Eternal Lies 20: The Malice in Mexico

0:00 Daniel's Dread Tales 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, as Falcon, Kane worked to distract a crowd of people with sharp objects. Gilworth and Kane set to work raising the village and doing away with his leadership. While the appearance and subsequent murmurs of a terrible new mouth on Colin's arm proved too much for JB to handle, the MA marked detective kept things together enough to regroup with his companions, just as a fiery explosion did away with the Dalal proto mouth during their hasty egress. With rational thought thrown completely out the window, Reg enacted a desperate change to their escape plan, opening a portal into the blackest depths of outer space and sacrificing himself in the process. Though the village was dealt with, the investigators now found themselves in the middle of the desert without guides. After making their way to a known Oasis nearby, Frank set on on his own in search of aid, finding it just in time for his own sake.

1:02 Out of the fire, but with the frying pan perilously close, Falcon Kearns took Colin back to Kaluli and reft the portion of his arm hosting a mouth from his body before making their mercifully uneventful way back to New York, having met with success over the mythos. At the cost of an arm at a Ridge. The die is cast, the pact is sealed. May God have mercy on our souls. It's Daniel's dread tales, I think. That's a. Fine place to start. I've got a new things to do in New York though. Yeah, OK. Yeah, it's a good place. To arrive at the time you arrange to beat Miss Winston Rogers, there is another man standing in the room with her.

1:48 Do you want to introduce what your character looks like, David? He's kind of just standing off to the side of the room looking at something in Winston Rogers office and he is a fairly tall man, indeterminate age with shoulder length black hair and is completely clean shaven. One of the things that stands out about him is he's wearing a black suit and white glove all. Right. And Miss Winston Rogers invites you all in and says, do come in, take a seat. I would like to hear of how your investigations went in North Africa.

2:32 Poorly. I shudder visibly. That said, I wouldn't say it was without merit, but as you have no doubt figured out by now, we lost Reg in the process. Yes. Dare I ask what happened? Better if you don't. Yeah, it's quite complicated. Let's just say there isn't a body to bury. Indeed. Were you successful? Did you find this man you were looking? For we did, we found heirs and managed to acquire some limited information from him. And more questions.

3:18 And more questions, of course. But we also managed to stop a burgeoning branch of this cult from forming any further. I guess technically we took out two melts. Cullen waves his non existent left hand. Yeah. My goodness. Also called and lost his arm at at the elbow. Yeah, that did happen. Well getting rid of these mouths, cussing arm and a leg and I got a discount I guess. Oh God. That comment made her visibly uncomfortable. A little bit of a gallows humor here. We all cope in our different ways. If it makes you feel any better, I think next time's my turn or JB's.

4:01 Does not make anyone feel better. Anyway. Who? Who the fuck is this guy? New goon, OH. My God. I was hoping that we not lose anyone else. This is Doctor Smalls. He is an alienist that is acquainted with my organization. He is from I I'm sorry, I forgot. Where did you study Doctor Smalls? Yes, I studied at Miskatonic University. Yeah, home of the fighting. I was called in by Miss Winston Rogers to assist with your investigation.

4:51 It seems that my presence would be needed here more than was described. Question. How does the stump on Collin's arm look right now? Like is it well bandaged like? Healing at this point, assuming this has been a couple days that I didn't get off the plane and go straight to the office. That's why I'm asking. I get it. Clean bandages. Collins looking after it because it would be real bad if he didn't. Taking care of the bandages is helping him acclimate would. You all say that injuries of this nature are part and parcel for this investigation.

5:35 Gesturing to Collins truncated arm. I'd say this was exceptional circumstances. I'd say he was lucky to get away mostly intact. Could have been worse. There was a mouse that was trying to bite me. It had to get rid of it. Been so much worse. So welcome to the team. We could definitely use a shrink. There used to be library cards, but sort of don't need those anymore. That was really the reason that I brought the good doctor on board. I was thinking that they would not actually accompany you in the field originally, just provide you with a little bit of solace between your expeditions. But perhaps it would be better if he accompanied you. I will say when we need the most help is when we are in the field, psychologically or otherwise. More meat for the grinder.

6:37 Don't say that I'm trying to create a welcoming atmosphere here and you guys are just. You gained a little bit of a fatalistic outlook there. I think my drive being bad luck, this is just the turn that it's taking. It's like, yeah, this is how it's going to go from now on. I'm not sure if others notice, but Kerns is high. Oh. I mean, that makes sense. Kerns is high OK. Kerns is high on morphemes right now, so. Yeah, that that tracks. He's a little bit a little bit slow. Two questions for the GM. OK. Is it is this a smoking or non-smoking office? Like are there ashtrays? Yeah, there's ashtrays.

7:19 Yeah, there's. Ashtrays. Cool 30s everything is smoking. Oh yeah. Most maybe Winston Rogers didn't want smoking like, you know, Yeah, I. Guess. And would you say that with a medicine score of 6, Doctor Smalls would have an inkling that Kearns is high as a kite? I think not high as a kite, functioningly high. Just thinking I'm a little bit slow. So high is like a a medium sized tree. Kearns thinks that they are at a level where they can function. Whether or not that is actually true is a different question, but. Fair enough. Yeah, OK. Oh, right.

8:02 This is the first time I've been back in a populated city since our adventure in Ethiopia. Do I have to do something to manage? It's JB High too. Oh no. I've got a mild. I've got a severe addiction to Nectar though is the problem. That's another question, yeah. Is JB showing signs of withdrawals at the moment? Well, let's see, because JB only took it once. He did take a lot of it all at once though. Yeah, and I've been cold turkeying ever since. I need you to make a stability test Difficulty 5. Actually no, just three.

8:46 If you're ever like literally in front of Nectar, like you see it, it will be 5. But for right now, it's a difficulty 3 for you not to go out and try to get some Nectar, which is not super prominent in New York yet. OK, well I still fail so. Oh shit. OK, OK, so you are also high on Nectar. I I found some, I went out and found some. OK. Yeah. All right. The nectar lasts for about 3 hours. Actually it lasts 1D3 hours, so. So I'm probably like coming down about right now.

9:26 You're coming down. Yeah. You definitely felt the need to to have sex. I don't know what you did. I'm not gonna narrate what your character did, but you truly wanted to. Like, I don't know if you have a gal or gentleman that you went to or you've hired a professional or anything like that. We don't need to get too deep into it, but yes. If I may make a suggestion, did we not bump into each other in a sex store? OK, Yeah. I forgot about that. Something happened. We're not going to talk about it. No, we're not talking about it. No. OK, so you guys are both on your drugs of choice and deliberately not looking at each other after you hooked up. I'm not ashamed.

