Eternal Lies 27: La Canción de la Muerte

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 with Chronolog in their clutches. The investigators set to work figuring out what to do with him. Kearns found a Tommy gun, JB valiantly resisted the pull of nectar thanks to Small's involuntary medication, and Kane decided to send the goon on his way, deciding. Brooks was close enough to walk the group. Decided to head there next. Striding through the carnage that awaited them, the investigators dared delve deeper, if only to find that more chaos and bloodshed awaited their attention. The die is cast.

0:43 The pact is sealed. May God have mercies on our souls. This is Daniel's red tail. Looking at my notes and my last two sentences, at another door and out of the hallway, more doors be the curtain. Almost died again. That's how I remember it. Yeah, that sounds about right. That's. Yeah, not about track. Sounds about. Right down to One Health again, and then we patched him back up to 10. And now we still, some people still have first aid, so that's good. Yeah, I do. Yeah.

1:26 So we just have to. Kern's looking like Joshua Graham from Fallout. I don't understand that reference. Yeah, it's a long story we'll get to anyway. We don't need to get to it. Yeah, we've got a boss fight to fight. All right, where, where is that pain in the ass? Hello. The other one. So your ears are still shoved up full of cotton and stuff so you can't really hear anything. That does make communicating with each other more difficult. You, after you explored the sort of studio space, you moved out into a ruined chamber.

2:14 Ruined, not meaning that it was like recently destroyed, but like it was ruins. And you see a ominous staircase leading downwards, which seems to be the only way that you could go deeper. Anything we want to do before we go down. I plugged my ears. No, we already covered that. We're good. Yeah. Just in case remembered it this time. Yes. All of a sudden you hear not. You don't hear it. I suppose you wouldn't hear it. We've established you don't hear things. You feel the entire complex shake. It seems to be rocked by an explosion coming from above. You actually.

2:55 Oh boy. Yeah, that old familiar feeling. Well, no other way but down. I'm sure whatever that was will work itself out. Shall we? What? I'm I make the sign like behind me. No, there's nothing there. You're fine. You're trying to do cool commando signs of like go this way and whatnot. Yeah, yeah, I tried, but Colin doesn't speak that. The only person from the original group that would have understood that is currently dead. Yeah. I like how you say currently dead as if that's the thing that can change. Never know Well, and strangely it's even death may die so.

3:37 I mean finding him would be the hard part considering. Yeah. Yeah, I'm nervous, but I'm not having a panic attack yet, so already this is going great, better than this time. It's going great. My my gun, my Tommy gun is useless. So I dropped that. I am holding a Molotov in one hand and nothing in the other, presumably. Yeah, what's the situation downstairs? As you descend the stairs you find yourself at a huge arch chamber, clearly of antiquity. A vast multi colored mosaic sweeps out across the floor. It looks like it would once have been mirrored by a painted mural above, but the paint has faded and now appears to be covered in many places with an orange ooze that seems to seep out of the stone.

4:31 Oh great. Crates are haphazardly stacked here and there. It looks like there may have been more crates here at one point, but at this point there's only like 8 crates or so. There are four large statues in the North SE and West of the Chamber of A masculine figure of sorts. If you know about Aztec archaeology or anthropology, you might be able to recognize them. I have archaeology and anthropology. A. This are statues of Kochipile, the Aztec God of art, games, beauty, dance and song. His name contains the word flower and child in it.

5:16 Real hippie. The statues depicts they're in the throes of ecstasy and are covered with representations of hallucinogenic plants. Scandalous. Yes. Glad to know we're getting back to the sex cult roots of this place. There is a ramp that leads down. Presumably this would have led deeper into the pyramid at some point. However, the ramp mostly just goes about 100 feet and ends abruptly in a collapse. OK. So we should probably describe the things that are more notable about this. I'm just describing a lot of the architecture and some of the the stuff here. There are five people in here. Yeah.

6:00 Yeah, I would say that's notable. Three of them appear to be cultists. Well, actually, to be fair, all of them appear to be cultists, but three appear to be nameless cultists who are operating some sort of machinery involving the pit. Did I mention the pit? I guess I haven't mentioned the pit. I guess I should have mentioned the pit. Yeah, you could. OK, so there's a pit, There's a big old pit in the middle of this chamber that you're in. You bury the lead like a motherfucker, man. Arabia. It's fine fine. He's milking it, let him milk it. There's a large pit and you see that there are buckets and pulleys that seem to been put around this pit. These people that are operating machinery are lowering the buckets down and then pulling the buckets back up and they are full of nectar.

