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00:00:00Um, I got a three.
00:00:04Is that a failure or a success?
00:00:06Three is not a failure.
00:00:08You see someone you've seen before,
00:00:09and you can't believe that she's at this party.
00:00:11You realize she must be much younger than you thought.
00:00:14You see Ana Lopez is here.
00:00:16Ana Lopez.
00:00:17Who's one of the super hosts.
00:00:18Yes.
00:00:19Oh.
00:00:20Oh.
00:00:21Okay.
00:00:21She's definitely dressed down.
00:00:23She's like a funky, bohemian chic.
00:00:25Property manager.
00:00:26Uh, uh, yeah, you see that she's got a, uh.
00:00:30Kind of funky, weird girl.
00:00:31Funky, weird girl.
00:00:33You can tell that she's definitely giving senior vibes.
00:00:35Like she's wrapping up her first semester here
00:00:39of her last year at Perpee State.
00:00:41And I think what you see immediately,
00:00:43in terms of class status,
00:00:44that really is alarming to you
00:00:46in terms of being, like, standing out here.
00:00:48She's got a fucking rock on her finger.
00:00:51That is crazy.
00:00:53Like an engagement ring?
00:00:53An engagement ring, yes.
00:00:55Okay.
00:00:56Hi, do you remember me?
00:00:58I'm Madeleine.
00:00:59She looks and says, uh, oh my God.
00:01:02There's, uh.
00:01:04Hi.
00:01:05Hi, where did we meet?
00:01:06I'm so sorry.
00:01:07I hate this.
00:01:07I'm so sorry.
00:01:07This is my worst nightmare.
00:01:08Maybe I think we met in another life.
00:01:12Whoa, go ahead and give me charisma persuasion.
00:01:17And I have an extra dot for seduction as well.
00:01:20Yes, and you can add awe in here if you want to.
00:01:22I would love to.
00:01:23Great.
00:01:24You got so many dice.
00:01:25Looking for, I think we're looking for-
00:01:26So many fucking dice.
00:01:27This is a strong cup of tea,
00:01:28so we're looking for four successes here.
00:01:29Yeah.
00:01:30Yeah, I got it.
00:01:30I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:01:33Seven?
00:01:33Yeah.
00:01:33Um, uh, you see that she goes partially slack-jawed and absentmindedly, without meaning to, covers
00:01:42her engagement ring with her other hand, and goes, oh my God, are you, is this a prank?
00:01:54No, I would never prank somebody.
00:01:55I'm so sorry.
00:01:56I think you have something on your face right here.
00:01:58Uh, everyone looks around.
00:02:00Uh, you see that, uh, Stringy, over in the corner, goes, fuck, this is awesome.
00:02:05Oh my God.
00:02:06Anna goes, hey, um, is everything-
00:02:11Yes.
00:02:12Everything is-
00:02:14Good.
00:02:15Can I, I don't remember meeting, I'm so sorry.
00:02:18No, it's, it's okay.
00:02:20It's okay, you're just, I guess, so memorable.
00:02:24Uh, what's your name again?
00:02:26Madeline?
00:02:26Madeline.
00:02:27Hi.
00:02:28Hi.
00:02:29Uh, well, good to see you again.
00:02:30What are you doing here at Barnabas?
00:02:33Oh, I just, I heard it was a really cool party.
00:02:36Is it your party?
00:02:38Uh, no.
00:02:39No, no, no, no.
00:02:40No, you're just hanging out?
00:02:42Yeah, there's some of my friends.
00:02:43I know me and Patti are friends.
00:02:45And, and, this is maybe rude, but are you related to the prominent landowners of this
00:02:52town, the Lopez family?
00:02:53Oh, the Lopez's are not prominent landowners in this town.
00:02:58Why do you think that?
00:02:59I must have misread it.
00:03:01I'm so sorry.
00:03:02That boy Stringy, he gave me very weird information about you.
00:03:05I was asking about you.
00:03:06I'm so sorry.
00:03:07Fucking Stringy.
00:03:08God.
00:03:09God, I fucking hate Stringy.
00:03:11You hate Stringy?
00:03:12I sort of hate Stringy.
00:03:13It's an intense energy off of him.
00:03:16He's just always so, like, sad.
00:03:19And it's like, what are you fucking sad?
00:03:20No one's being mean to you.
00:03:21You could just be tall, but you make yourself so small.
00:03:23Yeah.
00:03:25Um, no, I, my family, well, my family's back in San Francisco, but the-
00:03:29Oh, your family is back in San Francisco.
00:03:32I just moved here from San Francisco.
00:03:34Oh, cool.
00:03:36Uh, yeah, no, I, um, the, why did you, why did you mention property owning?
00:03:41I'm stupid.
00:03:44I don't think you're stupid.
00:03:47Oh, that's so nice of you to say.
00:03:48You're the first person to ever say that.
00:03:50Gotcha.
00:03:50I am really quite stupid.
00:03:52Oh, gotcha.
00:03:53Uh, yeah, uh, no.
00:03:55I mean, I like, I like, I manage, like, some places, but literally just like, I literally manage for my,
00:04:03um, uh, my fiance.
00:04:06Uh.
00:04:07Your fiance.
00:04:07Yeah.
00:04:09Oh, you're engaged.
00:04:10Yeah.
00:04:11Who's the lucky person?
00:04:13Uh, gentleman.
00:04:14Though, uh, though, if you're picking up on any, it doesn't, it wouldn't, it happens to be a gentleman.
00:04:21Uh, uh.
00:04:22It's, it's, you know, I, I, I get it.
00:04:26You know, you just wish, you wish, you wish, you wish.
00:04:29You just wish.
00:04:31Dang it.
00:04:31You just wish.
00:04:32It happens.
00:04:33It's like, oops.
00:04:34Oops, I fell on the dick.
00:04:35It happened.
00:04:36I mean, statistically, right?
00:04:38Statistically, I mean, what are you gonna do about it?
00:04:39I mean, there's dicks flying.
00:04:42They're everywhere.
00:04:42And then girls, you just gotta impress them so much.
00:04:44You just wanna, you care so much.
00:04:45It's hard.
00:04:46Honestly, but that's the thing is, honestly, I feel like, when I see a woman that I'm into, I'm like,
00:04:50my God, the stakes couldn't be higher.
00:04:52They're so beautiful.
00:04:53What if I disappoint this woman?
00:04:54They are so beautiful.
00:04:54You see a man, you're like, I don't even give a shit.
00:04:56And then they're like, marry me.
00:05:01Blistering.
00:05:05You see, you see, she goes, um, what are we talking about?
00:05:08Yeah.
00:05:09Cal.
00:05:09What are we talking, his name is Cal?
00:05:11Cal Whitaker, yeah.
00:05:12Cal Whitaker, so interesting.
00:05:16Can I see a picture of him?
00:05:17Sure, sure, sure, sure.
00:05:18I sort of grab the back of her neck as we look at the picture.
00:05:21Um, you see, she takes her phone out.
00:05:23The lock screen of her phone is a beautiful gray cat.
00:05:26Oh.
00:05:27And she opens the phone.
00:05:28What's the home screen unlocked?
00:05:30The home screen unlocked is blurry of same cat.
00:05:32Great.
00:05:33Huge.
00:05:33Huge.
00:05:34What a beautiful boy.
00:05:36Uh, Tibbles.
00:05:38Tibbles.
00:05:39Tibble is short for Tibble-t.
00:05:40Oh, cause you love Shakespeare.
00:05:42I do.
00:05:43Fantastic.
00:05:44Uh, I did some performing in high school.
00:05:48That's great.
00:05:49Uh, but I'm a poli-sci major.
00:05:50Uh, now, this is my last year.
00:05:52Uh, me-
00:05:52See, I knew you were so clever.
00:05:53Uh, hey!
00:05:55God, I don't remember us meeting at all.
00:05:57Is that crazy?
00:05:57What's wrong with me?
00:05:58It was a different life, Anna.
00:06:00Yeah, it must be all these, it must be this man.
00:06:03Shhh.
00:06:04Shhh.
00:06:05Are you okay?
00:06:06Um, I feel crazy right now.
00:06:08Do you want a drink?
00:06:08I don't know why.
00:06:08I'd love a drink.
00:06:10Um, I'd love a drink.
00:06:12Uh, yeah, no, so here.
00:06:14And she takes a picture.
00:06:15And you see that there is a, maybe a few years out of college.
00:06:18Uh-huh.
00:06:18Young, swoop of brown hair.
00:06:22Just a guy who's smiling in this photo.
00:06:24He's got an arm around Anna.
00:06:25I don't know if they're happy.
00:06:26It's like they're, like, somewhere in SoCal, like, on a vacation somewhere.
00:06:30Uh, he has big lacrosse energy.
00:06:33Got it.
00:06:33Um, and you see he's got an arm over her shoulder.
00:06:36This is Cal.
00:06:37Cal works in town.
00:06:38He works for his family.
