1
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You get in your truck, you know exactly where that dirt path leads and you're able to find
it you head down and it does narrow and get narrower and narrower till you feel like you

2
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might scratch your truck a little bit with the overhanging trees.

3
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It's not kept up.

4
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yeah, the sunlight here.

5
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feels like it's baking the swamp beside you now that you're getting further into it.

6
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You can see the black mud everywhere and then the sun is hitting it in spots that the tree
doesn't cover and you see cracked, dried mud.

7
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It doesn't smell good.

8
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and you end up on a small little turnaround where you could spin the truck around and then
you do see a foot trail that goes off to the north from there.

9
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Okay, yeah.

10
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Circle around, get our day hiking stuff.

11
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Maybe enough stuff to set up a blind watch site if fancy strikes us.

12
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take a look for recent recent footprints around and then get to it.

13
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Do you take any weapons?

14
00:01:07,759 --> 00:01:08,497
yeah.

15
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Oh yeah.

16
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taking everything with us or just something that's like concealable and inconspicuous?

17
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I got a rifle.

18
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I got a full on rifle.

19
00:01:18,991 --> 00:01:24,171
It's probably wrapped up, it could look like camera equipment, right?

20
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It could look like the long legs of a tripod or something like that, but it's sizable.

21
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Okay, yeah, think during the daytime, I think I'll probably just take my GP100 tucked away
and just like a uh loose backpack, like whatever my clothes are packed in, like traveling

22
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type backpack, water bottle and toss it in there, because I don't think we're going too
far.

23
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Can I look at the ground?

24
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We know that there's a missing bike.

25
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I want to see if I could find any of those tracks around here as well to start maybe
mentally mapping like.

26
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where this person might be coming to and visiting frequently.

27
00:02:03,963 --> 00:02:05,766
so let's do a few rolls.

28
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Everybody roll survival for setting out on the trail on foot.

29
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And you're gonna roll another search for the tracks as well.

30
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Where do I see server?

31
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it's on the big list.

32
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Yeah, I got mine at 37.

33
00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,783
And you said search as well?

34
00:02:24,605 --> 00:02:27,196
if you're looking for something specific.

35
00:02:27,271 --> 00:02:28,151
Okay.

36
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I'm looking for the red bellied hummingbird because I'm genuinely interested in seeing
this bird and I'm kind of killing two birds with one stone while I'm out here.

37
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Pun intended.

38
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Yeah, go ahead, agent Brown.

39
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What's your role?

40
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16 on my survival and then that searched whenever we happened to get to a 76 so that's not
going to get it.

41
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76 out of 50.

42
00:02:53,914 --> 00:02:54,735
Yeah.

43
00:02:54,748 --> 00:02:57,428
got a critical success with a 22 for search.

44
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saying.

45
00:02:57,899 --> 00:03:00,439
right, and what exactly would you be looking for?

46
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So Dusky.

47
00:03:01,341 --> 00:03:10,388
I was looking specifically for recent footprints, trying to differentiate groups from
singles, from vehicles, you know, all those things.

48
00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:18,867
you set out and the trail, like a lot of trails starts off pretty traversable.

49
00:03:18,867 --> 00:03:20,062
You get about...

50
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probably half a mile in and it starts to be more squishy and swampy.

51
00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:29,543
There is a significant like byway through here.

52
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It's not a game trail.

53
00:03:30,614 --> 00:03:33,568
It does look like people are passing through and you see footprints.

54
00:03:33,568 --> 00:03:36,430
with your critical success, they are fairly recent.

55
00:03:36,430 --> 00:03:42,959
Your guess is within the last week, somebody or potentially a few people have been hiking
in and out of here.

56
00:03:42,959 --> 00:03:53,066
The boots and the shoes themselves, one of them looks like a pair of Converse, another a
pair of Vans, and another one looks like some generic tennis shoe.

57
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You don't see any combat boots or anything of that nature, just like looks like casual
footwear, which is also a little strange being that this is a swamp.

58
00:04:03,235 --> 00:04:05,736
And you're continuing on, none of you.

59
00:04:05,749 --> 00:04:12,061
are stumbling over yourselves or feeling exhausted at this point with your successful
survival checks.

60
00:04:12,061 --> 00:04:14,727
So you're taking this hike pretty easy.

61
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Yeah, you said the feet seem like they went both out and in, so we've got like some repeat
visits from these couple pairs of shoes.

62
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Okay.

63
00:04:23,728 --> 00:04:27,405
Yeah, I mean, I guess we just keep on trudging forward.

64
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How often are we having to make decisions about which way to go, or is it kind of just one
trail into the darkness?

65
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one trail so far.

66
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So, yeah.

67
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Interesting.

68
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So I know that I rolled real, real bad on that search to find this specific bike that I
was looking for, like those, those moto tracks.

69
00:04:47,575 --> 00:04:55,904
Is there any other like widely smashed down grass that I could see any larger vehicle or
is this just 100 % walk?

70
00:04:56,726 --> 00:04:58,983
Yeah, this feels like Walk Path.

71
00:04:58,983 --> 00:05:05,479
Yeah, you're pushing through and there's large sawgrass that is now covering the side of
the trail.

72
00:05:05,479 --> 00:05:08,301
The trees clear up and you go through a clearing.

73
00:05:08,301 --> 00:05:15,925
Sweat starts to bead on your shirt and you can feel the grit of the swamp working its way
into every fold of your skin.

74
00:05:15,925 --> 00:05:25,084
And yeah, there is just this sense of suffocating humidity still there, but it's one step
after the next.

75
00:05:25,084 --> 00:05:30,267
one step after the next and you do finally get to a fork.

76
00:05:30,267 --> 00:05:36,290
The trail on one side is quite mushy to your right, to your left it's drier.

77
00:05:36,290 --> 00:05:44,887
It looks like the footprints went to the left in the mushy, luckily for you, but the dry
side that's more under the trees looks more pleasant to traverse.

78
00:05:44,887 --> 00:05:48,310
Do we know how far, like we know there's a ghost town up here.

79
00:05:48,310 --> 00:05:52,931
We know that there was a, not a coven, but there was, there were people there at some
point in time.

80
00:05:52,931 --> 00:05:56,008
Do we know how far up this trail that is?

81
00:05:56,008 --> 00:06:01,294
Is it six miles, 10 miles, or is it like a nature walk distance?

82
00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:06,950
Yeah, roll your navigate plus, well actually what's your navigation?

83
00:06:06,950 --> 00:06:08,685
It's like 70, right?

84
00:06:08,685 --> 00:06:09,545
yeah, 80.

85
00:06:09,545 --> 00:06:10,769
Yeah, it's.

86
00:06:10,776 --> 00:06:11,718
you would just know.

87
00:06:11,718 --> 00:06:21,387
based on the map that you have and getting a sight line on it, your guess is they're
talking about the structure you saw at that river.

88
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And it's about another three miles from where you are now, if you wanted to hike there.

89
00:06:27,074 --> 00:06:33,990
if you knew you could probably just walk straight through the swamp to the north and end
up there.

90
00:06:34,102 --> 00:06:39,075
uh Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure how far we specifically want to go.

91
00:06:39,075 --> 00:06:42,344
I mean, we're somewhat equipped, but do we want to keep going?

92
00:06:42,344 --> 00:06:47,551
I don't really have an opinion of which which direction or if we should sit tight for a
minute, don't?

93
00:06:47,551 --> 00:06:52,014
I mean, getting eyes on something would make me feel better about this whole situation.

94
00:06:52,014 --> 00:06:54,897
Otherwise, it feels like we're just a little blind and aimless.

95
00:06:54,897 --> 00:07:03,474
So I guess I'm not fixing to like, you know, get entangled with anything, but I sure would
like to see a bird or something else.

96
00:07:03,474 --> 00:07:05,252
What time of the day is it?

97
00:07:05,252 --> 00:07:06,267
Sorry.

98
00:07:06,608 --> 00:07:08,414
Yeah, you're at about 11 a.m.

99
00:07:08,414 --> 00:07:09,703
at this point, so.

100
00:07:09,703 --> 00:07:12,093
we got plenty of time to still explore.

101
00:07:12,957 --> 00:07:13,782
Yeah, right.

102
00:07:13,782 --> 00:07:14,586
Yeah, I'm down.

103
00:07:14,586 --> 00:07:16,005
uh Which way are we going?

104
00:07:16,005 --> 00:07:17,039
towards the footprints.

105
00:07:17,039 --> 00:07:17,885
uh

106
00:07:18,321 --> 00:07:20,253
Alright, one vote for footprints.

107
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Yeah, I don't know, I don't have a beer on me, but I kinda like the dry side.

108
00:07:24,245 --> 00:07:24,969
you

109
00:07:24,969 --> 00:07:25,763
You

110
00:07:25,763 --> 00:07:28,033
Okay, dry side it is.

111
00:07:28,962 --> 00:07:30,326
And we'll head up that way.

112
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Yeah, the shade, once you step into it from being in the sawgrass feels nice, feels like a
brief respite from the baking sun.

113
00:07:40,055 --> 00:07:43,987
the smell of that swamp starts to hit you.

114
00:07:43,987 --> 00:07:46,813
It's a mix of death and mud.

115
00:07:46,813 --> 00:07:51,566
It could be, you know, a carcass, but it also could just be the smell of the swamp.

116
00:07:51,566 --> 00:07:53,719
Whatever it is, is quite pungent.

117
00:07:53,719 --> 00:08:00,106
And you're starting to realize how hostile this land is the further you get into it.

118
00:08:01,554 --> 00:08:06,795
the sunlight here doesn't cleanse anything.

119
00:08:06,795 --> 00:08:09,746
It's uh not a bright shining beacon.

120
00:08:09,746 --> 00:08:13,217
It just serves to bake the rot on the ground.

121
00:08:13,238 --> 00:08:23,701
And it falls on thick and greasy mud all throughout the oaken canopy in front of you.

122
00:08:23,779 --> 00:08:33,434
and these trees are starting to coil together overhead like sleeping serpents and the air
is still and hot and heavy and you get that sense of decay coming up.

123
00:08:33,434 --> 00:08:46,642
As you're trekking this trail north, right in front of you, you start to see some
boardwalks and the ground gets a little softer and there are boards scattered in that

124
00:08:46,642 --> 00:08:49,743
ground sunken down a little bit and

125
00:08:49,743 --> 00:08:54,689
A small corner takes you around to just a full on swamp scene.

126
00:08:54,689 --> 00:09:00,857
And there is a dilapidated boardwalk that crosses through this swampy area.

127
00:09:00,857 --> 00:09:01,579
What do you do?

128
00:09:01,579 --> 00:09:07,809
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it hasn't been maintained, but if it, you know, looks like it'll
hold my ass, I'm going on out.

129
00:09:07,809 --> 00:09:09,163
Yeah, that looks...

130
00:09:09,163 --> 00:09:10,050
safe as hell.

131
00:09:10,050 --> 00:09:12,022
yeah, Tell, absolutely safe.

132
00:09:12,022 --> 00:09:13,634
You know what we're not safe from, though.

133
00:09:13,634 --> 00:09:14,414
Mosquitoes.

134
00:09:14,414 --> 00:09:21,061
Is this about time to redo the fashion show from earlier and get swamped up?

135
00:09:21,893 --> 00:09:23,036
Yeah, yeah.

136
00:09:23,036 --> 00:09:25,682
You wanna get, uh, mesh hijab?

137
00:09:25,682 --> 00:09:27,123
I guess it's not a bad idea.

138
00:09:27,123 --> 00:09:32,999
And she throws her pack down and starts unpacking a bit of it and starts tossing that on.

