Eternal Lies 19: Ethiopian Extraction

0:00 Daniels Dread Tails is a show for grown-ups. It may contain adult language and adult themes. Please check the episode description for content warnings. Last time on Eternal Lies, After a chat with George Ayers, noted archaeologist, former cultist and current mouth proprietor, the investigators bid him well in his struggle against the liar and set their sights once more on Delal. Determining to finish what they hadn't started, the team hatched a plan that began without a hitch as Colin used his knowledge of accounting to cause a distraction while Kearns and Killworth set the place ablaze without a hitch. That is, until, in an act of showmanship, the detective sliced open his arm to reveal a mouth had taken root. There the die is cast, the pact is sealed, and May God have mercy on our souls.

1:00 It's Daniel's dread tail. And and if the audience notices that Nathan sounds extra stressed today, it's because we have no backup plan for a total party pill. So I guess. Do what I did. Like that's it, man. It's just done. I mean, we move on to another campaign, just wipe our hands with this and be just like. And that's how the liar from beyond won. Who was the liar? Actually? Maybe I'll tell you if everybody dies of just the campaign that ends, what was the at?

1:45 This point, it's got to be Azathoth, right? I didn't say that. OK. Scary. Fucking Gary. Well, I'm sure we'll get our answers soon enough, one way or another. OK so last last time on Eternal Lies, JB and Colin go in to make distraction, Colin slashes his arm and it has fucking teeth on it, and then Reg and Kern start throwing Molotov cocktails and lighting shit on fire. Yep, that all sounds right. And we successfully rolled for that. Geez, and we look pretty badass doing that. Can we can we have a can we have a shot of Reg and currents? Just lighten up.

2:35 Smokes off of their Molotov cocktails before throwing them. It does nicely contrast how cool you guys look. Meanwhile, with JV and Colin, this shit's going to hell and 1/2. So how are the villagers reacting to all this? Yeah. How are the villagers reacting to all of? That well, so if you recall, there were many of the villagers that were flocking to team. Distraction. That was the plan. Which team distraction was successfully distracting? In fact, the thing that has now happened is there is a really big distraction, which is there is a mouth on somebody's arm, and that mouth has started yelling in a language none of you can understand.

3:28 Oh, that reminds me, is there perhaps a stability loss associated with a mouth manifesting on there? Yeah, no, I was going to get to that. I don't know, you might have forgotten. Well, don't fucking remind them, Teacher's pet. No, I have the stability table pulled up right now. Hey Colin, what's your sanity at? Not good. Yeah, sanity is fine. You can only lose one point of sanity permission. The issue might more be the stability check. So this is going to be a difficulty 5. All right, stability check for you because this is a lot possible loss of seven. All right, Nathan.

4:11 Excuse me JB, yours will be the same difficulty possible loss of 6. I will spend 2 points on this. OK. Which I assume I can do even though I'm at 0. Yeah, you could spend to the negatives. OK. I mean, it's not good for you, but it's it beats the alternative. -2 is better than -7. Yeah. Agreed, I will do the same. Are you going into zeros as well? I am, yeah, I I am as well, for all the fucking good it did me. But I mean also technically, depending on how you roll that -2 could turn into -9 I passed. Hey, so I'm sorry, how much did you say I was going to lose here, Dan?

5:00 6. -8 stability. Blasted. Yeah, you're, you're blasted, my friend. So anyway, you started blasted. Yeah, I sure did. So first of all, let's go over those who are shaken. Also, if you're blasted, you take the effects of shaken as above and there's additional things to it. Go on. But if you are blasted, you get plus one difficulty to everything that you're doing. You cannot spend investigative abilities. And that is it for now. However, once you've reached blasted, you permanently lose one point from your stability rate and you could do nothing except gibber, attack perceived threats in a frenzied manner, or flee.

5:47 Is it gibber or jibber? I don't know, it's one of those words I usually read and don't say out loud. That's fair. Yeah, I've always heard gibbering Melder. We say gibberish, right? I guess gibberish. Yeah, Yeah. OK. So thank you. Every day's a school day. Jiff. You start to jibber. I always get Gizmo mixed up. I always want to say Gizmo so Oh my. OK. Yeah. That's that's not a good one to fuck up. No, no it's not. Also, for the longest time I thought spouse was pronounced spooz. So. Isn't English fascinating?

6:28 How have you guys lost sanity this scenario, either of you? I feel like I did but forgot to mark it down with the heir's mouth. Gotcha. Did have you lost any sanity, JB? No. Well, you just lost your sanity. Yeah. I know I said you could only lose it once, what I mean is there could only be 1 instance of it. I am now down to 4 out of 6 sanity and am currently a fucking mess. Yeah. It's a permanent sanity loss, right? Yeah, permanent sanity loss. Yeah. So I'm sorry, I Yeah.

7:08 Did I say 4 out of 6? I meant 4 out of. Four, Yeah. I feel like you did lose sanity previously though. Yeah, but not in this. It no in Ethiopia. Yeah, I haven't done any Ethiopia right. I don't. There were two times where it came up. I believe the first one was to show Bay's mouth and the second was Air's mouth, and I think you lost it at one of those. OK, so that means you just lose one more point. You take the largest loss, so instead of losing what you're going to lose, you lose one more, if that makes sense. So I. You're down to five, OK.

7:49 Which is technically up from 4. Yes, yes. And I'm, I'm not like, you know. If you would like, you can faint rather than suffer that sanity loss. Yeah, that's an option. Is it a good option though? I don't know. I don't think it's a good option, but I like to give you, I like to give you choices. In a village full of self mutilating psychopaths, no I don't think it's a good option. Well, they're. Self mutilating. Though they are self mutilating that is. Excuse me, do you think all those fucking children did that to themselves? Kinda. That does seem to be what's implied unfortunately. But also I'm not going to faint because that would leave me unconscious and they'd have to drag my ass through the portal. OK.

8:42 Not that I'm in any state to do much of fucking anything. Oh God, what do I do? Oh, this is bad. As the mouth on your arm begins to shout, Colin, you guys are going to make me one more roll. All righty. Yeah, OK. You make a stability test difficulty 3. This is not going to be anything where you lose stability. Instead, this will be a thing where the mouth will drive you into an immediate descent into animal like behavior that lasts from 3 to 18 minutes.

9:23 All right, just going to roll this one straight. OK. Colin is fine. Well. JB is not. OK, JB, Well, you were just, you didn't really have control of what you were doing anyway. So it's yeah. JB climbs a tree. The JB, this is going to be a rough time for you. No shit. Let's see here. Effective targets may run off, howl at the moon and stars, eat nearby organic objects, kiss or lick themselves, recite their words, they hear this in the tongue, or some combination. You could spend stability to prevent this from happening. What fucking stability.