10:14 OK, JB is maybe ashamed, I don't know. Or maybe not, I don't know. J BS in a complicated state right now and doesn't want to get into it. Yes, thankfully this, I mean look big on Nectar bad news, but at least at this point, when you're not on mission, it's OK ish. I need you to make a mark somewhere on your character sheet that you have taken Nectar twice now, uh. Oh. Yeah, I don't like the sound of that. Yeah, you guys are really falling apart anyway. Hey Doc, you were looking at these people and they are on some level of drugs. So yeah, what everybody sees is Doctor Smalls at some point pulled out a small notebook out of their jacket and has started taking notes.

11:07 That's hilarious. So like the camera pan would like take a would see the notebook and what's being written down and it'll be Mr. Falk high question mark, Kearns dash high on opiate question mark. 'Cause. I don't assume that he would know that it was specifically morphine, but something in that group of drugs. Yeah. Opioid addiction is currently raging in the United States. Yes. As in in the 30s? Yes, and now, but that's a separate thing. Yeah. It's going to get even worse after the war, actually. But Winston Rogers is sort of looking out the window now over the city and says you have had some victories over this Colts that did these horrible things to my father and the world. I know you limited their nectar distribution in Europe and stop this mouth here in North Africa, but I it feels so large. From what I understand, Nectar is even starting to appear on the streets of New York City.

12:24 JB conspicuously dodges eye contact with everyone in the. JP why did you just spin around in a circle? I know that maybe because the United States based operation in Los Angeles is still functioning and the police there too corrupt to do anything about it. Honestly, you'd think setting the place on fire would have done more to slow them down. Hey, drop a tip to the police. Tell them we're in the Trammell's basement. Problem solved. You know that's not how that would work, right? Probably not. All right, we're still wanted, aren't we? Have you found the source of all this? This thing that they worship?

13:05 Can you find it? Can it be stopped? Well, the best lead we have is that it's in a mountain somewhere and there's some sort of spell we got to cast to reveal it. And the moon has to be, it's a it's a whole deal. Anyway, Reg took that stuff with him. Oh. Did he, Did we actually lose all of our magic stuff with Reg? If everything in the three mile radius was sucked into the black hole. You lost some stuff. The remember you left a lot of the books with Winston Rogers, who we established. Oh yeah, we did. Yeah, OK, we did. I was just going to say like most of the library was probably on the plane because that was a lot of books. You OK?

13:46 Oh yeah, I guess Winston Rogers has Trammell's testament that she's been going. To go. And you guys have the the huge pile of books that you stole from Trammell's cult. He's probably very mad when he led up to his library later on. And it's like, honestly, it seems kind of unreasonable that they got so many books out of here. But let's not think about it too much. I have been looking at this book speaks of a black man Capital B, Capital M. Oh yeah, Neurlathetep. Yes, I talked to a Professor Armitage up at Miskatonic. They told me about Neurlathetep, that they're a prophet. No, that's not right.

14:31 Kay said they were the messenger of as I thought. I don't know what most of those words mean. That they were a they were the John the Baptist to this other's Christ, as it were. But that doesn't from what you told me, that doesn't seem to you said it was Golgoroth or none of this seems to make sense. Right there with you. The only thing we really got out of Ayers is that he's absolutely certain it's not Golgoroth. It's not Golgoroth. Well, when it comes to these cults, a lot of their beliefs are highly contradictory of one another. Not much of it can actually be taken for face value, especially when it comes to cults that involve drugs and debauchery. Not that they've given us a lot of value to face in the first place.

15:28 The late leader of this cult, Ikaria. From from what I understand he he didn't much care about the worship or the worshippers in the 1st place. He had his own ulterior motives. To what end he established this cult, we're still not sure. Yes, I guess that's what Trammel says, that Golgoroth is not the site of the worship, but there are signs. I don't know. I've been reading as much as I can to try to understand it, and it all makes even less sense the more I read about it. There's some evidence of the Mayans or the Aztecs worshipped Golgoroth, or at least some of them did at one point.

16:20 Not all of them, but Colts of him existed in the the Yucatan. Perhaps that's why there's some evidence that the colt was active in Mexico City. That whole city's built on an Aztec city in the first place. We had found a record to back at Trammell's place. I think Kay took that with her when she exploded, but it was from a place called Lose Discos. Yeah, we never played it. I know I I read some things in Trammell's testament here, here, and she provides you with several things to read. It's letters sent to Trammell from somebody who is named. I suppose this may become slightly confusing JB. No relation, I promise.

17:12 No, I think we would know if there was. There's talk about a making a letter that will honor their God and will help the nectar blow throughout all of North and South America, but there's a lot here about seems mostly apologies. I'm sorry that the production is down, but it will be up again. The letter is taking a while. The not the letter, the sorry the album. The album is taking long, but just give me a little bit more time. Seems quite. I don't quite understand what was going on, but it seems like they were making a record and mostly we're sending apologies to Trammel for why it hadn't worked yet.

17:58 Perhaps the most really useful thing I could find is APO Box that these letters were being sent from I. Didn't know you could send from APO box, that's cool. Well, that's the return address. They're all on a loose discos stationary. We had found a letter in Donovan's possession from JB as well. I imagine this is probably the same person because 3J BS would just be too many. Yeah. Wasn't it? Yeah, it was Donovan who wrote the letter to JB, right? That makes sense. Yeah, never sent it. Yeah, I would say that seems like a place to investigate. I know there's some mention of the colt in Bangkok, but it's all a little vague.

18:46 They said go to the Fragrant Honey shop, but how can you find that in all of Bangkok whereas this is a straight up PO Box? Yeah. You are ultimately the investigators, but I would encourage you to maybe look at this. I think that's the plan. It might be nice to stay on the same continent for a change. Is it a drive to Mexico City or is it a flight? I mean, I suppose you could drive if you wanted to, but the flight would be much more reasonable because New York is pretty far away from Mexico City. Yes, like if you were in Los Angeles, it would make sense to drive to Mexico City. But we very intentionally left Los Angeles when we did. Yeah, well, I guess I'll go make sure that Princess is ready to fly if you excuse me.