139
00:09:33,488 --> 00:09:38,194
I don't hesitate because I love how I look in all my mosquito gear.

140
00:09:38,194 --> 00:09:40,216
So putting it on as well.

141
00:09:40,787 --> 00:09:47,663
It's specialty gear, it goes on and it is a little hotter than what you had on before.

142
00:09:47,663 --> 00:09:56,298
You're putting it over your clothes, but it is not so hot that you are gonna get exhausted
quickly, but it's definitely heating up as you are starting to cross into evening.

143
00:09:56,298 --> 00:09:59,611
And the boardwalk stretches out and beckons you.

144
00:09:59,611 --> 00:10:02,531
Alright, uh, Swampy Perrone in the swamp.

145
00:10:02,531 --> 00:10:04,128
Let's let's go team.

146
00:10:04,128 --> 00:10:06,374
Del you wanna, you wanna take the front?

147
00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:07,573
Yeah, that's fine.

148
00:10:07,573 --> 00:10:09,139
You guys can follow in my footsteps.

149
00:10:09,139 --> 00:10:11,519
I'll check the ones, the boards before you do.

150
00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:12,086
love it.

151
00:10:12,086 --> 00:10:14,664
What's everybody's power score on their character sheet?

152
00:10:14,664 --> 00:10:15,299
80.

153
00:10:15,299 --> 00:10:17,671
score of 11 and in 55 percent.

154
00:10:17,671 --> 00:10:18,623
65.

155
00:10:19,234 --> 00:10:23,320
Okay, Ryan, can you just roll power for me?

156
00:10:23,476 --> 00:10:27,799
I've got 69, dude.

157
00:10:28,552 --> 00:10:37,746
Agent Ryan, as you walk out onto this boardwalk, something begins to change for you and
only for you as far as you can tell looking around.

158
00:10:37,746 --> 00:10:42,188
It's not a sound that you hear in your ears or something you see.

159
00:10:42,188 --> 00:10:44,130
It's like a pressure.

160
00:10:44,130 --> 00:10:47,581
A low static hum seems to vibrate behind your thoughts.

161
00:10:47,581 --> 00:10:51,923
The air grows heavy, heavier than it already is because of the humidity.

162
00:10:52,375 --> 00:10:56,079
But there's a sense of attention on you, you feel.

163
00:10:56,159 --> 00:11:01,085
You get a sudden unshakable feeling that you're being watched, as stereotypical as that
might sound.

164
00:11:01,085 --> 00:11:06,131
But it's not like a feeling of being watched through a sniper scope or a predator in the
trees.

165
00:11:06,131 --> 00:11:08,003
You don't feel it from one place.

166
00:11:08,003 --> 00:11:10,165
It feels like everything's watching you.

167
00:11:10,165 --> 00:11:11,317
Hey, guys.

168
00:11:11,317 --> 00:11:14,495
I'm starting to feel a little uneasy.

169
00:11:14,495 --> 00:11:15,873
I just want to let you know.

170
00:11:15,873 --> 00:11:16,745
I don't know.

171
00:11:16,745 --> 00:11:22,532
I'm just feeling like something is kind of weird in this area.

172
00:11:22,532 --> 00:11:25,296
And you guys, do you guys feel anything?

173
00:11:25,296 --> 00:11:26,527
Sense anything?

174
00:11:26,548 --> 00:11:28,480
told you to go easy on breakfast.

175
00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,397
It's gonna be a long day.

176
00:11:31,340 --> 00:11:35,942
You know, I have to have my daily rations of beans in the morning.

177
00:11:35,942 --> 00:11:40,362
Yeah, no, I just feel sweat literally running down my back.

178
00:11:40,362 --> 00:11:43,502
It's a bit warm, but no, I feel pretty good.

179
00:11:43,502 --> 00:11:47,562
Maybe because I stuck to the liquid bean, but who knows?

180
00:11:47,562 --> 00:11:48,362
Are you okay?

181
00:11:48,362 --> 00:11:49,002
What do mean?

182
00:11:49,002 --> 00:11:50,407
How do you feel?

183
00:11:50,407 --> 00:11:52,511
I just feel like something is out there.

184
00:11:52,511 --> 00:11:55,034
Something is kind of watching us or something.

185
00:11:55,034 --> 00:11:55,995
I don't know.

186
00:11:55,995 --> 00:12:01,132
Maybe I'm just getting a little overheated, but I just feel a little uneasy going down
this path.

187
00:12:02,110 --> 00:12:13,415
interrupt your thought but I think Dell as you're bringing this up is just trying to kind
of key in to the surroundings right like how much nature sounds like it is present does it

188
00:12:13,415 --> 00:12:19,688
feel like this place is alive or like am I getting a lot of senses that just like dead on
dead on dead

189
00:12:20,241 --> 00:12:22,286
Yeah, you can roll for alertness.

190
00:12:22,286 --> 00:12:22,889
Yee-haw!

191
00:12:22,889 --> 00:12:24,906
That's success.

192
00:12:25,019 --> 00:12:27,843
You take a moment, stop, get your bearings.

193
00:12:27,843 --> 00:12:29,885
It seems pretty typical for a swamp.

194
00:12:29,885 --> 00:12:33,800
hear the sound of either crickets or cicadas, some sort of bug.

195
00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:45,796
Listening intently you hear some sawgrass in the distance waving and cutting against each
other Sightwise it just looks like a boggy swamp the one thing that does stick out a

196
00:12:45,796 --> 00:12:58,655
little bit is the color deeper into the swamp off to your left almost has a purple hue to
it, it's like a purple green, but it just looks strange

197
00:12:58,655 --> 00:13:00,247
Just keep your eyes peeled.

198
00:13:00,247 --> 00:13:01,792
don't know, it's just, I don't know.

199
00:13:01,792 --> 00:13:02,953
I just have a weird feeling.

200
00:13:02,953 --> 00:13:06,111
I've never felt this really before, so.

201
00:13:06,430 --> 00:13:16,628
Yeah, so like I think from the outset Dell didn't give a lot of credence to what you were
saying but like you and Barone going back and forth and he just kind of scans the place

202
00:13:16,628 --> 00:13:28,277
and it's not like there's anything that really sticks out but it's not like he feels
entirely settled either and so you know as he kind of like comes around from the scan like

203
00:13:28,277 --> 00:13:32,341
you get a knowing nod that says like he's taking you seriously.

204
00:13:32,341 --> 00:13:33,484
Yeah, no worries.

205
00:13:33,484 --> 00:13:35,488
How about Dell takes the front?

206
00:13:35,488 --> 00:13:40,520
Ryan, could go in the middle and I'll be on back here and I'll watch out a little bit.

207
00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:41,417
Sounds good to me.

208
00:13:41,417 --> 00:13:48,859
you push forward, is there a specific thing you're looking for as you're doing this or
keeping an eye on?

209
00:13:48,859 --> 00:13:53,457
Like what's the passive business you're doing as you're walking?

210
00:13:53,457 --> 00:13:56,071
I think I'm scanning the brush, right?

211
00:13:56,071 --> 00:14:00,890
I'm just looking for anything that looks like it might have eyes looking at us.

212
00:14:00,890 --> 00:14:04,184
I'm looking for something, I mean, vague to say something of note, right?

213
00:14:04,184 --> 00:14:07,760
But something that doesn't look like ambient swamp.

214
00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:18,133
If there is a structure, a creature, a sign of life, an animal that has been killed, other
people walking about the place.

215
00:14:18,273 --> 00:14:19,284
I don't know.

216
00:14:20,617 --> 00:14:21,039
Great.

217
00:14:21,039 --> 00:14:23,626
Agent Barone, what are you looking for, if anything?

218
00:14:23,802 --> 00:14:31,048
so I think as we came into this place or came into this whole area, the thought was like,
that's a pretty good place for a trap.

219
00:14:31,048 --> 00:14:37,812
So I think Barone's not knowing what could be here, what could or could not be here.

220
00:14:37,812 --> 00:14:40,375
Mainly that's what her eyes and thoughts are on.

221
00:14:40,375 --> 00:14:43,156
Agent Barone, you roll me alertness.

222
00:14:44,217 --> 00:14:50,439
Agent Ryan, give me a natural and then Agent Sendusky, you will give me search.

223
00:14:50,439 --> 00:14:53,130
We're looking at 75 out of 80 success.

224
00:14:53,130 --> 00:14:55,143
18 out of 20 success.

225
00:14:55,143 --> 00:14:56,731
Fail 89.

226
00:14:56,887 --> 00:14:58,706
Okay, make sure you mark it.

227
00:14:58,706 --> 00:15:00,337
Do gotta try though, right?

228
00:15:00,449 --> 00:15:01,190
you're walking.

229
00:15:01,190 --> 00:15:07,076
The sweat is definitely pouring down your bodies after a few steps in this gear.

230
00:15:07,076 --> 00:15:12,859
You leave the boardwalk and you step into some sawgrass.

231
00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:20,586
If you hadn't had your gear on, would have probably thin cuts on your arms, but the heat's
constant, it's a leaden weight.

232
00:15:20,782 --> 00:15:23,905
sweat beads on you soaking your underclothes.

233
00:15:23,905 --> 00:15:33,304
Each of you watch the person in front of you and it looks like you're looking at them
through a almost like a suffocating wave of grass pushing in and out.

234
00:15:33,304 --> 00:15:38,449
You lose track of them easily but you're close enough to where you don't get lost in the
muck.

235
00:15:38,449 --> 00:15:44,276
And yeah, you put your feet where where Dell's put his feet and march on forward.

236
00:15:44,276 --> 00:15:53,042
Agent Barone, as you're looking around, you're looking for an ambush or some sort of
threat in here.

237
00:15:53,042 --> 00:15:57,105
You don't get that sense as you're scanning.

238
00:15:57,105 --> 00:16:03,590
When you're walking through the sawgrass, though, you do start to see some very aged
containers.

239
00:16:03,854 --> 00:16:17,786
Some of them look like old tin from like canned fish and they're often sprinkled around
like there's been people who have sat here and ate before and they're all metal.

240
00:16:17,786 --> 00:16:20,828
Well, uh, she'll squat down and grab one of these.

241
00:16:20,828 --> 00:16:30,457
I mean, they did say that there was squatters and drug users out here, but it's, I don't
know, I don't think just anybody litters and I'll pick it up and turn it over my hand, see

242
00:16:30,457 --> 00:16:34,661
if I could maybe figure out what exactly it was, maybe where it came from.

243
00:16:35,378 --> 00:16:45,889
Yeah, it came from Tacoma, Washington, and it looks like it was an old tin of salmon, but
the date on it is 1936.

244
00:16:45,889 --> 00:16:47,261
Huh, a little older than I thought.

245
00:16:47,261 --> 00:16:48,643
Hey, Del, look at this.

246
00:16:48,985 --> 00:16:50,037
And I'll hand it over.

247
00:16:50,037 --> 00:16:56,560
Yeah, I mean, that's a very peculiar thing to be finding in the middle of nowhere.

248
00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:56,982
mean...

249
00:16:56,982 --> 00:17:00,689
If I was squatting, I'd squat near something is all I'm saying.

250
00:17:00,689 --> 00:17:01,740
Yeah, dope.

251
00:17:01,740 --> 00:17:02,641
Yeah, good point.

252
00:17:02,641 --> 00:17:05,712
Barone will stand up and kind of take a look around.

253
00:17:05,712 --> 00:17:08,384
I know before there was discolored brush.

254
00:17:08,384 --> 00:17:19,821
we see if we see anything that looks, know, smashed more down, smashed down more than
normal or a space that's not growing grass where it kind of should type thing.