10:06 Yeah, I spend. If you spend, spend. Yeah, whoops. I got to see how long is it going to. Last, I meant that one of the things I predicted happening is that I would pass my stability checks because my dice say fuck you and for. 6 minutes you are going to be going wild, as will all of the people hearing it. Except, apparently, Colin. Well, I am the messenger. Colin is keeping it together, but this mouth is shouting in a tongue that you do not understand, but in a way absolutely strange. Whispers, lots of sibilance, lots of essence. It sounds almost abundant but matter. And immediately everybody in the range of hearing it start yelling and dancing and self mutilating. So in a way, an excellent distraction. Yeah.

11:10 Oh my. However, as they are self mutilating, there is a chance they are going to start harming each of. Tell me what each of you is going to do. What? What do you do? What do you do? I've said enough of what happens to you. This is a game about choices. What choices do you make? Well, I guess it's time to go find Breads and Kearns. Side eye the mouth on my arm. Other side eye to JB running off into the wilderness. JB is absolutely running off into the wilderness, which is a desert, so. Yeah, it's. Going to be a long 6 minutes. Don't go too far, JB. All right, This is not how I saw this day going. So Collins wandering off to find French and Kerns. OK, they are all following the mouth. Everybody is now following.

12:09 Yeah, all right. The more the merrier, I guess. I guess this would not be a time to go to to to. I guess JBJB you could run off, though I'm not saying you have to follow them. I'll, I'll let you make the choice of running off into the wilderness. That's fine. That that brings its own interesting problems. So that's fun. Oh yeah, I am well aware that this session may end with me stranded, in which case I don't fucking know what's going to happen. But maybe don't lead the entire mob to our plan. Hey, Turns Reggie. Yeah. The fire is making people run out of their their dwellings. The people that are in there, they are distracted by the fire. They and those who can hear the strange voice coming out of fucking Colin's arm are running to him. It's There are a lot of distractions, I will say that. What do you do?

13:08 Well, I believe there was talk of using some explosives to go blow up proto mouth, so I. Believe that was the case, yes. Yeah, that was exactly. I think Reg is going to look over at Kearns and and go, you ready to do this? Looks like it's now or never. Ready as I'll ever be. Let's go. To the Protomouth. To the Protomouth. Which is, I'm guessing, directly in the path of the crowd that's coming towards us. We can hug the wall, probably. You can reach it before.

13:49 I need you to make a check to reach it before Colin's mob reaches you. Athletics. Yeah, I'll even let you use fleeing if you'd like. What's the difficulty? Difficulty 3. 4 for me because I'm at -5 stability. OK yeah. And that makes everything harder. Yeah. So I am just going to spend 3 out of my 8. Yeah, I think I'm going to spend 2 and succeed as well. As you reach the building where the mouth is, you are greeted by two guards. The two guards that let you in last time. This time they do not seem interested, letting you in just too early. Mostly not amputated dudes are just standing in your way. What sort of weapons do they have on them? Interesting question.

14:39 They have bolt action rifles slung over their shoulders and knives in their hands. Well. I have an idea. I have a double barrel shotgun on me. You'd take righty, I'd take lefty. I'm assuming there's like one on either side of the door. Yeah. That would definitely be well within shotguns. Buckshot range. Yeah. There are no rules about shotguns to expect. There are rules about if you get close to somebody with a shotgun in point blank range, it does more damage. That's the shot, that's the bonus. Shotguns get this. Since at point blank range the shotgun is just as good as my 45, I'm gonna pull up both my guns at point blank range. I would like to put a round into each of them, bending 2 to be able to fire at a different target. And what would hit threshold be 3. So I'll say 4 because of being not in the best headspace right now.

15:34 Yeah, I'll spend 6. That'll put me down to two. D 6 + 3 because of point blank. OK, so that's five. Do you want me to roll once for each of them, or is that going to apply to both? That's that'll apply to both of them. OK, so they each take 5. Cool, they're not dead. I'm I'm assuming they're not feeling too good right now. No, they they don't feel great. I'm. Gonna grab my shotgun and take one of them out of his misery. OK. I'll spend 2 firearms. It's just so badass. We're just walking briskly towards the door, 2 guards are trying to hinder us and we're just not even stopping. Just boom boom Bang Bang. Just. Yes. Fill them full of lead. At this range, all firearms do an additional +2 damage, and your shotgun is already plus one for being at point blank, so it's going to be +3. 7. Nice, you've killed a man.

16:24 Not the first, hopefully won't be the last. How's the other one doing the? Other one screams and goes to stab you with a knife. Who? The person who just killed his friend? Ah. Well, let him try. He's. Definitely going to spend his points, although he doesn't have a ton of points but he has enough to hit you. What's your hit threshold? Poor. Yeah, he's going to spend 3 points, so he hits you. Motherfucker. You take two damage. Son of a bitch. I grit my teeth, grab his wrist with the knife. I pull it out of myself and I stab him with it. What the fuck? I'm not in the best headspace either. OK, make another role for me then 4. 4 will hit and the damage what's what's that like -1? Oh yeah -1. 5.

17:12 OK, so you've killed two people. Very nice. I am going to need to make a stability check. Just killing a person is tricky. Not for Kearns. Yeah, difficulty. Yeah, Kearns demonstrated that it's actually quite simple. Difficulty 3. Loss of three. OK. Fuck. That's a 2. What's your stability at? -6. Wow. Oh, I. Think you're in blasted territory? Yes. Kearns wipes the blade of the knife on his shirt and laughs. You are now going to either need to gibber. Attack.

17:54 Perceived threats in a forensic manner. Or to be alive. Or faint is actually only if you suffer A sanity. This is not a sanity thing. This is just stability. This is this is actually nothing to do with Cthulhu. This is just murder. I just like the image of currency and it's good to be alive and then fainting. No good thing there's a big fucking threat right ahead of us. You mean inside the building or the mob that's coming your way? Oh, calling at the head of it, waving at you. Waving with the mouth arm. No, no, the other one. OK. Reg, do you have the presence of mind to drag me inside? Probably, yeah.

18:37 As you're laughing maniacally. Yes, please do it. By the way, you've you guys have never seen currents laugh before and now that I am it looks fucking scary, like there's something unhealthy in that laugh. Hey fucking currents, snap out of it, we have a job to do. We sure do. Tashombe is sitting in the room when you arrive, the woman who had a mouth for a breast. She is rolling her head ecstatically as she runs towards you, yelling and screaming and attacking you with her hands. I shoot her immediately. What's your firearm spool?

