pick up a book, just a psychology 101 type book, pop psychology and you read through it and maybe you get a second book. 307 00:20:05,134 --> 00:20:05,824 And... 308 00:20:05,824 --> 00:20:10,738 you start getting more interested on nonverbal tells for people, right? 309 00:20:10,738 --> 00:20:16,275 And then that leads you to a poker book where you're like, okay, like how do you tell when somebody's bluffing, right? 310 00:20:16,275 --> 00:20:20,824 So you pick up this like poker book and go ahead and roll me your human right now. 311 00:20:21,138 --> 00:20:22,318 Awesome, sure. 312 00:20:22,318 --> 00:20:24,458 So human right now is 12. 313 00:20:24,698 --> 00:20:28,018 So I just got two from failing so many times. 314 00:20:28,458 --> 00:20:29,918 So human is 12. 315 00:20:29,918 --> 00:20:31,578 Obviously I'm not gonna get under that. 316 00:20:31,578 --> 00:20:32,858 Oh, that's a lie. 317 00:20:32,858 --> 00:20:34,738 I got a zero zero six. 318 00:20:34,738 --> 00:20:36,658 I take it that's not 600. 319 00:20:36,998 --> 00:20:38,598 I take it that's a six. 320 00:20:39,536 --> 00:20:40,520 Let's see. 321 00:20:40,771 --> 00:20:43,484 just seeing if there's any gain at all. 322 00:20:43,575 --> 00:20:44,601 no! 323 00:20:45,178 --> 00:20:47,149 Well, bite you in the butt that one. 324 00:20:47,149 --> 00:20:52,930 I mean, yeah, the beauty part is, I guess, that a six wouldn't have worked anywhere, right? 325 00:20:52,930 --> 00:20:56,727 It's not like you picked the wrong skill, just the dice fucked you. 326 00:20:57,045 --> 00:20:57,958 Dang. 327 00:20:57,971 --> 00:21:01,778 Yeah, so you don't gain any humans, sorry. 328 00:21:01,778 --> 00:21:02,847 But you also, but... 329 00:21:02,847 --> 00:21:06,167 was a 43, ding-dang. 330 00:21:06,368 --> 00:21:08,488 Yeah, the one time you want to fail. 331 00:21:08,893 --> 00:21:12,414 because you narrated it so well and tied it to Jayden, I won't make you lose. 332 00:21:12,414 --> 00:21:16,045 Cause you also lose one from a bond if you do that, because you're spending time doing that. 333 00:21:16,045 --> 00:21:19,086 But since you're doing it live with Jayden, like you get to keep it. 334 00:21:19,086 --> 00:21:21,787 um, yeah. 335 00:21:22,167 --> 00:21:28,390 And yeah, Barone, you, what do you, what would you do on a Friday night, outside of the home? 336 00:21:28,390 --> 00:21:29,731 Like, let's say you're going out. 337 00:21:29,731 --> 00:21:31,051 What do you, what'd you do? 338 00:21:31,302 --> 00:21:35,868 Yeah, think, gosh, were we talking about a little bit ago? 339 00:21:35,868 --> 00:21:47,042 I think going to like dirt rallies, finding local dirt rallies or like forest races, kind of anything like that, that she could hear a loud engine and see some speed. 340 00:21:47,122 --> 00:21:51,930 and watch people move and feel and be alive is what she's gonna do. 341 00:21:51,930 --> 00:22:00,872 So be it a forest race, a local dirt rally, anything like that I think would be right up her vein to blow some steam. 342 00:22:01,266 --> 00:22:02,064 Great. 343 00:22:02,064 --> 00:22:03,845 What do you drive usually? 344 00:22:04,712 --> 00:22:06,103 What do I drive? 345 00:22:06,103 --> 00:22:10,627 So she does have a healthy affinity for her Bronco. 346 00:22:10,627 --> 00:22:22,918 um So I would say a 1987 Ford Bronco that she has repainted who knows how many times after every time she rebuilds it a bit or this or that and feels like a change. 347 00:22:22,918 --> 00:22:30,107 It's like somebody dyeing their hair but instead of dyeing her hair she changes her car color because that's something she could add to another project and it, you know. 348 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:34,934 signifies how she's feeling that year or two years or however often she does it. 349 00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:38,214 Yeah, sorry, what color is it now? 350 00:22:38,844 --> 00:22:43,481 let's do like a dark navy blue. 351 00:22:44,137 --> 00:22:47,338 Yeah, yeah, you're watching the Derby. 352 00:22:47,338 --> 00:22:53,297 It's really fucking loud and the cars are just smashing into each other. 353 00:22:53,297 --> 00:22:58,564 And there's usually a break between like different rungs of the race. 354 00:22:58,564 --> 00:23:10,509 the, during a downtime one, the announcer is kind of talking and then announcement comes up saying that a Navy Bronco within the parking lot has its lights on. 355 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:22,814 whoop, shit, and she finishes the last spittle of Budweiser, Bud Heavy, if you will, that was in her bottle, and she sets it down next to where she was sitting, you know, up on the 356 00:23:22,814 --> 00:23:25,138 bleachers, you know, that's her baby. 357 00:23:25,138 --> 00:23:30,783 She doesn't want it to, you know, have anything wrong with it, so she heads right out to take care of it. 358 00:23:31,034 --> 00:23:35,247 You get out there and the lights aren't on in your Bronco. 359 00:23:35,247 --> 00:23:36,368 What do you do? 360 00:23:36,620 --> 00:23:47,486 I think that the first thing that she does is reach back and make sure that trusty, know, GP 100 is still tucked in the back of her waistband, folds her flannel back around it 361 00:23:47,486 --> 00:23:52,432 again so it's secured and takes kind of a wide arc around the side of her car. 362 00:23:52,804 --> 00:23:53,105 Yeah. 363 00:23:53,105 --> 00:24:01,341 As you're walking around the car, you notice the gas thing is open on your car, your gas tank flap. 364 00:24:02,132 --> 00:24:13,159 Yep, yep, I'll take a little glance around and then edge my way over, stick a finger in there like I have so many times and pop that bad boy all the way open to make sure 365 00:24:13,159 --> 00:24:14,740 nobody's tinkered with it. 366 00:24:15,204 --> 00:24:17,736 Yeah, in fact, you have a lock for it. 367 00:24:17,736 --> 00:24:20,519 You have a locked gas cap and you pop it open. 368 00:24:20,519 --> 00:24:21,521 There's nothing in there. 