Eternal Lies 14: Felons, Forgers, and Fools
The only thing hotter than the leads the investigators are hunting down is everything else in Ethiopia. As they make their ponderous way to Dallol and Ayers the team talks to a frustrated archaeologist, an idling middle manager, and a third, more mysterious figure.
Content Warnings: Cut-off shorts, trauma, alcohol abuse
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Damien as Reginald Kilworth, Traumatized Veteran
Nathan as JB Faulk, Accidental True Crime Author
Russell as Collin Kane, Soft-Boiled Private Eye
René as Franklin Kerns, Beleaguered Pilot
And Daniel Fernandez as The GM
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Content Warnings: references to historical fascists, trauma, player characters in conflict
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Russell did mention several of
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OK, he mentioned the the other
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Perfect.
OK, into the episode.
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We're using all of this baby
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All right, so shit, it's been a
while.
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What happened last time?
Last time on Eternal lies, after
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tending moons and trading blows
back in New York, our
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investigators travelled to war
ravaged Ethiopia to track down
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George Ayres.
Immediately faced with a
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significant language barrier,
the investigators nonetheless
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sussed out the whereabouts of 1
of Eyre's associates before
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Colin and Reg elected to hunt
down a local guide, while Kearns
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and Fawkes secured
transportation from the
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occupying fascists.
The die is cast, the pact is
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sealed.
May God have mercy on our souls.
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It's Daniels Dread Tails which.
Is where you are going to go to
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on a boat.
Then you've got the train tracks
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to to lead to Kaluli and Iron
Point.
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Then you'll need to walk to
Dowel, and then from Dowel
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you'll need to walk to the
Mountain Way to take some less.
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Oh, that's what the MF stands
for.
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It's a good thing you clarified.
Yes.
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Good thing that doesn't mean
anything else anyway.
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Yeah, means missing features.
Any of the UMFS won't agree to
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Campfire card.
What's this about Campfire
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cards?
Renee runs the D&D Club at our
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local school and one of her
students gave her campfire cards
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as a gift at the end of the
year.
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Oh.
It's a little RPG in addition to
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any RPG game.
Characters sitting around the
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campfire, asking each other
questions, talking about life
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and things.
I do love some good campfire
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role-playing.
Let's let's wait until we're all
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around a campfire because I'm
pretty sure that is going to
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happen at some point today.
I mean, we can talk while we're
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driving.
That's actually maybe the thing
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to do, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
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So we start up the campfire.
Wait, wait.
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The hotel is very angry about
it.
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Well, it's not.
I believe you guys were gonna
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hop in the Jeep and go try to
find this Hakuna guy, the other
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person who worked on the
expedition in addition to airs.
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Do we want to just start with
you guys in a Jeep riding to
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find this Hakuna guy?
Works for me.
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Yeah, great.
I'll.
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Try.
OK, so just delete all of this.
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I'm so sorry Russell, I decided
not to remove it.
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Deal with it.
We join the four of you driving
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southwest to go to the dig site
that this Bartola Hakuna is at.
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He is supposedly with a bunch of
Italian soldiers looking at a
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obelisk in Axom, but it's about
half a day's ride to get out
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there.
Oh yeah, I guess the question is
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who is driving?
I would say Kerns is.
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Yeah, that makes the most sense
to me.
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Yeah, Kerns stole the Jeep.
It's his natural role.
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JB helped.
You can.
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You can call shotgun.
Yeah.
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So here is the thing that I need
to describe to you to
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understand.
It's hot.
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It's really hot.
Like you guys aren't used to
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this heat?
So hot, we're going to need
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special rules for it.
Hot.
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Not immediately, but eventually,
yes.
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Oh boy.
Your clothing is damp with sweat
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and sticking to your skin.
You're probably having to adjust
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like your garments here and
there to to deal with the sweat
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that's dealing with you.
It's not great.
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It's not great.
That's easy though.
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I unbuttoned a few like lower
buttons on my shirt and tie that
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tie it like underneath my chest
so it's like a crop top
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displaying a fairly impressive 6
pack.
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OK.
Dang JP Kearns is ripped.
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I'm JB and I approve this
message.
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The drive takes a couple of
hours, we could just skip to it
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unless there's anything you guys
want to be chatting about on the
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way over.
Oh, I've got these Campfire
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cards.
Oh.
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Campfire cards?
What are those?
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Basically role play prompts.
Oh, perfect, why not?
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If you took on a student or
apprentice, what would you teach
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them?
Oh.
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I like this one because in
Colin's mind, JB is already sort
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of his apprentice.
Oh yeah.
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Yeah, that's hilarious because
JB does not, does not consider
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their friendship like that at
all.
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No, that's fair.
Like it genuinely never occurred
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to him.
I guess I would want to teach
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someone my writing secrets.
I should write a book about
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writing.
So meta.
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I got to jot that down and I
immediately jot that down.
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Yeah, I roll over pothole.
You start jotting down on your
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pants.
No, damn it.
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Never try to write things in a
Jeep.
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That's the first lesson I'm
putting in.
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When you have time to write in
between death defying escapades,
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Kearns want to be a teacher.
I mean, I don't know if I
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necessarily have a brain for
teaching or the patient still
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has to be fair, but I'm a pretty
handy guy.
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I can drive anything, repair
pretty much anything.
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I look sort of at these people
that I've been working with for
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a while but haven't necessarily
been on like friendly, friendly
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terms with.
I mean, I'm a fairly decent
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woodworker.
It's a little hobby of mine, So
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I guess I could teach that.
What?
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What about you, Mr. Cain?
Well, originally the plan was
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for me and Tom to open this
Detective, Inc business together
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and then, well, he failed the
test a couple times and never
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ended up happening.
But it was it was fun to have
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him along for parts of the ride.
A good friend of yours, Tom.
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He was.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
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It's it's all right.
We do what we can.
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True, very true.
And what about you, Reg?
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You got anything you'd like to
pass along?
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If I was to take on a student of
any sort, I would probably teach
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them most of the survival stuff
that I know well, other than the
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firearms and weapons use that's
not needed for most people.
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Yeah, I got the feeling Miss
Winston Rogers can learn a thing
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or two for me.
Yeah.
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Question Wink, does she know how
to shoot?
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I don't know, does she?
You don't really know.
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Huh.
Yeah, Kearns, I think, ponders
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that quietly to himself.
Colin, was that a Is there
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something I'm missing or is that
a sex joke that's partially gone
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over my head?
It was probably, yeah, it's not
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really my area.
Oh.
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I'm sorry to hear that.
Are these the gayest men in the
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30s?
Is that what's happening?
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Here.
Yeah.
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I mean, I'm dropping a crop top
over here, so you tell me.
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You eventually, if you don't
just start making out on the
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way, you make your way to a
another dig site, which is
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mostly been looted already of
Ethiopian cultural artifacts,
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including the great Obelisk of
AXA, which is being brought back
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to Rome as spoils of war.
But the man that you are looking
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for, Hakuna, is still at this
dig site overseeing what is
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going on.
Or theoretically as you arrive
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there's a couple of eyebrows
that are raised, but you're in a
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nationalized, you know, all
motor transport has been
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nationalized by the Italians.
So you being in a Jeep means
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that I guess you're supposed to
be here, but the guard who
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greets you at 1st is unclear if
they are supposed to salute you
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or not.
And they ask you in Italian,
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what is your purpose for being
here?
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I got this one team, I reply.
We are on official business here
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to speak with Mr. Acuna.
Oh, the professor.
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Yes, you could find him in his
tent if he's awake, he's.
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A big sleepy boy is he?
Something like that and the
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guard gives a mimed glug glug
glug of drinking.
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Ah, understood.
Let's see what we can do about
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that.
Yes, also the sun is starting to
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go down around the time you
arrive.
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Oh, it's going to get real
fucking cold.
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Which actually has resulted in a
little bit more work beginning
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to happen, because as the sun
goes down, it's a little cooler
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that a little bit of work could
be done.
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Though once it goes all the way
down, it's going to get too cold
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too.
So, but you are given vague
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directions as you go through
these archaeological ruins that
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the fascist Italians have more
or less completely looted.
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Do any of you have archaeology
skill?
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Yes, I do.
OK, they're doing it wrong.
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That doesn't shock me.
They're doing it in a way that
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is not really preserving things
very well.
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What, the fascists don't know
what they're doing and are
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actively destroying history with
every move they make?
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What a fucking shocker.
I mean, the Italians believe
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that this is just, this was once
part of the Roman Empire, so it
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truly just belongs to them
because they were actually
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really part of the Roman Empire.
But that's a different
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conversation.
Yeah, we're surrounded by
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butchers.
We get it.
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It's fine.
Yeah, unfortunately there's some
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bad people around you, but I'm
sure this guy working for them
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is probably fine.
Sure.
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Professor Bartolo Acuna of the
University of Madrid is in his
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tent and he is clearly a bit
sauced.
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He has a pretty lousy breath,
and he swears in Spanish as you
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enter, telling you to go away.
I don't know if you speak
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Spanish or not, but do any of
you speak Spanish?
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I mean, I've got 2 points of
languages and I grew up in
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Tennessee.
I could conceivably speak
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Spanish.
Kellen speaks American and
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German.
Tennessee is not a particularly
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Spanishy place, but honestly I
don't know if you need to pick
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up Spanish.
It's fine If you go to Spain,
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maybe pick it up.
This guy, he speaks English.
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Oh, that's good.
It's a very similar language to
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American, so we should be able
to communicate.
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Thank goodness.
Fucking God.