19:17 How many points do you have in firearms? Currently 6. OK, You have more points than her, so you are going to get to go. That's how initiative is determined. If OK shoot her, then yeah. Yeah. What's the hit threshold? 3. I miss. Your shot goes wild and I guess what's your cool combat skills? There Reggie Total or what I have currently. What you currently have. Oh, currently two, Yeah. OK, so Tashaumba is going to get to go first. She jumps on top of Kearns. Bring it on, you crazy thing. She's spending three points.

19:58 She gets you. She's just hitting you with her fists though. So that's not too much damage. It's -1 D 6 -, 2. Oh, so she actually rolled she. She heals me for one. She does not heal you. Discovered in Tiger. Bum. The issue however is the mouth then bites you. Oh, the boob mouth. Yes. Fun. Yeah, that's gonna be bad for you. Karen's get some new nightmares. Yeah, the mouth has ripped out of the hold that it was stuck. It's going to make a bite at you. OK, Roll the six to hit you. Oh, right.

20:40 Yeah, and you take two damage, right? But you're going to need to take a stability loss now, a potential loss of two stability difficulty 3. Great. Can't go lower, man. OK, I pass. OK, now it's registered. As I wrestle with her, yelling at her to get the fuck away from me. Reg, I need you to make the same check. Difficulty three, loss of two. OK just cause seeing this mouth open up. I rolled it for. You guys are good for now. You guys kind of knew it was there already. Yeah, point blank with one of my 40 fives and Lady boob mouth Dome, Reg is going to try and like line up the shot as best as possible to hopefully not hit Kerns.

21:29 May as well spend the last two points that I have in firearms and I'm going to have to hit a four because of my stability. I roll 5. OK, roll damage. Four or five damage. You shoot her dead, she's just a woman in the end, a woman with a horrible mouth on her. But just a woman. Killing somebody, however, as we establish, is an issue for this. Although actually seeing the mouth was worse than killing this person. So we're gonna be actually just gonna keep going. Is the mouth still gnashing? No, when the host dies, the mouth stops moving. Noted. Interesting. Hey Kearns, drag her into the room with the with the mouth. We're here to blow up.

22:15 I drag her by the leg. Presumably laughing all the way. Yeah, that's what Reg was planning to do. So Reg grabs the other leg. Moving or not, Reg was not going to let that mouth anywhere near his body. Drag her onto the pit and Reg still has a grenade. Hang on, where's the Where's the crazy old guy? Empty. He doesn't appear to be here. I can live with that. Can I in French yell come out? Come out wherever you are, yo geezer. I mean, yes, that seems like something you'd be yelling at Habti the the Stump man, but he does not appear to be here.

22:57 Catch you on the flip side. I assume you throw the dynamite and you set up all the dynamite, the grenades. Yep. OK. And as soon as that's set up and going, Reg is running out of the building. I I imagine like current sort of lingers, tries to light up another smoke. You don't want to be in there. As you run out of the building, you are met by one of your companions. Hello. Who has a new orifice? I think on my way over here I would have tried to wrap it in something to maybe lessen the shock, but I suppose there's still muffled screaming coming. From it there's.

23:42 Muffled screaming coming from it, Yes. You don't have a soundproof bag. This isn't like that live episode we did. Oh no, I'm fine with that. We don't have a bag of this. No. Has it been 6 minutes yet? I think it's been 6 minutes, yes. JP comes screaming from the other direction. OK, screaming towards them, like to to attack or like are you just running around screaming at this point? Mostly just running around screaming at this point, like OK you know, not having the best of days. OK, so you see JB running by screaming. You see Colin in front of the cult, essentially, in some ways a new leader of the cult, and just seconds before everything explodes.

24:34 What do you do? This could be for Colin or everybody else, even JB. Even JB. So we're in a bit of a pickle here. Do I have enough presence of mind to at least, like, warn them like it's going to blow? Say that in a crazy way, and I know, I know, that's not sensitive, but this is, you know what I mean? Well, Colin knows the plan was to blow the place up, so yeah. You stick around for longer. All our problems are going to be solved at once. That that shack's about to blow. Yeah, there's a mob of mutilated cultists. You're following me because the thing that happened. What did you do?

25:18 Do they have to make a check for the? Yeah, they're going to notice it. They're going to notice it now. I'm just holding it behind my back is going. Unless you're going to make some sort of stealth check or a conceal check actually is literally what this is for. That is what the conceal skill is for. Oh absolutely, I've never used that. I will spend my one point in conceal this. Is going to be a difficulty 4. All right, probably five. Yeah, I'm definitely shaking. Yeah. That's a. Oh my God. Yeah, so I'm a little incongruous with my roles and what's actually happening.

25:59 It's quite the pickle. Fucking can we do navel? Do the navel gazing later? Can we get the fuck out of here? How are you going to do that? I'm going to see JB streaking by and and I'm just going to follow. OK. So, Reg, how's that blanket of yours work? Well, I need to finish casting and then it should. Why I? I want to clarify this conversation cannot be happening. The. Explosion is going to happen and the mob is literally right behind you. Can it be happening as we're running? It could be happening as you're running, absolutely, but I just want to be clear.

26:42 I really feel like the working out has paid off for me. Yeah. Do I look any better? The fuck is going on? Cullen's shaking is just way too calm right now. Yeah, explosion of fire illuminates the people that are following the fire and also you could sealing the mouth sort of snaps them out of whatever sort of trance they were. That's fair. In the back of my mind, some corner that's not yet irreparably damaged, I sort of remember the blanket plan and saying that JB is galloping away.

27:25 Can I just catch up to him and snatch him in a bear hug? Your mind is also broken, like your mind is also blasted. I guess you could grab him but that's about it. You could just grab him. I feel like it's, it's almost like you, you, you dangle a toy in front of a cat, right? And it can be like a candy wrapper, but the cat's instinct are to catch whatever is moving right? That makes. More sense to. Me. Yes, yes, yeah. Right. So like I'm basically picturing myself as like a cheetah chasing a an Impala right now. OK, except you're both too bad Americans. So while those two are running around and you're talking about the blanket, now that the villagers seem to have realized what is going on, many of them are running in fear.

28:10 However, let's say two dozen of them. Is that all? Are now running at you angrily. Yeah, quite the pickle. They will kill you. You did just sort of blow up a lot of their village and kill their leader. And while this actually is going to ultimately be good in a way for the people of this village, without the sway of their leader, a lot of the more reasonable people are either going to leave or, you know, whatever. Things are going to get better. The true believers are not going to follow along with that and those guys are going to kill you. Well, they will try. What do you do? Is there any way I can support you my friend?