6:53 What? Tracks. You cannot see the bottom of the pit. That's OK, We know what's down there. How far? Away is said Pit. About 10 feet away from you. OK, after the events of last episode, is JP still compelled to go after some nectar? We'll get to that in a moment. Fuck. 10 feet away, 5 people. So you said three of them are cultists? What about? Oh, right, right. The other two. Right. OK. One of them, you actually recognize him from descriptions and maybe you saw one picture, and I forget if you did, is Jonathan Brooks, the leader of the Colts. Molotov.

7:36 I mean, fair. I was about to start shooting, Yeah. Let's learn about the others. Get through the descriptions. First. Yeah, yeah. Descriptions, then Molotov. He is clearly not having a great day, is shouting at the people here, yelling at them to, to get get as much as you can get as much as you can. We have to, you know, we have to cover this up. We'll be back. We'll be back. Not that we can hear any of it. Oh, you're right, he's yelling something at them. Maybe he's shouting really, really loud. Yeah. It's fun. It's for the audience, yeah. Exactly. The audience knows we don't. Yeah, unless we can read lips.

8:16 I don't think you could read lips. Yeah, I don't. Know. I have a spare language point. Yeah, I have a spare language point. Actually, that's also a classic detective skill. It is then you see the voice of the songs that you have been hearing. Leticia de la Luz, how to describe? On Fire. Molotov Volatile. Yes, in a moment. Why did my notes crash? No. They don't want you to. It's text. It's so hard for a computer to manage. It's beyond understandable.

8:57 Let's see. No, not the birds. We're past the birds, baby. No, that's good. At least these ones weren't colorful. It's funny because Nathan doesn't get that reference. Yeah, I was like, I don't, I'm not sure. Let's. See, it's the old podcast. Never listen to it, Nathan. Don't tell him. All of us find this incredibly amusing. We just. Think we should listen to your old podcast at some point? That was the some of it's good, some of. It's an immediate reaction, Jesus. I can whip something up.

9:37 You see a lady, she's got this thing over her face and she's pretty scary. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it, OK? Leticia de la Luz hardly looks human anymore and probably is hardly human anymore. Her face, her whole fucking head is deformed by nectar. And the mouth. There is an inhuman mouth gashed into her face in two directions. Like crisscross? Yes. So her original mouth is torn wide open and it's got a big unhealed wound that has sort of become articulated. So it's like she cut her mouth open to go even further. So she has a much larger mouth going left and right. Her nose, however, has fallen away and a vertical mouth is now coming perpendicular from her horizontal mouth. Her sinuses have grown sharp teeth. The three sided mouth flutters and wavers and drools as it sings.

10:54 Her hair has fallen away. Her limbs move spastically, thoughtlessly at her side as she sings. The outside world falls away and there is only her glorious and hideous song. Which we don't hear. Yes. Thankful. So a shotgun to the head. Donovan, upon seeing this, just utters What the fuck? Shotgun to the head. So before that I am going to need you to make stability tests for seeing this thing. Understandable. Yeah. And what's the loss?

11:35 Normally it would be 5 for seeing a supernatural being. Because this is a new horrible thing that you haven't seen before. It is a possible loss of 6. It is also a Cthulhui 1, so if you reach 0 or -6 into your stability after this, you will lose a point of sanity permanently. And what's the difficulty? 4 Because this is something that you haven't seen before. 5050 shot. Here we go. Well, I'm already shaken, so I might as well spend some points so that I don't get blasted. Yeah. Wait, you can spend points if you're negative? Yeah, you could spread points if you're negative. I wish I'd remembered that before rolling A2.

12:16 Oh no. So I'm at -10 and I have lost a point of sanity. Forever JB. That's not true because you lose 2 points of sanity. Cool. The sanity loss is going to happen even if I succeed right? If I go below 0. If you go below 0, you lose 1. If you go below 6, you lose 2. If you've already lost one from going below 0, when you go below 6 you only lose one more. You know what, I will just spend 3 points of sanity taking me to -2.