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You're not quite sure exactly
what he says, but he's
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definitely swearing at you and
telling you to get out in
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Spanish.
Maybe for a moment, JB, you
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think it's Italian because
they're a little similar.
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I look at the men and I'm like,
this the guy.
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Yeah, this is him.
I go and pick him up like by the
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shirt and I shake him a bit just
to sober him up.
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I try to sober him up.
I know probably that's not how
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it works.
Yeah, it's the 30s.
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He pushes you away.
He's continuing to speak in
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Spanish and yelling at you.
What's he yelling?
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Stuff in Spanish you don't know.
Are you this welcoming to all of
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your guests, Sir?
Okay, English, English, you need
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to leave me alone.
I'm and organizing my notes.
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Get out of here.
Yeah, clearly.
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I gotta say, this is the first
time I've heard someone call
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drinking themselves into a coma
organizing their notes.
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I thought you were a writer, JB.
This is shit.
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That one actually ow God damn
OK, shots fired.
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JB will never emotionally
recover from that.
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Just a couple questions, Mr.
Ekuna, and we'll be out of your
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hair and I will use his
reassurance.
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I don't need to answer questions
from imbeciles.
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You don't know anything.
Get out of here.
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All right, intimidation it is.
Reg steps forward.
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You want to call us idiots, yet
you can't properly oversee your
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team to properly excavate these
ruins.
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And you want to call us idiots?
And as Reg is saying this, his
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tone is getting more forceful
and he's walking up on Hakuna
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towering over him.
Now we just have some questions
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for you, and you're gonna answer
them.
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OK, first of all buddy, buddy,
I'm not in charge here.
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I am an assistant.
If I was in charge, do you think
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I'd be doing this shit?
I'm glad you could recognize it.
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Any fool should be able to
recognize that these idiots are
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not managing this site
correctly.
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Thank you for at least
acknowledging it.
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Oh shit, this is an end.
This is an end.
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You call yourself a professor,
yet you are not doing what needs
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to be done to safeguard the
knowledge and history here,
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assistant or no.
I have just arrived and I am
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doing my level best.
I am an expert in this field and
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I will have you know that I am.
I have lots of experience in
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this area, so it's not my fault
that these these morons are not
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being able to handle what's
going on.
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Now I I appreciate the fact that
you apparently are a man of
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knowledge, but I will not be
spoken to in this way.
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It smells like you're doing your
best.
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OK, All right, I'm just going to
JV just kind of casually tries
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to intercede, like, all right,
we've we've gone off to a pretty
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rough start here, but shit, one
SEC.
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Ow, ow, my legs asleep.
Fuck one SEC.
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Great job diffusing the
situation, Jamie.
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No, Nathan is in pain in real
life.
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Believe it or not.
We didn't come here just to
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harangue you, and I can tell
that you are just as upset about
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the handling of this dig as my
friend here.
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You'll have to forgive emotions
for flying a bit high.
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I understand how a professional
like yourself might be upset by
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this.
I've got points in flattery.
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I can keep this up for a while.
Flattery is a way in.
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Flattery is a good way in.
Here, archaeology and flattery
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are the way in.
Yeah, I thought so.
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There were some others you could
have used.
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Just bring him booze, I guess
you know, but.
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He's already drunk.
Yeah, well, he's running out.
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The truth is, we're here to ask
you about a colleague of yours
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and the things you might have
discovered with one George
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Ayers.
At the sound of that name, he
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sort of gets a different look on
his face, sort of wistful.
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Yeah, I thought that might get a
reaction.
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The dowel dig How is Ayers doing
these days?
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He's well enough from when we
last spoke, I say, having never
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spoken to him.
OK, Yeah, I lost track of him
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after the after what happened
that dowel, we sort of wet our
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separate ways.
And what exactly happened at
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Delowe?
What happened?
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Yeah.
Well, we were setting up this
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investigation.
It was financed partially by my
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university, but actually quite a
bit by Professor Ayer's friend
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Kavaria, who paid for almost the
entirety of the expedition's
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expense.
Generous.
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Patriots, of course.
And let's see, this was in 1924,
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that's like July or August.
And we went to this old site at
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Dowell near near a mountain, and
we found the outer walls of the
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site buried in the earth.
And in the end, they were right
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where the revelations of Glocky
said they'd be.
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They're.
Revelations of who?
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Oh, it's a, It's a book.
I it had been recently acquired
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by, by university and I it had
been translated before, but I
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did a new work on the
translations and there were
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fragments concerning an ancient
deity concerned with orgiastic
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ritual.
Those passage, properly
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interpreted, suggested an
ancient focus of worship that I
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believed in would be in the dig
site near Dowel.
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I have a cult.
What would I get from?
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This.
You've heard of the book, unless
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you'd like to make a one point
occult or Cthulhu Mythos spend,
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in which case you've read it
before and could have more
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information about it.
It's.
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Going to give me the same
information whether I spend
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mythos or a cult.
Yeah.
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OK, then I'll spend one out of a
cult.
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OK, yes, you have read this book
before, and while you maybe
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didn't see the the sort of newer
translation that Hakuna was
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using, this does seem to be
consistent.
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It was a story about a sex cult.
As you think about it more,
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well, shit, this could very well
be related to the mouth cult
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that you're dealing with today.
In fact, you do have AI.
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Don't know if you've read it,
but you do have a copy of
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Revelations of Glocky that you
picked up at Trammell's library.
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That one has not been read yet.
I know it hasn't been read yet,
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but you have perused it before
by having made that what a cult
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cement.
So yeah, anyway, so it it proved
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my theory completely.
And we we started to find more
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works from the period and, and
there were protective stonework
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around the site.
Ayers was very interested and we
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we actually carved off a piece
of it and sent it back to a
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cavalry in Los Angeles.
Did you ever get inside the
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walls?
Would it happen to be an eye?
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It looked a little bit like an
eye, yes.
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Would it happen to be this?
As Reg pulls a piece of engraved
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stone out of his jacket.
How in the Yes, that looks
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exactly like it.
How circle closes at last?
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How did you get a hold of that?
Are you a friend of a Cavaria?
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I haven't spoken to him.
The letters I sent remained
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unanswered.
Something like that.
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We're we're, we're
acquaintances.
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We've been looking a lot into
many of the things that he's
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been looking into.
You could say we're following in
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his footsteps.
Yeah, that's a good way to put
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it.
Did you manage to make it inside
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the walls?
Well, we were on the cusp of our
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success.
And then everything began to
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slow to a crawl.
Our laborers began to have
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misgivings about the site,
superstitious nonsense.
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The university started to be
unreliable in sending our
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supplies.
Bandits destroyed critical
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equipment.
Each delay begaten more and more
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delays.
It was a bit of a nightmare.
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It took us about two years to
finally get inside the inner
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complex, but around 1926 we
finally made the progress.
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And there is a sanctum in the
center of it.
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And it was, it was like nothing
I've ever seen before.
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There was a, a mouth.
It was a, a statue of one, I
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mean carved and detailed like
you you've never seen made of
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some rock I have never seen
before, probably quarried in the
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brine fields before Christ
boiled off now fallen beneath
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the crust.
It truly was.
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I, I, I know it was a mouth, but
it was like no other mouth I've
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seen before.
It was a giant screaming mouth,
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all tongues and dozens of kinds
of teeth and lips.
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They were.
Mouths within mouths.
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He was all rather obscene to be
perfectly honest.
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I I do have some sketches at
somewhere.
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He mutters as he stands up too
quickly and then feels light
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headed and sits down on his bed.
It may surprise you to learn
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that we're becoming something of
experts in these mouths
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ourselves.
Oh really?
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That's what?
What have you learned?
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Well, they talk, they make a
weird drug that does some weird
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stuff to your head, all sorts of
stuff that people have orgies
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around them and oh, they can
appear on couches in the
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ceiling.
Should we really be telling him
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all this?
He looks over at because you by
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the way Colin, have been saying
very little this whole time and
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all of a sudden you chime in and
start saying which sounds like
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nonsense.
He looks over to JB and says, is
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there something wrong with your
friend?
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I don't worry about it.
The one thing that I can say for
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certain is that it the worship
of these things is alive and
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well and frankly dangerous, as
many such things tend to be.
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But they don't like fire.
Could I, would it be possible
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for me to take a look at those
sketches?
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Says Kearns, who's been learning
a lot of new things today.
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Yes, all of the.
Bad.
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Don't let one of those tongues
grab you either.
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They're buried in my trunk.
You'll have to excuse me, I
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haven't looked at them in years
and he now has opened up a trunk
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and is bent over moving things
around.
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Oh oh, you're talking like a
Foot Locker type trunk.
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Yeah, like a Foot Locker.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I was imagining him really
having trouble getting to his
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car and us just walking behind
him not helping at all.
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No, no, no.
Like a Foot Locker trunk.
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No, he has not gone outside.
That was about as far as we got,
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though.
The company completely cut off
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supplies, so there was no really
choice.
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You know, I didn't really want
to leave on the the preciousness
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of such great discoveries, but
Ayers and I had to travel up the
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rail line to Mirza Fatima and
talk to those pin heads to
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figure out why they weren't
giving us supplies.
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Why weren't they giving you
supplies?
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I don't know.
And now it doesn't matter,
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because while we were gone, we
heard about the eruption.
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After spending a completely
pointless day of negotiating
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with the company men, the whole
site was destroyed.
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Fallen to the bottom of a crater
30 yards across, awash in lava,
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gone completely.
Our associates dead, the
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laborers blaming us for the
whole fiasco as though we could
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cause a volcano to erupt.