28:53 Keep them off of me. Well, we need to catch up to the other two first. You could make athletics or fleeing checks. This is absolutely a fleeing situation. Equal points in both. I will go with athletics. I'll do the same. What is my difficulty with here? Difficulty 4 in this situation. I'll just spend the three points. I guess it'll be 5 though, right? Because of your very sanity situations. Right, I'll spend the four points. Yes, I am also spending the four points. Do me and Renee also need to make athletics checks or fleeing checks to escape the villagers? Yes, difficulty 3. Because you were already running, you were a little further ahead. I'm burning the three required athletics points because difficulty 4 because I'm insane to just succeed. Yeah, you're not insane.

29:44 Your mind is just blasted. It's not really great either. No, I understand this. Yeah, I'm going to spend the points as well. And as I'm running, shooting the people who are chasing us is probably too strategic, huh? I mean. You could just be killing. You absolutely be killing people. That's something you would do. You seem to be a much more violent man than JB is. I think here's what happens. I think JB is a bit faster than me. Maybe you're like lighter on your feet or something. Seeing that you're starting to like run ahead of me. I slow down, I turn around and just start blasting.

30:27 Just walking backwards and just shooting. Oh, so you're not running? Like, you know, like A2 stick shooter. Oh, so you're shooting while you're running. You're shooting while you're like, OK, gotcha. Yeah, running away or running towards. Away. OK, I just didn't clear, 'cause you said you were running and shooting, I thought maybe you were running back into the mob. Oh, I'm definitely laughing like a fucking maniac. Of course, Of course. Yeah, as a kill. Yes, and kill. Yeah, and kill. Yes. We're not going to have those kills count anymore. You're not actually rolling, and you've seen worse. OK, so everybody's staying ahead of them for a little bit, but you're going to need to have a solution besides running because these guys are going to catch up to you. Well, did that buy us enough time for Damien to finish the blanket?

31:17 Because that's our exit. I think at this point it's more Colin and I getting to like catching up with you because you 2 are a ways ahead of the two of us. Only a little bit though. But yes, you've made you've made some distance. Is it time to do your teleportation magic which will fuck up your stability even more? Oh. Yes, yes. Oh, I've I've got an idea here. OK, Spending health is an option. Does it have to be his health? You know what? I'm going to say no. All right, might as well get a start on this. Still got this knife I guess. OK. Well, yeah, that'll be that, Will. Definitely be one thing.

31:59 So let me tell you how that sacrifice is going to work. Hey friends, can you give me a hand here? It's pretty tough. I mean, I mean I can try. What do you need help? What the fuck is that? Oh God. Yeah, I mean, can I shoot his arm off? That's not really how you amputate something. It'll work with the shotgun. Tell it to my fucking -6 stability.

32:39 OK, you kid. And you know what? That will definitely give some blood. OK, well. Yep, I alrighty, well I had an idea of how I could do it. This will probably end up going bad, especially since I have to roll to actually cast the spell anyway. How could it get worse at this point? OK. Anybody have physics? I don't think no. Actually none of you are in a position to spend physics points. All of your none of you could spend investigative abilities. So the stability test, is that increased by me being shocked as well? It does, yes. Yes. OK, so that's going to be a difficulty 6.

33:21 Yes. I'm going to do something exceptionally bad because no matter what I do, this is going to take me to blasted Slash. Worse, Reg is going to look up at Colin. Don't worry about sacrificing, keep them off pointing at the crowd of fanatics that are following. I am going to spend 5 stability to make it so it's an automatic success that's going to take me down to -10. And then you're going to spend the last two. I am going to spend the last two so since I'm down to -12 stability. Oh boy, buddy. Let's read this out.

34:02 What happens here for our listeners? If a character stability pool points reach -12 they are permanently insane. You may commit one last crazy act which must either be self destructively heroic or self destructively destructive. As you hear Reg just start chanting in what sounds like 3 voices. You all can feel that almost like the error around you is being sucked into this blanket that's stretched onto the sand of the desert. Now Reg successfully passing the spell. However, while Reg was casting the spell, he modified. I'll let you do that because it's a big act. With your last moment, what did you do? The destination wasn't Iron Point, but a place that he'd seen in his dreams.

35:01 Like. Texas The. Mountain. No. On the other side of this gate, as you look into it, you can see an inky black and it feels like the air around you is being drawn ever more violent into the hyperspace gate. Space. And the first person that ends up going through is red. He's not holding on to the screen. So yes, space. You opened up AI. Don't know how this helps my dude. It doesn't.

35:43 Did you just end our campaign? Not necessarily I'm I'm sure people can figure out a way to get out, but it'll at least take out some of the fanatics. OK, here's the plan. The plan is in air quotes we run. That's the plan. All right. Make fleeing roles or athletics roles. That's our difficulty. Or. I don't spend the points, I'm going to fail. And die. I'll spend the points. Even if I spend all three of my remaining points because I'm blasted, if I roll A1 I will fail and die.

36:29 That didn't happen, thankfully. You rolled A6. That's great. All right, I got. An 8. OK, you know what? You all run into the desert like the chanting and whatnot and everything. It's almost none of you are really in a state to understand what happened. Accurate. As you run into the desert, you hear screams and you hear chanting. You hear the sound of a vacuum sucking air and you sort of come to an unknown amount of time later. Real pickle. Much of the village is simply gone. The gate collapsed at some point. It was not able to be held open forever. Good.

37:20 You're just not a good enough magic user. Sorry, Reggie. Reggie's dead at this point. Yeah, I don't think you have to apologize to a dead man. And dowel is mostly gone now. At least half of it is gone. In terms of the buildings, you're not quite sure about the population. You are in the desert. You do not have camels. I will give you this, though, before we have to deal with the fact that one of you has a mouth on their arm. You have succeeded over the mythos. Congratulations. 2nd mythos. Yep. Yeah, OK, cool. We are. We actually fully succeeded in stopping the methos in this area.

38:04 All it did was kill one of us, put a mouth on the arm of another one of us, and strand us in the fucking desert. Roll AD 6 and get that much stability back. Happily. Hey, back to 0. Yay, I gained 5 stability. You don't count. I know, all right, I'm up to -3 So, OK, I don't think any of us are blasted anymore at least. None of you are blasted anymore. So now we can actually like, plan and. You're all shaken, but you're actually inexplicably, Colin is not shaking it. Aren't they shaking at 0? Is it at 0 or is that negative? I always get that.

