July 2, 2025

Eternal Lies 12: Maltaan Your Mouth (Armed to the Teeth)

Eternal Lies 12: Maltaan Your Mouth (Armed to the Teeth)

"You Idiots Should Not Have Taken A Spa Day" -Daniel Fernandez

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The guy is cast.

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May God have mercy on ourselves.

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We don't sell stuff.
OK, so you guys are in the

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underground catacombs and you're
navigating through the lead by

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your Knight of Malta friend, Sir
Godfrey.

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Friend is a strong word.
Ally.

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Associate.
OK, you are deep in these

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catacombs and you are being LED
past several traps actually that

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have been here.
I'm not going to make you roll

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on those things because you have
some advice.

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Even though he doesn't quite
remember everything, there's,

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you know, some a crossbow and
there's some spikes in the walls

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and stuff like that to make it
show.

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So nobody could get through
these passages.

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Is there a rolling boulder?
Please let there be a rolling

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boulder.
There is, you know what, maybe

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there was a rolling boulder that
you guys avoided between

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episodes.
I didn't say there wasn't.

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And we'll just leave it at that.
And you actually descend down

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into extremely ancient ruins.
What was the catacombs that were

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very clearly made by Middle Ages
sort of folks?

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Now you are in an extremely
ancient area, so you're in these

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ancient ruins that look very
different from what you were in

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before.
They're a simple collection of

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chambers with walls of upright
stones and floor made of loose

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gravel and detritus.
Looks very.

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Odd.
Does my knowledge in either

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archaeology or architecture tell
me anything?

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Archaeology is going to get you
that.

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These ruins are probably at
least 5000 years old.

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They're like contemporaries to
like megalithic ruins like God.

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Didn't you the giants tower on
the Isle of Goza?

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They have been clearly looted
and reburied over the

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intervening millennia, and
probably our early grave robbers

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found these once before.
But you are an extremely ancient

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ruins right now.
It's getting a little

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claustrophobic as well.
There are strange etchings in

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the walls here as well, and it's
oddly cold.

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Cryptography.
Does that give me anything?

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Cryptography.
No, it doesn't appear to be a

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code necessarily.
Yeah, but there's like weird

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runes on the walls and
everything is oddly cold.

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Can I make sense of the runes?
You could try.

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I would like to use reassurance
on myself.

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That trap?
Are these more cthulhuy runes or

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general occulty runes?
Cult will do the trick.

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OK, if you'd like I can spend in
a cult.

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You don't need to spend.
You recognize it, right?

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These are complex runes and
stuff, but you recognize this as

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possibly the directions of how
to cast a spell.

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You're not 100% sure what that
spell would be.

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You would need to spend some
time deciphering these runes,

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which you truly do not have the
time for that.

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Can we make a rubbing?
You could make a rubbing.

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Yeah, that's a great idea.
Yeah, I shall do so.

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And my last question about the
runes or actually even kind of

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like the the ruins in general,
the stone eye that I got way

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back in the pilot, does it look
like this is similar stonework

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to that?
It does.

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Interest.
You continue through the

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chambers.
You go through a strange hall

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that is just full of pillars.
Anything on those pillars?

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No, not really.
Well, that's good.

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Yeah.
Wait a second.

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Not really.
Well, so when I say pillars, I

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maybe describe them more
sturdily than they are.

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There are stone pillars, stone
columns here, but it seems like

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the roof actually is being held
up by dozens of wooden posts

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that seem to have been put in at
a later date.

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They're at odd angles, which
means that it's going and it

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would be very difficult to get
across the room because they're

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all over the place and these
posts are in the way.

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The chamber was falling apart
when I was here last.

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The catacombs above made it
unstable.

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My brothers must have put these
posts into place to keep the

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ceiling from coming down, but
now they've become a bit of a

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obstacle.
I can see that.

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OK, trying to make her way
through the friggin posts with

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the big ass flamethrower.
Yeah, might be a good place to

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set up a trip if it comes to it.
We can just knock out a post if

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it comes to it.
So here's how navigating this

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room is going to work.
By the way, hi, Nathan.

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You're still imprisoned.
Sorry, Jpi.

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Know, don't worry, I've just
taken this chance to like, you

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know, relax.
I'm looking out the window

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behind me, OK, you know, having
a great time.

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So here is how this is going to
work.

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Navigating the room is going to
be Athletics Difficulty 8,

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however, which means it's kind
of like impossible.

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However, you may be able to
spend some of your investigative

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skills to figure out a way to
make it easier to get across

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this chamber.
You'll need to tell me which of

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your investigative skills you
wish to use.

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Can I use athletics?
That's not an investigative

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skill.
Athletics is just going to be

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the check to move across the
room that is at difficulty 8

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right now.
I would like to use Sense

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Trouble to figure out problem
areas throughout this mess.

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You know what?
Sure.

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Wait, sense trouble.
No, sense trouble's a general

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ability.
I'm looking for investigative

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abilities.
I was thinking more like

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architecture.
For instance, might be a thing

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to use.
I would like to use credit

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rating to see which of these
boards has resale value, thereby

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determining which are sturdiest.
None of them have resale value.

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They've been here for at least
50 years.

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It's a dangerous place.
Yes.

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What does architecture tell me?
Architecture tells me for each

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point you spend, the difficulty
of eight goes down by 1.

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OK, so that's how it's working.
Yes.

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Well, I'll spend my last
architecture there.

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Anybody else got something they
can justify?

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I'd like to try and justify
outdoorsmen, but I don't think

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that'll work.
You are the opposite of

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outdoors.
That's why I don't think that'll

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work.
Can I use preparedness?

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What would you be pulling out?
A hiking pole.

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Oh, just like a pole to to hold
things up.

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Hold things up, maybe very
lightly poke my way around, see

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if the poles are stable enough
for me to walk.

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That makes sense to me.
Yeah, make a difficulty 3

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preparedness role.
That's a three.

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OK, then that's a success.
So difficulty is now down to six

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and a Difficulty 6 athletics
check.

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I can see very few skills that
might be useful here.

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I don't have geology so.
Damn, I'd be so useful right

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now.
K, who is growing frustrated,

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more frustrated by the minute,
just whispers to yourself, God's

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wish we had JB right about now.
I'm going to float this idea.

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I I'm not 100% confident it will
be accepted, but I'll float it

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anyway using a cult.
Can I use where the most intact

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runes are to possibly aid us in
finding the most stable way

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across?
Like where essentially kind of

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like the room and like the ruins
themselves are the most intact.