00:06:40He's a curator at the Whitaker Patterson Art Gallery.
00:06:43Oh.
00:06:44Um, so, um, but yeah.
00:06:47He's, uh, uh, yeah, he's my fiancee.
00:06:49And so his family owns a bunch of properties in town.
00:06:52Um.
00:06:52Got it.
00:06:53And they got you on the payroll.
00:06:55It was just a little bit too much for Rachel to handle.
00:06:59His sister is his aunt.
00:07:01One of his aunts.
00:07:02Um, and.
00:07:04And you like these witty girls?
00:07:05Give me charisma persuasion again.
00:07:07Oh, and okay.
00:07:08I got a three.
00:07:09Three successes.
00:07:10You sense that that is a, in your, in your aristocratic ways, obviously a very rude question
00:07:15to ask someone.
00:07:16Sure.
00:07:17But you see that she sort of looks and says, they've been really nothing but kind to me.
00:07:25Let's get a drink.
00:07:26Let's get a drink.
00:07:27I'm buying.
00:07:28It's obviously a party.
00:07:29Okay.
00:07:30I think you get a drink and strike up an extremely fun, uh, evening with Ana Lopez.
00:07:38Who, over the course of an evening, divulges to you basically some of her history.
00:07:42She's a poli-sci major.
00:07:43She's studying here at Purpy State University.
00:07:45Uh, her mom lives in San Francisco and her dad lives in Portland.
00:07:49And so she could use the in-state university.
00:07:51Sure.
00:07:52Uh, far from being property owners, her family are blue collar workers.
00:07:57She met Cal as a freshman when he was in his senior year.
00:08:02They started dating.
00:08:03A couple of years later, they got engaged.
00:08:04She feels very weird about being a, uh, engaged senior.
00:08:08I know somebody that you should meet.
00:08:10Mm-hmm.
00:08:11My friend Levante.
00:08:13He's very interested in politics and he's having a business viewing of a movie with the man, the businessman who
00:08:21cares.
00:08:23American Psycho.
00:08:24It came to me.
00:08:25You should come.
00:08:26Yeah, I'll come.
00:08:27Yeah, yeah.
00:08:27Where is it?
00:08:28At Mike's.
00:08:29Oh, great.
00:08:29Oh, fun.
00:08:30Mike's.
00:08:30Yeah.
00:08:31That'd be great.
00:08:33Um, I'll, I'll see if Cal can come by.
00:08:36Yeah, I would love to meet Cal.
00:08:38Great.
00:08:39I'm so excited to meet Cal.
00:08:41He's actually, he's really, he's, especially for business stuff.
00:08:44This is, this is American Psycho.
00:08:46It's one of his, it's maybe his favorite movie.
00:08:48Oh, sure.
00:08:49He loves American Psycho.
00:08:50I'm sure.
00:08:51Yeah.
00:08:52Female director.
00:08:53Yeah.
00:08:54I don't think he knows that.
00:08:58Um, I think, I don't think he knows that.
00:09:01Um, but he will love, uh,
00:09:05Sitting outside in a parking lot and watching American Psycho.
00:09:08Sure.
00:09:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:09:09Absolutely.
00:09:10For Zaith and HJ, anything that you guys get up to that night at the party?
00:09:14What are you trying to get into?
00:09:19I'm trying to find someone who's on this kind of street drug.
00:09:25Uh, it's like a SSRI.
00:09:28I bet that stringy guy.
00:09:32Let's find out.
00:09:33Yeah, stringy's there.
00:09:34Oh, what's up?
00:09:35Hey, sorry.
00:09:37What's you sorry for, man?
00:09:39What's you sorry for?
00:09:40I step on his foot so he can't go anywhere.
00:09:43I step on his foot.
00:09:45What's you sorry for?
00:09:47What's you sorry for, stringy?
00:09:50What's you sorry for?
00:09:52I don't know, man.
00:09:52You're good.
00:09:53I always feel like I'm a second away
00:09:56from pissing people off.
00:09:58Oh, that sounds hard.
00:09:59Are you medicated for it?
00:10:01Yeah.
00:10:04Should we go smoke some weed in the backyard?
00:10:09Sure, let's go smoke some weed.
00:10:10Let's go, okay, crazy.
00:10:12You go smoke some weed with Stringy's like,
00:10:14yeah, I just feel like I have this energy
00:10:16that I'm always like wincing,
00:10:17and I'm like, I'm about to piss people off.
00:10:19And that energy's around a lot.
00:10:21You see, as you open your mouth,
00:10:23he puts a joint in there, and he goes,
00:10:24I pass.
00:10:26Yeah, I pass.
00:10:28And you get a healthy dose of SSR.
00:10:31I feel it.
00:10:32You feel it.
00:10:33Ooh, baby.
00:10:34And you start to feel it yourself.
00:10:35I mean, it's really good.
00:10:37Damn.
00:10:39This is setting something right in here.
00:10:42Can I just be honest with you?
00:10:43You're saying this over a mesmerized Stringy's
00:10:45just like hypnosis eyes.
00:10:47I'm happy for you.
00:10:49I guess I'm just sort of still a dog.
00:10:52Hey, you've got to try this.
00:10:54No, I don't think it's right for me.
00:10:55You're in a funk, man.
00:10:56I just, I don't feel like anybody here gets me.
00:11:00Like what that guy had with that dog.
00:11:03Yeah, that was pretty special.
00:11:05I could see that really affected you.
00:11:06That's my SSRI, I think.
00:11:08Yeah, we got to get you.
00:11:10Yeah, you know what?
00:11:12You helped me so much.
00:11:13Should we go steal that dog?
00:11:16You guys should, so it can be Levante's proxy.
00:11:19No.
00:11:20We can run that dog against your dog.
00:11:22Bingo's too popular.
00:11:23Okay, okay, yeah, you're right.
00:11:25Well, what do you think?
00:11:26Can I borrow your scooter?
00:11:27Of course, I give him my scooter.
00:11:29Can I, I want to be at this party for a little bit.
00:11:32Kind of apologize, like obviously I'm so old,
00:11:35so I just keep being like,
00:11:36I'm hopefully gonna be teaching some business classes.
00:11:38I'm just in town, some people invited me.
00:11:40But I want to be looking for Aaron.
00:11:42And hopefully I look different enough
00:11:44that Aaron does not see me.
00:11:45I'll allow you to do this.
00:11:46You can build a pool.
00:11:48You can use intelligence or you can use charisma.
00:11:52And then you can use persuasion
00:11:54or you can use investigation.
00:11:56It will determine how much of your energy
00:11:58is used looking for Aaron
00:11:59or how much of your energy is used
00:12:01talking to the kids at the party.
00:12:03I think I'll do intelligence.
00:12:05Okay, so that's gonna be looking for Aaron.
00:12:06Okay.
00:12:07Do intelligence.
00:12:08And then are you gonna use investigation
00:12:09to really focus on looking for Aaron?
00:12:11I think so, yeah.
00:12:12So you're not really diving into the kids at the party here.
00:12:15You're mostly just keeping an eye out for Aaron.
00:12:17Yeah, wait, what would the other one be
00:12:19other than investigation?
00:12:20If you use persuasion, you can like split your focus
00:12:23and do some towards the kids at the party.
00:12:25I can try to manage some kids at the party.
00:12:29If you're, okay.
00:12:30I'm just like, just riding in a circle.
00:12:33You have like all the like, everyone wants to talk to you.
00:12:35I'm just kind of some old dude.
00:12:36You're doing kick flips on the raise the scooter.
00:12:38Yeah. Okay.
00:12:39Cool.
00:12:40Okay.
00:12:41So I'm just looking around.
00:12:43Let's see.
00:12:44No, not good.
00:12:45Okay.
00:12:46My successes?
00:12:47One.
00:12:47One.
00:12:47You're looking around, you don't see Aaron here.
00:12:50But it's very possible that it's not actually even a failure.
00:12:52He might just really not be here.
00:12:54Maybe I'll willpower if that's cool.
00:12:56Mm-hmm.
00:12:56Okay.
00:13:03Zayth, you're sort of dealing with the other kids at the party here.
00:13:06What sort of social activity are you doing at the party?
00:13:09I'm just riding the scooter just kind of around the front,
00:13:12like on the street.
00:13:14Great.
00:13:14I think I have just sort of a natural gravity to me,
00:13:17even though I'm looking slightly sadder than my normal self.
00:13:20Yeah.
00:13:21Like.
00:13:21A sad 35-year-old man riding a front electric scooter around.
00:13:25He says he's in his 20s.
00:13:27I just keep muttering, I heard he doesn't want to talk about it.
00:13:32Incredible.
00:13:33Give me a charisma and persuasion, yeah.
00:13:36That's with awe.
00:13:39Oh my god.
00:13:41Got one success with six die.
00:13:44And I'll use my last willpower.
00:13:49Okay, three.
00:13:50Three successes.
00:13:51Yeah, I think that you are pulling these sad little donuts
00:13:54on a scooter out in front of the house.
