Eternal Lies 9: Hospital Horrors and Nautical Nightmares

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. Fast time on eternal lives. With Donovan's holdings seemingly unassailable, our investigators hatched 1/2 Baked plan to snatch the man or his wife. While Falk and Kilworth went on a bohemian expedition to the local Playhouse, Kane and Morgan tailed Donovan across the city. Though the Opera House seemed a dead end for now, Colin Cain found new leads in a visit to the intensive care ward and a stop at the graveyard, revealing Mrs. Donovan to have passed precisely when the testament described an increase in production of the nefarious nectar the cult trades in. Once the team regrouped with this new information, the decision was made to split up the books from Trammell's estate.

0:54 And while some were left shaken by their reading, Kay Morgan found herself in the possession of a strange new power that just might help tip the odds in their direction. The die is cast. The pact is sealed. May God have mercy on our souls. It's Daniel's dread tails. I'm your game master. Daniel Fernandez. Ski him. I'm Damien eBay. I'll be playing. Reginald Gilbert I'm Nathan and I am playing JB Faulk, a writer. And Russell, they them.

1:38 And I'll be playing Colin King, Private Eye. I'm Renee Shih. They and I will be playing Doctor K Morgan Shihar. Well, everybody, after restless nights, either from reading horrible books or being woken up by people who read horrible books, you now face another day in scenic Malta. Where we're going to do horrible things. Almost certainly, mate. You don't have to do anything horrible. I guess we haven't done the horrible things, it's just that horrible things have happened to us, which is arguably worse. Yeah, I mean, let's face it, we're probably going to do something horrible too. Yeah, yeah.

2:22 And worse things have happened to us. As you go outside in the morning, I don't know who's the first one outside, but there's a dead goal rotting in the street, half crushed by passing cars, it's feathers matted and sticking with blood. Breakfast. Well, that's an ominous thing to see first thing in the morning. You know, IA couple days I'm describing like, oh, it's so nice here. The weather was beautiful. There's a guy plucking a guitar. Just thought I'd maybe give you a different description this morning. Yeah, though to be fair, hearing about roadkill just makes me think of home. I don't know what the drivers of my town have against squirrels, but it's bad whatever it is they have. Gotcha.

3:09 Same but dear. All right, so as you set up shop and compare notes over your morning breakfast, what does the conversation turn to? Is there anything else people are doing in the morning before they come to breakfast, you know? More frantic calisthenics. Got it. Now I know what I'm running from. Oh. God. Every day is like day if you're running from your problems. I would be feeling quite unsettled by the whole hyperspace gate thing. I will probably talk to Kearns briefly about it. When you try to talk to Kearns, he is kind of ignoring you a little bit. He just seems distracted.

3:54 Oh that's I hope everything's OK. Yes. I mean, it's obviously unsettling, but I suppose I can deal. You seem troubled, Franklin. Is Is there something wrong? It's nothing, just just some bad dreams. That's honesty. He's been having some nightmares lately and he is afraid to tell you about them. Oh, you, you know you don't need to put up a facade in front of me, right? Yeah, but it's, you know, I just these it just it was really weird.

4:45 This is weird. It's fine. Don't. Don't worry about it. Well, whenever you feel ready to talk about it, I will be there for you. Thanks. Thanks. It's fine. Just more proof we need to get this this done. Yeah. And we proceed with our breakfast. Breakfast time. So what's the plan for today? We wanted to break into the ICU today, didn't we? Well, I know I was going to do that. Yeah, I don't know if that's a four person job, but at the same time I don't know what the other two people would be doing. Well, both the Opera House and the Brave are currently a no go. They're kind of pointless.

5:31 That leaves maybe finding a way into the townhouse or checking out the yacht. I was gonna say we haven't really looked into the yacht yet. Partially that's because there's no way to approach a yacht without being seen, but I guess that's why binoculars exist. When it comes right down to it, gentlemen, there is a way as of last night. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You also could just get a boat. Like I know you're talking about using a mystical thing that would either drive you mad or have you sacrifice your own blood to teleport. You also could like get a boat and go over to the but like. We're talking about being approached and seen though, right?

6:21 Yeah, like undetected. The problem is we're trying to keep a low profile and the ocean has no cover. Well, there's always the cover of darkness. Yeah. The trouble is I have not seen the inside of the yacht so. Exactly. So here's what I suggest we take the time today, scope out the yacht rents or buy a boat. And when it gets dark, I can get whichever of us want to go out there. Out there. I have a little bit of experience with boats. All right, so we've got our two objectives for the day. How do we go about the boat? What do we what do we do? Like, do we try to get on it in broad daylight? Here's what I suggest Those of us who are going to the yacht go scope out the situation, go procure the boat, and then when night falls, we take the boat out to the yacht. That can be done while two of us are going to the ICU. All right.

7:27 If you guys want, I could just get you a boat current volunteers like I I could handle that. If you're I mean it's. It's your call but. I don't think the security of our rooms is a little bit more important at this point, and also I personally would like you to have as much plausible deniability as possible. That's true. If anybody needs plausible deniability, it is the person who we need the most. Free for when we need to get the fuck out. While the boat team is out procuring the boat, it would also behoove you take some binoculars and scout the yacht and the docks where the yacht parks.

8:13 Docks. That that's more suggested. Yeah, OK. Sleeps. Sorry, just, you know, confirming, putting it all floats. I'm an intelligent man. JB gives an awkward thumbs up. I I pat you on the shoulder. Damn, how am I the sane one? How did that happen? I'm still sane. Oh yeah, I'm still sane, I'm just actively speed running. That not being the case, that's all. Yeah, but they do keep reading books that are actually not that detrimental. Yeah, I've been kind of lucky thus far. Kind of unlucky. All right, well, tonight I'm reading a book and we're just gonna see how that goes.

9:01 Oh, no, no, no. OK, so who's going where? OK, Team Hospital. Hospital. I guess that puts me and Reginald on team boat. Unless. Were these the teams from? Before, yes, OK, I think it just keeps working out that way. Unless there's a third thing we need to. Look at I think we should fully scope out the everything before we go about the kidnapping. In the perfect world, yes, that's the way it's going to happen. But. Yeah, who The Who the hell knows how this is going to go? The joke kidnapping that is Currents. Well, let's JB, let's head up to somewhere where we can check out that yacht.

9:46 Sounds sounds good. OK. And with that, Reginald downs the cup of coffee that he was kind of nursing and and gets up from the table. JV also grabs something down to it and then quickly stops up. That was Maple syrup. That was Maple syrup. All right, let's see what happens over at Hospital Superblysema. Sounds pleasant, Super Nintendo. Yeah, it's a It's a nice place. This definitely is an old building, though it looks like it's relatively modernized. The hospital Supervisima is built in a much older building. It looks like it's a sprawling mansion, or was at one point, and has been recently ish converted into a modest little hospital. It's six stories tall.

