Feb. 24, 2026

Eternal Lies 28: In Search of a Certain Cenote

Eternal Lies 28: In Search of a Certain Cenote

With affairs settled in Mexico City, the intrepid Investigators plan their next voyage and decide on a shorter trip. Welcome to Merida: jewel in an emerald sea. Did I consider that as a name for the episode? I'll never tell!

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Eternal Lies uses the⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Trail of Cthulhu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ System from Pelgrane Press and Features

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Damien⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ as Donovan Smalls, Miskatonic Mentalist

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nathan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ as JB Faulk, Self-Helpless Author

Russell as Collin Kane, Positively Scrambled Private Eye

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠René⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ as Franklin Kerns, Pilot with a Past

And ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Daniel Fernandez⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ as The Keeper


Content Warnings: Mention of suicide and Descriptions of descriptions of unsettling material (that is not a typo. Skip past "The Wet Book" if you'd rather avoid the gnarly stuff)

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It may contain adult language
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Please check the episode
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Warnings last.
Time on eternal wise, a noble

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but bloodied investigators
descended deeper into the hidden

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letter of the Mexico City mouth
cult, interrupting Brooks hasty

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escape in the ancient Aztec
ruin.

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An abominable de la Luz sang
along with yet another nectar

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drenched pick before meeting her
demise at the business end of

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current shotgun.
The investigators soon

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discovered Detective Gomez to
have escaped the grizzly fate of

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his companions, only to found it
even more grizzly and for

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himself after finishing off Mr.
Brooks.

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As the monster in the pit
lamented its lost mate and

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explosions courtesy of the late
Detective Gomez.

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Dynamite shook the earth.
Our heroes made good their own

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escape.
The grim news from Winston

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Rogers awaited them back at
their hotel.

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The die is cast, The pact is
sealed.

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May God have mercy on our souls.
It's Daniel's Tread Tales, Tommy

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Gun that.
Was.

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Before the recording.
Drake heard it.

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So you have all stumbled back to
your hotel in various states of

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injury.
You also have received a

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telegram at the front desk,
which, if the audience hasn't

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heard that, you should stick
around after the credits.

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Sometimes there's fun stuff.
There you are.

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Well, I guess you tell Jesus
Christ who is drawing a picture

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of a Tommy gun on the map.
I wonder who it could be?

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It's not me.
You've received this telegram

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from Winston Rogers saying that
there had been an attack on her

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in New York by the Colts.
I'm sorry, have we recovered

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yet?
Like have we slept and

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everything?
Sure.

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Let's say mechanically yes, but
narratively no.

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Yeah, OK.
Yeah, that makes sense.

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Shot in the dark, it might be
bullshit, but there might be

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something that can actually like
kill the liar Yucatan.

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And it's not that I don't have
absolute faith in dynamite and

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our plans to use dynamite, it
hasn't gone wrong for us so far.

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I just feel like we should have
more than one plan.

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So I personally think we should
go to the Yucatan and see if

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there's any truth to that.
Yeah, Brooks Man seemed to think

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it was a waste of time.
Are you sure there's anything

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out there?
I mean, can we really be sure

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it's a web of lies?
Yeah, and, and Brooks and his

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men were wildly incompetent, so.
I'm with JB here.

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I like I like dynamite, don't
get me wrong, but and I looked

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down at the numerous bandages on
my body.

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Yeah.
I'm feeling a bit worse for wear

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after this last escapade, as it
were.

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Well, did you see Chrono Love's
eyes when I mentioned Corkery

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Island?
I'm not entirely sure where that

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is, but it seems like something
worth checking out as well.

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You need to like look that up at
a library to figure out where

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that is.
Yeah, library.

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Fuck it.
At the sound of library I, my

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head snaps up library.
I think the Yucatan this point

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in time will probably be the
best option.

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If everything that I've come to
understand is accurate, we will

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need all of the tools that we
can have at our disposal.

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It is also the closest.
Well, I suppose it's the Yucatan

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then all.
Right, I'll make sure Princess

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is flight ready.
Can I check the plane, see if

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it's been tampered with again?
How she's doing?

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That's a that's a good idea.
Well, I would say you're

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probably going to rest 1st and
then the next day you would be

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doing those checks and whatnot.
But yeah, definitely.

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Everybody passes out.
Colin look curl up with a good

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book.
Which book?

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Have we done rift of them all
yet?

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Doesn't ring about.
My recollection.

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Yeah, I don't remember anything
with that name.

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That one sounds the most
directly applicable to what

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we're doing.
Yeah.

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Fair enough.
So you're going to read this?

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Yep.
This book is a collection of

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meditative mantras.
However, while most mantras

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usually are designed to sort of
make somebody feel better, these

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ones are probably deeply
disturbing to any civilized

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mind.
There's depraved acts of both

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sexual and violent nature in the
mantras.

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Each mantra is about a perverse
obsession, but a common theme

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between them is the words mouth
and jaw.

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I got something to add here as
I'm flipping through something

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that catches my eye on one of
the pages and it just says put

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it in your mouth JB over and
over.

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What?
The big thing is that as you

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read it, you realize that it
talks about the mouth is

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connected to the maw.
The maw is the maw, and the name

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of the maw is Wisdom, and the
name of the maw is void.

