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Agent Ryan and Agent Barone, you are on the edge of the swamp.

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Agent Ryan, you are bleeding out of your leg.

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You feel the warmth surrounding your calf as it rolls down your leg.

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Agent Barone, Del has run off and you're trying to pull Ryan out of the water

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you hear the sharp, distant fire of two shots ringing through the air.

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What do you do?

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okay.

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do we have Ryan up in safe?

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God, I can't.

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Fuck.

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can't leave Ryan.

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Ryan, that's that's not a good sign.

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We got to go.

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Can you walk?

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I can help and then I'll try and try and get you up.

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I'm in so much pain.

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Just go.

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Just go without me.

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Go check on Del.

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Listen, absolutely fucking not.

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we are- this is not a good space.

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You need to come, I'm not gonna leave you also.

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I can't get up.

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Like I'm trying so hard to get up and I am in so much pain.

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Okay, is there like-

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go ahead and roll your con.

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I got 36 which is under 60 so.

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Okay, you push really, really hard and as you're doing it, you start to go lightheaded.

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Can you roll me power?

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Minus 30.

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minus 30 so under 50 is what I'm going for and I got 97.

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So you start to black out a little bit as you're standing up.

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Agent Barone,

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Ryan's gonna need significant help.

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There's no way you're be able to get to Dell quickly if you're dragging Ryan with you at
this point.

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Ryan is pushing 250 pounds.

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So it would be quite the task to even have him lean on you and wobble with you.

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Okay, you need to hang in there.

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Listen, I don't need anything happening to you too.

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Do you have a gun on you?

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In your hands?

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do, yeah.

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And okay, you listen, look at me.

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You need to stay on top of this.

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I will be back as soon as I can.

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You can't get jumped.

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Okay, you need to be self-sufficient.

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Give me three and a half minutes and I'll be back as soon as possible.

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Do your thing, go help Del, I'm good.

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Alright, and you, uh it's still dark right now, correct?

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Okay.

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Yep.

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And Ryan, do you have a flashlight?

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I do.

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Okay, great.

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Cool.

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So you're set.

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I'll kind of patch you in the corner, give you a good strong squeeze, and then sprint off
in the direction of the bullets.

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Good luck.

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you run toward them, you using your flashlight?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah, give me a dex roll.

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Times five.

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decks times five I'm looking for seventy I got a fifty five so crit success hey whoo

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sprint through the swamp like a gazelle.

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You have a mission.

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Your flashlight is perfectly illuminating any sink holes in the swamp.

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You're able to dodge past the sharp sawgrass and you get to the beginning of the boardwalk
and continue.

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And you're running as fast as you can, I'm assuming.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Okay, you are beating feet and you see the outline of a four wheeler in the distance and
your flashlight starts to get closer and closer and you see just a clump on the ground of

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two figures.

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The man looks like he's under a piece of meat.

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Del is laying there splayed out and something's on top of him.

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The machine beside them, the four wheeler is just kind of silent.

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Looks like it's completely suspended.

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Feels like time is stopping as you're approaching this scene.

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uh Yeah, I think you also kind of hear the sound of a muffled growl.

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It sounds almost like a wounded animal, a...

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With like a wet gurgle in there.

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Sputtering.

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And it goes quiet for a few seconds and you hear what sounds maybe more like a pained
moan, like a...

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woman in deep in labor.

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It's kind of like rhythmic heaving.

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beautiful and you get close enough and you see the carcass of the...

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swamp creature, it's like a ruined weight.

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It's flaccid, its flesh is covered in this poorly tanned hide, just laying on him,
squishing him.

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There's a viscous black fluid, not quite blood, not quite bile, that's marinating all over
his wound and seeping into his skin and all over his clothes.

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A mingling of simple red is highlighted throughout it when your flashlight hits the wound
and

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He's still alive, he's still a product, but he's packaged in gore.

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And you hear that breath that he described and a small mechanical rise and fall.

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His processing, his process in his brain is not yet finished, but he is fighting for his
life.

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fuck a fuck a fuck a fuck and I will slow down from a sprint to more like a fast gated
walk with my gun up tracked on the thing on top of them.

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It's not moving at this point in time.

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Okay great.

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ah Son of a bitch.

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I'll get as close as possible literally right next to him and do kind of like a scanning
360 to see if something's coming right for me as well.

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Give me a search role.

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And then Dell, can you give me a luck roll after that?

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Nice.

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Search, we're looking for 54, I got a 29.

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you are scanning around and you don't see anything.

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It's pretty dark, your flashlight cuts across parts of the swamp, you have a limited field
of view and there's nothing coming that you can like track, but you do hear in the

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distance the sound faintly of a dirt bike.

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Oh, okay.

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Fuck the dirt bike for now.

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Dell's the priority.

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As I'm spinning and the shadows are dancing across my field of view, I'm like, okay, okay,
I think we're okay.

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And I'll put my flashlight hands down, have my gun still in my other hand, and see if with
one hand, without sacrificing readiness, I'm gonna see if I can try to grab that gory,

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semi-tanned flesh.

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and pull it off of Dell.

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Yeah, you're able to get it off no problem.

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You're strong enough with your strength.

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Agent Sandusky, what was your luck roll?

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I'm about to roll it or rather flip it.

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I made the executive decision that if you don't tell me to modify it, I'm just doing a
coin from here on out.

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And that looks like a success to me.

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You had enough time before you were attacked to pull a med kit out and it is laying there
conveniently beside your body and you discover it, Agent Barone, as you've pulled this

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disgusting creature off of Del.

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Alright, Lady Luck, hello there, and I set my, do one quick more cursory glance around,
set my gun close, but definitely down.

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I need both hands to help out, and I'll start checking Del out.

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Del, Del, are you okay?

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What the fuck happened?

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Del?

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Dell make a con save or con roll.

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I mean, I think as you are maybe like rolling me about and I get an 89, so it ain't
mattering, but it's like you're kind of like rolling me to the side and all you get is

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like the expel, expellation, exhalation.

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How do you expel something when your breath is forcibly expelled and there's just kind of
like a hushed murmur that comes out.

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It is human, but nothing about it.

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tells you that there is any life behind.

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Okay, alright, hang in there, hang in there.

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I think the first thing I need to do is find any scrap of clean anything and start wiping
down to see what I could see.

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it gushing?

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Where?

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Where is it coming from?

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So I'm going to start into first dating.

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You look at his body quickly, you see the tear around his collar bone and it looks like
the blood is coming out from there.

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And you would have to remove the shirt a little bit.

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The med kit has some clean gauze in it that you can pull out.

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And there are some of your old clothes in these duffel bags as well.

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Okay, so for the wipe down, think it's get whatever clothing out of the way, however that
needs to happen.

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Usually in med kits, if it's a good med kit, you'll have clothes cutting shears in there.

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So maybe not fully remove his stuff.

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And of course I don't have that much time, so at least a snip so I can open and kind of
see.

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I'll use the dirty clothes, whatever cleanest part of the dirty clothes, could be
whatever, to wipe it down.

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and then start, I mean, stuffing gauze in there, man, and looking at ways to get it
secured.

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Yeah, you're able to snip away with the small scissors that came with it that are there
for sutures.

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Yeah, sutures.

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Or sutures, what are they?

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Sutures, yeah, sutures, yeah.

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You're able to use the small scissors there to snip away the shirt and.

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Under it is disgusting.

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Like you see the teeth marks.

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You can see part of his bone is exposed on the collar side.

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His blood is continuing to roll out of his body there.

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And yeah, you do see that black liquid, whatever this creature's blood was, is definitely
co-mingling with what Del has inside of his body.

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Okay, shit.

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Yeah, I think right now it's just stop the blood not continue to get it clean or sanitize
the area.

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I'm going to take some gauze and stuff it down in there and start start putting pressure.

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As I'm well, let's I guess let's see if the the paint like that's not going to tickle by
any means.

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Let's see if the pain rouses him at all when I give a good hefty little press on that bad
boy.

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All right, go ahead and roll your first date at this point.

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since you're, oh, go ahead, sorry.

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no, I was just gonna say I'm looking for 34.

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Yeah, you can roll it plus 10, so.

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plus 10 so I'm looking for 44.

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25 okay.

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All right, you push down on it, he groans in pain.

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Does not.

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come awake from it, but you see that he's still responsive to whatever you're doing.

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And you're able to put some pressure on it and hopefully stave off the bleeding.