00:13:56Doesn't attract like a huge crowd.
00:14:00The sad little donuts doesn't get a kid's foot.
00:14:02I think, I think.
00:14:03In a town where skipping the lip is like the most fun thing you can do.
00:14:07A super hot guy on a scooter?
00:14:09Same thing's like, I guess I'm kind of new in town from San Francisco.
00:14:12Shut billy, don't quit.
00:14:13One of the bigger cities around.
00:14:16Yeah, you see, as you say that, on your scooter, kind of zipping by,
00:14:20see Patty Babcock goes, oh, cool, man, do you want to talk about that?
00:14:24And you see, sort of zip past.
00:14:26Not right now.
00:14:28Cool, man.
00:14:29Hey, what's there even?
00:14:31I mean, Barnabas Street is all right, but what do you guys get into?
00:14:38I mean, what's, I mean, is this the extent of the night?
00:14:43Yeah, man, I guess enjoying some drinks with some buds on the porch,
00:14:47sort of the, I don't know, it's my highest aspiration.
00:14:51You think I can jump from that roof into the pool?
00:14:54Yo, man.
00:14:55That empty pool.
00:14:56Yo, man.
00:14:57Yo, man.
00:14:58On the scooter?
00:14:59Only one way to find out, dude.
00:15:01I take the scooter and start climbing on the roof.
00:15:03With the scooter, no way, dude, this guy's a fucking legend!
00:15:07You get up on the roof of Barnabas, you're going to take a leap with the scooter?
00:15:11Yeah.
00:15:12Go ahead and give me...
00:15:13They're testing me, I have to...
00:15:15Give me dexterity plus drive.
00:15:17All right.
00:15:18Drive?
00:15:18Oh, yeah.
00:15:19Okay.
00:15:20Actually pretty good.
00:15:21Yeah, we'll call this a difficulty of three.
00:15:28That was your last willpower you used?
00:15:32I got one crit, not matched with anything, so it means one success.
00:15:38Yeah.
00:15:38And one brutal failure.
00:15:40One brutal failure?
00:15:41Cool.
00:15:42So, Madelaine, as you're talking with Anna and you're feeling the, like, looking at it for
00:15:46Aaron, you go, you see Patty, someone says, yo, Bangkok house legend, this guy's taking
00:15:53the scooter off the roof, and the kids all rush out to the yard.
00:15:56You rev up the scooter.
00:15:59The roof has no jump.
00:16:01It's a sloped roof, so you, no one has sort of thought of what you're going to do or not
00:16:07do, so you...
00:16:09You're jumping an electric scooter into a pool?
00:16:12It's an empty pool.
00:16:13Into a tri-pool.
00:16:14So, so...
00:16:16Wait, the pool is empty?
00:16:17Empty.
00:16:18Empty.
00:16:18So safe, you take off, you take off down, down the roof.
00:16:24On a bestial failure, you hit the front wheel of the scooter, goes into the rain gutter,
00:16:31stops hard, flips forward, and you are launched head first, and everyone screams so loud.
00:16:39This is how they do it in San Francisco.
00:16:42As your skull catches the far lip of the pool, everyone watches your neck lurch a hundred
00:16:50degrees off, a collarbone snap.
00:16:54AC!
00:16:56AC!
00:16:58We gotta go!
00:17:00Now, obviously I want to help him, but did this run off of a crowd for me to scan one
00:17:05more
00:17:05time for Aaron?
00:17:08Everyone's screaming, the masquerade is breached fully.
00:17:12You, a guy, everyone's screaming, stringy pukes.
00:17:17You see the...
00:17:24Part of Zayt's jaw is in his chest from where his head fucking slinkied into the rest of
00:17:31his body.
00:17:38I jump out and I help him.
00:17:41You help him.
00:17:42You see that, Patty goes, oh shit, call 911, call 911.
00:17:45I say, no, don't.
00:17:46He's dead.
00:17:47And I jump straight up in the air with him.
00:17:52Straight up in the air.
00:17:54I say, it's too late, he's dead.
00:17:59You just run off into the dark.
00:18:03Do I see Aaron?
00:18:04No, you don't.
00:18:06No role necessary, Allie.
00:18:08You don't see Aaron.
00:18:13Get stringy.
00:18:15Get stringy.
00:18:17I didn't want to go to this party.
00:18:21You ran into the night here.
00:18:25Everyone's...
00:18:27We're here.
00:18:28Is there a way that I can kind of hop home?
00:18:33Yeah.
00:18:34Because we got to put him down, right?
00:18:35Hop, yeah.
00:18:36Roof to roof?
00:18:37Yeah.
00:18:38You want to get up on the roof?
00:18:39Well, yeah.
00:18:40That's what I jumped to, I think.
00:18:41Yeah.
00:18:41You start jumping roof to roof.
00:18:43Go ahead.
00:18:43Give me strength plus athletics.
00:18:46Okay.
00:18:46Difficulty of three.
00:18:48Dexterity is literally my best stat.
00:18:51You rolled so many dice and got nothing.
00:18:54Was that crit and one?
00:18:55So that is five.
00:18:56Five successes.
00:18:57So unlike Darkness Man, this old-timey 1890s businessman is effortlessly bounding.
00:19:05Bound it.
00:19:07Bound it.
00:19:10So filled.
00:19:11Roof to roof.
00:19:14He's just screaming.
00:19:17Yes, you.
00:19:18I want to go home.
00:19:20I want to go home.
00:19:22Oh, my God.
00:19:24I feel sick.
00:19:29He's like, is there something we do or he's just fucked health-wise and we wait for his sleep?
00:19:34He's like, give me to the podcast editor.
00:19:38You.
00:19:40You, Zach, you take five points of superficial damage.
00:19:44Okay.
00:19:45Oh, Christ.
00:19:47I'm just in the house.
00:19:49I don't know them.
00:19:50Yeah, exactly.
00:19:52I'm so sorry.
00:19:52I don't know them.
00:19:53Yeah, you see Ana goes like, Jesus, is that guy fucking dead?
00:19:55No.
00:19:56He kept screaming.
00:19:57Ana, there is no guy.
00:19:59What?
00:19:59It's a con.
00:20:01They're running a scam?
00:20:03You're so beautiful.
00:20:03Staring into your eyes.
00:20:04I'm so sorry.
00:20:05You're engaged.
00:20:06She looks at you and just goes, do you want to?
00:20:09Yes.
00:20:09Okay, let's go.
00:20:11Let's go.
00:20:12Let's go.
00:20:13She just walks with you upstairs to the party and breaks a solemn promise to someone that
00:20:19gave her a very expensive ring.
00:20:21We go to Granite Village where you guys pull up in front of the trailer park.
00:20:26Levante, you look out at this place and see, once again, like a very packed trailer park
00:20:32here, and I think you see a lot of storage units in this place as well, small, like sort
00:20:39of trailer hitched storage.
00:20:4119 inches up?
00:20:42Some of them, yes, but I think you also see with the storage that you're looking at in
00:20:47particular, just as a quick survey of the landscape here, it looks like people have
00:20:52furniture that doesn't fit in the trailers here.
00:20:56There's a couple people that maybe have downsized in a way that they were not prepared for.
00:21:01Bat Child and Darkness Man, you look and see this bronze statue of Sacky Lee Maple here.
00:21:06Yeah, so I just want to try and cast Summon Spirit.
00:21:10Hell yeah.
00:21:10Or do the ceremony, Summon Spirit.
00:21:13I have to do a rouse check, which I'll probably fail.
00:21:17Oh, I didn't.
00:21:18Okay, no more hunger.
00:21:19So I don't have all the details on here, but I thought there was something that like
00:21:22you have to, I figure like going to a place that has meaning to him might be like a tether.
00:21:28And then I feel like you have to know their name, I might have read, but it's not written
00:21:32here.
00:21:33I love it.
00:21:34As you begin to summon the spirit before you, you reach into the power of the blood, the
00:21:41power of the ghost bat.
00:21:44And you see that there is a small plaque on the base of the statue.
00:21:52Sacky Lee Maple, beloved father and husband, proud son of Purpy, who lived and died in the
00:21:59Granite Village trailer park, died defending the honor of his loved ones in a knife fight
00:22:05at the ripe old age of 74.
00:22:10What?
00:22:11Okay, yeah, they're spinning a yarn here.
00:22:14Did they replace him with another person?
00:22:17I think that this is just the story that they said.
00:22:21I did think it was weird because he just has a knife and also like carpentry tools.
00:22:25Does the date line up for when he died with when we understand the incident to have taken
00:22:31place?
00:22:32Yeah, what is the date of death?
00:22:33The year of death is 1971, which is...
00:22:36That is the year.
00:22:36That does line up.
00:22:38As you summon the spirit, you hear...
00:22:43I don't know if you can call it a knife fight.
00:22:49If you're the only one with a knife.
00:22:54Spectrally in the air, you see...
00:22:59The spirit of Zachy Lee Maple appears.
