Children of the Danned

0:15 Welcome back to Daniel's Red Tails, thanks for joining us. You'll have to excuse me. If I sound a little hoarse, I'm recovering from a very spooky sickness. I wish I could say it was something fun terrifying like lycanthropy but it's actually real world terrifying. I had covid but I'm doing. Okay now I'm doing okay except I'm a little little horse. Anyway, this week we continue our adventure in the trail of Cthulhu system with part two of the dance in the blood. We join our Trio of Newfound siblings as they try to piece together.

0:56 Their shared secret past in the small town of Manistee enjoy. All right. So you were going to go to the old wearing house, I think. Yep. So there's it's a short walk away from the center of town. It's a small gray Cottage like many of the other ones around here. It's got a short, little dirt driveway away from the main road as you're walking up. Doctor in particular, you are feeling a sense of familiarity that the Birdsong you're hearing the crunch of gravel, it all feels very familiar. Earlier to you Helen, you're also feeling that a little bit, mostly, like the Birdsong seems to be triggering a little bit of a memory to you.

1:39 I will say Jonesy. Not so much, you maybe just because you were so young. The last time you were here and you approach the door and before you knock doctor, you know, without a doubt that the wallpaper behind that door is going to be yellow with a tulip. Fine. Hey Jonesy. How much you want to bet that the wallpaper in this place is yellow with the Tulip design? It's are adopted home. Remember Allah, while you're adopted? Oh, no, well three of us. We all definitely adopted a gentleman's bet. Hmm, how about that? Sure. What's that mean? It means I don't pay anything.

2:22 Well, the band. Excellent, let's shake on it. All right, shooked, you hear some? Giggling coming from inside the house. Sounds like like a young. Amin maybe two of them. Well, I'll knock on the door extra loud. As is my custom jobs. What are your favorites? Good at knock or you just gonna keep stand back, open up, you knock on the door and opening the door. Is a quiet mousy, sort of woman. She looks like she's in her late 30s, maybe and she smiles but is you can tell there's a little bit of a concern on her eyes and says, hello can I can I help Hi, I'm dr. Michael laws are we related?

3:06 No, I'm my name, is, is Mary wearing? I don't know any laws. I'm sorry. I think you might be in the wrong place. No, you don't, you know, who does know some laws? This guy right here Jonesy. Yes, I do know dr. Laws, my name is Tom Jones and he tips his hat, gentleman, extraordinaire. And your name is ma'am. My name is Mary wearing, I'm sorry. Are you You selling something, I'm sorry. I if you need a cup of tea, I can give you something. But I am confused. What she looks over at you as well. Helen maybe with a little bit of a pleading seek, if you will make any of this makes sense because she's extremely confused by the situation time to play that all time, classic Assurance card.

3:57 Sorry if my companion seemed strange we're in town in Investigating our parentage as it were with this as our only clue and I show her the picture. Oh, Oh yes. I don't suppose you could help us. Oh, you must be Jack's kids from his previous marriage. Sure, why not? Oh, come come in, come in. I, yeah. And as she opens the door more, you do see behind her the wallpaper? Well, a little bit older is as you remembered.

4:40 Well, Jonesy. I think you owe me two handshakes. All right, wow, I'm quite White shocked, here you are. Here's your first handshake and I will give you that second handshake later. All right. Yeah, we're very adopted. That is going to be a Mist dr. Laws that he's going to be a stability to test. I do you sort of play a get off here but it's also sort of very weird. There we go. Okay, so you lose to still do it fine. But all of its very your Bluster about all of this is, is they be covering up something. That's Little weird here, she smiles, and it's like pouring you guys some tea and says, yes, I guess I don't really know too much of what to say, but feel free to look around.

5:28 Get nostalgic for your own home. I suppose and you do hear some static coming from one of the back rooms and a two girls, giggling pack there. It was that more Coltrane. Excuse me, ma'am. Do you have a radio in the house? Yes, Lisa and Bethany are playing it too. Loudly. Lisa, Bethany, our guests don't want to listen to jazz music. Turn that off. Oh no. I am a big fan of jazz Stephanie from America but it's not English, it's not to English. Why don't we take a look? If it's a little too loud, maybe the knobs little broken, I will.