369 00:24:21,521 --> 00:24:27,348 While you're down there, you're holding the tire and you feel something on the tire. 370 00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:28,771 Oh, OK. 371 00:24:29,294 --> 00:24:32,199 All right, and yep, absolutely. 372 00:24:32,199 --> 00:24:35,194 It's just a paper sack with something in it. 373 00:24:35,445 --> 00:24:36,575 I give it a little rattle. 374 00:24:36,575 --> 00:24:38,144 Does it make any sounds? 375 00:24:38,863 --> 00:24:42,950 Just one object doesn't make really any sounds, feels plastic. 376 00:24:42,950 --> 00:24:45,036 There's like a texture on it. 377 00:24:45,287 --> 00:24:48,060 Okay, so likely can't be anything too harmful. 378 00:24:48,060 --> 00:24:52,033 She'll just do a quick turnaround and glance around the parking lot. 379 00:24:52,033 --> 00:24:58,239 And if she doesn't see anybody, she's going to get inside her car and then go ahead and open it up. 380 00:24:58,627 --> 00:25:11,173 Yeah, it's a brick brand new Nokia phone and you power it on, it comes on and in there is the saved one saved number and that's it. 381 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:16,279 Okay, I ignore that and open up snake instead and start playing snake. 382 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:24,700 And then after about 45 seconds, I've lost as many times as somebody can in that amount of time gets a bit frustrating. 383 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:28,100 She's like, all right, Butterfield, what do you have for me now? 384 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:31,688 And then I'll go ahead and give the give the number a call. 385 00:25:32,312 --> 00:25:36,983 Yeah, you give the number a call and it reads off another phone number. 386 00:25:37,044 --> 00:25:38,904 You give that number a call. 387 00:25:38,904 --> 00:25:40,944 It reads off another phone number. 388 00:25:41,145 --> 00:25:45,369 You give that number a call and a pre-recorded message fizzes to life. 389 00:25:45,369 --> 00:25:49,692 And what it tells you is next to nothing. 390 00:25:49,712 --> 00:25:53,161 It says, in three days, El Paso, Texas. 391 00:25:53,412 --> 00:26:04,517 great and I mean it doesn't necessarily need to have been written down per se but I think her her first inkling is to get out a piece of paper and grab her number two pencil 392 00:26:04,517 --> 00:26:12,170 trustee number two pencil from the advisor and write down three days of Paso Texas and just write down the the date and circle it. 393 00:26:12,355 --> 00:26:13,722 What do you do with the phone? 394 00:26:13,973 --> 00:26:15,215 I think she keeps it for now. 395 00:26:15,215 --> 00:26:17,906 She's not going to dispose of it here in the middle of nowhere. 396 00:26:17,906 --> 00:26:19,317 She's going to find a better place. 397 00:26:19,317 --> 00:26:21,078 She knows a little bit better than that. 398 00:26:21,078 --> 00:26:30,514 for now, she'll just tuck into the pocket or fleece and rev up the engine of that Ford Bronco and then turn on her lights and head out and away from the Derby. 399 00:26:30,765 --> 00:26:32,793 Great, and that's where we'll leave Burrone. 400 00:26:33,044 --> 00:26:34,485 Caroline. 401 00:26:35,969 --> 00:26:39,614 Sorry. 402 00:26:40,337 --> 00:26:42,241 Caroline, you go home. 403 00:26:42,241 --> 00:26:43,062 Do you live alone? 404 00:26:43,062 --> 00:26:44,205 Do you live with somebody? 405 00:26:44,205 --> 00:26:45,927 You got some family. 406 00:26:45,972 --> 00:26:49,243 Yeah, actually, I don't have a permanent address. 407 00:26:49,243 --> 00:26:50,585 I have a PO box. 408 00:26:50,585 --> 00:26:54,868 But I mostly make the rounds when I come back to town. 409 00:26:54,868 --> 00:27:02,897 Friends, cousins, aunties, family, surfing, couch surfing, to make the rounds and stop in and see people. 410 00:27:02,897 --> 00:27:06,008 She is undeniably parasitic. 411 00:27:06,008 --> 00:27:14,616 in that adaptation, but I think she also is pleasant and fun enough that she doesn't feel like a leech, right? 412 00:27:14,616 --> 00:27:18,360 She has a large enough network that she can just dance on to the next. 413 00:27:19,177 --> 00:27:32,923 Yeah, so you are fluid in your housing and you spend the time with acquaintances and friends and maybe do a little partying with them here and there. 414 00:27:34,744 --> 00:27:36,525 Yeah. 415 00:27:37,096 --> 00:27:39,272 Yeah, what do you get up to? 416 00:27:39,448 --> 00:27:44,052 Yeah, well, there is something of an unease in downtime. 417 00:27:44,052 --> 00:27:47,177 The idea that there is some next step to be taken. 418 00:27:47,177 --> 00:27:55,403 And I may not know what that is yet, but if I am to wait for someone to ask me to take it on, I'm already behind. 419 00:27:55,467 --> 00:28:05,829 And so I am going to take the fight to them and I am interested in trying to ascertain anything I can about where the tendrils of this case point next. 420 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:19,910 Yeah, do you think you would look into Butterfield or do you think you would look into some of these things that you read about like March Tech, Armitage, Kharos? 421 00:28:20,569 --> 00:28:24,874 Yeah, I think the other players are important here. 422 00:28:24,874 --> 00:28:31,646 I think Barone is thinking plenty about Butterfield for both of us, and I don't really know what to make of him. 423 00:28:31,646 --> 00:28:34,371 So he is less of my concern, I suppose. 