Eternal Lies 24: Murder and Music

0:00 Daniel's Dread Tails is a show for grown-ups. It may contain adult language and adult themes. Please check the episode description for content warnings. Last time on Eternal Lies, after uncovering the whereabouts of Brooks's and de Luz's love nest, the investigators decided to pay them a visit, calling in Officer Blanco for backup if needed. Arriving at the address, the investigators were immediately stopped dead in their tracks by a concierge who told them he, and I may be paraphrasing a bit here, thought Brooks was a real cool cat and it was fine by him if the world ended. In fact, the lack of due process was a great excuse, because he'd have done everything he possibly could to ensure the world burned as he laughed.

0:47 With the assistance of Officer Blanco, the mad concierge was subdued long enough for the investigators to make a break for the penthouse, where, after some wider bumbling, they discovered a hidden room. As it turned out, they weren't the only ones checking in on Mr. Brooks's abode. The die is cast. The fact is sealed. May God have mercy on our souls. It's Daniel's dreadtales. That guy who? Brought horses to his hand. Maybe it's both. Very well be both. Victor Cortez was this name of the person.

1:29 You bet Victor Cortez was not the name of the man who brought horses to North America. His last name was Cortez. His last name was. Cortez. Hernan Cortez, right? And then he went into making records. OK, we're off topic. Very much so. It's been a while since we recorded. We're we're just getting back into it. Probably Donald. I hopefully this isn't the start of the episode. Or maybe it is, I don't know. Camera pans to Kearns jabbing the gun under the guy's fat chin. He's fat, right? I. Don't know if I described him as fat, did I? He was out of breath from climbing the fire escape. But that's because he's a smoker, right?

2:11 Yeah, smokes like a chimney. I was imagining like a the white back gentleman. He's not super in shape, but I wouldn't necessarily call him overweight. OK, anyway, I mean, compared to compared to Kearns. I'm sorry. Yeah. So I'm jamming the gun under his chin and I look at my more brainy companions and I motion with my hand like go ahead. Well, he's already agreed to help us out with this. I don't think the gun says. Yeah, No, we're cooperating. See, this is me cooperating. Cooperating. And then you Get Me Out of here. Oh my friend, this is just in case you change your mind. I have not changed my mind.

2:59 I have of the opinion that I am listening to you and answering your questions and then you deal with Brooks so he doesn't deal with me. Please don't kill me. I like this guy already. Well, we got things to do, so we'll see how it works out. Yeah. So can I leave town then? Or we could? You said you have things to do, so I'll just be on my way. Good try buddy. Oh, good try. No, we're going to take you up on that answering questions thing. In particular, you suggested you might know where Brooks is. Yeah, he's holed up in his studio. Which studio?

3:44 Well, he has a new secret studio it's underground in. Like literally or we just wouldn't have heard of it. Well, no, I went downstairs to go into it, so I assume it's underground. That makes sense. Yeah, he's, he's in an underground studio with his wife and he brings the the band there to do recordings. Now, I think they're done with the album, or at least they're almost done with the album, but I haven't heard from Books in a while. He got spooked. He said that he was worried that the cops were closing in and that Trammell was closing in and that that he was getting real paranoid. Real paranoid.

4:26 Oh, I'm sure Trammell would love to see this letter of his. Oh, I don't, I don't know anything about any letters. That's, that's none of my business. Could we just, could we go inside where people can't see us at least? Yeah, we're like making popcorn in the microwave and everything. I don't think either of those things were a thing, but whatever, Fuck it. Yeah, J PS A little busy staring at the sink going through it. Oh God. Oh, we wouldn't have had microwaves. Yeah, so we'd be making up corn on the stove. Kettle. Kettle corn, Yeah. Anyway, friend, what's your name again? It's del Toro, Notchi del Toro.

5:10 It's that's honesty. He's telling the truth. Oh, that's good. Do you have a problem with my name? I do not, but I was half worried that this was actually Brooks and he was going to sell us up the river. Yeah. What's the address of this underground studio? As far as I understand, you've been there. OK, so don't shoot me. I've only been there twice so. Bad way to start a sentence. Blindfolded me before he brought me back. So what you're saying is if we blindfold you and put you in the car, you might remember the way? I could try. I don't think that's going to work, probably. No, I think we'd need some master of the human mind to unlock the secrets here.