255
00:17:19,821 --> 00:17:21,513
Mm Yeah, you stand up.

256
00:17:21,513 --> 00:17:32,048
The sawgrass is quite tall, but you can push it forward and see about 15 feet, 15 to 30
feet, I would say, at a time if you pull it apart and look at your survival.

257
00:17:32,048 --> 00:17:36,139
Uh, fail 81 under 30 or 81 over 30.

258
00:17:36,139 --> 00:17:40,011
yet nothing is peaking your interest as you scan around.

259
00:17:40,191 --> 00:17:52,148
Agent Sundusky, with your search, you find some more footprints and go ahead and roll
survival to see, however you would investigate the footprints, describe it and then I'll

260
00:17:52,148 --> 00:17:53,318
see if there's a roll.

261
00:17:53,665 --> 00:18:00,879
Well, I guess given the age of the fish tin, I'm very curious about the timing of all of
these things.

262
00:18:00,879 --> 00:18:10,744
If it seems like these are all the same event and the same people, it feels like it's an
old fish tin that was a long time ago with an old boot print that was made a long time

263
00:18:10,744 --> 00:18:11,165
ago.

264
00:18:11,165 --> 00:18:13,927
I'm trying to figure out how many timelines we have.

265
00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:19,935
So I think survival and understanding how the preservation of that print is appearing.

266
00:18:19,935 --> 00:18:22,726
with the timeline of everything else sounds okay to me.

267
00:18:22,938 --> 00:18:27,366
Okay, yeah, survival is good for the footprint specifically.

268
00:18:27,626 --> 00:18:28,546
Great.

269
00:18:28,546 --> 00:18:30,706
Yeah, 46, that's success.

270
00:18:31,322 --> 00:18:37,390
You peer down into the footprint and it's pretty deep because it's a swampy area.

271
00:18:37,390 --> 00:18:38,732
So that means it's probably new.

272
00:18:38,732 --> 00:18:46,141
Like you're assuming that the swamp would eat up any footprint that's been here for a long
time, but it seems barefoot.

273
00:18:46,153 --> 00:18:49,948
bare human foot and of a typical human size.

274
00:18:50,586 --> 00:18:52,513
about a size nine from your estimate.

275
00:18:52,513 --> 00:18:56,715
just one set heading in a particular direction towards anything in particular.

276
00:18:56,715 --> 00:18:57,886
It's chaotic.

277
00:18:57,886 --> 00:19:04,310
It almost looks like footprints that you would see at a dance or a battle.

278
00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:06,266
Your guess is as good as mine on it.

279
00:19:06,266 --> 00:19:07,968
They're all over the place.

280
00:19:07,968 --> 00:19:12,511
And as you're looking even further and following them, you see ones of other sizes.

281
00:19:12,511 --> 00:19:16,733
You can estimate there's probably about five to six different ones.

282
00:19:16,824 --> 00:19:20,947
Hey, I think we stumbled onto a trail of something.

283
00:19:21,708 --> 00:19:26,023
Might've wished we hadn't, but what do you make of all this?

284
00:19:26,023 --> 00:19:30,838
I'm kind of standing further behind, just letting them kind of scope everything out.

285
00:19:30,838 --> 00:19:34,852
And then I start to move a little closer and take a look.

286
00:19:34,852 --> 00:19:45,290
again, I'm feeling kind of uneasy about this, but mostly because I can't imagine walking
barefoot on this ground and how that must feel.

287
00:19:45,290 --> 00:19:49,973
And I'm wondering why somebody would make that choice.

288
00:19:50,077 --> 00:19:51,928
You could keep your socks on if you want.

289
00:19:51,928 --> 00:19:53,392
nothing cute.

290
00:19:53,988 --> 00:19:56,300
Yeah, no, it's just another level of protection for your feet.

291
00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:57,831
That's no, that's fine.

292
00:19:57,831 --> 00:20:01,253
Wet, human, soaked socks.

293
00:20:02,174 --> 00:20:11,340
Well, it, it seems like if there's a bunch of people who were here, they had to come from
and or go somewhere else.

294
00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:15,293
So I say we pick a direction we're out here for.

295
00:20:15,293 --> 00:20:17,767
And she looks at her watch, at least another few hours.

296
00:20:17,767 --> 00:20:21,029
Let's just pick, pick one and, and

297
00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:23,274
chase it down, guess.

298
00:20:23,859 --> 00:20:27,572
Can we look and see if we could find the directions that they came from?

299
00:20:27,730 --> 00:20:39,525
Yeah, between your earlier survival roles, you're able to pick up and you see that the
footprints kind of do a big U back towards that swamp that you just crossed the boardwalk

300
00:20:39,525 --> 00:20:40,455
through.

301
00:20:41,116 --> 00:20:49,780
you get to the watery part of the swamp that looks in the distance like it has that weird
purple hue to it.

302
00:20:50,164 --> 00:20:53,288
and the footprints stop at the edge of the swamp.

303
00:20:53,288 --> 00:20:56,410
Alright, well, kind of weird, but there's no...

304
00:20:56,410 --> 00:20:59,892
I don't know, I guess I'll be brave enough to head out there.

305
00:20:59,892 --> 00:21:06,025
uh Del, do you wanna just watch me make sure I don't get pulled under and drown anyhow?

306
00:21:06,134 --> 00:21:10,220
I mean, I'll tie a rope around you, but I am just curious for clarification.

307
00:21:10,220 --> 00:21:13,996
Like, I imagine you're kinda like, and out there a little bit to get a little closer.

308
00:21:13,996 --> 00:21:22,258
I'm curious about the direction of these footprints going into and out of what seems like
just the muck.

309
00:21:22,258 --> 00:21:34,030
Yeah, you look at the footprints and there is a strong line of where the roots of the
sawgrass keep the mud together and where this watery part of the swamp begins.

310
00:21:34,030 --> 00:21:45,361
And you see the footprints go up into that and almost in a strange, I guess, unified way,
they line up along the bank and then just disappear into the swamp.

311
00:21:45,361 --> 00:21:48,149
Yeah, I'm not getting any closer.

312
00:21:48,292 --> 00:21:52,377
If you trust this rope and you trust me, giddy up.

313
00:21:52,377 --> 00:21:53,478
Yeah, sure.

314
00:21:53,478 --> 00:21:57,002
No, could team bonding right off the top here, huh?

315
00:21:57,002 --> 00:22:08,924
Yeah, this is like a truss fall but with rope so Sure, and she Ties it around her waist
throws the other end to tell gives a little wink and starts waiting out as deep as she

316
00:22:08,924 --> 00:22:14,549
could go without Splashing water into her boots to get those wet wet socks

317
00:22:15,050 --> 00:22:21,850
Dell puts a bow and anchor around a tree, kind of, you know, bends vaguely this way, but
it's strong enough.

318
00:22:22,771 --> 00:22:33,006
So as you're waiting out there, go ahead and give me your dexterity times five or
athletics, if whatever one's higher.

319
00:22:33,006 --> 00:22:35,146
That's for sure going to be dexterity.

320
00:22:35,146 --> 00:22:37,786
So dexterity times 5, I'm looking for a 70.

321
00:22:38,066 --> 00:22:39,666
We got a 31.

322
00:22:39,666 --> 00:22:40,268
Success.

323
00:22:40,268 --> 00:22:42,550
you start to get to the point where...

324
00:22:42,650 --> 00:22:50,156
it's gonna come up over the lip of the boots and you're having to exert yourself quite a
bit just to lift your leg out of the mud.

325
00:22:50,156 --> 00:22:57,323
But the water is starting to not clear up, but get more, get less muddy as you're pushing
out there.

326
00:22:57,323 --> 00:23:07,233
And there's more what looks like, I don't know if they call it seaweed in a swamp, but
seaweed for lack of better term, that starts wrapping around your legs as you push through

327
00:23:07,233 --> 00:23:07,493
it.

328
00:23:07,493 --> 00:23:08,813
You're about,

329
00:23:08,886 --> 00:23:15,211
30 feet from this area that seems different with the purple fungus.

330
00:23:15,211 --> 00:23:20,794
And that's about when you would feel like, if I take another step, the water's gonna get
into my boots.

331
00:23:20,794 --> 00:23:21,446
What do do?

332
00:23:21,446 --> 00:23:25,852
uh Do we have any binoculars over there by chance?

333
00:23:26,789 --> 00:23:28,005
Yeah, you have some.

334
00:23:28,302 --> 00:23:31,053
Okay.

335
00:23:31,053 --> 00:23:35,317
I think at this exact moment, I probably don't quite want to go very much further.

336
00:23:35,317 --> 00:23:38,219
So let's go ahead and take binoculars out and see if I could.

337
00:23:38,219 --> 00:23:46,052
Obviously that doesn't give me the right angles per se, but at least I could get a little
bit zoomed in and see if I could see something that way before taking a deeper step.

338
00:23:46,274 --> 00:23:49,864
Yeah, rule your search plus 30.

339
00:23:50,216 --> 00:23:51,008
Sure.

340
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,016
Plus 30.

341
00:23:53,108 --> 00:23:54,906
We got 48.

342
00:23:54,906 --> 00:24:00,090
All right, you pull out your binoculars and are scanning that area.

343
00:24:00,430 --> 00:24:04,773
The purple nature of it does seem like it is fungal.

344
00:24:04,773 --> 00:24:09,248
There's a strange cluster of fungus in that area.

345
00:24:09,388 --> 00:24:18,592
There are branches that go into it and you can see some of the purple fungus going up the
branch and almost like

346
00:24:18,592 --> 00:24:23,388
overtaking the moss, like the moss itself takes on the color and then stops at some point.

347
00:24:23,388 --> 00:24:36,407
And as you're past that, you catch out of focus a glimpse of, it looks like a small oval
shape just sink into the water quickly.

348
00:24:36,925 --> 00:24:42,247
Ooh, all right, time to go, Dell, I'm coming back, Dell.

349
00:24:42,247 --> 00:24:53,203
And I'll pack my binoculars away in my bag really quick and start shuffling backwards, or
at least sideways, try not to lose track of what was over in that direction, but

350
00:24:53,203 --> 00:24:55,434
definitely making my way back.

351
00:24:55,646 --> 00:24:59,246
Yeah, go ahead and roll your SAN to see if you can do that.

352
00:25:00,733 --> 00:25:01,606
Your sanity.

353
00:25:01,606 --> 00:25:04,387
Looking for 55, I got 26.

354
00:25:04,556 --> 00:25:12,907
All right, you still lose one sand just from seeing it and you are able to trudge back
through your hearts racing.

355
00:25:12,907 --> 00:25:18,484
The adrenaline helps you get there faster and you make it back without a hitch to the
shore

356
00:25:18,765 --> 00:25:23,833
I assume it took some effort for sure, so she's like, okay, uh so definitely creepy for
sure.

357
00:25:23,833 --> 00:25:25,615
There's something here in the water.

358
00:25:25,615 --> 00:25:31,697
There's something, I'm not sure what, didn't see too much, but there's something here,
guys.

359
00:25:31,697 --> 00:25:33,094
What did it look like?

360
00:25:33,577 --> 00:25:42,577
I don't know, I mean, if it was like the, it could have been like the top of a dome or
something, like a sink down in the water.

361
00:25:42,577 --> 00:25:49,917
I didn't see any shapes more than that, but it's a little freaky if you're expecting
nothing, you do definitely see something.

362
00:25:50,761 --> 00:25:55,805
dome, like the size of like a human or what what size are we talking about here?

363
00:25:55,805 --> 00:25:59,270
Rango, or Agent Baron, roll your intelligence.