424 00:28:34,371 --> 00:28:38,113 I am interested in what he is interested in. 425 00:28:38,621 --> 00:28:39,452 Great. 426 00:28:39,474 --> 00:28:43,884 Yeah, go ahead and you can roll both criminology and bureaucracy. 427 00:28:43,884 --> 00:28:45,304 Okay? 428 00:28:45,555 --> 00:28:46,055 All right. 429 00:28:46,055 --> 00:28:49,295 Bureaucracy first is a... 430 00:28:49,295 --> 00:28:50,595 Oh, 46. 431 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:52,415 Plenty good under a 70. 432 00:28:53,075 --> 00:28:58,455 And for criminology, 24 is less than 40. 433 00:28:58,920 --> 00:28:59,830 Beautiful. 434 00:29:00,081 --> 00:29:03,104 you're tapping your networks, right? 435 00:29:03,104 --> 00:29:06,267 You're persuading people on the phone. 436 00:29:06,267 --> 00:29:08,048 You're just trying to get more information. 437 00:29:08,048 --> 00:29:13,534 First, some general information about March Tech on the surface, defense contractor. 438 00:29:13,534 --> 00:29:18,899 There's probably more to that and more to every defense contractor as far as you're concerned. 439 00:29:18,899 --> 00:29:21,802 And you look at the link between Armitage and... 440 00:29:22,008 --> 00:29:27,040 them, Armitage basically did the R &D for March Tech. 441 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:34,944 They were basically March Tech, but they spun them off, you know, who knows, maybe tax reasons, maybe hiding some sort of trail. 442 00:29:34,944 --> 00:29:43,232 And you start to contact people deeper and deeper in the organization maybe, and you're getting more and more hangups on you. 443 00:29:43,232 --> 00:29:44,612 Like who the hell's this? 444 00:29:44,612 --> 00:29:46,853 Not gonna talk to you. 445 00:29:47,501 --> 00:29:47,823 Right? 446 00:29:47,823 --> 00:29:51,894 And then it kind of goes quiet for a while. 447 00:29:51,894 --> 00:29:52,705 Right? 448 00:29:52,956 --> 00:29:54,187 Really quiet. 449 00:29:54,728 --> 00:29:58,232 You call numbers and you're using pay phones. 450 00:29:58,232 --> 00:30:02,218 You're trying to mask this in multiple ways. 451 00:30:02,218 --> 00:30:05,922 And you should be getting some answers, but you're getting nothing. 452 00:30:06,173 --> 00:30:07,900 Where are you standing right now? 453 00:30:08,234 --> 00:30:10,786 with mama leon at her trailer uh 454 00:30:10,833 --> 00:30:12,620 Yeah, Mama Lynn. 455 00:30:12,620 --> 00:30:13,974 Is Mama Lynn home? 456 00:30:14,674 --> 00:30:15,903 Yeah, I reckon she is. 457 00:30:15,903 --> 00:30:17,892 She rarely gets off the sofa. 458 00:30:18,299 --> 00:30:19,840 it. 459 00:30:20,091 --> 00:30:23,034 You sitting with her set a little scene for me. 460 00:30:23,289 --> 00:30:27,134 Yeah, we are in the living room, which is most rooms in her house. 461 00:30:27,134 --> 00:30:35,562 She has a pack of cigarettes on her tray table that there is a set of three of them, three more folded up in the corner. 462 00:30:35,562 --> 00:30:38,149 But this one is a permanent fixture right here. 463 00:30:38,149 --> 00:30:40,087 It might as well be a regular table. 464 00:30:40,087 --> 00:30:41,329 And there are... 465 00:30:41,329 --> 00:30:42,309 m 466 00:30:42,847 --> 00:30:44,979 nieces and nephews running about. 467 00:30:44,979 --> 00:30:56,277 Most of them either only have a bottom of clothes or a top of clothes on as it is just kind of like, you know, the trailer parks impromptu daycare as, you know, people go off to 468 00:30:56,277 --> 00:31:05,383 their day jobs and things like that and the children are left to wander as a flock and Mama Lynn tends to be kind of a congregating spot on account of she always has snacks and 469 00:31:05,383 --> 00:31:06,440 she's always home. 470 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:16,384 So I think I am just talking to her about goings-ons, the people that I met, the towns that I've seen since we spoke last. 471 00:31:17,030 --> 00:31:19,760 Yeah, roll alertness. 472 00:31:20,615 --> 00:31:20,967 Right? 473 00:31:20,967 --> 00:31:23,809 yeah, nine, which is under 20, so I'm okay. 474 00:31:23,809 --> 00:31:24,140 Great. 475 00:31:24,140 --> 00:31:27,602 You're sitting there, it is like home. 476 00:31:27,602 --> 00:31:29,244 It's a little irritating, honestly. 477 00:31:29,244 --> 00:31:30,525 Not much changes here. 478 00:31:30,525 --> 00:31:36,952 You were hoping there was some big change in your life and it's been a few months since you've heard, you haven't heard anything, right? 479 00:31:36,952 --> 00:31:44,959 And as you're sitting there, you hear like a tinking sound in the central air in this thing, right? 480 00:31:44,959 --> 00:31:48,461 Moving through and you start to smell something. 481 00:31:49,048 --> 00:31:52,505 in the air, can you give me a con times five? 482 00:31:52,780 --> 00:31:54,809 Yeah, I don't want to, but I will. 483 00:31:54,809 --> 00:31:56,158 I fail on a 75. 484 00:31:56,158 --> 00:31:59,861 Okay, yeah, you fall peacefully asleep. 485 00:32:09,973 --> 00:32:12,934 Okay. 486 00:32:12,934 --> 00:32:19,710 Who knows how much time passes, but you wake up and there is Mama Lynn still asleep. 487 00:32:19,710 --> 00:32:32,749 on the couch, her hands are zip-tied in front of her, and sitting across from you is a strange man you've never seen holding a silenced pistol, and he has a hairnet on, and 488 00:32:32,749 --> 00:32:35,642 there is plastic on the floor below you. 489 00:32:35,642 --> 00:32:37,943 And he's tapping the pistol on his leg. 490 00:32:38,536 --> 00:32:41,285 Yeah, as I groggily come to... 491 00:32:41,537 --> 00:32:44,410 I'll just say, door's always open, you coulda come in. 492 00:32:45,622 --> 00:32:47,207 speaks through a voice changer. 