12:57 OK, so if I was at -4 and I went to -10 I lose the two points of sanity. Yes. And I'm blasted, so I'm like, I'm out. Yeah. That's OK, I was never much help anyway and now you don't have to worry about me trying to go for the nectar. How are you doing, Colin? I am now at -4. You made your check though. Yes, yeah, everybody except me made the check. I spent one point, so I'm still in the positives. Oh well, yeah. So Kearns is OK? JB is not. Kearns had that vision. I was going to ask if that might soften things and when this eventually came up. Looks like it did anyway.

13:41 Shotgun to the head. No, Kearns. Why? I mean, it wouldn't be to the head. Unless you're running up to the creature to shoot it to the head, know that that will be a more dangerous position for you to be in. Right, the creature. Or Brooks, I don't know who you were running up to, but. Hang on, didn't you say we're like 10 feet away? Yeah. So I can just. Yeah, that seems doable. Raise my arm and shoot her in the head. Wait, should I run up to her? What's the worst that'll happen? I don't think you should do that. I don't think you do more. Damage if you're right next to her. I will do more damage if I'm right next to her. Yeah, but if you're not next to her, that means you don't get molotoved.

14:25 Yeah. What's the worst that can happen? Getting molotoved and then beaten to death. Or eaten to death. Yes, that is distinctly possible. Point blank it does 3 damage. It'll do three damage at point blank range. Yes, at point blank. +3 Or is it just a hard three damage? +3 damage Yeah, you do have to hit this thing first. OK, what's her hit threshold? I must spend 2 firearms. OK and I am running up to her and I don't even know if I say anything. I feel like I should say something cool but I don't. I just want this to go away so I put my shotgun to her fucking mouth and shoot 5. Shoe Blaster and her singing Sword of stops as she howls out in pain, but also continues to sing. You're able to hear it just a little bit because you're so close to her, and also, maybe more notably, there's something singing in harmony with it.

15:31 Oh no. Oh no. Something deep and guttural and loud, and it's coming from the pit. Now's a good time for that Molotov. This can't be how you lose another character though. This can't be how that happens. It'll be funny, but no, actually, no, no, no, no, no, no. Daniel did say that he can't live down if I lose, if he kills another Renee character. So let's see how Daniel get gets me out of this. Yeah. OK, fuck you. That's not true now. It is documented, it is on Discord. I told you, it's in the Patreon only discord, nobody goes there. I'm going to screenshot it and post it everywhere. What?

16:21 What did I do? I haven't even done my thing yet. It's going to be my fault. OK, Russell. What do you do? Excuse me? Not Russell. Colin. No, wait. Yes, Colin, that's your. Name. There you go. Colin loses his Molotov and is surprised to see that it's not a flame, having been waving it behind him at JV. What? Oh no. Colin can't light a Molotov. Very true. Colin cannot light a mole was. I supposed to do that? Yeah, but I am using this as justification for noticing that JB has lost it. Yeah, JB, you would have helped if you hadn't lost it. But you lost it, so you know. So who's all currently covered in glass shards and I'm assuming gasoline or tequila?

17:12 Tequila, who were you throwing it at? De la Luz. OK, you know what? Make me an explosive check just for throwing it because it will cover her in glass and accelerant. That is a six. That works. I think some of it's going to splash on Kearns, though. Kearns can take it. Yeah, what's the damage for getting a glass bottle chucked at your head? It's got to be like -2 right? Or like -1. It's it's -2 roll two 6 - 2. All right, there's one. That's the one. OK. How is this room lit? There is an electric light that seems to be powered by a generator that they brought in.

17:57 However there are also torches set up around as well for probably ritualistic looking things. Sort of a combination between old, tiny and modern. Thank you. Can I grab a torch and throw it at her? And would you accept athletics for that? No, I know you want to use athletics for all of your things. Well, no, because it's specifically in the description for the skill it says like throwing is one of the things that it's for. Does it? Yes. You are correct, it does say that. Shot put that shit. Feel like shot put's exactly wrong? I'm going to say difficulty 4 because a torch is not designed to be thrown. Oh wait, what's your sanity at?

18:43 -2. OK, so difficulty 5, it is increased by 1:00 because of your your mental state. I am still only going to spend 2 points. OK, I failed. No. So this torch. Just goes sailing past her. That's almost better. Unlit Molotov by a missed torch, Oh my. God. Hey, that wasn't the only torch in the room. But you know, I guess, hey Dan, what's happening to me right now? Well you failed your check, so flight fight or freeze? Freeze sounds great right now I am on the floor like stunned. OK.

