Eternal Lies 23 - The Lair of Luz

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, our investigators were attacked by a swarm of monstrous mythos afflicted birds taking cover in a restaurant. Our heroes fought off the murderous plague, with everything they had succeeding and surviving. After dispersing the grackles, they returned to their hotel and listened to the repaired record, which hypnotised Kearns to seemingly no effect. The party then splits with JB and Colin going to the police disguised as FBI agents with stupid names. There they made a contact with a Detective Gomez, gaining information and an ally.

0:49 Meanwhile, Kearns and Smalls made their way to the home of Letitia de la Luz, but find it abandoned with a love poem that points them in the direction of their target. The die is cast, the pact is sealed, and May God have mercy on our souls. It's Daniel strip tales. We gonna. Go. To the cult leader's house. He has what I say. Do we really need to go clubbing now? Because we.

1:29 Have a good idea of where she is? We do, and I'm assuming we're all meeting up to like talk about this before taking any drastic action. Yeah, yeah. It'd be a good idea to, you know, communicate everything that happened. You know, we infiltrated a police station, but it went great, shockingly. Yeah, it was really good. The police are are friendly. They're on your side. They said they're going to get you more information tomorrow. But you know, you seem to have some information right now. Yeah, we got the information we needed. I don't. Probably by tomorrow they'll have figured out that we weren't actual FBI.

2:15 So. That quick They didn't have the Internet, Nathan. Yeah, but they sent up like documents to be reviewed. Through the mail. Yeah, it would take at least a. That is true, yeah. We'd be able to milk this for a bit longer. In fact, you might be able to get like some. You might be able to get some like police backup. If you could figure out where like the true Colt headquarters is, you might be able to get some police backup. Yeah, that would be. Probably the most that's come up a couple Times Now. OK, so you guys get back from investigating the apartment and police station respectively. What's your plans now? Betting.

2:56 Colin, I think the club may no longer be needed as far as gathering evidence at this stage. We found this poem in Taylor Luz's apartment. We also found these pictures and I and I produced the extremely fucked up visage of. Though again, we don't know that that's just the damaged picture. It's got a mouth in the middle. We know that. Yeah. Like out out of universe. We. All we all done. Fuck, we all fucking know that. That is fair. Though. Yeah. Don't we though? There's teeth halfway up her nose.

3:39 I mean, even in universe, even in universe it's a decent guess at this point. Like like to bring it all together. Cortez mentioned that she covers herself with a veil and sunglasses and hides a whole bunch, and now we see this. Yeah, and some motherfuckers decided to listen to her singing. Oh no, the woman, the woman's Got Talent. That's that's unquestionable. Don't be mouth racist JB. Mouthist. Our quest is just to but.

4:22 I think can I do this and like let me know if you're not comfortable. I think I'm going to like gently touch your hand when I see you're getting flustered. Yeah, that's fine. Touch your hand, draw your attention and like make the gesture like breathe, breathe and breathe out. I'm good. I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. Good. I'm fine. Good, good. Why are you waving your hand around like that? Showing up. You know, JB wasn't supposed to have an anxiety disorder. I have an anxiety disorder. JB just got it. That just happened on accident. I mean, I have a mental illness.

5:03 Tell me. Tell me that my characters are perfectly sane. Fair enough. There you go. So again, you could go to this club, La Paz, which you heard about, or you could go to this penthouse suite that Brooks lives in. Yeah. The the club is still on the table if this terms up nothing but the house is a more direct option. Should this be La Paz? The street children told us of the Mint. Yeah, I, I. Oh, the street children, said a different one. Yeah, there was a gorilla Fiesta at the Mint. At the Mint, Yeah, that is what they said. So you.

5:46 Stop making mouth noises. No, truly, I do not think I can. Regular talking is a mouth noise. Yeah, so you could go to Brooks Penthouse or you could go to the Mint, which is the place you heard they were giving out drugs. I suggest that we go clubbing after we have dealt with Mr. Brooks and Miss De la Luz to celebrate. But if I die, you guys have to still go have fun. Oh, OK. Sure, that goes without saying. If you're all right in. Then I'm in if. It's what Colin would have wanted. As he just told us, we we don't have to pass tense it. He's not dead yet.

6:29 Sometimes I think that I can still hear his voice. You know, with a bit of rounding, none of us existed at all. OK. OK. You head to 64 Rio Tigris you realize is actually relatively close to where that PO Box was. The building is A10 story building of red brick construction, though the first two stories are painted a yellow white. Brooks's penthouse is on the top floor. Perfect, now in my dungeneers kit I have 10 pittons. What? And 50 foot of hemp and rope. Oh, you have the climbing thingies. OK, No, I was thinking we could just go through the building. That works too.

7:13 It's a crazy idea, but it might just work. I mean, you do see there is a fire escape on the outside, but you know. Noted. You go in the front door. This is a much nicer apartment building than the one that you were in before. Most notably, there is a concierge sitting at a front desk. He has a name tag that says Oscar on it. Knowing that we're going to a place that should have Jonathan Brooks and possibly De la Luz, I might call in that favor with the police. Of course, if we're wrong then we're going to look like assholes, but I guess we always look like assholes, so it's fine. Oh, I'm not. I'm not thinking call in the troops or anything.

7:53 I'm just taking a couple guys to watch the doors. Fair enough. Yeah. Might be handy. OK, Before you go inside, you go to a phone booth and give the officer a call. Sure. You call up Detective Detective Gomez. Yeah, unless the police station was on the way, in which case I'll go and chat to him for a while. I think you probably got to give him a. Call OK ring, ring. Hola. Detective Gomez There's been a bit of movement on that case involving the Nectar cult. Yes. Did you find something that you'd be willing to share with us? I have my own men conducting an investigation at this point. They've been shaking down some of the dealers.

8:35 Well, some of mine are going to be looking into Mr. Brooks residence. I suppose we were wondering if you might want to. The man you believe is the leader of the cult. Leader. Leader. Adjacent, Higher up anyway. Excellent. Do you need backup? We were wondering if you might want to watch the doors for us. I'll send Officer Blanca. The the green guy with the electrical powers. What? Blanca, Josh The White. Yeah, Josh, the White, as it was established earlier, no Blanco. He had a small, oh, jawline. We would establish that this is what defining feature We'll send him over. He'll be there in about 20 minutes or so. Sounds great.