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The med pack has some super glue you think you might be able to use.

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There's also a lot of gauze that you could shove in there and large bandages and a wrap.

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So you could wrap it if you wanted.

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And your first aid will cover whatever you decide to do with the wound.

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great yeah sounds good I think is is getting pressure on that one I think a collarbone is
such a weird place it would probably have yeah no absolutely not so get as much in there

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get some pressure on it yeah and then kind of go you know a little bit cross body a little
bit over one show a little bit cross body and just kind of do what I can and then move on

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to the next and then get that kind of locked up and then move on to the next and just not
doing a

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phenomenal job of doing good enough to at least he's not bleeding out here and maybe I
have some time.

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Dell give me a power times five roll.

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1985 that's not looking good

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Okay, you feel touch on you.

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It's not a kind touch, it's a frantic touch as you're being wrapped up.

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You don't know what the touch is.

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You're coming in and out of consciousness and there is a scene splayed before you.

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as you fall deeper and deeper into your subconscious, you remember your wedding day with
Abigail.

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You remember the touch of her hand.

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There's nothing else but you and her almost on a blank canvas.

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And you just remember the words at the end of your vows, till death do us part, ringing in
your head over and over and over again.

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Yeah, I think the echo of that echoes through many aspects of life, right?

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Even to the hands that are touching me now, right?

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The idea of were we really done is the question that comes to mind, right?

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Like through all those transgressions within the marriage, throughout the choices in life,
throughout the risky maneuvers that ended us here, like is this

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really what we were supposed to end on.

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You're left wondering, you have no conscious thought or ability to speak your thoughts
aloud, but that is what is repeating over and over again as you're being patched up.

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Agent Barone, you get him fairly cleaned up.

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He is not coming to though.

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He is a wet sack.

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Like you maybe even try to lift him one or two times and see if he'll wiggle.

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He's just a breathing slice of meat at this point for you.

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Okay, so he's a slight man, a tiny baby boy, right?

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Okay, okay.

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And talk to me about this boardwalk.

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You know, it could be kind of a skinny boardwalk, you know, barely three feet across, or
it could be a double pass boardwalk, which would be like 10 something.

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Which one is it?

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This is skinny.

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Fuck, I was hoping you gonna say the other Nick.

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uh Okay, okay, okay, okay.

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Oh god, what do we do?

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Roll your alertness.

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Yeah, looking for 81, so pretty good chances.

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And it is a 36.

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Yeah, you hear some sawgrass part behind you, the reeds at the top slapped together, and
you also hear a few squishy footsteps.

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Okay, whatever I'm doing is stopping.

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am reaching down to my right knee where that that gun is sitting, grabbing that flashlight
and spinning in that direction with the gun up ready to shoot.

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All right so he emerges from the reeds not so much walking as he is flowing because your
flashlight is illuminating his top half his small frame is taut with a gaunt energy.

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Mud clung to him it seems like less dirt and more like a second skin.

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He stands with a peculiar asymmetrical cant, like lean off to the side.

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and it seems like he's anchored by some unknown root system to the earth being pulled
askew.

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His skin held a pale strangeness.

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It's not greenish or anything like the swamp preachers.

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It's just a sickness, but his eyes, as your flashlights reflect in them, have an intensely
alive color to them.

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They're bright.

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They're metabolic.

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00:14:49,350 --> 00:14:51,803
They have a fire and

226
00:14:51,803 --> 00:15:01,120
He walks forward toward you, his hands up like this, and he says, excuse me, your friend
will not survive this.

227
00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,382
Yeah, neither the fuck will you unless you tell me who you are.

228
00:15:03,382 --> 00:15:04,186
My name is Dr.

229
00:15:04,186 --> 00:15:04,809
Garris.

230
00:15:04,809 --> 00:15:05,529
Oh.

231
00:15:05,529 --> 00:15:08,069
Uh, okay, I...

232
00:15:08,069 --> 00:15:09,449
Um, you said he...

233
00:15:09,449 --> 00:15:16,505
Is he, literally bound to the ground via other things, or is that just beautiful
descriptions?

234
00:15:16,505 --> 00:15:17,506
It's just a description.

235
00:15:17,506 --> 00:15:19,197
He is walking towards you.

236
00:15:19,197 --> 00:15:26,291
It looks like he might have some sort of scoliosis of the spine, something like that.

237
00:15:26,291 --> 00:15:29,953
It just makes his gait strange, right?

238
00:15:29,953 --> 00:15:32,955
And he's kind of walking towards you with his hands up.

239
00:15:32,955 --> 00:15:36,136
He has no weapon that you can see, right?

240
00:15:36,937 --> 00:15:40,100
He's like, what you're doing will not help him.

241
00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:43,222
You're just pushing the inevitable around.

242
00:15:44,133 --> 00:15:48,239
yeah, no shit, absolutely, I'm not a doctor, my guy, in any capacity whatsoever.

243
00:15:48,239 --> 00:15:51,833
It sounds like you can choose to help me or my friend will die.

244
00:15:51,833 --> 00:15:53,749
Which is it?

245
00:15:54,015 --> 00:16:02,925
I heard the shots and I decided to come out here and see what it was and it looks like the
trauma he endured is exposed.

246
00:16:02,925 --> 00:16:04,746
And you're not...

247
00:16:04,746 --> 00:16:08,059
you've stopped the bleeding but it's not the bleeding that I worry about.

248
00:16:08,059 --> 00:16:11,056
I am worrying about literally everything right here.

249
00:16:11,056 --> 00:16:15,595
I am fully open to a little bit of help if you want to come over here.

250
00:16:15,595 --> 00:16:18,631
I'm willing to put a little trust in something.

251
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,824
Okay, well, we can't do it with what we have out here.

252
00:16:21,824 --> 00:16:28,231
In another ten minutes or even less, I worry about the cellular cascade that will be
irreversible for him.

253
00:16:28,231 --> 00:16:30,373
I do not want him to come apart in front of us.

254
00:16:30,373 --> 00:16:36,678
If you help me get him on your vehicle, I can show you where my cabin is and I have some
things that might help.

255
00:16:36,678 --> 00:16:37,919
It's not far.

256
00:16:38,682 --> 00:16:39,152
yes.

257
00:16:39,152 --> 00:16:39,712
Mm-hmm.

258
00:16:39,712 --> 00:16:40,514
Yeah, for sure.

259
00:16:40,514 --> 00:16:42,075
This isn't the only one.

260
00:16:42,075 --> 00:16:43,577
There's one other person with us.

261
00:16:43,577 --> 00:16:45,018
Let's get him taken care of first.

262
00:16:45,018 --> 00:16:51,782
And then I'll sling the gun around and start moving to try and put him on the back of one
ATV.

263
00:16:51,782 --> 00:16:54,572
Are both ATVs like close to each other?

264
00:16:54,572 --> 00:16:56,658
I assume they're probably like, you know, two or three paces.

265
00:16:56,658 --> 00:16:57,685
Okay, great.

266
00:16:58,306 --> 00:16:58,707
Yeah.

267
00:16:58,707 --> 00:16:59,807
Help, help!

268
00:17:00,060 --> 00:17:06,686
Yeah, he grabs for the legs and he is under his breath talking as he's looking at him.

269
00:17:06,686 --> 00:17:08,829
He's like, oh, I the stabilizers.

270
00:17:08,829 --> 00:17:10,351
Looks like some coagulants.

271
00:17:10,351 --> 00:17:12,413
Okay, I don't have any IV.

272
00:17:12,413 --> 00:17:18,778
As he's looking him over and he helps you lift and put him on the four wheeler.

273
00:17:19,233 --> 00:17:22,426
Did you see anything on your way over?

274
00:17:22,426 --> 00:17:23,380
Anything at all?

275
00:17:23,380 --> 00:17:25,420
No, I have not seen anything.

276
00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:33,837
and you have not been jumped or attacked and I like look them up and down you look fine I
need five minutes do we have five minutes

277
00:17:33,837 --> 00:17:35,009
Of course, yes.

278
00:17:35,009 --> 00:17:38,377
Alright, I look him dead in the face, like, I'm trusting you.

279
00:17:38,419 --> 00:17:40,734
And then I turn and sprint towards Ryan.

280
00:17:40,790 --> 00:17:46,350
Yeah, he he tries to sleep wait, what I my bike is parked at the old church.

281
00:17:46,350 --> 00:17:47,262
Have you seen it?