00:23:03He looks proud and distant.
00:23:06You can tell that this spirit is barely here, which is actually a good thing.
00:23:14The spirit is barely here because he is not a member of the Restless Dead.
00:23:18His spirit has been called back from a place of rest and therefore is not one that is vengeful
00:23:24or haunting this place.
00:23:26We're sorry for disturbing you.
00:23:28We just want a little clarity about what happened in 1971 when you died.
00:23:33We're trying to maybe undo whatever they've been doing.
00:23:38There's no undoing what's been done.
00:23:43The fights we had in the past were to try to move forward.
00:23:50You can't undo what's been done.
00:23:54You can just pick up the ball and run.
00:23:57They said I died in a knife fight.
00:24:00It's only half true.
00:24:02I did not die here in Granite Village.
00:24:06I died across the interstate when this place was young.
00:24:12Building that silo.
00:24:14Digging deep into the sacred earth of this place when its protector came to stop us.
00:24:23Bigfoot.
00:24:24I was kicked apart by Bigfoot.
00:24:26Yeah.
00:24:27Whoa.
00:24:28That's so crazy.
00:24:30That sucks that they don't tell people that you're not Bigfoot because that's awesome.
00:24:34Yeah, that would be so, I mean.
00:24:35It's why I do not struggle with my death.
00:24:39Because you died to something bigger and larger than yourself.
00:24:43Physically much larger than myself.
00:24:46So Bigfoot is enormous.
00:24:48Yeah.
00:24:49Or you, wait, okay.
00:24:50He is enormous and he speaks perfect English.
00:24:54And he was-
00:24:54And he kicks harder than a freight train.
00:24:57That makes so much sense.
00:24:58I, for some reason when I picture Bigfoot, I picture him punching, but he's Bigfoot.
00:25:02Why don't we punch?
00:25:03Yeah, he should be stomping.
00:25:04Yeah.
00:25:04Can I tell you?
00:25:05Yeah.
00:25:08Lo, behold.
00:25:11Mist fills this space before you.
00:25:14You see 1971, Zachy Lee Maple.
00:25:18You see he's got a truck and a construction site.
00:25:20There's sort of a massive earthen ledge that, like, bulldozers and cranes have used to get down into the earth.
00:25:27They've, like, scooped out the mountainside to get down and build in this place.
00:25:30And you can see him under one of those, like, hanging caged lights walking out.
00:25:36And you see the wind is, like, picking up around here.
00:25:41And you see he goes, everyone get off the site.
00:25:43It's not safe here.
00:25:45You see there's sort of a G man who comes up and says, Zachy, we need, we're already buying.
00:25:49You've got to get your men back in here.
00:25:51And he says, the wind come in like this.
00:25:52We got logs up on the truck.
00:25:54They're going to fly off.
00:25:55Everyone needs to get out of here.
00:25:56We're not working until you get this.
00:25:58And you see that as you turn around, a shape emerges from the wood line.
00:26:05Sort of a small group of men who are here.
00:26:09A voice prowling from the tree line says, you have despoiled the earth.
00:26:16You have destroyed something beautiful.
00:26:22Nuh-uh.
00:26:24No way.
00:26:26Not on my watch.
00:26:29Lightning flashes and you see Sasquatch.
00:26:32Wow.
00:26:33How tall?
00:26:34Sasquatch is eight and a half feet tall.
00:26:37You can take him, bitch.
00:26:39You can make me take him.
00:26:40You see that as they look, this G man takes a pistol and starts firing wildly at Bigfoot.
00:26:46You see Bigfoot goes, catches a bullet in one hand, spins it around and hurls it back at that G
00:26:52man.
00:26:52Oh my God.
00:26:53He then bends over at the waist, lifting his other leg up so that his one foot is on the
00:27:00ground and the other leg is pointed straight vertical with his torso out to the side in a perfect martial
00:27:04arts stance.
00:27:05He's so fucking flexible.
00:27:06Pulls out.
00:27:07I am a master of the art of kumite.
00:27:10What the form?
00:27:11Beckons like this.
00:27:12What the form?
00:27:13Specifically kumite.
00:27:15And you see that Zaki Lee takes out a knife.
00:27:19He'll tell my wife that I love her forever.
00:27:23Bigfoot nods.
00:27:25This is honorable combat.
00:27:27I will tell all of your loved ones that you love them.
00:27:31Now begins the final dance.
00:27:33And he surges across and begins to kickbox all of these government agents and this one construction worker again.
00:27:39I take a seat and I just watch.
00:27:42This sight fades away in mist as the spirit of Zaki Lee looks out and goes,
00:27:49Bigfoot kicked me so hard in the chest that my bones shot into my heart and out of my back
00:27:53and I died.
00:27:54Wow.
00:27:54That's awesome.
00:27:55Any true master of kumite would be able to do that.
00:27:59Well, thank you for that clarity.
00:28:01Now go, be at peace.
00:28:04What?
00:28:04Did you have another...
00:28:08I felt like we peaked.
00:28:10I felt like we peaked.
00:28:11I just wanted to know if, like, because Bigfoot might be loose now.
00:28:15Yeah, but Bigfoot, I'm like, he won't die.
00:28:17Why would he be loose?
00:28:18We told you that.
00:28:19We opened, we turned the key.
00:28:20Yeah, because you freed him.
00:28:21You freed him, master of kumite.
00:28:23Don't you want Bigfoot on our side?
00:28:25Yeah, I do want Bigfoot on our side.
00:28:27Well, exactly.
00:28:27Sounds like we need to get permits from both the city and Sasquatch.
00:28:32This situation seems like, when I saw that fight, I was like, there are no bad guys here.
00:28:37Except for the government agents and stuff.
00:28:39But, like, Zaki Lee seems solid.
00:28:41Bigfoot seemed pretty solid.
00:28:42Yeah, so I felt like we wrapped it up, put a bow on it.
00:28:49I have questions still.
00:28:51I mean, mostly I'm glad that, you know, I feel like there was a moment there where we thought this
00:28:56whole town might be cursed.
00:28:58And that forever large groups of workers fighting for their rights are born to die in burpee.
00:29:04That is not the case.
00:29:05That was a one-off.
00:29:06And then this was very specifically a master of kumite, which showed you how truly masterful he was.
00:29:12And then did we have the megalopedarian frequency, did that come after?
00:29:16That's the Bigfoot frequency.
00:29:18Was that, did they work on that after?
00:29:20According to the records, you found it was after.
00:29:22So that attack had made, okay, so that made Bigfoot freaking chill out.
00:29:27So maybe we turned off the thing and now Bigfoot's just loose.
00:29:32I know, but I think that works to our advantage.
00:29:35Bigfoot, if you can hear me, we're on your side.
00:29:39I don't think we should be screaming at all.
00:29:40Yeah, let's not scream anywhere.
00:29:41Bigfoot!
00:29:42Stop!
00:29:44Bigfoot!
00:29:44Stop!
00:29:45I put my hand over.
00:29:47Please teach me your kumite!
00:29:49Okay, wait.
00:29:50Let's wait.
00:29:51Let's wait.
00:29:51Let's wait.
00:29:52I think we just have to now be ready.
00:29:55That I think, especially if we weren't going to be doing some of the building I'm hoping
00:29:58we're doing, you know, when we put in the zoo, when we put in, you know, the national monument.
00:30:02So who teaches, like, kumite around here?
00:30:05Or, I mean, he probably knew it for a while.
00:30:07I think he, he must have invented it.
00:30:10He is the source.
00:30:11He invented it.
00:30:12I definitely think there's a chance that Bigfoot invented kumite.
00:30:15I.
00:30:17Kumite is a very, I mean, you know, what's the origin of the word kumite if not Sasquatchian?
00:30:22Yeah.
00:30:22Yeah.
00:30:23Oh, no.
00:30:24I think he invented it.
00:30:26I don't think, no.
00:30:27Oh, did you watch?
00:30:28Did you see the way?
00:30:29Did you not see that?
00:30:30I see, he invented it.
00:30:31Did you see that?
00:30:32Here, let's reenact it.
00:30:33I can't, I can't do anything he just did.
00:30:36Okay, all right.
00:30:38We got our answers.
00:30:39Really?
00:30:39What it means is that we have to be ready.
00:30:41If we're going to do any major developments, a bargain will need to be struck.
00:30:46Okay.
00:30:47I have a book coming on Bigfoot.
00:30:49Perfect.
00:30:50Actually, will you also order a book about kumite?
00:30:52Because I think he's going to demand sort of a demonstration.
00:30:56I feel up to it.
00:30:57We leave a note for Bigfoot?
00:30:59Yeah.
00:31:00Yeah.
00:31:00Yeah.
00:31:01We have to, oh, I can't go back to that diner.
00:31:03We can't leave a note for Bigfoot.
00:31:05Bigfoot just seems like he can find you.
00:31:07I think so.
00:31:08Okay.
00:31:08I think so.
00:31:09We'll figure it out.