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There are no ruins in this part
of the ruins.

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The ruins that you saw earlier
were in a what you assume might

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have been a temple or a library
of sorts.

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I tried.
Yeah, like I said.

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I I wasn't 100% confident with
it, but I thought it was anyway.

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Yeah, it seems like it might be,
you know the.

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The only other thing that I
could remotely justify would be

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archaeology.
Oh, archaeology for sure.

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So yeah, I can bend a point of
archaeology and that'll probably

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that'll take it to 5.
OK.

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Hey, hey, Colin.
Hello.

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What's your athletic one O?
One of two.

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I do have the two points now -6.
Yeah, I don't think I have any

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other skills that can reduce
that.

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Well, we can do a group action.
You could do a group action that

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is true.
The only thing I remember about

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that is that I need to spend a
point and I can do that.

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I will lead it.
So the way the group action

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works is that the person leading
is going to have to spend for

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each person who fails.
And everybody has to spend a

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point to participate.
I believe everyone has to spend

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a point to participate.
Let me double check that.

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When a group of FS Gators acted
concert to perform a task

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together, they designate one to
take the lead.

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That character makes a simple
test, spending any number of his

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own pool points towards the
task.

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As usual, all other characters
pay one point from the relevant

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pools in order to gain the
benefits of the leader's action.

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These points are not added to
the leader's style roll.

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For every character who is
unable to pay the piggybacking

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cost, either because of lack of
points or does not have the

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ability at all, the difficulty
number of the attempt increases

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by 1.
We could have been doing this

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before for like stealth and
stuff.

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Yes, you could have.
I feel like we have.

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One, I think maybe once.
So in that case, since I don't

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have to pay any extra, I'm going
to spend five points, OK?

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And just succeed.
I have athletics of eight, so

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basically you you 2 just need to
spend a point each.

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I'll take it.
Yeah.

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Thank you.
Works for me.

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Then with the five that means
you have an automatic success,

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correct?
Yep.

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Okay, we don't need to do the
rules about rushing across the

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chamber as it collapses or
anything.

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You guys got it?
Okay, yay.

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This is why we keep Reginald
around.

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That and murdering people.
I'm eating out.

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Regis MVP.
I mean, we've done been new.

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Do you now make it to the last
part of the catacombs?

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You get out of the ruins that
you were once in and go up a

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little bit to catacombs.
Sir Godfrey is with you and he

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says we are now in the catacombs
underneath their warehouse.

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If we are not quiet, they may
hear us coming.

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Would you like me to accompany
you?

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Would you like me to guard this
way out?

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He's just wearing normal clothes
right?

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Or is he wearing like.
OK well not sure how you 2 feel

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Colin and Kay, but I think he'd
be better to stick here and make

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sure nobody comes from this way
behind us.

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Well, based on that room we just
came through, what do you think

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the chances of that are?
We were able to get through it.

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Yeah, makes sense that somebody
else would too.

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I'm with Reg on this one.
All right, and.

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I'll keep an eye on the
catacombs because you come out

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into a catacomb that goes both
left and right, so he's going to

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like sort of hide and watch if
anybody comes either way.

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OK.
So unfortunately, the catacombs

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that do now enter into are
flooded about four feet deep

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with seawater, mud and rotten
bones.

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Those are three of my least
favorite things.

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You need to make a 2 point non
methos stability test.

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This isn't for loss, this is to
make it so you're not coughing

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and choking as you are going
through this area due to the

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smell and the disgustingness of
it.

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I can do that, yeah 5.
OK.

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I'm good.
Everybody made it.

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Great.
All right, I want to be very,

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very clear that I am holding the
flamethrower above my head.

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Yeah, I was wondering if
anyone's guessing.

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Yeah, you're going to need to
hold this stuff above your head.

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Oh yeah.
Because 4 feet is only one foot

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shorter than I am.
Wait, K is only 5 feet tall?

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Yes, I've mentioned that.
I forgot it was mentioned.

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I knew she was short, I just
didn't remember the exact

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height.
We stand a short queen.

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Yes, as you're going through,
the lights from your light

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sources show a weird oily orange
Sheen in the water as well.

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Yeah.
Put it in your mouth, JB.

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I am so sorry.
No worries.

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And honestly, this whole thing
is, look, it's absolutely

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fucking disgusting.
But there's no guards down here.

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What's the orange Sheen?
The orange sheet, I don't know,

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you could look at it a little
bit.

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Do you have a skill that you
could use to analyze orange

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sheets?
Chemistry.

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This probably nectar.
It's oozing into the ground from

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somewhere up ahead.
Keep your mouth shut.

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Yeah, I'm gonna whisper that to
my companions.

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Keep your mouth shut.
Cullen looks indignant.

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At least he doesn't say
anything, so I'll take it.

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So you'd see no immediate guards
anywhere around here.

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However, you are gonna need to
make a stealth check only

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difficulty 3 because nobody's
coughing and choking.

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I can just roll that straight
right even though I don't have

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the skill?
Or am I just screwed?

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Yeah, you could roll it
straight, yeah.

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OK, I'll trust in the heart of
the cards.

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Yay, there's 6.
I am going to spend 2 points.

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I'll spend one point.
Four.

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OK, you are now in the zero,
sort of the abandoned part of

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the tunnels.
Now as you were looking around,

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it's no longer full of gross
water on the ground.

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They are sort of Warrens with
wide low passages packed with

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supplies.
There's boxes, lots and lots of

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boxes down here.
And the passages are made with

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tightly fitted stones and
there's rubber mats that have

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been put on the floors for
traction.

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There's electric lamps hanging
from the ceiling every few feet,

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and there's cabling hung from
the mortar around.

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The lights are just bare bulbs.
However, there are nooks and

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crannies all over the place.
Visibility is very poor.

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Question about the boxes, are
they sealed?

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Some of them are, some of them
aren't.

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OK.
And like one of the ones that

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isn't sealed, Reg is going to
kind of look into it.

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This seems to be empty bottles.
What if we were to crack open

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one of the sealed crates?
You could do that, yeah.

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Absolutely.
All right, this seems to be full

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of not nectar itself, but stuff
that you would use to maybe

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actually do the bottling, Not
just like stoppers for the

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bottles, but like sealants and
stuff like that.

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Stuff to make it waterproof and
whatnot.