9:18 Do you wait for Detective Blanco to arrive or you go? In I'm waiting for Mr. Gomez to say goodbye. Good luck, goodbye. You too. Goodbye. Click. What's the Spanish for? Good luck. Goodo lucko fuck. Off it's not that. What a sweat day. Or okay muchas sweat day. There you go. It doesn't sound as dramatic as I pictured. Anyway, continue. As you go into the front door of the 64 Rio Tigris building, the concierge says hello in a very obsequious Spanish hello.

10:01 How can I help? You remind me, please, what obsequious means. I'm not sure I've ever actually known. Obsequious. Yeah, that's like overly formal. Oh OK obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree. Google disagrees with you those. Are close enough. You're right, obsequious does mean that he is being a servant, but in this case he's following all the rules for being a servant. OK, and this is out of character. I cannot bribe this one. I already spent enough of Miss Roger's money, so somebody else has to take it. Would Cop Talk be the one to insist that we're here on law enforcement business? Cop talk is talking to other cops. All right, so the thing I am doing is reassurance. Depends on how you're telling him you're from the police like. Well, I'm I'm also comboing up with preparedness and flashing of edge very, very quickly.

10:58 It was cheap. Oh, can I use you to make it better? Hang on, can I use Craft to make the badge better? Are we flashing back to that you crafted them a badge? Yeah, OK. OK. I you know what, I'll let you have done that. Normally that would be something you don't spend the point on, but because you are doing it retroactively, I need you to spend the craft point. All righty, I shall spend my one point of craft. Oh, I have two points in craft. Never mind then, who else wants a badge? No, that's not the worst idea.

11:39 We only need the one at the moment. Gravy boat Jones should have one I. Forgot a bug? Gravy boat Jones. Yeah, that is the name that you gave me and I I just went with it. Nah, I think I'll I'll save the craft point for something else. Oh OK so I have a less cheap looking badge, should I still roll? I need you to make a preparedness roll because we're combining both of these together, A difficulty 3 preparedness. All right, that is A5. You have a pretty good badge. Michael Love Shack, we're here on law enforcement business. Got somebody to check out in the Pentos and I'd love if you didn't warn them first.

12:24 Shadiest way you could possibly say that, but. Sorry. You did succeed so. But I will require a signed warrant before I can let any law enforcement officers into the building. Up there goes my second point of craft. Well, I think Detective Gomez will have one for you in a couple minutes here. Alternatively, I could use my other point of craft. For Blanco. Blanco does arrive shortly after this. He comes in and says, OK, I'm here. What is what? What do we need? A warrant, apparently. Oh, well, like we need to get a judge for a warrant. Surely you know how that works.

13:04 Oh. My God. This could be life or death. Blanca, we need this done quick. Maybe you and this guy can go sort out the warrant. And no, that's not going to work. Isn't. I'm sorry, I cannot let anyone in from the police if I mean I could give a call and see if the occupant is willing to accept guests at the moment. You don't really get how a sting works, do you? You don't really get how warrants work do. You OK, new plan? Do I have to spend a whole credit rating to bribe this guy? I can, I will if need be be a fast way through this. You could offer him a bribe.

13:51 The way you said it kind of suggests that he's not going to take it, yeah. Yeah, I don't. Offer anything, Dan? Is the concierge alone? No, he's got at least one police officer there. Yeah. So we can't, you know, you know. Felice traditionally huge fans of bribing people. I don't think violence is necessarily the answer. No, we could just walk in there. What's the concierge going to do, call the police? Yes. They're already there. I mean, yeah, like the cops know we're here. Yeah, foreign law enforcement are breaking into the sovereign Mexican citizens home.

14:35 Will Blanco be forced to arrest us or something? Like he's here to help us. He is here to help you. He is getting increasingly upset about you guys doing like this warrantless shit. OK, here's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to go, OK, so you're Blanco, I believe you can handle this man. And I'm just going to start fucking walking towards the elevator looking as purposeful as like I'm I'm supposed to be here. This is all on the up and up. I know what I'm doing type of shit. The elevator requires an operator's key. Motherfucker, I. Was going to say, don't they need a? Don't elevators that old need a crank? Yeah. Well, it's not a crank, but you need like an operator. It's not a crank, but it's like a yeah. Sometimes they're levers or like. Stairs it is.

15:21 Some yeah, I mean yeah. Is the key needed to get into the elevator in the 1st place or just to work it from? The no, they're needed. The old elevators, they're needed to operate them. No, no, there's. One why I'm asking that question? You could go into the elevator, but you would need the key to go to the whatever floor you need to go to. Kearns is taking the stairs already. Shit, I I you can't use locksmith with one hand, can you? I have twice already. 'Cause I was about to say there's somebody in the group that has locksmith. Sir, I will have to ask you to get down from those stairs or I'll call the police.

16:04 You hear it now, right? Oh, this is horrible. Oh God. And he looks over at Junior Officer Blanco. It says, what are we? This is unacceptable. Blanco is looking confused and he shouts at birds. Sir, please hold on. I don't think he's listening. I guess you better go after. Him guys, are we coming or no? Yeah, I'm following along. I think it's our only option at this point. So yeah, let's just go. Yeah, as I'm walking, I'm, yeah, I'm talking my shotgun. Oh my God. I reassure the concierge that we'll catch up with him and bring him back down when he comes to.

16:49 There we go. There we go. That's yeah. Do you say anything to Blanco before you rush off? Oh, I thought Blanco was chasing after currents too. No, I just told him to handle the concierge. Blanco was not chasing after Currents, he was telling Currents to hold on. He looks over at you. Inspector, Whatever the fuck your name is, whatever made-up name is. Michael Love Shack. And gravy. Bill Jones. Mr. Love Shack, please control your associates. I don't he's looking like assess honesty like this guy. This guy wants to prove himself.

17:30 He wants to draw his gun and give chase to the bad guys. It seems like your conversational skills have not worked on the concierge, but they might work on officer. Blanco here. I've got flattery. I might try to take this from a perspective of does he speak English? OK, question. Yeah, he speaks. He speaks of English, that's why. That's why they sent Blanco with you, because he spoke English. No, there you. Go. OK. I just let him know that, yeah, you are clearly a good cop and a skilled officer who wants to do some good in the world. I promise you, we are doing good in the world. And you, a skilled officer, can help us.

18:11 Just what do we need him to do? Again, out of character. Concierge busy. Yes, they need you. They don't slip out. To keep the concierge busy and if somebody comes down here running, you know, stop them for us. Call Gomez, see if he can get a backdated warrant for us. I guess it's. Not. I'll see what I can do. Well, you could make up shit, Yeah. He now turns back to the concierge and says, all right, let's see those hands as he gets out of his cock. We weren't the first to draw a. Weapon I. Mean they're cuffs. Honestly, they're not.