282
00:17:47,262 --> 00:17:49,578
Um, no, I've seen your tracks.

283
00:17:49,578 --> 00:17:52,839
We did not see the bike when we were at the church, right?

284
00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:55,081
He was, he's asking if you've seen the church.

285
00:17:55,081 --> 00:17:55,724
the church.

286
00:17:55,724 --> 00:17:58,466
yeah, we stumbled through there once upon a time.

287
00:17:58,466 --> 00:18:04,525
If you putting this much trust in me, let me drive him to there and then meet me there
with your friend.

288
00:18:04,525 --> 00:18:08,738
You know that is a lot of trust.

289
00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,843
This is a matter of logistics, he cannot make it much further.

290
00:18:11,843 --> 00:18:13,766
I'm offering you...

291
00:18:13,766 --> 00:18:16,495
the only variable that doesn't end in his death.

292
00:18:16,656 --> 00:18:18,288
Your friend will dissolve.

293
00:18:18,288 --> 00:18:24,601
He told you we got 10 minutes before the cellular cascade starts and you're like, can I
have five?

294
00:18:24,763 --> 00:18:28,520
Yeah, yeah, okay, you know, you got me there Jordan.

295
00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:29,492
You got me.

296
00:18:29,492 --> 00:18:35,332
I look him straight in the face and I'm like if he dies you die and I turn and run

297
00:18:36,465 --> 00:18:42,412
You run back along the boardwalk and Agent Sundusky, you're on the back of this
four-wheeler.

298
00:18:42,412 --> 00:18:51,442
You feel a hand holding you down as it slowly makes its way through the swamp, trying to
keep you from rocking.

299
00:18:51,442 --> 00:18:52,964
It seems like a caring hand.

300
00:18:52,964 --> 00:18:56,928
It is quite gruff and strong on your midsection.

301
00:18:57,172 --> 00:18:59,394
but you still are not able to rouse.

302
00:18:59,394 --> 00:19:04,938
And Agent Brone, as you're running, you do hear the four-wheeler start and you hear it
going in the direction of the ghost town.

303
00:19:04,938 --> 00:19:06,760
Some ease for you maybe.

304
00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:11,854
you get to the place where Ryan is and Ryan is not there.

305
00:19:11,854 --> 00:19:15,461
And I just yelled for him.

306
00:19:15,461 --> 00:19:20,905
Yeah, go ahead and give me a search or a survival.

307
00:19:20,905 --> 00:19:24,610
doesn't answer, I'm going to do some tracking.

308
00:19:24,610 --> 00:19:25,923
Let's do search.

309
00:19:25,923 --> 00:19:26,964
Search is a little bit better.

310
00:19:26,964 --> 00:19:28,409
We're looking for 54.

311
00:19:28,409 --> 00:19:31,101
I'm so glad that we learned our lesson from last time.

312
00:19:31,101 --> 00:19:34,983
We were like, man We had the most problems we've ever had because we split the party.

313
00:19:34,983 --> 00:19:41,817
Let's never do that again And then here we are Split more ways than we thought possible

314
00:19:42,025 --> 00:19:43,645
Yeah, but it was forced on us.

315
00:19:43,645 --> 00:19:45,905
wasn't a choice, which is kind of the cool part.

316
00:19:45,905 --> 00:19:47,325
I'm into that.

317
00:19:47,325 --> 00:19:49,945
We were looking for 54 and we got a 40.

318
00:19:50,025 --> 00:19:51,405
So that's success.

319
00:19:51,559 --> 00:20:04,596
You see that it looks like at some point Ryan stood up and waded into part of the water
based on the tracks, but beyond that, they are, it's unrecoverable.

320
00:20:04,596 --> 00:20:08,157
the tracks disappear under the messy swamp.

321
00:20:08,157 --> 00:20:14,965
um You could start doing canvassing and stuff, but you're going to lose all the time you
have.

322
00:20:14,965 --> 00:20:16,379
you have a choice in front of you.

323
00:20:16,379 --> 00:20:19,196
Do you find Ryan or do you save Del's life?

324
00:20:19,209 --> 00:20:25,548
okay, so does it look like Ryan walked into the water or was pulled into the water by
something?

325
00:20:25,548 --> 00:20:27,798
Based on your search role, looks like he walked.

326
00:20:27,798 --> 00:20:30,498
Why the fuck would he go anywhere?

327
00:20:30,498 --> 00:20:40,417
I will slowly back away from the water, shake my head, look at the ground, look up again,
and then head back towards the ATV.

328
00:20:40,417 --> 00:20:49,273
you get back to the ATVs, you see the tracks that Karis took and you are able to follow
them, follow them.

329
00:20:49,273 --> 00:20:53,715
You see the tracks that Karis took and you are able to follow them.

330
00:20:54,090 --> 00:20:58,857
I swear to God if Ryan went to send that fucking letter, I'm gonna lose it.

331
00:20:58,857 --> 00:21:02,102
Okay, yeah, we jump on the ATV.

332
00:21:02,102 --> 00:21:05,669
We, I, Barone, has split personality now apparently.

333
00:21:05,669 --> 00:21:09,785
Barone jumps on the ATV and heads off in the direction of the tracks.

334
00:21:09,785 --> 00:21:22,066
love the mental image of a dutiful USPS person trudging through like knee deep in the muck
with like never rain nor snow nor sleep nor like just like go into the mailbox.

335
00:21:22,066 --> 00:21:22,609
you say?

336
00:21:22,609 --> 00:21:24,414
I'm here for a jab.

337
00:21:24,414 --> 00:21:24,992
Thank you.

338
00:21:24,992 --> 00:21:28,997
You are following Karas's tracks and you get to the church.

339
00:21:28,997 --> 00:21:32,040
He waves you down with the ATV.

340
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,221
He's still on it.

341
00:21:33,221 --> 00:21:37,236
Del's form is still on the back and he says, hurry, come.

342
00:21:37,236 --> 00:21:39,549
Do you want me to take this one or do you want to switch?

343
00:21:39,549 --> 00:21:43,973
Well, I mean, there's no switching for some reason.

344
00:21:43,973 --> 00:21:47,497
Our other teammate seemed to have made himself a ghost somehow.

345
00:21:47,497 --> 00:21:50,941
So it's just us and I look a bit downtrodden.

346
00:21:50,941 --> 00:21:57,426
I'm free to help and then I'll turn off the ATV, pop off and start helping move down.

347
00:21:57,789 --> 00:22:05,558
Yeah, as you're doing that, you hear him muttering under his breath and he's, the damned
verdant path, damn them all.

348
00:22:05,558 --> 00:22:11,876
And he's helping you move and you get geared up and he says, all right, you follow me.

349
00:22:11,876 --> 00:22:14,069
I won't take it as fast as I usually do.

350
00:22:14,069 --> 00:22:16,082
Make sure your friend is held tight.

351
00:22:16,082 --> 00:22:25,768
Okay, sorry, I m My misunderstanding I thought we had gotten to the church already not we
just met um So we are at the church

352
00:22:25,768 --> 00:22:29,307
you back to the cabin, like his house, basically.

353
00:22:29,307 --> 00:22:32,743
going into the church, which is what I thought he meant to do.

354
00:22:32,743 --> 00:22:35,227
uh yeah, no, I'll stay close.

355
00:22:35,227 --> 00:22:38,129
And I rev that bad boy back up, ready to go.

356
00:22:38,129 --> 00:22:39,968
Okay, yeah, give me a drive roll.

357
00:22:40,479 --> 00:22:41,339
Drive roll.

358
00:22:41,339 --> 00:22:42,870
Yes, it's happening.

359
00:22:42,870 --> 00:22:44,790
All right, drive 70.

360
00:22:44,790 --> 00:22:46,110
We're looking for 70.

361
00:22:46,330 --> 00:22:48,170
We got a 35.

362
00:22:48,286 --> 00:22:48,798
Beautiful.

363
00:22:48,798 --> 00:22:52,803
He takes off through the darkness in the swamp.

364
00:22:52,803 --> 00:23:01,854
His headlights illuminate a world that seems like it's far away from you, but you see that
same world as you pass the same spots.

365
00:23:01,854 --> 00:23:05,819
There is a disassociative feeling.

366
00:23:06,068 --> 00:23:16,682
as you're going through here, you love driving ATVs, but you are in such a dire situation
that you feel your mind separating from your body.