364
00:26:00,052 --> 00:26:01,123
Times five.

365
00:26:01,995 --> 00:26:06,955
So, looking for 65, we got a 0, 0 and a 6.

366
00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:09,135
Is that 6 %?

367
00:26:09,135 --> 00:26:12,572
Yeah, it's quality roll.

368
00:26:13,595 --> 00:26:14,295
So you

369
00:26:14,295 --> 00:26:16,674
that exact line for you a time before.

370
00:26:16,674 --> 00:26:18,103
It was exactly like that.

371
00:26:18,103 --> 00:26:19,887
I think I was zero zero six.

372
00:26:19,887 --> 00:26:21,189
That's just a six.

373
00:26:21,189 --> 00:26:22,493
Yeah.

374
00:26:23,026 --> 00:26:26,491
Agent Barone, you wave them off.

375
00:26:26,491 --> 00:26:30,626
Say, just give me a second and you start to put it together in your head.

376
00:26:30,626 --> 00:26:32,459
You start to piece together what you saw.

377
00:26:32,459 --> 00:26:35,319
Uh, it was, it was 100 % humanoid.

378
00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:43,699
It was very much like a, like a, uh, uh, uh, lizard meets human type thing.

379
00:26:43,699 --> 00:26:47,159
I'm not sure there were eyes, but they're, they looked kind of dark.

380
00:26:47,159 --> 00:26:52,679
I couldn't have sworn that if they were eyes or not at first, thinking about it, I think
so.

381
00:26:52,679 --> 00:26:53,199
Yeah.

382
00:26:53,199 --> 00:26:54,510
I, something.

383
00:26:54,510 --> 00:27:00,376
You had any brushes with something you didn't think came from Earth before, Agent Brome?

384
00:27:00,376 --> 00:27:10,340
Yes, I mean nothing that I've seen but I've definitely been in places and heard things
that were out of step with the norm for sure, yeah.

385
00:27:10,340 --> 00:27:16,909
Yeah, I just checking on a count of it does shake you up the first time you see it
something proper.

386
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,547
I ain't got no idea if I seen what you seen, but uh we all seen something like that.

387
00:27:22,547 --> 00:27:25,112
I'm glad you're in the fold.

388
00:27:25,112 --> 00:27:29,863
I'll tell you what though when I get a piece of paper and a pencil, I'll try to draw it
out a little bit.

389
00:27:29,863 --> 00:27:35,216
I'm not the best, but I mean any log of anything is kind of worth something.

390
00:27:35,216 --> 00:27:44,821
Also, I know in the original email that the biologist Kuras definitely mentioned an
interest in fungus and

391
00:27:45,299 --> 00:27:55,217
fungal goings on and it's it's creeping up there guys there's there's some fungus in that
water look like it was making it up the plant so is that there's some crossover there for

392
00:27:55,217 --> 00:27:56,058
sure

393
00:27:56,527 --> 00:28:02,200
None of us are biologists ourselves or have backgrounds in any of that.

394
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,935
I'm trying to think like, it worth it to within, well, I guess I'd look down at my boots.

395
00:28:07,935 --> 00:28:15,040
On my boots, is there any residue that kind of matches what was splashed up against the
grass over there?

396
00:28:15,361 --> 00:28:16,562
Yeah, real luck.

397
00:28:16,816 --> 00:28:17,907
Cool, yeah.

398
00:28:17,907 --> 00:28:19,267
There's no way that's gonna make it.

399
00:28:19,267 --> 00:28:20,699
There's a 95 for ya.

400
00:28:20,699 --> 00:28:21,810
Mm-hmm.

401
00:28:22,152 --> 00:28:22,612
Yeah.

402
00:28:22,612 --> 00:28:26,817
Well, you don't know what's lucky and what's unlucky in this situation.

403
00:28:26,817 --> 00:28:28,239
yeah.

404
00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:31,954
You see your boots are covered in fungus and stuff.

405
00:28:31,954 --> 00:28:40,994
You could absolutely, if you had something, a container, a water bottle or something, you
could uh pull some of it off and keep it.

406
00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:43,251
Spare binocular lens maybe?

407
00:28:43,251 --> 00:28:47,627
Use it like a microscope slide?

408
00:28:47,627 --> 00:28:58,991
I'll grab my binoculars and then go ahead and take the lens cap off one of them and scoop
some of the goo into one of the lens caps and seal it back on the binoculars because that

409
00:28:58,991 --> 00:29:00,211
was a great idea.

410
00:29:00,211 --> 00:29:09,457
So um at least we have a sample and then I'll wrap like a towel around it or something so
it can't goo out and stick it back in my bag safely.

411
00:29:09,785 --> 00:29:21,134
As we start getting out of there, also, like, she would like to inconspicuously palm her
pistol um if she can, because she is little creeped, little creeped out.

412
00:29:21,750 --> 00:29:28,111
Curious, does our night vision goggles have any infrared technology on them?

413
00:29:29,091 --> 00:29:31,665
Yeah, just strict night vision, not a predator.

414
00:29:34,509 --> 00:29:34,932
That hurts.

415
00:29:34,932 --> 00:29:36,833
Butterfield doesn't love us enough.

416
00:29:36,833 --> 00:29:44,622
Can I put on my night vision goggles and kind of stick my head into the water and try to
see what I can see?

417
00:29:44,751 --> 00:29:45,347
You

418
00:29:45,347 --> 00:29:46,478
mean, hell yeah.

419
00:29:46,478 --> 00:29:49,187
Go ahead and roll a search minus 40.

420
00:29:49,573 --> 00:29:50,605
Okay.

421
00:29:50,605 --> 00:29:53,614
you to learn that mud is not the same as night.

422
00:29:55,846 --> 00:29:57,808
You never know what's under there.

423
00:29:59,632 --> 00:30:00,874
OK, search minus 20.

424
00:30:00,874 --> 00:30:05,369
Well, my search is only 22, so.

425
00:30:05,369 --> 00:30:09,236
Okay, if you get a critical success by rolling a one, then you can succeed.

426
00:30:09,248 --> 00:30:10,800
Weirder things have happened.

427
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,952
So you're saying there's a chance.

428
00:30:12,952 --> 00:30:13,464
All right.

429
00:30:13,464 --> 00:30:14,117
No.

430
00:30:14,117 --> 00:30:14,957
All right.

431
00:30:14,957 --> 00:30:17,300
Yeah, you stick your face in the water.

432
00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:18,760
Well, what did you roll?

433
00:30:20,121 --> 00:30:21,562
Okay.

434
00:30:21,562 --> 00:30:26,485
And it's pretty gross in there and it's really thick, especially over here.

435
00:30:26,485 --> 00:30:33,189
Maybe if you trekked in as much as Agent Barone did, but from here it's uh pretty icky.

436
00:30:33,577 --> 00:30:36,637
For some reason, I don't have a problem sticking my face in the water.

437
00:30:36,637 --> 00:30:40,277
But walking into the water, I have a problem with.

438
00:30:40,317 --> 00:30:43,277
I'm like, yeah, no, I'm good.

439
00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:55,314
Yeah, seeing you just like, trudge dutifully to the edge and shove your face in, there's
just kind of like a bewilderment and you're like, you pop back up, you got clear off the

440
00:30:55,314 --> 00:30:56,955
goggles, just like, nothing there.

441
00:30:56,955 --> 00:30:59,588
It's just like, wait, what the fuck?

442
00:30:59,588 --> 00:31:04,851
Like, so unlike you, but I want a go-getter attitude.

443
00:31:06,197 --> 00:31:09,123
I mean, I'm a wise person, but I'm not very smart.

444
00:31:09,123 --> 00:31:10,003
So

445
00:31:11,552 --> 00:31:13,207
Yeah, you're good with computers.

446
00:31:15,562 --> 00:31:16,313
Yeah.

447
00:31:16,313 --> 00:31:18,732
Well, I think we're all losing our fucking minds.

448
00:31:18,732 --> 00:31:19,559
Hahaha.

449
00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:21,964
Yeah, and so you wanted to triangulate.

450
00:31:21,964 --> 00:31:27,522
that mean you're gonna continue to head to the landmark of the river or are just heading
directly back?

451
00:31:27,522 --> 00:31:30,815
Well, I don't know if there's a sturdy tree that looks climbable.

452
00:31:30,815 --> 00:31:39,605
We could get up and try and just like, you know, figure out like trigonometry of the sun
or some other peak nearby.

453
00:31:39,605 --> 00:31:40,786
Oklahoma doesn't have peaks.

454
00:31:40,786 --> 00:31:41,947
Who am I kidding?

455
00:31:41,947 --> 00:31:42,868
I don't know.

456
00:31:42,868 --> 00:31:44,899
Some sort of landmark I could see.

457
00:31:45,740 --> 00:31:55,478
pretty flat, as far as looking at the map and your expert navigator with Agent Baron, you
know that the river is probably about 30 minutes march north still, if you didn't wanna

458
00:31:55,478 --> 00:31:56,099
turn back.

459
00:31:56,099 --> 00:31:59,584
Listen, Del, I don't care where we go as long as it's away from here, my guy.

460
00:32:00,412 --> 00:32:03,735
But okay, I mean, that's a guarantee.

461
00:32:03,735 --> 00:32:05,917
Any which way will get us away from here.

462
00:32:05,917 --> 00:32:17,829
It's just a matter of if you wanna be confident you will be safe and sound come nightfall,
or if you feel like traipsing a little further, who knows what we might get stuck in.

463
00:32:17,829 --> 00:32:24,165
No man, I'm a brave independent woman who's super brave and stuff so we could for sure
press on.

464
00:32:25,031 --> 00:32:26,342
independent too.

465
00:32:26,756 --> 00:32:28,668
Yep, all by herself.

466
00:32:28,668 --> 00:32:30,812
All right, back into the sawgrass it sounds like.

467
00:32:30,812 --> 00:32:33,106
Yeah, I think we're pressing forward.

468
00:32:33,106 --> 00:32:42,107
Again, Expert Navigator may be helping us plot out our way back so that it's relatively
easy to Hansel and Gretel if we need to.

469
00:32:42,992 --> 00:32:43,813
Yeah, great.

470
00:32:43,813 --> 00:32:45,466
think that's a great idea.

471
00:32:45,466 --> 00:32:57,102
I'll very much be taking special care to look at landmarks and keep those in a mental
picture in my head so we could have a nice exit strategy.

472
00:32:57,678 --> 00:33:01,651
Yeah, I imagine you're marking up the map when you're walking.

473
00:33:01,651 --> 00:33:05,154
It is slow going, so you have time to do it as you march forward.

474
00:33:05,154 --> 00:33:18,457
And you start to hear water up in the distance about 20 minutes later, a small, the sound
of a small brook, maybe, a little bit of peace in this oppressive atmosphere.

475
00:33:18,651 --> 00:33:31,789
And as you get to this small creek, it shouldn't even be called a river, like you could
hop over this thing in the distance past it, you see the makings of a triangle on the top

476
00:33:31,789 --> 00:33:35,832
of a building, almost like a church steeple could be some other type of building.

477
00:33:35,832 --> 00:33:40,725
But that's what it reminds you of is a church steeple looks dilapidated from even from
here.

478
00:33:40,725 --> 00:33:42,039
But you look like you.

479
00:33:42,039 --> 00:33:45,098
are on the precipice of this ghost town.

480
00:33:45,098 --> 00:33:47,015
And what time of day is it about right now?

481
00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:49,566
You're looking at about 3 p.m.

482
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,265
So still plenty of of daylight.

483
00:33:52,265 --> 00:34:01,676
Yeah, I I think keeping our distance and maybe like finding a radius to walk around and
see if we could find a sight line.