10:39 It's made-up of sturdy stone and it's kind of cramped and dark for a hospital. There are big, tall like windows for the outer rooms, which led in a lot of light, but the rooms that are a little deeper in much darker. How do you intend to approach it? Well, on our approach, what floor was the ICU on? I believe I said that was the third floor. OK, just in case we have to get creative. Oh, God. Well, Kay, how are you with disguises? Renee wants to say that she owns a sexy nurse outfit, but Kay would not say that. Probably. I mean, who knows, We'll see. Well, I did take a drama class in college, so.

11:23 Do you actually have the skill disguises? No. So I took a drama class in college. Means you think you know disguises, but absolutely. Yeah, it means I have worn like a top hat once. Yeah, I'm better at stealth. I'm I can be rather unassuming. Well, I'm not too good at the stealth, but I clean up pretty good. How about I find us a set of scrubs each and we take it from there? I'll trust you. I of course set myself up to look like a doctor and I acquired ninja style scrubs 4K. Ninja style scrubs. Yes, they're much more stuff. I don't know if I know what ninja scrubs are. They're a darker color.

12:09 They cover your whole face, not just the the mouth. There's a lot of pockets for syringes, samples and deadly throwing knives. So basically you're going to put me on a stretcher and cover me with a sheet? Or that. I can be a convincing corpse. I could say you could get Doctor Morgan scrubs. I don't know about ninja style scrubs. Just because that definitely doesn't exist. Yeah, I, you know, that's sort that's one of the issues. I guess that makes sense. OK, make me a disguise role difficulty 5. And what my points have reset? I have not reset them since before we got to Malta.

12:49 They should have reset when you got to Malta, but that's the only time they've reset. Fair. Well, I nailed it with A7. Yay. OK, goddamn. Hopefully that sets the tone for everybody else for tonight. No, that's not how it works with my role. OK, you are now in the hospital. Congratulations. And I disguise Kay as maybe a little too convincing of a corpse. OK, Kay's a corpse, huh? Yeah. Good thing I didn't wear makeup today is. This a good idea? What was that voice I just heard? OK, where are you bringing the corpse? I see you. Well, maybe not a corpse corpse, but like somebody in severe need of, you know, urgent care. Intensive care.

13:34 Yeah, there you go. Thank you. The intensive care ward is mostly empty. There are two rooms with people in the room 3 O four and three O 3. Well, I guess we'll check out three O 3 first injured person. All right. Yeah, just talking to this. Kay does not say anything. She is acting. So you get up there and you see that there is a young boy who's lying in the bed there with an IV or two put into him. How do they do this? Something that there's a clipboard.

14:16 You know there is a clipboard by his bed. What's the clipboard say? It says the doctor is Doctor Salazio and he is being treated by A well. Do you have medicine skill? No, but I know someone who does. Does Kay have medicine skill? I have first aid, not medicine. What? Who had medicine then? I thought it was you that. Would be JB. Fuck. I'm pretty sure JB is the one with medicine. That's right, yeah. OK. Oh God. We're really good at this. We are. Perhaps somebody who is knowledgeable about medicine could have come to the hospital. Hey, you know thing about clipboards. Fuck.

14:57 Pretty portable. OK. Are you going to steal this at least just? Probably have other backups. Does it at least say the kids name? It says Alexi. Last name given. No last name. Oh, that's conspicuous. Also, there is nothing listed for where you should write parent or guardian that is also not listed on the form. Also conspicuous. OK, here's what I'm thinking. You know how when they write bills and stuff, there's a sheet of paper on the bottom that duplicates whatever you write on top? Oh, I could absolutely spend preparedness for carbon paper. That seems right up a detective's alley.

15:37 Yeah, I was going to suggest I could spend preparedness, but yeah, if you have preparedness, go right ahead. Thing about that is that the thing that copies it is actually the pressure of writing in the first place. It's already been written is the issue. You can just like retrace it with a broken pencil or something. Or even your fingernail. There you go. OK, this won't be the greatest copy ever made. Absolutely should. Hopefully somebody with medical skill will be able to discern what all of this means. The child sort of looks up at you, by the way, when you've come in and says what you look different. Yeah, I get that a lot.

16:19 My God. This child is clearly like in a drugged state. If you want to talk to him, you'll need to get her to tell a story. You'll need some sort of skill if you want to talk to him. Well, Legs E you want to ask the kids some questions, It's Legs E the clown. We'd rather here to entertain you. Oh my God, fuck sure. I mean, I lean into it, I spring up, do jazz, hand, do surprise. What can I have like a water bottle on me? You mean a seltzer bottle? Oh, those were glass, weren't they? Plastic bottles weren't the saying fuck yeah, can't do a squeezy flower thingy.

17:07 You know, squeezy flower clowns have that anyway. No, I know what you're doing. I don't know if you have clowning supplies with you is the issue. I have athletics, can I do a cartwheel? Sure. Yay, the dancing doctor. What's my difficulty? Oh, you're rolling for a difficulty 3 to? Do a cartwheel well. Cartwheels are actually quite hard. Yeah, yay. That's a four. I do a decent cartwheel. All right, you do a cartwheel. The kid is still drugged up and confused, and it seems to have accomplished nothing. But congratulations, you've done a cartwheel. All right, I'll leave you to the kid. I'll check the next round.

17:53 For real? Yeah. That is a very common cane thing to do. I mean, I guess I talked to the kid. You go on. You do have interpersonal skills, right? Flattery. Yes. Is that the only one? Well, only one that matters here that assess honesty, I suppose. Assess honesty. OK, never mind, go go check. Yeah. I don't know if you have any interpersonal skills that's going to get this kid to help you, though. Just looking at his body as you're looking a little bit closer, he has bite marks. What, like like he? Has bite marks on his arms and legs and torso. Animal bite marks.

18:38 You know, not really, no. They look more like human bite marks. Okay, okay, I'm going to do some funny and I'm going to make the kid laugh. How old is the kid, by the way? I don't. Know he's like 10. 10 perfect. I do armpit farts. He's really out of it. Fuck. Sorry. Meanwhile, in the next room, this one room three O 4, you go inside and there is another very sick boy in bed. It says on his chart Monty Donovan, June. There we go. Oh. There it is. He is also befuddled, dazed and drugged out of all sense and reasons. You hear him muttering. A mummy. I I want my mommy.

19:22 Yeah, well, bring your mother by as soon as you answer a couple questions. Looking at his chart, looks like he is overseen by the same doctor and you're not an expert in this sort of thing, but it looks like some of the treatment they're getting is the same and some of it is not the same. You'll probably be able to be able to discern more if you talk to someone with medicine. Yeah, make a copy of his chart too. OK. Then on the way out I'll swap him. Oh, you're going to leave the shitty chart? Yeah. OK, why? Perfect. Why would you? Oh, I just, I get the feeling that this kid's getting better treatment because he's got more money. Oh, you're going to swap up just to, I mean, their names are on the Forbes is the thing. Doesn't know it to try.