5:57 But where would we find such an individual? No, but but I think the band might know. The band might know. Well, that's dense reason. Although maybe they were blindfolded too. Kronelov would know though. Kronelov. Definitely, Kronelov knows. Mr. Del Toro, if you're willing, may be able to help you remember anything that you could about the route to this studio. You may have forgotten something, as you said, it has only been two times that you've been. Yeah, is there a skill you want to use for this? Yes, I'm angling for using hypnosis. Hypnosis.

6:44 Oh, you're going to hypnotize them into remembering this? Which was the reason why I specifically said if he is willing, it can only be used on somebody that is willing. Interesting. This is a legitimate application of hypnosis. Yeah. And one of the things that you can do with it is you can recover memory. OK, this is going to be a difficulty for hypnosis. Check. Think I have to start from the beginning. So I think I would have put them in the hypnotic state first. Well, yes, but overall I, I think to, I don't want to play out this entire thing because I haven't actually thought about the entire route. So instead of narrating him slowly remembering all of this stuff, I want to maybe just have you make a hypnosis check and. Then get.

7:30 Something out of it. I rolled it for. That was the difficulty, yeah. That was the difficulty. What does it look like? I want to see what it looks like. Kearns shovels a handful of popcorn into his mouth. Well, you tell me, what does it look like? This looks like the the stereotypical very clinical guided meditation, like something that you would see in almost like a 90s drama, not the high budget dramas. The. You know, mid. To low budget drama but yeah like. The the the.

8:12 Stereotypical psychiatrist, putting somebody under and like he's sitting there and you see him as soon as he goes under, just his body kind of melts into the chair a little bit. Not I, I I get why I would have to specify that, but yeah, yeah, I have him guide us through the journey and what he remembers from all of his senses from in that state, if that makes any sense. Yeah. Something like you'd see on the Mentalist. Yeah, exactly. Some mentalist shit. Yeah, He gives you a general area from consulting on like a map as well. You're able to get like maybe 5-10 block rate of where this place could be OK.

9:05 It's a pretty good start. Yeah, sort of skipping through that whole thing. But yeah, that's that's what's going on with that. Dandy, yeah. I would like to do one more thing before bringing him back. I would like to implant a post hypnotic suggestion. Christ, what is it? You might need to make another check. Yeah, I I would imagine upon waking up you will feel a compelling urge to get out of this life of crime and become a model citizen. OK, Difficulty 5. That's fair. I must spend 3 points on this. I don't get to use hypnosis very often, or really at all. I was wondering if he was going to get him to stop smoking. I was wondering the same thing.

9:54 Smoking is not. So bad at this point in history. All right, Yeah. It is still bad at this point in history. Well, it's it's not medically bad or sorry, it is medically bad. It's not socially bad. There we go. That's where I was going, but I rolled A5. OK. Sweet. He is going to rethink this life of crime. Oh, he's going to get killed like tomorrow. I mean, that's not my problem. That's not our. Problem. Yeah, that's her. That was probably coming either way anyway. Never Donovan. Other one. I mean, I don't. I never met the guy. That's fair. Maybe he sort of steps out of it. OK, I.

10:38 Rise and shine. Did that helped? Very much. Thank you. OK, again, I'll let you know anything you want to know. OK. Anything else anybody can think of that we need that we can get out of this guy? What's going on with Leticia's face? I don't know. I haven't seen her in months. Well, the last time you seen her, what'd she look like? She was wearing a veil. I didn't see her face, but she's been doing the recordings down there in their studio, I guess. What are they looking for in the Yucatan? Right. I heard about this.

11:19 OK, This is what I know. I'm glad you asked me. OK, Brooks. Brooks found out that there's some ancient religious temple way out in the Yucatan. He's got an expedition sent out there. He he believes that it'll let him get in contact with a, with a, a God. There's some sort of God that lives out there. I don't know if gods could live somewhere, but it's a place you could talk to God's temple, worship, some sort of ancient thing, gold, something. Dulcimal. Gold Ducat. Golden women. Golden Girls.

12:00 I wouldn't really know. I actually was the one who had to pick up the, the deliveries from the reports coming in and, and, and gave them to them. I think the expedition's going along pretty well. They had to like negotiate with the local cattle Baron or something to, to get through. He said that it was going to be something that would let him speak to his, the God that he worshipped, the true God. Although I know you guys disagree on that. I'm not a particularly religious man myself, but you're something crazy going on. But I know. Kronelov said that he wasn't sure there was a God out there, but there was something powerful out there.