18:51 I'm proud of us. That's what you get for instructing. To spend a point of flattery to get that level of result. Done. OK, Happily. All right. By the way, I think somebody should get those keys for the elevator because like I'm covering the stairs. Right. Somebody should get the elevator. OK, two people take the stairs, two people take the elevator. Let's see how this goes. Yeah, I'm going to swipe the elevator key and. The concierge is just saying this is completely unacceptable. You're This is a violation of my rights. Oh, shove it up your ass. We're Americans.

19:34 Welcome to the land of police brutality, motherfucker. I don't feel good about this at all, guys. No, no. You guys are real fucking heroes. Yay, now we just need to find some oil. You make your way up, both in the elevator and on the stairs to Brooks's penthouse. Who's who's on the stairs with me? I will go with Kearns, OK, because we do not have a key to what's his face apartment. No. Fair enough. Wouldn't it? Yeah. So then me and Smalls take the elevator up. At about track. You beat the two of them up at our way to get the front door for a little bit. There is only a small little landing that the stairs go up to and the elevator opens up to, and that there is the door to the penthouse apartment or suite or however you want to say it. I guess you would just say Penthouse. Yeah, Ben, I assumed the elevator would open into it. You know what it does?

20:37 Open into it, Yeah. Where do the stairs fucking go? Yeah, I figured it would be two entries. That's why I wanted to go help Kerns. The stairs go to the door, Yeah. Yeah, makes sense to me. If the elevator is an operational or if there's an earthquake. Yeah, you're right. There should be, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I of course the elevator would open up to it. So yeah, the elevator opens up into the penthouse and you also go up to the door. It's not really the main way people come in because most people come in through the elevator, but yeah. I've been taking this the stairs three steps at a time and I'm not even breaking a sweat. I am absolutely breaking a sweat. Yeah.

21:18 Looking good there, Mr. Cain. Curtain looks cool as a cucumber and Colin is like doubled over and trying not to throw up. Curs looks cool as a cucumber, Colin looks wet as a pickle. All. Right. OK, OK, I I maybe have a little like very cinematic bead of sweat running down my chiseled jawline. The elevator opens up into Brooks's penthouse. It's very well appointed. The first room you see is a spacious living room. There's a pair of sofas, sort of cabinet, radio and a high end record player cabinet. You also see as you're stepping out, a envelope slid under the door. And nobody in the room, I'm assuming. Nobody in the room.

22:07 You see a hallway going a little bit deeper and a door off to the side, but no, people are here. You don't hear the sounds of anybody moving around or anything in this penthouse. I. Think we should probably wait for the other day before we go too far in. I know, yeah. I'm not one for firearm myself. They get up to the door after a little bit. Before opening the door though, I'm going to grab the letter that was slid under the door and take a look at it. All right, it is a letter in an unmarked envelope. All the best envelopes are unmarked.

22:48 There's just a red seal with ATM on it. It says the test started when we entered the room. What is this? Somebody's been watching too much Taskmaster. OK, I'm American. I don't watch that show. You're lost. To be fair, it is fun to binge. Yeah, no, I know Jason Bunzukas was on it recently. I I just maybe don't jive with the British sense of humor. Cancel me if that is, you know, people like that sort of stuff. I hate women. I hate British people. You know, I hate all these people. So this handout that we're looking for. Yeah.

23:31 I was wondering. Yeah, one of you should read it. Yeah. We've confirmed that Victor Cortez has gone to ground at Estudio del Manana. He's holed up in there 24/7 and it looks like he's keeping the door shut and only letting in familiar faces. Have not seen him make contact with any out of towners. Do you want us to rough him up or leave him alone? No sign of any other interlopers. The mole rat is keeping to his rounds just as agreed, and it's signed D just the letter. Do we know any DS? It was right there anyway. God damn it, I was just about to say Deez Nuts. Me and you, Nathan.

24:15 We shouldn't be proud of this, Dan. We shouldn't be proud of this. When I was talking to Detective Gomez there, I specifically mentioned Mr. Cortez was terrified and holed up in his studio. Would he have perhaps been taken into protective custody? He said he was going to investigate everything that you said so. All right. Hopefully. Yeah, but so he might be doing a radar. Yesterday. Yeah. So we don't know at the moment. Yeah, you don't know the other two get up to the door, you hear the baby futzing with the handle a little bit while you the people on the stairs are maybe try to pick the lock and you 2 hear that. I wait for a moment and then unlock it and let them in. We fall cartoonishly on top of each other. Well, we hope nobody else is here. That I guess.

25:07 Mm hmm. Speaking of. Cullen blushes, his hand fell on Kern's breast. Vodka breast. Oh, you pervert? No, sure we do. I love you. The fact that did you actually make a slapping noise that picked up on your mic? Because I swear I heard it. Yes, I facepalm that audibly. It sounded like it came from miming somebody slapping somebody, as happens in those scenes. I promptly push Colin off of myself and get up. So we found this letter and I pass it to the other two and we haven't looked too far into the place we were waiting for you 2 to get here.

26:01 Well, I guess let's get started all. Right, I guess as the tank I'm going to tank. As the detective I will detect. So a general question, does the room look like, is it neat? Does it look like somebody left in a hurry? Is it like what's the what's the general state of the place this? Place does not look like it was left in a hurry like De La Luz's apartment. However, it seems like maybe somebody comes here every once in a while. Like, it looks like somebody has definitely been living here, but they're not here right now. OK. So nobody's home. It seems like nobody's home. Might be at the Mint. Might be in the shower. They're really sound sleepers.

26:43 Sorry this is unrelated, but did we also learn the name of the place that she would be performing tonight? Not tonight. And it was a different club. It was a place she had performed in the past. What the pass? Yeah, that was. OK. OK, well let's check the whole place just to be sure. Maybe there's treasure. Yeah. Do you want to take the door off to the side, or do you want to go take the hallway deeper? Ear to both of them. 2:00 and 2:00. Ear to both of them. Is there any noise coming from there? Not that you can hear, OK. Colin will take the hallway. I'll take the door to the side. I'll go to the room to the side. OK, Burns.

27:24 Then I'll follow up on the hallway the. Side room appears to be a master suite. It's furnished for two. There's lamps, side tables, and the closet is half full of clothes for a man and a woman. The walls are all bare. No pictures. No mirrors. No mirrors. When you go inside the bathroom, there is a curtain that is currently placed over the mirror. That's rather odd. I mean, if I had one of those on my face, I wouldn't want to look at myself either. Since there's a bathroom is there?