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The name of the maw is the gulf
which swallows truth.

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The name of the maw is that
which destroyed.

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This name is a way for the maw
of the mouth to be vomited into

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the world.
I need you to make a four point

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a four point Emethos stability
test difficulty 5.

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Jesus.
Bill, I did mechanically just

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refresh all those points, so I
could probably stand to spend

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some stability.
Probably.

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Difficulty 5 I'll spend 3.
Now you just have to not roll 1.

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OK, you succeed and you gain a 2
point skill that could be used

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once per location. 2 points for
any investigative ability

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involving the Maw of the mouth
2.

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Point mouth skill.
Two point mouth skill.

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I you'll love to see two points
of mouth skill.

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OK.
All right.

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Is anybody else doing anything
in particular as they're going

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to bed?
I try to read like a language

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book, a grammar book in insert
language here.

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All right, 'cause you're getting
a point in language that.

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You're going to.
Spend later.

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Yeah, I'm getting a point in
language and I'm trying to read

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it, but after like a couple of
minutes the book falls on my

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face and I pass Ride the fuck
out but somehow apparently

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absorb the language by osmosis.
Sure, books have done weirder

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things than Cthulhu stories.
Books have done weirder things

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in this Cthulhu story.
That's also true.

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I mean, you have that book that
teaches you how to teleport.

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Yeah, I don't.
I don't wanna fuck with that

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thing.
We've everyone who's read that

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book has died.
Yeah, I also probably pass out

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in J BS room.
Oh, if you'll have me.

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You know what?
That's appropriate, all things

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considered.
I think Wall Kearns was reading

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in bed.
JB was at a nearby desk, just on

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a typewriter.
Because, you know, at this

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point, I think it's time to
start writing this adventure on

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the off chance that we all die
before it's complete.

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I don't know why I said off
chance.

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That's very likely.
Yeah.

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I'm just gonna start writing.
What's it called?

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Eternal lies there.
You go.

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It's a pun on that which is
dead.

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May eternal lie, which is
something you know about, right?

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No, it's fine.
I think Eternal Lies works just

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fine.
What's Howard Phillip going to

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do?
Sue me.

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Right.
My other question is, are you

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using your names or are you
using like fictionalized names?

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Are you telling the whole story
or is it like a a fictionalized

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version of it?
I think because most of the

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things that I've written are
fictionalized versions of real

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things I've either read about or
experienced.

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So I think I'll be using like,
yeah, the names are changed to

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protect the innocent,
definitely.

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One reason, one of the reasons
I'm in JB's room is to watch

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over him.
Because it's not that I don't

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trust you, JB, but this stuff,
this Nectar shit does stuff to

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your head and I wanna be there
in case you're struggling again.

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I, I, I, I get it.
Yeah.

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Thank you.
I appreciate that.

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I'm OK though.
I'm just, I just have a tale

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worth telling right now.
So I'm.

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I'm gonna wake up tomorrow
morning with like a like a

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typewriter shape indentations
all over my face because I fell

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asleep on the damn thing.
The good doctor, is there

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anything you would like to do?
So I figure that Killworth

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probably kept most of his notes
on the plane, so Smalls isn't

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really going to be doing
anything this evening.

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Just like having a light snack
and then passing out.

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Most of what he's going to be
doing is probably going to be

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like on the plane ride to the
Yucatan.

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Yeah, how goes Smalls first
night of the knowledge that the

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mythos is real?
I think it's a combination of

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maybe Doctor Hermitage was on to
something and there has to be an

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explanation for that.
And I'm pretty sure that Smalls

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would be writing some notes on
what had gone on thus far,

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possibly with some drawings of
the the mouth, like very basic

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like sketches.
Somebody who reads both,

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somebody who reads both medical
journal articles and detective

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fiction is absolutely going to
connect these two cases.

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There's going to be some
motherfucker out there who's

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going to have a cork board with
a bunch of strings, yeah.

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Has arbitrage already gone up to
Dunwich and dealt with that?

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I wonder if that's that's why
he's definitely sure it's all

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real.
It does matter so you all have a

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good rest.
Do you want to try to?

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Is there anything else you want
to do in Mexico City?

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Or is the plan to check out and
go straight to the airport and

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get the fuck out of here?
Can't buy your card?

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I'm sorry, what?
Searching the black market for a

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Tommy gun.
Yep, I was about to suggest

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that.
Give me a fucking Tommy gun.

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I will say your streetwise will
tell you that this is not the

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time to be trying to buy
anything illegal in the city

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because more than a dozen cops
just died and all of the other

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police are out in force.
That is an excellent point.

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Fair enough.
Yeah, you might be able to find

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something in Merida, which is
where you're going to be going

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next, which is the capital of
the Yucatan Peninsula or the not

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the Yucatan Peninsula, but the
Yucatan like section of Vexio,

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the state of Yucatan.
All right.

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OK, fair enough.
You head to the airplane.

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You said you wanted to check it
to make sure nobody has

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sabotaged it.
Yes, I very thoroughly check

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her.
You are good all.

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Right.
Looks like we're good.