19:30 You are right next to a big old crate. I will say however, looking inside, it's full of empty vials. Oh, thank. God. Yeah, looks like they got most of it out already. Kronelov and his men must have got rid of all of it, you know? And then Kronelov stole all of it. Yeah. I swear to God if we all die to the lamest most like goldfish poop gang motherfuckers of this cult. Brooks screams out something, you're not quite sure what it is and shoots or shoots at the man attacking his wife. So he has a 45 pistol. He is going to spend all three of his firearm points. Bring it on.

20:17 That is going to be a shit hit though, sorry. You take 3 damages. You were shot in the back. I smile. Oh. God, the thing in front of you smiles as well. Oh God, you were going to get bit by their gruesome bite as her entire face opens up. Oh God. Didn't I? Didn't I maim her a little bit? Yeah, he. Just shot out some of her teeth. Hopefully that means less damage. Well, just think about John Cupford and the thing making new, you know, wounds and gashes just sort of helps them out. Oh. God hey everyone, we heard Daniel's Dread tails have a Patreon now.

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21:41 All the same, do consider. Thanks for listening and back to the show. They are going to spend 3 of their scuffling points. That is not all of their scuffling points, but they are going to spend 3 to try to fight you. It's going to be a hit. I think you've been scuffled. Now the damage is only -1. It's unpleasant for sure, but it is technically only -1 that is still more damage than the shot to your back. You're still standing. I I guess the like the real threat of this thing is the singing primarily. Yes, and then something comes from the pit. Shoves. A tentacle eyes out and tries to wrap itself around your leg. Me.

22:30 Yeah, you're attacking its bride. It's. Bride. Polly it's. Bride. Oh no. It misses me. Think it misses? What's your good threshold? 4. It misses for now. A weird way of saying that. Yeah, a tentacle covered in mouths. I guess it's not really a tentacle so much as it is a tongue. Extends however, deep down in this pit to try and grab you. I did not miss these things. That's fair. I did not miss being picked on by the GM. You're the one. You are the only one who has done any damage. One person threw a glass bottle that broke and didn't explode. One person threw a torch and missed. That's a.

23:17 Lot of words for I hate Renee. Hey, at least your brain still works. For now. For now, give me a second. Take that as you will. Without having to roll sense trouble, somebody is coming down the stairs from where you came from. Not my concern. OK, if it's not for sense trouble reasons, then it's not trouble, right? Like I'm at the well. It's it's a thing where you, just, you, you could tell it's coming. You're not quite sure who it is yet though. My Spidey sense was tinkling. Is that what we call it now? Yeah, sometimes. Currents, what do you do?

23:59 We have established on multiple occasions today I'm a smoker and that I have a brand new Zippo lighter. OK, we've established that this thing kind of has you in its mouth, right? Still close. Enough. I'm having Deja vu right now. Yeah, get some new material, Renee. I mean, not much else I can do. I can smell the gasoline. I can try it with again with a shotgun, but where's the drama in that? I don't know. We'll figure it out and post. Don't light yourself on fire. How much damage does fire do Dan? Depends, but as much as it wants, it's not pleasant. I mean, it killed me last time it.

24:40 Also exploded last time, yeah. An investigator set on fire receives 1D6 damage each round until extinguished. Yikes, Daniel, you still got those fire extinguishers? We can't do referencing another podcast. I'm not there. This is the thing where the narrator is part of the show. Like on. That thing, I'm not just like Daniel's like hanging out in the corner being like, what's up, guys? Let me describe what you're seeing as we increasingly stretch this bit. Fine, I've I shoot her again, like in panic if nothing else because she's eating my head. Yeah, like your head is inside, inside her face, but your hands are still on the shotgun. So yeah, you could absolutely just. Yeah, I'm a shooter.

25:29 One more time, point blank. OK. Her hit threshold is 3. Yes, fuck it, I must spend the 2. No bonus for being muzzle to target. Unfortunately, that does not change the hit threshold. That's just how it goes. But I'll let you do a little bit more damage, I think. Oh, thank you. Assuming you hit it. I spent two points. Oh, you spent OK. Yeah, smart. Honestly. OK +3. +4 Thank you. Send her to hell. 6th. I don't know if hell exists. I suspect that a lot of Christian dogma may be incorrect based on a recent experience here. But if hell does exist, this mouth creature has gone there. Dandy, yes.