493 00:32:47,207 --> 00:32:49,571 Why are you looking into Armitage? 494 00:32:50,264 --> 00:32:53,251 Why are you looking into me looking into Armitage? 495 00:32:53,943 --> 00:33:00,268 Yeah, he pulls out, points his pistol at Mama Lynn and shoots her in the leg. 496 00:33:00,268 --> 00:33:02,109 She wakes up screaming. 497 00:33:02,109 --> 00:33:13,155 And then you see the second man next to her shove a rag into her mouth as she's biting down on it and screaming through pain. 498 00:33:13,155 --> 00:33:14,996 What do you want with us? 499 00:33:15,249 --> 00:33:21,175 I have stumbled upon the loose end of Julian Carras and 500 00:33:21,867 --> 00:33:22,933 He has. 501 00:33:23,530 --> 00:33:29,567 opened both a portal to another dimension and 502 00:33:29,818 --> 00:33:33,042 portal to my curiosity that I cannot close. 503 00:33:33,293 --> 00:33:36,577 saw the things that Karas was working on. 504 00:33:37,230 --> 00:33:41,351 and I know that I have so much to give. 505 00:33:41,945 --> 00:33:43,478 to further these efforts. 506 00:33:43,478 --> 00:33:47,462 If only I could find someone to take me seriously. 507 00:33:47,713 --> 00:33:49,031 Roll Persuade. 508 00:33:49,282 --> 00:33:51,031 22, critical success. 509 00:33:52,137 --> 00:33:55,970 Yeah. 510 00:33:55,970 --> 00:34:03,585 He ponders it for a second and says, who else have you talked to? 511 00:34:03,836 --> 00:34:04,654 Um 512 00:34:04,905 --> 00:34:12,211 Yeah, I mean, I will be totally honest that I am working with an agent, goes by the name of Ryan Dwyer. 513 00:34:12,211 --> 00:34:22,518 And, you know, I will instantaneously fess all of the information I know about, yeah, that postmark address in Virginia. 514 00:34:22,518 --> 00:34:24,259 I will rattle it right off. 515 00:34:24,511 --> 00:34:28,065 What about Bob Butterfield? 516 00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:28,708 Hmm. 517 00:34:28,708 --> 00:34:34,258 Well, I seem to only have had one meeting with him and it looks an awful lot like this. 518 00:34:34,258 --> 00:34:36,802 So simple to say that. 519 00:34:37,054 --> 00:34:41,605 Well, I'm not exactly on his good side either. 520 00:34:41,856 --> 00:34:52,923 He pulls out from a pocket on his cargo pants, just a burner phone, another Nokia brick, tosses it to you. 521 00:34:53,724 --> 00:34:55,225 You report to us. 522 00:34:55,896 --> 00:34:56,742 Yes, I do. 523 00:34:56,742 --> 00:35:02,561 says, he rattles off three other addresses that you've been staying at. 524 00:35:02,812 --> 00:35:06,145 All right, I will open up the contacts. 525 00:35:06,145 --> 00:35:09,227 I will check to see that there is indeed a listed. 526 00:35:09,227 --> 00:35:14,631 And I'll just ask, how often would you like to know that I am still around? 527 00:35:14,631 --> 00:35:16,392 How often should I check in? 528 00:35:16,983 --> 00:35:18,794 or you have something to tell us. 529 00:35:19,510 --> 00:35:20,638 Understood. 530 00:35:21,196 --> 00:35:23,463 Do you have any questions for him or anything else? 531 00:35:23,715 --> 00:35:31,198 Yeah, guess there will be kind of like a almost like a shedding of the weight that was here, right? 532 00:35:31,198 --> 00:35:36,051 They were gesturing with pistols, but now that was all just posturing on account of that's not what we're here to do anymore. 533 00:35:36,051 --> 00:35:39,993 And so there's kind of a well, all right on with it. 534 00:35:39,993 --> 00:35:44,097 What on earth is it that Bob is after here anyway? 535 00:35:44,097 --> 00:35:49,139 And how might I steer him in a way that is 536 00:35:49,670 --> 00:35:50,931 conducive. 537 00:35:51,182 --> 00:36:01,564 He looks to his friend and his friend, still holding your mother's face down on the couch as she struggles through the pain, just gives him a nod. 538 00:36:01,885 --> 00:36:05,187 He says, keep him away from March Tech. 539 00:36:05,988 --> 00:36:09,294 Keep him away from MJ-12. 540 00:36:09,545 --> 00:36:15,853 Okay, just so long as you understand that an exit route isn't always a straight line. 541 00:36:15,853 --> 00:36:27,423 That is to say that sometimes one must be allowed the freedom to wander closer with the understanding that distance will be coming afterwards. 542 00:36:27,423 --> 00:36:28,964 Do you understand what I mean? 543 00:36:29,865 --> 00:36:33,687 I can't be seen to usher him away. 544 00:36:33,884 --> 00:36:39,411 overtly, you have to allow me the freedom to accommodate natural sway. 545 00:36:39,662 --> 00:36:43,094 Of course, you deign to think that I don't know how to do my job. 546 00:36:43,790 --> 00:36:48,435 No, no, I am just trying to understand the boundaries of our agreement. 547 00:36:48,686 --> 00:36:49,917 There are no boundaries. 548 00:36:49,917 --> 00:36:55,401 I will be here whenever I want to be here, be behind you every step of the way. 549 00:36:56,022 --> 00:36:57,939 As far as you're concerned, it's boundary-less. 550 00:36:57,939 --> 00:37:00,661 But you want something, and I want something too. 551 00:37:00,661 --> 00:37:08,129 I want my life, and you want, well, Butterfield to stay out of whatever it is he's getting his nose into. 552 00:37:08,650 --> 00:37:11,792 All I'm saying is, we don't have to keep pretending. 553 00:37:11,792 --> 00:37:14,114 You can tell me what you want, sir. 554 00:37:14,365 --> 00:37:18,465 There's half a million for you if you bring me his head. 555 00:37:18,717 --> 00:37:21,664 Now these are the details worth hearing. 556 00:37:22,216 --> 00:37:23,656 All right. 