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OK.
The flight to the Yucatan is

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going to be a relatively short 1
and you're going to make your

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way to the airport and Merida.
If you would like, you could do

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some histories or some other
things to know about the city

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coming up.
Also, you know that you are

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probably going to be going into
the jungle soon, so as you're

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thinking about what wardrobe
you're going to wear, be

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thinking about you know.
Jungle.

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Tire bug spray as well, but.
It's bug bug spray I think.

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It's probably extra poisonous
right now, yeah.

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Probably, yeah.
I'm probably due for an upgrade

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anyway on my knife because
knives are nice, you know, like

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everybody has a pocket knife,
whatever.

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But I will actually have a
reason to be holding a machete,

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so it'll be nice to use a weapon
that's a little bit bigger than

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a knife.
Yeah, awesome.

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Is there any skills you think
you would like to use on the way

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to to to know about the Yucatan
and Merida?

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Accounting.
I do have history.

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You know what, I will maybe give
you a little bit with

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accounting.
Fantastic.

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Merida is an extremely
prosperous city.

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You wouldn't think it, it's kind
of in the middle of nowhere, but

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it has an incredibly profitable
Henneken industry, which is a

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type of agave plant that creates
fibrous things that could be

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used for all sorts of rope and
twine and stuff like that.

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In the early 1900s, it was was
said to have more millionaires

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per capita than any other city
in the world.

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Wow, it's the Vancouver of the
20s.

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I'll take your word for it.
Yeah.

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So that's what accounting will
give you.

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All right.
Yeah, I think we set up a couple

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of Regis accounts in here, you
know, tax shelter reasons.

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Yeah, of course.
Also, I do have history.

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History.
This state has been independent

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a few times in Mexican history
and is currently been reabsorbed

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into Greater Mexico.
There has been recently a pretty

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sizable civil war that has been
raging in the Yucatan Peninsula.

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In 1847, the Mayan people that
live in this area, the

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indigenous people, rose up
against the European settlers

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and the Mexican government and
it led to a 50 year revolt,

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sometimes called the Caste War
because they were rising up

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against the legal caste system
that was imposed on them by

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Spain and then later Mexico.
We don't need to go in too many

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details on that, but just know
that until around 1901 there was

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a huge war here and even until
like 1915 it was dangerous for

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Europeans to be outside of the
city proper because there was a

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good chance you were just going
to get murdered.

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Oh, fun.
Cool.

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In the last 15 years, things
have settled down, but there's

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definitely a, you know, the
scars of that remain.

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Not the best place to be 4 white
men.

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Yeah, that's sort of what I'm.
I'm trying to get here, yeah.

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But hopefully a great place to
get a Tommy gun.

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What about geology?
Yeah.

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You can probably get that here
too.

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Yeah, geology, the area is
mostly, at least the area that

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you're going to be going through
is a lot of jungles.

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The thing that is notable are
the natural sinkholes and wells

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that are all over the place.
We're going to get quicksanded

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to death.
Because of the porous nature of

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the land here, most of the water
goes underground.

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It doesn't stay.
In fact that makes it very

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difficult to collect water.
Many of the Mayan cities got

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abandoned during droughts.
Less water made it more

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difficult.
The main way you get water is

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wells, underground sinkholes and
stuff like that.

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This is something they're
called.

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Cenotes are like big sinkholes
and they are around the jungle

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and a usually civilizations will
build up around the cenotes

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because it'll be a good source
of water.

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And from what I've seen, they're
pretty cool looking.

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Usually they are very cool
looking, yes.

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Does archaeology get me any?
Archaeology in general.

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Like there's a lot of Mayan
ruins here, like they have been

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discovered and they were going
over.

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The Mayan people don't mostly
live inside the larger cities.

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They were abandoned during the
Spanish occupation.

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The Mayans don't live in the big
cities anymore, but they do live

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in the jungles.
As for the place that you are

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going to Chichen Jewel, you know
that Chichen means like at the

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base of a sinkhole.
So that means it's probably near

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cenote.
But the jewel is not something

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that you recognize.
You vaguely recall, you might

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have seen it in a book
somewhere.

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But unless you want to like make
a spend or something, you know,

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you don't really know much about
this ruin in particular that

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you're going to.
There's plenty of other mind

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ruins, but it doesn't super
matter.

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Yeah.
I'm down to make a spend.

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OK.
One piece of equipment I'm going

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to get is a walking stick.
That's wise.

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That's really smart.
There was one book written about

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this place.
It was written by a white

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explorer, Doctor Arthur
Cartwright, and he wrote it in

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1846, kind of right before the
cast war broke out and kept it

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for really investigating the
site.

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Unfortunately, the book does not
give exact locations and he died

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without telling telling anybody
the exact location.

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OK, so I'm going to get a
walking stick and I'm going to

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check people's equipment and
make sure that they can take off

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their backpacks and whatever
else heavy we're carrying

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without any issue.
That will be important.

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Note that your outdoorsman
school will also tell you should

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not just go wandering into the
jungle right away.

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You're going to need to spend a
little time in the city putting

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an expedition together, you
figuring out exactly where to go

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and whatnot.
But that'll be definitely

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something that you need to
check.

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You could be checking that on
the plane to make sure

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everybody's backpacks and stuff
are good to go, but at this

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point you're not gonna be just
landing and going straight into

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the jungle to try to find this
ruin you don't really make.