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OK.
And I'm assuming all of these

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are like wooden crates.
Yes, there's probably a crate

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full of nectar down here
somewhere, but the ones that you

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just looked at right now do not
have nectar.

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Maybe there's no nectar down
here, maybe the nectar somewhere

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else, maybe it's being used, I
don't know.

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I can't see what they'd be using
it.

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Huh.
At one point you do see an area

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with a bunch of bottles, not
bottles, jugs and drums, and

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they are hooked up into a
machine that is taking the stuff

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from the jugs and drums and
dripping it into bottles.

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I would like to make a
preparedness roll.

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OK.
I would like Reg to have a small

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bottle of acid of some sort.
OK, what would the difficulty of

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the roll be?
3?

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You know what, I'll only spend
one point boop ha ha.

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I rolled A7 in total.
OK, nice.

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So you have some acid?
Yep.

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And this barrel that is beating,
the thing that's dripping into

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bottles, is it like fully
sealed?

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Is there like a bung that I can
unscrew type deal?

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You could.
You could, yes.

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OK, so I'm unscrew, I'm open up
the bottle acid and then I'm

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dumping the whole bottle acid
into this barrel.

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OK, the orange nectar that's
inside there begins to shift and

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grow.
Sort of weird looking.

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And then I reclose it and
continue on my merry way.

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Cool.
Maybe you could just kill some

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people who take the doctor
instead of getting them

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addicted.
Or maybe it just won't work.

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Who knows?
So I'm going to say at this

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point, it's it seems like
there's usually a lot of work

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going on here.
You see like signs of people

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moving around.
This stuff is not dusty.

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But there's nobody down here,
right?

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You do see as you're exploring
around, there are some stairs

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leading upwards.
There is a small wooden door

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that says Donovan on it and
there is a thing that goes

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deeper into the tunnels where
you hear, not quite sure what

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the sound is, but it's a weird
sound coming from deeper in the

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tunnels.
He'll take a peek in the Donovan

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door.
Real quiet, sneaky peek.

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What's behind door #1 doors
locked.

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Reg is going to pull out his
lock picks.

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Am I going to need to spend?
Nope.

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Pretty easy lock to pick.
All right, This is an odd little

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room that you walk into.
It's a bit of Art Deco modernity

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in the midst of ancient stone.
There's a small desk, a

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bookshelf, and a safe.
Oh yeah, and a body on the

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floor.
Do we recognize that body?

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Well, it's face down at the
moment.

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I'd know that ass anywhere.
After we roll the body over, do

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we recognize the body?
It's Donovan.

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Okay, that about track.
Hey Colin, you wanna try and get

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into that safe?
You're a little bit better with

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locks than I am.
I'll take a crack at it.

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You'll need to spend a point to
open the safe.

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I remember Donovan mentioning
that there is a book in his

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office with a spell on either
how to draw down the moon or How

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to make the stars don't shine.
Something like that.

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I would like to look for SAD
book.

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Knowing to know exactly what to
look for, you find a book that

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explains that gives you a spell
to open the sky.

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Splendid.
You'll need to spend some time

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to look at it later.
Again, the bookshelf here has

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some occult books, but it's
mostly ledgers.

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No Necronomicon Gotcha.
Ledgers, excellent.

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I'll take a couple of those.
Why wouldn't I?

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I shall pocket the book.
If you look at it, I mean, just

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looking at the ledgers, just
even briefly looking at it, this

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is a record of where all of the
nectar is going and it's going

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throughout all of Europe.
It seems like they are shipping

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an obscene amount of nectar from
this place.

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00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,400
Well, it's a cult that deals in
obscenities.

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Fair enough.
How did Donovan die?

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Yeah, I have first aid.
Suicide.

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Can I tell?
Not a suicide.

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His his throat was cut open.
That tracks, unfortunately.

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00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,240
Oh, you know what?
Actually, I said the records

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would be on the shelves.
They're not on the shelves.

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They're in the safe that you
open up.

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But you do open up.
They're in the safe.

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But just glancing at it, you're
able to tell that this is going

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to most of Europe.
However, it is in code as you're

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looking at it, so you'll need to
spend some time decoding it if

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you want greater details on it.
But even just a quick glance at

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it, this seems to be going to
like at least 50 different

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places.
Well, I'll hold on to that.

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Yeah, put it in my breast
pocket.

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The other books on the shelves
are like law books and history

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books, and then the book that
you find K is actually just a

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blank book, like a journal with
a scrawled instructions in

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Donovan's hand about how to open
the sky.

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00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,080
Oh, it's in his hand.
His handwriting, I mean, it's

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not like his you know what?
I mean, gotcha.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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OK, now I get it.
I shall pocket the book.

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Yeah.
Speaking of Donovan's hands,

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what else is on his body?
Yeah, Speaking of pockets.

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Loop that body.
I mean, he has a wallet with

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some money in it.
I guess it's good besides that.

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00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,040
Like it's not, Yeah.
I was hoping for like Portia's

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picture.
There is a picture of Porsche in

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there, yes, and his son the.
Desk.

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It's locked.
OK, I will pick the lock on the

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desk.
Easy lock to pick.

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And as well using like evidence
collection, conceal, stuff like

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that.
Are there any?

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Like is there anything funky,
any secret pie holes, anything

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like that?
That's a good idea to look for

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secret hidey holes.
No secret hidey holes here.

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However, there is a letter
sitting in there.

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What does the letter say?
I'm going to post a copy of the

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letter in the clues thread.
JB I don't know why our mouth

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and Malto would tell me
anything.

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Anything.
Yours won't tell you.

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00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,680
I don't know why it tells me any
of the awful things it tells me.

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But what it has spoken to me of
late coincides with what

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Trammell had told me some time
ago.

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That wherever the body that goes
with our mouths may be, it is

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hidden by the earth, protected
by stone, sealed away from air

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and eyes except for key moments
when the stone flexes itself

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like a mouth and the body takes
a breath.

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It does this when the moon is
dark and the stars shine down.

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And I have found a means of
making this happen when we might

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need it to happen, should we
ever need to jam a gun in that

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crack in the earth.
I still don't know where to find

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that devouring mountain that
hides the great belly our hungry

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00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,280
mouths feed.
Perhaps you'll have more luck

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00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,120
determining that than I have
had.

404
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,040
My mind is elsewhere.
Keep yours to the business at

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00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,360
hand.
Our grip on this thing grows

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weak.
MD.

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00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,560
Well, it sounds like we need to
find AJB.