367
00:23:16,682 --> 00:23:21,615
You can almost watch yourself driving through this swamp from the air.

368
00:23:21,615 --> 00:23:24,376
And it feels very surreal.

369
00:23:24,376 --> 00:23:25,997
Can you roll me a San?

370
00:23:26,317 --> 00:23:27,298
Yeah, definitely.

371
00:23:27,298 --> 00:23:31,129
We are currently at 48.

372
00:23:31,129 --> 00:23:33,540
I rolled a 54.

373
00:23:33,540 --> 00:23:34,391
Yep, 54.

374
00:23:34,391 --> 00:23:36,533
Okay, sorry, you're good.

375
00:23:36,533 --> 00:23:42,817
a fail, no, okay.

376
00:23:42,817 --> 00:23:49,031
take one San loss from helplessness as you feel completely lost in this situation.

377
00:23:49,031 --> 00:23:50,513
You're with your mark.

378
00:23:50,513 --> 00:23:54,516
Del is potentially dying and Agent Ryan is gone.

379
00:23:54,516 --> 00:23:56,809
What can you even control in this situation?

380
00:23:56,809 --> 00:23:59,433
Agent Ryan, you're laying in the swamp.

381
00:23:59,433 --> 00:24:09,506
Agent Barone has just run off to help Del, your old friend, your confidant, the one who
has saved your life on many occasions.

382
00:24:09,506 --> 00:24:10,257
What do you do?

383
00:24:10,257 --> 00:24:15,577
I quickly jump into action and run to the nearest post box.

384
00:24:15,577 --> 00:24:16,528
No, I'm just kidding.

385
00:24:16,528 --> 00:24:18,088
Just kidding.

386
00:24:19,829 --> 00:24:27,569
No, I am in pain, but I kind of over exaggerated a little bit what kind of pain I was in.

387
00:24:27,569 --> 00:24:29,569
And I can stand.

388
00:24:29,689 --> 00:24:31,389
So I do.

389
00:24:31,389 --> 00:24:34,825
And I wade into the water.

390
00:24:34,825 --> 00:24:45,476
and make my kind of like do a you and go down the shore a little bit and make my way back
to some sand and the beach.

391
00:24:45,476 --> 00:24:47,076
go ahead.

392
00:24:47,274 --> 00:24:49,916
Yeah, you're pushing through the swampy area.

393
00:24:49,916 --> 00:24:57,145
You find a clearing in the swamp that is mostly made of mud and a little bit of sand and
clay.

394
00:24:57,145 --> 00:25:03,833
It is surrounded by reeds, but it takes you a good 15 minutes to get that far out there.

395
00:25:03,924 --> 00:25:06,185
Yeah.

396
00:25:06,846 --> 00:25:17,959
I pull out a piece of paper from my coat pocket and I have written down some notes that I
found in Arthur Finch's notes of some symbols.

397
00:25:17,959 --> 00:25:26,136
And I quickly find a stick and start to surround myself in these symbols by drawing them
in the sand around me.

398
00:25:26,136 --> 00:25:30,369
These symbols have no geometric consistency.

399
00:25:30,369 --> 00:25:39,276
It's like a script that was given to an insane person by the most intelligent being beyond
our understanding.

400
00:25:39,276 --> 00:25:50,565
You have no way to read these symbols as you scroll them around, but there is a sense of
comfort and clarity as you are starting to.

401
00:25:50,703 --> 00:26:03,180
scribe these non-geometric strange symbols in the mud, you start to get into a rhythm of
it and as you're doing it the symbols activate that chant in your mind that you were

402
00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:10,378
hearing in the swamp and you can hear it echoing through your subconscious coming into
your conscious thought.

403
00:26:10,378 --> 00:26:11,009
uh

404
00:26:11,009 --> 00:26:13,296
You are all done scratching the symbols, what do do?

405
00:26:13,296 --> 00:26:41,079
Shimbol shakali shilapakali hata kivama yakni shito nanapesa lalusa falaya shilapikani
hata kili chocho pa yakni yakoli yakni shimbol shakali shilapakali

406
00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:51,590
Ha-ta-ki-vam-ah-ha-kni-chi-to-na-na-pa-sa-la-lu-sa-fa-la-ya-shi-la-pa-kani-ya.

407
00:26:51,602 --> 00:26:53,250
you start to chant.

408
00:26:53,250 --> 00:26:55,743
Can you roll me your D10?

409
00:26:55,743 --> 00:26:56,543
One.

410
00:26:57,035 --> 00:26:58,016
my God.

411
00:26:58,016 --> 00:27:13,511
You start to chant and your intelligence and familiarity with Finch's symbols that he got
from his star traveler, his space angel are so powerful and accurate that you only chant

412
00:27:13,511 --> 00:27:17,739
for a minute until you start to feel an energy.

413
00:27:17,739 --> 00:27:28,695
touch the air around you and you feel your stomach sink as you realize you have succeeded
in the chant in a very, very quick amount of time.

414
00:27:28,695 --> 00:27:30,048
How much willpower do you have?

415
00:27:30,048 --> 00:27:32,508
That's power, yes?

416
00:27:33,388 --> 00:27:37,562
Oh, I have current 12.

417
00:27:37,615 --> 00:27:52,033
Okay, to continue and finish the last bit of the chant as you're feeling that energy you
think it could consume you, you are going to have to burn nine willpower to finish.

418
00:27:52,033 --> 00:27:53,105
Do you do it?

419
00:27:53,105 --> 00:27:55,362
Yes, I do.

420
00:27:55,632 --> 00:27:57,793
You surrender everything.

421
00:27:57,793 --> 00:28:06,121
You use your mind, a spear of focus and open yourself up entirely as this chant has gone
on.

422
00:28:06,121 --> 00:28:14,679
And the symbols beside you seemingly ignite, not in fire, but they have a strange purplish
glow to them.

423
00:28:14,679 --> 00:28:17,281
And the night is silent already.

424
00:28:17,281 --> 00:28:20,544
The chattering of the insects and frogs have long ceased.

425
00:28:20,544 --> 00:28:25,207
And from the blackness above you, you see three lights descending.

426
00:28:25,207 --> 00:28:33,351
They were not lights that a human would know, but shapes of a geometry that has no place
in this world.

427
00:28:33,518 --> 00:28:39,790
They fell from the heavens without any sound and they weren't in haste either.

428
00:28:39,790 --> 00:28:50,136
It was slow as they descended and they bled this strange purple fire onto the dark water
and it reflected off the trees and oaks around you.

429
00:28:50,136 --> 00:28:53,074
The color looked like a deep and ancient bruise.

430
00:28:53,074 --> 00:29:01,745
One of the shapes left the other two and drifted over the water toward the place where you
are sitting on the shore.

431
00:29:01,907 --> 00:29:06,265
Is this similar to what we saw that night when we were keeping watch?

432
00:29:07,149 --> 00:29:07,715
No.

433
00:29:07,715 --> 00:29:08,314
OK.

434
00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:09,296
completely different.

435
00:29:09,296 --> 00:29:10,196
yeah.

436
00:29:10,957 --> 00:29:14,381
And so the shape that left the others has made no sound.

437
00:29:14,381 --> 00:29:25,271
There's only a black seam in the world where a little bit of purple light bleeds through
and the wound, the violet wound starts to pulse almost like a heart.

438
00:29:25,271 --> 00:29:26,932
And then it came.

439
00:29:27,014 --> 00:29:36,675
It didn't walk, but it was born out of the humid air, a thing of pink meat and shell and
wings that didn't even beat with a sound.

440
00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:38,557
And the head came through.

441
00:29:38,557 --> 00:29:46,402
It looked like a knot of feelers and it pulled one claw into your world, almost like it
was being birthed.

442
00:29:46,402 --> 00:29:52,908
and slipped all the way through and that purple light disappeared while the other two
remained behind it.

443
00:29:52,908 --> 00:29:56,772
In front of you, it's hard to describe.

444
00:29:56,772 --> 00:30:04,397
It was a wet chrysalis, a peeled muscle, a dark glistening shell, a thing born into...

445
00:30:04,470 --> 00:30:08,893
world in a disgusting, maybe even satanic way.

446
00:30:08,893 --> 00:30:18,451
Its body was a promise of two distinct horrors, the hard, unfeeling carapace, a deep sea
insect almost, and then a soft world.

447
00:30:18,451 --> 00:30:25,061
It has like a pink and purple tinge to it that's been like a body turned inside out.