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It go so.
Fair.

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I'm just trying to put it out
there that I am prepared to face

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quicksand.
Smart.

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Got smart?
Like maybe I'm reading up on

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quicksand, maybe I'm, I don't
know, maybe I got a guidebook.

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I need to explain why I all of a
sudden have 4 points in

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Outdoorsmen.
OK.

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You don't have to explain it
like we can just buy in that

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that's a part of the.
Yeah.

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That's no, but she's explaining
it and I like that.

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OK, fair enough.
I'm not going to explain any of

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my level UPS.
I don't.

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I don't know you shit, Dan.
Sorry.

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That was that was really
aggressive.

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I apologize.
Don't.

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Just remember, Renee would never
apologize.

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Yeah, because fuck you, that's
why.

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Yes, of course, to be fair,
maybe you don't need to be as

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aggressive as her all the time.
That sounds exhausting.

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Remember, you live with me,
right?

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Oh shit.
Marita is a lovely city.

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You land, you're able to get a
private hangar.

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As you're being let out, there's
a sort of Porter there.

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They ask what What brings you to
our city?

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Mel stuff.
Oh.

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Shit.
What did you say?

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Mouse, Steph.
Don't say mouse.

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Wait, I can't contribute.
I don't speak Spanish.

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This guy probably speaks a
little bit of English.

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Some English people will arrive
in this city.

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It's not such a backwater.
They know that there are English

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speaking people that visit here.
And for 15 years, they've been

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kind of safish.
Well, no, they're they're

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killing the the white Mexicans
as well, you know, the non

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indigenous, you know.
Gotcha.

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Yeah, we're going to do some
sightseeing in the jungle.

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In the jungle.
Yep, I hear they got running

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games there.
I don't know if this is the most

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exciting place, but sure, OK it.
Shouldn't have gotten me that.

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Shouldn't have gotten.
Where are you?

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Where are you going in the
jungle?

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Who's asking?
This is just just a random

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person who's like helping you
check in.

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They're just making small talk
like this is they're just

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definitely you get ignored.
Like that's fine.

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I just, yeah.
We can hit him with the wouldn't

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you like to know whether boy?
So I at this point, Dr. Smalls

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is gonna step in.
Well, you see, I have heard that

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there are there's some plants in
this region that are medicinal

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in nature and I would like to do
some research and my compatriots

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here have decided to join me.
God you've become so boring.

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This guy stopped listening.
Hey, just to some plan.

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Perfect.
All according to plan.

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You have found yourself in the

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very fancy city of Merida.
It's known for having a very

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good trolley system that's been
relatively recently introduced.

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There's also lots of taxis all
over the place.

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Trolley as in trolley bus?
I think it's closer to like a

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Street car.
They're street cars.

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They're like street cars.
OK.

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Yeah, they don't have the cables
up top.

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I know what you're talking
about.

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It's not this.
They are on rails, though.

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OK, what is your plan now that
you're here?

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What are you going to do?
Tommy Gun.

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We are once again in the thing
where time to do some

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investigating.
Yeah, First things first, we

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gather supplies and we get a
base of operations.

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I mean, I guess we could sleep
in the plane, but.

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So you find a hotel.
We're heading into the jungle.

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Maybe we should rough it in the
plane for a night.

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Are they can with?
Is that AI guess?

422
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,840
I mean, it's, it's going to be
cramped.

423
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,320
It's a nice plane, but it's not,
you know, it's.

424
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,600
Trying to sleep in a plane seat
before that's not comfortable.

425
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,160
I have, it sucks.
I have.

426
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,880
It's awful.
No, no, this was the 30s so they

427
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,800
had plenty of space.
Oh, okay.

428
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,400
This was before they wanted to
see how short they could make

429
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,920
your legs.
Can I have like sleeping bags on

430
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,520
the plane?
I guess I don't know if it's, I

431
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,200
don't know if you could all fit
like laying down like that.

432
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,440
I guess you could, but you're
all going to be right on top of

433
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:54,920
each other.
It's going to be unpleasant.

434
00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:56,760
I don't mind.
Yeah, don't say anything.

435
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,240
Well, we can see if the Casa de
Cucarache is a chain.

436
00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:03,720
You want to find a shitty hotel?
Yeah, OK.

437
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,160
Fine, all right.
Oh yeah, I guess it's my job,

438
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,960
huh?
You are able to find a shitty

439
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,560
hotel to stay at.
It could be another La Casa de

440
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,800
Cucaracha.
That's fine.

441
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,120
So how would you like to begin
your investigations?

442
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,280
Tommy Gunn.
Let's find the black market.

443
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,240
Is it over here?
While they're getting illegal

444
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,840
things, I I do think we should
also get like regular expedition

445
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,000
supplies.
Wait, quick question, who speaks

446
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,280
Spanish?
I do.

447
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,720
OK, so probably it shouldn't be
me and Kearns.

448
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,760
I will say this, in terms of
getting expedition supplies, you

449
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,880
know you're going to need a
location to figure out how much

450
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,360
expedition supplies you're going
to need.

451
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,680
OK, that is true.
Kearns is set on finding the

452
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,040
black market easing streetwise.
Is that correct?