408
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,640
Wait, we're doing that already?
I don't think it's this one.

409
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,520
No, I think we would know,
wouldn't we, if it were?

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00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,160
Well, maybe it's a secret to JB
too.

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What was Donovan's first name?
Montgomery.

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Montgomery.
OK, so there's stairs that go up

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and then there's, yeah, down the
tunnel.

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There's weird noises coming from
there.

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00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,400
What sort of weird noises?
Are they mouth noises?

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That's kind of like mouth
sounds, yeah.

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00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,000
What are we thinking?
We have two options.

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Splitting up is probably a bad
idea, but at the same time time

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is up the essence.
I got 2 guesses what that sound

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down the hall is and I got a
bundle of dynamite with a

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mouth's name on it.
Oh God, I they don't have names,

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do they?
Let's hope not.

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Well, they usually do, but so
many consonants and not enough

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vowels, they're all kind of
messed up.

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00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,000
I don't expect anybody's going
to be paying Donovan a visit

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anytime soon, so I could stick
here with my package here, give

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00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,720
you guys a bit of time to find
JB and find my own way out, I

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00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,680
guess.
Wait, what are you suggesting?

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He wants to blow the mouth on
his own.

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00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,320
On your own, are you nuts?
You want to have another run in

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00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,360
with one of those things?
As I recall, the last one didn't

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end so hot.
Well, maybe a little too hot.

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Mr. Kane, first and foremost, I
sort of know what to expect this

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time.
Secondly, I sort of gesture at

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my flamethrower.
Oh no, I've got a lighter.

436
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:42,920
Well, so do IA bigger one.
And thirdly, no, it's just wrong

437
00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,880
to send you to face that thing
all on your own.

438
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:48,280
Well, if that's what we're
deciding, let's get the chit

439
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,800
chat and go find JP, who knows
what they're doing to him.

440
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,640
That's.
Probably probably best we

441
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,960
explode the mouth after we find
him, right?

442
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,160
That's what I'm thinking.
I mean it might be a good

443
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,280
distraction.
Fuck, it might be.

444
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,960
Your call.
Reg, you want to weigh in.

445
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,040
Like I said, splitting up might
be a bad idea, especially

446
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,480
considering this mouth is
probably more powerful than the

447
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,920
previous one.
The late Mr. Donovan here did

448
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,040
mention that the mouth was 30
feet across I believe.

449
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,760
And speaking.
I strongly suspect that the

450
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,920
first mouth had that ability as
well.

451
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,600
We never listened to that
record.

452
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,200
I'm just going to not dwell on
that.

453
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,000
Yeah.
I guess you also have an ally

454
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,880
here if you want to go talk to
him as well I guess, but.

455
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,600
Donovan.
No, he's dead.

456
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,960
That's not quite who I meant,
but you know, Sir Godfrey is

457
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,360
what I was talking about,
actually.

458
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,920
Yeah, but then we're
backtracking.

459
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,000
We got to find JB.
OK, OK.

460
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,720
Where do you think they might
hold him if they have him?

461
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,360
Would it be in the warehouse
proper, in one of the offices?

462
00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:55,280
Or would it be next to the God's
damned mouth?

463
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,680
I suppose it depends what their
intentions are for.

464
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,120
I think we should all go check
the warehouse first.

465
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,880
Yeah, it might be an idea.
Well, let's get Adel.

466
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,080
Do do do do do do.
Can we do so in a stealthy

467
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:10,200
fashion?
Oh, you'd have to roll for

468
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,000
stealth.
How stealthy is a flamethrower?

469
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,040
Not very.
As you approach the stairs you

470
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,400
hear the sounds of lots of
people moving around machinery

471
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,600
and actually you hear like the
laughing of waves as well.

472
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,760
Or not like waves, but just
like, you know, walk hitting

473
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,760
like a dog.
How many people would you say?

474
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,360
A warehouse full.
You know what, let's just go

475
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,600
blow up that mouth real quick
and then find JB.

476
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,560
Well, what if JB is being held
next to the mouth?

477
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:42,760
Yeah, that's fine.
Well then.

478
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,160
Then you've found JB and you can
blow up the mouth safely.

479
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,040
Exactly.
They blow up the mouth.

480
00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:50,560
People run towards the mouth
maybe.

481
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,560
And you wait on the stairs with
the flamethrower.

482
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,200
I understand.
Oh my God.

483
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:56,960
Honestly, I don't.
I don't.

484
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,600
Know if we're going to be
splitting up like this, it would

485
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,280
probably be better for me to go
deal with the mouth.

486
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:08,000
I'm more suited to deal with
anything else that may arise, EG

487
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:12,360
people other than the mouth.
Yeah, I can't argue with you

488
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:14,320
there.
All right, Well, if I give you

489
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,120
this, I got nothing for myself.
Give me, give me one of those

490
00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:18,840
grenades.
Yeah, a grenade.

491
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,120
OK, we trade.
I hold it out like Brick

492
00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,040
Tamlund.
Do you wish to approach the

493
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,480
mouth?
Yes, Reg is going to be

494
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,240
approaching the mouth.
I'll be behind you.

495
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,520
You know what?
In the stairs.

496
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,600
I sort of wanted to roast the
damn thing.

497
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,120
That's the whole point of the
dynamite.

498
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,120
Well, OK.
If you would like to come along,

499
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:41,640
that's that's up to you.
Colin, you think you can look

500
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,720
for JV upstairs on your own?
Where do you think it'll be?

501
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,880
Helped.
Well, I'm not feeling too hot so

502
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,880
I guess I could give it a shot.
Can't we all go to one place and

503
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,400
then all go to another place?
Do we have to let's.

504
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,080
Let's do that then, please.
At which place is that the

505
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,560
mouth?
Yeah, the mouth.

506
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,400
All right, as you walk down the
tunnels, the floor begins to get

507
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:10,400
sticky until you realize that
you're stepping through a

508
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:15,960
viscous substance and you
realize that there's like 2 feet

509
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:22,160
of nectar on the ground.
There is so much nectar here you

510
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,120
could just reach down and pick
it up.

511
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,280
Just scoop it out easily.
God.

512
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,200
It's a foul frothy soup.
Reg, I hate to ask, you got a

513
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,640
spare flask?
Want to get some of this stuff

514
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:39,400
analyzed?
Reg goes into one of his jacket

515
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,200
pockets and pulls out this old,
beaten up, very well worn flath.