557 00:37:23,907 --> 00:37:36,547 Yeah, I I think the other line of questioning that I have for them is to understand where Butterfield is going to be inclined to go next. 558 00:37:36,547 --> 00:37:44,187 What his next angle is so that I can start looking prepared ahead of the curve. 559 00:37:44,438 --> 00:37:45,364 Yeah. 560 00:37:45,615 --> 00:37:46,696 He's a loose cannon. 561 00:37:46,696 --> 00:37:48,498 He's just creating chaos for us. 562 00:37:48,498 --> 00:37:55,974 Everything he does and anything he does, assume it's to prevent us from doing what we want to do. 563 00:37:56,485 --> 00:37:59,253 All right, he must be very good at his job then. 564 00:37:59,505 --> 00:38:02,021 Yeah. 565 00:38:02,021 --> 00:38:06,250 Are you specifically asking, is there anything I can give to Butterfield? 566 00:38:06,250 --> 00:38:07,131 Right. 567 00:38:07,376 --> 00:38:13,530 No, I, Jordan, want to be able to justify Caroline training in arts. 568 00:38:13,530 --> 00:38:21,074 And so she wants to understand that we need to be looking at the art world and try to figure out a way to get into that. 569 00:38:21,351 --> 00:38:21,713 Hmm. 570 00:38:21,713 --> 00:38:22,135 Yeah. 571 00:38:22,135 --> 00:38:22,697 Interesting. 572 00:38:22,697 --> 00:38:24,802 Yeah, we'll save that for your criminology role. 573 00:38:24,802 --> 00:38:25,424 Yeah. 574 00:38:25,424 --> 00:38:27,537 Yeah. 575 00:38:27,788 --> 00:38:32,778 He motions over to the other agent. 576 00:38:32,778 --> 00:38:36,022 Unfortunately, the other agent smothers your mother to death. 577 00:38:36,022 --> 00:38:40,507 I'm not wanting anybody to see this besides you. 578 00:38:40,507 --> 00:38:42,108 Can you roll me sanity? 579 00:38:42,359 --> 00:38:43,299 Yep. 580 00:38:43,550 --> 00:38:46,470 Yep, yeah, that's a 35. 581 00:38:46,630 --> 00:38:49,870 But it's also a whole ass bond. 582 00:38:50,744 --> 00:38:51,537 Yeah. 583 00:38:52,290 --> 00:38:54,350 So I don't know. 584 00:38:54,350 --> 00:38:56,144 I don't know what that does. 585 00:38:56,535 --> 00:38:58,938 Yeah. 586 00:38:59,079 --> 00:39:01,141 For a pass, you roll a d6. 587 00:39:01,393 --> 00:39:02,173 Okay. 588 00:39:02,424 --> 00:39:12,873 And yeah, you can take that bond off and your next bond will, unless you do, you know, establishing a new bond will be probably with Barone out in the field. 589 00:39:13,499 --> 00:39:15,413 No, I think that makes good sense. 590 00:39:15,413 --> 00:39:18,199 Cleave on to the new family in a weird way. 591 00:39:18,199 --> 00:39:19,491 All right, I lost six. 592 00:39:19,491 --> 00:39:22,875 That puts me at 57, which is one over my breaking point. 593 00:39:22,875 --> 00:39:26,217 So we got that queued right up for next time. 594 00:39:27,093 --> 00:39:27,596 Man. 595 00:39:27,596 --> 00:39:34,007 in this moment, you lost six at one time, so you will fight, flight, or freeze. 596 00:39:34,007 --> 00:39:37,873 Caroline, what would you do first, second, and third? 597 00:39:39,583 --> 00:39:45,039 I mean, I guess flight is number one because there's nothing else to do here, right? 598 00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:50,540 I get, like, I feel like that was them saying like, you should have hung up the phone a little while ago. 599 00:39:50,540 --> 00:39:54,503 And then freeze, I guess, because this place that... 600 00:39:54,973 --> 00:40:01,508 has had innumerable memories for me, has just been recolored as something entirely different. 601 00:40:01,508 --> 00:40:06,711 And fight is maybe an instinctual reaction, but you know, the surest way to die. 602 00:40:06,711 --> 00:40:08,472 So probably not. 603 00:40:08,723 --> 00:40:10,194 Sorry, I was writing those down. 604 00:40:10,194 --> 00:40:15,380 So, when you roll this D6, four, five, and six will be flight. 605 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:21,092 Three and two will be freeze, and then one will be fight. 606 00:40:21,092 --> 00:40:22,623 Yep, all right, here it comes. 607 00:40:22,623 --> 00:40:23,544 Five. 608 00:40:24,496 --> 00:40:25,816 Five, okay. 609 00:40:25,816 --> 00:40:32,876 Yeah, they're on their way out and you charge to the back of the trailer, watching them smother her. 610 00:40:32,876 --> 00:40:37,036 They pay you no mind and you're trying to claw your way out the window. 611 00:40:37,576 --> 00:40:48,736 Later, you come back to and you're laying in the woods in whatever you were wearing before, maybe your pajamas and you wake up. 612 00:40:49,336 --> 00:40:53,876 What do you do next with your home scene? 613 00:40:54,127 --> 00:40:54,630 Howdy. 614 00:40:54,630 --> 00:40:55,591 think... 615 00:40:55,843 --> 00:41:03,181 I think there is a frantic scene like someone who is packing for an abusive boyfriend that is about to come back, right? 616 00:41:03,181 --> 00:41:12,097 Just throwing things in a satchel, you know, screaming out of the driveway, you know, basically swearing off of this, you know, this town. 617 00:41:12,097 --> 00:41:20,099 It was her home in as much as there was one, but for the same utility as she didn't have one before, there needn't be one anymore. 618 00:41:20,351 --> 00:41:32,194 She takes off and she is heading down closer towards New Orleans, a population center, a place with people and intoxicants and enough noise to distract her. 619 00:41:32,445 --> 00:41:32,776 Great. 620 00:41:32,776 --> 00:41:35,342 As you're doing that, you're heading out. 621 00:41:35,342 --> 00:41:38,626 Do you check in with your other bond at all? 622 00:41:40,270 --> 00:41:41,651 Cassius, yeah. 623 00:41:42,434 --> 00:41:43,224 Yeah. 624 00:41:43,579 --> 00:41:49,067 I think he probably was involved in some of this phone tree work. 625 00:41:49,067 --> 00:41:50,529 um 626 00:41:50,780 --> 00:41:54,296 Cassius brings you information, right? 