484
00:34:01,676 --> 00:34:08,284
Maybe just to get a little bit more visibility into what's over there before we get any
closer.

485
00:34:08,284 --> 00:34:13,322
Yeah, so everybody will roll stealth if that's the case.

486
00:34:13,322 --> 00:34:18,809
And you can roll alertness to see what you pick up as you're walking around.

487
00:34:19,250 --> 00:34:19,480
Okay.

488
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,837
And I think, yeah, pace is absolutely not the concern.

489
00:34:23,837 --> 00:34:29,823
I think we'd sacrifice even more pace for like to be able to use binoculars steadily or
something like that.

490
00:34:29,907 --> 00:34:30,209
Okay.

491
00:34:30,209 --> 00:34:31,979
ah

492
00:34:32,447 --> 00:34:33,256
Oh man.

493
00:34:33,256 --> 00:34:34,576
I fucking rolled a 2.

494
00:34:34,576 --> 00:34:37,196
Couldn't I just save that for a time I needed it?

495
00:34:41,077 --> 00:34:42,250
I got it.

496
00:34:42,250 --> 00:34:44,847
I got both stealth and alertness.

497
00:34:44,847 --> 00:34:50,667
My stealth was 60 in this scenario and I got a 68 so I failed on my stealth

498
00:34:51,002 --> 00:34:56,685
you're still not sure what to make of what you saw earlier and aren't totally in the
moment.

499
00:34:56,685 --> 00:35:06,884
So maybe you're plunge, plunking around in the swamp water a little bit more, But as you
break from that oppressive tangle of the swamp,

500
00:35:06,888 --> 00:35:13,772
A trail opens up and you see some alleyways, a long road into a ghost town with your
binoculars.

501
00:35:13,772 --> 00:35:21,718
You see that there's a single sad road that goes through it and the carcasses of old
buildings, they're worn down to the bone.

502
00:35:21,718 --> 00:35:29,891
There's sad porches that are slumped over roofs that look like they're sagging in black
windows, boarded up windows.

503
00:35:29,891 --> 00:35:37,037
The board up windows almost look like they're vacantly staring at you from this ghost town
as you look down into it.

504
00:35:37,037 --> 00:35:41,160
There's a large ancient tree that forced its way into the middle of the road.

505
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,322
They probably built a town around this thing.

506
00:35:43,322 --> 00:35:45,765
But this place is fairly silent.

507
00:35:45,765 --> 00:35:50,078
There's some dripping water here and there and...

508
00:35:50,078 --> 00:35:56,693
with that alertness you hear the crackling of a campfire somewhere in there as well.

509
00:35:56,693 --> 00:36:08,947
I'm probably walking up to the first building on my right and just kind of seeing if
there's cracks in the boarded up windows that I can peek through or kind of listening at

510
00:36:08,947 --> 00:36:10,410
the doors and stuff.

511
00:36:10,410 --> 00:36:18,880
Yeah, as you start to enter the town, you get to some of the buildings and it's as
expected when you look into them.

512
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,252
There's vines growing around.

513
00:36:21,252 --> 00:36:25,387
These are slowly being overtaken by the nature around them.

514
00:36:25,387 --> 00:36:34,666
There's a musty smell to them, a quite natural smell at least, but there's nothing out of
the ordinary other than that.

515
00:36:34,666 --> 00:36:38,968
Does this look like fish 10 age?

516
00:36:39,865 --> 00:36:40,666
Yes.

517
00:36:42,897 --> 00:36:48,022
Um, Dell, did you, did you go up to, um, up to the building with Ryan?

518
00:36:48,597 --> 00:36:51,424
I guess if you was hanging back, I was in between.

519
00:36:51,424 --> 00:36:52,985
I say don't split the party.

520
00:36:52,985 --> 00:36:57,418
Let's just go ahead if we're going in and we went this far in let's just go for it.

521
00:36:57,418 --> 00:37:02,301
Let's go ahead and yeah sneak on up to that there town.

522
00:37:03,116 --> 00:37:13,313
Yeah, I guess I'll finally admit to myself that this is a gun and not some sort of vaguely
concealed walking stick and we'll get in kind of, you know, combat ready position.

523
00:37:13,313 --> 00:37:13,901
Yeah.

524
00:37:13,901 --> 00:37:14,592
Love it.

525
00:37:14,592 --> 00:37:19,937
Yeah, as soon as we start getting like towards that building, we could get to where you
could see the roadway.

526
00:37:19,937 --> 00:37:28,768
I would like to I know that at that the Forest Rangers station, there were tracks of a
dirt bike that zoomed off somewhere.

527
00:37:28,768 --> 00:37:36,464
I would like to look down that road and see if there were any, you know, dirt tracks or
pressings or anything of dirt bike wheels.

528
00:37:37,077 --> 00:37:45,829
Also, if there are four-wheelers that align with the Rangers for any reason, we don't know
who is or isn't involved in anything.

529
00:37:46,426 --> 00:37:47,349
Yeah, absolutely.

530
00:37:47,349 --> 00:37:52,800
Since you're so acquainted to vehicles and tracks, you do find the tracks.

531
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:53,963
No roll needed.

532
00:37:53,963 --> 00:37:56,967
You do see the dirt bike tracks at least.

533
00:37:57,923 --> 00:37:58,804
okay.

534
00:37:58,804 --> 00:38:03,172
Hey, hey guys, yeah, so the tracks that leave the station, they're over here too.

535
00:38:03,172 --> 00:38:08,952
So whatever's here is whatever left the station, which means could be our guy.

536
00:38:08,952 --> 00:38:13,141
Yeah, I mean that's the hottest lead on Karos we've had so far, it?

537
00:38:13,141 --> 00:38:15,481
Would he just be out here putting around in the daylight though?

538
00:38:15,481 --> 00:38:15,975
I don't.

539
00:38:15,975 --> 00:38:20,550
I wouldn't know, I just mean I think we, you know.

540
00:38:21,412 --> 00:38:25,537
This feels like this trail has his stink on it is all I'm

541
00:38:25,714 --> 00:38:28,594
Will you guys hear that crackling fire sound?

542
00:38:28,994 --> 00:38:32,034
Maybe there's something to that.

543
00:38:32,034 --> 00:38:33,962
Maybe we should go scope it out.

544
00:38:34,303 --> 00:38:38,740
Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to get closer.

545
00:38:38,740 --> 00:38:43,627
You both, I'm just like kind of looking at your mud covered visages.

546
00:38:43,627 --> 00:38:46,731
You seem a little out of your element.

547
00:38:46,731 --> 00:38:48,134
I'll report back.

548
00:38:48,134 --> 00:38:49,603
what I can see of the fire.

549
00:38:50,521 --> 00:38:54,823
Yeah, your earlier stealth role will carry you through.

550
00:38:55,083 --> 00:39:01,838
You sneak up, I'm assuming under the eaves of these porches and the dilapidated buildings.

551
00:39:01,838 --> 00:39:06,260
as you round a corner in this smallish ghost town.

552
00:39:06,398 --> 00:39:16,413
You see the beginnings of a fire and a woman with seemingly blonde hair hunched over it,
trying to stoke it and get it started.

553
00:39:16,413 --> 00:39:22,427
Behind her is a building and there looks to be three figures in there.

554
00:39:22,427 --> 00:39:26,310
And you hear some laughter from in that building as well.

555
00:39:26,310 --> 00:39:28,170
And she doesn't notice you.

556
00:39:28,170 --> 00:39:30,251
She's continuing with the fire.

557
00:39:30,269 --> 00:39:32,325
anything you're looking for in this scene.

558
00:39:32,784 --> 00:39:45,856
state of these people, how long it seems like they've been clean, or how long they've been
living out here, if there are signs of sedentary transience, or if it seems like they're

559
00:39:45,865 --> 00:39:46,771
new.

560
00:39:47,580 --> 00:39:51,180
Yeah, go ahead and roll human intelligence or humant.

561
00:39:51,463 --> 00:39:55,277
Oh, my human is gonna be so good by the end of this.

562
00:39:55,277 --> 00:39:59,002
I have increased 50 % already.

563
00:39:59,002 --> 00:40:02,085
Just by misreading waitresses and shit.

564
00:40:02,085 --> 00:40:03,607
Yeah, fail again.

565
00:40:03,607 --> 00:40:05,078
Feed me, Seymour.

566
00:40:05,213 --> 00:40:09,007
Yeah, you can get a bead on the people in the house.

567
00:40:09,007 --> 00:40:17,655
They are absolutely high on some sort of stimulant is your guess based on how much they're
laughing and fooling around.

568
00:40:17,655 --> 00:40:19,587
The woman though, it's hard to say.

569
00:40:19,587 --> 00:40:20,938
She's managing a fire.

570
00:40:20,938 --> 00:40:27,765
So I think your gut says probably not super high unless she's vibing out and is about to
jump on that fucking thing.

571
00:40:27,765 --> 00:40:29,145
But that's the...

572
00:40:29,312 --> 00:40:31,761
your first glance, what your first glance gives you.

573
00:40:31,761 --> 00:40:33,456
Does she look like caked in dirt?

574
00:40:33,456 --> 00:40:34,239
Like her hair?

575
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:34,961
It's blonde?

576
00:40:34,961 --> 00:40:37,648
Is it like, unsalvageably messy?

577
00:40:38,242 --> 00:40:39,516
No, absolutely not.

578
00:40:39,516 --> 00:40:45,074
And you notice that she's wearing some very filthy Converse shoes as well.

579
00:40:45,287 --> 00:40:51,666
Okay, so the feeling is like maybe she's a day tripper out here as well.

580
00:40:51,666 --> 00:40:58,135
I'll return back to the group and just let them know nobody's out here laying traps,
laying in wait.

581
00:40:58,135 --> 00:41:01,860
They're just out here trying to be left alone it seems.

582
00:41:02,357 --> 00:41:08,830
Yeah, you turn and as you're turning you look, there's a fork in the town at this point.

583
00:41:08,830 --> 00:41:15,653
On one side you have the lady with the fire, the other side you see a small path, almost a
dirt track.

584
00:41:15,653 --> 00:41:20,856
And there it is at the end of it, the weary angles of a church.

585
00:41:20,856 --> 00:41:27,530
It looks boarded up and a little more untouched than the other buildings, less decayed.

586
00:41:27,710 --> 00:41:37,897
The steeple reaches up its bone white faded point is pointing towards heaven and it's
probably looked this way for a long time.

587
00:41:38,198 --> 00:41:43,300
The windows and doors are nailed over with raw and weathered planks.

588
00:41:43,300 --> 00:41:47,502
It's like a crude final act of quarantining or something.

589
00:41:47,827 --> 00:41:55,472
Someone has tried to scrawl something meaningless of their own scripture on the boards in
spray paint, but it's unfinished.

590
00:41:55,472 --> 00:41:58,935
Kind of an insult to the solemn decay of the entire place.

591
00:41:58,935 --> 00:42:00,657
But you notice something else.

592
00:42:00,657 --> 00:42:02,759
The boards are unbroken.

593
00:42:02,979 --> 00:42:07,302
No one stripped them off to enter the church.

594
00:42:07,302 --> 00:42:12,296
Looks like the junkies and what other ghosts haunt this place have left it alone.

595
00:42:12,296 --> 00:42:16,658
Who do you know to play by unspoken rules out here?

596
00:42:16,826 --> 00:42:18,907
I wouldn't think anything is sacred.

597
00:42:18,907 --> 00:42:22,616
um Did Del rejoin us kind of back where we were then?

598
00:42:22,690 --> 00:42:24,857
That was just what he saw on his way back.