Well, I can't even bring myself
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to go back to that site.
Think about it like this.
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If you hadn't gone to negotiate
supplies, you'd be dead too.
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I suppose so, but it just it's
so frustrating.
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But what we were looking for was
buried by the lava and the
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destruction and well, if they're
not going to pay me to go out
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there anymore, I'm not going to
deal with it.
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I I couldn't even bring myself
to go back to the site here,
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here, I found it.
Look at this, look at this.
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And he gets out his notes and he
has sketches of mouths, these
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reliefs, as he describes it,
this statue that looks for all
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intents and purposes, like the
mouths you've seen before.
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But this one is completely stone
it.
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Well, at least he's colored it
Gray, anyway.
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I just sort of look at him and I
turned to JB and I asked like
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real quiet.
This is the thing that took her.
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Well, it is kind of funny
because JB wasn't directly
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there, but yeah, this is these
are what we've been dealing with
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this whole time.
Not even really listening, the
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whole thing is rather
fascinating.
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It seems like there was like
different stages of the worship.
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In fact, that stone that you
have there, the reliefs that
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were carved upon the wall,
seemed to be a completely
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different character from the
interior of the temple.
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You understand the ones that
were on the outside seem to be
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sort of protective, whereas the
inside there were reliefs
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depicting ancient people
venerating the deity that was
445
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,000
represented by this mouth,
preparing themselves for
446
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,960
worship, making offerings to it,
even feeding themselves to it.
447
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:43,760
A fascinating cult.
Yeah, they're actually still
448
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,520
doing that.
We just came from Malta and they
449
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,480
were, they had a huge one and
well, yeah.
450
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,880
And got K actually.
I promise my friend is fine, JV
451
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,400
quickly says.
He just, you know, he, he just
452
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,480
does this sometimes are.
There are those who still
453
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,920
worship this in Malta.
That seems bizarre.
454
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,840
This is clearly an African
religion.
455
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,760
I don't know.
They're all around the world
456
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:14,600
there.
There was another one in LA.
457
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:21,080
I will tell you that has spread
far and wide and as I said, it's
458
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,880
the worshippers, as Colts tend
to be, are dangerous.
459
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:32,400
So watch your back a little bit.
Well, I guess it's a good thing
460
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,520
I'm surrounded by soldiers.
Do you really trust their
461
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,000
competence?
But it's not my place to say
462
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,240
anything.
They're paying me.
463
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,600
I wanted to get out of Spain.
If you know what's going on
464
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,240
there, you wouldn't want to
stay.
465
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,440
Yeah.
No, the Civil War is.
466
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,240
This is a much safer place to
be.
467
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,280
Oh.
Fuck.
468
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,080
So what happened to Ayers?
You said you'd been in touch
469
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:16,720
with him.
I I never saw him after after
470
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,040
the destruction, he went back to
look at the site.
471
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,880
I couldn't bring myself to it
and I was never able to be in
472
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,280
touch with that.
Yeah, we've just been.
473
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,160
Oh, we haven't had contact with
him for years either.
474
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,680
Then we're trying to take him
down.
475
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,720
Oh yeah, our last communication
was quite a while ago, to be
476
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,600
honest.
But we have reason to believe
477
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,680
he's gone back, so, you know,
we'll say you said hi if we bump
478
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,840
into him.
Well, yeah, yeah.
479
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,000
If you're looking for the last
people I know to see him are the
480
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:52,480
tribe who travel the area near
and around Dowel Village.
481
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,840
There's a they're separate from
the Dowel people themselves.
482
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,560
They worked for the the company
back during the dig.
483
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,680
They hauled salt to the railhead
on their camel, stuff like that.
484
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,120
Maybe you could find someone
there who's heard about him?
485
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:07,920
What's the tribe called?
Thank you.
486
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,720
That was.
That's very helpful.
487
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,360
What's the tribe called?
I don't I I think it was They
488
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,480
lived in the area called Kaluli.
No kidding.
489
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,080
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
490
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,400
Yeah, I just, I can't believe
there was a volcano that
491
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,920
destroyed it right when we were
discovering the greatest things.
492
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,360
So many, right?
There twist of fate.
493
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,320
Hell of a coincidence.
Very unfortunate.
494
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:40,320
Yes, it's a truly it's a
breathtakingly horrible
495
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,640
coincidence.
I I wish I knew why it happened.
496
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,560
Yeah, I know one of the workers
assumed that we had like pulled
497
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,680
a forbidden leather in the inner
chamber or something.
498
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:57,120
But no, there was no like
magical seal or cursed wards or
499
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,880
anything like that, if such a
thing even exists.
500
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,000
Maybe they do the stuff I've
seen in the revelations of
501
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,160
Glocky make me question, but.
And it gave me where it looks.
502
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,520
We're talking about the mouths
we've seen.
503
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,800
Jeez.
Again, yes, it's fine.
504
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,280
You've truly seen these mouths,
and they people have carved
505
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,480
these mouths in other places of
veneration.
506
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,520
Oh, carved summons.
I don't know we we exploded 1.
507
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:35,880
They they have OK.
I I think you are confused.
508
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,200
No one summoned this.
This mouth was not moving.
509
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,840
This mouth was not alive.
It was just carved into the
510
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,160
stone.
Though I truly don't understand
511
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:49,680
how it was carved into the stone
that the work seemed completely
512
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,160
the stone didn't seem right, but
it was not.
513
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,000
It's some sort of licking mouth
or anything like that.
514
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,040
Your friend seems to be a tad
superstitious.
515
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,200
Oh yes, he's, he's been through
a lot.
516
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,960
You know how it is.
Still, perhaps that's another
517
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,440
blessing to count.
Who knows how well it might have
518
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,680
turned out had the mouth
actually been alive.
519
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:21,040
Yes, I suppose if the mouth had
been alive it would have been a
520
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,360
completely different matter.
And I suppose it would have been
521
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:29,400
bizarre had an alien UFO
abducted one of us during the
522
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,360
investigation process.
It would, yeah.
523
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,520
Indeed.
Not quite how, but never mind.
524
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,440
He's running so much
interference today.
525
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:43,920
Your.
MVP.
526
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,880
Professor Hakuna Reg is going to
pull one of his plethora of
527
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,120
flasks out of his jacket.
I can roll preparedness if you
528
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,160
want.
You have it.
529
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,080
It's fine.
He's going to hand it over to
530
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:02,160
Hakuna.
Thank you for the information
531
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,560
that you've given us.
And going to hand it over and as
532
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,760
Akuna is taking it from his
hand, Reg is just going to look
533
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:15,440
at him like dead in the eye.
And as serious as he can manage.
534
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:20,760
I think it would be for the best
if you completely forgot about
535
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,360
Dilal.
There are some things that man's
536
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,760
not supposed to know.
I wonder if this Flaska nectar
537
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,040
I've got would help with that.
Let's go sit in the Jeep, you
538
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,120
and I.
Hey, let's let's go have a
539
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:31,760
smoke.
Let's go have a smoke chat
540
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,520
outside.
Hey, I like I take Colin like
541
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,880
around the shoulders and like
start taking him out of the
542
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:41,400
tent.
Yeah, JB is staring daggers at
543
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,199
you as you fucking leave.
Like what the hell?
544
00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,040
JB, we're going to need to have
you make some more checks later.
545
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:54,960
Of course, I do not wish to go
to Dalal.
546
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,680
I don't.
But I reject your idea that
547
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,880
there are some things man is not
supposed to know.
548
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:06,720
I think that man is meant to
discover everything that is the
549
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,960
blessing of our knowledge of of
reason.
550
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:15,920
Once you've looked behind the
veil of what we know as reality,
551
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:20,960
reason goes out in the window.
Look, I think one of the
552
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,480
greatest things is the ability
of the human mind to correlate
553
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,360
all of its contents.
We're putting it all together
554
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,480
and we're going to emerge from
these black seas of ignorance
555
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,320
someday.
We're going to piece together
556
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,200
all of the dissociated knowledge
and we're going to open up new
557
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:43,000
incredible vistas of reality.
Maybe.
558
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:49,040
But if we create that reality,
will it be safe for anyone?
559
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,240
It's a philosophical question.
Who's to say Yes?
560
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,440
We shouldn't take our leave, I
think.
561
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,200
Yes, well, it was good to talk
to you.
562
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:02,040
It's been a while since I've
heard about that.
563
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:07,520
If you run into Ayers, tell him
I say hi I guess.
564
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:14,160
I will, I wish him well and go
out to confront Colin, perhaps a
565
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:19,880
little faster than is necessary.
Yeah, Frank took me to the car,
566
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,440
probably keeping me interested
in keys or something.
567
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,480
Yeah.
Colin was distracted by a pair
568
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,400
of jangling keys.
It's a strange noise to make,
569
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,520
you know it's.
I feel like we're.
570
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,680
Ringing.
Chiming.
571
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,440
I feel like maybe we were
talking about like different
572
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:39,800
kinds of smokes I've got, like
I've got cigarillos.
573
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:45,280
I just, I just have, you know,
TaylorMade tobacco cigarettes.
574
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,240
And there you go, we're gonna
swap smokes.
575
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,960
Marlboro.
That's a hard word to see,
576
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,880
Marlboro.
Marlboro, I'm usually more of a
577
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,400
lucky strike guy.
Zippo lighters are actually a
578
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,040
thing.
They're a very new thing right
579
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:00,680
now.
Yeah.
580
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,640
So I I kind of flashily like
produce a brand new Zippo
581
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,440
lighters.