516
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,760
Here, you owe me a new one.
Yeah, it looks like it was about

517
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,800
time anyway.
At the end of the tunnel is some

518
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,840
kind of shrine or sanctuary,
constructed out of the same sort

519
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,280
of stones as the passageway.
However, the walls here adorned

520
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,360
with flaking plaster.
Looking at it seems like it's a

521
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,920
stylized mural of the Knights of
Malta battling the Ottoman fleet

522
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,240
during the Great Siege.
The floor is now knee deep with

523
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,560
nectar.
You look around, but you do not

524
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,480
see a mouth sticking out of the
ground.

525
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:21,720
Then you look up.
Growing out of the center of the

526
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:28,160
arch ceiling, dribbling nectar
onto the ground, is another one

527
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,640
of these massive mouths.
These things can pop up

528
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,920
everywhere.
Filled with horrible teeth at a

529
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,840
long, awful tongue.
Just the one.

530
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,640
I need you to make sense trouble
checks to see if you noticed it

531
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,880
before it lashed out at you.
Fuck.

532
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,480
Difficulty.
Just three.

533
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,400
It's kind of loud and gross,
yeah.

534
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,760
I'm going to succeed.
I'm going to spend one point.

535
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,600
OK.
I'm good.

536
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,360
I'm spending one point.
I'm spending two points.

537
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,360
I'm just succeeding.
Great.

538
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,840
So it's not going to get a
surprise on you.

539
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:06,160
Now we have to base off of what
is it stats, the mouth of Malta.

540
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:10,240
So one of you will get to do
something before it gets to go.

541
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,800
You guys will decide which one
of you gets to do something.

542
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,560
Maybe it's ABK?
I kind of feel like, yeah, let's

543
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,840
set this shit on fire, OK?
I point the nozzle of the

544
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,280
flamethrower at the center of
the mouth and fire.

545
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,080
OK, I need you to make an
explosives check or I guess I

546
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,680
could let you make a firearms
check.

547
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,200
OK, I've got firearms and
weapons so.

548
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,840
Yeah, this would be fire.
What's the difficulty?

549
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,560
It's hit threshold is 2.
You need to score A2.

550
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,880
It's pretty easy to hit.
It is just a big fucking target

551
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,800
basically.
I am going to spend the points

552
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,960
and succeed.
Now it's time to figure out how

553
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,240
much a flamethrower it is.
Now I I had an I had an idea of

554
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,920
how it was going so based it off
the explosion damage table.

555
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,120
It's not even any eyes to
explode like super heated eggs.

556
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,720
What a.
Horrible statement.

557
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,240
Why would you say that?
No reason.

558
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,240
We can crack some teeth, make
some popcorn.

559
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,280
It is going to be +2 bandage.
OK, you know what?

560
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,040
Plus 4 + 2.
That's a 5, so 9 total. 9 total.

561
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,120
Great.
Damn, you set that shit on fire.

562
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,640
I sort of picture it like little
form of cage silhouetted against

563
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:38,320
the roaring inferno of fire that
she's just pouring into this

564
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,480
thing.
All right, Almost get blasted

565
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,280
back by the.
It begins to spray nectar

566
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,960
everywhere, enough to sort of
put the fire out that is on it,

567
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:53,400
unfortunately for you guys.
And then it begins to shout, get

568
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,200
down here.
They're here at attacking.

569
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,560
Oh, I meant to plug my ears
before we came in here.

570
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,120
Hearing the voice does not drive
you mad or anything.

571
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,560
It may drive you to death as
reinforcements begin to arrive.

572
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,120
That's OK, we got Kay watching
the stairs with the flame

573
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:11,920
thrower.
That's you.

574
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,080
Look over to Kay.
I can fall back.

575
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,120
Well, yeah.
No, well, it's not.

576
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,400
It's not your go yet.
Back.

577
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,360
OK, OK.
So a couple of things that are

578
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,160
going to happen right now.
They're saying Kay got to do

579
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,840
their attack right away.
However, there are some

580
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,520
stability tests that are going
to be to occur.

581
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,800
I was wondering when those were
going to happen.

582
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,120
Yes, exactly.
This is a difficulty. 5 checks

583
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,640
stability loss of two.
Because this is like some awful

584
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,280
Cthulhu shit.
This is like worse than the

585
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,400
mouth you saw before.
If you fail, you will lose a

586
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,640
point of sanity as well.
OK, well I'm going to spend 2

587
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,160
points of stability in that
case.

588
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,200
That gives me a six.
There's only one way I want to

589
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,800
lose sanity.
I'll spend 1.

590
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,760
You're the one who makes you
with sanity, not some mouth.

591
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,280
Exactly.
That's a three.

592
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,920
I failed.
So you lose 2 stability and one

593
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,640
sanity.
I actually think it's probably

594
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,680
more stability, but that's fine,
we'll leave it to it.

595
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,720
More horrible things are about.
To happen anyway I've.

596
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,360
Seen some shit?
It's OK.

597
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,640
I feel like you feel that I pick
on, you know, like you were

598
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,080
betrayed by that person and the
mouth attacked before.

599
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,760
I will note however, you are the
one who just attacked this

600
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,520
mouth.
I agree so.

601
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,480
It's going to reach down with
its tongue to hoist you into the

602
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:35,920
air.
Bring.

603
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,760
It on you son of a bitch.
We should have given her the

604
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,880
dynamite.
What is your hip threshold?

605
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,240
It's probably.
Three How much athletics do you

606
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,840
have?
6 total, yeah, so.

607
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,440
It's two.
It's going to spend 2 points,

608
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,520
fucker, because it's got points.
It has a pool.

609
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,600
It gets used up its pool, but it
has a pool.

610
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,400
About where we're standing in
the pool.

611
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:06,760
So it reaches down and in lieu
of doing damage you are hoist

612
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,320
into the air and brought into
the mouth.

613
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,280
You are now going to be taking
automatic bike damage every

614
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,199
round till you escape.
But I'm assuming K is like

615
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,239
blocking the entrance to the
mouth basically at this point.

616
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,360
Yeah, well that fucked my plan.
Can I scream?

617
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,760
Sure, I assumed you did.
Can I scream words?

618
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,360
Yeah.
What a strange thing to scream.

619
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,120
I scream at the top of my lungs.
Blow it up.

620
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:40,760
How a bunga it is then call it.
Do you mind if I go next?

621
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,440
All right, go ahead, make some
choices.

622
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,080
OK, well, a choice is being
made.