00:31:10All right.
00:31:10Yeah.
00:31:11You leave the statue of Zachy Lee Maple having discovered that, yes, the thing that, event
00:31:16that shut down that site at the height of its research was Bigfoot coming to shut down
00:31:22that site.
00:31:23Oh, this works for us, though, because it, oh, I feel bad, because, again, we're just
00:31:26talking about Bigfoot's probably an okay guy, but, like, Bigfoot shows up and, like,
00:31:31a bunch of people died and disappeared.
00:31:34Bigfoot, maybe, right?
00:31:35Like, maybe we can pin everything on Bigfoot.
00:31:38No, did I still be able to do that?
00:31:41I'm not saying we should do that.
00:31:43Well, okay, but to follow that, to follow that.
00:31:46What, he killed Zachy Lee Maple?
00:31:47Zachy Lee Maple's cool.
00:31:48I mean, let's be honest.
00:31:49Bigfoot, there is something like a god in him, and then if we're able to build up the
00:31:54reverence for him, then he'll come back even more powerful, because a lot of times,
00:31:58gods are empowered by the belief in them.
00:32:01So, if we start a whisper campaign about how Bigfoot's been eating people.
00:32:05I think we've got to be real careful about what we do and how we involve a master of
00:32:08the Kumite.
00:32:09That's true.
00:32:10You're right.
00:32:10He did say honorable combat.
00:32:12It's not very honorable for us to start rumors about it.
00:32:14If we start slandering a master of Kumite, perhaps the inventor of Kumite, that's not
00:32:20going to end well for us.
00:32:22I just don't think so.
00:32:22It's also, like, what I need to be doing with my time to actually get Bigfoot on my side
00:32:27is mastering Kumite myself.
00:32:29Exactly.
00:32:31You guys arrive back at the cutter.
00:32:35You guys, holy shits, you guys arrive back and Satan is having a hard time.
00:32:38I've got ice packs all over my face as it goes back to normal.
00:32:41Did Bigfoot get to you?
00:32:43Did Bigfoot get to you guys?
00:32:44Bigfoot is loose.
00:32:45What do you mean?
00:32:46Bigfoot is loose and he's a master of Kumite.
00:32:48So what, we turned off?
00:32:50No, I didn't, yeah, Bigfoot got to me.
00:32:55Really?
00:32:56Yeah.
00:32:56Was he mean?
00:32:57Could he be reasoned with?
00:32:59He was angry and he was an asshole.
00:33:01What?
00:33:02And he was fought so unfair.
00:33:04That's just not, that's not a Bigfoot.
00:33:05Well, no, no, no, he fights fair.
00:33:07He fights fair.
00:33:08Okay, I fucking fell into a pool.
00:33:11Oh, did somebody push you?
00:33:13No.
00:33:13Yeah.
00:33:14Bigfoot.
00:33:16He did?
00:33:17No, I fucking fell.
00:33:18I was trying to impress some, I was, like I said before, I was in my feels and I was
00:33:25just
00:33:25about the Cold War, but I couldn't tell them that and I was trying to, I don't know, I
00:33:30was trying to.
00:33:31Zayth, you get a ring on your phone in this moment.
00:33:33God, sorry.
00:33:34Thank God.
00:33:34You look at it, it's from Kosche.
00:33:36It's a text that says, hope everything's going well in Perpi.
00:33:40I know that it's a hard new start, but deep down, Zayth, I know you have what it takes.
00:33:48I'm going to go to bed.
00:33:51And Madeline's okay?
00:33:53Yeah, she's still there, she's doing great.
00:33:55I'll tell you when Madeline returns.
00:33:56Madeline is in full, like, have you ever been to Paris?
00:34:00No.
00:34:01Am I bad?
00:34:02No.
00:34:03Can I show you Paris?
00:34:04I would love to.
00:34:05Yeah, yeah.
00:34:06It's such a beautiful city.
00:34:08The second arrondissement, the fifth arrondissement, even the 13th arrondissement, so beautiful.
00:34:15I've got arrondissements.
00:34:16Yes.
00:34:17I want to see them.
00:34:17I want to show you every arrondissement there is.
00:34:20Every part of your arrondissement.
00:34:22And you see, so Madeline is occupied back at the party.
00:34:27Levante, you look at H.J., Batchild, and Darkness Man.
00:34:31Zayth sort of stalks off to his coffin.
00:34:34Much has transpired in this night.
00:34:36You wonder what Madeline is doing back at their, like, there's these college kids.
00:34:42And I think that, Levante, you feel a vampiric hunger bubbling up within you.
00:34:52You've mentioned a poo-poo platter several times.
00:34:56That's my prime metaphor for life.
00:34:58The vampires of your clan hunger for more than just blood.
00:35:01They hunger for power.
00:35:03And I think what you know is there's more to discover in this town.
00:35:08Every time you've gone out on an expedition, you found out a little bit more.
00:35:12But I also think that you have enough information to start to get a little bit calculated.
00:35:19There is a lay of the land here, right?
00:35:23You know some important families.
00:35:26You know some important magical goings-on.
00:35:28And I think we're going to move into a section of downtime here.
00:35:34Which is basically, are there any moves that you want to make, right?
00:35:41These can be group projects.
00:35:43These can be investigations.
00:35:46This can be forwarding opposing forces.
00:35:48But also, it's probably good for you guys to move into a stretch of downtime because of the heat that
00:35:54is on you right now.
00:35:55Right?
00:35:57Everyone's looking for that guy whose jaw ended up in his chest.
00:36:03His jaw ended up in his chest.
00:36:04He went to the hospital.
00:36:06But for our purposes here, you guys have done a lot of flat foot sleuthing in the town.
00:36:15Now is a moment where you have some of the lay of the land and we can explore in downtime
00:36:20whether there are resources you want to accumulate, whether you want to develop some advantages, be that like contacts, allies,
00:36:30etc.
00:36:30And we're going to sort of scoot above table to talk about the next few, we'll say weeks.
00:36:36The next few weeks in Purpy and what you would want to do from a bird's eye view, setting up
00:36:43your very nascent position in the town.
00:36:47You're extremely vulnerable.
00:36:48This Aaron guy came and knocked on your door.
00:36:51People have seen Zaith badly injured.
00:36:54You had a couple runs with the police.
00:36:56And so rather than playing it scene by scene, we're going to sort of zoom out to the next couple
00:37:00weeks.
00:37:01And I want to know what your guys' projects as a coterie are, but also what your potentially like your
00:37:07side hustles as an individual are.
00:37:09And you can run both of those concurrently.
00:37:11Each of you has the ability to contribute to a larger group endeavor, but also can make a role for
00:37:17your own purposes.
00:37:19I think following up on something, a group intention that we've spoken to, I do think Levante is going to
00:37:26get the phone book out and just cold call Mike and follow up with Suze and buy majority stakes in
00:37:36Dave's and Sweetie Pie.
00:37:38Hell yeah.
00:37:39Or initiate the, I think do, or, you know, make the checks necessary to persuade those individuals to allow us
00:37:47to claim ownership of those two spaces.
00:37:51Mike's and Sweetie Pie's?
00:37:52Mike's and Sweetie Pie's.
00:37:53And this is also something you guys can discuss as a group as well, in terms of like what you
00:37:59want the group projects to be.
00:38:02But Levante, you're interested in like, it's time to like make some moves.
00:38:05I think it's, yeah, I think there's like, there's some purchasing that Levante wants to do of just like spaces
00:38:13for like, so that because we're wanting, we need a place to lure people.
00:38:18We need a place to be able to hang out that's not the Airbnb.
00:38:21So I think that there's both like establishments that we have control over and the people who work there, but
00:38:28also, I think there's also like, Levante is wondering and probably has conversations with the group about if we were
00:38:35to move somewhere in town where we would want to go.
00:38:39Because I do think buying property or not be getting out of the Airbnb is something I'd want to at
00:38:47least start the process of in the next couple of weeks.
00:38:49If you guys also want during this period of downtime to make broad investigations of the town, like if you
00:38:55want me to color in like, okay, we've gone to these locations of extreme importance, but like color in a
00:39:03little bit more for me.
00:39:04I can also do that here.
00:39:05I think part of another group project would be, I think that we need to look into Tina Bunders, Rufus's
00:39:11owner, and I think we should consider trying to see if Patty would be willing to loan us bingo to
00:39:19run against Rufus.
00:39:21Yeah, that was a, I think Levante had wanted to do research around bylaws in town.
00:39:28I think that there seemed to be like two possible ways to like controlling the levers of the state.
00:39:34And there's the city council, but there's also this dog mayor.
00:39:37Is there by chance bylaws with regard to mayoral power that just are left dormant because people think that it's
00:39:46just a cute dog?
00:39:47But really, if we had our own dog, could our dog use his paw print to sign executive orders?
00:39:52Hell yeah.
00:39:53I'm going to go around and say everybody, we can get a piece of information answered at the top of
00:40:00this downtime.