Like, yeah, I've seen them
582
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:07,600
around.
I don't think we'll catch on
583
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,240
though.
I don't know, seems pretty
584
00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:14,200
nifty.
Would you like to try to sleep
585
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,640
here tonight or would you like
to drive through the night and
586
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,840
go back to the the main town
where you have beds?
587
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,480
How are we doing for gas that
was half a day of driving?
588
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,200
How are we doing for gas?
You're good, all right.
589
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,080
Hey, I'm up for anything.
Yeah, it's a just staying here.
590
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,320
It's already dark.
Wouldn't want to run into it.
591
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,960
Deer or something.
I What kind of wildlife does
592
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,400
this place have?
What time did we say we'd meet
593
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,480
with our guy tomorrow?
Did we set a time?
594
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,080
Let's say around 10.
I don't think you officially set
595
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:46,880
a time.
It was set off screen.
596
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,600
Yeah, I guess the the thing we
have to worry about is getting
597
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,880
to him at a reasonable.
This is just me.
598
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,920
I, I just, I couldn't stand
leaving a motherfucker waiting,
599
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,680
you know?
That's extremely rude to do.
600
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,960
Well, if we get an early start
tomorrow it should be no problem
601
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,840
based on the time that we set up
off screen.
602
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,920
Yeah, Yeah.
You said you were going to meet
603
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,640
him about noon tomorrow, right?
Absolutely.
604
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,400
Yeah.
You know, Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
605
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,440
You get up a little early.
You should be going.
606
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,840
I will need one of you to make
some sort of a skill role or
607
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,880
tell me how you are assuring
that you have a place to sleep
608
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:28,240
here in this Italian camp.
Would Cop Talk help me deal with
609
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:30,800
these fascists?
If you speak Italian.
610
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,160
Fuck.
Cause cop talk I will also count
611
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,760
as soldier talk.
I will I will let those things
612
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,760
both be together.
But unfortunately if you don't
613
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,880
speak Italian it becomes more
difficult.
614
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:47,520
You can make you could make a
one point spend of cop talk to
615
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,120
get what you want.
Normally it would just be like I
616
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,280
use cop talk, but you'd use a
one point spend of cop talk to
617
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,200
get over the language barrier.
That works for me.
618
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,920
I haven't used cop talk very
much.
619
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,720
OK.
Yeah, the cops have not been on
620
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,440
your side much, unfortunately.
No.
621
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,400
These guys are also not on your
side.
622
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,440
Well, you know these guys, they
they have no particular issue
623
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,920
with you.
It really sucks that the people
624
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:19,880
who have been most friendly with
us, like the most helpful
625
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,880
authorities we've dealt with
throughout this entire fucking
626
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,720
adventure, have been the goddamn
fascists just because they're
627
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:30,080
not actually associated with the
fucking cult we're fighting.
628
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,880
Yeah.
Damn it.
629
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,920
And a healthy bureaucracy spend.
I don't intend on sleeping, so
630
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,120
yeah, I can wake, wake you
gentlemen, up as early as we
631
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,000
need to, right?
Now you're allowed to play
632
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:52,040
characters that sleep.
Oh no, Frank is not sleeping
633
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,160
tonight.
There's a difference between
634
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,520
allowed to and wants to.
Yeah, I probably just have
635
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,640
dreams of those models anyway.
Lovely.
636
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:04,720
Hey, Hey, Nathan.
You're addicted to doctor,
637
00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:06,800
right?
No, JB Falk is.
638
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:11,520
I mean, JB is I, Nathan The
player has never personally
639
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,400
tried it on account of it being
a fictional drug, but JB sure
640
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,320
has a problem right now.
It's fictional as far as you're
641
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,720
aware.
Yes, as far as I'm aware.
642
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:25,440
I've got a lab coat, I could
probably cook something up.
643
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:31,400
You were told sort of offhand
that somebody you're travelling
644
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,920
with has nectar.
I need you to make a stability
645
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,640
test difficulty 5.
I'm gonna.
646
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,040
What's the loss on that
stability test?
647
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,360
No it's not a loss, it's a he
will be to go get nectar.
648
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,440
Oh.
That makes it even more fun.
649
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,120
I'm going to spend 2.
I did not need to spend 2.
650
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:59,560
That's good, you are for now
able to fight off your urges,
651
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,520
but we'll see how each day
treats you.
652
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,520
At some point I'm definitely
going to have to pull Colin
653
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,040
aside and talk to him about
this.
654
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,240
Or steal it from him, I don't
know.
655
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:13,000
We'll see how it goes.
Good luck finding it is.
656
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,840
It in your bum?
Are you sure it's not in his
657
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:23,840
prison pocket?
So you hop into the Jeep.
658
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,360
Time I've ever heard it called
that and I gotta say, not happy
659
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:32,080
that I know that new term.
You're welcome.
660
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:37,280
I think it's delightful.
So you hop into the Jeep and you
661
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,200
make your ride back to the city.
You're a little low on gas by
662
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,880
the time you make it back.
You could return this to the
663
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,440
motor pool or.
Not swap a note for one that's
664
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,360
got forecast.
You're about to not need it, at
665
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,600
least not immediately, because
you're going to take a boat to
666
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,680
your next location.
Right.
667
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,560
Wait, boat not train?
You got to take a boat to FASA
668
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:03,480
and then you're going to take a
train.
669
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,160
Yeah, there's no train where you
are right now.
670
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,360
That's all you're saying?
Yeah, no, you have to take a
671
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:13,280
boat to MRSA Fatima from where
you are.
672
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,320
Conrad's been setting that up.
By the way, if you're taking a
673
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,120
boat, what kind of boat do you
want?
674
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,440
Oh super yacht, they got to take
out bridges to get us spaces.
675
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:26,600
Something in the budget?
Right, we don't have K anymore.
676
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,520
Just is there anything that you
would particularly want from
677
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:32,680
your boat?
Fan boat A.
678
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,160
Bar.
OK.
679
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,880
So you want a private boat.
You don't want to hop on a boat
680
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,720
that somebody else has and like
is already on the way there.
681
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,280
I'm very much just picturing a
tiny little motor boat.
682
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,200
OK.
So like a small little boat, OK,
683
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,640
Small little boat, OK.
Yeah, it it does feel safer than
684
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,280
traveling publicly at this
point.
685
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,440
I can drive it.
You're good to go.
686
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,560
Conrad has gotten you a small
boat that will take you down the
687
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:04,520
coast to your next location.
Anything you want to do before
688
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,280
you head out?
Oh, Colin is being suffering in
689
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,000
his regular clothes and he would
like to pick up something more
690
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,840
appropriate for the weather.
OK, got it.
691
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,240
Smart.
You're able to get cooler
692
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:17,640
clothes.
Thank God.
693
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,720
Yes.
I keep the hat though.
694
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,720
OK.
Great, obviously, I mean.
695
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,880
Yeah, can I get like a pair of
cut off shorts?
696
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,760
Daisy Dukes.
Every fashion choice you make
697
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:38,680
makes Kearns look a little
sluttier and I am here for it.
698
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,600
It is my character now, I play
him however the fuck I want.
699
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,800
Yeah, no, I go for it.
Hell yeah.
700
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,520
Hey do I?
Do I look gay like this?
701
00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:00,640
Cullen blushes at the term.
I wouldn't know.
702
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,040
I've never thought about
nothing, man.
703
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:06,200
That way.
How about this and I pop like 3
704
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,640
more buttons.
Blushing intensifies.
705
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,640
JP is scaring and not being
particularly subtle about it.
706
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,840
Before you're like oh shit and
realizes and looks away.
707
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,600
This is only as Canon as the
listener wouldn't wants it to
708
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,240
be.
The show is only as gay as you
709
00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:24,440
can imagine.
It exactly.
710
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:30,440
I mean, according to Deidre
Clemente, the shorts, or have
711
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,760
their origins at least cut off
shorts have their origins in the
712
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,840
1930s.
So there you go.
713
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,080
There you go.
Perfect.
714
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,720
I'm just a proper fashionista
over here.
715
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,640
Wild thing to know off the top
of your head, Dan, Just saying.
716
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:52,000
They've got their book called
Dressing Casual, so you're on a
717
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,480
boat.
We're on a boat.
718
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,280
Motherfucker.
Don't you know every single word
719
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:57,800
to that song?
No.
720
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,760
I'm sorry The Lonely Island was
a little before my time.
721
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,720
Oh my God, you're the.
Lonely Islander still around
722
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,360
Sushi Glory Hall.
OK, can we be on the fucking
723
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,120
boat please?
Yeah, OK.
724
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,920
Yeah, You're on a boat and
you're making your way.
725
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,960
Let's see what happens when
you're on your boat ride.
726
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,360
You're fine.
Nothing happens.
727
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:27,400
Notably, you're fine.
Why would you say it like that?
728
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:34,200
And you land in the city of MRSA
Fatima.
729
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,040
It's a flying boat.
No, it's not a flying boat.
730
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,440
You said we land.
I guess you dock, you dock.
731
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,160
Yeah, MRSA Fatima.
Yeah, there we go.
732
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,880
This seems to be.
A.
733
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,640
Pretty small town that you
arrive in.
734
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:56,040
There are several huge warehouse
buildings that are around, but
735
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:59,240
as you walk down the streets you
don't really see a ton of people
736
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:02,120
out and about.
You see a few people here and
737
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:08,320
there and you are able to
identify that the big buildings
738
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:14,240
all have the letters CMC on the
side of it, which you have heard
739
00:46:14,240 --> 00:46:20,720
stands for Compagnia Minerala
Coloniale, which was the mining
740
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:22,680
company that invested in this
town.