623
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,239
So, Daniel.
Yes.

624
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,679
Since I have the background of
being in the military, I would

625
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:53,719
have an understanding of
approximately how long I could

626
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,160
cook off a hand grenade, right?
Yes, it's gonna be tricky to

627
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,200
throw a hand grenade like up
into this thing, but yeah, sure,

628
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,800
yeah.
The plan is I'm gonna pull the

629
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,720
pin and let it cook off just
enough that like I can throw it

630
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:10,560
and by the time it gets
basically to the mouth it

631
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,600
explodes.
OK so I do wanna know K is in

632
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,560
there with a flamethrower on her
back.

633
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,880
I understand this.
She also gave the go ahead to

634
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,400
blow this thing.
OK, OK, I've just I've just.

635
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,120
Otherwise I would have taken
another option because I was

636
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,800
coming up with another idea,
but, she said blown it.

637
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,240
You're you're a man who follows
orders, OK?

638
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,680
Oh God oh fuck this sucks, This
sucks, this sucks, this sucks.

639
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:44,040
Cullen watches the grenade
casually fly into the air and

640
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,640
finds his mind wandering.
Thanks, GB is doing right now.

641
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,920
So you said the hip threshold on
this thing was 2?

642
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:54,400
It's gonna be 3 cuz K is in the
way.

643
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,360
OK, I will spend 2 points.
OK.

644
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,680
And I'm assuming it's gonna be
explosives, right?

645
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,040
Oh yeah.
Yeah.

646
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,240
So yeah, I'll, I'll spend 2
points, that is 8.

647
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,480
Great K is also going to take 8
damage from that.

648
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,960
I'm at 0.
OK, cool, now it's now your

649
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,160
shit's going to explode.
I'm going to say it's like a gas

650
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,680
made exploding going to be AD 6
+ 9.

651
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,560
That's 13.
No.

652
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:25,120
I knew what I was doing.
There is an explosion that rocks

653
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:29,200
the entire catacombs.
You are thrown off your feet.

654
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:34,120
This thing screams out in pain,
but only for a moment.

655
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,480
Kay makes no sound.
There's barely anything left of

656
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:45,200
her after the explosion.
I'm going to have to have you

657
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,000
guys make some stability tests.
What's the potential loss?

658
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,040
I'm about to tell you.
I'm trying to figure out what

659
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,520
this would be.
It's bad.

660
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:53,640
Yeah.
Oh, no.

661
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,040
Very easily.
You see a friend killed.

662
00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:03,560
Oh, no, you kill a friend.
So one of you, Reggie, you just

663
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,360
threw that, right?
Yeah, I did.

664
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:09,240
That's going to be a potential
loss of eight difficulty 4.

665
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,760
OK, you know what?
I'm just gonna spend 3.

666
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,520
That seems like the responsible
thing to do and watching

667
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,800
somebody, It's gonna be a loss
of 6 for you, Colin.

668
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,520
Yeah, I'll spend a point on
that, I guess.

669
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,240
What's the difficulty?
Four No.

670
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,400
OK, that's not so bad.
I did it.

671
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,880
Oh, you did I?
Will say I have dissociated a

672
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:35,520
little bit here.
Yeah, understandably so, JP.

673
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:43,760
I.
You have been fed nectar.

674
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,680
Uh huh, your.
Heart races as the nectar pours

675
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,680
down your throat.
Of course it pours through your

676
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,560
veins.
It feels like an acid.

677
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,480
It's burning away my.
Capacity for rational thought

678
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,560
Rational.
Thought it feels like dying,

679
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:05,040
like falling, like the.
Music of a touch like.

680
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,880
Floating.
Dreaming.

681
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:09,440
You're scamming me.
Torn.

682
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,280
Off to reveal the beauty of
what's beneath.

683
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:16,320
Of what's beneath.
Time passes during my rapture.

684
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,840
I don't know how much it doesn't
matter.

685
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:24,520
People may enter the room, poke
me, prod me, laugh, cry, scream.

686
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,360
It doesn't matter.
All I know is the ecstasy of

687
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:33,000
nectar flooding my mind until
eventually, unceremoniously, it

688
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,520
leaves me like the remembered
caress of a lover whose face I

689
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:44,920
can no longer recall.
You wake up.

690
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,360
I do wake up and I still vomit.
Yes.

691
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:53,840
JB like vaguely starts pulling
himself up and I guess Step 1 is

692
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,520
just like trying to figure out
where.

693
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,760
Your clothes went.
I think you're wearing some of.

694
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,120
Your clothes?
Yeah, If I'm dressed adjacent,

695
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,080
that's fine for now.
I got to get out of this office

696
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:05,800
and figure out what the hell is
going on.

697
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:11,720
As you look out the window, you
see that there are about 30 men

698
00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:16,280
and women who seem to be in the
process of loading stuff onto a

699
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,840
boat that was docked here.
Actually, some of them are

700
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:25,600
loading stuff onto a boat,
others are seem to be doing

701
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,960
something else with several
barrels.

702
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,080
You're not quite sure what
they're doing, but with the

703
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,120
gigantic explosion they have
sort of stopped what they are

704
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,760
doing and several of them are
running downstairs.

705
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:39,840
Yeah, my instincts tell me that
if there was an explosion, my

706
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,880
friends definitely just did
something.

707
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,160
I'm also going to try and find
my way downstairs then OK?

708
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,240
Well, first the stairs you have
to go down are the office

709
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:51,320
stairs.
The office is actually unlocked.

710
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,280
You're able to make it out.
And you see that panic has

711
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,280
gripped everyone down here.
You would probably not be able

712
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,320
to make your way out of here
easily.

713
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,800
But now everybody seems to be
freaking out.

714
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,720
Some people are running to the
boat.

715
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,560
Some people are running
downstairs.

716
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,840
Some people are running out the
front door.

717
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,920
I want you to make me a sense.
Another Sense Trouble Roll

718
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,040
difficulty 3.
All right, what'd you?

719
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,520
Get a three because I spent one
on that.

720
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:21,240
OK, good, good.
The barrels that have been set

721
00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:25,760
up around here, you see the
shivering of gasoline in them.

722
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:31,520
Oh, it's very time to go.
It appears that actually they

723
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,560
have been setting up to detonate
this warehouse.