6:09 I'm a man that knows a little bit of mechanical work. I could take a look for you. I guess so. I sure she I guess she'd sort of motions towards the back and as you go back there, you see 22. You could definitely tell, they are twins. Two young girls probably about five years old five, six years old not to not particularly old, and they are laughing, and listening to the radio. And you see Every once in a while, one of them, like Whispers into the radio, and they both start laughing, I will dance to the static. You will dance?

6:53 Yes. Okay, pow. Yes, there's no real music to dance to, it's just sort of static. Yeah. Actually, as you start listening to it more, you know, to dance to music. You have to really listen to it. It's not quite just static, there's something to it. There's maybe some sort of drum or something like that and every once in a while you you think you hear a voice. I don't trust like that. You can't quite make out what it's saying. Mostly you just hear static, excuse me. My name is Tom Jones Jonesy. As you can call me. Do you mind if you turn that down just a little bit, just a little bit.

7:38 Okay, I like your dance Mister. He's silly only dr. Laws. Yes, he's a very silly, man. Why don't you go say hi to him and dance along while I helped turn down the the music while we said we're not supposed to dance anymore. No, she told us not to dance when we did the other thing. It's fine, we can dance, we can dance, all we want. You can leave your friends behind and they go out, and they start dancing around you in a circle. Doctor loss. Perfect. No. My friends have to come you, You Can Dance behind me, Helena can bring the shovel. Speaking of hell. And meanwhile Disney is to talk to Mary. So what can you tell us about your um, your husband about Jack. I he's, he's not around anymore.

8:26 I don't, she seems uncomfortable. And maybe not willing to talk about it. There are a couple ways to read that, but I suspect he walked out. I'm not, I'm not saying this in Actor. I'm just making a person though. Yeah, if you would like you could try one of your interpersonal skills to try to get her to talk a little bit more. Reassurance is the old classic. Reassurance is not going to really work on her though. I didn't think so. I'd feel like a real asshole, if I tried intimidation, you could try it. But yes, that would be an asshole move. I think. I'm gonna go for flattery because, you know, I'm going to say well, As it were, you've done you seem to have done very well, raising these two girls without him there. Five, how long have you been raising them with without him Jack?

9:33 And that's good to do it? That sort of going to unlock it. Jack left. When the for they were born. I was pregnant when he left. He just One day he I mean he'd been having bad dreams for a while and then one day he just just left, he didn't even pack up his stuff. He didn't tell anyone where he was going. He just disappeared walked away. Did he ever mention a stone circle? No, I don't. He said so many things about his dreams, but I don't really remember anything about a stone circle.

10:13 I'm sorry. I see. Thank you. Yeah. I I know that he, I don't, I don't know. But, you know, we make. Do we make do now. But yes, I'm sorry about Jack. He's not here and your mother. I oh God and she sort of catches herself deep. Do you know about your, your mother know? What is there to tell Jack? You never really told me too much, but from what I understand, she She took all of you away, put you up for adoption and then never told Jack where you went and they found her dead.

11:05 I say in a hotel in London suicide, I believe I don't, I don't know. What would make a person do that. I think it it really hurt Jack but you know, he did his best to move on. He was he was a good man. He was a dead man, a knowledgeable man. He he was so well learned. He ran the school here in town. I know he had an office down in the school and then he just He was just gone. He started having those awful dreams. The, I do want to just cut over to the little girls that are dancing around and laughing with you.

11:45 Are you doing anything in particular with the girls dancing and laughing? That's a good laughing. Perfect cool. Nothing else is just having a good time with them. Okay. Deep grand old time. Crandall time and Jonesy of. Do you try to mess with the radio at all? You just turning it down and then coming back. Yeah, I'm just trying to turn it down just enough. So I stopped hearing the static. It's really getting to me. Yeah. As you're getting closer to the radio, you do. Definitely there's a voice in there. That's saying something. Can't quite make it out though. Yeah, no. Just turns it off. It turns out the fact that you are just going to turn it off, means that you're only going to suffer a possible 2.1? Okay.

12:34 Damn. I'm all right. Thank God to me. Yeah, heebie-jeebies. Yeah I don't I don't really know anything else to tell you. She says she sort of just sort of mutters and and looks away. Well I appreciate it. You truly have been helpful to us. Is there anything else that you would like to do around here? A Jonesy I would say everyone is distracted. Oh yeah Joe. Z is going to just kind of rub his hands a little bit and just go. Okay. What can we find here today Jonesy? No, but Chauncey after she's been so helpful.