12:42 Maybe something that can even kill a God. I don't know what that meant. Something that could kill a God, you say? Interesting. Well, I'm sure Trammell would want that investigated. Oh. Oh, you tell Trammell. You tell Trammell. This the other thing I heard, OK, Brooke said I needed to keep this name a secret. I overheard him saying it, and he started to He threatened to kill me if I ever told anybody this. But I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you. So we're cool. OK. Kailash, Mount Kailash. Mount Kailash. Yeah, it's a it's a mountain. He said that there was something there, or well, he said that Trammell thought something was there, or like, pardon the he said that Trammell thought that the God was at Kailash, but that he knew that the God was at the Yucatan thing. I don't know.

13:41 It's just a bunch of I, I really don't know. I don't even know what a Kailash is. Well, there's no reason you need to. OK, great. Cool hang. On one SEC. Have we heard anything about such a location? This might be something that you need to look up. I don't know if any of you would know Mount Kailash off the top of your head. Well damn, if only some of us had library use. I mean I have library use, I just don't speak Spanish. I also have library use but don't speak Spanish. I have library use and I speak Spanish. I bench press a lot. That is also an important skill. Technically, so do I. I'm trying to think if you would know Kailash from anything else. If I have anthropology, does that help? Have I perhaps flown over it?

14:28 Probably not. Do any of you know about Buddhism or Hinduism? No, I've got theology. I also have theology. OK, Yeah, you know what, I'll let you make a spend, a theology spend to know about this. I'll make that spend. Sure. Do you think you know more about Buddhism or Hinduism? Hinduism. OK, sure, I'll take Buddhism. Yeah, Kailash might be Kaliyosh, which is the name of a mountain where Shiva, Parvati and their children Ganesha.

15:11 And well, I don't need to list all the gods live in Hindu mythology. It is a real quote UN quote mountain. It's sometimes called Mount Meru, which is also a idea from Buddhist ideologies of the top of the world. But there is a real mountain in the Himalayas. I'm looking at it right now, it's very pretty. Yeah. The Himalayas, huh? Well, that sounds like the region we were looking at, yeah. It's in in 2025 Tibet. Shall we make a quick trip? To Tibet.

15:52 Yeah, they're in Beck. I mean the Yucatan is closer the. Yucatan is closer. I mean, presumably Brooks Recording Studio is closer than either of those. Yeah. Yes. I have a feeling we're going to have to check out the Yucatan eventually anyway. Yeah. But our first stop should be Brooks. Yeah. Yes. By the way, to travel to Tibet first you would have to like land in India and then travel north, and you're going to need to do some mountain climbing to get up there. Oh boy. Sounds fun. Yeah, it's the Himalayas like. What's that kill us all? Well, and then what do we think's under that mountain? Mouth.

16:34 The King under the mountain. Big mouth. Big Mouth. Yes, the Netflix show. That nobody likes. I've actually heard it's like fine aside from the animation, but. OK, which which band again? The Jorge and the Fools. Yeah, yeah, The the band that you've already heard about. He thinks that he's going to be like, really clever to tell this to you. But you, you already have this Javier Luna and his grenade. Fools. Right. Do you happen to know if they're performing tonight and if yes then where? Is it the mint or the pass? I think they play, is it Saturday? They play Saturday nights at La Paz. Well, is it Saturday? Yeah, is it Saturday? I'm trying to decide if it's Saturday or not. Hang on, I'll check my smartwatch. It's Friday.

17:19 Yeah, that information would be useful if it was indeed Saturday. Well, that's tomorrow. Like you can see him tomorrow. OK, so I've told you a lot. We good, we square. All right, we're just going to take you down to the lobby and introduce you to another friend of Mr. Trammell's. Goes by the name of Blanco. Like. Dave a what? Blanco. We're getting into the cops. Yeah, why wouldn't we? Well, we're going to smuggle him out of here. I mean, I could just toss him off the building. I think Blanco would have more of a problem with that. After we went through all the effort of hypnotizing him to turn his life around. I'm sure he could really help the police out right now.

18:00 He knows Blanco, by the way, sort of professional courtesy. He might be more resistant, but I guess you did just hypnotize him into being a good, good boy, so. Yeah, go do some time. The war will be over. Well, we don't know that he's done anything to do too much time. What was up with the birds, by the way? I Brooks commands birds. How? I I don't know, he's, he's weird birds feeds him weird stuff and then his wife like whispers things to the birds and then they go crazy. Well, doesn't that sound fun? Yeah, I guess.