724
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,640
I got to find my friends.
If you would like, you could try

725
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,200
to go downstairs.
Are you just going to try to run

726
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,640
straight downstairs to find your
friends, or are you going to try

727
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,800
to sneak downstairs?
Well, time is of the essence

728
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:50,000
now, so running sounds good, but
all these fucking idiots are

729
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,680
probably going to try.
And no, there's no way out of

730
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,040
this mess.
Well, you could blend in.

731
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,520
Yeah, it occurs to me that
running is blending in.

732
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:02,480
Everyone is running.
Everyone is running, that is

733
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:03,920
true.
Everyone is running.

734
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,400
Running is blend again.
Yeah, I'm running.

735
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,120
I'm running OK.
When in Rome?

736
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,000
Yes, this isn't the sort of cult
with a dress code, so a little

737
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,200
easier.
In fact, by being partially

738
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,080
dressed, I'm probably applying
the dress code.

739
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,760
You make your way downstairs,
you sort of follow a throng.

740
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:27,760
A few of them are grabbing
nectar boxes and bringing them

741
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,960
upstairs.
People are shouting we have to

742
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:34,400
go down, whereas others like we
have to protect the mouth and

743
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,760
they are running with them.
Are you going to go with the

744
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,840
crew that is running towards the
mouth or you're going to go

745
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,000
elsewhere in these tunnels?
Now the going with the crew

746
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,440
that's running towards the mouth
makes the most sense to me.

747
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,440
OK.
How many are there?

748
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,600
That are making their way
towards the mouth 6 Let's get

749
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:58,680
back to the two people in the
mouth chamber. 7 People rush

750
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,560
into the room.
Grenade.

751
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,680
What?
Grenade.

752
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:14,040
Oh yeah, grenade.
OK, make it explosives check.

753
00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:17,240
OK, Difficulty 3.
I will spend a point.

754
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,600
OK.
That is a three.

755
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,280
Great, I'm a grenade.
How much damage did we say that

756
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,000
was going to do?
D 6 + 3 as I recall.

757
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,520
OK, roll me AD 6 + 3.
I'm at the back of the crowd.

758
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,360
Does that allow me any kind of?
That's a 5.

759
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:39,760
That's A5 all right.
Explosion does 5 damage so

760
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,720
that's good.
Hey JBI, need you to take 5

761
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:46,120
damage no?
How we?

762
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,360
That brings me to 0.
OK, so I have.

763
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,840
This good going horribly.
I have great news.

764
00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:58,000
All of the goons who are coming
in to get you are on the ground.

765
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,960
Well, that's better than flying
goons, I suppose, Yes.

766
00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:03,680
Please tell me you noticed that
one of the people on the ground

767
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,840
happens to be a very unconscious
me.

768
00:43:07,240 --> 00:43:09,520
I'm not dead dead, am I?
You're not dead dead.

769
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:10,760
No, you're not.
Wounded.

770
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,400
Yeah, you're just wounded, Yeah.
What was that, Renee?

771
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,560
I was just as somebody who has
had experience with being

772
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:22,680
wounded, unconscious and dead,
I'm just letting Nathan know

773
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,160
that no, you're not in fact
dead.

774
00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:25,640
Just.
Yet holy shit, Trinity.

775
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,880
You are considered hurt.
You've suffered no permanent

776
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,280
injury beyond a few superficial
cuts and bruises.

777
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,280
All of your difficulties are
going to be increased by one.

778
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,200
However, you're also gonna need
to roll to stay conscious.

779
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,680
And what's that gonna be?
You must make a concentration

780
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,480
roll roll die with the absolute
value of your current health

781
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,440
poll as your difficulty.
Oh, difficulty's zero so you

782
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,560
actually succeed automatically.
So you won't need to roll nice

783
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:55,040
so you can stay conscious.
OK, I'm still conscious.

784
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,240
I kind of pull myself up off the
ground and I'm like, what the

785
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,560
hell was that for?
All right, Reg.

786
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,200
One's still up and I'm all out
of grenades.

787
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:07,400
I I think that might be JB.
No.

788
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,600
Fuck.
And my vision's a bit blurry, my

789
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,120
ears are a bit ringing.
I don't notice that someone's

790
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,360
missing yet.
Yeah.

791
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,160
What do you guys want to do?
Rush over first aid.

792
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,760
By the way, you are again knee
deep and nectar.

793
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,560
Of course I am.
And kind of like while they're,

794
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:26,480
while people are around me, I'm
like, we got to go.

795
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,280
They're going to, they're going
to destroy the whole warehouse.

796
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,840
They're setting up gas cans
upstairs.

797
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,960
We got to get out of here.
We got a pretty good start on

798
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:35,800
that ourselves.
I'm.

799
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,920
Going to go back and take a look
at where the mouth was.

800
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,160
Is it still there?
It's gone.

801
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,160
In fact, you look up and you see
like you see a mouth is up there

802
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:53,160
still, but instead of being like
oozing and gushing, it's just in

803
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,480
the stone above.
You see just the carving of

804
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,360
them, and even that is starting
to break away.

805
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,320
OK.
You also notice, miraculously,

806
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:09,320
just for the fuck of it, a book
has fallen out of Kay's bag into

807
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,440
the nectar here.
Thank you.

808
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,080
I was gonna ask, yes.
I was so worried about that

809
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,360
fucking book.
Yes.

810
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,200
I I will grab the book, Yeah,
But yeah, if it looks like the

811
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,000
remnants of the mouth is
continuing to deteriorate, Reg

812
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:27,920
is going to say a a quick silent
farewell to Kay and rush back to

813
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,400
the other two.
Can I?

814
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,800
Can I say something?
Yeah, of course.

815
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:38,000
Sorry I interrupted you, Damon.
A You see, a silver chain got

816
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,920
sort of tangled on the book.
On the chain there are two

817
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,160
budding bands, a small one and a
large one.

818
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,800
New bookmark SO.
Let me see that.

819
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,600
It's fucking grim.
This is all very grim.

820
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,240
Reg has a sanity of three.
OK.

821
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,560
Yeah, that'd do it.
OK, yeah, I hope you guys aren't

822
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:11,040
playing in the hyperspace gate
anywhere anytime soon so you can

823
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,560
make your first aid check over
here.

824
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,880
OK, and what's my difficulty?
A Difficulty 3.

825
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,640
I'll spend the two points and
then I will spend a further 2

826
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,440
points to get JB to 4.
Well, no, you don't need to

827
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,040
spend the additional.
The two you're spending to

828
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,440
succeed at your role right are
also going to heal them.