627 00:41:54,296 --> 00:41:59,943 He gives you a call back and it's like, well, sweetie, I do have something for you. 628 00:41:59,943 --> 00:42:03,285 Remember we were talking about that stuff you were looking for? 629 00:42:03,536 --> 00:42:06,709 Yeah sure, are you sure we should be talking about it here and now? 630 00:42:07,234 --> 00:42:07,958 we... 631 00:42:07,958 --> 00:42:09,703 I mean, you can come on by. 632 00:42:10,106 --> 00:42:11,815 Yeah, yeah, maybe that would be better. 633 00:42:12,517 --> 00:42:16,457 Yeah, later you get to Cassius' house. 634 00:42:16,457 --> 00:42:21,297 Tito and Spike are on the porch and Cassius is inside. 635 00:42:21,377 --> 00:42:22,917 They're both packing. 636 00:42:23,577 --> 00:42:26,897 They're listening to, I don't know, it's hard to say. 637 00:42:26,897 --> 00:42:28,777 It sounds like rap rock to you. 638 00:42:28,777 --> 00:42:31,097 It's like a little medley, a little rocky. 639 00:42:31,937 --> 00:42:33,517 Yeah, yeah. 640 00:42:33,857 --> 00:42:42,177 They're kind of vibing and you get into his halfway decent house, Scarface posters all over. 641 00:42:42,281 --> 00:42:55,989 There is a glass case with a replica of one of the pistols from Scarface in it and he's sitting there on the couch in his boxers and a Weft beater and he gets up and comes up and 642 00:42:55,989 --> 00:42:57,310 gives you a big hug 643 00:42:57,561 --> 00:43:00,096 Mm-hmm, yeah, it is absolutely reciprocated. 644 00:43:00,096 --> 00:43:06,825 And she'll gesture to the posters and she'll say, I love what you've done with the place, but you could use a mountain here or there. 645 00:43:06,825 --> 00:43:08,939 Just, you know, could be more piles of cocaine. 646 00:43:08,939 --> 00:43:10,138 It would look nice. 647 00:43:10,138 --> 00:43:10,599 Yes. 648 00:43:10,599 --> 00:43:15,443 Baby, you know that my budget is very, very, very shoestring right now. 649 00:43:15,443 --> 00:43:23,471 um But yeah, I did find out a little something, something for you though. 650 00:43:24,111 --> 00:43:25,904 You know I love a little something something 651 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,142 Yeah, he gives you a somber look with that. 652 00:43:38,142 --> 00:43:42,370 It's kind of like nodding his head and then it quickly disappears. 653 00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:45,507 He's like, anyway, baby, you were talking about cocaine. 654 00:43:45,507 --> 00:43:48,219 While I don't have any cocaine, I do have this. 655 00:43:48,219 --> 00:43:49,850 And he pulls out a strange powder. 656 00:43:49,850 --> 00:43:52,862 He's like, sure to get you high. 657 00:43:53,113 --> 00:43:58,717 say less and she will settle in right next to him on the couch in a well-formed divot. 658 00:43:58,969 --> 00:44:01,882 Yeah, then we'll cut to your next pursuit. 659 00:44:02,133 --> 00:44:03,054 Right, 660 00:44:34,103 --> 00:44:05,743 got my bar pumped up to the max, so yeah. 661 00:44:06,355 --> 00:44:08,435 Yeah, what's your next pursuit? 662 00:44:08,510 --> 00:44:09,180 scene. 663 00:44:09,180 --> 00:44:16,149 well my next one to two if possible would be investing in my understanding of the arts, period. 664 00:44:16,149 --> 00:44:24,386 And I think the direction that I go is more from the appreciation and human understanding side. 665 00:44:24,386 --> 00:44:29,330 So the tact that I might take for starters could be something like 666 00:44:29,687 --> 00:44:33,993 auction houses, finding through lines of what it is that resonates with people. 667 00:44:33,993 --> 00:44:38,617 When somebody gets into a bidding war, what is it that they are connecting with? 668 00:44:38,617 --> 00:44:40,119 Why does it make them emote? 669 00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:48,368 I think I might also look for an opportunity to shadow, like a museum curator, somebody who does restoration work or 670 00:44:49,059 --> 00:44:58,315 They have intimate knowledge of processes and materials that go hand in hand with the way to speak about art. 671 00:44:58,635 --> 00:44:59,457 You understand? 672 00:44:59,457 --> 00:45:06,204 The way to speak about mediums, the way to discuss competing ideologies. 673 00:45:06,204 --> 00:45:09,946 I think that's where I'm starting, to understand really kind of like. 674 00:45:10,197 --> 00:45:12,166 the art world at its floor. 675 00:45:12,417 --> 00:45:15,702 So you are going to train in art. 676 00:45:15,702 --> 00:45:18,164 You have a 0 % in it, I'm guessing. 677 00:45:18,385 --> 00:45:19,947 So yeah. 678 00:45:19,947 --> 00:45:21,548 So you can roll it. 679 00:45:22,249 --> 00:45:25,492 Not art, but like roll your D6s. 680 00:45:26,164 --> 00:45:29,112 Holy 14, we're starting strong. 681 00:45:29,304 --> 00:45:29,884 okay. 682 00:45:29,884 --> 00:45:30,994 You can add 14. 683 00:45:30,994 --> 00:45:39,930 And so you get on with a art studio and you talk to the curator and you do learn a lot from him with your high human. 684 00:45:39,930 --> 00:45:43,613 You're able to pick up on all that he's putting down. 685 00:45:43,613 --> 00:45:44,894 Sorry, Barone. 686 00:45:46,615 --> 00:45:46,976 Yeah. 687 00:45:46,976 --> 00:45:55,781 So you start to get an idea of the profile of person that buys art, pretentious. 688 00:45:56,067 --> 00:46:08,371 rich, signaling to their friends usually, or law firm, doctor's office, these like corporate structures that want to feel more warm and human through art. 689 00:46:08,622 --> 00:46:11,865 Then it gets to the interesting stuff. 