00:40:01The information you're asking is about the town bylaws.
00:40:03The election of a dog mayor actually did, it did increase tourism here with the trailhead and everything else, so
00:40:12it was a financial boon for the town.
00:40:14The dog mayor is a technical abstention on every single vote.
00:40:19The political structure of Purpy is that it is a weak mayoralty, meaning that the mayor is not technically part
00:40:27of an executive branch.
00:40:28He is merely, in this case, Rufus, is a four-person on a five-seat city council.
00:40:34So the mayor is basically like a supercharged city council seat.
00:40:39By always abstaining, it created a need for a three-person majority because with one abstention, two votes does not
00:40:49equal a majority.
00:40:49So it means that three out of four votes are needed for city council to pass anything, which means that
00:40:55city council has effectively become defunct.
00:40:59You can also find the people that sit on city council at this time.
00:41:03How many of them are called Whittaker?
00:41:04Yeah, exactly.
00:41:06Hell yes.
00:41:07City council members.
00:41:08Barnaby Claude Whittaker.
00:41:12Eugene Hurlbut Douglas.
00:41:14Yeah.
00:41:15Herbert Melvin.
00:41:16And Marisol Samano.
00:41:18And you said that the mayor doesn't get two votes or does get two votes?
00:41:22The mayor gets a normal vote, but a mayor also has a series of things that he doesn't need city
00:41:27council approval for.
00:41:29Got it.
00:41:29However, it looks like a lot of that has been farmed off to either the city clerk or the city
00:41:35manager.
00:41:36So Whittaker and Douglas are the old families.
00:41:38Exactly.
00:41:39So that means they cannot, literally you can't get anything passed without one of them and they're always going to
00:41:45vote together.
00:41:46Melvin or Salmano.
00:41:47Yeah.
00:41:48Oh, they're always voting.
00:41:49Yeah.
00:41:49And they probably got the dog put in so that they didn't have to worry about another.
00:41:53Is there any public record that we can see to prove that theory?
00:41:56Essentially that Melvin and Salmano maybe don't always vote with Whittaker and Douglas?
00:42:01Yeah, whoever wants to sort of get that, that's like your second bit of information here.
00:42:06Herbert Melvin is a Vietnam War veteran.
00:42:09He is not connected to the Douglases or the Whittakers.
00:42:11It looks like he has voted or recommended some improvements in the town.
00:42:17He is notably listed online as a member of the ancient fraternal order of Galician Knights Templar.
00:42:23Not Templar, Templar.
00:42:26T-E-M-P-L-E-R.
00:42:28T-E-M-P-L-E-R.
00:42:30You see there's a photo of him on a Memorial Day parade in Perpi driving a little go-kart with
00:42:36a very extra floppy kind of Renaissance beret.
00:42:39Is this Melvin or Salmano?
00:42:40This is Melvin.
00:42:42Marisol Simano is currently a city council member and was a former nurse at the Urgent Care.
00:42:49The Urgent Care that closed.
00:42:50The Urgent Care that closed, correct.
00:42:52Something evil about that.
00:42:54She appears to be an abstaining vote in almost every development.
00:43:00It looks like there's a voting block that votes together a lot for new development,
00:43:04which is Herbert, Eugene, and our last member of the Whittakers here, which is...
00:43:11Barnaby.
00:43:12Barnaby.
00:43:12Also, looking at LinkedIn, you find a Marisol Simano, who's currently working as a nurse at Silver Meadows.
00:43:20Got it.
00:43:21Okay.
00:43:22So she works for the Whittakers?
00:43:25Works for the Whittakers.
00:43:25Templar feels a little Inquisition-y, right?
00:43:28Oh, yeah, maybe a little.
00:43:30Oh, wow.
00:43:30And he's, because he's voting with Whittaker and Douglas.
00:43:33Yeah, does Simano vote against them or...
00:43:38What you see is there are occasionally times where Marisol or Herbert will be the third vote.
00:43:43Looking at it like a log of decisions, like City Hall decisions.
00:43:48And actually, go ahead and give me Intelligence Politics.
00:43:50We'll call it a difficulty of three.
00:43:52I have Technology, so I'll just give somebody...
00:43:54I have three Politics.
00:43:56I have Technology.
00:43:57I'll give someone...
00:43:58I have three Politics.
00:43:59Quick.
00:43:59No, sorry.
00:43:59I'll give you...
00:44:00I'll give someone else two...
00:44:02I got three.
00:44:03I can give you two.
00:44:03Okay, cool.
00:44:04Great.
00:44:05As you guys are rolling...
00:44:06So this will be your downtime activity.
00:44:08Right.
00:44:08And you're helping with that.
00:44:09Great.
00:44:10So over the course of the night, Darkness Man, with your sort of technology aid, I think you're
00:44:13like literally pulling records at night, like sneaking into places that have like public records.
00:44:18Because sometimes that's not openly available.
00:44:21The micro...
00:44:21Minutes...
00:44:22Yeah, minutes of like...
00:44:23Public minutes are recorded, but they're not necessarily up online.
00:44:26Some are easy to access.
00:44:27Lou, add two, because I'm not rolling.
00:44:29This is your downtime.
00:44:30Okay, great.
00:44:31So you can get the two out of Darkness Man.
00:44:32And I think also Darkness Man is just...
00:44:35I just want to look into records of who's like cutting public funding and stuff, just
00:44:39for like sort of my menu for who I'm going to eat later.
00:44:41Yeah, I was going to say I'm really hungry and the only thing that feeds me is justice
00:44:45and we haven't had justice in a minute.
00:44:47Yeah, that's true.
00:44:47Five successes.
00:44:49Marisol Simano opposed closing bus routes.
00:44:53You see there's actually an article in a small town newspaper about a bar that comes across your attention here
00:45:01on that high roll called Bud and Branch.
00:45:03Bud and Branch was a really happening place that needed to close...
00:45:07There was an article in the paper that it started closing down at 6 p.m. and lost all its
00:45:11business.
00:45:12It is still technically open, but it lost a bunch of its business because it couldn't do dinner, specifically because
00:45:17the young woman...
00:45:19It was like a story of like young entrepreneurship in the town and this young woman who had spent all
00:45:25her money fixing it up after her dad passed away.
00:45:28It was a place that he had tried to open up.
00:45:30The city voted to close down a bus route and it was just a story about how the fact that
00:45:34this girl doesn't own a car.
00:45:35And so she needed to close it because the last bus like leaves at 6.30 and she has to
00:45:41get to the bus to get home.
00:45:42And it was just an article about city council cutting these bus routes, cutting the guy Roy, who was the
00:45:47meter.
00:45:48Marisol voted against selling all the public parking to meter, but that went through to fund what looks like a
00:45:56local reduction in property tax.
00:45:59So they basically sold the parking to meter so that they...
00:46:02Capitalism.
00:46:03Well, it goes, if they save money, they pass it on.
00:46:10H.J.
00:46:10H.J.
00:46:11Love trickle dance.
00:46:11H.J.
00:46:12Economics.
00:46:13The blood trickles down.
00:46:14But I think you just look at the face and you see that Helena, who's the young businesswoman, she's got
00:46:19a picture taken of her outside of the Budden branch.
00:46:22Sort of a bad photo of her that looks sort of like a candid because it looks like a lot
00:46:26of her quotes were like, I don't want this.
00:46:27You see that literally one of her quotes in that article is, I don't want this to be the first
00:46:30quote about my restaurant in this article.
00:46:34I think that it's good to earmark this for when we're running a rival dog.
00:46:39100%.
00:46:40Like restoring the bus routes could be one of our campaign promises.
00:46:43It's cut and dry.
00:46:44And we're going with running the dog and not a human?
00:46:47Oh.
00:46:49I mean, I have never seen a more charismatic creature than Bingo.
00:46:52You did not see him.
00:46:53But that Bingo is a mare.
00:46:55This is a two-prong offensive.
00:46:57We'll be coming at him from both angles.
00:46:59Great.
00:46:59So, you gathered that information up.
00:47:01Is there anyone else that wanted to grab information about the town as part of this downtime?
00:47:05I think I'm going to do, in support of the mayoral research and city council, I want to look at
00:47:14the Whitakers.
00:47:15And I'm wondering where does Barnaby Whitaker live and where does Eugene Douglas live?
00:47:20That information is not publicly available.
00:47:25Their private addresses are not listed.
00:47:26Sure.
00:47:27Here's where I would like to help with that.
00:47:29Yeah.
00:47:29Because although I am lightly in a very Manic Pixie Dream Girl way working towards the horror festival,
00:47:36I'm mostly working to insert myself into a throuple situation with Cal and Anna.
00:47:42Yes.
00:47:42I think as part of these weeks, we actually can...
00:47:44Because I'm hungry.
00:47:45So, the question is, do you guys do your Friday movie night with the biz dev kids and Mike?
00:47:52Yeah, for sure.
00:47:53If we can, yeah.
00:47:53If the bar will let us.