19:37 Yes, and Doctor Smalls, I I know I briefed you on some of this information, but they could catch you up on everything else. I suppose. I must thank you for your help. I ask you for your absolute discretion in these matters. And while I know money is perhaps not the greatest motivator, it's something this dangerous. Know that you all will be greatly compensated. Could see why my father never wanted to think of this again. I can't turn a blind eye to the world. Miss Winston Rogers, is there any mention of an Edgar job in that manual by Trammell? No, no mention at all.

20:27 Interesting. You'd think his name would come up somewhere in here, but absolutely nothing. You mentioned Cavaria did something with Trammell. Ayres was absolutely convinced that Edgar Job had some important part to play in a Cavaria's plan. Well, Trammell is not a cavaria. Perhaps he's being fooled like everyone else. Oh, I'm almost certain of it. Oh, have I? Have I mentioned? I'm pretty sure that all of this is according to Cavalry's plan, and really, Trammell's just a puppet in the end. I'm much more worried with the Cavalry's plan than Trammell's. Just he's get that clear. He's dead though. Are you saying that he has a plan beyond his grave? Oh, absolutely. Would it shock you?

21:10 Suppose not Cavalry is the one that brought this thing into the world. Trammel's just been harvesting it. I wonder if I could interview Edgar Joe. Did they summon the males or did they just build up around him and the males were always here? I don't know. Well in Ethiopia they were trying to summon it, but it was already a stone featuring around when he found it so. Yeah, it'd be kind of weird if there was a couch with a mouth on it all that time too. They were trying to summon a stone carving. No, no, a mouth, big, huge, 30 feet across eats people, drips some sort of drug that makes you loopy.

21:51 I recognize that this sounds insane, but it is true. Yes. To be clear, Mr. Smalls, this is not a metaphor, Dr. Smalls, this is very real and very dangerous. But I know that you're what's your drive again? If I remember correctly, arrogance. Oh. Oh interesting. Fuck. No way to no way to compliment somebody on their arrogance without sounding like an asshole. Expertise. This is the kind of challenge that you might appreciate and that your expertise could do well in looking at this.

22:34 Very well. I'll make sure the plane is fueled up, give you some more petty cash. I think American dollars will do just fine in Mexico. Good luck, I hope that you find answers. Yeah, that'd be nice. Currents, I need you to make a difficulty 4 cents trouble check. Interesting. Makes sense. I'll spend 2 points. That's an 8. Someone's been tampering with the plane. What with Princess who, I'm going to RIP their fucking spine out. It looks like the fuel line was loosened so that it would come loose during flight.

23:15 OK, I'm going to use mechanical repair to fix it. Easy enough to do that. That's a pretty simple maintenance job to fix for for one like you. But yeah, somebody was here tampering with your plane. Make it so it's going to crash. I need you to make a difficulty 3 mechanical repair pack. Sure, yeah, I'll just spend 2 points and succeed. I'm going to go let Rue know, I guess. Yeah, there's the there's been somebody's been trying to sabotage Princess. Well, we got to let Winston Rogers know. Is there security at the hangar? It's just at a, it's at an airfield. There is security there, but it's not super tight security, if that makes sense.

23:59 It's 1930s security. Yeah. Yeah, this could be something that Winston Rogers could try to investigate, but. OK. But this means that somebody maybe knows who you are or knows what your plane looks like or something like that. Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Yeah, it is pretty distinct. It is a super plane that exists outside of town that's able to go across oceans that planes really shouldn't be able to go over at this point in history. But that's just a little bit of menace for you. Besides that, you're you're ready to go to Mexico City. Yeah, somewhere between this and the take off, I'm going to go get more pills. Anything else people are going to do before they leave for Mexico City?

24:42 Colin is going to talk to Reggie's cousin Tracy, who was an actor or actress. Yep, Off Broadway. And because Colin has terrible luck, he catches her before a show instead of after. Of course. Oh no. It's a bad scene. Do you want to use any of your conversational skills? Accounting, right? No, no, that's an academic skill. Right. Although. You are mentioned in his will.

25:22 They wanted you to have this. Just some sort of Knick knack apple flask. I don't. I don't know if I want to play out this whole scene. I think we want to get moving to the investigation, but I think that she cries and hugs you. Stands awkwardly. And what do you say happened to him? Got to say she's going to. Ask. Yep. Fuck. Well, he, I suppose he found the only piece that he could find anymore. Maybe there's some solace in that. It wasn't pretty though, I'll tell you that. Fuck. Me. Go until you said that.

26:06 Oh my God, what? Happened. Was it? Was it gangsters? What? It was magic, actually. Oh, that poor woman. Shut up, I'm loving my heart calling me shut the fuck. Up. Are you there, JB? No, he's just yelling across space of time. Now JB is in an alley getting high on Nectar and he sees this happening and brings him right out of it. Like Kearns is 1 alley over? JP was about to do some nectar, but then he peeks out, sees this and tosses that shit aside and Secret Service tackles call into the ground. No, no, I don't think that happens. I think I think what she's going to say is yeah, obviously, yeah, yeah.

27:01 He was looking into that occult stuff that he was obsessed with. Huh. He was, yes. I told him to stay away from that. Nothing good can come with that. I guess it did. They did not, and I suppose that's best we just leave it at that. I don't want to give you too detailed a description here, it'd be real bad for your sanity. I suppose it's an odd question. If you could tell me this, they wouldn't be coming after me now would they? So I'm going to hook you up with a lady named Janet Winston Rogers. You should probably go talk to her as soon as you can.

27:44 Tell her Colin sent you. What OK the? Fact that they probably weren't going to go after her, but you just made the situation way more stressful than it needs to be is. My specialty. Yes, I know. Thank you. Anything else before we make the flight to Mexico City? No, I think pollen burned that budget to the ground. OK, the flight to Mexico City is an uneventful one. You're just like flying over the continent, nice and easy, you know? No camels. No camels, no nothing like that. Just landing in Mexico City.

28:24 Fun fact about Mexico City, Mexico City is kind of like our Washington DC here in the United States in that it is not actually in a state. It is its own sort of federal district. Mexico City was built on the remains of Tinochitran, which was sort of the capital of the Aztec Empire. It's also built mostly on top of a lake that was drained and covered up. Tenochiklan was built like in the center of the lake. It's apparently very, very beautiful. The conquistadors dealt with that. Though I will say the Aztecs were very big fans of human sacrifice, which is, you know, I'm not a big fan of that though. I'm also not fan of the conquistadors doing all the things they did there as well.