20:04 He is even less coherent than Alexi in the next room. This kid is not going to talk to you at all. Unfortunate he. However, does not have bite marks all over his body, so that's nice. OK, well, I'm going to make sure that Kay stops in this room just in case she needs to see it for anything, but other than that, I'm not going to try too hard to get an incense a kid to talk to me, OK? That's yeah, that's for the best do. You want to try to talk to the orphan boy. Sure. I mean, I don't know if you have any skills to try to get to talk to you, but. Hey. Hey Alexi, have you ever heard the story of the Dread Tyrant legacy? What skill are you using?

20:45 Oral History. OK, so that's not what oral history is. Oral history is getting somebody to tell you their stories, which is actually what you want to do here. But I don't know if the way you do that is do you want to hear about a pirate? Well, we're swapping stories. I guess. I'm going to spend a point. You don't need to spend a point, you get it. I'm going to spend a point. This story is taking the better part of the afternoon. OK. I'm not there, I'm not there. Well while they're telling stories can I get a look at as this boys friggin teeth please. Do they match up with the bites?

21:29 Like, are they self-inflicted bites? Oh no. They're not self-inflicted bites, though. Huh. All righty. Yeah. All I needed to know. Thank you. The bites themselves seem to be maybe from different mouths. The bite marks seem different, slightly different. Look, it's not that we know what happened, but we can play the tape through. He eventually recounts. I was fishing down near Newcastle Drive around the warehouse there. There's this big warehouse and I moved to seek out the fishes and then the ground it. It bit me. Fuck. I tried to run, but there were teeth and, and mouths everywhere. I, I fell down into them and I, I thought, and then somebody came and dragged me clear and I, I woke up here. Well that's terrifying.

22:19 I regret asking you for your story now. Hang on, when was that? Do you remember when it was? No, not really. Recently. Looking at the chart that looks like with it was within I guess two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, I suppose he doesn't remember who exactly pulled him out. Yeah, he he was busy being bitten when that happened. Yeah. That's. Fair. Yeah, that makes sense. All right. Back on the stretcher, Lexie. Time to get in. That's right. You remember the legacy from the story? Same one. She used to be a pirate. She's a clown now. You should. Probably get out of there before you get visitors.

23:01 Yeah, I I get on the stretcher, I look at Colin from under the sheet and I'm like Mr. Caine. I think you mean Mr. Mr. Michael. Mr. Michael, please stop calling me Lexie. But that's your fake name. You're alias, we all decided. You and the inhabitants of your head. You know alias? Oh, you should be Jennifer Gardner. That's who you should be if we're looking for an alias. Why? She was the star of the television program Alias It's a OK, so over at the dock. Good save buddy, great save SO. Since I was in the military, I think it would make sense for me to have some binoculars, no?

23:45 You could have binoculars. It's fine. We also established that you guys have binoculars. It was a preparedness check at one point, but you guys have binoculars now. Oakley, Dokley I guess we're just finding, at least at first, a place to surreptitiously scope out the yacht from afar. OK, what do our surroundings look like? You actually could see that the yacht is actually anchored, not like at a dock or anything, it's just anchored in the water off the coast. You actually realize it's maybe you could see it from the window of that Manor house, and as you're spying it with your binoculars, it appears that no one is on.

24:26 It interesting. Good to know. In fact, you could maybe go over to it right now. We could do that. We could. We could. I guess my big concern is the fact that it's not just that people from the yacht could see us going to the yacht, it's that people on shore could see us going to the yacht. Is it actually like a swimmable distance? Athletics Difficulty 5. Fuck that. I think we should probably stick with the plan of going there under the cover of darkness. What's the boat traffic around this area looking like? It's actually kind of in the way out there. If you have any knowledge of like shipping lanes and harbor practices, it's kind of in the way, but it floats out there all the same. Maybe we could get to there during the daytime and make it just look like we're, you know.

25:15 You want to grab a boat and be proactive. Fuck it, let's go. All right, so we're looking to buy a boat. OK, you get a boat. Nice and easy. Credit rating 3 or higher to rent a boat. But if you have the credit rating, you'll need to spend one of your points just for now, to rent a boat. I'll do that. I have credit rating 4. OK. All right, boy, that's sad that the Private Eye has a better credit rating than the actual published author of many books. Ex military person, so part of it is military pension. Well, actually right now you're not really getting your bonus. It's like a whole thing, but that's a conversation for another time. Like the veterans are marching during the Great Depression being like, hey, give us the money you owe us. Maybe you.

26:03 I was going to say you invested wisely, but I don't know. What must it be like to be living in a Great Depression? Who knows, maybe we'll find out soon. I hope you. Don't have to, but probably. So you hop on a boat and sail over to the yacht. Just get a little motor boat. There's a surly looking guy who rents you the boat, his name Stan. Do you guys give your own names or do you give fake names for the the rental? Oh, obviously we're going to give fake names. Great. OK, perfect. And you make your way out to the boat and as you're approaching it, it does not appear that anybody is on the boat. So that's good. So. With the way it's anchored, can the the Manor house see like one side of it or is it like parked straight on towards the Manor house?

26:52 The Manor house could see one side of it. So we could, in theory, hide our boat in the shadow of the yacht. Exactly. We're geniuses. I'm gonna need you to cuz turns out the yacht is occasionally checked on by people that are watching it. I'm going to need you to make a difficulty 5 stealth check. I can do that. It would have been 6 but you said oh we're going to hide our boats and stuff so I'll give you one more. This is kind of important, so I'm going to spend 3 points on this actually. All right, just don't fuck up. I rolled 9 in total. Fuck yeah. So you are going to need to spend one more point because you have your friend with you. OK, I can. I can.

27:33 Can I spend that point because I've got some spare points of stealth? You know what? Sure. I don't know if that's quite how the rule works, but I'll let you do that. That's fine. Yeah. OK, so the yacht itself is not particularly large. It's got three modest cabins, a galley and a sitting room. Well, there's also some seating available on the deck. Good, that means this won't take too long to search. I would like to check the galley. 1st All right, there's a bar down in the gal, but it's dry. Row after row of empty bottles suggests not that it's been cleaned out for storage, but that somebody here drank it.

28:13 All their unwashed glasses, mugs and cups scattered everywhere. Some broken bottles. Seems like somebody might have been having a. Bender. Signs of a. Party. The way it looks more, it looks more that one person was doing most of this drinking. A party, for one is still a party. Fair, that's just a said. I just get the impression this person wasn't having a very good time of it. It's their party, they can cry if they want to. OK, yes. Does evidence collection get me anything more than that? Not in, not in the galley. All righty, do I notice anything with my knowledge of the occult? Like does it look like there are sigil signs, words or anything like that in the galley or throughout the galley? There is something painted in an almost clear liquid. This is combined with your evidence collection. It's letting you get this, and you actually notice that they are all near little things that are sticking out of the wall. What are these?