28:05 I'm assuming there's like a medicine cabinet or the lake in here? Yeah, yeah. Oh, free drugs. Well, because I'm fairly knowledgeable in both medicine and pharmacy, is there anything or like are there any medications or anything like that or anything that looks suspicious? Not really. You know, you notice there's only one toothbrush and one thing of toothpaste. Actually, just looking at this, it looks like there may have been more things in here at one point, drugs and other things, but at. This point cabinet stuff. It's a medicine cabinet, but it looks like it's like half empty. It looks like a lot of stuff has been removed.

28:46 Stuff like makeup, presumably. Oh, you don't see anything belonging to a woman in here? How wet is the toothbrush? That that's a true question. It is you feel no moisture on it. What time is it? Night. It's night. Shit. Well, it could have dried, yeah. That's the. Thing during the day, yeah. Meanwhile, you guys make your way into the other group makes their way into the kitchen. It's spacious but relatively Spartan. There's a stove and icebox and a blender, but no other appliances or anything like that. All right then, let's poke around.

29:26 What's in the fridge? There's a little bit of food in the fridge, looks like maybe like 2 meals worth of food is in there. It's not like cooked already, but you know the things that you would use to make a meal. There is also as you're going through like the utensils and whatnot, there's like the minimum of necessary utensils. Service for one. Maybe you also see from the kitchen there is a way out to a balcony. I would like to use forensics OK. What are you looking for? I'm not sure yet. I do know one way that a 2 bedroom penthouse would become a 1 occupant penthouse. If you're looking for any blood or anything like that, you're not finding anything in particular. Nothing seems particularly criminal about what you were looking at in this kitchen.

30:15 They broke up. Looking at the utensils, it seems like, yeah, they don't get used very often. So maybe the thing you're learning more is even if there's one person who lives here, if you're suspecting A breakup, the person who lives here does not live here full time. Yeah, it seems that. Way JBI think this is their bang pad. Oh. My God, I I guess we haven't seen anything to disprove that. All right, this is a penthouse. I'm guessing it's more than a kitchen. A hallway in a bedroom. You know what? There's an outdoor patio.

30:57 But you know, you're right. It seems like there should be another room here, but you don't see one. So the elevator opened onto the living room? Yeah. Then there was a room off the side, which was the master bedroom that had a bathroom attached. Yes. Then there's a hallway, and at the end of the hallway is where the kitchen was. No, the hallway, you could go sort of straightforward in the hallway, just sort of just a small little ways and then you would get to the kitchen. But if you went to the left down the hallway, there's like a closet at the end. And then if you go a little bit to the right, you hit a wall. OK so I don't have any forensic skills, however with my craft can I look at the walls and see if maybe there could be a secret door panel somewhere?

31:44 With craft as you're looking around, if there is one, it must have been well hidden like this wasn't like a a hasty hiding of this this secret room that you guys are suspecting is here. It seems like it was like very well covered up. Would someone with architecture be better able to discover it? Perhaps, if indeed it does exist and you're not just yanking our chains. Yeah, you're getting the vibe that this hallway led to another room at some point. All right, I definitely don't have architecture. Oh. Well, that that's the feeling I was kind of getting once the hallway was described better anyway. Like as a person.

32:31 Yeah, I'm suspecting either that wall or the closet. Could I, with my craft, just inspect the wall just like knock on it, sort of press on it, you know, see if there's a few of there's air blowing through it somehow? As you're feeling it, this a full brick wall that you're feeling on with plaster. OK, somebody want to look at the closet? Sure, I'll check it out. So nice. Seems to be a pretty typical closet. There's a broom, Damien, and a mop. Do you have architecture? Not on this character, no. Oh. Shit, none of us have architecture. However, at the moment, damn it, drawing up a small map so I can visualize things a little better.

33:12 There's a sizable outdoor patio still that you have not gone to. I can't imagine that it's in. Patio at the moment. You've only mentioned it three times. Yeah, I'll check out the outdoor patio. Hey everyone, I'll get you back to the show in just a second. Just popping in to say we have a Patreon. The plan is to keep all our real content free, but with the Patreon you'll have access to the things that are easier to miss in an audio format, along with a couple extras like the Super mid music I make for the show, scans of Renee paintings, and an episode or two that never made it to air. We didn't get into this to make money, but if we could hire an editor, the rest of the cast would have no choice but to release me from the terrifying editing dimension that constantly shifts and curdles one with my feet. When water comes, it smells wrong and I haven't seen my family in weeks. Once when I was sleeping, something grabbed me and threw me across the room, but when I opened my eyes there was nothing there except the computer and a pile of strange coarse feet sustained me for another few days, and the echoes and visibles are a pain to remove from my track. You can find it at patreon.com/dread Tails. OK, the patio was dirty and covered in bird shit. Oh, they never go out here.

34:14 And most of the patio's devoted to a collection of coops and pens for birds. Oh. Holy fuck. I leave. I leave. I go back inside. What kind of birds, Dan? I go back inside. The birds are not there at the moment. No. That doesn't change the speed at which I'm going back inside. The latch doors are left open. OK. Anything else? Anything behind the coops? Well, people said they ran back inside so. OK, I watched JB run back inside and I'm like, OK, yeah, you stay in here and with my shotgun ready, I'm going to come out and going to look around.

34:55 OK, what are you looking for? Anything other than the coops? Is there stairs somewhere? Like is there a compartment? I don't know. OK. I mean I will say that the coops are covered in like bird feathers. If you want to go look at that in more detail, I suppose you could. They definitely being fed something up here. And you see that there are symbols that have been carved into the wooden portions of the coops. But more importantly, as you're looking around for other things, because you are suspecting this secret room that you were talking about, this theoretical secret room between the kitchen and the outer wall of the building, you realize that there is like a section of the building that shouldn't be there if there is a room or if there isn't.

35:42 A room. There's too much space. It seems like the fittings between the bricks there aren't tight enough. OK, so if we make our way back to the kitchen, where would the entry point be theoretically, like into this space that shouldn't be there? It's behind the refrigerator. Also, looking at it, it does not look like the refrigerator has been moved. Well, let's correct that. I tuck my shotgun in the belt on my pants, roll up my sleeves, and I move the refrigerator. All right, there's a brick wall at the other side of the refrigerator. Are we sweeping back there? What's the plan? I don't know.

36:23 It's just this space here. I showed the gentleman what I discovered. This space shouldn't be here. I suspect that there is an entry in here somewhere. I booed it. I fight the wall, Daniel. This is a very sturdy wall. Well, let's see if it's sturdy enough. You just kick it with your foot and hurt your foot. Don't lose your foot now. It's it's sort of a stomp. So my foot comes down and it throws me off balance and I fall over it in a very undignified manner and I hit my head on the face and bleed out and die. OK, I look at smalls and I'm like, OK Doc, there's some symbols, some runes or something carved on the sides of the coops there. Do you know of any magics that could open walls or doors or such?