29:08 But that was a long time ago. Mexico City is a pretty cool place to be living in at this time in history. While you know, it may someday become for a little while the kidnapping capital of the world, this is actually with the police are more or less in control, there's no big riots or anything going on. It's a pretty cool place to live. Even when the war starts. It's going to be a relatively cool place to live, though. The Nazis do try to get the Mexicans involved in the war against United States at one point, but Mexicans do not find that it's actually why. Yeah.

29:50 Yeah. It's actually partially why the State Department funds the Walt Disney Company to make all of those Saludo Savino Amigos shorts with the South American and Central American birds hanging out with Donald Duck to make Central South America like us more so they don't join, not funds back. We've gone way off the rails. But that's a that's a true, true thing. You land in lovely Mexico City. What sort of outfits is everybody wearing? Depends on the weather. It's warmer. Everywhere we go is hot. Yeah, most of the place we go are pretty hot.

30:30 Yes, I will say the the fashion here is mostly like that of most other Western nations. So Malta wasn't super hot, though there's usually a little bit more color in the outfits that are being wore. And you do see occasionally people in more traditional dress going around, but you see plenty of people going around in Western style suits, but those suits often have bright colored ties and stuff like that. You don't see a lot of people walking around in like all black. I think I might bust out a nice shirt like burgundy color. OK. And I look amazing in burgundy, like I look hot as fuck.

31:12 Great. It is very warm here, so yeah, you're going to be hot. I don't think that's why. I'm just being annoying. Go on. Yeah, that's it. That's all. I'm no. I assume you're also wearing like, you know, pants of some sort. Yeah, some light, some light pants and like espadrilles. OK, great. What about the rest of the crew? Just so we could picture what you're doing as you're running around before you get vangoriously devoured. Colin is looking forward to getting vangloriously devoured. So he's actually dressed up a little. He's wearing a button down shirt, but I think he's wearing a tie and not dress pants. That's a little too much, but decent pants. OK.

32:01 You do you have any color in this ensemble? Green. Green like green tie, green pocket square sort of thing. Matching. Oh no, he's he's not wearing a smoking jacket or anything. He's just got a button down shirt and a tie. Right, right, right. Sorry. Shirt is green tie. I'm going to say silver. OK, OK. Who else? And long sleeve, short sleeve. Long sleeve rolled up. OK, so people will see the lack of the hand. Yeah, it kind of looks silly if he didn't have them rolled up. Yeah, would just sort of be hanging. I've got mine rolled up too by the way. Yes. Show off my forearms.

32:44 Of course. And you know what, With all the Athletics points that he now has, Colin is looking a little more like he remembers himself. This adventure is is really awakened again. It's also driven him to become more fatalistic about everything. But you know. Hey, we all got to die Sunday. Did you say Sunday or Sunday? Sure did. Asked and answered. What about our other two? Doctor Smalls is dressed very similarly in Winston Rogers office. However, instead of a black tie, their tie is not quite burgundy, but like a dark red.

33:29 As they're walking off the plane, they have their suit jacket kind of slung over their shoulder because it's warm here. And JB. JB has his overcoat like tied around his waist and is just wearing like the button down shirt short sleeves with like 2 buns at the top undone and some very unflattering shorts. You got shorts even, OK. It's warm. JB learned his lesson, even if it makes him look fucking terrible. Yes. OK. You look like a goofus. That's great. OK. 100%. All right, Well, you land at the Mexico City International Airport and you are heading over to the Federal District of the city.

34:18 And in the city center is around where that heel box would be. But Mexico City has several districts. It's a lovely place. And when you get off the plane, as you're getting your, you know, pulling out your luggage and whatnot, you see, just even performing at the airport are a trio of mariachis. And there's the people clapping along, throwing some money in the hat. It's good vibes here. It seems like a pretty chill city, which a very welcome change from what you've been seeing lately I think. Yeah, but like, give it 2 days. Hello there, boils and ghouls and non boon Aries.

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37:12 It'll be a good time. We hope to check it out Again, that's patreon.com/dread Tails. A little bit of a logistics issue, nothing too much, but what sort of hotel do you want to be staying at? Well, what's our credit rating look like these days? I don't know you guys tell me. Mine's sitting at a four. Alienists apparently do well for. Themselves, it's Doctor Smalls. Yeah, fair enough. Well, maybe we'd get somewhere nice. Yeah, what's that? Let's go somewhere decent with like. Somewhere they put the cockroaches in suits. Yeah, you go to a luxurious hotel. I don't know exactly the name of it. There's a lot of like really nice hotels in the city proper.

37:55 They're kind of what are known as like mansion hotels. They're sort of taken from existing mansion, like big sort of sprawling villas that are turned into hotels in the various rooms. And you could get a couple of really nice places, very relaxing, get some good stuff. Again, Mexico City, this place rules right now. It's a good, good place to be if we want to make sure that everything is set. You want to go to like the really nice hotel. I will need somebody to spend a point of credit rating. This one's on me. We're all sort of spending our money. That's what the credit rating is, but because you are splurging a little bit to get the really nice places, we got to spend a little bit of credit rating.

38:38 Theory the nicer of the hotel to lower our chances of getting our throat slit and our sleep so. From what I understand, the first place was very nice and that got ransacked. Well we got a refund for that one, so it doesn't count. This place is nicer, though. This place is nicer. We don't need to go through all of the stuff about you getting settled, but you're staying at a nice hotel. I assume we rented a car or something. Yeah, yeah, you get a car. There is public transportation around here, but yeah, rent a car. The streets are relatively busy, but we're not talking about Los Angeles traffic or anything. You could get around pretty easily in a car or on foot. That's also a nice change of pace. Travel has not been easy lately.

39:20 There's there's streetcars too. What are their names? They're expanding the streetcar network, but there are streetcars. They don't have names, they are not named desired nor anything else. OK, So yeah, what would you like to do first? You know, I know when when we're in Ethiopia, it was a little bit more focused to try to get where you were going to go. Right now we're back into investigation mode. Baby, where do you go first? Yeah. What time of day is it? Whatever time you want it to be. Right after check in, yeah. Thanks to be in the morning. That's fine, yeah. So, priority one breakfast. Let's find that disco place. Lose discos, yes.

40:01 Record business. Yeah, like light records. Also, by the way, I guess I should ask who speaks Spanish? I do. I do. It's nice to have two people who can, yeah. Do I spend a point for that or? You have as much languages as you have in your language rating. So I don't need to spend a point for it, but I'm limited to that number. Perfect. So call it speaks Spanish and Curran speaks Spanish. JB and Donovan don't speak Spanish. That is correct. Who? Excuse me, Doctor Smalls, Not Donovan. Who's Donovan? You did. You've been dead for a while. All right. You said you're going to find this loose discos. How do you intend to do that? We had an address right on the record. PO Box and everything.