599
00:42:25,167 --> 00:42:26,239
Got you, got you.

600
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,622
Sorry, are you talking about the church?

601
00:42:28,622 --> 00:42:31,125
uh I haven't really peeked my head out.

602
00:42:31,125 --> 00:42:32,605
What's going on?

603
00:42:32,605 --> 00:42:41,167
Yeah, well, I mean, most of this place seems like it's been pilfered through and rifled
through to no end time and time again.

604
00:42:41,328 --> 00:42:52,664
But, that church over there we done seen on our way in, it seems like maybe there's a
reverence that everyone seems to be able to give to it universally.

605
00:42:52,664 --> 00:42:57,156
When was the last time you saw that many strangers agree on anything?

606
00:42:57,156 --> 00:42:58,621
Yeah, I mean, not really ever.

607
00:42:58,621 --> 00:42:59,916
That's kind of weird.

608
00:42:59,916 --> 00:43:01,530
What's going on with the fire?

609
00:43:02,238 --> 00:43:03,500
It's just some woman.

610
00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:09,285
She seems to be new in town, as far as I can tell.

611
00:43:09,425 --> 00:43:11,507
I didn't really get a good read on her.

612
00:43:11,507 --> 00:43:14,150
There's a few more individuals down the way.

613
00:43:14,150 --> 00:43:19,195
They seem to be having a good time on their own and I'd incline to let them keep doing
that.

614
00:43:19,195 --> 00:43:25,631
But yeah, like I said, are people out there but they don't seem to be looking for anybody
much less us.

615
00:43:25,631 --> 00:43:36,154
Alright, well I guess that's a bit reassuring, especially if they're actually humanoid
people and not green, slimy swamp people, guess.

616
00:43:36,154 --> 00:43:40,616
I guess I was expecting more and she'll holster her sidearm.

617
00:43:40,817 --> 00:43:44,619
Well, do we go check out the church and see why nothing's broken?

618
00:43:44,619 --> 00:43:47,860
Or do you want to go talk to the people?

619
00:43:47,860 --> 00:43:51,737
Were they worth talking to or did you think we should stick away from them?

620
00:43:51,837 --> 00:43:52,608
They may be.

621
00:43:52,608 --> 00:44:04,815
Look, I'm a nervous type and if secrecy has been maintained and it can be maintained and
there's more courses of action to proceed with while it is maintained, that's generally

622
00:44:04,815 --> 00:44:06,496
going to be my inclination.

623
00:44:06,496 --> 00:44:12,659
But if you'd like to announce our presence and go talk to them, I don't think they're the
harm.

624
00:44:12,659 --> 00:44:13,450
That's for sure.

625
00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:14,803
Uh, Ryan, what about you?

626
00:44:14,803 --> 00:44:27,364
I mean, I think that we walk in like we're out here exploring and go towards the church
and see what we can find, but not necessarily be too careful about how stealthy we are.

627
00:44:27,364 --> 00:44:33,974
Alright, so still nix the people, but head for the church and not necessarily be sneaky
about it.

628
00:44:33,974 --> 00:44:43,670
Dell respects your decision, but you do see that he is not as confident pursuing it as he
might normally.

629
00:44:43,670 --> 00:44:54,045
He will walk with you, but there is a nervousness to his gait and he is probably trailing
12, 14 feet behind you with nervous sweeping glances from side to side.

630
00:44:54,045 --> 00:44:55,538
you

631
00:44:55,846 --> 00:44:56,566
You okay, doll?

632
00:44:56,566 --> 00:44:57,660
What's going on?

633
00:44:57,660 --> 00:45:02,022
Yeah, I mean, there's just an awful lot of windows out here.

634
00:45:02,024 --> 00:45:04,221
We don't have enough eyes to keep eyes on.

635
00:45:04,221 --> 00:45:04,965
you

636
00:45:04,965 --> 00:45:06,107
that's fair.

637
00:45:06,107 --> 00:45:07,938
Keep your eyes especially peeled.

638
00:45:07,938 --> 00:45:11,731
I'm gonna try and see what we can see with this church.

639
00:45:12,051 --> 00:45:19,278
I'll try and give the people that we knew that were there kind of a wider berth and not
necessarily be as loud as possible.

640
00:45:19,278 --> 00:45:22,121
But not being too terribly sneaky as well.

641
00:45:22,121 --> 00:45:24,913
And kind of make my way over to the church.

642
00:45:25,470 --> 00:45:32,539
Yeah, you walk up this dusty, muddy-in-places road and you take the fork towards the
church.

643
00:45:32,539 --> 00:45:37,676
You hear a female voice shout out behind you and say, hey, who are y'all?

644
00:45:37,676 --> 00:45:38,618
Hey, hey there.

645
00:45:38,618 --> 00:45:42,548
Yeah, we're just tourists for the day, kinda sort of.

646
00:45:42,548 --> 00:45:47,115
I mean, we're here actually looking at the bird life.

647
00:45:47,136 --> 00:45:48,209
You guys bird people?

648
00:45:48,209 --> 00:45:52,644
She starts to walk over, starts knocking some dust off of her clothes.

649
00:45:52,644 --> 00:46:06,185
She looks firmly middle class in how she's dressed and has a small jacket on and her hair
is slightly parted and she's attractive for lack of a better way to describe her and she

650
00:46:06,185 --> 00:46:11,199
smiles at you and she says, birdwatchers, huh?

651
00:46:11,199 --> 00:46:12,851
No, I can't say that I am.

652
00:46:12,851 --> 00:46:15,958
But what brings you all the way out here to this ghost town?

653
00:46:16,653 --> 00:46:19,007
Oh, we're looking for red-bellied woodpeckers.

654
00:46:19,007 --> 00:46:26,154
It's a rare bird that's out this time of the year in this area, and we're making a
documentary about them.

655
00:46:26,776 --> 00:46:28,238
This is an interesting place.

656
00:46:28,238 --> 00:46:32,083
We didn't expect to stumble across a ghost town.

657
00:46:32,083 --> 00:46:33,496
What do you know about this place?

658
00:46:33,496 --> 00:46:36,359
I guess not a lot, but I know that it's...

659
00:46:36,359 --> 00:46:39,541
She points to the house where there are people high.

660
00:46:39,541 --> 00:46:42,344
It's where a lot of people come out and party, I guess.

661
00:46:42,344 --> 00:46:51,239
But yeah, uh it was a little commune out here for years until they all just left at some
point.

662
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:58,825
There's conspiratorial things out there about them disappearing in the thin air, but you
know, I don't really believe in any of that.

663
00:46:58,825 --> 00:47:00,676
But you're looking for birds out here.

664
00:47:00,676 --> 00:47:03,067
That is so interesting.

665
00:47:04,007 --> 00:47:08,794
Yeah, I'm surprised that there's not more people out this time of the year doing the same
thing.

666
00:47:08,794 --> 00:47:10,876
Yeah, just really surprised by that.

667
00:47:10,876 --> 00:47:13,309
So, so, well, OK, so are you local?

668
00:47:13,309 --> 00:47:14,480
How do you know about this?

669
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,493
The story about this ghost town?

670
00:47:16,493 --> 00:47:19,273
Yeah, I mean everybody knows it around here.

671
00:47:19,273 --> 00:47:22,017
I think anybody who's grown up here knows about it.

672
00:47:22,017 --> 00:47:30,003
Used to be a reservation and then I guess they relocated the Indians from here somewhere
else.

673
00:47:30,003 --> 00:47:35,637
And then it became a town, I don't know when, must have been like the 1910s or something.

674
00:47:35,637 --> 00:47:38,008
yeah, it was a...

675
00:47:38,188 --> 00:47:48,010
thriving town until the railroad got built and diverted most of traffic from the area and
then it I guess slowly became more of a a commune and now it's a ghost town

676
00:47:48,612 --> 00:47:51,208
Hmm, very interesting.

677
00:47:51,208 --> 00:47:57,211
Yeah, we were on the lookout for this bird, but we were gonna go check out this church
over here real quick.

678
00:47:57,211 --> 00:47:58,810
Go ahead and roll your human intelligence.

679
00:47:58,810 --> 00:48:09,297
was wondering if I could too, on account of the way she greeted us was a little too akin
to the way we were greeted in that diner.

680
00:48:09,297 --> 00:48:12,345
I just don't have a good feeling about the friendliness.

681
00:48:12,468 --> 00:48:12,852
Mm-hmm.

682
00:48:12,852 --> 00:48:13,597
Yeah.

683
00:48:13,597 --> 00:48:17,555
failed mine 54 out of only 14.

684
00:48:18,087 --> 00:48:20,071
Okay.

685
00:48:20,071 --> 00:48:22,055
What's apparent is she's nervous.

686
00:48:22,055 --> 00:48:25,001
Beyond that, you can't pick up anything else from her demeanor.

687
00:48:25,001 --> 00:48:26,924
She does look a little nervous.

688
00:48:27,055 --> 00:48:31,135
Did she react in any way when I said we were going to go check the church out?

689
00:48:31,385 --> 00:48:32,308
She did.

690
00:48:32,308 --> 00:48:35,395
She just had a little twitch in her face.

691
00:48:35,668 --> 00:48:45,251
Also when she pointed over and when she was like, people like to party here and she
pointed over to the building could we still see the three figures in the building?

692
00:48:45,511 --> 00:48:47,262
Yeah, absolutely.

693
00:48:47,979 --> 00:48:48,655
Yeah.

694
00:48:48,655 --> 00:48:49,595
Yeah.

695
00:48:50,396 --> 00:48:56,101
Yeah, you see one of them is in like a Limp Bizkit, $3 Bill Yall hoodie.

696
00:48:56,101 --> 00:49:00,053
There's another one who has like large Janko pants with like a wallet chain.

697
00:49:00,053 --> 00:49:02,386
He's like laid sprawled out on the ground.

698
00:49:02,386 --> 00:49:03,827
And the third one is hard.

699
00:49:03,827 --> 00:49:11,432
there is uh just refuse and there's like snacks out there and you look by the fire where
she was set up.

700
00:49:11,432 --> 00:49:15,766
It looks like she has like a small cooler with some food in it as well.

701
00:49:15,766 --> 00:49:25,680
yeah, you look a little nervous and this church here looks like nobody's messed with it,
which everything else here is dilapidated and kind of falling apart and a bit tagged up

702
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,794
and the church looks fine.

703
00:49:29,076 --> 00:49:30,217
Is that...

704
00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:31,559
What's deal with the church?

705
00:49:32,132 --> 00:49:36,675
I guess before I said I don't necessarily believe in this, but we've heard it's haunted.

706
00:49:36,675 --> 00:49:40,568
Anybody who's ever tried to go in there has come back with bad stories.

707
00:49:40,568 --> 00:49:44,581
I don't know any first-hand or second-hand or even third-hand for that matter, but...

708
00:49:44,581 --> 00:49:45,761
Doesn't look like...

709
00:49:45,761 --> 00:49:50,536
If anybody else isn't messing with it, then I don't know why I should, so...

710
00:49:50,839 --> 00:49:53,156
Yeah, leave it well enough alone, I suppose.

711
00:49:53,156 --> 00:49:57,168
I know you didn't really know, but what type of bad stories would you say?

712
00:49:57,168 --> 00:50:02,783
Just people going in or trying to get in and disappearing or going in there and not coming
out.

713
00:50:02,783 --> 00:50:08,427
And she points up to the roof and you see a sagging hole in the top of it.

714
00:50:08,427 --> 00:50:14,172
I've heard somebody climb up there and miraculously fall down and break all their bones
and their body.