690 00:46:11,865 --> 00:46:19,922 You start hearing tell of the underground art stuff, like the weird shit, like. 691 00:46:19,922 --> 00:46:25,817 this painting was painted by somebody who was executed right after it was done. 692 00:46:25,817 --> 00:46:32,561 Or this painting is rumored to have some traces of blood in it, right? 693 00:46:32,862 --> 00:46:36,305 And those, that's where the real money is. 694 00:46:36,305 --> 00:46:37,965 And that sticks with you. 695 00:46:38,126 --> 00:46:43,569 Like the real money's in the dark side of art. 696 00:46:43,930 --> 00:46:47,302 And you're starting to pay attention to film too. 697 00:46:47,302 --> 00:46:49,674 you start learning about film stock. 698 00:46:49,674 --> 00:46:54,068 You understand that, you know, during this period, they use this film stock. 699 00:46:54,068 --> 00:46:55,680 During this period, they use this. 700 00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:03,527 And there's this new thing starting to come out, digital, but no one likes how it looks because it doesn't look like film. 701 00:47:03,527 --> 00:47:09,454 And you you learn that reels run at 20 or most things are 24 frames a second, right? 702 00:47:09,454 --> 00:47:12,699 And you start to kind of get a picture of 703 00:47:12,699 --> 00:47:14,597 arts through film as well. 704 00:47:14,902 --> 00:47:27,570 Yeah, so as I am picking up these tidbits, I'm also starting to parcel them into a persona that I might wear on my own face sometime later. 705 00:47:27,570 --> 00:47:38,655 The idea of a someone who has been thrust into this world and it has become a part of it but may not have done so organically. 706 00:47:38,655 --> 00:47:39,169 Think 707 00:47:39,169 --> 00:47:47,573 perhaps like a newly married wife of a wealthy person who is involved in keeping their own collection curated, right? 708 00:47:47,573 --> 00:47:54,907 And so perhaps the naivete is even kind of like part of the charm, right? 709 00:47:54,907 --> 00:48:02,391 the fact that she is maybe a little in over her head, there is money floating around, I do like that one, know, buy it for me won't you? 710 00:48:02,391 --> 00:48:03,973 That kind of a thing. 711 00:48:04,225 --> 00:48:12,377 Is, sorry, am I able to push further and do another round of art development? 712 00:48:12,377 --> 00:48:13,358 you have one more thing. 713 00:48:13,358 --> 00:48:14,519 Is that what you wanna do with it? 714 00:48:14,519 --> 00:48:16,362 Just go and, okay. 715 00:48:16,362 --> 00:48:16,772 I do. 716 00:48:16,772 --> 00:48:28,619 And with this idea that like the thing that you see is like what we have all considered art before, but then like as I'm getting into it, realizing that like the more tantalizing 717 00:48:28,619 --> 00:48:35,374 things, the more like magical elements, you have to like be involved in the making of, right? 718 00:48:35,374 --> 00:48:37,667 Like that's where it has been imparted. 719 00:48:37,667 --> 00:48:39,758 And so like I'm observing it, but it's already there. 720 00:48:39,758 --> 00:48:46,839 And so in order to understand how that magic gets imparted, I'm going to find a local troupe that makes art. 721 00:48:46,839 --> 00:48:54,553 So specifically, I'm going to go looking for somebody who has a workshop or a loft that makes a float for the Mardi Gras parade. 722 00:48:54,553 --> 00:48:59,275 And they are like in the process of doing some sort of like multimedia sculpture work. 723 00:48:59,275 --> 00:49:01,836 And that they 724 00:49:02,165 --> 00:49:06,884 I would also like them to have some sort of like supernatural bent to them, right? 725 00:49:06,884 --> 00:49:08,356 Like maybe they're Wiccans, right? 726 00:49:08,356 --> 00:49:15,137 Like maybe they just take this stuff a little more seriously than people who normally cut shapes out of foam, right? 727 00:49:15,388 --> 00:49:15,798 That's great. 728 00:49:15,798 --> 00:49:17,829 They're not wiccans. 729 00:49:17,829 --> 00:49:22,093 You meet up with some people who practice voodoo. 730 00:49:22,093 --> 00:49:24,875 It's Louisiana, very easy to find. 731 00:49:24,875 --> 00:49:32,721 In fact, they have a church and it's run out of the back of a tavern called the Nola Tavern, Nola Voodoo Tavern. 732 00:49:32,721 --> 00:49:45,398 they are building a float out there and they're doing multimedia sculptures with wax and paper mache, things like that to build this big skeletal looking thing. 733 00:49:45,927 --> 00:49:48,027 Go ahead and give me the roll, but go ahead, yeah. 734 00:49:48,027 --> 00:49:57,971 yeah, yeah, well, in a roll against the 14, I think in jumping into this, there is a willingness to get messy in a way that is not just physical, right? 735 00:49:57,971 --> 00:50:00,832 It is like spilling of self and soul. 736 00:50:00,832 --> 00:50:04,373 The idea that like my blood should be in this thing. 737 00:50:04,373 --> 00:50:08,395 I should be a part of this craft. 738 00:50:08,395 --> 00:50:10,525 I got a, what is that? 739 00:50:10,615 --> 00:50:12,455 39, that's above. 740 00:50:12,455 --> 00:50:14,515 Let's see here, 3D6. 741 00:50:15,375 --> 00:50:16,835 14 more. 742 00:50:16,875 --> 00:50:19,455 That's up to a 28. 743 00:50:19,475 --> 00:50:23,855 And then I do have to kind of take a specialization, right? 744 00:50:23,918 --> 00:50:29,422 So I think your human bent is like your art is the art of people, right? 745 00:50:29,422 --> 00:50:31,774 And the art of artists, right? 746 00:50:31,774 --> 00:50:37,007 Like, so I think you can use it to profile, right? 747 00:50:37,007 --> 00:50:41,609 So I would say you can just keep it art and you don't have to specialize if you don't want to. 748 00:50:41,609 --> 00:50:43,104 So, yeah. 749 00:50:43,104 --> 00:50:47,321 guess we have our own understanding of what that knowledge means. 