40:48 You have the PO Box, yes? No, no, that was the letter. The actual record had an address for a loose discos on it. It did. Let me check my notes on this. I'm pretty sure you're only supposed to have the PO Box. Did I not just tell you the PO Box when we did this before? There isn't another address. The the lose the lose discos. It had the PO Box on the the thing. Yeah. So don't forget you do have this is something that gets overlooked. You do have access to libraries, although you kind of have to speak Spanish or at least read Spanish to get the most out of the libraries around here. And you also have sort of your one major lead that you have from before, which is of course the PO Box. We should probably check out the PO Box. OK, yeah, sounds like a plan.

41:38 Would that be just at a post office or they got some sort of other? Facility there. Yeah, it is a it's at a big post office. This would be the Palacio Postal. It's the crown jewel of the Mexican Postal Service. It the the architecture looks really nice. Unless you have architecture skill, you just sort of look at it. You're like, oh, nice. If you want to look at it more, you can, but you probably just want to go inside. Are there gargoyles on it? There are not gargoyles on it though. Good enough for me. Let's go. The PO Box is just sort of sitting in the wall of PO Boxes.

42:23 We don't have the key. You do not have the key. I look at Colin. Do you want to take this? Yeah, absolutely. If you can cover for me, if we get access to it, all we're going to have is this mail. I meant talk to the nice person at the till. I also thought you were implying me to pick the law. That makes more sense. Jesus Christ. OK, it's not particularly Hibbett. It's just sort of in the middle of all the PO Boxes. People are walking in and out all the time. I did not mean pick the lock. Could you please go and talk to that person at the tail because you have more social skills than I do. Oh, sure.

43:04 Thank you. As this going on, Donovan is hastily scribbling notes in. His journal. In his little notebook. Yeah, you could write a book about any individual person on this team. It's weird, though. Those two seem to be arguing like they're a married couple, but that doesn't seem right. Yeah, you could go up to one of the attendants here who it's a little harried, you know, because things are a little busy. But again, I'm going to translate all of this into English, but says it's Spanish. Hello. How can I help you? Hello, how are you? I'm fine.

43:48 What can I do for you Donde? Esta la biblioteca. The library's back away. Damn you, I was going to make that reference. Jokes aside, it's not bad to know that. Yeah, and of the this ask in a Lovecraft game donde esta la biblioteca is about a horrible thing to ask. We're looking for somebody with a post box. This number you got a letter to deliver to him. Yeah, we'll put it in the post box. You're really supposed you're not really supposed to do it this way. You just Is there a stamp on the letter? As it turns out, I'm just flat broke, can't afford the stamp so I'm just going to deliver it to him in person.

44:30 That's not how this works. I don't know how. All right, I'll use reassurance. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Oh, Sir, I think I understand what you're saying. I there are, you know, I'd love to help you. There are transaction fees that would need to happen though. Is this person asking for a pride even though I just said I'm broke?

45:12 Yes. All right, I can work with that, pull up my wallet. It's like, all right, so who owns this post box? Let's see here, Brooks. It's like a Brooks. Brooks, eh? Jonathan Brooks. Jonathan Brooks, eh, is. That all you wanted? Let me go check go back to the the rest of the team. Let me go check all. Right. Name's Jonathan Brooks. I mean, at the very least we would need his physical address. Do we I? Suppose not if. We have his name and we. Yes, Sir, he is. Yeah, we can look him up, huh? Yeah.

45:53 By the way, the bribe that you need to give pretty low the dollar goes quite a ways here in Mexico at this point. Yeah, the conversion is like 2 to one. It's good. It's good for. You all right? So is it so low that I don't spend a credit rating on it or? You don't need to spend a credit rating on it, no no. No. OK yeah cuz the way that played out, I pulled out my wallet implying I would give a bribe and then I walked away after I. Got there. You just walked away. OK? You didn't give the Yeah, sorry if we didn't make that clear. You know, you probably actually had to go to the library real quick to figure out like which PO, which post office would have had this PO Box in the 1st place. And we didn't see that scene though, because I was bored. But.

46:37 You've seen we're about to do that. Yeah. So I'll walk back over and say thank you and leave them a modest tip. I mean, Brad, always tip your postal worker all. Right, Jonathan? 'S OK, Thank you. Yeah, they're not going to open it for you. No, that's right. We don't. We don't need the contents of it, I hope. Probably. So that's fine. OK. I will say you could try to pick the lock. It also is APO box. It's not that hard to get open. You just sort of hit it a bunch and yank it out and steal it. It'd be pretty obvious though, yeah. I don't feel the need to do that. I love how the.

47:20 GM is giving us destructive suggestions. Me too. It just smells you hearing this. Would you like to completely fuck stuff up as soon as we arrive at a location? Just just keeping our options open. Clearly. Let's go find that fucking guy. Yeah, you know what, I'll give you this. Also on the card that she shows you for Jonathan Brooks is a forwarding address. Oh, there you go. Hey, there we go. To the loose record offices. Yeah, well now we don't need to go back to that library. Wouldn't want to experience all the strange things there again. Yeah, the looks we got.

48:03 Those creatures. It takes you a little while to get to the Lose Records offices. It's in a different part of town in a Poyocon, which is sort of an arts district. Frida Kahlo is here right now. Lots of great artists. Leon Trotsky will retire here before he is ICE picked. And the place itself seems to be on the second floor of a building. And it's sort of set up like a like a motel. Like you don't go into the first floor like you go straight up to the second floor. There's a side stair that leads up around here. Looks like there's like a Taco joint. Looks like there's a tax preparation office underneath, or at least counts underneath it, stuff like that.

48:47 My people. And there is a faded sign that says whose records. In English. No, it wouldn't say it in English. Yeah, it says lose discus is what it would say because it would be in Spanish. But you're you're able to say that that lose records. All right. Well, I got a crazy idea. I guess my question before that happens, would you like to try to arrive here near the end of the day or wait till night time? End of the day, see who leaves the place like just sit in the car like all inconspicuous like and just look at the people who are leaving the place. OK, just four men sitting in a car inconspicuously. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we don't all have to fuck. We don't all have to be in the car. One can sit on the bench or something. One can like, read newspaper, smoke a cigarette, whatever you know.