453
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,680
Is anybody going with them?
Are they going by themselves?

454
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,160
I randomly woke up with 17
health.

455
00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,440
That's true.
That is.

456
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,320
True.
This I'm not going to explain.

457
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,240
Yeah, you are like superhuman at
this point.

458
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,880
Maybe I should just let you
fucking be.

459
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,960
I feel like anybody going with
Kerns would actually be a

460
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:15,560
detriment to Kearns.
The movie Terminator is based on

461
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:20,160
Kearns.
So Kerns goes off.

462
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,080
Everybody else, think about what
else you're doing.

463
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,880
But I'm going to go.
I'll talk to Kerns while they're

464
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,000
looking at the underground
market, which is, well,

465
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,400
streetwise is going to tell you
this much about Morita.

466
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:37,040
The cops here are mostly clean.
They're too well funded to be

467
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,440
easily bought.
However, looking around, nobody

468
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,080
seems to know anything about
Nectar, so there seems to be no.

469
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,880
That that was going to be my
question.

470
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,480
Yeah.
That was going to be a question.

471
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,000
Yeah.
OK, good.

472
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:54,040
And getting a hold of a Tommy
gun, you're going to need to

473
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:59,040
spend a point of Streetwise and
a point of your credit rating to

474
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,040
get a hold of one of those.
And they're going to get you

475
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,080
like maybe one reload.
So one that it comes with and

476
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,000
then another one reload.
Yeah, an additional 1, yes.

477
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,920
OK, cool.
So you, you sort of find like

478
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,200
some shitty places, you know, we
don't need to see all of those

479
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,480
seeds, you know, here and there,
but you're getting the idea.

480
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,000
Cuz it has worse if you have
coin.

481
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,640
Sure.
Can I get some grenades too?

482
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:29,160
No, I'm not.
No, don't just get grenades.

483
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,000
Now, Yep.
That's me.

484
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,000
I'm the worst.
That's what they're saying.

485
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,440
Yes, I know.
My fucking audio track is

486
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,560
nothing but just spikes of me
last laughing for the last 30

487
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,360
seconds.
So as you walk out, you see

488
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:50,840
Doctor K.
What?

489
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,840
What?
Doctor K Morgan is standing

490
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,720
there as you leave the little
shop.

491
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,920
I I look away and I look back.
Is she still there?

492
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,960
She's absolutely still there.
I need you to make a difficulty

493
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:09,880
3 but potential loss of seven
points stability check.

494
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,520
Fuck.
Jesus, On the upside, you have a

495
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,960
60% chance to like succeed at
this unassisted.

496
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,640
I'm.
Going to just spend 2 points,

497
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,200
OK.
Smart.

498
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:25,800
My jaw drops and for a few
seconds I'm just frozen there.

499
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,000
She gives you sort of a wry
smile.

500
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,000
Nope, Turn around, start walking
off.

501
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,200
I'm clearly hallucinating, I
don't need this.

502
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,120
You hear her call for you.
Franklin.

503
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:45,040
I freeze and slowly turn around.
This.

504
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,360
This can't be real.
You're not real.

505
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,200
I'm.
I probably.

506
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,960
I took too much morphine.
So Kearns definitely knows that

507
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,600
morphine is not a
hallucinogenic, right?

508
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,720
I'm, I'm dreaming.
I it can't be true, No.

509
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,200
She says.
Follow the expedition.

510
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,040
You have to know what they want
to know.

511
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,320
I'm going to touch her on the
shoulder.

512
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,600
It's cold.
Shit.

513
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,240
Chilly, but otherwise seeming
like flesh and blood.

514
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,360
Yeah, I jerked my hand back so
fast.

515
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,160
You, you died.
I you're surrounded by death

516
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,640
now.
So many dead at your hands.

517
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,480
So many.
I didn't know.

518
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,320
I it.
It's so messed up.

519
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:44,760
I, I was a coward.
I, I saw some, I had some

520
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,560
nightmares and I thought it was
the scariest thing I've ever

521
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,040
seen in my life.
Little did I know.

522
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,280
I'm sorry.
She moves to give you a hug.

523
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,760
I flinch, I recoil a little bit.
I'm not actively moving away.

524
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,960
I'm just like, what's the word
I'm looking for?

525
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,840
Hesitant.
Yeah.

526
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,840
Hesitant's a good thing to be
right now.

527
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,720
How tall is she versus you?
I think she might need to stand

528
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,000
up on her tip toes a little bit
to whisper in your ear.

529
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,000
She needs to stand on tiptoe
and, like, pull me closer.

530
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,600
She's like 5 feet.
Yeah, I, I, I give her an ear.

531
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,720
His case?
This is online.

532
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,520
Who?
She's gone.

533
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,040
Fuck.
Just like gone gone.

534
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,240
Like, like she's not even there.
You like, maybe close your eyes

535
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,600
for just a second and she's
gone.

536
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,680
Holy fuck, I yeah, I start
walking towards the hotel.

537
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:56,120
Like, really briskly.
Yeah, OK, cool.

538
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:57,760
And you get back to the hotel
with your topic.

539
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,760
That.
Yeah, and my blood pressure is

540
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,720
so high.
I think I speak for everyone

541
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,880
when I say what the fuck?
Who else is doing fun stuff?