13:18 Come on. Yeah I'm just gonna look around and see if there's like anything that's remotely expensive. Nothing too expensive that's out here. You do know that maybe there could be something valuable in the back. And that also is a very reasonable thing to lie. Like, oh, I've go to the bathroom, like, I could sort of sneak in there and that's like totally reasonable something to do. Oh, yes, I'm heading to the water closet. I definitely need to relieve myself. You notice that the bathroom mirror? There are. It's an older mirror. I suppose it could be worth something, but it's not like you could actually lift the mirror out and steal it if they be a little, you know. Yeah that's a little too heavy for Jonesy. Yeah, it's a little too heavy for that. A little too fragile.

14:07 Um, but there are some weird scratches on it about head level and they seem to, like, sort of form the shape of a head just like all scratched up maybe with just like someone's hands or maybe even like a small knife all scratched up. There's horizontal line. He's running across it though. And then there's like some eyes that are carved in there with like sort of x's that sort of look like slits. Seems like somebody was looking at their face and doing something. So there's slits in the wall, like, no, like, slits on the glass that sort of like, it almost looks like he drew a face or someone gender.

14:59 I don't know. It's probably she was Like scratching out a face and in particular like it was a face with two slits for eyes. Oh, oh wow. Hmm, that's slightly disturbing. And so is this one of those like is it's just like a solid mirrors. It something it's kind of like a little cabinet. Like a like, a pill cabinet. It is, it is a solid mirror, but there is a cabinet around here that you go. Let's check that. Um, there's some small little bits of medicine here and there, you know, like a little know, I might knowledge of 30s medicine is a little limited, but there's a couple things you could just pick up here real easily and Jonesy kind of looks at the like thinks about the kids.

15:52 Thanks about the mother and looks at the pills. Looks at the mirror, looks back at the pills. Looks at the mirror and just goes, I'm going to take one bottle. Of just one. And it's going to be the one. That's the looks like the most expensive you could do that. Yeah, you could do that. Actually make a filter roll. Oh, yeah. Absolutely difficulty. For would you like to spend any points? Oh, I've already rolled, and I didn't spend it. But, yeah, I'm going to try to spend. I'm gonna spend Four Points. Okay? Okay. So we will ignore the role you just did just to be nice to you because you're supposed to remember that you can spend points. I will say this.

16:32 This you don't, you don't want to spend Four Points. That's kind of a waste. You could spend three points to get a four because you'll roll at least two one. Yeah, I'll spend the three points. So then, that's an automatic success. You are not only find a pill bottle, a nice little bottle of pills, but also, as you're going through its like, oh, there's like a man shaving razor here. It's of shaving cream. That's like a little old. That you also like, oh, I could totally take this, nobody's gonna be using this either. A gentleman needs a clean-shaven face. So I'm taking Razor. Yeah you have a you know, straight razor but nothing could be bad about that. The the girls are sort of laughing a log at singing.

17:14 With you doctor they say, like, do you know the song? Did you sing the song? No, no, I don't understand music really. Okay. We have to sing them down and then they get up. And then everything's great. I like your funny words children. We like you too. Are we friends? We are friends and they both sort of give you a hug around the leg. Yay, I'm popular with children Jonesy kind of walks out and goes. Well, he's a good doctor. He's pretty friendly guy. Yeah, you a pediatrician? Yeah, that that would make you more adorable your pediatrician. That's why you had a lollipop to get your product.

17:54 I think that makes sense, Helen, the tea has been sort of set out for everyone here, but nope. We'll see that not be drinking it except for perhaps you and you do sort of get the impression that like, well, Mary's being nice to you guys, but is it quite sure what to do about what's happening here? I mean, who, who would know? Yeah, I don't, there's nothing I else. Psych know about Jack, really nothing else to say. No, that's quite. All right. We need to be getting back to the ferry by 5:00. Lock anyway, stay here is if you need to for a little while but we don't really have a place for you to sleep. My brother needs to go to the hospital. Oh, that does make sense.