18:41 Yeah, I saw you guys had some fun with them earlier, but you survived, which was why I figured it was OK to talk to you. With a gun in your hand, you. Got to protect myself. Kronelov's out there. And birds. Oh Conelof. He's loyal to money, so keep that in mind. You might be able to to buy him out. He's not a true believer. Well, that's the answer, isn't he? Ted mentioned that he wasn't a religious sort. Yeah, yeah. I mean just like a commie. Hey this. Is a dead silence. It's OK, you can say the R word. What? Reds.

19:22 I think this is. Pre like red scare. Well, there are multiple Red Scares. The comedy's revolution has taken place in Russia. Yeah. Anyway, so are you going to lead him downstairs to the cop? Yep, might as well. OK, As you go downstairs, you see that Blanco has been keeping the bellhop there, the the security guard, whatever you want. To call concierge. Busy concierge. He's all these things, wears a lot of hats. Yeah, and he says. All right, so did you find what you were looking for? Wait, who's this? Dell something. Toro. He gives a meek wave like hi.

20:06 Yes, this fellow was in the employ of Mr. Brooks and wants out. I think he'd be a lot of help to your investigations going forward. Oh, wait, do you? Oh, I see. Oh, does he? You're friends with the police, he says while he's tapping his notes. I see. I see how this works. I don't think he does, but you know. No. Oh, I meant to imply that at some point, but then I never did. Glad to see we're all on the same page. Yeah, I'll tell you everything you want to know. You're going to keep me in protective custody, right?

20:49 Blog is like, sure, come with me. We'll keep you safe. Well, that worked out, yeah. Another problem solved. The concierge is furious that he was never able to get Blanco's badge number or anything like that, but says. He I give him a doggy bag of popcorn for your trouble. He's sputtering it incoherently with rage. Get fucked. I don't say that in character. I do well. You don't speak Spanish, so it's fine. All right, get fucked. Take a face.

21:29 And you, I guess you guys head out. So what do you want to do? What time of day is it again? It's been a hot minute. Definitely night, it's night time. We have crammed a lot into this one day. We. We had we apparently it is probably head back to the hotel time I would think. You do have a lead on drugs being sold at the Mint maybe, but you all are kind of tired as well. It's probably for the best if JB stays as far the fuck away from that as possible. Yeah. All right, as you're headed back to the hotel, you hear some music. Oh no. What sort of music? Well, it sounds, it's a little muffled.

22:12 It must be coming from somewhere inside, but it sounds an awful lot like the record that you heard earlier. But it's a different song. Yeah, it's a different song. Do we have an auto playing record with us? What? That record we picked up in the shrine room, is it auto playing? It is not, no. You catch this when you've had to make a stop somewhere. The engine is still running, but you're not driving and you hear this music and then you hear a gunshot. Holy shit. Close fart. That escalated in a hurry. From inside around where the music was playing. Was it playing from a building like? It was playing from a building right next to you. OK.

22:56 I feel like this is some sort of plot hook that we could investigate. I parked the car. Yeah, let's, let's go in. Let's let's investigate this. Yeah, right. I mean, you don't have to, but there are. No, we don't have to. We can just go to sleep. You just go to sleep. That's. Fine. 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's 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 when with my feet.

23:39 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 course meat sustained me for another few days. And the echoes and pispers are pain to remove from my track. You can find it at patreon.com/dread Tails. It's a sort of rundown apartment building. As you go in, you see that there are definitely a lot of people also coming in from the area. There's people opening up their doors and all heading to this one floor. They seem to know where things are going on. Probably, if that's at this point, to follow the crowd, let them lead us to where we need to be. Easy enough.

24:24 You get to the second floor and there are people all standing in front of a closed, locked door. You hear the music coming out from behind the door. I smashed the door in. Oh, you just smashed the door in, OK. Yeah, don't need to be sad about this one. You see, sitting in the middle of the room at a table are two men. One has a gunshot through his head and he is holding a knife. That knife is covered in blood. The other man has his throat slit and has a gun in his hand. Double suicide, hate to see it. Cool.