38:45 Believe it's at 0, at 0. It is at 0, it is at zero. I take it back well, and then there is a mouth. Yeah, I did a pretty shitty job of wrapping it. Yeah, it's not hidden anymore. Yeah. Yeah, I initially I figured out of character. I figured the way we were going to get rid of the mouth was just to do the good old fashioned portal cut and close the portal with your arm still partially through it. That's not an option anymore, so. Yeah, I don't. I think the portal didn't go quite how everyone was expecting it, but that's what happens when people are crazy. Feel like I had a different plan to get rid of this arm but I forget what it was. Something something train. So however Kearns, you are now seeing this mouth. I mean, I kind of saw it last night where I was just about to shoot it off before.

39:37 There was a there was a vacuum of space. Before there was a vacuum. Yeah. Yeah, I. Know you're about to shoot it off so. I sort of leveled my shotgun at Colin. I'm going to go. I'm still getting if you are. Well, I'm feeling a little better now, sort of having second thoughts. You ready if you have first aid? Nope. Yeah. Do I Do I need points in first aid to roll for it? It's it's difficulty 7 if done in the field. Great. Oh, you're talking about amputation? Yeah, amputation. I believe that's what we're talking about, yes. Well I was just thinking of like stabilizing him after we've shot his fucking arm off.

40:22 Oh, because you could just do an amputation? Yeah, with first aid. It's difficulty 7 though because you are not in the proper situation. You also don't really have the proper tools unless you want to make a preparedness role. I can do preparedness. OK, but does anyone have any first aids points to do it with? Well, Colin does, but he's probably going to be passed out after this. Well, look at it this way. We we got a prisoner. No, no, we don't. That doesn't. Daniel, what are the gameplay ramifications of me keeping the mouth?

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43:18 You can name some of our characters. It'll be a good time. We hope to check it out Again. That's patreon.com/dread Tails. Oh, it's going to keep fucking with you. You're going to keep losing stability. It also might just try to like, bite you and shit. It's bad, It's bad. But would I bleed out in the desert? Yeah, yeah, you. There's also a chance of you bleeding out in the desert if we try to cut it off right now, so. OK, OK. Because Colin is a coward. New plan. We tie him up and we get to safety and then we chop your arm off.

43:59 How about we get to safety and then you try and catch me. When you inevitably do, you can tie me up. I'm already on top of you. He's not possessed. At least he doesn't seem to be possessed, to be clear. The mouth is. By the way, this whole time the mouth is just sort of gritting, licking its lips. It's got lips. Yeah, I have a terrible plan. Throw it on the pile. So about that gag that we established that JB has. Yes. You're going to try to gag the mouth for now.

44:40 If you eat a mouth nectar. I assume it gets bigger. Thankfully we don't have any nectar to try with. Yeah, exactly. Well, give it some time. Oh boy. Oh. God. You guys are going to need to make survival checks. Do any of you have survival skill? Is that a skill in this game? Are you thinking outdoorsman? I'm thinking of Outdoorsman. I have Outdoorsman but I'm at 0. Well, Colin has 2 levels in Druid which gives me proficiency in survival. OK. Smart mouth is really getting to you. Hang on, Game Master. Yeah. Would astronomy qualify like if I were to navigate by the sun? Sure, the big It's not about finding your way, it's about surviving in the harsh desert.

45:31 OK, well how about we survive while making our way as quickly as possible to where it's safe? The Oasis north of Dalo. The Oasis north of Dalo. Oh, you remembered. Yeah, I figured we were going to stop by there anyway for water and shit. OK. Yeah, let's fucking go. You could make your way to the Oasis north of Dalo. Day. And I keep my shotgun trained on Colin's arm the entire way. When you arrive at the Oasis, you're able to dress there safely. Congrats. Yay, yay. So we refresh all of our points and our stability, right? And there's a parade and everybody claps. No.

46:19 Oh. But roll AD 6 and you can restore that many points into any skills of your drugs. 2 is all around. OK. 4. Oh. I'm just going to say this one of those should be put into Outdoorsman. All right, Can I put one point in Outdoorsman and three in First Aid? Yeah. Should have taken more outdoorsman I guess. Put both of my points into first aid because we're Fox if we don't. Yeah, Yep. So you got 2 choices here. 1, you could try and make it back to Kaluli on foot. Two, you can wait here for somebody to come. You don't know if anybody's coming. You also will need to deal with that now. OK.

47:08 Campfire card. The thing is that this place is. Nobody comes here like that is like explicitly the guides were like, yeah, we would not be going near that village if you weren't paying us. So our odds of getting rescued not high. Here's what I'm thinking. Let's be honest with each other. My odds of surviving out there are marginally better than yours, gentlemen. So how about you stay here and rest up when I transit and bring help? You'll be alone out there.

47:54 I touched the crucifix around my neck. I'm never alone, Mr. Falk. It's not safe to go along. Take this. Cigarette. Flare gun I would like to spend preparedness to have a flare gun. A flare gun would actually be very useful in this situation. OK So what would happen if there was a vacuum? Would it make a Sonic boob sound if you opened a portal to space? Like how loud would it be? It would probably be quite loud. That makes sense because like the air displacement. So yeah, I would think it would be. It would be pretty fucking loud at the period. OK, so factor that in.

48:37 I'm not saying that you shouldn't go, I think that's actually a pretty cool thing to do. But do know that waiting here is not the the stupidest thing in the world, because somebody might investigate it or they might think, wow, that place is fucking horrible, let's never go there. Did you hear those horrible sounds? Let's not go at all. In that case, then I think splitting and this is going to because you never split the party. But in this case, splitting the party might be a good idea, because if some of us wait for rescue here, then if somebody comes for us before Kearns gets back, we can go out and find Kearns. And if nobody comes for us, then Kearns can still get people, you know?

49:18 Yep. And how many plants do I spend for this flare gun? Difficulty 3. Prepare. This would be 4 because I'm still shaking so I will spend 3 points OK? You got a flare gun? Kearns has the flare gun. OK, Kearns has a flare gun. Well, thank you. I will also grab as much water as I can carry. Of course, yeah. Yeah, yeah, naturally. Naturally. Do I have rations? Is there food? Yes, I think so. I think you have some bloods. OK, good. You have outdoors. I know you know what you're doing. Yeah, I have one point of outdoors skill. I kind of know what I'm doing. Well, it's an investigative ability, so even having one point is good. I would say if you made a spend, you would be good to go, but I don't think you can't make a spend because you're still too shaken.