829
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,440
OK, I'll do that then.
So Trixie skill.

830
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,720
Yeah, J BS at 4:00.
There you go, good as new.

831
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,160
Take one of these immediately
and 2:00 in the morning

832
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,640
cigarettes.
What do you do?

833
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,840
For first aid or for fleeing?
First aid's done.

834
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:43,440
OK.
Yeah.

835
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,120
Flee, get the fuck out.
How did?

836
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,160
You back through the catacombs.
Oh well, that explains it.

837
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,040
Is Reg catching up to us?
Yep.

838
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:54,080
All right, Reg, we're going back
through the catacombs.

839
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:55,920
Kit Kane, come out.
Come along.

840
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,280
That might be a problem.
Yeah.

841
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:01,920
All right, so catch up.
Let's go.

842
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:07,680
I need you to make a fleeing or
athletics check difficulty 3.

843
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,240
Big time fleeing.
You know what, I'll just spend 2

844
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:11,960
points in athletics.
I'll spend 1.

845
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,320
I'm kind of curious what happens
if I fail this.

846
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,520
No, that's a three anyway.
I will also spend 2 points in

847
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:22,600
athletics.
You flee into the catacombs, you

848
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:29,840
see your by the way JB, you see
there is a a very old concerned

849
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,320
looking man and he says wait,
where's Kay?

850
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,360
Plan went off without a hit.
Let's get going.

851
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,680
I could go back for her.
Did she?

852
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,560
She was taken by the mouth.
What?

853
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,480
What?
That kind of snaps JB out of it.

854
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,280
JB, I'm going to need you to
make a stability check.

855
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:51,480
Yeah, yeah.
Difficulty 3 Loss of five.

856
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:56,160
And Reg did not lie.
Oh, Collin's not lying.

857
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,560
He's just dissociated enough
that it hasn't really dawned on

858
00:47:58,560 --> 00:47:58,920
him.
Yeah.

859
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,600
Yeah, I'm going to spend 2
points of stability just to

860
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:07,520
succeed that.
OK, you escape the catacombs.

861
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:12,000
You make it back to the Shrine
of the Templars.

862
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,520
As you are going, you hear
another explosion.

863
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:22,680
All right.
And I believe you have crippled,

864
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:27,000
though not completely wiped out,
the Colt and Malta.

865
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,200
One more loose end to wrap up.
Got to get those kids out of the

866
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,440
hospital.
Oh.

867
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:37,600
Yeah, hopefully they're OK.
I think the colt has more things

868
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:43,280
to worry about right now then.
And setting up more sacrifices

869
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,080
to get their mouth up and
running again.

870
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,440
Yeah.
What do you do?

871
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,160
Do you just like go into the
hospital just wielding guns and

872
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,280
say give us the fucking kids?
Like what are we doing?

873
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,480
I'm, I'm not imagining any guns
need to be placing, but I'll,

874
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,320
I'll get up to the critical care
ward.

875
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,360
I'm guessing they're having a
kind of busy day and it doesn't

876
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:04,680
take a lot of sneaking to get in
there.

877
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,720
Sure.
You know what?

878
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,360
I think this could work,
especially when the Chief Doctor

879
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,600
here is one of the major cult
members who is not here right

880
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,960
now.
Do you want to take Monty Junior

881
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:20,080
and the orphan boy Alexi?
Absolutely.

882
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,400
Can I, just so that it at least
looks like we're on the up and

883
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:29,480
up, spend a point of bureaucracy
to make it look like we have

884
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,720
official paperwork to transfer
these two kids to a different

885
00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:37,400
hospital?
Absolutely, absolutely nice.

886
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,040
I will do that.
We're kind of montaging a little

887
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,240
bit right now.
You know what I mean?

888
00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:44,880
Just kind of like these these
big shots of what's going on.

889
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,480
Yeah, I think that works great.
Where are you taking these two

890
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,920
children?
Straight to the airport.

891
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,600
Straight to the airport.
Time to get the fuck out of

892
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:55,840
Malta.
OK.

893
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:03,560
Yeah.
And I think we end with, I think

894
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,840
there's a moment of Kearns
realizing that Kay is dead.

895
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,720
And the last thing he did was
shut the door on me.

896
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,040
Yeah, that's not gonna affect
him very well.

897
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,200
He's gonna be having a rough
time with that.

898
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,440
Yeah, join the fucking club.
Asshole.

899
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,360
And what's one thing each of you
are doing as the plane flies

900
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:23,680
away?
Sobbing.

901
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,720
OK, JB is sobbing.
OK.

902
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,840
Reg is pouring himself into
research.

903
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,680
Looking back at Trammell's
testament, maybe try to track

904
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,240
down the next lead on the colt.
Yes, we'll go with.

905
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:42,280
That OK, And what about our
rapidly dissociated Colin?

906
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:44,080
Colin is sitting calmly in his
seat.

907
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,160
He reaches down to his collar to
adjust the tie that's been

908
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,040
sitting in his pocket since Tom.
It's not there, it's in his

909
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:56,200
pocket, but he feels the wet
there, and as he pulls his hand

910
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,480
up and sees the red on his
fingers that finally hits him,

911
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,600
he watched the grenade fly up.
He saw the look on her face.

912
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,920
He saw the flash, felt the
blast, the shrapnel, the wet.

913
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:16,960
He sits in his seat, the shroud
of dissociation setting in snug

914
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:21,480
once more, and thinks that this
is just what happens to Colin

915
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:43,790
Kane's friends.
Thanks for listening.

916
00:51:44,270 --> 00:51:48,270
K Morgan was played by Renee, JB
Faulk is Nathan Reginald Kilt

917
00:51:48,270 --> 00:51:50,750
Worth is Damian and our GM is
Daniel.

918
00:51:51,950 --> 00:51:55,310
Mixing, mastering, musicking and
playing Colin Kane was Russell.

919
00:51:55,790 --> 00:51:58,270
Her album art is by Trinity the
Tea Time Witch.

920
00:51:58,510 --> 00:52:01,550
Our main theme is by Claire LW.
And a special thanks to Mike

921
00:52:01,550 --> 00:52:04,070
Christensen for reading our
intro this time around.

922
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,720
Check them out on YouTube over
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923
00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:09,960
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924
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:11,600
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925
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,400
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926
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,080
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927
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,200
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928
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,760
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929
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,440
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930
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,240
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931
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932
00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:29,440
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933
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934
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,840
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935
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936
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:39,680
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937
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