715
00:50:14,172 --> 00:50:15,992
Just, I guess, urban legends.

716
00:50:15,992 --> 00:50:18,673
But again, I've never known anybody or...

717
00:50:19,889 --> 00:50:23,194
I don't know anybody who knows anybody who's ever actually experienced it.

718
00:50:23,194 --> 00:50:25,296
Alright, well I mean, that's fair.

719
00:50:25,296 --> 00:50:28,960
It might be exactly what we said and leave well enough alone.

720
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,563
Maybe we'll give that church a wide berth.

721
00:50:31,563 --> 00:50:40,591
Strange though, I would assume nobody really stays out here too terribly long, it looks
like people at least try and travel through here somewhat, and she points over to the

722
00:50:40,591 --> 00:50:41,271
tracks.

723
00:50:41,271 --> 00:50:43,414
Where are those from, do you know?

724
00:50:43,414 --> 00:50:45,268
Do you have any persuade?

725
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,653
I think that's probably pretty low.

726
00:50:47,653 --> 00:50:48,595
Let me see.

727
00:50:48,595 --> 00:50:49,642
Persuade 20.

728
00:50:49,642 --> 00:50:50,649
So I have some.

729
00:50:50,649 --> 00:50:51,574
It exists.

730
00:50:51,574 --> 00:50:55,851
That or your, sorry, that or your charisma, whatever one is higher.

731
00:50:55,851 --> 00:50:56,943
for sure gonna be Charisma.

732
00:50:56,943 --> 00:50:58,194
Charisma at 45.

733
00:50:58,194 --> 00:51:00,263
We got 84.

734
00:51:00,263 --> 00:51:02,955
Okay, yeah.

735
00:51:02,955 --> 00:51:04,917
No, can't say I know much.

736
00:51:04,917 --> 00:51:12,133
I do see the tracks and I've heard the dirt bike around here, but I'm not totally sure who
it belongs to.

737
00:51:12,133 --> 00:51:16,661
okay, so it's not like, you know, do some drugs, ride the dirt bike around type thing.

738
00:51:16,661 --> 00:51:19,066
Like it's somebody else that you don't know.

739
00:51:19,066 --> 00:51:24,981
Yeah, yeah, it's not one of my boys, but it's, we've definitely heard it buzzing around
the swamp.

740
00:51:24,981 --> 00:51:34,668
wild, yeah those things get super loud and uh scare birds off quite a bit and she looks
over at Ryan like, eh, I dunno, yeah?

741
00:51:35,671 --> 00:51:39,485
Yeah, mean, yeah, especially the red-bellied woodpecker.

742
00:51:39,485 --> 00:51:41,101
They're very sensitive to sound.

743
00:51:41,101 --> 00:51:44,001
guess that's why y'all were so quiet coming up here.

744
00:51:44,436 --> 00:51:48,055
Yeah, you got to tread lightly to get a good view of one.

745
00:51:48,055 --> 00:51:55,864
um I'm gonna look at the church, like as Barone is saying that, you know, maybe we'll just
leave it alone.

746
00:51:55,864 --> 00:52:08,348
And I'm gonna focus on the black space between the front wall and the back wall that I
can't see, and I am just going to think that I am going to burn it to the ground.

747
00:52:08,348 --> 00:52:10,573
Yeah, roll your power

748
00:52:17,796 --> 00:52:22,925
You feel nothing at the intrusive thought you're forcing upon the church.

749
00:52:22,925 --> 00:52:24,027
Nothing comes back.

750
00:52:24,027 --> 00:52:25,770
It doesn't seem sinister at all.

751
00:52:25,770 --> 00:52:30,777
There's a good chance that this is just who do, right?

752
00:52:31,335 --> 00:52:33,288
people fall off roofs all the time

753
00:52:33,288 --> 00:52:35,240
Well, my name's Cheryl.

754
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:36,722
If you need anything, over here.

755
00:52:36,722 --> 00:52:39,266
I do have some snacks to bring them in for my boy.

756
00:52:39,266 --> 00:52:41,169
But I'll just be over here.

757
00:52:41,169 --> 00:52:42,001
Be careful.

758
00:52:42,001 --> 00:52:43,207
Your boy?

759
00:52:43,384 --> 00:52:45,287
Yeah, yeah, that's my son in there.

760
00:52:45,287 --> 00:52:48,103
She points to the one in the Limp Bizkit hoodie.

761
00:52:48,103 --> 00:52:51,570
sorry, I thought you meant like your boys, like your posse.

762
00:52:51,570 --> 00:52:53,452
My name's Morgan, by the way.

763
00:52:53,452 --> 00:52:54,193
It's nice to meet you.

764
00:52:54,193 --> 00:52:57,607
And she'll reach out her hand for a nice handshake.

765
00:52:57,728 --> 00:53:00,892
Yeah, you get a good strong handshake back.

766
00:53:00,892 --> 00:53:03,734
Yeah, that's my son, unfortunately.

767
00:53:03,734 --> 00:53:07,138
I come out here and try to take care of him when he's doing this.

768
00:53:07,138 --> 00:53:14,425
Picked up some nasty habits along the way and figured mother's gonna be a mother and help
him out no matter where he's at in life.

769
00:53:16,974 --> 00:53:24,291
This is certainly a place to find oneself in life, but I guess a pudding pack makes
everything a little better.

770
00:53:24,291 --> 00:53:25,523
putting that is a good idea.

771
00:53:25,523 --> 00:53:28,349
He did like putting a lot, so I should do that next time.

772
00:53:28,349 --> 00:53:30,489
Well, nice to meet you.

773
00:53:31,169 --> 00:53:40,209
Again, if you see anything that could look like a red-bellied woodpecker, just let us know
and we'll come running with our cameras.

774
00:53:40,309 --> 00:53:42,869
In the meantime, we're gonna go explore a little bit.

775
00:53:43,579 --> 00:53:46,563
Of course, and I won't make your business my business.

776
00:53:46,563 --> 00:53:49,485
I really hope that you don't make our business your business.

777
00:53:49,485 --> 00:53:53,108
I would hate for him to get into the trouble with the law again.

778
00:53:53,108 --> 00:53:56,049
So have your way about the place.

779
00:53:56,049 --> 00:54:00,131
I don't really care what y'all get up to as long as you don't care what we get up to.

780
00:54:01,068 --> 00:54:11,442
I think your business is your own, especially if you're just trying to make do and support
your family and be there in difficult times anyways.

781
00:54:11,442 --> 00:54:17,661
And she'll kind of nod her head a little bit and start walking up towards where the
track's lead, I guess.

782
00:54:18,059 --> 00:54:18,510
Yeah.

783
00:54:18,510 --> 00:54:25,737
She thanks you and walks slowly back to the camp, sits down by the log, starts throwing
more on the fire, getting ready for the nighttime.

784
00:54:25,737 --> 00:54:29,139
And you're looking at the track specifically, Agent Barone.

785
00:54:29,300 --> 00:54:31,763
Del, you're going up to the church.

786
00:54:31,763 --> 00:54:33,034
Agent Ryan, what are you doing?

787
00:54:33,034 --> 00:54:36,820
Well, I am going to go towards the church.

788
00:54:36,820 --> 00:54:38,143
My interest is piqued.

789
00:54:38,143 --> 00:54:45,072
And I want to take a peek and see if I can see anything.

790
00:54:45,072 --> 00:54:49,659
Without going inside the church, I'm just going to kind of walk around and see what I see.

791
00:54:49,659 --> 00:54:55,823
Yeah, you see it is old, it has been sun worn and the elements have gotten to it.

792
00:54:55,823 --> 00:54:57,943
It's not completely untouched.

793
00:54:58,725 --> 00:55:01,787
the areas that are boarded up haven't been pried open.

794
00:55:01,787 --> 00:55:05,360
Your guess is the only way people have ever gotten in is that hole in the roof.

795
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:15,262
and you get around back and you see a small dilapidated stairway up to a door that sits up
a little higher.

796
00:55:15,262 --> 00:55:26,454
And that door is also boarded up, but it looks like it has less oomph to the boarding and
there's not as many nails and there are fewer boards on that door.

797
00:55:27,382 --> 00:55:30,950
And walking up these stairs, does that get me closer to the roof?

798
00:55:30,950 --> 00:55:33,174
I'm imagining.

799
00:55:33,616 --> 00:55:37,149
Not closer to the roof, but it gets you closer to that door.

800
00:55:37,149 --> 00:55:40,711
You would have to climb the side of the building to get to the roof.

801
00:55:40,711 --> 00:55:43,633
It's not a, I mean, this isn't a massive church.

802
00:55:43,633 --> 00:55:47,736
it's, the roof is probably a good 11 feet up.

803
00:55:47,736 --> 00:55:50,018
Like you could boost somebody up there.

804
00:55:50,029 --> 00:55:50,930
OK.

805
00:55:51,572 --> 00:55:58,024
So the church looks like it hasn't really been touched, but the windows are boarded up and
there's a giant hole in the ceiling?

806
00:55:59,307 --> 00:56:00,088
OK.

807
00:56:00,514 --> 00:56:03,532
By untouched, no one's pried the boards off of it.

808
00:56:03,532 --> 00:56:04,672
Oh, I see.

809
00:56:04,672 --> 00:56:05,272
OK.

810
00:56:05,272 --> 00:56:19,172
I'm going to walk up the stairs and scope out the door, see if I can peel some of it back
or how easy it might be to open it.

811
00:56:19,929 --> 00:56:21,421
I'm investigating it.

812
00:56:21,421 --> 00:56:22,660
What's up with this door?

813
00:56:22,660 --> 00:56:26,864
If we wanted to open it, how easy would it be to open it, et cetera?

814
00:56:28,186 --> 00:56:29,477
Forensics.

815
00:56:30,473 --> 00:56:32,555
36 out of 64.

816
00:56:32,555 --> 00:56:34,175
Great.

817
00:56:34,175 --> 00:56:46,159
You look at it and you think that if you pry two of the boards off of the door that are
attached to the hinge, you could probably push the door in and squeeze in with most of the

818
00:56:46,159 --> 00:56:47,851
other boards intact.

819
00:56:48,733 --> 00:56:51,293
I'm like, hey guys, check this out.

820
00:56:52,113 --> 00:56:57,833
And I'm showing them, know, I think it would be pretty easy to rip these off.

821
00:56:57,833 --> 00:56:58,650
What do you think?

822
00:56:58,650 --> 00:57:02,988
That's exact kind of thing we should be notin', notin' and doin' nothin' right now.

823
00:57:03,246 --> 00:57:04,965
Mm, mm, okay.

824
00:57:04,965 --> 00:57:05,400
oh

825
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:06,537
So not going in.

826
00:57:06,537 --> 00:57:07,618
Well, I'm not.

827
00:57:08,458 --> 00:57:18,919
I mean, I have the desire to go in, but if everybody else is like too creeped out by it,
I'm definitely like more hesitant about it.

828
00:57:18,919 --> 00:57:26,770
out by it so much as I am creeped out by your change of pace today.

829
00:57:26,770 --> 00:57:28,101
Like what's gotten into you?

830
00:57:28,101 --> 00:57:29,903
Do I need to be worried?

831
00:57:31,087 --> 00:57:31,987
Not worried.

832
00:57:31,987 --> 00:57:38,039
I am just really curious about what's going on in this church.

833
00:57:38,039 --> 00:57:41,876
I am looking for an experience here, Del.

834
00:57:41,876 --> 00:57:47,848
I don't say anything in response to that, but I don't like the words I just heard either.

835
00:57:47,848 --> 00:57:51,823
can I try and check in on my friend a little here?