37:15 And if so, are the runes related in any way? I don't know, I'm just going out on a limb here. Magic that's not quite my specialty here. There have been tales of magics that do various things if you look back through the folklore of various countries and peoples in the world. Would I be able to use my history knowledge to come up with something relevant? Here, no, you need a cult skill for the well. Also, you would need to go look at the roods and stuff a little bit more closely. Probably when you look out there I will tell you this, these symbols do not look like anything that would be from this area of history or even older Aztec stuff. At the risk of not liking the answer, do any of us have a cult?

38:13 Not I. You don't have Cthulhu. I don't have a cult. I have 1.2 mythos but that's. Not a cult and Cthulhu Mythos are two separate skills and none of us have a cult of course. One of you should probably buy that skill after. We're Yeah, Dan, It's occurring to me. It's the. I didn't need it before. I built my character to kind of be a specific way. Yeah, yeah, I know. You you are specifically running away from your old occultist. Character. Yeah, no, I'm not blaming. You OK? Again, going under the limb here, is it possible to poke at the bricks and see if any of them like can be pushed in like buttons? That is a good thought, however none of the bricks that you are pressing seem to push in. No Cairns, that's castles around here. We're probably looking for a Candelabra. I thought it was like outside of the balcony, like it was the side of the building.

39:09 No, it is on the IT is on the balcony. So when you're looking at the balcony, you look at the kitchen, and then you look at the exterior wall of the penthouse and you realize there is a pretty sizable space between where the kitchen wall ends at the outdoor wall of the penthouse. I just assumed that people entering the secret passage wouldn't want to be seen from the street. We're 10. We. Are 10 floors up? Yeah, upon the balcony. I would like to use a reverse conceal and. What are you showing off? Oh Oh no, I'm I'm finding something that's hidden and instead of removing a point I add 1.

39:50 I think that's just called using evidence collection. Oh yeah. Or forensics also could work. But yeah, as you're looking around you don't see anything in particular. Doesn't look like people come out here very much. Or at least a furniture. Again, there's just bird shit fucking everywhere. But as you're looking in the cages themselves, the coops, you do see that there are abandoned feathers all over the place. It looks like they belong to two different types of birds. But you know, I don't know if you know much about birds. What color birds a black? Would I be able to figure out what type of birds that is with my knowledge of biology?

40:32 Absolutely. I have that as well. OK. Well. There you go. 1 is a grackle, probably the great tailed grackle common to the area which are similar to the birds that you battled earlier, and another species roughly half the size, probably a red footed Blackbird, which is known for its pleasing song, which live relatively close to the southern. They live in Mexico City sort on the southern area. Neither species is typically kept as pets. Both are omnivorous. They eat both seed and insects.

41:14 However, as you you are looking around, they're eating not just that they've been fed fresh carrion. You find uneaten fingernails and finger bones stripped of their flesh lying amid the bird shit and broken seed cells at the bottom of the cage. But not human finger bones, surely? At least 12 fingers turn up human fingers. Shit. Probably from three or more different people, all within the last. Month. Well, this is gruesome. One more thing you as you are looking at the the actual seeds, there's a particular odor that you're detecting off of the bird feed and realize that there are definitely traces of nectar. Oh, what a shocker.

42:02 But as you're looking around, you also find a switch just on the ground. Just on the ground. It's covered in bird shit. I'll bet. I flip it with my foot. You hear a click and you see the brick wall opposite the coop leading to the suspected secret room move slightly. Push on it to try and open it the rest of the way it opens. To another room. Here we go. You find a furnished room with a wooden floor, 2 brick walls, and two of plaster. It was probably meant to be like a den or a study inside the penthouse, but was later sealed and redesigned as this concealed chamber. I'm trying to decide what would be the most notable thing that you would see first.

42:46 Probably the altar. Yeah, probably the altar. OK. There's an altar of polished marble set on a wooden sideboard. Set out on the altar is a record and lying in front of it are some sort of paper, a vial and some half belted candles that are unlit. Is the vial full of orange liquid? Yes, it is. Yeah, I was going to say, is this going to be a problem? It is going to be AI mean you're going to need to make a check like that's just how this works. It is here, it is available. You have not had access to it for quite some time. You need some fucking nectar, baby.

43:27 What's the stability I need to be? Difficulty 5. Well, if I spend one point, I have a 5050 chance of making it. I still failed, so you know. You need that nectar you. Needed that. All right. I try to go for it. OK. Can I grab them? Smalls actually is going to react here and try and restrain JB using scuffling, not trying to knock him out or anything like that but trying to like put him in a full Nelson and like hold him back to. Well, first you're gonna have to hit his hit threshold. Which shouldn't be too hard. It's 3. OK, I am gonna spend 1 because I like having the potential for failure with this because I think that could be kind of funny.

44:13 I think it'll be even funnier if you just let him take the nectar. It's a very good chance I roll A1. No, there's a one in six chance you're going to roll one. What are the odds that that's going to happen again? It didn't. See you got a 5. OK, I need you to be Yeah, a six on a scuffling check. I. Have no scuffling points, so. OK, then I need you to make a weapons check. Oh yeah, but I can choose not to spend points, right? I guess if you want to be lame, OK. I'm not gonna stab my fellow players, I mean. OK, so two points of order. First, you're not stabbing the player, you're stabbing the PC.

44:53 And true second for narratively, I honestly even being the person who would be the target of the stabbing here, I do think it would make sense that because it has been a while since JB has had any nectar, I think it would make sense for him to go to that direction. But that is also my opinion. It is your character, play him as you. Call me lame or whatever, but I'm not gonna spend points for this. Yeah. OK. Like I said, I wasn't directed at you. Damien Daniel is the one who called me lame to my face for this. That's a 5A. Five works, so you are restrained. JBJB, I'm gonna need you to calm down here, my friend. No.

45:34 I can see that you're struggling and I can see that you're in a bad place right now. Let me help you. Kearns was going to run for the drugs. Yes, I'm going to do that. Question. If I crush this thing and stomp on it, are you going to lick it off the floor? Yeah, yes, the safer bet would be throwing it off the building. No, I'm not going to do that. Yeah, no, I'd probably try and follow it then. Yeah, no, I'm just gonna grab it, go into the kitchen and wash it down the sink. No, fuck not. No, that's a bad idea, OK. That's. Smart. So it's a bad idea, no? Why it's not a bad idea. Into the water. It's gonna get into the fucking water system.