448
00:30:25,061 --> 00:30:29,634
And where the shell meets the flesh, there's no clean seam,

449
00:30:29,634 --> 00:30:33,397
only a raw and weeping line that looks like a badly stitched wound.

450
00:30:33,397 --> 00:30:37,220
And it wore those two insides on its front and back.

451
00:30:37,220 --> 00:30:47,809
And on the back, there were two membranous wings veined with dark, almost black blood and
a sticky fluid felt like it was covering the entire thing.

452
00:30:47,809 --> 00:30:50,625
You look into the face, you think of this thing.

453
00:30:50,625 --> 00:30:54,506
and its head looks like a crown of pale, thinking meat.

454
00:30:54,506 --> 00:31:00,929
It's like a beautiful but also obscene looking flower that pulses with soft and internal
light.

455
00:31:00,929 --> 00:31:10,073
It wasn't a solid mass, it just looked like a knot of thick cerebral tendrils wrapped
around and coiled almost like snakes that have become lovers.

456
00:31:10,073 --> 00:31:12,914
And it started to writhe slowly.

457
00:31:13,486 --> 00:31:21,595
and it unspooled many of its appendages that had no symmetry to them and it floated in
front of you.

458
00:31:21,595 --> 00:31:32,742
This is a new gospel of flesh, a body that looked like both a tomb and something that came
from a womb and it was just born in front of you and it feels hungry.

459
00:31:32,742 --> 00:31:36,880
Thank you because I, my brain cannot comprehend.

460
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:43,975
yeah Nick pops into mid-journey and he's like disgusting gore trash enter like oh okay
yeah

461
00:31:43,975 --> 00:31:47,090
Disgusting, but also beautiful.

462
00:31:47,090 --> 00:31:48,843
It floats in front of you.

463
00:31:48,843 --> 00:31:55,133
You hear an insect like buzz coming from inside of your mind as your brain starts to
shake.

464
00:31:55,133 --> 00:31:58,219
Go ahead and roll me your pow times five.

465
00:31:58,219 --> 00:32:00,353
And then also we'll need a sanity roll.

466
00:32:00,353 --> 00:32:03,113
Okay, I'm looking for 80 for pow.

467
00:32:03,273 --> 00:32:05,573
I've got 11.

468
00:32:05,973 --> 00:32:07,253
Ah ha ha.

469
00:32:08,153 --> 00:32:10,173
And I'm sorry, sanity.

470
00:32:10,633 --> 00:32:12,833
Looking for 64.

471
00:32:13,293 --> 00:32:15,613
And I got 18.

472
00:32:15,911 --> 00:32:24,480
Okay, you still lose one San from the unnatural at seeing this and you're able to maintain
power or maintain consciousness through your willpower.

473
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:33,379
And the buzzing crescendos, it feels like it's trying to communicate with you, but you
have no means of communication with this thing.

474
00:32:33,379 --> 00:32:36,499
And just as you're doing that, can you also roll the alertness?

475
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:43,751
Yes, I am looking for 45 and I got 42.

476
00:32:43,751 --> 00:32:44,445
OK, great.

477
00:32:44,445 --> 00:32:46,855
From the side, you see.

478
00:32:46,949 --> 00:32:52,967
a swamp creature emerging from the grass coming almost in worship.

479
00:32:52,967 --> 00:32:58,723
It is supplicated as it crawls forward with its arms above its head.

480
00:32:58,723 --> 00:33:02,150
It is in a has a deep reverence for this thing.

481
00:33:02,150 --> 00:33:10,254
It is drooling from the mouth and humming that same chant you just got done enunciating
under its breath.

482
00:33:10,330 --> 00:33:16,733
as it marches forward toward it and doesn't even pay you any mind.

483
00:33:16,733 --> 00:33:22,618
It is singularly focused on this fleshy disgusting carapace in front of you.

484
00:33:22,618 --> 00:33:23,210
What do do?

485
00:33:23,210 --> 00:33:26,541
Um, hmm, what do I do?

486
00:33:26,541 --> 00:33:38,472
I think I am absolutely horrified and terrified, but also extremely curious, too.

487
00:33:38,472 --> 00:33:50,683
I'm almost just like the swamp creature, like in awe and worshiping this thing, but also
everything in my bones is telling me to revolt and run away from this thing.

488
00:33:50,683 --> 00:33:54,595
Um, but it's almost like I'm, I'm paralyzed in its presence.

489
00:33:54,595 --> 00:34:00,177
Like I can't, I have no more free will to do what my body is telling me to do.

490
00:34:00,177 --> 00:34:10,738
I'm just going off of like the worship part of it and wanting to stay and see this thing
through whatever this thing may be.

491
00:34:11,179 --> 00:34:17,175
So I kind of just like stand almost in like a brother ship with this swamp creature.

492
00:34:17,175 --> 00:34:19,498
you feel the reverence.

493
00:34:19,498 --> 00:34:27,427
Maybe you see this swamp creature as it's supplicated, you subconsciously start
supplicating yourself a little bit as well.

494
00:34:27,427 --> 00:34:32,574
You get a little lower in front of this thing and the swamp creature gets closer.

495
00:34:32,574 --> 00:34:34,906
The thing in front of you,

496
00:34:35,341 --> 00:34:37,435
barely even acknowledges it.

497
00:34:37,435 --> 00:34:44,664
is singularly focused on you, but as the swamp creature gets very close to it, almost
within touch,

498
00:34:44,841 --> 00:34:46,202
It doesn't simply attack.

499
00:34:46,202 --> 00:34:50,323
It's almost like a violent intimate surgery.

500
00:34:50,323 --> 00:35:01,729
With a sound like the snapping of wet celery, you see a claw plunge into the creature's
back and lift it off of the ground, not to kill, but to unmake it.

501
00:35:01,729 --> 00:35:11,954
And it finds the spine as if it was its lover being able to run its fingers down its back
and it splits it at the spine.

502
00:35:12,597 --> 00:35:19,893
and a single, ecstatic twist in the thing's neck to pelvis and it arches its back.

503
00:35:19,893 --> 00:35:30,783
It screams a little whisper and the creature's back is parted into a curtain of flesh,
revealing glistening, pearlescent bone and vertebrae.

504
00:35:30,783 --> 00:35:43,032
And with no pause from the writhing, a cerebral knot from this space creature's head, a
single thick tendril detaches itself and slips into the back of the head of the swamp

505
00:35:43,032 --> 00:35:43,885
creature.

506
00:35:43,885 --> 00:35:51,610
the swamp creature freezes for an instant, but then starts pulsating almost like a
marionette with a life of its own.

507
00:35:52,171 --> 00:35:57,550
it seems like the tendril has found something in this thing's brain and has communed with
it.

508
00:35:57,550 --> 00:36:05,204
a moment later, you hear from its mouth a almost serpentine croaking hello.

509
00:36:05,204 --> 00:36:08,663
and we will cut to our other friends.

510
00:36:09,117 --> 00:36:10,780
Impeccable timing.

511
00:36:10,943 --> 00:36:13,455
Okay.

512
00:36:13,455 --> 00:36:16,594
gospel of flesh, that's a fuckin' line right there.

513
00:36:17,114 --> 00:36:20,403
am so glad I'm not there and I'm just with Del bleeding out on a table.

514
00:36:20,403 --> 00:36:21,536
Much preferred.

515
00:36:21,536 --> 00:36:22,218
Yeah.

516
00:36:22,218 --> 00:36:24,673
I enjoy my simple life, dying.

517
00:36:24,673 --> 00:36:27,286
You're following the four wheeler in front of you.

518
00:36:27,286 --> 00:36:32,409
Karas is taking it slow and suddenly the trail ends.

519
00:36:32,409 --> 00:36:35,349
There's no grand arrival, no sense of destination.

520
00:36:35,349 --> 00:36:42,919
The swamp simply gives up and is no longer around you and the ground feels solid and you
find your, ahead, yeah.

521
00:36:42,919 --> 00:36:48,139
way, so sorry, along the way, knowing that there's no way to leave breadcrumbs.

522
00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:57,139
Is there any way I could like every once in a while do kind of a hard swerve to leave like
a divot to form some type of path like, hey man, I don't know where Ryan is.

523
00:36:57,139 --> 00:36:58,839
I don't know what Ryan's doing.