00:47:54Yeah, what did Mike end up saying?
00:47:56Yeah.
00:47:56Oh, yeah.
00:47:57I set up a really plush blanket situation and place myself between Cal and Anna.
00:48:02Hell, yes.
00:48:03So, Cal's going to come to that.
00:48:05So, we'll make that part of the downtime as well.
00:48:08I think that what I want you to do is give me charisma and finance.
00:48:16Four for finance.
00:48:17Mm-hmm.
00:48:18Three for charisma.
00:48:19Can I help with my finance?
00:48:21You can add a die to this roll from H.J.
00:48:24And I'm not going to lie to you.
00:48:25It's going to require six successes here.
00:48:27Can I rouse?
00:48:28You want to do a blood surge?
00:48:29A blood surge, yeah.
00:48:30Yeah, absolutely.
00:48:31I succeed.
00:48:32Nice.
00:48:33Okay.
00:48:33So, you don't get hungrier.
00:48:35And I get to add two dice.
00:48:36To add two dice.
00:48:37How many dice are you rolling right now?
00:48:38I'm currently at one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
00:48:42Okay.
00:48:43And then you can willpower if you want after.
00:48:46I can willpower afterwards.
00:48:47This is a charisma-related roll.
00:48:49Can I use my awe to add two from presence?
00:48:52If you get Mike in person at the bar, yes.
00:48:55Oh.
00:48:56Okay.
00:48:57So, cool.
00:48:57You go to the bar.
00:48:59I go to the bar to talk to Mike about the event.
00:49:01I planned there without his, uh...
00:49:03Without his knowledge or say so.
00:49:04Without his knowledge.
00:49:05Okay.
00:49:09Six successes.
00:49:10Okay.
00:49:11Okay.
00:49:11And then willpower.
00:49:12And then I can willpower.
00:49:15Ooh.
00:49:15For an additional three successes.
00:49:17Wow.
00:49:17Wow.
00:49:18Nine successes.
00:49:20Mike is a much older, former biker, settled down in Perpi.
00:49:26He's one of those dudes who's, like, short.
00:49:28He's got, like, thick white hair on these super tan, like, older Italian guys.
00:49:34Got this, like, intense energy stooped over.
00:49:38As you walk in, you read this guy as an easily pissed off dude.
00:49:44How does Levante approach in that moment going up to this dude at his own bar?
00:49:50I'm sorry.
00:49:51I would have been here earlier, but all these fucking speed bumps in town.
00:49:56You're telling me these fucking speed bumps.
00:49:58These fucking speed bumps, man.
00:49:59It's a fucking...
00:50:01I mean, drive the fucking speed limit won't be a problem.
00:50:04It's these fucking asshole kids that move in here.
00:50:06They don't have any sense of responsibility.
00:50:08They don't have any sense of roost in a fucking town.
00:50:09I'm so fucking tired of this generation.
00:50:10You know, these people are so entitled.
00:50:13You this guy Levante?
00:50:14Yeah, that's me.
00:50:15Sorry.
00:50:15Hey.
00:50:16Are you Mike?
00:50:16I'm Mike, man.
00:50:17Nice to meet you.
00:50:18Incredible.
00:50:18Yes.
00:50:19Yeah.
00:50:20What am I doing here?
00:50:21You're doing something in the parking lot?
00:50:22Yeah, I'm doing something in the parking lot, but I want to do something bigger.
00:50:24I want to do something for you.
00:50:28All right.
00:50:28As people are trying to do me a favor, I'm just trying to put a crick in my neck.
00:50:31What are you trying to do?
00:50:33I want to help you run this bar.
00:50:36I only didn't know that I need a lot of help running this bar, to be honest with you.
00:50:40What history do you have in the bar industry?
00:50:42Oh, I came out of San Francisco, and I've done a few, you know, kind of easygoing places,
00:50:51you know, just for normal folk.
00:50:54None of this fucking frills on the, you know, everyone's always putting flowers on their
00:50:59cocktails now.
00:51:00None of that shit.
00:51:01I like ice.
00:51:02I like a stiff drink.
00:51:04And I like it quick, easy, fast.
00:51:07And I think I can make you a lot of money.
00:51:09You know, we do all right here.
00:51:12I mean, we get by, and you can smell the septic leak back in the bathroom.
00:51:17And so you guys, like, you know, we, yeah, problems, we got problems.
00:51:20Every business got problems.
00:51:21But, you know, the, you, do you, you, you, you, uh, you're working for one of these big
00:51:26chains, one of these big multinationals or something like that?
00:51:29Oh, fuck that.
00:51:31I'm tired of that shit, man.
00:51:33I'm interested in working with people, you know?
00:51:35And I can tell you got some problems around here, the, you know, the, you know, all of
00:51:39that.
00:51:40Yeah.
00:51:41That's stuff I can take care of.
00:51:42That's stuff I want to take care of.
00:51:44He says, let's go sit in the corner.
00:51:45He goes into the booth and says, what are we talking numbers-wise?
00:51:50I mean, I'm ballparking your repairs at a quarter mil.
00:51:55His eyes go wide.
00:51:57That's the kind of money you can cover?
00:52:00I mean, when we put in the food truck in the parking lot, I mean, we can, we can go
00:52:06a
00:52:06little bit further.
00:52:07Food truck.
00:52:07Food truck, uh, you continue to talk with Mike and convince him to let you in.
00:52:13I want you to roll your resources dice and come up with at least half successes on there.
00:52:19So rolling four.
00:52:20Rolling four.
00:52:21You want two successes here.
00:52:24Three successes.
00:52:25Nice.
00:52:27You acquire this resource in such a way that does not diminish your resources capacity.
00:52:32You join in as a minority stakeholder in Mike's bar, basically buying in and he's drawing up that
00:52:41paperwork, but you got people in there the next day fixing the septic tank.
00:52:44And what's more is you have permission.
00:52:46He puts up flyers in the bar about the movie night on Friday.
00:52:50And I get one little smoke machine.
00:52:52Get a little smoke machine in there.
00:52:54Uh, yeah.
00:52:54You can tell that there's just something in how you hold yourself as you talk to this
00:52:58guy.
00:52:58This is a dude who under any other circumstance would have told anyone coming in here talking
00:53:03to him about his business to go fuck off.
00:53:05But there is just an air about you that is supernatural and otherworldly in the same way that Madeline
00:53:11was holding herself against the jasmine by the English department.
00:53:14You walk in looking like money and this guy looks at you and cannot see anything other than a brighter
00:53:22future for himself.
00:53:24You, uh, sate your own hunger for dominion over this place and buy into the bar.
00:53:33At that Friday movie night, uh, you meet Cal Whitaker for the first time.
00:53:37Looking out, he goes, Madeline, nice to meet you.
00:53:39You must be Cal.
00:53:41What a pleasure.
00:53:42Hey, nice to meet you.
00:53:44Welcome.
00:53:44Welcome.
00:53:44So nice to meet you.
00:53:45Wow.
00:53:46I, it's so crazy with the same with Anna.
00:53:48I feel like I've just known you for so long.
00:53:52That's really nice.
00:53:53I appreciate that.
00:53:54Cal, have you ever been to Nice?
00:53:57No.
00:53:58Oh, it was France.
00:53:59Yes.
00:53:59No, I've been to Paris, but I've never been to Nice.
00:54:01Really?
00:54:02Yeah.
00:54:02Do you like Paris?
00:54:03I love Paris.
00:54:04Oh my God.
00:54:05Oh, that's amazing.
00:54:06The food, the art.
00:54:07There's so much art there.
00:54:08I went, you know, it's funny.
00:54:09It's funny is we went to the Louvre and I was talking to one of the people there because
00:54:15my dad knows some of the, some of the people that work there and I work in a gallery here.
00:54:20So it's part, we wrote the whole thing off, but I was basically like, you know, Hey, there's
00:54:26some amazing stuff here.
00:54:27Like they have this one painting, the Mona Lisa that was like, that was basically like,
00:54:33you know, it's basically just like a drawing of a woman.
00:54:35And she's just sitting there.
00:54:36And what's crazy is that it's like this.
00:54:39Like she's staring into your heart.
00:54:41Can I show you something?
00:54:42Yes.
00:54:43Staring into my what?
00:54:44Your heart.
00:54:45Yeah.
00:54:45Well, the point is that like, it's a one of a kind painting.
00:54:47And the, he pulls out a phone, shows you something and he goes, see this?
00:54:52He shows you a picture of the Mona Lisa.
00:54:54That's, wow.
00:54:56You are so far away from it, but you got all that from it.
00:54:59Well, no, it's the, I had this idea.
00:55:03I pitched them about it, which would basically be, do you, it's sort of, you see, he sort
00:55:08of gets embarrassed and you see, he looks over at Ana and Ana's like, you don't, you
00:55:12don't have to say it.
00:55:13And he goes, well, no, I'll just, I was going to do a thing with them about partnering with
00:55:18the art gallery here in Perpi to do a limited collection of these.