49:37 Can we use the washer? OK, I need each of you to make it difficulty 3 stealth check. Fuck. Oh, I don't have that. Neither do I. So I just roll straight. Like you just have to roll straight then. Well shit, I'm sorry team. So for our listeners, what just happened was Kearns and Colin Kane rolled sixes, while JB and Doctor Donovan Smalls rolled horribly. Yes, OK, I rolled A1. I'm going to make a note of that. Now, to be fair, the worst. Thing your GM could say. Doctor Smalls is basically just kind of sitting on a bench smoking a cigarette at the moment. For the record, you see the stores around sort of closed down. The accounting verb closes down.

50:22 The taqueria stays open, though still, people are going in and out of there occasionally. Nobody leaves the record company. Perfect. Also, as you're looking up, there are no lights on. Well, can anybody else say front business? Is it Sunday? Would they be closed on Sunday? It's not Sunday. No. It's Tuesday. Probably not a long weekend either. OK, Karen, should I open this one? Might as well, although we should. Should we wait after like until it's dark or? I mean, it's starting to get dark while you because you were waiting around like that was the idea. Like you were waiting around.

51:06 Nobody showed up. The other businesses closed except for the Taco joint across the street. OK, Yeah, sure. Yeah, let's do it. I'll cover for you. All right, we'll go do some lock picking if necessary. I don't know, maybe they left it unlocked. There's some off the shelf dead bolts on each door. Either one could get you in. You could open it pretty easily with locksmith though. There's nothing fancy here. However, opening it is going to leave evidence that it was jimmied open somehow, unless you want to spend a point of locksmithing to make it so your break in is not noticed. Best to make sure there's no evidence left behind. There you. Go. All right, You make your way inside the offices. It's dark.

51:49 Flashlight. OK. We're doing flashlights. We're not turning on the lights. I will use my low light vision. Oh right, I forgot you were a dwarf. Yeah. JB and Smalls, what are you guys doing? I had already established that Doctor Smalls was sitting on a bench. Nobody came to talk to Doctor Smalls about this. So he sees you go to the building and he's just gonna continue sitting on the bench, conspicuously watching the. Building. What about you JB? You going in? I also failed myself Jack, so I think I don't want to draw attention to the break in now. OK, OK.

52:30 So I will also stay outside for now. You can give us a signal if somebody is coming. Yeah, I'll make a bird noise. You're busting out the flashlights then? Yep. OK. Yeah. OK, if people do see the flashlights through the windows of this place, that is going to look a little suspicious. But also turning the lights on, also suspicious. So, you know, it's a single large room, but there's plaster in case posts and wooden glass separator walls dividing it to into four different offices. The main thing you notice is that this place has been cleared out. There are filing cabinets that are open and empty as you're looking around. There's a safe in the back.

53:12 It is ajar and cleaned out. Desk drawers are open and empty except for some staples, you know. Staples. Yeah, OK. How dusty does it look? Yeah, pretty dusty. Not like a decade's worth of dust or anything like that, or even a year's worth of dust. But people were not in here earlier today, probably haven't been here for you. Got to give me a skill to tell me if to get anything more than that. I don't think I have any evidence. I'm sure I do. Yeah. Oh, you know what I just have. I just purchased the Point of Forensics. Perfect. Yeah, this is exactly what forensics is for. Yeah.

53:52 People haven't been in here for at least a week, maybe 2. Well, that's a day wasted I guess. So like, there's just nothing. Well, there are some papers on the ground that were sort of left behind as you're looking around. What do the papers say? A lot of it seems to be garbage, really. A lot of like catalogs that are addressed to this place, like trying to sell music equipment, which is, you know, not super useful. And you see that the catalogs that are actually on the floor, there's circles on them. And it looks like like sort of the scribbles in there. It seems like whoever was here was trying to price out several albums. Like, you see actually, like some small math that he was doing and figuring out actually in particular the production of records like that is a big thing that he was looking like, how much would it cost to get records produced? Which place should I go to to actually produce these records? Because like, this is a place where maybe they would record something.

54:55 Actually, you don't really see any recording equipment around here. They probably weren't doing any recording. Or they moved all the recording equipment. Yeah, or they did that. You find an invoice in the trash. It's greasy paper stained with the red stains. Huh. OK. And it's a invoice in Spanish charged to Jonathan Brooks and Leticia de la Luz for last minute production time at Estudio del Manana, located at 1220 Morales Ave., just up the block. Oh, I bet these guys are closed by now. Probably, yeah. We should still pay them a visit.

55:35 All right. Just just a second here. I want to check something. OK. So using accounting, looking at these papers where they're pricing things out, does it seem like this place is the place that they would have chosen? Is it the cheapest? It's the cheapest. There you go, accounting. Yeah, looks like they were. Yeah, but The thing is, it looks like he was comparing different places. Oh, and also you find as you're looking around a record, however it's broken in half. Is it labeled? Yes, it says side one and side 2. Terrifying does not have a name for the for the tracks.

56:17 Well, I guess we should see about getting this patched up and driving our new friend insane with it. Colin. Let's go see how good that studio really is. All right, now your Marvel's doing, still rattling around pretty good. Maybe you could listen to this? Well I currently have like 9 sanity and 10 stability so I think I'm OK. Yeah, there you go. You're horribly self medicating. But besides that. I mean hell, maybe This is why I'm perfectly stable, because I'm walking around fucking euphoric all day. Yeah, compared to Colin, who's raw dogging this. Yeah, right. Not like mad respect but also. Two people outside make a choice on this because this is going to be a hard one it and succeeding is not necessarily necessary. Difficulty 8.

57:08 Sense Trouble Difficulty 8. Sense trouble. Yeah. You know what, I'll spend the two points. You know what? I'll spend 3 points to possibly succeed. OK, just because you're you are quote UN quote wasting those points if you don't get it, but give it a shot. I could roll a, you know, A5 or A6. You could roll A5 or A6. You're right haha. I rolled A5. Damn. The nice gods have smiled upon thee. You realize that you are being watched. You catch a hint of somebody with binoculars on a nearby roof that seems to be mostly looking at the record store, but has also in particular noticed you too.

57:57 And also because they are staring at the record store, which now has flashlights moving around in it, they've definitely seen that as well. OK, Doctor Smalls is going to wave at them. Oh, the person who's looking with the binoculars? Yep. OK. That is an astoundingly Chad move and I applaud you. Yep, the person you again, they're sort of a dark figure. You can't really see because it's, you know, dark. But they look down at you, see you waving, then you see the figure run off. A certain dominance. Problem solved. Incredible. Shit. Smalls has already endeared himself to me immensely, yes.