26:18 OK, mission partially accomplished. Hey, minibus dealt. With going on. Does it get to fight once more before death and take Kearns head with it? Why would you say that would be cool? Why would you say but no Russell, no Russell. Why would you say I? Don't know. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna do that, no. I get weird thoughts sometimes, I'm sorry. Yeah, the entire building begins to shake as a horrible groan of sadness and anger emanates from the pit. Her human husband falls down on his knees and wails in anguish. Sing that motherfucker. There you go. What?

27:00 OK, and and now we should leave probably. There's a whole other mouth. Cult. Yeah. The the main thing is still here. Yeah, but. Kill Brooks. If the building collapses on it, then our problem is very solved. And if it collapses on us, our problem is much worse. Yes, but I got the impression that the building was collapsing anyway from all of the things that Dan described. The building is not collapsing. You heard an explosion earlier. You're not quite sure what that was, but you are hearing a scream coming from this thing. Yeah, I also saw someone coming down the stairs. What's what's up with that? Well, before that happens, we have our two same people on the stairs who are bad at throwing things get a chance to go. Dane is a very strong word to use. Smalls is going to turn grab JB and start trying to bring him back into lucidity.

28:01 I will allow you to do that without making a role. You could just use your, you're just take sort of your action to do it. But you can, yeah. I have to spend a psychoanalysis point to do it. I'm going to spend 2 because we do have like our ears plugged up and I think it would be harder to actually do and I think that would be a fair way of doing. It I think that's a good point. I maybe I maybe forgot about that. So yeah, good point. You're also shaken. Actually, in that case, because I didn't take that into consideration, I will just willingly spend another one. It's also a skill I don't get to use very often, so I'm using it. I do my best to shake JB back into at least temporary lucidity. There's still a job to do here.

28:43 So I'm I'm, I'm not frozen anymore. You are not frozen anymore. Great. You are compelled to build a snowman, Yeah. Doesn't have to be a snowman. Sorry, I've got a different musical stuff in my head. Golden from K Pop Demon Hunters has been in my head for the past 20-5 fucking days. I can't get manchild out of my head. Wonder why? What do I have to do to not rush for the nectar, Dan? Make a stability check difficulty. Four, and I really cannot actually like this time, I actually can't spend points so. Yeah. Say your face natural six, baby.

29:26 Good. And Colin, what do you do? Oh, I was going to firemen carry JB outta here, but since he's back on his feet, malt off. And this time I light it. This time I light it. Baby, we're going all in. Where? What are you throwing it at? There were three guys in the room in addition to Brooks and De La Luz. Yes. Yeah, what are they doing? They seem to be waking up from a trance. No, they're not. No, they might be innocent. Oh God. Are they? They'll let God sort it out. Oof oof. OK, explosive check difficulty 3, though it'll be 4 due to your mental state.

30:08 I regret lighting the Molotov. I thought you were going to throw it in the pit. I don't know if that would do anything here. Well, we have to do something about the thing. Right, Difficulty 4, you said I'm going to spend the points just because it is comical. Oh, I, I think, wait, my hands. Clear. So yeah, after after murdering these guys, what do we do about the mouth? I'd love to collapse the building on it again. That seems to usually work pretty well. Wave everybody back from the pit. Do you make your Oh, I guess you don't need to make your role because you spent the points to make sure it worked. Yes. OK, Romeo D6. Oh yeah, damage. Yeah, you gotta roll the damage. We can't just kill these guys for the bit. Fuller.

30:53 They have taken 4 damage and they are on fire. They are done. OK, we have killed these guys for the bit. I I guess nobody's operating at full mental capacity right now in universe. They did appear to be cultists. That's the first thing I said about them, that they were cultists. Fair enough. Do you see the person coming down the stairs now? It's a man first. You mostly just see his silhouette. He's carrying a shotgun in one hand and several bunches of dynamite, like sort of hauling underneath his left arm. Convenient. And you look and you see his big soft hands are doing the best that he can to hold on to that.

31:41 Yes. Wait, he's not mind controlled right now, is he? Wait, we killed De la Luz? So hopefully not, right? But was it a live record or live broadcast? Or was it a recording? You can't really tell your ears are plugged up. Can somebody who's not me maybe listen? Oh I was going to mind pulling something out of my ear and make a popping noise, but for the listeners that would just be and it would provide absolutely no context for what I was doing. I will unstop my ear. The mouth is singing, however. It's just not the same without the Harmony I.