18:44 He had four children, right? Oh, I'm sorry. Your brother's not feeling. Well, what's wrong with him? Well, he doesn't have a pulse in. It seems like his skins about to fall off. I'm sorry. What Helen did not know that this was the extent of the oh, Yeah. Yeah. Helen just do that. He was feeling bad. Actually Helen you hearing that and Jonesy. Do you hear that as well? Oh yeah. No. He spit out his tea as soon as he heard that finally got that. He is not you know alive in or at least having some traditional ways of being alive. Three-point stability loss make a check only three. It was five for his brother 3 for unit, although I guess you are easier. so I'm going to add a point because like at this point if I if I get hit with anything I'm out, so, I might as well try and avoid that knot out but like, Oh and of course the one time I do I don't need to.

19:52 So it's a you said it's two points or three points. I forgot what I said, three points, it's three points. Can we just have a quick stability? Check going down the line. How's everybody doing? I have one stability. Helen is anything away from losing her, goddamn mind? Yeah, I'm down to three doctors wheel and find with for you see that definitely hearing that these sort of sick not having a pulse seems to be. You see there's maybe a little bit of a reaction from Mary at first but then I she sort of shakes her head and says well you should probably take care of your brother.

20:39 Oh he'll be fine. We see this sort of thing all the time. I think, yeah, let's thank you for the tea, ma'am. Jonesy puts down his teacup and tips his hat and says, they looks at two little girls ladies and then he goes, shall we get to the ferry indeed, though. At some point, I would like to check out the school. Well, there's probably time to check the school. Yeah, there's there's there's time to check the school. Probably. Okay. Well, give his office, a once-over if they haven't, you know, put somebody else in it or something like that, that doesn't way. I would like to give a little bit of a reminder, not not trying to push people too much here, but does anybody have the ability? Assess honest, I do. I have two points in that.

21:23 I want to use. It is all I'm saying. Last time I get to try to remind you about this, but it might be a thing to consider. Usually do I have is partially just me but I'm always terrible at that at like, you know, Insight Checks In And D or whatever. Like I suck at remembering to use the check Vibes skill. I don't know that I've heard anything that I need to assess it honesty for well, humanity is essentially good. No one would ever lie to me, okay. Then I guess we're good. She was a little too quick to accept your assessment of your brother Professor. I know what I'm talking about. No, no, we me and me and Jonesy reacted like people. We had our stunned, she barely reacted And you'd supposed to react to these things.

22:14 Are you a sociopath a? What? I don't know what that word means. It's fine, it doesn't matter. Anyway. Um yeah she seem to be reacting a little weirdly when she didn't quite react the same way as everybody else when she said. Well if you listen to statical day it does kind of get to you. There's something she's not telling us and I don't know what it is, I suppose that's why she didn't tell us. Yeah, there's definitely something about in particular, you know, talking about that and talk to you about Jack. It seems like she's trying to avoid saying Something About Jack but not because she's like trying to keep some sort of terrible secret or anything. It's more that like, she's like, nah, I don't need to say that. That's, that's nothing, that's ridiculous. Sort of a thought in her head, that's sort of the vibe you're getting, it's like she was gonna say something but then she thought better of it, not because she's trying to keep a secret, but just because she's like, and it's just a bunch of strangers.

23:11 It doesn't I don't know what you could do with that, but I'll be, you could ask her, I guess but well. I already tried. I already got all the information I could out of flattery. So somebody else wants to double back and ask and try questioning her. Okay? Or you can head to the schoolhouse or back to the ID. And/or, I guess down to the town ruins that Josie was interested or whatever you want to do. You probably have time to do. One more thing. Before the ferry arrives, we have time to you. Three more things. If we split up, that's also true. Well, we went on the patrol before and I don't sense anything troubling yet. Dad nothing scarier trouble.

23:57 He get all going on. I would like to at least take a look at what tiny was talking about. That might be just, add it destroyed building but sometimes you can find some of the greatest things in the rubble of, but I am. Okay. It going to the school with you. Hello. The company are what appears to be our dear sister to the school. Your sister? Let him come to it in his own time doctor. No! Our Sister, We're adopted. You're adopted mind you. Yes, and you are too. You're a brother. I cannot as a gentleman say that you we are brother and spirit but not in physical flesh.

24:38 We're all part of the Brotherhood of Man. I'm gonna check out the school then I will. Accompany the fine Madam not splitting up. Okay, so the school, the old school house. It's kind of hard to notice. It's sort of an unremarkable, disused building. The only reason you know where it is is because you're pointed it, it was pointed out to you. It's just a tiny little Victorian school. It even has like separate entrances for girls and boys but then when you get inside, it's the sort of one big classroom and there is a though, there is a small office attached. as you approach, you find the door is not locked and the whole thing is very dusty but it's almost like People just disappeared.