741
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,040
What would you like to do now
that you're in this town?
742
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,440
Was there something we had to do
here other than wait for the
743
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,760
train?
I feel like there was.
744
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:34,520
Wait, is it the next day
already?
745
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,280
Yeah, time has passed.
Yeah, OK.
746
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,680
It doesn't take that long to get
there by boat takes about 3
747
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:40,080
hours.
Oh, that's.
748
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,040
All right, yeah, I guess branch
it is.
749
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:45,640
OK.
Sure, branch it is.
750
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:48,680
Yeah.
You're just gonna try to get
751
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:52,000
some food here, OK, Ship?
I mean.
752
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,040
Presumably we have to wait to
pick for the train.
753
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,360
Well, are you going to try to
find the train?
754
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:00,760
Maybe there's a cafe at the
station?
755
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,640
Multitask.
OK, I'll I, I speak Italian.
756
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,720
I'll find the train.
I don't know.
757
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,960
Would Italian get me far here as
well?
758
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,920
People know Italian here because
many of them were or are
759
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,800
employed by the CMC.
OK.
760
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,160
Our guide needed to bail
somewhere.
761
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,480
Was that here or somewhere else?
He said he could take you a
762
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,480
little bit further, He could
take you to the end of the rail
763
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,760
line, but got yeah.
He probably knows where the
764
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:32,480
railway station is then.
I am sorry friend, I do not
765
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,080
know.
I've never taken this train
766
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:35,880
myself.
I just know that there is a
767
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,600
railway way here.
I don't know how often it is
768
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,040
used these days, however.
All right, asking around it is
769
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,520
then.
All right, I'm going to need you
770
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,760
to make it oral history.
Somebody with oral history is
771
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,080
going to be asking around.
I have oral history.
772
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,400
Perfect.
And I speak Italian.
773
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:59,280
Well, so there's no like maps to
be purchased or like histories
774
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,480
to read or anything, but talking
to the locals, you're getting
775
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,520
kind of an idea of what's going
on.
776
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,960
The company used to be a big
deal here in 1910.
777
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,680
They were mining potash inland
and that the train would take
778
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,160
the potash to the shore.
They would load it up on ships
779
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,880
here and send it out.
Unfortunately, in 1929
780
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,760
significant potash resources
were discovered elsewhere and it
781
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,760
made the mining here kind of
unprofitable.
782
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:32,880
So the CMC withdrew and there's
only really a small staff here
783
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,280
to keep an eye on the things
here in case the company ever
784
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,920
comes back.
This means that there is a lot
785
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,640
of empty buildings here, both
company buildings and just from
786
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,640
people who used to live here and
work for the CMC and now don't
787
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,160
any no.
They all went to Alberta.
788
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,720
Yeah.
Fucking we're in a goddamn ghost
789
00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:55,680
town.
Also, the train was a mining
790
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,600
train and it hasn't run for
years.
791
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,080
Oh.
Handcart it is.
792
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:05,600
I mean, I can drive anything.
As about, say, does driving
793
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,720
cover trains?
Well, I ain't no movies.
794
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,680
Or would that be more pilot?
I've got piloting.
795
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,040
I would say driving can work for
train or maybe pilot.
796
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,280
I think either one could work.
You're going to have to get a
797
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:21,160
hold of the train though.
You don't own the train, you
798
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:25,160
know the the CMC owns it.
Train Robbery.
799
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:27,840
No.
Train is supposed to go.
800
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,280
Cowboy hats, bandanas over the
face.
801
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,880
I I feel like that's a bad plan.
All right, let's ditch this
802
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,560
thing and hide out.
How did they track US down?
803
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:46,440
The town itself, by the way, was
once a larger, more prosperous
804
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,480
town.
Now it is, as you said, turned
805
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:49,800
into a little bit of a ghost
town.
806
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,120
It's about 100 people who live
here these days.
807
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,320
Oh wow.
Yeah, real tiny.
808
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:59,520
Yeah, and most of the people
work at the docks or sell things
809
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:03,560
to like sometimes ships will
stop here to like refuel and
810
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,720
stuff.
Oh, so if we're getting food,
811
00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:07,720
it's going to be like, can JB
find?
812
00:50:07,720 --> 00:50:10,200
Us a train you would need to go
talk to the company about the
813
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:11,760
train are.
There any company
814
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:16,560
representatives still here?
Even there are there is a small.
815
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,480
Skeleton crew that is still here
keeping an eye on the stuff in
816
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,160
case the company ever wants to
use it again.
817
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:27,640
Spooky scary skeletons, right?
I guess it's time to.
818
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,560
Negotiate.
The use of a train.
819
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:32,360
All right, you'll have to leave
the negotiations.
820
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,920
JBI don't speak the language.
Oh boy.
821
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,400
OK, the main.
Office for the.
822
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:44,880
CMC is on the outskirts of their
large yard of seven large
823
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,320
warehouses.
There are a couple of people
824
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:52,160
lounging around nearby.
All right, how to approach?
825
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:53,760
This.
I mean, you could go knock on
826
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:55,360
the door.
I'm going to go knock.
827
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:59,840
On the door.
The people sitting there.
828
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,160
Sort of look up a little bit
curious at you.
829
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:07,360
They appear to be afar, you
know, African folks and they are
830
00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:12,520
dark skinned and one of them
says in Italian, what are you
831
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,320
doing here?
Hi I.
832
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:23,040
Me and my friends are trying to
get to Kaluli and Iron Point and
833
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,960
we were wondering if we could
negotiate the use of a train for
834
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,280
a day or so.
They begin to chat with each
835
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,480
other in an.
African language you do not
836
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,960
know.
I mean I still have like some
837
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:35,600
empty.
Language spots maybe?
838
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,760
I do, It's Afar is the name of
the language.
839
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,640
A couple of them speak Arabic as
well, but that's not going to if
840
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,760
you don't know that either, you
know, the one of them sort of
841
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,320
looks up, it says that'll be Mr.
send me.
842
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:50,840
He's gone home for the day.
What are they saying to me?
843
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,200
Well, I.
I'm sorry, did you say Mr. Send
844
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,480
me seg me S e.g.
N.
845
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,320
I Segney.
Segney.
846
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,480
OK, quick bout of assess.
Honesty, these people aren't
847
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,280
just fucking with me, are they?
No, no.
848
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:06,920
OK.
All right.
849
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,200
So do we.
OK, team, do we want to wait for
850
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:16,240
a night here in this town or do
we want to go locate Mr. Segney
851
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:18,960
at his home and get out of here
immediately?
852
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,640
Hers already has a lead on us.
Probably best to get us.
853
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:26,360
Started as fast as we can OK on
the other hand, if we.
854
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,720
All show up at this gentleman's
home.
855
00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:33,840
He might be less likely to lend
us the train, but that's just my
856
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,000
opinion.
Explosives.
857
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,520
No.
Not every problem can.
858
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:42,800
Be solved with explosives?
Maybe not.
859
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:47,000
Best solved with explosives.
Anyway, right and?
860
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,440
Since my companion's business is
urgent, could you tell me where
861
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,640
to find this Mr. Segney big
house and that he gives vague?
862
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,600
Explanation of how to get there.
Bunch of kids should be running
863
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,560
around.
One of his three wives will
864
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,000
probably be outside.
That's just a lot of wives.
865
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:06,360
Yeah.
Damn.
866
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:07,760
All right.
Thank you.
867
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,440
By the way, your assess honesty
there was a.
868
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,520
Lot of disdain when he said
three wives.
869
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,720
I see the all time.
Classic.
870
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,320
I feel like a man drowning
watching another man die of
871
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,480
thirst.
Or other way around in this
872
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,360
case, but you get it.
So Sidney's got.
873
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,560
Game and they don't.
Got it.
874
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,080
Wow, three wives.
That's the.
875
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,080
Dream, I think how's how's it
work?
876
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,600
Well.
If these guys are.
877
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,560
You know, it depends on maybe
what their religion is.
878
00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:45,040
Have you been?
Married Mr. Cain?
879
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,240
Oh, absolutely not.
I've been rather.
880
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:51,560
Unlucky in love, how about you
Mr. Kearns?
881
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,080
Kearns get sort of a far off
look in.
882
00:53:54,080 --> 00:54:00,440
His eye and goes, I have once.
It's not all it's cracked up to
883
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,920
be.
Colin nods, faux thoughtfully.
884
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,240
Sometimes they're.
Just up and leave.
885
00:54:07,240 --> 00:54:11,040
And they're nothing but bones.
OK, well this got a little.
886
00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:15,120
Let's go find Mr. Segne and off
we go.
887
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,680
Dip, dip, dip, dip, dip.
Can we skip?
888
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:21,880
As in.
Like jump immediately to the
889
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,560
next scene or as in move No, no,
no, no, we skip, we lock up,
890
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,960
lock.
Arms like in the Wizard of Oz
891
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,040
and just start skipping down the
street.
892
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,520
Reg doesn't skip.
Anyway, yeah.
893
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,560
Let's smash cut.
Mr. Segni's house, all right.
894
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:40,400
He lives in the nicest looking
house.
895
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:44,360
That you've seen in this town,
that doesn't shock me, you.
896
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,520
See there are.
Many kids running around.
897
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,240
One of them runs up to you and
starts speaking to you in a
898
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:53,200
language you don't recognize,
but they seem excited to see
899
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:56,320
you.
I try a bit of Italian to see.
900
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,640
If the kid understands me, he
understands it a little.