29:13 JB Your knowledge of art recognizes these as mountings for paintings. So it looks like there were symbols covered up by paintings scattered around the boat, painted in a mostly clear liquid, and they are wards against witchcraft and magic. Do we want to know what the liquid is? Do you have chemistry or? Or I'm not there. I don't, I have pharmacy though. Pharmacy. OK, there's something in here that's watered down quite a bit. This looks like this is mostly water and some sort of chemical that you don't recognize.

29:54 In fact, it looks like nothing you've ever seen before. It's got a slightly yellowish tinge. Just the fact that I don't know what it is is a pretty significant clue in and of itself. I mean, I don't know, is there any sort of like weird chemicals that might be around? I can think of 1. I can think of 1. Does it really classify as a chemical though? Isn't it more of a secretion? If things can secrete chemicals. Technically, everything is made of chemicals, if you think about it, yeah. Well, yeah, my chemicals are chemical free. This stuff was definitely painted on with Nectar. Watered down nectar but. Heavily watered down nectar, yes. Yeah. And these are apparently are awards against witchcraft and magic. Does it look like any of the wards are damaged at all? No, OK.

30:45 Well, there are a few other rooms in this boat. Yeah, there are two cabins that you assume must be for guests. They are bedrooms that are decorated with like generic nautical tchotchkis and the closets are empty and then you find one with a larger bed and the closet is full of dresses. A ton of dresses. So this was Porsche's boat. Maybe Mr. Donovan is a cross dresser. That's also possible. Maybe this was Penny's boat. I guess we can't assume anything but. Do you think you would have anything that could identify these dresses? Maybe art history?

31:30 Not do you still have the picture from the newspaper? We got geology, but fashion isn't a skill. I mean, it might be under craft. Art is good. You know what, that picture that you mentioned, one of these is the dress that Misses Donovan was wearing in that picture. OK, there it is. Yeah. Also, in the back of the closet, there's there's a case. Interesting. A guitar case. Is it empty? No. Do you want to open it? I don't like the way you phrase that. Sure, let's open it. You open it up and inside is a Spanish made guitar. You motherfucker. You.

32:12 Son of a Anything special about it? Or it's just a nice guitar. It's just a nice guitar. Ah, no, lose discos, nothing. Guess I'll leave that then. This is, of course, a three-point sanity loss if you fail a check. I mean it's not out of character for me personally to have random panic attacks over nothing, but I'd like to think JB is made of sterner stuff. In general, just as you're looking around, it looks like pretty much anything valuable has been taken out of this yacht. You see, there's plenty of stuff like the art that must have been here. They're they're like empty shells and stuff like that. It seems like this place has mostly been cleared out of valuables. Probably when she passed, if I had to guess. Yep, besides that I mean, you could try to pilot the yacht I suppose.

33:03 I see no advantage in doing. That so all the valuables have been removed. Pretty much, yeah. I mean, some of those dresses might get you a little bit of money if you find somebody would want to buy them, but. Well, yeah, it's. Guitars are not cheap. Yeah, yeah. That's not necessarily where I was going with that. I know. Does it look like somebody tried to clean up a crime scene specifically using conceal? That's a, that's a good thought, but that does not appear to be what is here. Looking around, you are pretty sure that they're not covering up us like nobody was murdered here. I mean, there might have been like sex parties here or something, but like there's no like blood that has been covered up or anything like that. Yeah, I've got forensics.

33:47 So on a similar like thought process, everything of valuable value was taken. Does it look like in the burglary and theft way or just in the we're clearing out a dead person's stuff way? Well, if they were really robbing the thing, they probably would have taken at least the guitar. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Yeah, so this looks like it was cleaned out of the valuables, but not by a robbery. Looking at it you could tell very recently it was cleared of all valuables and somebody did a lot of drinking. Yeah, this is a dead person boat. All right. On that lovely line, it looks like both of your investigations have been relatively successful as I would say there's nothing much left on the yacht.

34:31 Is there anything else the other two want to do at the hospital? I will note it's becoming around 1:30. Yeah. Or no, it's 12:30. If it was 130, Donovan would already be here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Booting it. Do you call me Lexie? Yeah. From under the sheet I punch you in the elbow. That's right, if you don't like the name, then you have to think of a better one. All right. Hi, this is Daniel and I'm here for a sad announcement. After two years of Daniel's dread, Tails are going to have to start asking you for money. You see, we all have day jobs and as we continue to work to improve the show, the expenses do add up. We've updated three mics, a few computer components, and got ourself a website, just to name a few things. And throughout this entire time, Nathan's laptop has been making truly concerning noises.

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36:15 The time where there were more mouths. Than we expected or more. Eyes than we expected, or more eyes in mouths than we being expected. I It's hard to narrow it down. Was it the fish with human teeth? It's. Definitely up there. If any of these things sound horrible to you, you can find them and more on the crows codecs now part of the imaginary broadcast network. It's as real as you want it to be. And you, I assume, meet up again. Yeah, sure. Yep, the other team is probably going to be a little surprised that we were like, fuck it, we figured we could actually get away with investigating the boat, so we did, yeah. The plan originally was we're going to rent, we're going to be ready to sneak onto a boat.

36:56 Instead, you're just like, Oh yeah, no, we did it already. With the opportunity presented itself. I don't think Colin would be surprised. Colin has worked with Reg in the past. Gotcha. A mistake out can be avoided. Reg will usually take that option, yeah. More time for drinking. JB was surprised at least, and he was part of the plan. So when we meet up, first of all, we should probably share the boys charts with JB. Alexi was the one with the bite Marks and the other one was probably Donovan's kid on account of the chair last name. That's usually how that works. And. His name was Montgomery Donovan Junior. It'd be quite a coincidence. Of course he did the rich person thing. Something that bothered me about this Alexi child. His exact words I believe where the ground bit me. He was fishing I think a couple of weeks ago over by the warehouse.

37:47 You know, when we were staking out the warehouse, wasn't there a very specific path that everyone was trying to stay on? Like nobody stepped off the path at all. That there was. So maybe it's not land mines, it's land mouths. Land mouths. When we end up going there, do not go on the grass. That's a that's a good conclusion, JB. If you would have access to these church straight away, you would have just been able to read them and understand them because of the unique circumstances that you were finding yourself in. I'm going to need you to spend a point of medicine to examine. All right, I've only got the one, but honestly, I don't see myself using a point of medicine for much else, so hit me. Alexis Chart describes a mess of overlapping drugs and flailing treatments.