50:06 Yeah, so I think I know what I'm doing. So I'm equipped and I say a quiet prayer. I look at the sun and I head towards Kaluli. OK, I need you to just roll me AD 6123. You make it there 456, something else happened. Now it's for all. Cool, a 5050 chance. Yeah. 40. Thank God. No, that's bad. Yeah. What? That was bad. I said 123. You make it there. Oh. Yeah, shit. So what happened? The bone thieves find Kearns and steal his bones. Kearns, as you are travelling back to the village, you come across several people from Paluki who are coming to the best table.

51:00 OK. Yes, I think we could even turn this almost into a little bit of a montage as you are go, we see you going through the desert. You're truly not going to make it on foot. It's just not going to happen. It was going to be a long shot even if you were at full capabilities and you truly are not. But you see in the distance a trio of camels coming your way. We see you kind of collapse from the heat. All the water depleted. With the last of your strength, you raise the flare gun and fire it at him. It's the camel. The camel explodes. I was going to say, you fire the flare gun so you're noticed, not so that you shoot the camel. I don't.

51:45 But the flare gun makes it so you get help. We see them. I literally hang on, hang on. And like as I as I collapse, I draw the flare gun and literally say Hail Mary full of grace. Yeah. Fire in the sky, yes. And these Muslims then find you. Lovely. God has a sense of humor sometimes. Yes. Which one? Yeah. It's all the same one, at least in this situation. God of Abraham, Yahweh, Allah, they're all the same guy. As this is happening, we cut over to Kearns and JB laughing, splashing each other in the Oasis.

52:25 The mouth gets some water at us. Can you drown the mouth? Fair question. I don't think it has lungs. You are not able to drown the mouth. But Oh well, good thing I had that flare gun then. Oh, hey, Colin. Hello. The mouth bites you. Ow. Yeah, it doesn't need to roll the hit. Really. Yeah, take 4 damage from it. Ow, that brings me to 0. Oh no. Good thing I've got those first aid points. Yeah, things are not going well for you guys. Well, JB is doing OK ish. You now have been bit by this supernatural creature. If your baby tried to forget that there was a mouth on your arm, you were reminded of it.

53:11 Difficulty for stability loss of four. Oh boy. All right. Good stuff, good stuff, Good stuff. Yeah, that's a six. How do you do it? How do you keep rolling so well? How is your character cool as a fucking cucumber all the time? That's my secret. I'm always insane. So we see a shot of the camels arriving at the Oasis with a more bloodied column and we'll see you guys make it back to pollute. Pretty beat the fuck up, but you make it back safely.

53:54 And when when we finally get back to Kaluli, JB looks at those guides who we had gone our separate ways with and said told you we'd make it, and then promptly passes out. Editor's Note This next bit came from another recording, so if it sounds a little different, that'll be why. You've made it back to Kaluli, so that's cool. That's. Well, now we just need to make it back to the train. Yeah, and the train's like just half a day's walk. Like that's nothing. That's easy. There, I mean, there is something we might else we might have to do first. I can't imagine what that would be and until this moment.

54:36 Cullen's being off screen now, pans over and you see him wrestling his hand away from his face. As I'm boiling water and sterilizing my knife and preparing rags and whatnot. Yeah, JV also has a fire pit going to toss the arm into immediately after we're done. Oh, OK, I didn't think about that. Yeah, my shotgun is nearby in case it starts crawling. Cullen is in denial about what is about to happen to him. Cullen is in denial about a lot of things. Yeah. Hey Mr. Faulk, you have that handy dandy ball gag there. I absolutely do.

55:25 I thought we'd put it on the mouth, didn't we? I thought we established that we figured out a way to put it on the mouth. Oh, that was Canon? OK, got it. Fair enough. Sorry I don't have a second, let's get a stick or something. Yeah, let's get a stick. And also I was wondering if there's maybe a pair of handcuffs in your kit or something? Yeah. Let me check can I make a preparedness role to get like just restraints for for this? Sure a difficulty 3 I'll. Spend 2 and just have it happen. OK. What kind of restraints you got, JB?

56:06 Full suite. Oh, all kinds. We got rope, we got handcuffs, we got chains, you know, whatever the situation calls for. And when I was making this character, JB Falk being a freak was not an intended part. That just kind of happened. Yeah, Kearns eyebrows go up slightly, then he goes. Yeah, perfect. What sort of dinner are you planning, Kearns? You need some spices. I'm sure they've got spices around here. Oh yes, I'd imagine they do. I mean, Yep, why? Also, white people have sailed halfway around the world if not for their spices. So the plan is to what, Tie him up and chop it off? And then burn the arm and cauterize the wound. Yeah, yeah.

57:01 More or less. Who's this you're attacking some sort of like you got a pig or something? Oh, don't worry about it. Oh my God I've been watching too much Hannibal for this. I've heard that show's good. I've heard it is. Good. It is really good. Very good, yeah. Yeah, and I don't do CIS men, but for Mads Mickelson I would make an exception. Same. I feel like most people alive have Mads Mickelson as their CIS men exception, you know? That's fair. Right. I mean, assuming Mr. Mickelson is CIS, I don't know. I don't want to assume any who.

57:44 I do want to bring up, you know, we talked about this amputation, which again, probably good idea, but we do know that there is one other way to deny the mouth, right? We we have those rituals of self denial. That one just kind of feels like a lost cause. I I really do think that the best and only approach is something along the lines of hey look Colin, a distraction. Oh, a karaoke bar. And then we jump Colin and tie him down. I don't think we need to jump necessarily because like we kind of want them relaxed.

58:25 Oh, maybe we could like ask the natives for some herbs or something that can sedate him. Actually, because I do have some medical knowledge. Hey Dan, you're a history nerd. When was ether discovered? Was ether discovered? Yeah. I mean, because I know that like the discovery of ether changed the way that surgery was approached in medicine. Oh, this is Lovecraft though you aren't Lud in them. True. I don't know off the top of my head. When ether was first synthesized, the first effective use of it was at 1846. So like. OK. So yeah, yeah, yeah.

59:05 So yeah, I don't think having ether in a medical kit is too much of A stretch. Sure. Yeah, yeah, it. Was being abused recreationally by the 19th century, so like, you're good. I mean, yeah, that makes sense. I mean, that's, that's part of what that one arc in American Horror stories about about, about the the Doctor Who was abusing that kind of substance. Any who I feel like, I feel like we're, I feel like we're stalling a little bit. Yeah, this is really going to suck. Yeah, it's going to suck. So, OK, so just so we are perfectly clear and not missing anything, we sedate the patient, we restrain the patient, we apply a tourniquet, We have sanitized tools and bandages and boiled water nearby. We have our weapons ready in case the arm starts crawling away.