25:35 It's like, you know, they talk about like with Chernobyl. Like, if you went around there, just looks like everyone disappeared and left everything there. It's kind of like that. There's a quadratic equation written on the board. There are like some notebooks and stuff in the desks, and, but there are cobwebs covering everything. There are weeds and moss growing through the flagstones on the floor. Or and the whole place at least for you Doctor. It feels familiar. Actor as you're looking you know which one of these desks was your desk. You remember? Yeah.

26:16 Yes. The old schoolhouse. I probably learned some things here. If you want to take a look, I've been a cover my initials in there. You absolutely did carve your first name or at least somebody carved that name in your hand and a childish version of your handwriting completely three-point loss. We'll make a check. This is all yeah, this sort of freaking you out a little bit. It does you were definitely that's not the right last initial. Yeah, it's not the right last additional or I mean, it's a w. Wearing what would you like to do in here? Jones is gonna take a look at the teacher's desk. There's mostly, there's just like a bunch of exercise books that are written there.

27:09 It seems like he was maybe in the middle of grading like a children's essays and as you're going through it, it seems like they're writing about, like, local folklore, at least, some of them seem to We've been writing about that and as you're going going through it, that seems to be what it is. You would need to maybe have some sort of ability to go through a bunch of books and like use a collection of books to baby. Get this information. I'm going to use the library. Use there it is. Library youth. Yes. Yeah. You start going through all of them? You'd one of the essays catches your attention because it seems to be well, I'm going to share that with you right now. I'm going to make it visible all of them guys. And I'm going to show it you guys. See a note popping up there on the screen and roll 20? Yeah.

28:13 If you'd like you could, you could read that class, I have a essay for everyone to listen to take your seats please. Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in Manistee and one day she found a gray slide. I'm slim sliming hand reaching through the Earth. She did not know what to do. What is this? She asked, she asked but her mommy and daddy did not know the next day when she was walking through the woods. She saw a monster and it was all were me and slimy, and smiled at her. The little girl went home and told her mommy and daddy, but they did not believe her.

29:01 Then War me, slimy monsters under the Earth came up and that night, they ate the little girl up and her mommy and daddy and they tour the house up and ate its bricks. Um not what I was expecting for a child story. Slightly scary. I'm gonna put this down and kind of walk outside hum shook it. Is there anything else on the paper? Yeah he just kind of puts the the paper down right next to hell. That might be some inspiration for you. Oh yeah. The child has a drawed. A little picture of a house with somebody inside of it. And then also Helen how would you describe that thing that's coming towards the house? Well, it's very basic but it appears almost Serpentine and it has two arms with fingers that are way too long like a kind of monster.

29:56 Yeah. Not a fan of that, kind of a weird me monster. Kind of a wormy monster. Yeah, there's a Little worm monster. Wait, Helen wouldn't you be a fan of that? Yeah, I'd be more into this. If checks notes, my whole life hadn't been on two upended, two hours ago, Helen's having a rough day among other things because we're adopted, you two are adopted you say from outside. As you've said, the Stout and walked outside will tell him when he's older. By the way, Jonesy when you stepped outside, there is sort of an angry-looking farmer who walks up, boy. What are you doing here?

30:44 I've was accompanied with my friends to take a look at the school and I'm gonna use flattery to calm down the situation. How are you flattering? This angry farmer. I you look quite in physical shape. My friend, what have you been doing with your life? It looks you look fantastic. Like, I'm just changing the subject immediately I'm looking for my pig. You take my pig all your pig. No. Is your what? What is your pig look like it's a pig. Is it? Is it a prize pig?

31:24 Is it a fair pig? Is it over 100 pounds black pink spotted? No, it's just it's one of the youngest pigs that we had. It was a young small Pig. I don't know if there's a pig Russell around here, you're not. Russell and pigs are ya bum? Aye. Aye sir, I am a Bo not a bum and I don't rustle pigs too, heavy. Oh my god. Did he just admit it? Oh my God. He admit it stability. Gain fine. You were to be stealing pigs. You would have stolen more than the smallest one. I also don't see a pig around you.