38:41 Actually, the things he's being treated with are not the things that you would treat somebody who has bite marks. There are scars of the bite marks that are still on this child's body, but they have healed over and the treatments that are being given to him are not for that. Therefore some other disease I guess, but he's being treated for an illness he shows no symptoms for. And included in there you recognize many of the things that he is being treated with. But there is one thing that is being listed as N that he is being treated with as well.

39:24 I think Donovan's a monster. Meanwhile, Montgomery Donovan Junior is also getting a overlapping mess of treatments, drugs and would be remedies. It seems to be almost exactly the same things that the orphan Alexi is getting. And actually, as you trace it, it seems that Alexi gets them one day and then once they observe the effects, they are given to Montgomery Junior. That's a Dick move. The chart paints the picture of a mysterious illness and a doctor in over their head. This child is getting periodic doses of something labeled N as well, and he's also getting something called the special treatment, but again, nothing seems to be helping. Well, it looks like we maybe found our research subjects. Yeah.

40:15 Let me look you got. I mean, you're able to put it together, I assume, but I if not, I'll be explicit. They're testing stuff on Alexi first. Yeah, before they give it to Montgomery. An innocent orphan wanders into their landmine zone, gets bitten. They take him up to the ICU and once he's been treated for the bites, they start using him as the test subject for Donovan's son to treat something real and unknown. Shit. Are they being treated? Treated like Is there even a disease? That is a good question. What symptoms, if any, are listed for Montgomery Junior?

40:59 It's sort of a wasting disease. It seems to be a little unclear exactly what it is, but they're lethargic, they're befuddled. Their body seems to just be slowly failing them. You'd almost say it was like a cancer, but it's not a cancer. You know, they, they've done their checks. It just seems to be. No signs of tumors, he's just dying. He's yeah, he's slowly wasting away. Hey JB, does it say in there when he started with the symptoms, like when he started getting sick? He was checked in a little under a month ago. Dun Dun, Dun.

41:42 That doesn't feel like a coincidence. Nah, not at all. Well, what would it mean? I don't know. It happened after whatever happened to his mother. Yeah. Which presumably involved a mouth. We can only assume. Yeah, it it coincides around the time that they made the mouth happy. They made the mouth happy. Porsche mysteriously disappears and dies. His son gets sick with something mysterious and terminal. Either Donovan's having like the worst day of his life, or he's the biggest bastard we've ever met. I don't think those are mutually exclusive. Fair enough. Whatever this is, it's definitely his fault. Undoubtedly. I'm not sure how it all works, and I kind of look at Reggie as the de facto expert.

42:25 My worry is that Monty Donovan is not being treated for anything, but rather they're trying to turn him into something. I mean, that is also a possibility. That being said, if the timeline matches up like it seems to, I think the sacrifice that was made has something to do with Porsche. That much I'm inclined to agree. What if it got them both? I was just getting to that. I think what is happening to Montgomery's son is at the very least unforeseen back or part of the that the sacrifice was made was to change his son and it didn't go the way he expected. Especially since there's the special treatment that's listed on his medical charts that you would think getting the mysterious end substance would be the special treatment, since I'm now 80% certain that that means that they're using nectar in the treatment.

43:28 But if the nectar isn't the special treatment, then what the hell else are they doing to this? That is a very good question. Well, if we want answers, it might be time to enact our great big joke. What joke? The one we keep telling Kerns about. The kidnapping, but it's just a joke. I'm laughing already, right? Right. Plausible deniability. Kidnapping. Yeah, in Minecraft, is that a thing people say? When you're joking about something, you say you're doing it in Minecraft. Or. No, am I? Never mind, let's move on. I guess that if it sounds like it's time to kidnap this guy, and that does seem like a a solid idea. The question is, how are you going to do it? Well, I think the first thing we should figure out is where we're holding them.

44:15 Definitely. On the plane. Bad idea. That's our way home. Low those I am to admit it, this magic stuff seems to maybe be in effect. You might have ways of bringing people to our doorstep in that case. I mean, you could probably find an abandoned building. Step one, We locate an abandoned place to hold him. Hey Colin, you want to find us a place where we can hold him? I want to check one more thing out. Yeah, yeah, I've been hearing about a old abandoned circus that comes alive at night. I'll go check that out tonight. What skill would you use to find an abandoned building? Anybody. Accounting. No. How about the catacombs though?

44:58 Accounting would do it. Accounting, yeah. Accounting, I suppose if you're going over like the records of like businesses that have gone banked up, you'd have to go to like the City Hall records again. But we've done that once before. And Colin has photographic memory. Or you could just go back there. Well, that's kind of where Reg was planning on going. OK. Well, maybe you guys can go together. I don't know what Reg was going to look up, but. Meanwhile, I've got I think I have an idea on how to perpetrate the kidnapping itself because we know the one time that he separated from his guards is when he's visiting his wife's grave. I mean, there's more times than that.

45:39 There's also the hospital room, which Kay is now being inside of. Exactly, I have seen that hospital room that means I can can't believe I'm saying this Hyperspace gate. In there. Hear me out though, if we ambush him in the graveyard, you don't have to hyperspace gate in to kidnap him. Instead we hyperspace gate out to get out of there without going past his guards. Out of character, does it say that I have to go through the gate alone or can I take others with me? So here's the thing, you're not super sure you know what I mean. Like you haven't done this yet.

46:19 If you really want to know the details of it you probably need to do like a test casting, but that in and of itself is probably dangerous. But you will open a gate. OK. Usually you can take more than one person through a gate you. Can take. Oh yeah, you could take things through the gate. Things. Yeah. And people, yeah. And then when they come out the other side, they just never stop screaming win, win this isn't. Blatant. OK. And Renee are going to write a list of things that we need to know for sure about Hyperspace Gate. OK here's my plan. If this is a bad plan please feel free to tell me, but my thought is we jump the guy in the graveyard and then we take him out through a hyperspace gate. If the hyperspace gate only allows like him and K through, the rest of us just leave the graveyard and pretend we had been paying our respects too.

47:15 One of the things I want to see is if we can potentially escape that graveyard through the catacombs. If there's an entrance there, then we might be able to use that to get us the time to either get away or have Kay set up her teleport. OK, so you're now you have a place to look for catacombs stuff. Yes, now I have a place to look for a potential entrance. Interesting. I'm going to say with accounting, by the way, there's a couple banded buildings, you know, anywhere you would need them to be. Perfect. And if Kay goes to any of those, then that is a place that she now has stored for, you know.

47:57 The other thing let's see Reggie, is there a skill you would use for analyzing all of these blueprints? Architecture. You know what? Yeah, that makes sense. Could you spend me a point of architecture? I can. All right, then, I'm going to give you something big. You find evidence of a tunnel that goes right underneath that graveyard. Now, there is stone in the catacomb that would separating it from the earth above it in the garden, but you are able to find one. And you know what? You should be able to get into it through a nearby abandoned building. You might need to do some excavation work, but some digging you could get in. It really is in Minecraft.