524
00:36:58,839 --> 00:37:07,019
If we can't tell Ryan where we're going, if I could leave like some way that's apparent to
somebody who doesn't have tracking skills, like, oh, very clearly, like something went

525
00:37:07,019 --> 00:37:08,119
this way.

526
00:37:08,419 --> 00:37:09,279
Awesome.

527
00:37:09,419 --> 00:37:10,231
That's right.

528
00:37:10,231 --> 00:37:13,311
your earlier drive roll, that's no problem too.

529
00:37:13,460 --> 00:37:24,460
every once in a while you do have a little swerve, you even maybe downshift and then flip
some mud up to almost create like a little tire hole and spray some of the mud around as

530
00:37:24,460 --> 00:37:25,320
well.

531
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:31,020
And when you get to this cabin, it's just a simple cabin.

532
00:37:31,020 --> 00:37:32,335
Like you...

533
00:37:32,651 --> 00:37:36,683
Might've seen it in a magazine, a old photograph, right?

534
00:37:36,683 --> 00:37:37,745
The wood is a little faded.

535
00:37:37,745 --> 00:37:41,359
It's a non-committal gray as your headlights hit it.

536
00:37:41,359 --> 00:37:46,343
There's a single stone chimney that rises from the roof, but no smoke is coming out.

537
00:37:46,343 --> 00:37:49,986
It's hard to tell anyone lives here from the outside.

538
00:37:49,986 --> 00:37:51,770
And you stop.

539
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,323
What do you do at first?

540
00:37:53,323 --> 00:38:00,747
Park the ATV, turn it off and my first concern is to check on Delta to make sure he's made
it through this ride and to be there to help.

541
00:38:00,747 --> 00:38:06,450
My job is mishelper right now, um so I get off and head straight to him.

542
00:38:06,858 --> 00:38:11,199
Yeah, you get off, see him, his chest rising and falling.

543
00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:14,801
It's bated breath, it's not a calm breathing.

544
00:38:14,801 --> 00:38:17,322
You can tell he's still in significant pain.

545
00:38:17,322 --> 00:38:24,684
And as you're pulling him off, the porcelight comes on as Khorras has started to open the
door for you.

546
00:38:24,684 --> 00:38:29,506
And when he opens the door, a small orange cat runs out.

547
00:38:29,643 --> 00:38:40,203
from under, or sorry, a small orange cat runs through the doorway under his legs and jumps
onto a chair that's on the porch and you get Dell up.

548
00:38:40,203 --> 00:38:41,883
Are you going straight in?

549
00:38:42,260 --> 00:38:54,490
hang on tell hang on yeah i mean i'll do a cursory glance around to see if anything stands
out i guess my head cannon for karas's cabin is not a clean perfectly manicured

550
00:38:54,490 --> 00:39:02,919
picturesque area so this is this is interesting i think i'll just take a quick glance but
no i got it we got to get him worked on we time is ticking

551
00:39:03,103 --> 00:39:05,606
you find a couch right inside the door.

552
00:39:05,606 --> 00:39:15,956
You get inside, it smells a little damp, but it's like almost an academic damp, like you
walked into a library in a wet climate.

553
00:39:15,956 --> 00:39:18,123
It's a single room when you first enter.

554
00:39:18,123 --> 00:39:20,240
It has a couch, a small table.

555
00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:26,663
There's a record player and it looks like there's some glasses with melted ice by the
record player.

556
00:39:26,663 --> 00:39:31,746
The turntable has a old jazz album just sitting right next to it.

557
00:39:31,746 --> 00:39:35,838
And you set Dell down and look at him and he's still breathing.

558
00:39:35,838 --> 00:39:37,198
He looks in pain.

559
00:39:37,198 --> 00:39:40,430
His face is a mask of tension.

560
00:39:40,430 --> 00:39:43,662
Like he's holding something back and gritting through it.

561
00:39:43,662 --> 00:39:45,603
Dell, can you give me another con save?

562
00:39:45,603 --> 00:39:48,164
Dell, can you give me a con roll times five?

563
00:39:48,634 --> 00:39:50,237
I can sure try.

564
00:39:50,237 --> 00:39:52,924
Nope, I was 60 looking for a 55.

565
00:39:53,180 --> 00:39:59,866
Okay, Keras comes over and says, well, here, I will get him something for the pain.

566
00:39:59,866 --> 00:40:05,150
We need to take the bandage off so I can see how much he's been infected.

567
00:40:05,150 --> 00:40:07,443
Do you mind doing that while I get something?

568
00:40:07,443 --> 00:40:08,384
He's talking to you, Brun.

569
00:40:08,384 --> 00:40:08,876
Sorry.

570
00:40:08,876 --> 00:40:09,632
Yeah.

571
00:40:09,632 --> 00:40:10,196
sorry.

572
00:40:10,196 --> 00:40:12,552
yeah, yeah, no yes for sure.

573
00:40:12,819 --> 00:40:24,141
Okay, he leaves the front, he goes outside, strangely, you hear him walking away and go
ahead and give me either Dex or First Aid to cut the bandage off.

574
00:40:24,738 --> 00:40:26,178
Dex or first aid?

575
00:40:26,178 --> 00:40:27,918
It's probably, it's going to be dex.

576
00:40:27,918 --> 00:40:29,258
Yeah, my dex is 70.

577
00:40:29,258 --> 00:40:30,849
Looking for under 70.

578
00:40:30,849 --> 00:40:32,909
We got a 72.

579
00:40:32,909 --> 00:40:33,789
We got a 72.

580
00:40:33,789 --> 00:40:34,634
We failed.

581
00:40:34,634 --> 00:40:34,917
a

582
00:40:34,917 --> 00:40:40,928
Yeah, you are cutting through, you don't slip or anything, but it is quite painful to him.

583
00:40:40,928 --> 00:40:51,808
He wriggles under your touch and tries to pull away from it as much as he can, but he's in
a state that he can barely move, so it doesn't get in your way too much.

584
00:40:51,808 --> 00:41:01,688
And you get it off and you see that the wound in the light of the cabin, there is
something spreading from really close to his heart.

585
00:41:02,068 --> 00:41:04,023
There is small,

586
00:41:04,023 --> 00:41:15,503
black and purple tendrils in his veins and his blood isn't gushing out anymore but
whatever he's infected with is taking root.

587
00:41:15,503 --> 00:41:18,429
Alright, so clearly Karas knows what's going on.

588
00:41:18,429 --> 00:41:19,422
Doctor?

589
00:41:19,422 --> 00:41:19,933
Doctor?

590
00:41:19,933 --> 00:41:20,515
Doctor?

591
00:41:20,515 --> 00:41:24,117
He comes in with that strange hunch through the door as fast as he can.

592
00:41:24,117 --> 00:41:27,740
He's not much of a runner and he has a few syringes.

593
00:41:27,740 --> 00:41:33,764
He takes a nondescript bottle, fills it up and he says, it's just morphine.

594
00:41:33,764 --> 00:41:37,642
And he puts it close to the wound and injects him.

595
00:41:37,642 --> 00:41:43,157
Del, you feel nothing but bliss as this has entered your bloodstream.

596
00:41:43,157 --> 00:41:45,409
You don't feel the pain anymore.

597
00:41:45,409 --> 00:41:47,141
You feel Del relax.

598
00:41:47,141 --> 00:41:53,599
And he says, you will need to check his heart rate from time to time because I'm not an
anesthesiologist.

599
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:55,231
So please keep an eye on him.

600
00:41:55,231 --> 00:41:57,793
And he starts to inspect the wound.

601
00:41:57,793 --> 00:42:00,295
And now I get to use his character sheet.

602
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:01,180
Alright.

603
00:42:01,180 --> 00:42:02,102
critical success.

604
00:42:02,102 --> 00:42:13,391
He looks at the wound very carefully and in fact he pulls out some glasses from a pocket
in his utility shirt, puts them on and he starts tracing some of the tendrils.

605
00:42:13,391 --> 00:42:23,860
Then he feels where Del's heart is exactly and he looks at you grimly and he says, well, I
was hoping we could stop this but I don't think we can.

606
00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:25,267
I think he's...

607
00:42:25,267 --> 00:42:29,325
gonna die unless we do something a little unorthodox.

608
00:42:29,339 --> 00:42:32,563
I feel like my entire day has been a bit unorthodox.

609
00:42:32,563 --> 00:42:34,777
I'm pretty sure I'm okay with that.

610
00:42:34,777 --> 00:42:36,661
I know you are, but who would he be?