32:04 You keep an eye out, I guess. What's the pig's name? So I can call its name but Pig, it doesn't have a name. Well you see I've heard Sue. Mary Mary. Sue Suey. You know? Sure sure. Yeah, whatever. Just look for my pig, okay, I will keep an eye out my friend, whatever fucking strangers and Jonesy pulls out a hankie ship, huh? Sweet God. Yeah. Your big accused of crimes Jonesy that was close. Anyway back inside the school house. Anything else you want to look? I don't know how much is here, but there's maybe some stuff.

32:47 Does he have an office in here? She mentioned an office, I want to give that a look through. Yeah, as you are going through the office. You again, just find a bunch of you do. Find several of these exercise books. Children's stuff that's been left there. Again they seem to all be written about local. Or they must have been having to like research local folklore and write some stuff about it and you see a lot of them seem to have been writing about castle Riggs, Stone Circle, not surprisingly, it's a pretty recent spot. It said it was like a place requested by witches, who buried people alive.

33:33 That feels important they did human sacrifice. They would cut them and then bury them alive. But besides that it does look like Like, maybe there were some things that were taken away. I know it was said that Jack disappeared in the night that you could tell that like there's one drawer, that's That he might have taken Jonesy walks in just goes farmer. Just accuse me of stealing his Pig. Don't say you can't be stealing people's pigs. I'd do. I look like a get still a pick. Absolutely. If you set your mind to it, I think you. Then it's actually quite Charming. You gotta believe in yourself. Jonesy. Thank you. Can we can we, can we leave this? Yeah, you guys need to go or still looking around. I think we need to get back to the brother. Well, I just learned something interesting. Zhang Hao and shares what?

34:24 She had least recently learned, that was interesting. The other thing Helen is as you were looking, there were a couple other books that talked about. They wrote about low Manistee, which was the village that was there before. Mmm. Yes. Before we unpack all that, we should probably get your brother to a hospital. Oh, it'll be fine those hook. Him up with some heroin, he'll be fine within the Fortnight. So you go back to the Inn but He is still not looking good I guess that's not a but I guess that is a of course he's still looking real shitty Jeffrey of you. Be needing your lollipop. Hi. I had it.

35:06 I it was delicious. At least. I remember they were delicious. It didn't really taste like much. Oh, that's not a good sign. Are we going to go? Yes, we're going to get you to the hospital to free. All right, get on my shoulders, he sort of is able to walk. Little bit, he's not going to jump on his shoulders. He is your big brother. I was thinking fireman's carry but all of a sudden it became a piggyback ride as I said it. Yeah. I don't think a piggyback rides gonna work. Are you still able to walk a little? Yeah, you do see that there are in the in as it's getting a little later. A couple people are getting done with their work, a little early, and there are people dancing as the radio is playing, static very loud.

35:52 Oddly, almost drowned out, everything else. Damn are that Coltrane? Yes, I am choosing to focus on anything else. As we keep moving. You can we get to the ferry? I don't want to listen to this. So Jeffrey. It turns out. We actually are adopted in. These are your siblings. Oh strange, we'll deal with that later. I guess I'm I guess I'm Jeffrey. Hello, hi Helen. Nice to meet you, he offers to you to shake it. You know, he offers Hand to shake, Helen takes it, and then quickly moves to supporting supporting him on her shoulder. Yeah, we can, we can, we can Bond a siblings once you're better. Yeah, his hand is clammy and the skin feels almost loose like a glove.

36:45 It's it's bad Charming. Oh, Tom Jones. No relation. You two are adopted. Okay, okay. He's still processing it. You you move towards the the ferry and it's full of people. Actually, when it when it's coming through, there must have been something else going on in one of the Southern towns or whatever. But as it stops, you get kind of a glare from the guy, as your colleague on a person who could Early walk. Ah I want a sick people on the boat. What are we doing here?

37:29 I will use some reassurance. What are you a doctor? How do you know this? Yes, I am. In fact, a doctor dr. Michael loves what he's got isn't catching friend. We just need to get him to a hospital. Get him looked after. Oh, oh. Okay. Doctor I guess I'm sorry. It's kind of bold a day. I think you and your patient. But I'm sorry the other two I don't think they could fit on. Well that works for me. If it works for them that's fine. We can check up at the end we're staying here. Wait ho ho ho I have found no signs of any of my kin Patriots.