48:42 But excavation isn't a skill. Geology. Oh yeah, there we go. Now and explosives. Now that would be time consuming. Well, maybe not the explosives part, but that would be one way to approach this. There's also the use of a gate. Maybe there's another thing you could do, I don't know. I would like to test the gate first. Grave routing? Nope. OK, how? Do you intend to test the gate? From the comfort of my own hotel room. OK. Is anybody joining you for it? Oh, we got to draw straws for that.

49:23 Actually, I wouldn't mind if all of us joined me for it. I have a feeling that we might. All right, fine. At the very least, I will come along. Sure. Can we say that we're back at the hotel? Yeah, you're back at the hotel. OK, OK, here's some things. Being the researcher that I am, here's some things that I need to know. First, can I take people through and how many? Second, are they OK afterwards? 3 How quickly does the gate close? Do I have to be the last one through it? How does closing it work? Can I control it at all? Can it be closed? Can it be closed? Yeah, and #4 can I take an unwilling person? Like, do they have to step in on of their own free will? I don't know.

50:07 It just weirdly feels like it matters. Well, that one might be hard to test, but I can tell you right now I'm not going through that. I wink at JB and Reg. OK, so I ask one more question of my companions. Where should I? Where should I, I suppose, direct the gate to? Let's keep it simple for this test. My room OK. Because like, so it's a pretty, it's like a, it's a, it's a place you've been. Yeah. So it fulfills that requirement. And it's locked notably. So no chance of somebody walking in on us in the middle of testing out a magic spell. All right. OK. And K is going to be the one doing it. K Do you have physics skills?

50:51 No, I don't. OK, I almost took it and then I didn't. That's fine. Knowledge of physics would make this a little easier, so you're gonna need to draw this up somewhere. We're not getting our deposit back. I draw up on the wall probably would make sense so we would like walk through it yeah that makes. Sense you're gonna need to like, push the bed away from the wall to like, make room. So is there a full length mirror in this room? Sure, that's a nice idea. Does Kay have lipstick? Yep, I know where you're going. Sure. Yeah, all. Right team. I trace the inside of the mirror with my lipstick. Don't use your own. You can take some from my disguise kit. All right, you save that for the next time you disguised as a clown. It's gonna take about an hour to do it. Yes, all.

51:40 Righty. To inscribe it, if you had knowledge of physics you could get it done in about 10 minutes, and if you spent a point of physics you could get it done in a minute. If you ever need to like really fucking get a portal going. OK, well, I know what I'm buying next time I level up accounting. Sure. I think you've got accounting handled. It's truly the most useful skill. Damn, I've got physics but I don't have magic so. Well, it's your time to read a book. For health, double per increment of distance, continental, global, interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic. So this is going to be a continental. Either lose 2 stability or for health.

52:21 But first you need to make a test, a difficulty 5 stability test. Oh, fun. Yikes. What's the loss on this? This is to succeed or oh. OK. Oh. I see. Well, shit increase. Your chances of succeeding. By spending stability. And then you will also need to just spend 2 stability or four health even after you succeed. OK. So Kay is in her room and you guys are in there with her and she's inscribing bizarre symbols all over this mirror. I'm spending to stability, to stability to aid the role. There you go.

53:06 OK. Make your role. You can do it. I believe in you. Didn't need to spend. That's A7. Yay. OK, now you will need to spend 2 stability to sacrifice your mind, or for Health to sacrifice your body to complete the ritual. Oh, for each four health points spent from the caster's spool, lose one point from the caster's health rating. Oh. Oh. Yikes. Yikes on bikes. Wow. Does the same go for stability or no? I don't want to be a force stability though. Force stability or two maximum health. It'd just be one maximum.

53:48 Health. Oh, sorry, one maximum health. And the maximum health is forever. Yes, that would mean that you're sacrificing part of your body to make the spell work couple. Fingers. I feel like you should save that one for emergencies. Yeah, I think so too. I'm yeah, I'm going to spend the stability. So I'm at force stability right now all. Right. What does this look like? The gate as it opens. All of this, all of this leading up to the opening of the gate. What does this look like? What is Kay doing? I know I'm sort of vaguely describing it, but I want you, you know, if you're down. So this is like you're invoking magic. None of you here have seen magic before, by the way. You guys are all going to need to, well, Kay's already made a stability test, but some of you are going to need to make separate stability tests in just a moment. But even after you imagine this looks like yes, you've seen mouths, but this is another spooky thing you're saying. Are we gonna have to make stability test every time we see Kay open a portal?

54:49 Cuz at some point it's gonna be old hat. Well, there's a difference between seeing something for the first time and then seeing it not for the first time in terms of that stability check. That is fair. Suck it, mouths. And. Yeah, wait, don't, don't do it. Oh no. Don't suck the mouth. Don't suck anything mouth. I think the little tube of lipstick feels heavy and cold in my hand. It's a rose red by Max Factor. One of those new swiveling tubes, a diamond piece. William got it for me on the whim, even though I hate the feeling of my hair stuck on the pesky film of garish colored grease. I used it exactly once to humor him and never touched it again. Never again, not since he, at any rate. It seems oddly fitting, like things have come full circle. I pop the cap, put the lipstick against the smooth surface, and then the pain comes.

55:50 My eyes are two orbs of pure white heat going Nova in my skull. What starts as a scream of agony when chest bursts out in this real deep, primal chant with mostly bottles. I give them voice, breath, life. I sing them into existence. As my hands traces the unfathomable shapes around the mirror's edge. The room fades out of reality, consumed by a light that is both scorching and bone shattering in the cold, like the unfriendly void of ours face. My friend's stunned face has become a blur. I think someone was crying out.

56:31 Is it me? That's a fine surgical struggle not stop your rooms where they're sets the very flesh of the ears and. Through. The. Cat, I said to make the bloody, which does bear striking resemblance to JB's room. This mystical a crazy shit to see an incredibly boring hotel room, but I will need to have everybody. Not K, but you guys are going to need to make difficulty for stability checks with a loss of three.

57:14 Oh boy. I will spend 1. I passed SO. I rolled A6 and yeah, basically as soon as the surface stops rippling, Reggie is just going to go and grab Colin and be like OK, time to go through and start pushing. No, it's not my time. And start pushing him towards the portal, OK? It's a small mirror I'm not gonna fit. What about you, Colin? What'd you roll? I rolled A6. Well, congratulations, you are not rocked too much by this. And what about you, JB?