542
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,840
Smalls is going to look for a
library.

543
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,960
OK.
Yeah, he wants to find some

544
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:17,520
maps, maybe maps that include
locations of some cenotes in the

545
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:18,960
area.
Yeah, of.

546
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,120
Course, try and narrow down.
So we can plan our expedition.

547
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,720
Yeah, I'll help.
OK.

548
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:24,880
Yeah.
All right.

549
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,000
Is anybody else going with you
or just you?

550
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,800
If JB wants to come along again.
I am, I am coming along.

551
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,840
Is is Colin coming?
OK, I'll, I'll just wait at the

552
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,240
hotel then.
We do need a Spanish speaker.

553
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,680
Oh, I'm invited now.
No, we were.

554
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,160
You were never not invited.
If I did get left behind, I was

555
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,480
just going to read another book.
Well, we've established that

556
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,120
that's a bad idea, so.
It went OK last time.

557
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,400
I have mouth skills now.
There is a Museum of

558
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,320
Anthropology in the city that
might be a good place to check

559
00:31:59,320 --> 00:31:59,560
out.
I.

560
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,800
Don't know, I've had bad
experiences in those before.

561
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,040
OK.
Have you little places?

562
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,920
I was gonna say the dinosaur is
not Canon to this adventure that

563
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,080
happened to another that
happened in another universe.

564
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,040
Was it another universe?
Maybe.

565
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,080
I'm sure the death of like the
concept of envy will have no

566
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,880
repercussions for the wider
universe of low places anyway.

567
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,880
Anyway, yeah, let's go learn
some shit.

568
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,760
As you are investigating, you
are not able to find almost any

569
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,320
information about the location
that you're looking for.

570
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,080
Cheechen, Jul.
You do hear as you are chatting

571
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,560
around with the people there and
doing the reading that there are

572
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,760
a couple of local guides that
theoretically know where it is

573
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:54,200
the best. 1 is a guy by the name
of Jacquinto Exposito, but he

574
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,560
actually LED a group recently
into the jungle and hasn't

575
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,040
returned.
What about the second best one?

576
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,840
Did you say exposito or
Esposito?

577
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,040
Exposito.
Or despacito.

578
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,920
No, not Despacito.
So his name is Jack Exposition.

579
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,840
No.
Johnny exhibitionist I.

580
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,360
Mean it's close.
And the the other guys name.

581
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:23,440
Exposito actually is what you
often called foundlings or

582
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,600
abandoned children that were
raised in orphanages.

583
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,680
OK well now I feel like an
asshole so.

584
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,040
So his name is John Snow is what
you're saying?

585
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,680
Yeah, it's closer to that, I
think.

586
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,200
I don't know.
I've never watched or read Game

587
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,160
of Thrones, but I believe that
is the case.

588
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,160
Yeah, the first book was good.
That's all I've experienced of

589
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,200
it.
But, you know, yeah.

590
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,240
It was written by somebody used
to writing TV shows.

591
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:49,320
There are two other guides,
Guillermo Castillo and a Pablo

592
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,720
Garza, who also know where it
is.

593
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,360
At least that's a scuttlebutt
around town.

594
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,680
As you're doing your, I assume
you're also using your other

595
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,200
skills of just like talking
because the library, again, in

596
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:08,080
the library you find nothing,
truly nothing about this site

597
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,920
but looking at the maps at
least, and you're looking at

598
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,040
this and Otes and and stuff like
that.

599
00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:15,960
Do any of you guys have law or
bureaucracy?

600
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,560
I have both of those.
Pretty much all the land

601
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,600
generally in the area where this
site would be is owned by one

602
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,520
man, Francisco de la Vega, who's
a land Baron de.

603
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,840
La Vega, He was mentioned in
that one letter that we read.

604
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,120
He was.
Mentioned in that one letter you

605
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,760
read.
Yeah, and knowing that he's a

606
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,480
land Baron just makes my opinion
of him go lower and lower.

607
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,440
Well, the cult didn't like him,
so maybe he's a person worth

608
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,520
talking to The.
The cult did not like him.

609
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,440
That is true, yeah.
I mean half the cult didn't like

610
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,600
the other half the cult either.
So.

611
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:55,199
And we didn't like them either.
Yeah, the curator at the Museum

612
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,720
of Anthropology tells you if you
actually ask about Chichen

613
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,880
Jewel, there's a good chance
that place doesn't even exist.

614
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,320
You're not able to find any book
that mentions that.

615
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,600
You again you remember that
there is a guy who wrote about

616
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,920
it, a Doctor Cartwright, but his
book does not appear to be here.

617
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,600
Now when the the dude of the
library is like, yeah, I don't

618
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,360
even know if that actually
exists.

619
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:24,560
Does he seem like he's being
honest or does he seem cagey,

620
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,320
like he's hiding something?
Does assessed honesty give me

621
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,560
anything?
He the fact that I'm pausing

622
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,840
means that something's going on.
Let's see here.

623
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,600
Well, that's meta gaming.
We're not supposed to do that,

624
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:39,560
Daniel.
Yes.

625
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,880
They are uncomfortable at you
bringing up the topic, but not

626
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,720
in a way where they're like, Oh
no, if somebody talks about this

627
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:50,160
I'm going to get hurt or
whatever.