750 00:50:47,651 --> 00:50:49,665 You could just type in meat art. 751 00:50:49,665 --> 00:50:52,198 Yeah. 752 00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:53,981 Meat art. 753 00:50:55,110 --> 00:51:00,641 But yeah, as you're working with the Voodoo people, you start to grow an affinity for like these. 754 00:51:00,738 --> 00:51:07,021 folks out here, they, you know, you've heard, you know, like voodoo is all about sacrifice, all about these things, right. 755 00:51:07,021 --> 00:51:13,394 And some of it's a part of it, but really like it humanizes it, seeing it in front of you. 756 00:51:13,394 --> 00:51:24,029 It's not, you know, a lot of it's dispelled and you know, you learn that voodoo comes from, you know, the phone language, which is, you know, from West Africa and it just means 757 00:51:24,029 --> 00:51:25,009 spirit. 758 00:51:25,009 --> 00:51:30,672 And it's like, spirit, like this voodoo, you know, we talk about voodoo dolls and things like that. 759 00:51:30,672 --> 00:51:36,972 and you really start to kind of vibe with it a little bit as you're learning more and more about it. 760 00:51:37,775 --> 00:51:39,856 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 761 00:51:39,856 --> 00:51:42,315 I think, yeah. 762 00:51:42,566 --> 00:51:44,490 49, close as it gets. 763 00:51:44,490 --> 00:51:46,416 yeah, Romeo D6. 764 00:51:46,668 --> 00:51:48,544 Okay, add that to your unnatural. 765 00:51:48,796 --> 00:51:53,051 And does that depress any of my sanity scores or anything like that? 766 00:51:53,085 --> 00:51:57,991 It'll just make your max and lower, but you're so far below max, I don't think it'll matter. 767 00:52:01,157 --> 00:52:04,341 Unless you use all of your home scene stuff to go to therapy. 768 00:52:04,341 --> 00:52:06,723 So I don't think Caroline would do. 769 00:52:06,975 --> 00:52:10,611 Yeah, you, who are you staying with here? 770 00:52:10,862 --> 00:52:14,546 I mean, think it would generally have been Cassius most often. 771 00:52:14,546 --> 00:52:23,517 think he has the most protection, seeing as the idea of disappearing off the grid didn't seem to be relevant, you know, given the surveillance web I'm under. 772 00:52:23,768 --> 00:52:25,160 Yeah, great. 773 00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,244 Yeah, you're staying with Cassius. 774 00:52:27,244 --> 00:52:30,747 You presumably hanging out. 775 00:52:30,998 --> 00:52:31,832 Great. 776 00:52:31,832 --> 00:52:35,463 Yeah, there is a knock on the door. 777 00:52:35,714 --> 00:52:36,697 I'll assume it's not for me. 778 00:52:36,697 --> 00:52:39,263 Somebody in the Trap House will go and answer. 779 00:52:39,422 --> 00:52:42,027 Yeah, Tito answers and Tito opens it. 780 00:52:42,027 --> 00:52:46,865 And just as the knock had happened, you know, he was a little slow, right? 781 00:52:46,865 --> 00:52:48,347 But there's no one there. 782 00:52:48,347 --> 00:52:51,751 There's just a paper bag sitting there. 783 00:52:52,002 --> 00:52:53,629 You lost us that customer. 784 00:52:54,623 --> 00:52:57,315 He grabs it and opens up and pulls out a cell phone. 785 00:52:57,315 --> 00:52:59,135 It's not on. 786 00:52:59,135 --> 00:53:00,514 doesn't look like he knows how to turn it on. 787 00:53:00,514 --> 00:53:01,677 He's just kind of messing with it. 788 00:53:01,677 --> 00:53:05,123 He tosses it over to Cassius. 789 00:53:05,123 --> 00:53:09,925 Cassius smiles and turns it on with a beep and starts going through it. 790 00:53:09,925 --> 00:53:12,966 He's like, you know the thing about this baby? 791 00:53:13,617 --> 00:53:15,426 I mean, I don't know anything about it. 792 00:53:15,426 --> 00:53:17,041 Does it have a number in there? 793 00:53:17,993 --> 00:53:20,841 Yeah, he calls it and holds it up to his ear. 794 00:53:21,093 --> 00:53:23,492 And then he goes, get me a pen, get me a pen. 795 00:53:23,743 --> 00:53:27,598 And then, yeah, Tito tries to get him a pin in time. 796 00:53:27,598 --> 00:53:33,606 He has to hang up, recall it again to get the number again, but he writes it down, calls the next one, writes it down. 797 00:53:33,606 --> 00:53:35,370 You see a string of four numbers. 798 00:53:35,370 --> 00:53:40,105 And then the last one, saying El Paso text is three days. 799 00:53:40,797 --> 00:53:42,664 Do you have any business in El Paso? 800 00:53:42,915 --> 00:53:51,924 Maybe I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but you and I both know the type of shit you were looking into falls directly in this realm. 801 00:53:51,924 --> 00:53:53,358 And he hands you the phone. 802 00:53:53,358 --> 00:53:56,266 Look, I was just trying to make sure you didn't want it. 803 00:53:57,151 --> 00:53:57,831 I'll go. 804 00:53:57,831 --> 00:53:58,513 I don't mind. 805 00:53:58,513 --> 00:53:59,996 I've never been to Texas. 806 00:53:59,996 --> 00:54:01,538 Never thought I would go. 807 00:54:01,538 --> 00:54:05,023 A little too hot for me, but try to. 808 00:54:05,848 --> 00:54:08,449 There's not much to lack, but duty calls. 809 00:54:08,701 --> 00:54:09,767 I can join you, baby. 810 00:54:09,767 --> 00:54:11,151 You know I worry. 811 00:54:11,402 --> 00:54:15,814 Yeah, but you're much better here, I think, than worrying. 812 00:54:16,065 --> 00:54:19,054 Don't wanna sacrifice another bond. 813 00:54:19,306 --> 00:54:20,408 Okay. 814 00:54:20,408 --> 00:54:21,829 Well, sweetie. 815 00:54:22,050 --> 00:54:24,253 Well, we got three days to live it up. 816 00:54:24,253 --> 00:54:27,795 And then presumably the party starts. 817 00:54:27,795 --> 00:54:29,352 and live we shall. 818 00:54:29,603 --> 00:54:31,551 That's where we'll leave Caroline.