25:07 On people with forensics please. Yeah, let's investigate. I've I've got evidence collection. I also have forensics. As you have entered the room, the music is playing. You can hear it clearly now. Step one, I take the needle off the record. OK, and you take the needle off the record. I'll let that be. I'll let that be. What have I ruined your plans? Have I? No, I was trying to decide if I was going to make you roll before you got to turn it off. Kearns. It's a really good sounding record. It was a different song. You kind of wanted to listen to it. I kind of wanted to listen to it. See. That's bad. Don't do that. But it's a nice song. We can take the record with us, don't worry about it. OK, Yeah, yeah, let's do that.

25:52 Meanwhile, I'm gonna make sure that nobody but us enters the room. How you plan on doing that? Here, take my badge. Oh God. Sure. Thanks. There's no picture on it, so it doesn't matter who uses it. OK. Is there a social skill you're gonna use there Kerns to? Keep me. Yeah, sure. Intimidation. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, not a shocker there. I loom in the doorway, my shoulders touching either side. OK, a lot of people are leaving, but not everybody. But nobody else is getting inside. Should I yell at them, get the fuck out or no? I will assist using my mythos. Oh no.

26:34 What? What the fuck? I mean, those people are probably gonna. You're not gonna be able to get everybody out of salt. Yeah, I really don't think so. I guess you could make an intimidation spend, although maybe you want to interview these people. I don't know. Yeah. I'm just gonna stand in the door and glare at people. OK, yeah, I'm I'm gonna look around and other people can talk and interview witnesses. I'm just gonna see what I can find in the area. Make it a simple search. Any particular skills you're using? Forensics and evidence collection are both things I have and both things I intend to use. OK, which one would you like to use first? Let's start with forensics.

27:15 All right, so you take a look at the bodies. Yeah, these people were killed beer moments ago. I kind of gathered that from the gunshot. Yes, one from the throat cut and one from the shot. However, both bodies are covered in bruises which appeared to be inflicted over the past a couple of weeks or so, as if they didn't drag out fights. Does my forensic use of assessed honesty get any different? Keep on forgetting you can do that. No. Okay. It is pretty clear that they killed each other just now though. Why is a real question. Yeah. Like, I was kind of wondering like, is the, you know, if there was any noticeable to me signs that there may have been like a third party involved who may have vacated just before we got here? Not that you could see the door was locked when you guys showed up so.

28:10 Makes sense? What are the liner notes for this record say? The record has no label. It's like a shitty record. It seems like a poor, warped reproduction of an original source. There are no liner notes on it, it's just a blank record. You could listen to it to try to get the lyrics I guess, but that, you know, raises its own issues. Yeah, let's not fuck with that. Any Maker's Mark on the record itself? Maybe a Studio del Manana? No, no marks or anything like that. Motherfucker trying to be clever here. No, no, that you are being clever, but that's not gonna give it to you. Does anybody have craft?

28:53 I do. OK, well when you look at the record, you'll be able to tell something about. It yo bring me that record. I have a general thing a question about like this the room in general. Looking around, are there any instruments in this room? There are not any instruments, OK, as you bring the record over to the person who really wants to listen to it, probably you recognize that this is something that was made through a high quality home recording device rather than any sort of professional studio environment. It's like a like a tape leg, like you, like you, you're, you're you.

29:35 You get your your tape deck and you record something that's playing. Yeah. As opposed to like a professional recording or something? Bootleg. A bootleg. Yeah, this is a, this is a burnt recording, Yeah. Cool. As you're looking around the room again, you're not finding any instruments. You're not really finding anything. It looks like these guys have been here with very little. There's like some beds here and some food. It doesn't look like they've been living well. These look like they're very, they're two very poor men. As you're looking around your evidence collection, you find one of the dead men has an empty bottle in his pocket. A matching bottle has rolled under a chair, and several matching bottles are stacked on the kitchen counter. Farmers see or Chemistry would notice this, but also JB, you just kind of notice it.

30:30 Yeah, I thought so. This is Nectar. Yeah, OK. It's all empty, right? Well, there might be a little bit there. I should go. They all appear to be empty, but I think you would probably, unless you want to make a roll, try to be getting any nectar out of it. Maybe you're trying to pretend that you're looking to see if there's any, you know, for detective purposes. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm looking around and trying to see if I can find any partially filled bottles. They have consumed all the nectar. Simultaneous fuck and oh thank God. Oh fuck God. Yeah, sure.