57:54 So I failed my stability test. OK, so I'm just kind of like looking at it stunned for a solid second. Like like I knew this was coming but Jesus fucking Christ. Now, is this now looking at it as its message with your sanity? Are you afraid of it or are you in awe of it? I guess in awe would be closer. OK. Is it taking me any effort at all to keep the gate open? You are thinking about it, focused and thinking and still sort of chanting about the gate. You didn't even realize at first that you were muttering words that in a language you don't even know as you keep this gate open.

58:44 Is the language mostly vowels? Yeah, you know. I know it's a concentration spell. The grunt of disappointment. Love you too, Dan. So you shoved a person through and did you go with them or Colin and Reginald? Did they both go through? Yeah. Reggie's following column through. As you take the step through, it's like you're just stepping through as if it was just right there. However, as you step through, do you realize that the hairs on your body are like standing up?

59:27 And not because it's spooky, but because legitimately it was so cold. It was only for like a an instant, but it was impossibly cold for just an instant. Don't want to stay in there too. Long, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. It's. No, I won't be able to stop thinking in portals so. If we want to test if K. This was a triumph. I'm making a note right here. Huge. Success. Yay jokes. OK. Sorry to overstate my satisfaction. Since we wanted to test if Kay needed to be the last person through.

1:00:08 Once those two are through relatively unharmed, then K should go through and I'm going to see if I can follow after or if I just walk into a mirror. Yeah, let's do that. I walk through. OK. And I walk through afterwards. You all walk through, yeah? OK. Good science team. OK, I look back at it and I attempt to close it. You're going to force yourself to stop chanting? Yeah, I'm gonna think. Think at it close and attempt to stop the spell. It closes.

1:00:53 How? How is everybody? I don't appreciate being manhandled. I mean, we needed to see if we were able to take an unwilling person through. Oh, all right, I get it. Great work, Mr. Killworth. It's what I do. I appreciate it. I suppose as long as you're not doing the other stuff you do to me. That's for later. Whoa. Hey, you OK? I mean, I thought, I thought we had something, Colin, but I see how it is. I still can't get the thought of that man stuffed in that safe out of my head. Wonder if they ever found him. I would love to stay here and listen, but I mean, I, I kind of imagined that it, it took a toll on me.

1:01:42 Oh, absolutely. Yeah, that makes. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, you lost force stability. What does force stability look like? Sort of reddish. I think there's like a direct explanation of what that might look like. Let me see. You don't really start getting fucked up until you go until you hit 0. OK. Yeah, so you're probably a little twitchy. I'd imagine I feel like I haven't slept for two days straight. Yeah. Which isn't far from the truth. Yeah, I mean, Kay operates in mysterious ways. Let's see, it says role-playing instability On a three or four point loss.

1:02:23 You might have to stop a bit and hyperventilate. You're blinking a lot, maybe sweating too. If you talk, you might run away with your own words. Keep doing something comforting. Rack the slide of the shotgun, the Miskatonic fight song, that kind of thing. That will see you through this. OK. You don't have to use that, but that's the example that they gave. Was that the fucking Star Trek fight theme? No, it's the Miskatonic Fight theme. Completely different. Yeah, absolutely. I just grab my and my husband's wedding rings that are on the chain around my neck and just start pulling at them. Do you return to your room? Yes, I'm feeling a bit nauseous. I think I better go lie down.

1:03:05 All right, if you excuse me. The mirror there still has all the symbols drawn on it, but you see there's a slight crack at the bottom of the Mirror Now. Oh, noted. However, you realize you could probably use this mirror again and it would be less of a drain on your sanity or stability. Oh. Yeah, there was something. Yeah, I guess we're keeping the mirror. Yeah, I was just thinking of like giving one of you some money and like sending you to the receptionist or something. Nah, too complicated. Why do anything when what you're doing can be solved with theft? So.

1:03:49 When Kay leaves the room, Reginald is just going to look at JB and Colin and say, well, it looks like we're probably done for the day. I am going to. I'll be in my room. That's some reading I need to do. So do I. What's you going for tonight, JP? Good question, All right. I always feel like we should start a theme song. The Which horrible book are you going to read tonight? Yeah, I can. I feel like I'm playing Russian roulette TBH. Like I don't know which of these is going to do something terrible to me. They all sound awful.

1:04:29 That's the fun part. None of us do. I guess also, Kay, do you plan to read anything tonight or do you think you're probably good? I. Please, please just sleep. I probably no, I think I'm good for now. I have for stability. I'm going to save it for for. It occurs next time. I have 3 stability so I shouldn't do this but. But you should. But I will. Look at the fancy investigators with all their stability. I've got 2. I have the most stability out of all of us with 9 at the moment. How the fuck did? That Rich McGee over there. Anyway, the Cradle in the ocean sounds suitably horrible. Do you want to skim it, or do you want to read it deeply? Deeply.

1:05:22 Don't say it like that. Fuck it, let's read, let's go, let's pour. OK. Drink deep and descend. We're playing Lancer. We're not actually playing Lancer. There's I'd have to be the GM and there's so much GM prep. The Cradle in the Ocean is a a weird book. It's seemingly nonsensical, but deeply disturbing. It's a children's book which recounts bizarre tales of the folk hero Paul Bunyan. The the stories include, and they're all told in like a bizarre broken pose, Paul wrestling with Shepherdeth, whose scythe Tagath Klatar is repeatedly described as sly angled.

1:06:11 And the sly, angled scythe eventually cuts down Paul Bunyan, leaving a vivid red mark at the heart of a web of Crimson which spreads across Paul Bunyan's chest. For kids. Yeah, exactly. Honestly, just everything. It's a lot of cause and effect. Like Paul does something and then something bad happens to him. It's really a bunch of bad things happening to Paul Bunyan. A lot of ocean imagery, but the idea is that the ocean is actually a wall, and behind that wall lies an imprisoned being of imprisoned Behemoth, referred to both as the Prisoner and the Liar. The liar, you say? The liar features also with a story called The Saffron Bee, where Paul tries to steal honey from a colony of giant bees whose hive is as big as a mountain. But the liar is held by the lie of false history, of a causality that cannot be.

1:07:07 And though Paul gains the honey, he is supposed to be getting the honey to give to the liar. But then when he leaves, he realizes that the liar never existed. Or maybe the liar lied about having existed in the 1st place. It's kind of unclear as you're reading it. There are no mechanical effects from reading this book. Oh, thank God. Yes. I mean, I guess it would have been cool to learn to spell, but you know, whatever. You didn't go crazy. I didn't go crazy. I'll take it. Reggie is reading The Womb of the Blackstone since it is related to the previous book that. He had read. Remind our audience how that connects. There were some notes in there that identified the Blackstone, that curious, sinister monolith that broods among the mountains of Hungary as the spikes of the world of his world and the ladders of fate, intimating perhaps that other such monoliths might exist.