58:40 All right, that guy was not like did not have like a stifer rifle trade on you or anything they say, but maybe only have but. Which is entirely a good thing, because. Yeah, this guy. They would have shot you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, a guy at the Taco place sort of waves at you thinking that maybe you were waving at them. You know what, Afterwards I go over and I buy a a little meal. OK. You know what? JB goes to join you, you know. Holy shit, Kern's they got tacos here. Without us. No, I mean in Mexico.

59:21 Boy, Colin's been real punchable this episode, huh? Currents is just going to raise an eyebrow, call and go huh, weird. As JB and Doctor Smalls sit down with their food, Smalls is going to just quietly be like somebody was watching, by the way. It happens a lot. I can't say I'm surprised that's happened before, but you can never tell whoever's watching you is friendly or not. Usually it's been a friendly actually. It has been a friendly but like don't always know that. Yeah, last time we tortured a guy. I don't know if I would even say it's usually been a friendly. At least 60% of the time it's been a not very friendly that's been watching, I mean. The night of Malta and the the guy in Ethiopia were both chill. And how many others had been watching us? Let's see, there's that time I got kidnapped in Malta. There's a private investigator in Los Angeles. Yeah, yeah.

1:00:18 There were. AP guys in Los Angeles. Yeah, yeah, fucked us up. Yeah, they killed FK. Yeah, yeah, the the guys in Savannah, GA yeah, they mugged. US. Yeah. Like I said, at least 60%, yeah. Well, now most of those people are dead. By the way, the guy who served you sort of comes up to the did you guys come out? The other two come out of the office. Yeah, I think we met up at the taqueria. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah. They ask if you want anything. Absolutely. Yeah, they also ask like, haven't seen you guys around before. Where are you from? Up north, OK. OK, I'll take a carton outside the burrito, please. OK, extra guacamole.

1:01:01 OK, Colin's gonna ask for something spicy, not realizing he's going to get it. Not. Besides the food being pretty good, the guy running the taqueria seems friendly enough, but you guys don't want to talk to her, but that's fine. And with that. It's nothing personal, you know, it's just, you know, Kate flirted with like one construction guy and and. Now she's dead. So it's nothing personal against the Taco guy, at least in my case, I'm just being cautious. That said, he might know something. Does the Taco guy look healthy? He looks a little overweight. You got an extra mouth. Oh, no, no, he he does not look like he is. Yeah, he doesn't look like he's drugged up or anything. I'm giving that to you because you have medicine, skill, like looking at him.

1:01:51 This guy is overweight. But yeah. Doctor Smalls, you should ask how his teeth are looking. I mean, you mean ask me the GM, not him, Yes. You're not going to just ask him Like, hey, what's up with your teeth, dude? No. Yeah, no, his teeth seem fine. Frank, are you still looking for vampires? Vampires. No what what I found is somewhat scarier than any old Dracula. All right, well, there was the holy water, and now you're asking about people's teeth that just a little in the dark. I wasn't asking about people's teeth, that was the person who was playing me, as you can clearly hear from the difference in our voices. Renee, are you looking for vampires? Yeah, always.

1:02:40 Oh, fair enough. Mr. Kern, if you have something you need to speak about that part of the reason why I'm with you gentlemen. I'm going to go talk to the Taco guy, OK? All right. I mean, I guess if we could ask him about the the record place so. Yeah. Can I get you something else? I wasn't too spicy, was it? I know you. You don't look like you're a local. Sometimes this could be a little spicy for out of towners. Oh yeah, it was spicy all right. Woo, love. Lovely stuff though. My compliments to the chef friend.

1:03:22 Amazing. I'll take a a horchata and I pay like triple the price of the drink. Oh, he does not. He should flick with that. He does not tell me that. It's not too much. You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, no, we're, we're just here to see some friends that used to run this record store this lose discos. Oh, you were friends with them? They haven't been around for a while now. Like God, it must have been a month or something. Now I saw them move it out a bunch of boxes and I haven't seen the lights on since then. Fuck, I should not have said they were friends.

1:04:03 Oh well. They seem like interesting guys. You know, they used to come in here, talk about the music and the great parties they would have. They promised to invite me once or twice. I don't know. Yeah, no, you probably wouldn't want to go to those kind of parties. Yeah, no, they seemed yeah. Sloppy. He seems a little nervous now that you're talking about the parties. How much did you bribe him by the way? Like a credit rating about of bribe. Now that we're actually chatting and I noticed that he's getting nervous, I must spend a credit rating. OK, to make sure that he tells you everything about it. Yeah, I'm just going to slide over 100 or something, I don't know.

1:04:46 His eyes bulge out of his sockets. Yeah. You're making this guy's, like, month. Yeah, God damn. Yeah, for the record, it probably wouldn't be 100. It would probably be like those are like 20 or something, but. Yeah, I'm not sure the rate of inflation there. Exactly with the inflation, but I know that they did drugs. They did a a weird drug. I hadn't heard about it. I tried it once. They called it. What was it, actor? Do you say that? Are you standing there? Like, have you wandered up to like, listen? We're all at the same table, right? I thought she walked up to the bar. Yeah, She went up to the counter. She went up to the counter. OK. Yeah, sorry, I missed that. I guess that she. Kurds is a he?

1:05:28 Yeah, he went up to the counter also. You wouldn't understand it, right? True. This is in Spanish. Sitting at the table translating everything. It was nectar. That's what it was. Nectar I even tried it one night, but it was it was bad. I didn't. I felt good, but I felt bad. Nasty stuff. I felt all dirty and rowdy on that shit. I didn't I know they used to get it from there were like little, little parties that would pop up on the street and that's how you would get it. Though I haven't seen those parties lately. I only I only took a little bit. I never want to take any again.

1:06:10 They used to go do recordings down at the Studio de Manana, though they haven't been doing that anymore either, so I don't know where your friends are. Oh, no offense about the the creepy stuff. Oh, no worries there, No worries there. Any idea what happened? Why the urgency? I don't know. All I know is they started, they, they just loaded all of their stuff and they left. And the date he gives you for when they moved it all out is a week before you landed in Los Angeles originally. Interesting.