31:14 That's a different setting. I mean he does look pretty tasty on that cross fuck. Anyway, I'm interviewing some of the rubber neckers. OK, what skill are you using? Let's see, I've got everything but flattery. This would maybe be an oral history thing to just be chatting with people, get the general story. You haven't used that in a while I. Haven't. Everybody's accounts are more or less what you would be thinking. They heard the gunshot and they came down. A couple of the people, though, you also notice it's mostly single men who are living here. One of them says those two guys are playing the same song over and over and over and over again.

31:55 I was ready to kill him too. And then one was just like, you can't say that. It's like, fuck them. Bunch of drug addicts. Any signs that there had been trouble in the unit before? No. After you guys have spent a little bit of time here, the landlord comes up and asks who the hell you guys are. Michael Lovesick, FBI. Grave your boat, Jones, how you doing? This man over here is Ding Dong Snuggle Pug. Sorry, what'd you say? Ding Dong Snuggle Pug I. Don't know what that means. Ding Dong snuggle bug. Close enough. Kearns, absolutely deadpan. Pleasure to meet you, OK. Well, now you legally have to give one to smalls too.

32:36 Get get get out of here. Get get out of here. Yeah. All right. Yeah, let's go. OK. Yeah, No, I don't. I don't. Nothing happened here. Don't write any of this down. It's fine. Get out of here. It's OK, I've got a phonographic memory. What? Why do you say that everything is fine when it's clearly and I sort of look over my shoulder isn't? Although they broke in criminals who broke in and then killed themselves. Yeah, All right. Sure. Objectively not what happened? You know what this guy's hey, OK, assess honesty. Is this guy stupid or corrupt? I've had landlords like this before.

33:16 He doesn't want to answer any questions. He doesn't want to be responsible for anything. He's very stubborn. You might be able to scare him or bribe him into telling you more. Buddy. Take it away, my friend. I crack my knuckles, take a step closer to this guy, and just tower over him. Buddy, you might want to start talking. Looks I don't even know their names. Lies. You don't want to see Snuggle Pug when he's angry. They come in here to drink their drugs. It's all off the books. They pay me in cash. I think they're hunting for their boss or their their wives. They came in like last month. They're paying me twice the going wait for the room each week.

34:00 You can't say no to that. That's all I know. They didn't give you any names at all. No, the drug users trying to secretly do their drugs in an off the book apartment. No, they didn't tell me their names. I would use assess honesty, except that seems pretty likely. Yeah, but I don't like this guy's tone though, so. I also don't like his tone. But so I'm gonna, so yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna very, very gently brush and nonexistent speck of dust off of this guy's shoulder. You might want to watch your tone with me, my friend. Sorry, I guess I'm just a little heated. Understandable.

34:42 I'm he is visibly shrinking as this as this is going on. He was feeling himself for a little bit and now he's like, oh wait, no, actually, please don't kill me. I'm going to straighten his tie for him or whatever and I was, so anything else you know will be greatly appreciated. I'm sorry, I don't know anything. They go out to get their drugs and then they come back, I think. I'm sorry, JP is like saw you straighten his tie and he's like, that's so fucking hot. I'm not going to pretend that I'm not showing off just a little bit. Let continue go.

35:27 I don't. There's nothing else I could say. I'm sorry. I believe it that this time. Get lost. You got it. Should I? You're the police. Do I need to? Are you somebody to come for the bodies? I said get lost. You got it, OK. But we should also definitely call the real cops too. Like, Oh yeah, no question. Yeah, someone did that already, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, the cops will be arriving. Well, actually, people are not calling the cops in this building. This building seems to be a building that keeps quiet. Yeah, I I know the type. But the cops will eventually be here, Drew, about the gunshot. So you got a record.

36:09 It's a dead bodies. It's a empty nectar. Did anybody check their pockets? Yeah, when we searched for evidence. All they found was nectar. Yeah. No ID's, no nothing. No. Oh, just just a bunch of full nectar bottles. No wallets. I hope. Like no wallets, nothing at all. Like just empty pockets. They had a little bit of cash on but no identification. It does make sense that career criminals wouldn't keep ID's on them. Weird thing, their names are actually Gravy Boat Jones and Ding Dong Snuggle Pug. Holy shit Love Shack is still out there? I guess you want to get back to that hotel. At some point, sleep sounds good. I'm going to sleep like a rock.