46:15 Come on. Mouth sink. No, fuck. Me. I mean look, A1 little bit of nectar is not going to like destroy the entire water system. Fuck you. Probably. I'm just, no, I'm just taking the bottle and I'm just gonna hold on to it for now, I think. Yeah, you can pretend to wash it down the sink and JB won't know the difference. There you go. I like that OK. I could probably do that. I was about to say I do have one more thing I can do here with that as well to help out I would like to spend a point of psychoanalysis as it is quite apparent that JB is acting in an erratic manner due to mental illness.

46:58 Yeah, is addiction a? Mental illness? Objectively, yeah. OK, if an investigator is acting in an erratic manner due to mental illness, another investigator can spend psychoanalysis. One point for me, two points for everybody else, to snap him into a state of temporary lucidity. You know what? Sure. It is a mental health condition. And I still. Have to make it happen, yes. Yes. And the target will act rational for a manager of the scene or until they suffer stability loss. So we'll make a rule is it is a difficulty free roll, Yeah. Difficulty 3. Yeah, standard difficulty. I rolled A6 so I will spend a point to bring JB back to his senses for a couple minutes.

47:42 OK, I'm good. I'm good. Sorry about that. It's gone now, right? Yeah. Yeah. All gone. I'm gonna tell you something. When it was there, you could smell it. That sort of thing that was driving you. It smelled different. OK, It smelled very different than the nectar you've had before. Interesting. More potent then? Less. They're watering it down. Maybe it's just a weaker mouth it. Could be a weaker mouth. If you had some, you could do like some chemistry on it, maybe figure that out, but it got flushed down the the sink, so we don't have any. Anymore. Oh yeah, thank God we got rid of that shit right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

48:25 No, no, there's no more of it. I couldn't see with everybody in the way what happened. Don't worry too much about it. Hey, question. Hey. Answer Morphine has been used as a way to treat well, to treat DeLorean tremens and like withdrawal symptoms from addiction to other substances. And it worked great. Well yes, granted it got the people addicted to morphine instead. You don't know. You would have to try it to see if it works. You know what I mean? Like that's. OK. For science. I'm good for the moment. I don't need. Please don't give me morphine. No, I wasn't planning on giving you anything, I was just offering.

49:12 Just going to sell it. So anyway, back to this room. There's more stuff in this room, yeah. So. So yeah, once. Yeah, I was going to say tell us once he. Bumps down, I let him go. So like I said, on the altar there's a vial of nectar, some unlit candles that had been used before, like they're burned down a little bit, and this shrine with a record on it, also some paper. What's the paper? Oh, I'll show you. Take a look. Did you describe that for us? There's a skeleton on it. It is Musica de la Luz, featuring the voice of Leticia de la Luz, One de la Luz, 2 Cancion del Cuco, 3 Armonia de Los Diosis, 4 Karisha de Los Labios, 5 Granito de le Montana, accompanied by Javier Luna and the Fools. I forget exactly what the translation was there. Here's grinning fools, but yeah.

50:09 Grinning fools. There you go. And the back has a bunch of looks like Japanese characters. They're not Japanese characters, but they are characters that you do not recognize. Okay, so Cuco is a bird, right? Yes. Okay, first of the light, second, the song of birds, birds or one bird. Third, Harmony of the Gods. 4th is I don't know the first word, but it's of the lips, and then #5 is something of the mountain. I mean you speak Spanish, so it would be that is caress of the lips. Uh huh. And what is Grunita? That is going to be mountain growl, more or less growl of the.

50:51 Mountain growl of the mountain, huh? So what would you, what do you think this sort of? Yeah. And CUCO means not specific, not generic bird, but specifically a cuckoo. Cuckoo bird, Yeah. That sort of seems like a track list. Yeah, yeah, it seems like a track list. Yeah, it does. Oh, is this the envelope for the record? The liner notes is what what you call that usually, Yeah, yeah, it this might be the liner notes, but looking at the writing on it, you don't recognize it as any sort of writing that you've seen before. It might be a code, but. I popped the record into my great big discman and pop on the headphones. We do know that there is a record player in the main part of the apartment, the penthouse.

51:39 Yeah, probably take this back then, so. Is there a record in here then? Yes, that is also on the altar. I guess I should tell you the rest of the room, we got stuck on the altar there. There is a mural above the altar which seems to have been created in a mix of charcoal. And that's probably nectar. That that, That's probably nectar is what that is. It's always nectar. It's it's, yeah, it's kind of always nectar. Like we come on. It looks like a mountain with a mouth on it. There's some words inscribed as well. This is not the the greatest prop I ever made. It's a fucking vampire teeth.

52:24 No are. Those vampire teeth, damn. No, it's a mouth inscribed on a mountain. Uh huh, Uh huh. And it says in Spanish, the maw of the mouth lies within the. Devouring I'm sorry you worked hard on this. I shouldn't laugh. The maw of what? The maw of the mouth. I'm trying to within the devouring mountain. My inability to read cursive bites me in the ass again, but that is definitely also in Spanish so that's not helping. There are also symbols painted around it as well. I don't know if you have a way to figure out what those symbols mean, but. Anthropology. Art History. Anthropology. I have art history. Anthropology or archaeology, you could get it with a spend. If you speak a native language other than Spanish, you also could get it.

53:13 German. No luck on art history though. No, not on art history. This isn't the kind of stuff that would be studied in traditional art histories. I can spend a point of anthropology. OK, the symbols translate as mountain, mouth, moon, rain, earthquake. You also find a writing desk. It's an expensive wooden desk, a wooden chair, and it looks very fancy. Drawers. There are drawers, yes. As you go through the drawers and looking at the notes on it, you find 3 different letters. So show and tell time, all right? Yay. The letter is sent from Merida, Yucatan. Jonathan, we were finally able to sort out the money you had wired and are now able to begin making meaningful preparations for our expedition into the interior. I am now in the process of interviewing guides here in Merida, although that is posing some difficulty as we have still not been able to figure out exactly how long we'll need to spend in the jungle.

54:11 Good news at last. However, Francisco de la Vega is more troubled than he's worse, but he finally agreed to give us permission to cross his lands. Believe me that I too had fantasized about shooting him in the head, but it doesn't look like that will be necessary now. If all goes well, this will be my last letter before we depart. I will send a runner back to Merida as soon as the site has been found to telegram you with the news. You will not hear from me again. Until then, sign Sancho Dominguez. For the record, you would know that Merida, Yucatan is the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan, which is a little further South in Mexico, and it is in the northwest corner of the Yucatan Peninsula where there are a lots of Mayan ruins.