1:00:07 Are we missing anything? No, we've got the fire pit we're going to use to dispose of the arm. We've got something hot enough to cauterize the wound. I think we're good. OK, I hope this works. Hey Colin, smell this. Oh, that smells like. OK, let's go. Yeah, Yeah. We, yeah, we proceed as planned as as the the plan. I just we just outlined there. Now, can I throw a wrench in this plan? What? God, please don't. What was your wrench? What would I real to resist the effects of the drug? Oh my. God.

1:00:50 Why would you want to do that? To traumatize my fellow players. One of the fellow players is your wife, you asshat. I would say this. That would be a health check Difficulty 4, yeah. All right, now I'm at 0, so would it just be a straight dice roll trying to beat A4? I mean, you could spend it to the negatives on your health, but I don't think you should do that. Consider you're about to get your arm chopped off and lose a lot of health that way. No, I think this is just sort of a passive thing. I'm not going to spend points on it. OK, are you kidding me? That's a fire. Son of a bitch, don't be awake.

1:01:31 Oh God damn it. Ether. Oh, been a while. Since you kind of like come to like as we're holding, as we're like holding this the knife. Yeah, I tried to build up a tolerance to kidnapping drugs. It comes in handy in my life work. Hey, hey, Mr. Cain, what's your favorite color? Green. As he's distracted, I'm going to go for it. We begin. Hi there, this episode has a content warning for amputation, which you might have missed if you don't look at the description before you start an episode.

1:02:11 I figured it was fair play to put a warning right in the episode in case you'd rather skip a fairly gruesome scene, and if so, you'll want to skip ahead about a minute. In the field, a character with medicine to perform an amputation with less circuit of success. But with the appropriate tools, the patient. Suffers I take 1 V 6 + 3 bit. Do you want to do the damage role or should I? I'll do. The damage role that could have been worse 5. Damage the muscle, right? The stick? That's not dead right? Damn material. No, it's not dead. It's not good. It's not dead. Cut. The bone. Let's talk about the health system, say, for people who may or may not remember. -5 health -3 stability. You're doing good.

1:03:00 You're doing good. You too. However, you do need to make a consciousness role. The knife hits the solid and switched this off. Thankfully, we're not in a life or death. Situation Colin is now asleep. Colin passes out that you know what? Fair enough. That's for the better. You can only restore the damage of the last injury that occurred, but that last injury was pretty significant as they are hurt. You spend each one first aid you spend restores 2 points.

1:03:40 It's 1:00 to 1:00 if you're healing yourself, but you guys are healing Colin, so there's that. Can we like pool spend first aid or does only one? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you could. Yeah, you could help. In that case, if you want to spend your two, I can spend 1 so we can get him back to healthy ish. Yeah, that sounds like a plan to me. Do I become conscious at positive health? Yes, I think you could become conscious again when you reach positive health if you would like. Because I I assume the applying first aid like took a few minutes like yes. I kind of imagined that while you're keeping him stable, I'm like cauterizing and like sewing, I guess.

1:04:29 Yeah. I just had the strangest dream. Uh huh. Tell me about it. You guys cut my arm off and then there there was a mouth and it ate us all. One of those things happened. Yeah, they aren't with the mouse. How's it doing? As you throw it into the fire again, the mouth begins to wither away. It needed to be connected to the rest of the body. Thankfully you do not hear any sort of horrible screaming or anything coming from it. It almost feels that like whatever consciousness or animating force was in the mouth has left it. Good riddance.

1:05:10 Good riddance. It's like what happened with the woman in dowel. Exactly. The moment she was dead, the mouth withered and died. Still, I don't regret throwing his arm in the fire. Better safe than sorry. Now there is one more issue here. Oh God. With any amputation there is a risk of infection as you are doing this in the field. However, with appropriate tools, the difficulty is going to be a health test difficulty 5 made by the amputee. That's a two fuck. Off. All right, You are infected.

1:05:52 Infected patients suffer one point of additional damage every 24 hours until antibiotics are administered, and then we need to make another test at difficulty 4 to see if the antibiotics work. A fucking course. Can I have antibiotics on my first aid kit? Are do you did you explicitly have a first aid kit? Is that? I mean, obviously, duh. OK. I don't just do mouth to mouth, you know? OK, you can administer some antibiotics which means you need to make another health test difficulty for you can spend points on this if you would like. And we did get you up to like One Health, so. Hang on, before the amputee makes any sort of test, can I spend two more points of first aid to stabilize them some more? That would be past what the last injury did. Yes.

1:06:56 Right at this point the best thing we can do is give you antibiotics and get you to a hospital. Yes. The only way to really restore any more health is going to have to be through rest. And then now we speed run our journey back through Ethiopia. Could you make me a health test there now that you've taken these antibiotics? Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Oh yes, yes, that was a 5. OK, Christ. Oh. God, that was stressful. Oh no, Christ here to me. All right, all right. So you're not out of the woods yet. In fact, in some ways, you live in the woods. Of.

1:07:44 Course not. Of course, as an amputee you are going to suffer plus one difficulty on athletics, driving, piloting, scuffling and weapons. Yeah, I only use one of those anyway. OK, Yeah. I mean, that makes sense. Those difficulties may fade over time as you become accustomed to the disability. There may be other situations that will come up. You also cannot fire rifles or shotguns at all, and you have one arm. Can still throw the fuck out of a grenade though. I I tried to preserve as much of the arm as I could. If the amputation is below the elbow, I have much more use of my arm in the event that I have a prosthetic.

1:08:31 Yeah, fair enough. I think that's, yeah, I think that's what I had in mind too. I can try to preserve as much of it as possible. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah, it it makes sense so. I've been in the war, I've I've seen stuff. What sort of stuff? Holy shit. This is going to take some getting used to, Mr. Caine. Yeah. Hey, Colin, sorry about that. I suppose we had to do something. And I just couldn't imagine you living a life of complete asceticism. I'd rather die.

1:09:14 You don't think he's in the self denial? Oh, sorry. Yeah. I you don't think he's he's in a self denial. At the same time, I'd rather die. Yeah, I think that about sums it. Up. No, I think he is in a different kind of denial. Yeah, yeah. But also, yeah, it's the 20th century, my man. They make all sorts of prosthetics now. They're going to be good as now. Well, maybe I'll replace it with a cannon. Well, there you go. As a Berserk reference. And I think we see a montage of you guys on the train again, thankfully not attacked by bandits this time. I don't know if you would have been able to handle them. Definitely not.