36:54 What? It was a busy day, it. Was a busy day. Yeah. Yeah, but one of your busiest days yet. Attacked by birds, Interrogated guy. See some dead bodies? Like the last time we had a day this busy we were fucking in Ethiopia, which granted was our last arc but like it feels like ages ago. You know what I probably should have had? You made stability tests when you saw those bodies. You'll be fine. I'll let it. I'll let it slide this time. Yeah, we're, we're there, there's, we're super desensitized by now. What? They weren't gross. They were so friends. You also have this record.

37:39 We also have this record that's that's not great either. But here currents you wanted this. Oh yeah, thanks. No card. No, no, no, no. We have a record player at the hotel, right? You do have the record player, yeah. You listen to the first record on it. Oh yeah, let's go listen. I don't think this is a good idea. I'm all tuckered out. I'll see you in the morning. OK. Oh my God, yeah. So presumably we arrived at the hotel. Yeah, you retire to your respective rooms unless you want to do something else. Would like to play the record. In your in your room, Sure. It's probably Would I do it alone? Look, if JB is there, he's covering his ears and watching you like a hawk to make sure nothing bad happens. And if I go Ferrell, what are you going to do? Get torn apart.

38:28 I. In a non sexual way? Oh, maybe smalls? Do you want to make notes or something? Very well. Thanks friend, appreciate it. Smalls is going to go to the front desk. You said the person at the front desk speaks English. Yeah, yeah. And Smalls is going to ask for some cotton balls. It's probably more effective than me just covering my eyes, yeah. Beeswax also works. Yeah. Plato. I don't think they have Plato. Yeah, I was about to say I don't think Plato is an offense. So what's on the record?

39:10 You start playing the song, are you going to be listening to it closely or are you going to try to again, we are in the you could just listen to it, or you could try to resist it, or you could plug up your ears. I'm going to highly encourage you, as my friend and someone who has, you know, spent some time quotes you, to actively try to resist the pull of the music. I don't know what you all are so worried about. It's just some music. If you want to make out the lyrics, you're going to have to listen closely. Yeah, sure. What's she singing about? So the song is very similar to the one that you heard before.

39:51 Honestly, if I were to be reviewing this record, I would start saying that these songs are all sounding really similar. Like that's getting kind of old. Oh, thank God. I got you buddy, I got you. Oh, I understand what's happened now. It's a production issue. I can do a Disney Princess vocals if need be. This one is singing a song about a cuckoo bird. The metaphor is a little strained. They talk about the bird being a beautiful song, but also having like a dark secret in that it's like destroying eggs and replacing them with its own. And as you're listening to it, it's just really, really soothing.

40:40 By the way, we gain a point of stability. Oh. Nice. This is definitely a song about a cuckoo. And I'm a full stability. Well, as the song ends, you've entered a post Hypnotic congestion to convict acts of random violence. Oh shit. Well it's not like he's the most buff person on the party or anything. You're going to need that stability. Let me figure out the exact amount that you're going to be. Distant sounds of Nathan screaming. OK, well, that's the thing. As long as nobody says anything annoying, I think we'll be fine.

41:21 Oh no. OK, so like can I resist that? No, Oh no. You listen to the music. You can't resist this. OK, fair enough. No. But like when the urge for violence comes, Yeah. Can that be resistant? No. No. Oh no. Yeah, no post hypnotic suggestions in this system are kind of cracked. Yeah. Yeah, I need to. They're coming up with a plan. Meanwhile, I'm gonna punch the person nearest to me. Oh God, that's me. So Brainwashed 1 here you are going to take a difficulty 3 stability test with a potential loss of four.

42:09 OK. That's OK. So you lose 4 stability. I don't think you got some back from listening to this nice music. Yeah. And then which person are you attacking? The closest one to me, which I'm sorry, JB. OK, Hey JB, you're attacked by a friend or loved one? Oh no. Great. And are you putting labels on things so. That's a potential loss of five. Well, that's why I said friend or loved one. FWB. So. Difficulty for potential loss of five. Oh no shit. I I am gonna spend 2 to bring myself down to 1 stability. I helped don't lose 5. Good luck. If I lose this, I'm getting fucked. So this is getting fucked -4 baby. Well, it's not.