611
00:42:36,661 --> 00:42:37,272
We...

612
00:42:37,272 --> 00:42:38,905
And he steps backwards.

613
00:42:38,905 --> 00:42:41,129
He's like, can you steal yourself for a second?

614
00:42:41,129 --> 00:42:42,630
have something to tell you.

615
00:42:42,703 --> 00:42:43,663
yep.

616
00:42:43,685 --> 00:42:44,729
Okay, we're there.

617
00:42:44,729 --> 00:42:56,182
I was once infected with a similar thing, not as um quite as abstract and dirty as what is
in his body, but I found way to suppress it and manage it.

618
00:42:56,182 --> 00:42:57,905
And he pulls up his shirt,

619
00:42:57,905 --> 00:43:02,388
and you see that his skin is strangely colored.

620
00:43:02,388 --> 00:43:13,629
It's almost like it's bruised with yellows, blues, but it's almost in a spiral Anybody who
is exposed to this will have a craving for different metals.

621
00:43:13,629 --> 00:43:15,605
He will have to live his life.

622
00:43:15,605 --> 00:43:21,522
seeking out and consuming heavy metals to feed what's inside of him.

623
00:43:21,522 --> 00:43:22,414
Interesting.

624
00:43:22,414 --> 00:43:23,777
Um, hmm.

625
00:43:23,777 --> 00:43:29,719
So what is inside of him exactly, specifically him and nobody else?

626
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:35,942
I don't know why you're here and who you are and why you're so armed, but my guess is you
were looking for something in the swamp.

627
00:43:35,942 --> 00:43:44,687
The cultures, as you might call them there, are extra-dimensional and definitely
extra-planetary, but I think extra-dimensional.

628
00:43:44,687 --> 00:43:52,505
They seem like fungus on first glance, but they're actually a parasitic metal themselves
from a different planet.

629
00:43:52,505 --> 00:43:58,171
As far as I have been able to discover and go ahead and roll your sanity

630
00:43:58,399 --> 00:43:59,279
sanity.

631
00:43:59,279 --> 00:44:03,442
Sure, looking for a 47 now and a 32 success.

632
00:44:03,442 --> 00:44:04,474
Great, you don't lose any.

633
00:44:04,474 --> 00:44:11,321
You're able to hold it together with this information that you've been infected with the
same thing that Del has running through his body.

634
00:44:11,321 --> 00:44:14,624
And he says, metal will feed on other metals.

635
00:44:14,624 --> 00:44:26,654
So you have to feed it just enough for the rest of your life, but it will give you, it'll
give you visions and make you have.

636
00:44:27,125 --> 00:44:32,848
strange, I guess, proclivities throughout your life going forward.

637
00:44:32,848 --> 00:44:45,037
I don't know exactly what this has done to me fully, but I do have to consume lead from
time to time and mercury, but also I hear things in the night mostly.

638
00:44:45,534 --> 00:44:48,397
and he kinda like twitches at the mention of it.

639
00:44:48,397 --> 00:44:49,958
But that's beside the point.

640
00:44:49,958 --> 00:44:53,942
If your friend would want this, you have to make a decision for him.

641
00:44:53,942 --> 00:44:59,258
We can end this quickly or we can, I can try the procedure.

642
00:44:59,258 --> 00:45:00,910
What do you think he would want?

643
00:45:00,910 --> 00:45:02,431
Yeah, sure.

644
00:45:02,811 --> 00:45:03,751
Let me ask him.

645
00:45:03,751 --> 00:45:08,911
Hey, Del, would you rather die or have to eat some metal and do a little bit of acid once
in a while?

646
00:45:08,911 --> 00:45:10,071
Oh, you're good with that?

647
00:45:10,071 --> 00:45:10,891
No, he's fine.

648
00:45:10,891 --> 00:45:11,791
Yeah.

649
00:45:11,791 --> 00:45:12,651
Yes.

650
00:45:12,651 --> 00:45:14,411
Also, let's put a pin in that.

651
00:45:14,511 --> 00:45:18,531
A couple questions since I'm making this decision for him.

652
00:45:18,651 --> 00:45:20,745
But yes, please, please just help him.

653
00:45:20,745 --> 00:45:27,616
Of course, um What's going through your mind as he's collecting what he needs?

654
00:45:27,668 --> 00:45:33,872
I think the first is just a slight wave of, at least there's something in like slight
relief.

655
00:45:33,872 --> 00:45:34,533
Not really.

656
00:45:34,533 --> 00:45:41,777
It's still like angsty AF, like right on the edge, but maybe just at least, hey, it's not
all lost.

657
00:45:41,777 --> 00:45:46,561
There's a path forward and a bit of curiosity without even knowing it or meaning to.

658
00:45:46,561 --> 00:45:52,938
I've learned a bit more about why I will forever swallow quarters and nickels and dimes
and stuff.

659
00:45:52,938 --> 00:45:57,100
Yeah, I think that's probably the gist of where I'm at.

660
00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:00,631
A little bit of curiosity with a little bit of relief and a lot of tension.

661
00:46:00,631 --> 00:46:05,493
He comes back with an armful and a small bag of things.

662
00:46:05,493 --> 00:46:08,874
There's a small scalpel in his hand as well.

663
00:46:08,874 --> 00:46:11,576
And he sets it down by Dell's feet.

664
00:46:11,576 --> 00:46:13,366
And he says, here, can you take this?

665
00:46:13,366 --> 00:46:14,477
And he gives you the scalpel.

666
00:46:14,477 --> 00:46:17,799
When I ask for it, please give it to me quickly and carefully.

667
00:46:17,799 --> 00:46:20,509
And he gets to work on Dell.

668
00:46:20,509 --> 00:46:22,671
He is giving him injections.

669
00:46:22,671 --> 00:46:31,395
You see him pull out what has to be a vial of mercury and he opens Del's throat and sticks
it down with a finger and holds it there.

670
00:46:31,395 --> 00:46:43,049
You hear Del choking a little bit until Del swallows and he pulls out a large supply of
some sort of pill and sets it down and then takes...

671
00:46:43,049 --> 00:46:51,605
bunch of capsules and starts to put them in water or saline something and shake them
really hard together.

672
00:46:51,605 --> 00:46:56,549
And he fills up a syringe with the largest amount you've ever seen in a shot.

673
00:46:56,549 --> 00:47:01,213
Like it is, you know, it's pushing probably 200 milliliters.

674
00:47:01,213 --> 00:47:08,058
And he says, this is going to be quite painful for your friend even with the morphine that
I gave him earlier.

675
00:47:08,441 --> 00:47:09,885
do you mind holding him?

676
00:47:09,885 --> 00:47:10,785
Yeah, sure.

677
00:47:10,785 --> 00:47:24,732
I look around is there a blocks a box of like The gloves the not nitrile is a nitrile
Whatever the the medical yeah that the medical gloves are I don't want to infect more if I

678
00:47:24,732 --> 00:47:27,940
don't have to I think I'm gonna slap this on really quick and then hold them down

679
00:47:27,940 --> 00:47:31,384
Yeah, you have your med kit which has a pair still.

680
00:47:31,384 --> 00:47:41,318
So, and you've splayed that open while you were thinking through things and you put the
gloves on and you're ready and you hold him down maybe by his shoulders or his midsection.

681
00:47:41,318 --> 00:47:44,451
Yeah, prob-probably, probably his shoulders and around.

682
00:47:44,451 --> 00:47:46,782
Ooh, where's the most force gonna come from?

683
00:47:46,782 --> 00:47:47,793
Probably his shoulders.

684
00:47:47,793 --> 00:47:48,364
Yeah.

685
00:47:48,364 --> 00:47:49,214
Hang on there, Del.

686
00:47:49,214 --> 00:47:52,096
It's-it's gonna hurt a bit, but we'll be okay.

687
00:47:52,309 --> 00:47:53,418
Roll your athletics.

688
00:47:53,418 --> 00:47:55,138
Athletics is 30.

689
00:47:55,378 --> 00:47:58,119
We got a 74, so a failure.

690
00:47:58,119 --> 00:48:01,167
Okay, Dell, roll your athletics as well.

691
00:48:01,167 --> 00:48:02,434
That's a success.

692
00:48:02,434 --> 00:48:03,047
Okay.

693
00:48:03,047 --> 00:48:11,570
the needle plunges directly through del sternum into his heart and you see that plunger
going down slowly.