32:22 Need you to make a stability check difficulty for. I'm just deciding whether I should spend that last point before a broken. I mean, I might as well. I didn't need to, but that's okay. I am at -5 stability. Not broken, but not great. OK, you don't suffer the need to consume nectar immediately. Oh, that's good. Brooks is on the ground crying. Understandable. The detective walks down the stairs, calmly points his shotgun at Brooks, and without a word executes him. My man. Oh no, he's definitely under the. Is he? Then you see he begins to throw bundles of dynamite around the chamber.

33:03 Works for me. You know what? I'm not going to lift a gift horse in the mouth. Time to go. Smalls kind of waves both of his arms at the detective and points at the hole too. As you point at the hole, tongues fly out of it. Oh. Yeah, that do it. The dynamite that he's throwing around is lit, right? It is not lit, no. He seems like he's going to do something with it, but it's not yet lit. Chain reactionate. Got it, got it. Got it, got it. There. Aren't there flaming men in this room? Yes, there's that's this is a danger. Yeah, Oh. You're right. Yeah, we got to go. We need to go. We need to go, but I assume the tongues are going to do something first. Yeah, they don't have to.

33:49 Please don't my. Dude, I. Think the detective is about to get caught? No. So many. One of them is going to go for Kearns. That. Makes sense Kearns, you have been grabbed by one of the tongues. Do I take damage? So a couple of things. One you do take damage from being constricted, it's just going to be a straight D6 damage. Kearns is down. -2 I roll to stay conscious. Roll to stay consciousness. You could spend your health, you go even further down. You could spend it if you would like. I don't that doesn't sound right right now. Yeah, generally not a good idea. On the off chance that I don't succeed.

34:29 Yeah, it's been known to happen. Yeah, I'm going to present a real big inconvenience to everybody. So I'm a just spend one point and stay conscious. So and I lose that one point by punching myself in the face going. Stay awake. So I said multiple tongues fly out but they are all wrapped around you. I'm not making multiple attacks, just this attack was multiple tongues wrapping around you. Yeah, if you don't escape from this on your own, I will cut you out. I've got a knife and a lot of points and weapons. I. Appreciate it. And health. Yeah, I've got, I've got, I've still got a full 8 health so.

35:09 So that's not great, but you know, that's, you know, things are going OK. Detective Gomez looks at all of you. You could tell maybe with some assessed honesty, that he is surprised that you are here, but honestly doesn't even care anymore. Yeah, Well, that's fair. That's legit. OK. So is he just nonploosed by the tongue that's coming out of the floor? Yes. OK, this is not his first time seeing that. That's a red flag. And he looks at you, Colin. Sheepest wave. And he says, love, Shaq didn't expect to see you here, but I don't expect anything anymore. Understandable.

35:53 This is all going to be destroyed. None of this is coming out. Probably the right call. Works for me. You got a plan. I already blew up his temple upstairs in his house. That is a great. Well, it's worked for us in the past. No. I should have started on the bottom though. Once I heard this music and saw what it did to people, I resisted after a time, but now this needs to end. Killing all of this makes makes me feel better. It's all I can do to. I'm sorry that you'll have to die too. Nobody can know about this.

36:33 Oh. Well, it's it's a punch in the gut, I'll tell you that, but can't say I didn't see it coming. You, you seem like a nice enough guy, even though I don't think that you are from America. No, I'm pretty sure once we blow this up all of the birds will be quiet. The birds, you say? Do you not hear the birds? Nope. His head explodes. Whoops. What? Birds fly out of it. Whoa. This is taking a turn. Can somebody cut me out of this? Yeah, no, I got somebody coming out of this. Yeah, I am. I Sprint over and start cutting the tongues away.

37:17 Yeah, the threat of what that guy was bringing was not the threat that you thought it was. No, clearly. And birds are spewing out of where his head used to be used then. Yes. I'm assuming. A lot of birds, yes, lots of birds. I guess all my NPCS went. You guys could go. I'm going to use my knife to start cutting away the tongues and freeing urns. OK, difficulty 3 to hit them, although what's your stability at? -10. OK, so difficulty 5 to get them. OK, I have 5 points in weapons. I could spend four of them right now to just succeed. I think I'm going to do that. Right now my priority is getting away from the pit and blowing this whole place to hell, which I hopefully won't need a knife for anything other than this.