901
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:00,320
Could you go find your father
for.
902
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,760
Me, I'd like to talk.
To him he runs off.
903
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,640
Do you you guys like walk?
Up to the house so you can just
904
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,960
like sort of stay away.
They don't have like a yard to
905
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:10,480
be cleared.
It's not like an American
906
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:12,920
suburban home with a big grassy
yard or anything.
907
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,360
But there's as you're getting
closer, there's like a
908
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:19,400
clothesline hang hung out out
front and stuff like you walk up
909
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,160
to the door, you get to kind of
stay a little bit a ways away.
910
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:28,440
I follow J Beasley OK boy being
the face is a lot of.
911
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:33,960
Responsibility and the brains.
Oh God, how does that keep?
912
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,320
Happening to me.
While you're standing here and
913
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:40,680
trying to figure out what to do.
Awkwardly a tall Italian looking
914
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:44,600
man walks out towards you.
He has a fan in his hand that he
915
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:48,600
is waving on himself to to keep
cool in one hand and he has a
916
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:54,920
cigarette in his other hand and
he approaches you and says what
917
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,080
do you want?
Ah, Mr. Segni, hi.
918
00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:03,080
Me and my compatriots here are
well, we'd like to negotiate the
919
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,160
use of a train.
What?
920
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:09,840
A train.
A train we are trying to get to.
921
00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:14,640
Kaluli and Iron Point and our
business there is somewhat
922
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:19,720
urgent, so we were hoping to use
the old railway system from this
923
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:22,160
town to get there as quickly as
possible.
924
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:27,600
OK.
Here, come on in, have a seat.
925
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,840
And he opens the door and
gestures for you to come inside.
926
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,520
I understood that one.
You're telling us to come?
927
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,200
Inside all right, Probably a
good sign.
928
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:43,480
Yeah, let's go inside.
Yeah, he sits you down in.
929
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:48,320
A living room of sorts and
gestures to a woman, presumably
930
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,440
his wife.
Says something to her in Arabic
931
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:56,440
and she walks away and comes
back later with water for all of
932
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:57,440
you.
Well, that's lovely.
933
00:56:57,440 --> 00:56:59,240
Thank you so much, Madam.
She does not.
934
00:56:59,240 --> 00:57:01,080
Understand what you said, but
understands.
935
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,120
The tone, that's kind of what I
was going for exactly, Reg.
936
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,200
Nods and thanks.
He's not.
937
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:11,160
Going to give away that he
understands Arabic just yet, OK?
938
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:12,760
Colin bows deeply.
OK.
939
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:19,320
Russell just bowed.
In a very graceful fashion, Nice
940
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,160
and JB.
Thanks her in.
941
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,400
Italian and just kind of hopes
that translates well enough.
942
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,080
I'm assuming all he said in
Arabic.
943
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:29,720
Was can you go get them some
water or something to that
944
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,400
effect?
Yeah, something to that effect.
945
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,920
There's no secret that was.
Going on there, Yes, yes.
946
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:35,680
OK.
So we're not going to be
947
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:41,960
poisoned if we OK.
I mean, probably not bad dates,
948
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:47,320
he says.
I'm sorry, while I do enjoy
949
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:51,080
having company, let it not be
said that I'm not a hospitable
950
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:56,280
man.
We do not allow our train to be
951
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,840
used for any other mining
interests.
952
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:04,920
So unless you've negotiated with
one of my superiors who I can
953
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,720
send a letter to, I'm sorry, we
will not allow you to use our
954
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,720
train.
What do you say, JP?
955
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:13,960
Nothing good.
I translate.
956
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,080
Yeah, oh, a letter from the
company.
957
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,560
Well, Reg, I think maybe we had
one of those outside.
958
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,720
Are you guys going to?
Really.
959
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:28,720
Are you guys going to fucking do
this?
960
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:33,240
Do it what?
Forge a letter?
961
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,400
What sort of preparedness?
Role would I need to?
962
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:41,160
Have a quote UN quote letter
from the company or at least the
963
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,800
materials to make one.
Yeah, I think this is
964
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,560
preparedness is a little.
You can't just have a letter
965
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,480
you.
You're not that fucking
966
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,840
prepared.
Yeah, that's way too specific.
967
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:55,800
Yeah, it's a little.
Too specific.
968
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,280
If you could tell me a skill
you're going to use to forge
969
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,320
one, I would be OK with that.
But I mean, I do have
970
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,600
bureaucracy.
OK, so you would know what a.
971
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,880
Letter would look.
Like, but who's going to make it
972
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,280
and how?
Do you have a technical skill to
973
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,720
make it?
Presumably with craft I have
974
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:18,120
craft.
Well, maybe all.
975
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,040
Three of us should go grab the
letter.
976
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:24,080
That we have from the company.
I don't have Craft, so I'm going
977
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:25,560
to let you guys.
Go do that.
978
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:26,600
I'm going.
I'm going to keep them
979
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:29,720
entertained and be like,
wouldn't the letter presumably
980
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:38,680
be an Italian?
OK, you're presumably be an.
981
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:44,680
Italian stay behind or all four
of us going to awkwardly leave
982
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,800
for like we can. 15 minutes.
Pretend.
983
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:54,560
To search for a document only to
like, forge a document and then
984
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,920
come back with the document.
Sounds like a great plan, JB.
985
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,560
Yeah, exactly.
How about can we like?
986
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,960
Start padding our like pockets.
Wait, we we had the letter,
987
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:07,320
didn't we?
Yeah, it's like.
988
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:10,440
Wank.
Wait, did we forget?
989
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,240
The letter on the.
Boat, I say to him.
990
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:17,200
Hold on a moment.
We did have a letter from the
991
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:22,120
company, but son of a we left it
on the I thought you had it.
992
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:24,720
I am so sorry, Sir.
We will be back.
993
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:29,560
In 15 to 20 minutes we need to
go make sure that we can find
994
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:34,160
this letter and hopefully that
will we'll be right back and I'm
995
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:35,960
just like OK, everybody out go,
go, go.
996
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,760
Better Bank of 25 we got to.
Let the ink dry.
997
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,640
This is not where I thought this
would go.
998
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:46,440
But I but you haven't said no
yet.
999
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,840
I I thought maybe you would.
Talk to him and say.
1000
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,080
No, we're not.
Doing this for mining purposes,
1001
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,480
we just want a ride.
That's that's work.
1002
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:00,560
This works too.
I mean.
1003
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,600
My initial thought was we were
going to like.
1004
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:08,240
Bribe this guy, but I can do.
Yeah, this is like our first.
1005
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,920
Group project.
Like that, I think where
1006
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:14,520
everybody's.
Skills just coming together.
1007
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:20,040
Yay, teamwork.
Yeah, I'm going to say this.
1008
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,600
If anybody.
Wants to spend a point of their
1009
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,920
respective skill.
This letter will be better.
1010
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,680
It is not required for you to
spend a point, but if you spend
1011
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:34,560
a point, this letter will be
more convincing in whichever
1012
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:36,720
skill you have that is involved
in this.
1013
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,480
I'll drop a point of
bureaucracy.
1014
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:40,880
I'll drop a.
Point of languages.
1015
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,080
OK, I'll do point of craft.
OK.
1016
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:46,160
Yeah, I'll use point of law
because I.
1017
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,560
Figured that.
Can stand in for corporate
1018
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:50,200
speak.
Law works.
1019
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:51,640
Law works.
OK, Yeah.
1020
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:56,040
All right then, 25 minutes.
Later we come back to the guy
1021
01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:00,560
and hand him this like
immaculately forged letter.
1022
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,920
OK, so you're OK before you?
Present it to him.
1023
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,520
What does the letter say?
What does the fucking letter
1024
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:09,800
say?
Because you got to establish
1025
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:13,600
this letter beforehand what it's
saying.
1026
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,640
And I'm sorry.
You were saying something about
1027
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:16,840
a stamp.
What was that?
1028
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:19,200
Yeah, I whittle a stamp real
quick.
1029
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:20,640
You.
Whittle a stamp?
1030
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,200
Yeah, it was sponge.
Like the teacher?
1031
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:25,800
Kindergarten.
OK, Gotcha.
1032
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,040
All right.
Presumably the.
1033
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:32,000
Letter should say something
along the lines of the company
1034
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:37,000
gives these people permission to
use the train for a private
1035
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:38,920
matter.
We have guaranteed that it is
1036
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:43,920
not a mining operation.
Something along those lines.
1037
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,280
Like just company assurance.
That this is OK?
1038
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,360
Oh, you got to throw in the
platitudes, JP.
1039
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,560
The company appreciates your
fine work in this city,
1040
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,440
etcetera, etcetera.
Obviously there are platitudes,
1041
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,320
yes.
OK, and it's like
1042
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:02,120
bureaucratically trust stop and
like all that good shit.
1043
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:04,640
Fuck.
OK, You spent that many.
1044
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,400
Goddamn points.
I can't disagree with it.
1045
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:11,240
I.
Love it Dan.
1046
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,400
I didn't think this was.
Going here either.
1047
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:17,040
For the record, signed by the
head of the company August.
1048
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:21,280
Sterliff, we just, we just.
Like all.
1049
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:23,360
Came together like fucking Power
Rangers.
1050
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,360
Transformed into one letter
also.
1051
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:33,440
By the way, JBJB.
You don't have.
1052
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:34,840
To have spent a point of
language.
1053
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:36,200
To do this, you already spoke
Italian.
1054
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:37,240
You're fine.
OK.
1055
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:39,520
All right.