694
00:48:11,570 --> 00:48:13,282
Like he doesn't want to overdo it.

695
00:48:13,282 --> 00:48:18,020
He's pushing this medicine into his heart with.

696
00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:30,490
extreme, extreme care and it is making Del wriggle in pain and he breaks loose from you
and knocks the syringe when it's halfway through out.

697
00:48:30,490 --> 00:48:33,152
Karras grabs for it and pulls it.

698
00:48:33,152 --> 00:48:34,572
He's gonna have to make a luck roll.

699
00:48:34,572 --> 00:48:44,781
ah He succeeds and is able to grab the needle and immediately jabs it right back in and
just finishes it really quickly.

700
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,020
Del make another con.

701
00:48:46,020 --> 00:48:46,766
Roll.

702
00:48:46,766 --> 00:48:47,581
Times five.

703
00:48:47,581 --> 00:48:47,896
Yeah, 20.

704
00:48:47,896 --> 00:48:49,317
That's a success.

705
00:48:49,317 --> 00:48:57,875
All right, Del gasps and you feel that wriggling turn into just a extreme tension as he
bites down.

706
00:48:57,875 --> 00:48:59,717
You see blood coming out of his mouth.

707
00:48:59,717 --> 00:49:06,886
He's biting his cheek or his tongue or something, but it seems like he is now fighting,
but he is still not able to speak.

708
00:49:06,886 --> 00:49:12,531
Karas breathes a sigh of relief and he's like, please give me the scalpel now.

709
00:49:12,941 --> 00:49:14,987
Yeah, so I'm sorry, I thought I had him.

710
00:49:14,987 --> 00:49:18,316
And I'll turn and grab the scalpel and put it right in his hands.

711
00:49:18,742 --> 00:49:27,154
He goes around where the bite is and finds the biggest vein of black and purplish tendrils
going through his skin.

712
00:49:27,154 --> 00:49:32,886
And he makes a long, just a jagged, jagged cut.

713
00:49:32,886 --> 00:49:38,899
and takes some gauze and shoves it on the cut to try to seep it out of him.

714
00:49:38,899 --> 00:49:45,354
It's like, think we can get some of it out and it'll hopefully, what I've given him will
balance his system.

715
00:49:45,354 --> 00:49:52,599
If he only had a small infection, we would just need the injection and he would be cured
from of it, but this is too close to the heart.

716
00:49:52,599 --> 00:49:54,801
I think it's taken root, but we can pray.

717
00:49:54,801 --> 00:49:58,684
And he pushes hard on it and he's holding it there briefly.

718
00:49:58,866 --> 00:49:59,893
deeply.

719
00:49:59,893 --> 00:50:11,254
mean, I don't pray, but I do work hard and I'll grab them the next chunk of gauze and prep
it and set it next to him to swap out as we're pulling out, you know, a bit after bit, or

720
00:50:11,254 --> 00:50:17,019
if he needs to, to dispose of what needs to dispose and make sure everything's around him
that he needs around him.

721
00:50:17,291 --> 00:50:22,435
You clean up a little bit and you try to stay busy, it sounds like, right?

722
00:50:22,435 --> 00:50:26,159
As you're doing, you see the pills that he grabbed and did.

723
00:50:26,159 --> 00:50:31,304
It looks like uh a sodium bicarbonate is what he injected into him.

724
00:50:31,304 --> 00:50:32,646
You mentally note that.

725
00:50:32,646 --> 00:50:37,472
And Dell starts to breathe easy as this pain has subsided.

726
00:50:37,524 --> 00:50:42,143
as you're watching him seep this up and staying busy what's on your mind?

727
00:50:42,143 --> 00:50:46,387
Now I think it's another bit of a wave of relief.

728
00:50:46,387 --> 00:50:51,753
We're through the hard part, but there's definitely a long way to go and we're not out of
danger yet.

729
00:50:51,753 --> 00:50:56,998
I think now is when I start taking catalog of what's around and where we are.

730
00:50:56,998 --> 00:51:04,267
So in my mind, you know, Kuros person was this big dangerous beast of a mad scientist with

731
00:51:04,267 --> 00:51:17,206
Monocles and 13 arms doing experiments and craziness and he's this you know half bent over
Crippled old guy who has now just saved my friend, but I still don't think That he I could

732
00:51:17,206 --> 00:51:19,548
just write him off as friends not foe.

733
00:51:19,548 --> 00:51:32,488
So I think now is is when I start taking note of of everything from the exact color of the
cats to what's around to any weapons that might be nearby to you know his his

734
00:51:32,488 --> 00:51:35,221
combat abilities to anything I can.

735
00:51:35,221 --> 00:51:41,400
Yeah, you go ahead and enroll me search for that and then enjoy it.

736
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:41,832
Yeah.

737
00:51:41,832 --> 00:51:43,645
We're looking for search 54.

738
00:51:43,645 --> 00:51:45,435
ah

739
00:51:45,435 --> 00:51:48,611
a 37 out of 54, so success.

740
00:51:48,611 --> 00:51:56,629
Great, you look around and there is a study and you can see that it opens up to a small
kitchen in the back of the cabin.

741
00:51:56,629 --> 00:51:59,892
The study is like this little alcove off of the living room.

742
00:51:59,892 --> 00:52:03,925
And the study has just a desk that's clean with a stack of papers.

743
00:52:03,925 --> 00:52:06,458
The bookshelf looks interesting as well.

744
00:52:06,458 --> 00:52:11,403
You don't necessarily see full titles from where you are unless you're kind of pacing
around looking.

745
00:52:11,403 --> 00:52:14,863
And you also see that

746
00:52:14,863 --> 00:52:18,365
There are lines of different types of shoes by the door.

747
00:52:18,365 --> 00:52:24,099
Most of them look a little muddy and there are, there's just one size.

748
00:52:24,099 --> 00:52:26,300
So you know that it might just be him.

749
00:52:26,300 --> 00:52:35,564
The cat is orange and has now come back into the cabin and is sitting in the doorway of
the kitchenette looking at you as you work.

750
00:52:35,564 --> 00:52:40,018
Any specific thing you would try to investigate while Karas is here?

751
00:52:40,018 --> 00:52:50,118
I anything that resembles parts and pieces from the swamp, anything that would reveal why
he's out here, because that's part of the question, right?

752
00:52:50,118 --> 00:52:54,778
Like who is he, why is he an informant, and why is he out here specifically?

753
00:52:54,778 --> 00:52:58,718
And I think that is what I'm looking for.

754
00:52:58,898 --> 00:53:00,649
Where's the doctor right now?

755
00:53:00,649 --> 00:53:05,955
He's with you, sitting by Dell watching him and every once in a while checks his heart
rate.

756
00:53:05,955 --> 00:53:07,956
um

757
00:53:07,956 --> 00:53:08,728
He is.

758
00:53:08,728 --> 00:53:10,882
We're kind of there together in the same space.

759
00:53:10,882 --> 00:53:12,966
Okay.

760
00:53:12,966 --> 00:53:15,748
you could start a conversation with him too as well.

761
00:53:15,748 --> 00:53:23,430
I I definitely will if I don't see anything that kind of checks those boxes, but obviously
I'm not going to try and be too snoopy and out of place.

762
00:53:23,430 --> 00:53:28,356
So make it look more like pacing, but it's secretly a search job.

763
00:53:29,265 --> 00:53:30,765
Well, I'll go ahead.

764
00:53:30,765 --> 00:53:36,644
need to like wear a medical bracelet to give like MRI techs a heads up in the future or
something.

765
00:53:36,644 --> 00:53:41,324
Like how do we get medical attention with foreign metals in us?

766
00:53:41,672 --> 00:53:47,328
I think that you would not go to the doctor anymore.

767
00:53:48,690 --> 00:53:49,730
That's 1000%.

768
00:53:49,730 --> 00:53:53,410
Yeah, you could go in and get your teeth fixed and that's in your eyes.

769
00:53:53,430 --> 00:53:55,050
It's about it.

770
00:53:55,050 --> 00:53:56,970
Literally, yeah.

771
00:53:57,330 --> 00:53:58,290
Yeah.

772
00:53:59,030 --> 00:54:03,064
that's yeah that's what i'm saying get magnetoed

773
00:54:04,331 --> 00:54:05,271
yes.

774
00:54:06,453 --> 00:54:07,513
Yeah.

775
00:54:07,593 --> 00:54:09,479
Yeah.