628
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,680
If anything, it seems like
they're worried for you if you

629
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:58,000
keep asking about it.
Can I use reassurance to assuage

630
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,040
their fear?
Not really, no.

631
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,120
Use Intimidate to aggravate
them.

632
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:03,560
Yeah.
That I don't.

633
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,080
I'm gonna keep asking people
about this site, that's for

634
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:11,000
sure.
Yeah, yeah, again, it almost

635
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,920
feels like any information about
this place has been almost

636
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,600
scrubbed from the local
archives.

637
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,920
They are recommending several
other Mayan spots you could go

638
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,560
visit though.
Wonder if we should have

639
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,000
researched this place before we
left Mexico City.

640
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,360
You would have gotten different
information if you researched

641
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,920
there, yes.
But we can just fast travel back

642
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,680
there, right?
I mean, yeah, you.

643
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,040
Can hop on the plane, fly back
out?

644
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,800
There in our defense, we were
last seen with like 12 cops that

645
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,360
all died horribly, so I feel
like we weren't wrong to leave

646
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,800
quickly.
Well, I will cede the floor to

647
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:55,400
either JB or Colin and see if
either of them have any ideas of

648
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,400
what to do.
Well, wait a second.

649
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,600
The last people who saw us with
all those cops were all those

650
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,840
cops, so I think we're fine.
I don't think we can.

651
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,640
I don't think we should go back
though.

652
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,320
Does anybody we met there still
live?

653
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,240
We can be totally in the clear
here, JB.

654
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,560
I mean, there's that.
You met that person at the post

655
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,200
office, I guess.
Probably dead too.

656
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:20,800
And it's.
A weird couple.

657
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,360
Not every single cop who saw you
walk into the police station is

658
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,000
dead, but a lot of people go in
and out of the police station

659
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,800
anyway.
As you're reflecting on this,

660
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,720
maybe you're outside the museum,
or maybe you're inside.

661
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:35,520
I don't know.
We started inside and then got

662
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:39,360
shushed until we were outside.
Yeah, approaching you in

663
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,640
particular Colin, but if the
other folks are around, they

664
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:43,760
could.
That could be fine too.

665
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:50,200
Is a elderly man wearing a big
ratty coat with almost skeletal

666
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,160
looking fingers.
Wait, the cold test fingers.

667
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,040
Terrifying the the man.
It's a.

668
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,360
Flasher.
Hey.

669
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,720
Hey there Traveller, I have
something for you, he says in

670
00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:06,360
English.
No, all right.

671
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:11,520
He sniffs his nose, and he gives
you a toothy grin.

672
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:15,040
He's constantly sort of moving
his hands around too, gesturing

673
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,520
to try to get your attention.
Well, what is it?

674
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,320
He pulls out a waterlogged tome
under his arm.

675
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,240
Huh.
This is for you.

676
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,560
I brought this for you.
Well this all seems above board,

677
00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:34,040
so wet book my friend.
Yes, I think you'll want it.

678
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,040
What's the title?
Is there a title?

679
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,080
There is not a title on the book
now.

680
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:44,360
I'll call it the Wet Book.
He he pulls it back a little

681
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,920
bit.
He says Nothing's free, friend.

682
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,520
Russell just mind punching the
old man in the face.

683
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,720
I thought it was a gift.
Gifts are free.

684
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,240
No, a small cost.
A very small cost.

685
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,360
How small are we talking?
I need that radio.

686
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,760
For a second, when you said a
small gift, I was like, we, we

687
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:13,920
do.
We do know a guy named Smalls.

688
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,320
We can give you him.
Rude.

689
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,040
We just moved past the scene.
Damien has to roll the new

690
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:33,120
character.
Damien returns as K confusion in

691
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,400
tears.
God.

692
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:42,160
I need that radio, the one that
Tom gave you before he killed

693
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,120
himself.
Colin looks at the radio.

694
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,600
It's in his hands, though he
swears he left it back on the

695
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,880
plane.
Oh, that's good too.

696
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,600
So he looks down and he
remembers Tom when he remembers

697
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:58,080
the times he had with Tom.
So maybe it's time to move past.

698
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,280
Maybe that part of his life is
gone now, or needs to be gone,

699
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,720
or needs to be forgotten.
And he hands it over.

700
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:06,080
He.
Gives a big smile.

701
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:11,520
There you go friend, just what
you need.

702
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:17,880
All right, made a wet book.
And he just sort of leads up

703
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,400
against the wall and just watch
as he's smiling without saying

704
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,240
anything else.
I mean, I suppose you could ask

705
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:28,120
him something else, but he has
nothing more to say, all right?

706
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:30,840
Where's a good place to eat
around here?

707
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,400
He just gives a smile and says
something in a language you

708
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,240
don't understand.
It's.

709
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,160
Probably that Fr that everybody
completely refused to take a

710
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,640
point for.
I mean, why would we white

711
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,800
Americans?
Shit.

712
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:48,840
No, you can try to ask him
again.

713
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,680
Like if you want to keep asking
about this restaurant, he'll

714
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,040
probably say something
eventually.