54:57 Cool also that that fellow's name is Dominguez. We we found a letter signed with an initial D. That's true, it's the same. Day. Jonathan, I respect the rage you feel for the secrets that Ekvaria kept. I suspect that all that we seek would be trivial child's play if Ramona not deliberately concealed the truth from us. Nor do I fault you for not putting great faith in Samson. Not anymore. And so I understand that you may have caused to distrust. But I can tell you in no uncertain terms that Golgaroth was but another of Ramon's lies. The mouths are not of the Fishers. Making this expedition you are planning is ill conceived at best, and more likely utter folly. You would have more success sending Dominguez here to Coke, Crook Island, or coming yourself and studying reports I've gathered from explanations all across the globe over these past 10 years.

55:58 The letter is signed S S. 3rd Letter from Luz Discos Samson, I know you've been waiting. I know you're unhappy with my performance. I'm unhappy with our performance too. But I'm also unhappy with yours. I see daily what your God can do and what it can seemingly undo. I hear nightly what it truly wants, and it is not what you say. It is not the only liar among us, and perhaps not the worst. In fact, I see clearly now the lies began with the Cavaria who kept us out, who kept us from his hidden truth. And do you think that gives you a right to continue the lies, to continue the deceit, to continue your efforts to preclude his glory in order to claim your own? But you are wrong, Samson, so terrible and unforgivably wrong. I trusted you, we trusted you, but you have forgotten the voice of your God, our God, my God.

56:57 You seek to cloak the glory of Golgoroth in the lie of the black man you name Yarlathotep, and pretend that you have revealed great truth. All you have revealed is your falsehood. I blame myself too, of course. I see your jealousy in my own. I remember the summer of 1924 when Edgar Job came to me and told me that a Cavaria had selected him to go to the Great Right. I thought, why has this man been chosen? This worm, this maggot? He is no greater than I. He has not been here longer than I. It should have been me who was chosen. But of course, Akavaria was a fool. Just as you are a fool. Denying greatness. My greatness, The greatness which Akavaria bestowed upon Job. Oh, yes. Don't think I don't know the truth, Samson.

57:39 I know you had him locked up in an asylum. Savitri told me where you had him squirreled away. And then, listening to the voice of my beautiful Letitia, I realized the truth of it. You had to lock him away. Had to lock away the truth. For surely the great gold Goroth can see the truth of you. Your pettiness, your worthlessness. That's why you claim to be the inheritor of secret knowledge from the Cavaria. Although I know now that he kept you in the dark, he must have seen how worthless you are too. And now I wonder. When I found you in 26, you told me that a cover is ritual that failed. Was even that a lie? Now that I think of it, it must be. My God, Trammell. Lies built atop lies.

58:20 The recovery is ritual. Must have been a success. He found the path the Great Golgoroth laid for him, and he and all those worthy with him for taken through the mouth and into the land of the chosen People, and you must have been rejected. It all makes sense now, how that rejection must have burned you, must have hurt you. And so now you seek to hide the Chosen People from the Great Golgoroth by cloaking his name and your lies. But now I found my own path to Gulshamal. Yes, that's right. I have learned the secret name of the mod and I have learned that the path to. There is an ink stain. It seems like the letter is unfinished and unset. That was longer than I was expecting when I started. Yeah, this is really long then.

59:05 Yes, wait till you you didn't quite meet it, but wait till you fucking meet this guy. My God. Yeah, The rule of three, huh? Yeah. So what do we think about this information that we just found? I retained nothing. That's a good place to wrap it. Brooks thinks that the mouths are What was the thing's name again? Gosh, Goshumon. Gol Shumon. I mean, I'm assuming the the X reads as sure because like it's maybe Aztec. Yeah, maybe like sholo dog spelled XOL. O yeah, so there's that. Looks like Sancho is in Yucatan looking for Golgoroth s S is that's a bad idea and we should go to Cockrock Island? Yeah, also, shock of all shocks, there's infighting in this murder sex cult built around drugs and lies. Hood of Guest.

1:00:01 Yeah, it seems that our man Brooks here does not agree with Trammel. Trammel has told him that their God is named their Lathatep, and Brooks seems to believe that it is Golgoroth and is looking for something called Gol Oximol. But that might not be quite how you pronounce it. You've never seen that name. I just googled it though. Somebody with archaeology. OK, So yeah, that if that was a misspelling, it makes more sense because oxmal or akshmal, I don't know. It's like a city and it's it's an ancient Mayan city, basically. No, this is another ancient Mayan city that isn't the real one. That is maybe a fictional ancient Mayan. Yeah, I, I, I did a quick Google search myself and I was trying from from the stuff that I saw, I'm trying to. When you Google it, you find eternal lies like that. Why would?

1:00:55 You if we're playing a mystery game, why would you Google a keyword from the mystery? I did not Google Gulshamal or whatever. Yeah, I just googled XUMAL meaning that's. OK, fair enough. Yeah, it seems like he has sent someone to try to find Golgoroth at presumably some sort of ruin. Well, that's stupid. It's not Golgoroth. What is it? I don't know. Finally, there is a bookcase here. There's a lot of books. It might take a little bit of skill to look through this many books, buddy. We call this A. Library use. I'll assist. Wait, are they all in Spanish? No, they're.

1:01:37 Not this is the hidden library. Thank God library use. There are a dozen or so books that are connected to Mesoamerican art and culture, half a dozen blank books that are unwritten in, and three books of traditional Mexican folk songs, as well as a handful of occult books. They're books that you got from the UCLA lot. They are copies of them, specifically Children of the Night, Nahua Legends, and Womb of the Black Stove. From everything we've seen here, there's a lot of there's mention of the Yucatan. I think before too long we're going to need to figure out what was going on in that area.

1:02:25 Oh, as you're looking through the books, you find a postcard being used as a bookmark. Where's the postcard from the? Yucatan. I've posted it here. It is just addressed to Brooks. There is not specifically a address that it came from. On one side you see a picture of a ruin and on the other side you see just a letter that says departing today for the site or right again when back in Merida Dominguez. Are we going to Merida? Well, this other letter indicates that that would be a waste of time. Yeah, we don't know who to believe. Yeah, just because that guy thinks it's a waste of time doesn't mean that Brooks didn't send somebody there, because Brooks clearly did send someone there. Well, Ayers and Trammell both, said Golgora. There was nothing.