I just wanted this to be.
1056
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:43,760
As good as humanly possible.
You're good, so you spend points
1057
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:47,480
of.
Language to, I mean, you know,
1058
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:48,880
actually, no, you could spend a
point.
1059
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,600
You could spend a point.
I guess that's how that works.
1060
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:53,560
That's how that works.
Spoken language and written
1061
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:55,520
legalese.
Are two very different
1062
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:56,960
languages.
This is true.
1063
01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,760
So yeah, we come back with this.
Masterfully.
1064
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,040
Doctored letter.
It was under my hat the whole
1065
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,280
time, yeah.
We did manage to locate the
1066
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,920
letter.
Hopefully this should assuage
1067
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:11,360
your worries.
Oh yes, this is.
1068
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:16,880
Well, it's certainly unusual,
but it's fine by me.
1069
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:21,600
The company hasn't really done
anything since the the the last
1070
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:25,280
time we were doing any sort of
shipments, it was before there
1071
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:30,280
was an eruption near the end of
near the the trailhead near the
1072
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,720
city the the village of Dowell.
We've never really had a reason
1073
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:37,120
to go up there again.
I heard about that strange
1074
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:38,560
business.
I didn't even know there were
1075
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,480
volcanoes in this area.
Does anybody have geology?
1076
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:45,600
I do, actually.
OK, JB, you could say that.
1077
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:48,360
But you.
Do know that there are volcanoes
1078
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:52,320
in this area, OK.
Tectonically, it's not, it's not
1079
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:55,080
completely out of reason that
there could be a volcano.
1080
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,680
Like, that's not completely out
of the ordinary.
1081
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:00,600
Yeah.
I'm just like probing for like.
1082
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,480
If he knows anything else about
it, you know exactly.
1083
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,280
Yeah.
The whole thing was a.
1084
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:09,040
Bit of a mess honestly.
I never thought the company
1085
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:10,640
would want to send things in the
1st place.
1086
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:16,080
We had a sort of uneasy
relationship with a dig team
1087
01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:21,920
that was working out there and
well, it's it's a long story.
1088
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,480
I won't bore you with it.
Oh no, I'm very interested.
1089
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:27,600
You are.
A wonderful storyteller.
1090
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:29,800
Please go on.
It is.
1091
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:35,640
It's not much to.
It there was just this Hakuna
1092
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:40,960
fellow was unbalanced and the
other man he was working with,
1093
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:45,840
Ayers, was a drug addict.
They had an arrangement with the
1094
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:50,200
company to move their supplies,
but instructions and payments
1095
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:54,440
were sporadic and the
instructions themselves were
1096
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,480
rather contradictory at points.
They would say they would want
1097
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,280
something and then they would
say whatever you do, don't send
1098
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,040
this thing, but send this thing
instead, you know?
1099
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,280
And it's just they didn't know
how to manage anything.
1100
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:09,320
They would ask for things or
they wouldn't.
1101
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:13,720
Yeah, I don't know.
I think that Hakuna man was
1102
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,560
insane.
It occurs to me that not a
1103
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,960
single one of us.
Used assess honesty while we
1104
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:24,000
were talking to Hakuna, you use
assess honesty.
1105
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,440
On this guy I guess, but.
I mean, I don't think this guy
1106
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,040
has any reason.
To lie to us.
1107
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,360
But you know, I guess it never
hurts to check.
1108
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:35,000
Like let's let's assess.
He seems to be telling the
1109
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:35,960
truth.
He seems he.
1110
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:39,880
He really didn't like this guy.
He's maybe exaggerating a little
1111
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:43,320
bit to make his enemies sound
worse than they are, and he sees
1112
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:46,640
this guy as an enemy, but he
definitely seems like he was
1113
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:49,480
getting contradictory orders
from him, and that was very
1114
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:52,520
bothersome now.
But all right.
1115
01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:55,280
I imagine JB is kind of like
translating.
1116
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,680
This to us as it goes.
Yeah, of course, of course.
1117
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:01,240
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Imagine we're all just standing.
1118
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:04,840
There like idiots nodding.
Yeah, hey.
1119
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:09,920
JB you should.
Ask him if any of those supplies
1120
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,680
are still being held in the
warehouses.
1121
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:14,360
Here or if he knows what
happened.
1122
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:16,040
That's a good one.
Yeah, OK.
1123
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:19,240
What happened?
With all of the supplies once
1124
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,520
presumably the dig ended with
the volcanic eruption, Was any
1125
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:27,040
excess just kept in the
warehouses or the such?
1126
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,440
I suppose so.
Anything.
1127
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,920
Particularly valuable was
unfortunately probably been
1128
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:37,120
seized by the company as we have
better uses for it other places,
1129
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:40,960
but let's see.
I suppose there if you're
1130
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,760
looking for a spare shovel.
Outside of that, the food and
1131
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:47,400
water has been used for other
purposes.
1132
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:49,240
That makes sense.
You never know when you'll need
1133
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:50,440
a shovel.
Yeah.
1134
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:53,280
As for the locomotive.
Itself.
1135
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:57,640
I can have my people try to get
it up and running again.
1136
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:02,560
It's been a while since it's
been doing any running, but we
1137
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,520
could see what we can do.
I can assist.
1138
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,280
Yes, my friend here.
Can assist he.
1139
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:11,320
Is quite handy with machines and
more or less anything that
1140
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:13,280
moves.
I can move some numbers around.
1141
01:08:13,960 --> 01:08:15,000
Can you move?
Coal.
1142
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:16,640
Well, I have been.
Working out.
1143
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,840
Yeah, you know, yeah.
You can really see.
1144
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:25,399
Yeah.
You're looking good.
1145
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:28,640
Looking good there.
But I have 4 athletics points
1146
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:30,840
now.
I'm not.
1147
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:32,560
I'm not translating.
Any of this but.
1148
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:37,200
Yeah, I.
Can definitely assist, yeah.
1149
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:41,160
Yeah, that much I convey, OK.
Well, you'll have to.
1150
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,880
Wait until tomorrow for my men
to to get to work.
1151
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:48,000
I'm sure you can.
That makes sense.
1152
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,760
I'm sure we can.
Find this might.
1153
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:55,760
Take it forever.
I I understand but.
1154
01:08:56,040 --> 01:09:00,800
This is past business hours,
very much so, and we do.
1155
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,160
Apologize.
For the imposition and
1156
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:06,439
appreciate your willingness to.
Work with us.
1157
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:12,720
What's he saying, JB?
You know, as somebody who has
1158
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:15,240
tried.
Real time interpreting this
1159
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:18,040
should be a skill on this sheet
that makes sense.
1160
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,200
It is.
It is not easy.
1161
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:24,520
Like your brain is going to be
all sorts of scrambled by the
1162
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:27,479
end of it, or would be if if you
were real.
1163
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:32,560
I need you to all.
Make me sense?
1164
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:37,960
Trouble checks difficulty.
Difficulty 11.
1165
01:09:38,359 --> 01:09:40,160
The person that.
You're rolling against rolled
1166
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:41,520
very well.
Pretty good.
1167
01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:45,000
Yeah, technically.
Because this is a post check, we
1168
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:46,680
should have both.
Declared what we were doing
1169
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:51,439
beforehand but I'll just tell
you it's 11 so tough luck.
1170
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,880
Shit, I have faith in sense.
Trouble.
1171
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,680
Should I spend it?
I'm gonna just roll it straight
1172
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:02,320
and see what happens.
But I'm gonna roll.
1173
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,320
I'm gonna spend 8.
Points.
1174
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,920
Oh, not quite.
I got a 58 points.
1175
01:10:07,480 --> 01:10:09,720
Yeah.
OK, I mean.
1176
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:11,960
OK, where's?
The I rolled.
1177
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,600
It that's not an 11, it is.
Not it's difficult to roll.
1178
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,160
An 11 on AD six.
Yeah.
1179
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:20,080
Especially when I can't.
Roll an 11 even if I spend all
1180
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:23,320
of my points.
So yes, I would.
1181
01:10:23,440 --> 01:10:25,280
Literally.
Have to spend all of my.
1182
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:30,000
Points and roll A6 so I roll the
12 Kearns.
1183
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,160
Comes.
Through Kearns Goonsense coming.
1184
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:35,160
In Kearns.
Paranoia comes in handy.
1185
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,520
How many points do you have of
sense trouble now?
1186
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:41,080
00 OK.
Kearns.
1187
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:43,520
Yes, you have been being
followed.
1188
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:45,560
You're starting.
To put it together.
1189
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:49,800
But there's definitely been a
local man who's been following
1190
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:53,680
you since you got to town.
They seem to be doing their best
1191
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:56,200
to remain hidden.
They're very good at it.
1192
01:10:56,240 --> 01:11:00,400
You wouldn't have noticed except
for you're on like full alert
1193
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,920
while other people are doing
their talking.
1194
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:06,080
You're just like, something's
up, Somebody's sneaking up on
1195
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:07,080
us.
Something's going on.
1196
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:10,120
Yes, there's definitely a local
man who has been watching you.
1197
01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:12,800
OK.
And like how does it like?
1198
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:16,640
Manifest while we're in this
guy's house, like is somebody
1199
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:19,080
peeking through the window or
like what's happening there?
1200
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:20,600
Do you?
They're not peeking through the
1201
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:23,480
window, but you look.
Outside the window, just sort of
1202
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:26,520
offhanded, you know, it's like
that guy is there again.
1203
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:28,880
OK, I bet it's the Knight of
Malta.
1204
01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:32,640
Sir.