38:07 So I succeed. OK, roll your damage the. Fucking hell. You did any amount of damage. Unfortunately, doing the just one damage you did, Kearns is going to need to make an athletics check to escape. However, it's going to be a much easier athletics check because you cut off at least one of the tongues. OK, OK, OK. Yeah, what's the check? Difficulty 3. I must spend the two points OK, and yeah, just RIP myself out out of those tongues. And now we all need to book it. Everybody needs to run. Well, there are some birds that are going to complicate your situation. Yeah, no shit. Dynamite is not lit. Oh, is any of the dynamite landed next to De la Luz? Sure.

38:51 Can I throw a zippo at it? Leticia of the light, baby, Yes. Can I just throw a zippo at her and book it? Yes, I'm going to need you guys to all flee. I guess. Maybe we won't need to fight the birds here. If they explode, our problem is solved. A lot of our problems are solved. Oh right, that probably requires rolling. Flea doesn't. It yeah, you don't just get to run away because now there are birds that are attacking you and tongues that are flying around. Yeah, I just got to make that check straight. I don't know. What's the difficulty? Difficulty for fleeing. Because of the gas.

39:32 You can use athletics or fleeing. Either one of those athletics. Athletics and fleeing are the same thing for this situation. OK, I am going to. It would be difficulty 5 for me, so I'm going to spend the four points. Yeah, same here, spent. 2. I succeed. Yay. I didn't feel like doing the math so I just spent all of my points. Yeah, I've not succeeded. Yeah. I rolled A10. What? Did I get what? It says you got a six on my end, so everybody succeeds. You run out. Hang on about that, Zippo. Yeah. Sorry, you don't have. A Zippo It happened. Yeah, I shoot a longing look at my Zippo. I really like that Zippo. I'll. Go get it for you.

40:15 Hey, don't worry, it's going to a good cause. Oh come on, if Colin has to die, this is how it happens. Doesn't have to die. Nobody else is dying today except for that fucking mouth and those fucking birds. Let's fucking go. I've turned the panic energy I had last time into manic energy so like. Got it. I'll take whatever, man. The explosions begin to shake this underground temple complex as the ceiling begins to give way in that chamber. You run up the stairs. Ceilings begin to fall throughout this whole thing. You look. You recall that there was a tunnel that went two directions when you were outside the studio.

40:58 One of those has already completely collapsed, perhaps the work of the now exploded Detective Gomez. But you run back up through the ruins of the old Hacienda, past tons of bodies, and as you look out, you see that the entire ground collapses on this underground thing, leaving a pretty sizable sinkhole in the ground outside. Shit, that's not good for the budget. Well, we're not paying for it. Yeah, yeah, I think we can leave this to the Mexico City bureaucrats. And hopefully that mouth is dead. If it can survive this then we're actually fucked. So like. Yeah. Yeah, it's the 30s. We don't have much.

41:39 Yeah, I take out my ear things. Is it still singing? You don't hear it. OK, good. I'm tired. I, I need to sit down. I I, I just sit on the ground and sort of sway. I'd like to kiss Kerns, is that OK? Yes, absolutely. JP and Kerns 100% KISS. And then I pass out, yeah. I I feel like we both might. Turns out the key to defeating the mythos was just to make Kerns sponge all of the damage. And have everybody have bought a million healing points and sort of take advantage of how the healing system works. In this system, you're God.

42:22 Damn right you. Didn't break the game. You're using just a master like that's how it works. I'm almost proud of you. Almost. So are we done in Mexico then? Yeah. I lost so much blood. There's there's several bullets in me. I am at -10 stability baby. I need some sleep. Are we going to go clubbing or not? Thank you very much for our GM is Daniel Renee plays Franklin Kearns full autopilot, Damien Donovan Smalls mild mannered mentalist Nathan was JB fault Yahweh OC and Russell mix master and music the episode in addition to playing Colin Kane detective and zoom do not.

43:19 Our album art is by Trinity the tea time link and our main theme is by Claire LW. All of our links and stuff are in the show notes so check them out. Thank you once again for listening and until next time this has been Daniels thread. When you arrive at the hotel, though, you've received a telegram. Yeah, cool. From New York. What's it say? Hey, I know people there. It's from Winston Rogers. Go on, it says, under attack by cultists gone into hiding. Cult more active and powerful in New York than originally believed.

44:16 Leaving the city now. Do not try to contact. Well, there goes my per diem.