715
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,760
You know what I think?
The I think this mysterious man

716
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,280
just sort of walks away.
I think he's going to lead us to

717
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,960
a restaurant.
What's in the book, though?

718
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,800
If you are trying to follow him
to a restaurant as you're around

719
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,320
the corner, he's gone.
Yeah, I figured that was going

720
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,440
to be the case.
Yeah, of course.

721
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:13,280
I mean, yeah, of course.
Difficulty 3, potential loss of

722
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,960
four, stability.
That guy knew about your dead

723
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,600
friend and that you had a radio.
Difficulty 3 loss of four or do

724
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,960
I have that?
Difficulty 3 Loss of four.

725
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:24,560
All right, I'm going to roll it
straight.

726
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,480
Oh, I failed one.
OK, as as that sort of goes

727
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,920
away, you're like, wait, that
was really weird and unsettling.

728
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,960
Didn't even tell me where the
restaurant was.

729
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:40,280
I'm going to miss Dick Tracy.
You don't have a radio anymore.

730
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,000
Yeah.
Kearns has one on the plane.

731
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:49,640
You you seemed to be troubled by
what that man had to say.

732
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:55,320
Is everything OK, Mr. Caine?
Just traded my last memory of my

733
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,800
friend for a wet book so I'm
feeling all right.

734
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,000
I'm sorry, wet book.
Yeah, wet book.

735
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,640
See.
I I opened the wet book.

736
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,200
You maybe almost immediately
want to close it again.

737
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:14,000
Just glancing at it, you see
etchings, photographs, woodcuts,

738
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,560
handwritten stories depicting
depraved acts of torture,

739
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,160
mutilation, incest, bestiality,
necrophilia and worse.

740
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,000
Also, lots of mouths.
Mouths all over.

741
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,520
Yep, wet book.
So JB, you said that you were

742
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,160
sort of skimming it, is that
right?

743
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,560
Yeah.
Is anybody else sort of

744
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,320
skimming?
It here, yeah, yeah, OK.

745
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,280
Well, it's mine.
I'll take a good look at it

746
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:45,960
later.
OK, just skimming over it is

747
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,120
going to require a difficulty
for methos stability test at a

748
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,000
potential loss of three.
And it's Methos.

749
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,000
So if I fail this, that's
another loss of Sandy Point.

750
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:59,320
That is true yes.
It's because the pages are

751
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,080
sticking together and at first
you think EW gross and then you

752
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:08,320
realize that there seems to be
orge ish ooze and pus and bile

753
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,680
that are keeping the pages stuck
together and not what you

754
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:11,520
originally.
Thought.

755
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,080
OK, OK, I'm gonna roll it
straight.

756
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,160
I'm gonna spend the points.
I don't wanna fuck with that.

757
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,880
Oh God, Why did you?
Why did you?

758
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,280
Fuck with this.
I'm gonna roll it straight.

759
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,840
So that was loss of four, you
say?

760
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,120
Loss of three stability, but you
lose 1 sanity as well.

761
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,840
Yep.
And there goes one of my pillars

762
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,840
of sanity that puts me to 8.
We'll need to discuss which

763
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,680
pillar of sanity you just lost,
but we could think about that

764
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:40,920
for a little bit as you are all
sort of grossed out by this

765
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,240
book, or maybe intrigued by it.
I don't know.

766
00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:47,160
I can't tell you what to feel.
A young man approaches you.

767
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,200
Uh huh.
It seems to be a boy maybe 8

768
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,960
years old and he says in
Spanish.

769
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,960
Do you want to know where
Chichen Jewel is?

770
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,640
Are you the ones asking?
Yep, that's us.

771
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,520
Or as soon as Smalls hears the
name of the place, he's going to

772
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,280
look directly into this kids
eyes.

773
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:16,640
Your intensity seems to unsettle
the kids slightly.

774
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:23,120
I smile reassuringly.
OK, and he says I'm supposed to

775
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,640
give you this and he hands you a
letter.

776
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,200
Is it wet?
It is not wet.

777
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,120
Everything's wet.
Well, that's already made some

778
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,360
improving over the last thing
that somebody handed us.

779
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,280
Yeah.
I take the letter.

780
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:42,040
It is an invitation written in
Spanish and English.

781
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,480
It says welcome to the fine city
of Merida.

782
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,920
My name is Francisco de la Vega
and I would be honored if you

783
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,720
would join me for dinner
tonight.

784
00:44:54,360 --> 00:45:01,120
He's a cannibal.
Thanks for listening.

785
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,880
Daniel is our GM, Renee plays
Franklin Kearns, Damian plays

786
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,040
Donovan Smalls, Nathan plays JB
Falk, and Russell plays Colin

787
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:09,280
Kane.
In addition to mixing,

788
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,400
mastering, and music in the
episode, our album art is by

789
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,240
Trinity the Tea Time Witch, and
our main theme is by Claire LW.

790
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,240
We have a Patreon at
patreon.com/dread Tails and we

791
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:19,920
do a live stream the last Sunday
of the month.

792
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,720
You can find links to these and
other things on the link tree in

793
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:24,800
the show notes.
Again, thanks for listening and

794
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,720
until next time.
You like, maybe close your eyes

795
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,560
for just a second?
Sticks your tongue in your ear

796
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,480
and says Wet Willy.