38:12 Ha ha! Excuse me. There has to be some room. Can I sit in and the storage box or dad? Just get off this island. This is not, you're not. On an island. You could take the road back. I am so bad with the land geography. Sorry? Okay. How far is the road? What am I a map? Get out of here. You bum as they start to push off? Yeah. And I'm a gentleman. All right. Fine stay. I mean you could try to make like a interpersonal like spend the try to get onto the the boat here but they are full. I used all my good stuff. If and I'm not going to intimidate someone oh wait wait wait hold on, hold on.

38:58 I could use scuffle and I'll drive the boat. Okay, okay, I have one I'm gonna bargain. So I'm going to pull out the pills that I pilfered and be like, ah, I do have some high-quality medicine. If you can allow me and my friend here, Helen onto the ship, we could fit one more person on. I'm sorry lady it. We are just at the we're Of did like sardines. If you would like you could spend a point of bargain and all three of you can go or I guess I'll for yeah I'm going to spend a whole point of bargain. Actually, I'm going to spend too because it would be one for me and then went for Helen, I guess so, yeah. So you're going to use up your bargain.

39:38 Okay. Well, try to spookily split up the party is not happening yet. That's cool. Whatever Mission failed, he'll get em next time. Should I have spent points on reassurance? Obviously, no no generally you just can do it because you have it if you're trying to do something important like hard. You have to spend the point. Yeah, so simmering down that bartender may be expended point but not this one. Yes, exactly. Okay. You are really packed in here on the boat but you do eventually make it back to town the larger town of cats work anyway and you bring him over to the hospital and Is admitted.

40:23 What do you do in the? What are you trying to do in the hospital? I mean, how do you? How do you approach this? I guess we go to emergency or whatever the analog is as you bring him in there, sort of like, oh yeah, sure. Come add your met by a doctor Rochdale who you actually, because you are a doctor. You have heard of him before he is a He's an older guy but he's you know this guy knows his stuff. You may have read a paper that he wrote one time. He there's nothing anything extraordinary about him but he's also just like a good doctor. He's like a very good.

41:05 Doc he says, okay I'll take care of your brother don't work don't work. They that's he's incapable hands. He's got the fever of 10. What he's pretty cold right now? Okay, I wouldn't call that a yes okay, nurse get him in there and And he is taken to a room. He sort of groaning a little bit, but he, he says he's gonna, you know, take a look at him and he says, are there any other symptoms? What's what's wrong with them? You really loose skin and no heartbeat? I know that sounds insane but I can attest to that the men who as you can see, is moving and talking and breathing does not have a pulse. What?

41:47 Good luck. Absolutely not. You must be mistaken. I had. That can't be well. I always value a second opinion. Is there anything you'd like to say to him to maybe convince him to take that? Seriously? Check him yourself. Yes, I guess I'll check myself. Oh, God. Something wrong with him. It's something death. Okay. Well, I'll try to figure this out. You might have some sort of Records about this and he, he spent some time looking at him examining him and says, my God, it's it's just like in the any Trails off and he actually runs out of the room. I'm dr.

42:45 Supposed to do that. I've never seen one run out the room. We should follow him. You see him run to like an office and that he cut you, you see him like looking through his bookshelf and he pulls out an old book and then runs back to the, oh no, it's right here. It's right here. Talk to her. As actually have you introduced yourself as a doctor, doctor loss A gloss over it, but I think I Doctor mr. Laws or I guess dr. Laws he would say mister. Um, there is something that I've seen before something like this in the old hospital archives. There's one other case that had symptoms similar to this. I thought it was so strange.

43:34 I was going through the hospital history and nobody ever figured out what happened to her. I have an inkling who it was a woman named Betty came in Goodness, it must have been in the 18 18 16. It says here, 1816 a woman named Betty came in had the same symptoms and nobody knew what to do and she became rather agitated. Hmm. Well, hopefully, that doesn't happen to my brother. He's generally a level-headed sore. Yeah, well, Betty was apparently level-headed sort to but then she She started screaming and fighting back against the folks here, and then it eventually jumped out the third story. Window.

44:18 Nobody ever saw what happened to her after that, they couldn't find a body. Yeah, I think we can probably guess the yes no of course of course but it's there we weren't able to do an autopsy. Is the thing horse. I hope that we won't need to perform an autopsy on your brother but Basically take a look at figure out what happened. And you as you're looking at the book, you see that the records are for a Betty wearing from 1816. So, so not Jack. That Betty curiouser and curiouser. Well, this was almost a hundred years ago actually, more than 100 years ago. This is 1816 right now. It's 1935 oh, right? So I doubt this could have been Jack unless Jack is very, very old.