836
00:57:51,823 --> 00:57:55,988
you can talk to your friend as much as you want in game, or you can roll a human.

837
00:57:55,988 --> 00:58:02,230
I mean that is what I'm going for on account of this just doesn't seem like Ryan.

838
00:58:02,230 --> 00:58:03,606
It was painfully close.

839
00:58:03,606 --> 00:58:04,935
Yeah, it's...

840
00:58:04,935 --> 00:58:14,094
Your guess at this point is that Ryan has a new lease on this profession after your last
operation.

841
00:58:14,094 --> 00:58:22,412
The proximity to the unnatural, the proximity to almost getting his head blown off has
done something strange to him is what you're thinking.

842
00:58:22,412 --> 00:58:28,178
You have seen a lot of violence in your time and it executed a lot of violence as well.

843
00:58:28,718 --> 00:58:36,862
So it's hard for you to remember a time when you had that transition from kind of a normal
person into, there's some crazy shit that can happen.

844
00:58:36,862 --> 00:58:43,601
So you can't really empathize necessarily, but you can understand that something has
shifted in Ryan.

845
00:58:43,601 --> 00:58:51,217
I mean, look, I am deeply proud if the ability to shed that meekness is natural.

846
00:58:51,217 --> 00:59:00,620
There is just a twinge that like it doesn't entirely feel as though it is and that maybe
it's been co-opted.

847
00:59:01,341 --> 00:59:03,041
But I'm just...

848
00:59:03,630 --> 00:59:08,236
natural towards the unnatural, still very awkward towards uh anything else.

849
00:59:08,236 --> 00:59:09,955
So you pull the boards off.

850
00:59:10,942 --> 00:59:20,047
I'm just kind of looking dull, giving them a side eye, and maintaining contact as I rip
the first board off, yes.

851
00:59:20,401 --> 00:59:23,724
Yeah, I acknowledge you.

852
00:59:23,724 --> 00:59:26,436
You're a fucking adult.

853
00:59:26,436 --> 00:59:35,723
I am scanning like the baseboards and the siding for, you said there's not like obvious
graffiti, but I'm looking for something that looks like an intentional marking, maybe

854
00:59:35,723 --> 00:59:40,877
something small, something that is intended to send a message that only some people would
find.

855
00:59:41,112 --> 00:59:43,325
Hmm, okay.

856
00:59:43,325 --> 00:59:44,947
We'll stay at the door first.

857
00:59:44,947 --> 00:59:53,723
You pull the first board out and there's a second one that's attached to the jam as well
that you would probably need to grab doing the second one too.

858
00:59:53,723 --> 00:59:59,914
Yep, still maintaining side eye contact with Dell as I ripped the second one off as well.

859
00:59:59,982 --> 01:00:02,124
you yank it out, no problem.

860
01:00:02,124 --> 01:00:04,955
These nails have been sitting in this wood for a long time.

861
01:00:04,955 --> 01:00:09,188
They've been dried out, so they just kinda, just needed a pull to get off of there.

862
01:00:09,188 --> 01:00:13,471
And you are able to push the door in now a little bit.

863
01:00:14,394 --> 01:00:18,232
Okay, I'm gonna do that and kinda see what I can see.

864
01:00:19,026 --> 01:00:20,638
Yeah, you're immediately decapitated.

865
01:00:20,638 --> 01:00:29,687
No, you push it open, there's a screech that echoes through the church inside and comes
back to you.

866
01:00:29,888 --> 01:00:32,730
And it's the screech of the door.

867
01:00:32,871 --> 01:00:37,556
And you see shafts of sunlight coming in from the hole in the roof.

868
01:00:37,556 --> 01:00:41,119
You see some broken down benches.

869
01:00:41,232 --> 01:00:44,956
In the distance out of the corner, you see an altar and

870
01:00:44,956 --> 01:01:01,236
On the ground, there is that some black mildew that has infected the floorboards and it
looks like it creeps up to where the altar is and it gets thicker up the stairs from that

871
01:01:01,236 --> 01:01:01,756
vantage point.

872
01:01:01,756 --> 01:01:04,636
That's all you see at this point.

873
01:01:04,676 --> 01:01:06,627
Dell, go ahead and roll a search.

874
01:01:06,627 --> 01:01:07,914
Me on the outside?

875
01:01:07,914 --> 01:01:08,661
Yep.

876
01:01:12,297 --> 01:01:16,824
Yeah, there's, what you do find is an easy way to get on the roof.

877
01:01:16,824 --> 01:01:27,567
You see a broken sideboard that is pulled out adjacent and then it goes up to a lip of a
window and you could probably scale up onto the top of the roof if you wanted to.

878
01:01:27,567 --> 01:01:29,186
Agent Brown, what are you doing?

879
01:01:29,186 --> 01:01:29,777
Yeah, great.

880
01:01:29,777 --> 01:01:36,355
I would like to generally just see what direction the dirt bike trail is going off into.

881
01:01:36,355 --> 01:01:46,035
Because if we know, they're at the station and it's going off in one direction and from
over here it's going off kind of towards the same direction, we could find generally where

882
01:01:46,035 --> 01:01:50,219
we should be looking for the terminus of that trail.

883
01:01:50,672 --> 01:01:54,781
Or like where we should be searching for something that is outside of this settlement.

884
01:01:54,781 --> 01:01:56,513
So that's kind what I'm looking for

885
01:01:56,752 --> 01:02:00,879
Yeah, the Dirt Brake Trail unquestionably goes northeast.

886
01:02:00,879 --> 01:02:05,650
And you see the edge of town and it looks like it goes past the edge of town.

887
01:02:05,650 --> 01:02:15,348
Sorry, so past the edge of town of of this town not of the main town that we came from
gotcha gotcha Okay, great.

888
01:02:15,348 --> 01:02:24,815
I think I'll just kind of Take note of the general direction it's heading in and knowing
that the other trail is heading off in X direction also We kind of have a general area to

889
01:02:24,815 --> 01:02:31,526
like for further search and I think by that point she probably hasn't really been been
thinking about too much and turns around to

890
01:02:31,526 --> 01:02:34,928
to where everybody else is and it's like, shit, Ryan Dell.

891
01:02:34,928 --> 01:02:37,743
And she'll book her way back to, the church.

892
01:02:37,743 --> 01:02:46,333
Cause I assume when she turns around, she sees an open door minus one human and she'll
head back in a back to her party as quick as possible.

893
01:02:46,820 --> 01:02:48,542
Yeah, you walk past Del.

894
01:02:48,542 --> 01:02:57,291
Del looks like a paranoid dad looking at the side of this church, of like sizing it up and
looking at little damaged spots.

895
01:02:57,291 --> 01:03:02,356
And then you see the door, a jar and Ryan slipping into the church.

896
01:03:02,563 --> 01:03:02,893
Sure.

897
01:03:02,893 --> 01:03:05,005
Del, how could you let him go in alone?

898
01:03:05,026 --> 01:03:05,706
god.

899
01:03:05,706 --> 01:03:08,911
And she starts slipping in right behind him.

900
01:03:08,911 --> 01:03:11,032
You notice the same thing.

901
01:03:11,032 --> 01:03:19,097
As you step in, there is fungus and rot in the boards that leads up to this altar at the
top.

902
01:03:19,097 --> 01:03:22,788
The stench of rotten mildew hits you almost like a physical blow.

903
01:03:22,788 --> 01:03:30,642
It's just not a smell that you are typically confronted with this level of decay.

904
01:03:30,642 --> 01:03:34,005
it smells like it tastes, you would think, right?

905
01:03:34,005 --> 01:03:45,797
It is a heavy, tinny, almost metallic feeling in your mouth and your mouths both start to
water as you come in, as that metallic sensation hits them.

906
01:03:45,808 --> 01:03:51,217
Is this something we would have come accro- does it- alright, does it feel natural or not
natural?

907
01:03:51,217 --> 01:03:56,975
Like, does it feel more like tear gas or does it feel like musty old dank smell?

908
01:03:56,975 --> 01:03:59,673
Go ahead and roll.

909
01:04:00,525 --> 01:04:02,034
Do you have any unnatural?

910
01:04:02,034 --> 01:04:03,397
Unnatural.

911
01:04:03,397 --> 01:04:04,945
do not know.

912
01:04:04,956 --> 01:04:08,010
I have nine or ten.

913
01:04:08,162 --> 01:04:09,897
Yeah, not you.

914
01:04:09,897 --> 01:04:15,101
Agent Barone, power times five.

915
01:04:15,101 --> 01:04:18,603
Looking for a 55, I got a 400, so 40.

916
01:04:18,603 --> 01:04:19,603
All right.

917
01:04:20,243 --> 01:04:20,855
Yeah.

918
01:04:20,855 --> 01:04:27,557
As you come in there, first you start to feel that mouthwatering sensation.

919
01:04:27,557 --> 01:04:32,959
There's almost a hit of MDMA as well as you go in there.

920
01:04:32,959 --> 01:04:39,223
There's like this ecstatic, joyful, physical feeling that just erupts in your chest.

921
01:04:39,223 --> 01:04:40,484
It's a chorus.

922
01:04:40,484 --> 01:04:41,369
You feel...

923
01:04:41,369 --> 01:04:44,109
unadulterated faith for some reason.

924
01:04:44,109 --> 01:04:46,951
Like you are in awe as you walk in here.

925
01:04:46,951 --> 01:04:49,231
Maybe it's the sunlight coming through the roof.

926
01:04:49,231 --> 01:04:54,414
Maybe it's something else, but there's something at work here inside of you.

927
01:04:54,414 --> 01:05:06,559
There's a love almost, and you look at the ground and see this fungus stretching up toward
the altar and you find yourself just kind of wandering up towards the altar.

928
01:05:06,566 --> 01:05:08,642
without even thinking about it.

929
01:05:08,642 --> 01:05:10,988
And the taste in your mouth feels perfectly natural.

930
01:05:10,988 --> 01:05:13,874
feels, in fact, feels beloved.

931
01:05:14,734 --> 01:05:15,539
Hmm.

932
01:05:15,541 --> 01:05:15,993
Okay.

933
01:05:15,993 --> 01:05:22,358
When you say the fungus is stretching up towards the altar, do you mean literally or
figuratively?

934
01:05:22,698 --> 01:05:27,845
I mean, figuratively, it is embedded in the floorboards and it just gets darker and
darker.

935
01:05:27,845 --> 01:05:34,686
And as you're walking up there, I'm assuming you're following these sensations or you can
also recess them if you want.

936
01:05:34,686 --> 01:05:38,299
I think I'll follow them for a second.

937
01:05:38,299 --> 01:05:41,763
Yeah, let's start taking a look at the altar.

938
01:05:41,763 --> 01:05:49,142
And as I walk up there, I'm like, man, Ryan, you feel that this place is, there's
something about it, that's for sure.

939
01:05:49,323 --> 01:05:53,168
And then I'll make my way kind of towards the altar.

940
01:05:53,168 --> 01:06:00,163
you step past the podium that's in front of the altar in between the podium and the altar.

941
01:06:00,163 --> 01:06:01,624
There's nothing up here.

942
01:06:01,624 --> 01:06:02,385
There's no cross.

943
01:06:02,385 --> 01:06:03,436
There's no candles.

944
01:06:03,436 --> 01:06:13,024
There's small pieces of wood, some old carvings in the wall and some fixtures, but it's
not a current altar of worship.

945
01:06:13,024 --> 01:06:19,424
But in between the podium and that altar, that mold turns into

946
01:06:19,424 --> 01:06:25,310
almost like a swirl in this big black spot just between the two.

947
01:06:25,310 --> 01:06:26,549
Can you roll your sanity?