1:08:07 All right, this book is in Hungarian. Do you speak Hungarian? No, unless. Come wake me up. I have languages. Unfortunately, you're not going to get anything out of this book. Now if you would like you could pick another book because very quickly you'll real I can't read this. Yeah, we. Will go with a different book then Yolo. It is collected sermons of the floated tongue. Skimming or going deep? Going deep. OK, this is a handwritten volume purportedly presenting the true words which were spoken by the many mouths of the floated tongue. They're sermons written by, well, they were preached in a mission called Mison Santa Maria de la Cabeza. It's like in Baja California, OK. In 1821, the Mission's Padres seem to have formed like a glossolalia cult.

1:09:01 Do you know what that means? Glossolalia. That's when you start speaking words without meaning. Just just sounds. Yeah. Speaking in tongues, basically. Yeah, though they were very deliberately described as they were speaking without tongues. Lots of vowels. That's why the language is vowels. Yeah, OK. Yeah. Yeah, Cthulhu stuff. Yeah, there were a lot of people officially very interested in this. It started a cult. This is sort of a description of people dealing with that cult as well. They talk about the sweet honey, the Padres voice, and they also talk about how the priests here started to try to convert the local natives, which was approved of by the Spanish authorities.

1:09:47 And they were like whipping and attacking the natives. And it said that their wounds spoke through fresh slit lips. So many mouths. Ultimately, historical notes written in a much later hand says that the mission was wiped out by the military in 1825 and razed to the ground. Honestly good. Riddance. And all official records were destroyed. Yeah, but the mouth cult didn't stop there. This might have actually been part of the cause of the 1826 like Mexican government crisis. But now maybe all of this is made-up. But it seems to be the case that this sounds like something you would know, so you gain a point of Cthulhu mythos. And lose a point of sanity.

1:10:36 I need you to make a two point mythos stability test. Oakley, Dokley. So that'll be a difficulty 5 test. And for a loss of two points total. Yes. Ha ha, I succeed. You also have two Floating Points that you could spend for stuff involving the mouths. Like you have a two point mouths skill that you could spend on investigative abilities. OK, you know how these cults get so popular, right Where the mouth. Oh, come on. And then I guess, do we have another book that we want to read?

1:11:16 Oh, Collin's done reading. Collin's done reading. Yeah, Collin's probably learned his lesson from reading. He's paid his dues. Well Collin, I am going to need you to make me a test though, because Pale Death is still haunting your dreams. The Crawling Mist. There you go. I need you to make a three-point Mythos stability test. So difficulty 5 at a loss of three. Well. Yikes. If you succeed, you will no longer be haunted by this dream. Well, that's not fun. Yeah. You all succeeded anyway. Yay. Woo, did you succeed? I rolled the six, yeah. OK, you are able to push away that thing that you read about. It probably was just you having bad dreams just thinking about it.

1:12:02 No, I think it was a manifestation of my guilt surrounding recent events. Fair, fair. That was also probably it. Now, of course, I have absolved myself of any wrongdoing. So we have all taken our book round that we now do at the end of our days now, which is a fun thing I've discovered about how our game works. Brooke, we stole so many books. Yes. What are we going to do, just leave them like some sort of safe party? Fuck that. Yeah. Any other things we do in the evening outside of reading books? Eating. Private Daniel. Well, yeah, you probably have a dinner of some sort. Was that before or after the teleportation experiment?

1:12:44 Probably after. Probably after, yeah. OK, we didn't know if it was going to make us nauseous. Exactly not fair. Yeah. Don't want dinner ended up ending up everywhere. Did you not? Everywhere dinner together or did you have dinner separately? What? What do we think? I I just need to say that it wouldn't have ended up everywhere. It would have ended up all over JP's room and nowhere else. Oh no. I am so glad we decided to eat dinner after I. Would think that we would probably eat dinner together, yeah. I think I passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow. OK, when I when I went to. We'll take a lot out of you. Yeah. So that's three people eating and one person conked the fuck out.

1:13:29 Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys talk about the fact that you've now been teleported like how is how is the meal or do you studiously avoid talking about that? Oh you bet your ass I'm dodging that shit like the plague. OK. I always thought you were full of shit, Reg. How I've been teleported. Even after the mouth thing. I mean, I started coming around then, but guess the world's a lot weirder than Colin. Anybody made it? Out Have I ever lied to you in the past? So many times. That was when we were on the job, something important. I've never actually lied.

1:14:14 This is something that, yeah, no, the world is a pretty fucked up place. I just thought it was fucked up in normal ways. When you've seen what's beyond the veil, that there's no walking back from that. Yeah, we could always do what Winston did and pretend it never happened until we quietly go mad. I I think we're a little too in deep with this to take that route. Yeah, probably. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. At night, while folks are asleep, an old man we just see. I don't know, maybe you even dreamed this a little bit. An old man puts a note under each of your doors. You'll read it when you wake up, but I'll let you know what it says.

1:15:08 It says beware. You meddle in things you do not understand and put your soul at jeopardy and there is just a cross on it. Thanks for listening. President Killworth was Damian JB Falk was Nathan K Morgan was Renee, and as is often the case, Daniel was our GM Colin Kane was Russell who also mixed mastered in music this episode. Special thanks to Theodore Monk for reading our intro this week. He's got a new podcast called the Friendship Factory that's nothing like this, but you might want to check it out anyway.

1:15:51 Our album art is by Trinity to the Tea Time witch. Our main theme is by Claire LW on SoundCloud, and we have a website and discord. You're more than welcome to check out if you dare. You may also be interested in checking out Renee's new Deviant Art page where they're posting all the paintings they're doing inspired by the show. Additionally, I and everyone from Daniels Dread Tales want to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who popped in and or donated during our 24 hour extra live stream, including long timer Moirath. I don't know how to pronounce this, but I'll say damn. D&D and Cat, who is probably moored from the stars, aren't all right Discord, but she pops into ours too, and she's awesome. This is Damien from Daniels Dread Tails and I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who showed up and donated. Thank you.

1:16:31 Thank you. Thank you. Thank. You we're already talking about what to do for next year. OK, thanks for listening. And until next time. The Inquisiteers theme is by Kyle Fryer on SoundCloud and is used with permission from the cast of Wrath and Story. Original lyrics by me. This will make sense in a minute. OK, OK, Mythos book theme. Use the main theme book time we're reading mythos. No, that's awful. Maybe a parody of which boom. No, that's insane. Which puts in hell, maybe I don't have to start from scratch in the depths of the earth. Great evil works hints at it's revelry in written works. And what they don't know is the greatest folk, our investigators read.

1:17:30 Now from the library they grow K Morgan call and K Reginald JB 2. What are they going to read and distribute to you? It's time to choose a book now kind of long wait. Of course, the underlying lesson of every episode of Off Book, the improvised musical Zack and Jess magic rhymes with tragic.