1:06:52 So a couple months ago at this point. Yeah, I I've been keeping track of the exact dates on that stuff, but it was they moved all that stuff out a week before you landed in Los Angeles. All right, shit, I don't have the brain for mysteries. What? What else should I ask? I don't think he has anything else to tell. You OK? Fair enough. You gave enough money that he was going to tell you everything. All right, but did I give him enough money that he doesn't blab about us to anybody else? Do you say that? Spend a credit rating, I think that's a safe amount to ensure silence. Are you going to say that to him to like, hey, don't tell anybody about this?

1:07:33 Yeah, yeah, I'm going to tell him. Well I you you seem like a stand up fellow and I trust your discretion. Oh, of course, yeah, good luck. He can't do the horchata. I says honesty. Is he going to talk? He's not going. To talk. OK, cool. If he was, what would you do about it? I don't know. I mean like if this guy got grabbed and tortured, like he would talk, you know what I mean? But if so, he just like asked him or something or he wouldn't like volunteer the information. OK, cool. Yeah, I returned to the table and relay everything. Unfortunately not a ton of info from that but you didn't already know.

1:08:15 Though it does confirm that nectarism play. Yep. Well, I guess we don't need to stop at the other place tonight then. I mean, we might find something out. It's just up the street. Yeah. Well, I still got a point in lock picking. Let's go. OK. I think I should be the lookout this time. OK, it's dark enough that you could make it over to the studio of tomorrow. Pretty. Like all of us, right? I assumed everyone was going. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, cool. It's a moderately sized operation in an old single story office. It's in a relatively more modern part of the city, and the door is locked.

1:08:56 In fact, it looks like there is a newly installed lock here. Well, clicking it, click lock pick time. That's going to be the same thing. If you want to finesse it to leave the lock in working order, you could spend a point, or you could just break the lock with one point. Like you're, you know, picking it, whatever, but you're going to break the lock. I'll finesse it, don't need to wreck people's property. OK, make me a stealth check difficulty 4. All right, that is a four. OK, you're able to get the door open and nobody's noticed you. Place has still been full operation, so that's sort of a miracle.

1:09:38 Well, it is nighttime, so. So it's a little late to ask this now, but were there any lights on in the building? No, however when you open the door you do see a lights on. Well. I already said that I'll be staying outside because I have sense trouble out the wazoo so. Well, time for Colin to go do some more talking this episode. Yes, I will surreptitiously approach this light. OK. I'm assuming it's a desk light, not like a fixture in the ceiling or something. It's it's a small lamp actually it's a small floor light, but it's not very bright. It's sort of shorter and you see that it is next to a couch. It looks like this building has two like recording booths and also like a little office that opens up into the office and you see a man in short sleeves sleeping on the couch. Huh.

1:10:38 I'm not sure what to do with this information. He's not like wearing pajamas or anything, but yeah, he is asleep. But if you keep doing stuff in here, he will probably wake up. But your successful stealth and locksmithing means that you got in without this guy noticing. So I wonder if this is the security guard? He's not a very good security guard, it seems. It is a security guard, yeah. Well, 90% of the job is literally nothing happening. Yeah, he's also not wearing like a uniform. Well, I guess I'll use some evidence collection to try and figure out what happened with lose discos. As you are looking around, you don't really find anything immediately as you're looking around in here. Actually, as you're looking around, it seems like no recordings have happened recently. Like you look at a schedule of recordings and seems like no recordings have happened here for a couple months now, actually, exactly to the day that the lose records cleared out.

1:11:33 Oh, actually, no. A week before that, actually. What was their last project? It says lose records. That makes sense, yeah. And a chance there's a copy of that around? Not that you could see. All right, now I'll go talk to the other. So there's a guy in there, he's sleeping on the couch. I couldn't find anything, just a just a quick check there. Any ideas? Talk to the nice gentleman. OK, but no torture. Who wants to go talk to him and are you going to be like pulling a gun on him or? We did have to break in to like, get in here. So yeah, if we do talk to him, there's no way it's going peacefully. Well, all right then, JB, you look menacing over there. OK, perfect.

1:12:17 Just like that. This is a terrible idea. About this, can you conceivably make it so the lock is like back in place and we just like knock? I can think of a couple ways to do that. I mean it is possible to pick a lock close? You would spent the point so you could do that, yeah. And we pretend like we never, never went in there. Sure, click. OK, you're going to go knock at the door now. Yep, Yep, like good boys. Bang Bang, Bang, Bang. The shout of Vierda is so loud you could hear it through the door and as you hear a bit of a thump on the inside as well.

1:12:58 He. He rolled off the couch. He fell off the couch. And outside of that, you don't hear anything. Actually, you hear somebody approach the door, but they don't say anything. Oh JB, stop being menacing. I think you spooked him. JB looks exasperated, as per usual. That's better. JB never stopped looking exasperated, for the record. Do you try to knock again? Do you say something Knock? Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. There you. Go. A voice comes through and he says I have told no one anything.

1:13:40 You tell Mister Brooks, Mr. Konolov, it's fine. I'm not giving up any information. Please go away. I think we should probably talk to this guy. Konolov. Not a name you've heard before. Is like a Slavic name. Yeah. I'm going to use a point of reassurance. You don't need to spend a point, you could just say that you're. Reassurance. Yeah, OK, I'm going to. I'm going to use reassurance and I'm going to go. We are, we don't mean you any harm. We're just here to talk. Then I burst down the door. Nobody has to get hurt. I. I grab Colin as he's flying towards the door. Nobody has to get hurt.

1:14:27 We're just going to talk and leave you in peace. Who are you? Someone who doesn't want the world to end just yet. Come inside. I don't want anybody to see you. Come inside quickly. Holy shit it worked. Oh. My God, I'm genuinely shocked. OK, let's go. And he opens the door and is surprised to see four people there. He also has a shotgun like pulled out and to get the door. Hey, we met earlier. You wouldn't remember it. Colin, Colin, Colin. Oh my God. Is with you today.

1:15:08 He doesn't know the context. For that, we're fine. Doctor Small. Just slowly face palms. Thanks for listening. Daniel is our keeper for Eternal lies, Renee plays Franklin Kearns, Nathan plays JB Faulk, Damien is Donovan Smalls, and Russell is Colin Cain. In addition to mixing, mastering and music in this episode other than our main theme by Claire LW regional Mexican guitar by Dribbiados on Pixabay and Dale mariachi by Casa Rosa Productions on YouTube. Additionally, our album art is by Trinity the Tea Time Witch. If you're hearing this the week it comes out, you've still got time to submit questions for the campaign up to this point over on our Discord or our e-mail, both of which you can find like, two in the show notes.

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