1:10:09 As we're leaving this accursed place, I just shoot a glance over my shoulder to where I'm assuming the village of Dalol was, and I sort of go stone faced as I'm thinking about Mr. Killworth. And I say, I say a silent goodbye. JB, now that he's finally had time to realize, gives 1/2 hearted salute in that direction. Conlon looks over at JB and says, well, I guess you're next. Don't let these words be punch, Colin. I can. Punch him full on slug to the jaw.

1:10:54 Now I do want to note, Colin, you might still be next. Maybe they just didn't finish the job. Entirely possible. Yeah, you make it back to your plane. Eventually. Your Italian papers get you through fast enough before people start questioning where the Jeep is that you stole. Can I say that like I made it absolutely inoperable? Oh. Before we left, like I cut, I cut everything that could humanly be cut, including the tires. Sure. I mean the Jeep. I guess when you this is when you drove the Jeep back. So you did this a while ago actually before you hopped on the boat.

1:11:36 This old part is but you fucked up that Jeep. OK, great. Big time. Yeah, through the spark, you fly away. Yeah, you do fly away from these fascists that are still on their campaign of world conquest, and you begin your flight back to New York to see Miss Winston Rogers. We finally get a complete and total win over a section of this cult and it costs us Colin's arm and Reg I'm tired. Oh don't worry, this wasn't really part of the cult. This is like a proto version of the cult that was separate from the more massive constituency that smuggling.

1:12:21 Drugs. Can you please let us have it? Not helping. Mr. Morale over here. I don't know what kind of why are you hearing this voice in your head? The characters reach through the screen to beat the shit out of Dan. Turns JB, are you OK? What's happening? Oh, Colin really has no clue, huh? Yeah. No, no. We've established, or in some ways the dice have established, that Colin has no clue. Yeah, there's one thing I'd like to set up before we wrap up. I actually was just just about to ask before we conclude, does anybody have any scenes they want their characters to do? But it sounds like at least one of us does. Colin would like to put in a call with certain Insane Asylum and Sylvano, Georgia.

1:13:18 Oh my God, is that your? Is that your retake? Yeah. That's how you have to say it. That's how you have to say it. Duh. Yeah, You can get. You could get a hold of Joy Grove. Dr. Keaton. You're greeted by a nurse who sort of asks what's up. And I assume you say you want to speak to Doctor Keaton. And when you identify yourself and who it's about, you hear Keaton almost like a rush towards the phone. Yes. Hello. Hello. Doctor Keaton, this is Colin Kane. We spoke. It feels like an age ago now. It was about one of your patients, an Edgar Joe. Oh, yes, yes, Ed, Edgar, Joe and and the delusions that he had. Yes, delusions.

1:14:14 Colin looks at his arm. And and as well as Mr. Mr. Henslow. Ah yes, Mr. Henslow, he was all right. How are they actually? Things are mostly the same. Mr. Job has been acting a little bit more irrational, like he's been Speaking of bad dreams. Well, time to double the meds. Oh are which one have you pretended to be a doctor? But that would be JB.

1:14:54 That was JB. You pretended to be a doctor. OK, Right, Right. That that was true. JB would absolutely be running interference right now if he knew this was happening, but he doesn't, so here we go. I will consider it. I'm sorry is what is the purpose of this call? Did you have more information for the book I'm working on? Oh, I've got more information. All right. We may be taking a trip down there sometime soon to check in on Mr. Job. We may also not. It's sort of a decision by committee thing. Oh well, we could set up an appointment if you need it. I will say that I don't know if job is in a state to be taking visitors right now, but you would always be welcome to to come to Joy Grove.

1:15:45 Certainly I'll speak about it with my colleagues. Yes, yes. Goodbye. Click. Click OK Assess Honesty is letting you know the doctor seems almost a little work. Yeah, assess the reason. Little unclear why, though Lord knows there's all sorts of reasons. I never got the particular impression that he thought that these things were delusions. I mean, I think. I think I thought they were just, I don't know. I don't know. I guess you'll find out if you go back down there. Dan, you're literally the only person who does know. Yeah, but like the character didn't say out loud this is what I think.

1:16:33 So I I, you know, was there anything else? Any anything else people wanted to do. I was just wondering, is there a river in New York? There are many rivers in New York. Yes, the Hudson River is the main one that you'd be thinking. Of sure, like I, I suppose like people go for walks there and whatnot, right? Not allowed? Sure. No, yeah. It is absolutely allowed, I think. Yeah, I'm. Trespassing along Hudson River. I mean, Hudson River's pretty long. There is a Hudson River Park that you could be walking. It's on the West side of Manhattan. It should be there at this point in history, I think.

1:17:16 I mean, it'll look a little different, but you know. OK, I want a picture of Kerns walking alongside the river, stopping, leaning against the railing, smoking a cigarette, throwing the cigarette in the water because it's the 30s and that's just what you do. And then the cross on his neck feels I'm really heavy so I I grab it in my fist and I RIP it off my neck. I look at it for a second and I Chuck it in the river. At this point, like JB is at a typewriter, you know he's typing away. He stops, he takes a look at the page, he writes one last line, then rips the page off, crumbles it up, and starts again with a new one. And the camera pans out to see dozens and dozens of pages across the floor, all of them half finished and all of them ending in the wine.

1:18:13 I'll miss you, Reg. Thanks for listening. Damien played Reg Kilworth, Nathan plays JB Falk, Renee plays Frank Kearns, and Russell plays Colin Kane. In addition to mixing mastering and music in every episode, our opening themes by Claire LW, our album artist by Trinity the Tea Time Witch and additional music used in this episode was Sunny Day. Happy fun intro by Validic Music. You can find our socials website and Patreon and Ireland tree in the show notes.

1:18:59 And until next, wait, sorry there's more. This is actually referenced later, so this whole thing is Canon. All right, I got one more. OK. All right. All right, JB, in need of a new ball gag, enters an adult store, picks up a new one. Oh God, let him have some profundity. Yeah, we, I was, we were having a moment. It was having a moment, OK. Wait, wait, wait. I got, I got another one. OK. JB buys a new ball gag, pays the Clark handsome, the, you know, nondescript looking bag.

1:19:39 JB turns around, sees Kearns with a nondescript looking bag. And there is an unspoken We will never speak of this. I mean, I don't know. We might. Who knows? Meanwhile, Collin saw both of you enter and waited until you left the shop to enter himself. How dare Collin be the one with brain cells in this situation. Genuine. And the liar from beyond does not feel threatened by you whatsoever. I have no reason why Well. That sounds like a hem problem.

1:20:21 I feel threatened by us. Yeah, you're going to kick his. Ass.