45:05 And also, I guess he would have Have to be a time traveler, if he died in 1816, and then bothered you, I'm like, Lovecraft. These are all possibilities. These is, this could be possibilities. Yes. Yeah, you guys were all born around like 1900 1904. So, yeah. So, it's nighttime. What would you guys like to do this evening? Also, as you are going as you're leaving the hospital, once again, you are hearing a radio and the static is getting louder and louder. Yeah. Whoo. Has the radio on? It's so loud. Sorry. The people like to listen to the some music, they're playing some classical music and that helps calm folks down outside. You could hear outside the hospital or walking out? We're outside right now.

45:58 It's killing me. Yeah, I know, but there's like radios, outside the hospital as well. But yes, I should note that every single time they are describing this as the music and you guys are not hearing using trust me. That fact has my full attention, you know. It's been a strange day but I think I'm finally starting to understand music. What is wrong with you? I should note just a little bit about the static that you keep hearing do, either do any of you guys have physics? One point one point in physics, okay, this is sort of like maybe what's happening. Somebody has like a transmitter that's like shooting out, white noise and that would sort of drown out all the other radio signals and make it so that you can only hear static instead of the actual radio. But it doesn't really explain why only a few people can hear the static and other people seem to hear the music. That's also good to in languages if that's relevant. Not really again as you I mean do you want to try to? Listen really closely to it to try to see if you can understand the language.

47:11 Definitely that sounds right up my alley. Again you just here with springs here and there. And then at one point you are certain that the voice says Michael It's Time, Michael. Xiao Zhu Zhu. And you hear drumming as well. Well, I hope my brother's all right. I think I'll need him later. By the way. Definitely hearing your name in The static is going to Three-point Possible's.

47:55 All right. I will spend a point this time. This all seems above board, nice. Okay, you don't fail. Although I'd be to be clear, you know. It's not above board. When you're making these check successfully does not mean that you are foolish. It just means that you are trying to make it through. What is your stability at? Then 11? I thought it was that one already. I'd best that Wonder go. But did you spend a point? Oh, right. So that puts it in 0. Um, you are now considered to be because you've hit zero, you are now at what is it called? You are shaken. You are no longer able to spend ability points for investigative skills.

48:43 You could only just use them. So you can't get the greater successes and all of your difficulties are going up by 1. If you would like to use investigative abilities, you'll be able to make a Ability test. Like if you want to actually spend the only off to make it all. So you start checking your own pulse, you just feel the desire. Just a little bit of a compulsion to start checking your pulse and maybe the pulse of people around you. Hey Jonesy. Give me, how can I help you dr. And just hold still for a sec. I need to check something. Okay. His pulse seems to be beating. Alright everything seems OK here. Hey hell why do you need to check?

49:24 Check my pulse. Well, just in case. All right, you know, this thing's can be contagious. I don't know. It's a pretty mysterious illness. He's a doctor, she does offer her arm. I'll check her pulse. Her pulse seems weak and slow but it is still there. Oh, I'll give a lick like, hmm. Could be better. There's a third person. You need to check their doctor. Wait, is this talking is me the narrator reminding you? That there is a third person that you need to check. Well, no, I can't check my own pulse. That's it's physically impossible. They've tried what Doctor May I check your pulse.

50:07 Absolutely only way to do have someone else do it? Yeah, I just place my fingers on his wrists. Were just a moment. It seems like he doesn't have a pulse but that it starts, it's very slow. So, how am I doing? Your pulse is unusually. Slow, may have jumped the gun when I told that fairy woman, but it wasn't catching. All right. What would you like to do today? Has been a very Adventure full day for all of us. How about we just get one? Drink process, everything that's happened and then get some sleep. I like that plan.

50:53 I like most of that plan processing. What's happening at a coolie All right, you make your way back to your rooms and or Barnes, I mean, unless you want to like, I guess you could take a car and drive back to Manistee if you'd like no, I'm good. Thanks a bed. Sleep at the end there, you know. Yeah, we'll get a car in the morning. You do want to go back to Fantasy, it will go back tomorrow. Thanks for listening, boils Ghouls and and blues. It is that good.

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