1:03:11 Yeah, and. Then now there's this douchebag. I'm starting to really hate Colts. Starting to. Fair enough, I suppose. I had 'cause when they kidnapped and drugged me. Yeah, well, maybe when all this is over we can start our own and show them how it's done. There you go with blackjack and hookers. Gambling. I don't know if this was prohibition error or not. It was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so gambling's immoral. Can't do it. All the more recent. I give you even odds that we'd get caught right away, too. You say that like hookers weren't illegal from the first from like, varying the leader a bit. That's work is work.

1:03:55 There, they've only been illegal in, like, modern history, Really. We're hookers legal in the 30s? Well, that's still modern history, yeah. Modern ish history. So tired of this bullshit. I was hoping we would find somebody. Oh fuck. I guess it could be the postcard. It was not supposed to be something else, but it's the postcard. It's. Thanks. I have a question about the postcard. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. With my knowledge and history, do the ruins on the postcard look familiar? Yeah. Not necessarily information about them or just like what ruins they are. Yeah, you are guessing that that is Coba, which is the tallest Mayan structure in the northern Yucatan.

1:04:41 OK. OK. I think. Kearns lowers himself to the floor. Just back to the wall, Just gunned down, pops a pill. I really wish that anyway. Clubbing, then. To the Mint. Makes sense. Trouble checks difficulty 3. I'll spend the two points. What's up? Somebody's coming up the fire escape. Up the fire escape. Someone is coming up the fire escape. Get down, get down, get down. Well, why get down? Just close the room. No, I mean we. Colin seals himself in the secret room. Yeah, no, I'm, I'm waiting for that motherfucker to come up, like poised to grab him. So some people are hiding in the room, some people are waiting to grab. Yep.

1:05:26 Yeah, it sounds fair. OK. Yeah, yeah. OK, is everybody hiding in the room besides our one grabber over? Here. No, I'm I'm back in the grabber, Up. I've got a knife. Let's do this. OK, I'll wait in the room. You got books to read? Yeah. Hit the top of the of the roof. On the other hand, hit the top of the roof with a gun, sort of held in it awkwardly as he's trying to push himself up. OK, I kicked the gun. Yeah, OK. Immediately kicked the gun out. Of out of his hand. You made your sense. Trouble check. I think that's good. You could do that. And as the gun is plummeting down, I'm pointing. My shotgun to this motherfucker's head is this Blanco. It is not Blanco. That is a good.

1:06:08 That would have been. Bad, but that would have been fun. No, this is a Mexican man. As he's climbing up, he is very clearly out of breath even from coming up. Like these escape stairs. He must have, you know, jumped up here or something. And he's coughing a little bit and you see the that he has a pair of binoculars around his neck, like on a strap. You must be the mole rat. Oh fuck. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Easy now. Easy. No, no. Come up, come up here. Hands where I can see him. You. Fucker, I can't. I have to push my hands on. To get up, I have to I did not say hands up. Find your listening.

1:06:58 Ears. He tries to push himself up once, falls backwards. And then just no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He puts his hands up after he's fallen back on the fire escape stairs, and he is now trying once again to get on the roofie as able to pull it off the second time. Well, that was sad to watch. Smiles. Where's the switch to get out of here? Outside. Is there a switch inside this room? There is there is a switch inside the room. It would be very, very funny if there wasn't. Are you guys? Coming. Yeah, Yeah. All right.

1:07:40 Who's got interrogation? Anybody other than Colin? Really. No. I don't have interrogation. I do have other interpersonal skills that we might be able to use. Does this guy speak English? You know what? Yes. He speaks enough English. OK. And he. Says look, look, look, look, look. No. Reason. To shoot me. OK, OK. Well, we'll see about that. I was just looking around. I heard. There were some people that broke in here and I needed to make sure everything was OK. Well, let's assess honesty. Yeah. I mean. He knew people broke in here, but. This also isn't the first time he's been here before. Let's all step inside and have a. Conversation.

1:08:23 Yeah, okay. Okay, on your feet, let's go. Okay, just. Calm, calm we can all be. Friends here. We cannot be friends here. There's no reason to do anything hasty, OK? I'm not a violent man. You don't need to be a violent man. We're all friends. We're all friends. You've literally came up here with a gun. You're up here already. With a gun, That's all I'm saying, OK. The difference is we're not pretending to be non. Violent gentlemen, gentlemen, let's let's table that for. The moment Mr. Sorry, can I smoke? Do you mind if I smoke? Sure, take one of mine. Oh, thank you. And. He starts smoking. He's smoking cigarettes so fast you think he was drinking him down like shots.

1:09:08 Your name, Sir? Mr. Brooks called me. Dell. Dell I mean. Notchi, Notchi del Toro. Very well, it was Dell. I would. Appreciate if you would be honest with him. It's not our goal to hurt you. Now I'm sure that you can see that my friends here are are willing to do that. But if we can have a conversation and be honest with one another, then I'm sure that could be avoided, right? And I'm trying to use reassurance here. I want out. I don't want any part of this anymore, OK, I know you guys came from up north. You're working for the the other part of the cults or whatever. I don't want any business with that, OK. I just want gone.

1:09:59 So just if you could protect me from the birds and and and Brooks, that's good. That's great. Get me the fuck out of here. Well, Mr. Trammell might be willing to let that happen, but. It's like Mr. Brooks has gone to ground and we're going to need to find him. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Brooks. Brooks. Yeah. You want. Brooks I could. I could get your books. I could get you. Brooks, you did. You put the gun down. We're good. We're good. Can I have another cigarette? You know I have my own, if that's OK? He he pulls out a a pack. For the record, Kearns does not put the gun down. He. Looks up, he smiles, then thinks better of it and stops smiling.

1:10:39 And says, OK, OK, so you are with the cult. OK, OK, that's fine. That's fine. We're good. We're good. I'll tell you anything you want to know about Brooks as long as you can Get Me Out of here. Thanks for listening. Our GM is Daniel, Damian plays Donovan Smalls, Nathan plays JB Falk, Renee plays Frank Curtains, and in addition to playing Colin Kane, Russell mixes masters and musics the episodes. Our album art is by Trinity the Tea Time Witch. Our main theme is by Clare LW, and additional music used in this episode was background Romantic music for video, Essential light jazz for Vlog, 38 Seconds by White Records on Pixabay, and Funeral March by JK Fight 01 on opengameart.org. Special thanks to Hatch for being the first person to hop on board the Patreon.

1:11:31 Everyone clap for Hatch again, thanks for listening and until next time, fake it until you make it. Usually doesn't apply to mysteries, but it's Lovecraft and things aren't required to make sense.