Wilfred Laurier, whatever his
1205
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:35,200
name was, yeah.
That's somebody completely
1206
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:37,040
different.
Nah, probably the same guy.
1207
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:40,120
OK.
While JB and.
1208
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:43,280
Sedney are talking like while
they are engaged in
1209
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:48,880
conversation, I very subtly
elbow Collin and like sort of
1210
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:53,040
point with my eyes to the window
where we've been tailed.
1211
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:56,000
How do you want to play this?
I mean, you're the detective.
1212
01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:57,200
My dude.
Yeah, but you?
1213
01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:58,480
Got a meaner right hook than I
do.
1214
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:01,080
I guess you could go run after
this guy.
1215
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,720
I do have athletics galore, and
we do.
1216
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:08,080
Have another grenade.
Fuck it, I'm going to stay.
1217
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:10,240
Scoozy.
That's like the only known word
1218
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:13,360
I know in Italian.
Aloha for me as well.
1219
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,800
And.
Basically.
1220
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,360
Walk out.
As you walk out, you know he
1221
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:22,000
sort of, sort of moves.
To to go down an alley a little
1222
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:24,640
bit, you know, just sort of so
that he's not spotted, but you
1223
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:26,960
already you know where he is.
I know where he is.
1224
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,520
I like I light up the smoke.
And I'm sort of just like
1225
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,200
pretending that I stepped
outside to smoke, basically,
1226
01:12:33,440 --> 01:12:36,440
like I light up the smoke and
sort of just pacing around and
1227
01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:40,880
sort of slowly closing in on
this guy, like in the alley, OK,
1228
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,080
Until I wait.
Until the opportune moment.
1229
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:47,480
And I rush him.
OK.
1230
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:50,720
Are there any skills you would?
Like to use to approach him
1231
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,520
stealthily?
Or is it mostly just going to be
1232
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,760
as soon as he gets you, you're
going to get as close as you can
1233
01:12:56,760 --> 01:12:57,800
and then you're just going to
run?
1234
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:01,560
I only have two in.
Stealth I'm a.
1235
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:05,000
Fairly big guy.
I will try to keep things quiet,
1236
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,840
but let's face it, I need to
catch him.
1237
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:11,880
OK?
I think Collin's going along.
1238
01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:14,800
With this, but instead of
approaching him directly, he's
1239
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:16,480
circle laying around to the
other side of the alley.
1240
01:13:16,480 --> 01:13:20,680
I got you OK then.
Collin's gonna need.
1241
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:24,920
To make a shadowing check.
It's my birthday.
1242
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,240
Yay, what's the difficulty?
3.
1243
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:32,000
No 4, sorry.
Four, I'll spend 3 points in
1244
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:35,280
pass, OK.
Hell yeah with.
1245
01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:39,840
That you're sort of ready.
To cut him off, and I'm going to
1246
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:45,320
need Mr. Kearns to make me an
athletic check to run after this
1247
01:13:45,320 --> 01:13:46,440
guy.
Difficulty.
1248
01:13:46,640 --> 01:13:50,120
We're going to do opposed roles.
This guy is going to spend a
1249
01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:52,680
certain number of points, you're
going to spend a certain number
1250
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:54,360
of points and we roll at the
same time.
1251
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,680
Fuck, it's OK, I've already
decided.
1252
01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:59,280
How many points he spent?
I've typed it.
1253
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,960
In the chat, but you need to
determine how many points you're
1254
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:03,800
spending as well.
If you have that typed and ready
1255
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:05,880
to go, we could both.
I am, I do.
1256
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:07,840
I do have typed and.
Ready to go?
1257
01:14:08,440 --> 01:14:15,400
All right, go.
Hat OK both both are.
1258
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,000
Fives.
So that's a.
1259
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:22,240
Tie.
Which I would say is going to
1260
01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:25,160
make things more.
Difficult, but I will give you
1261
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:28,120
the edge because you have
somebody ready to cut him off.
1262
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:30,680
Yeah, perfect.
Presumably.
1263
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:34,720
This ends in him getting.
Fucking clothes Lined, weirdly
1264
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:41,000
enough, by Kearns.
The man hits the ground and
1265
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,200
looks.
Up at both of you.
1266
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:44,960
I'm on top of him tying knots
out of his arms.
1267
01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:47,800
Be gone from this place, he says
in English.
1268
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,080
Well, that's the plan, but we
got to wait for the train.
1269
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:54,240
All right, all right, buddy.
You're going to start talking,
1270
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:57,760
and you're going to start
talking right now if you want to
1271
01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:01,600
keep all of your limbs intact.
Just what I expected.
1272
01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:03,120
I'm using.
Intimidation.
1273
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:05,800
Yeah, I do not.
Fear you, my holy.
1274
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:09,640
Cause is just, yeah, another at
least holy cause, guys.
1275
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:11,760
What's yours?
He spits in your face.
1276
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,200
Yeah, my.
Face hey.
1277
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:18,400
I'm a I'm a good God.
Fearing man myself, I understand
1278
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:20,160
a thing or two of the holy
causes.
1279
01:15:20,920 --> 01:15:24,960
He spit in my face currents.
Wipe it off you big baby.
1280
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,240
It's gross.
You must.
1281
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:32,360
Not.
Disturb What happened?
1282
01:15:33,080 --> 01:15:34,800
Dull.
Oh, and what?
1283
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:36,320
What was it exactly that
happened?
1284
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:37,880
I got a hanker too for
something.
1285
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,000
I take out a Hank and just throw
it at Colin.
1286
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:46,920
Without looking, it's.
Right in my eye I will.
1287
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:51,120
Tell you nothing.
Your blasphemous ways will not
1288
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:54,840
spread to here.
Any familiarity with the Knights
1289
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:55,400
of?
Malta.
1290
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:57,600
Does he think we're with the
cult?
1291
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,320
Probably.
Is there a cross on him like any
1292
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:02,080
religious?
Symbols, anything.
1293
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:04,520
Not that you could say no.
OK, I think.
1294
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:05,280
I think.
We're going to need
1295
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:07,400
reinforcements.
Here, I look up at Colin.
1296
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:10,040
All right, I'll watch him.
You go get.
1297
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:13,360
It.
Are you sure?
1298
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:16,520
Mr. 4 Athletics.
Mr. Soft boiled himself.
1299
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:24,640
Mr. Oh no, he's patted.
My eye Colin Spitzen currents
1300
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:29,760
face.
It's it's not nice, is it
1301
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:35,480
exactly what I?
Thought I'll die before I tell
1302
01:16:35,480 --> 01:16:38,080
you anything.
Listen, Mr. I think maybe we're
1303
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,560
having a.
Miscommunication here, we just
1304
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:44,600
left Malta, we had a nice chat
with one of the Knights from
1305
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:47,640
there.
He had a holy cows too and we
1306
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:50,000
work things out just fine.
Sort of same deal with you.
1307
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,280
I have no idea what you're
talking about.
1308
01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:54,960
All right, I'll go grab the
others and.
1309
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,440
Maybe we can figure this out.
Oh, here's your hanky back.
1310
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:00,200
Thanks, asshole.
All right, oppose.
1311
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:01,880
Struggle checks when it's just
two.
1312
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:05,440
People in the alley here, will I
get an edge if I pull out my?
1313
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:10,040
My knife, yes, just sort.
Of hold them at knife.
1314
01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:13,280
Point I will say you.
Can use weapons instead.
1315
01:17:13,480 --> 01:17:16,120
Of scuffling.
God, it's so nice being being
1316
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:18,280
strong.
So I've heard.
1317
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:20,240
Yeah, I'll use.
Weapons.
1318
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:24,440
Tayo.
You little bitch.
1319
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:26,840
Apparently.
The Bunny gods like Grenade
1320
01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:29,800
today.
He head butts, you take one.
1321
01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:33,600
Point of damage and sort of
flips away trying to get away.
1322
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:37,600
You pull a knife on him though,
cut open his shirt as he's
1323
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:41,280
trying to struggle and you see
that he is a tattoo of an eye on
1324
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:44,080
his back.
It looks exactly.
1325
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,320
Like the?
One that Reggie has in his
1326
01:17:47,320 --> 01:18:01,400
pocket.
Thanks for listening.
1327
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:05,120
Daniel is the keeper for.
Eternal lives Damiano's Reginald
1328
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:09,920
Killer Nathan is JB Faulk, Renee
is Frank Kearns, and read our
1329
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:12,880
intro this week.
Russell is Colin Kane in
1330
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:13,360
addition.
To.
1331
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:14,240
Mixing.
Mastering.
1332
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:17,360
And music in the episode, our
album art is by Twin the Tea
1333
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:19,520
Time Witch.
Our main theme is by Claire.
1334
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:22,440
LW and I used Halloween
background music by Sosa and
1335
01:18:22,440 --> 01:18:24,840
Nikola Krumpixbe.
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1336
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:27,760
Wizard is covered by copyright
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1337
01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:29,720
caught up top that we're opening
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1338
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,440
I'm still setting everything up,
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1339
01:18:32,440 --> 01:18:36,040
at patreon.com/dreadtails or in
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1340
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:38,440
which also has links to our
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1341
01:18:38,440 --> 01:18:40,320
And the YouTube channel.
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1342
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:41,920
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1343
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:45,240
Again, thanks for listening, and
until next time, everybody's
1344
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,080
wiping up their faces when we
get back.
1345
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,520
Having had an argument about
getting spit on.
1346
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,160
Oh.
Did it awaken?
1347
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,720
Anything in you?
Go God, shut up.