43:01 The end of the world, at least. It's the end of the. World. Yeah, that's that is accurate. JB, what's your head threshold? 3. OK. Oh, but we'll listen to the music, it's fine. What could go wrong? You're now shaken plus one to all difficulties of anything that you do cool. Also flight fight or freeze I'm. Gonna spend a point. Oh, actually, first Kerns is gonna punch you, I think. Yeah, it hit. OK, roll your damage. -2 I believe. -2. Just cuz you're an armed Yeah, that's -2. OK, I swing and I miss, apparently. -1 OK. I know Doc, you want to do something I want to see.

43:43 Let me go like an order here. JB, what do you do for the record? Freeze. I am terrified. Great. What? What am I thinking right now? Like am I acknowledging that I'm attacking a friend or a loved one or like I might like just see see red? You're just kind of seeing red. You're just kind of seeing red. OK, if somebody like sort of slows you down or stops you, you could break out of it. But right now you are needing to do violence. Doc, what do you want? To do Oakley Dokley, I am going to attempt to restrain Kearns and talk him down. I'll be using scuffling for this. Kearns, I'm pretty sure your hit threshold is 4. Yeah, I'm just going to spend 3 points. Thank you.

44:30 You wouldn't expect this, but Smalls comes up behind Kearns and puts them in like like a full Nelson and just kind of pulls them away from JB and goes hey man, get a hold of yourself. I'm just grunting incoherently. I'm not sure I'm saying anything like I'm just OK. Full Berserk. Let's have you make another stability test to see if you could step out of this. I'm going to let you know if you hear this on the the true record, it's going to be harder to break out of this, but this is a shitty reproduction. OK. Not that you ever hear the true record later. So they could make a roll or dock. You could try to break them out with your psychology skill. I don't know which one we want to use, but one of you is going to need to have to do something because I believe JB is just sort of shocked.

45:18 Yeah, I was going to ask about even if what I do just gives a bonus to Kearns breaking out if I control psychoanalysis because like first sentence of the second paragraph, you can restore a panic investigator to a state of calm I. Think this. I think that is literally Yeah, yeah. Make a psychoanalysis check difficulty. Three. All right, I have a bunch in that. So I you know what, I'm just going to spend the 2 bringing me down to 6. Difficulty 3 and you have a three-point that you could spend from the dock, so I guess kind of difficulty too. What's the potential loss?

45:59 You keep attacking. It's not a loss of stability, it's you keep. It yeah, you're just trying to regain control at this point. I'll leave it to dice gods. If I roll A1, it wasn't meant to be. I did not roll. That's a 5. That's a 5. OK. OK, what? What are you saying to me that that is helping me to snap out of this? Turns. Look at what you're doing, look at who you're going after. What has what has gotten to go? And as the rage sort of dissipates and I I stop resisting and I just sort of lower myself on the floor. Shit. Thanks for listening and happy New Year, which some of you may realize means a rapid fire.

46:51 Thank you to everyone who pitched in. This year is coming after I say the boilerplate. Stuff. Our GM was Daniel Nathan plays JB Faulk accidental truecom out there come victim Damien plays Miskatonic mentalist Donovan Smalls. Renee plays pugilist pilot and musical over enthusiast Frank Kearns and playing crunchy scrambled detective Colin Kane is Russell who also mixes masters in musics. The episodes our album artist by Trinity the Tea time Witch. Our main theme is by Claire LW and a big shout out to all our patrons, Hatch Rapid Fire Time. Thank you to Matt Woodyard, Theodore Monk, Isaiah Brighton and Mike Christensen for reading a Trails for Eternal Lies. Thank you to the Pixie community and the YouTube Audio Library for much of the music used in the first half of the year. Shout out Black Flair, The Stars Aren't Alright, the Friendship Factory, and of course our network neighbors Dice Beans and Crows Codex.

47:32 You're all awesome and keep on doing what you're doing. Thanks to everyone who tuned in or contributed for our 24 hour live stream. Different show, but a personal thank you to Jay Jones, Andrew Dickinson, Mike Christensen and Daniel Fernandez for sitting down with me to record a wrap up for their old podcast Wrath and Story. I think that's everyone. And if I've missed you and you'd like to complain, come over here and say to my face, you coward. Or e-mail us at danstadtales@gmail.com. We have a Patreon at patreon.com/dreadtales, a YouTube channel where we stream the last Sunday of almost every month, and a Discord that'll be LinkedIn. The show notes if you want to chat or complain that you weren't mentioned in the end of your thanks. OK. Thanks for listening and until next time. Colin come down meets everybody for breakfast. I slept terribly last night.