00:55:23Do you know what a non-fungible token is?
00:55:26No, but it sounds so interesting.
00:55:29Why don't you tell me all about it?
00:55:30He looks at Ana and says, it is interesting, actually.
00:55:34It is really interesting.
00:55:36What is a fungible token?
00:55:38Well, a fungible token is just any, you know, like, I guess, I don't know.
00:55:43A fungible token, the thing about a non-fungible token.
00:55:46That's crazy.
00:55:47My hand is on his chest.
00:55:49That is crazy.
00:55:51Yeah.
00:55:51Any kind of token is a fungible token?
00:55:56This conversation is happening right now.
00:55:58I had multiple bars here in Los Angeles.
00:56:00He says, my idea was that people could go to the Louvre and see their, like, physical
00:56:07one, and then they could come to the gallery here in Perpi, and we'd have a QR code in the
00:56:12gallery that they could get, that there would be, like, a scavenger hunt, and whoever came
00:56:16here, you would get the world's only NFT of the Mona Lisa.
00:56:21That is so creative.
00:56:23And it would be a way to, like, drive business here.
00:56:27You look so sad.
00:56:30My dad didn't go for it.
00:56:31What a mournful boy.
00:56:32Yeah, my dad didn't go for it.
00:56:33Your dad is an idiot.
00:56:37Beautiful.
00:56:40We're making out through the whole American cycle.
00:56:43All three of us are just writhing on a blanket.
00:56:46You see, as the three of you are making out, Ana keeps going, this is the first time, this
00:56:51is the first time in the timeline that this is happening.
00:56:55And you see, so you guys connect with Cal.
00:56:58Cal fully spills the beans about his family.
00:57:02Great.
00:57:02And I think you have a full family tree of the Whitakers.
00:57:06Incredible.
00:57:06And I have a power called Lingering Kiss, which means that my mortals that I feed upon become
00:57:15addicted to my kiss and seek me out for more.
00:57:18Incredible.
00:57:19You can tell that Cal and Ana are both obsessed with you.
00:57:23Naturellement.
00:57:24Naturellement.
00:57:25You sense something interesting here, though, with your auspice, your sense of the unseen.
00:57:29You sense that only Ana is compelled supernaturally.
00:57:33You sense that it is simply Cal's obsessive and kind of entitled nature that causes him to be obsessed with
00:57:45you.
00:57:45Something about your normal supernaturally effect does not seem to be taking place on Cal in this moment.
00:57:52I will go and tell this information to H.J.
00:57:56Hell yeah.
00:57:57Which one is his dad?
00:57:59Oh, which one is his dad?
00:58:00Is it Bonnaby?
00:58:01Is his dad?
00:58:01That's his grandfather.
00:58:03Okay.
00:58:03And then Rachel is his aunt?
00:58:05Rachel is one of his aunts.
00:58:08Rachel is actually married into the family.
00:58:10Rachel.
00:58:10Okay.
00:58:11Rachel.
00:58:11So they've got the wives doing the work for them.
00:58:13Yes, it looks like.
00:58:15Interesting.
00:58:15So Rachel is Leanne Whitaker's.
00:58:19The family spread is like this.
00:58:21He describes a kind of malevolent older grandfather figure, Barnaby,
00:58:29whose wife, his grandmother, Marion, has been deceased for many years.
00:58:33Barnaby is living in an old manse in the hills outside of town.
00:58:37And long ago, there was a brief period of time where Barnaby was living at Silver Meadows as a kind
00:58:43of statement of how wonderful Silver Meadows is.
00:58:47Got it.
00:58:47But actually, and maintains a living space at Silver Meadows.
00:58:51He has the nicest department, but he doesn't use it.
00:58:53He has the nicest department, but he doesn't use it.
00:58:54Got it.
00:58:54His son, his eldest son, Florian Whitaker, has a job running the credit union in town.
00:59:02Silver Springs credit union.
00:59:04You see that the credit union has a mission, and you recognize the writing as being very similar to the
00:59:09writing of how Silver Meadows is set up,
00:59:12where all the language is right.
00:59:15There's all this, like, very humanizing language.
00:59:17The credit union is, like, for people that want to keep their money in perpy.
00:59:21Got it. But it's kind of, it's maybe got a little bit of, like, the company store kind of a
00:59:26vibe to it.
00:59:27A little bit, yes, absolutely.
00:59:29There's his son, Cal. Cal is the art gallery curator.
00:59:32That Cal is Florian's son?
00:59:34Cal is Florian's son.
00:59:36He also shares that his mother, Elizabeth, and his dad are going through a very rough divorce right now.
00:59:41He has a younger sister, Camelia, who is going to a private school in town, Our Lady of the Warm
00:59:49Embrace,
00:59:49which is a private Catholic high school.
00:59:52And then he has an uncle, Jonathan, who's married to his aunt, Catherine.
00:59:57Uncle Jonathan is a lawyer.
00:59:58He has three cousins over there.
01:00:00And then his aunt, Leanne, is married to Rachel, and they are, they do not have any children.
01:00:07His uncle, Jonathan, is a lawyer and the head of a law firm that handles human resources for the city.
01:00:17So in the last couple years when the city has been just cutting all its stuff,
01:00:20one of the things it did was cut its own personnel department and farm out to his uncle's private law
01:00:26firm.
01:00:26Anyone else looking out for anything here in downtime?
01:00:30I have one retainer.
01:00:31Mm-hmm.
01:00:32I'd like to hire someone there.
01:00:37I'd like to look through the resumes.
01:00:38Same.
01:00:39People are coming with their resumes, absolutely.
01:00:43There is a young man who has a stacked resume.
01:00:46It looks like he's an econ major here rather than a business major.
01:00:50But it looks like that is towards within, because there's not really like a great business department at the State
01:00:55University.
01:00:57His name is Tyler Morimoto.
01:00:59And you see he comes up to you at the movie night and goes,
01:01:03Hi, Mr. Worthy?
01:01:04Yeah.
01:01:05Awesome movie night.
01:01:06Oh, thank you so much.
01:01:06I love this movie so much.
01:01:08Oh, yeah, me too.
01:01:09I'm a huge fan.
01:01:09I wanted to give you a resume, because the flyer was very specific about asking for that.
01:01:15But also, I actually made a deck.
01:01:18And he takes a USB flash drive and hands it to you.
01:01:21And you see that it says, very aspirationally, Morimoto Inc. on it.
01:01:27Look at that.
01:01:29You already, you certified.
01:01:31Oh, no, I haven't gotten the funds together to incorporate.
01:01:34But you're a dreamer.
01:01:35Yeah.
01:01:36Do you believe?
01:01:37Yeah.
01:01:38Do you eat what you kill?
01:01:39You kill it every day.
01:01:40Congratulations, you're hired.
01:01:42Eat it every day.
01:01:43Yep, eat it every day.
01:01:44I shove a cigar in his mouth.
01:01:45He goes, oh, hi.
01:01:47Where'd I come from?
01:01:48H.J.
01:01:49H.J.
01:01:52My business partner.
01:01:53Oh, wow.
01:01:54Awesome.
01:01:55Are you set up in town as a...
01:01:59Oh, yeah.
01:02:00Awesome.
01:02:01Well, that's great.
01:02:02And I'm super excited.
01:02:04I'm graduating this year.
01:02:06And I am...
01:02:07I'm in it to win it.
01:02:08Fantastic.
01:02:09We're going to bring you on as an internship to start.
01:02:11And then if we like what we see, we'll consider hiring you full time.
01:02:16This is awesome.
01:02:18And hey, this is a two-way street.
01:02:20You bring me ideas.
01:02:21I bring you ideas.
01:02:22We work together.
01:02:23We build something great.
01:02:24And listen, I want you to know, you put me in, because I looked up, I did my research,
01:02:29and I know that we're the industries.
01:02:30You have holdings all over the place.
01:02:31But the fact that you're in Perpee is really awesome, because I think there's a lot of potential in this
01:02:35town.
01:02:36This fucking guy.
01:02:37This fucking guy right here.
01:02:39Wow.
01:02:40And you actually look and see, he has a weird thing in his resume.
01:02:44It's kind of gauche for him to list it, but he got into Stanford.
01:02:47And he lists that he was accepted to Stanford on his resume.
01:02:51He made you choose Perpee over Stanford.
01:02:55My grandpa is at Dignity Senior Living Solutions.
01:03:00And he just needs someone around.
01:03:05It's beautiful.
01:03:06Really tight handshake.
01:03:07So, I would love, so, like, if, I just think that this town, people write it off.
01:03:15And they shouldn't.
01:03:16This guy's speaking my fucking language.
01:03:19Yeah, this guy, where'd he come, where'd you come from?
01:03:21Tell you, we do business in a unique way.
01:03:24So, we're going to, we're going to onboard you in a very, we're going to have a lot of meetings.
01:03:27We, we do a lot of business in Hong Kong.
01:03:30If we're being honest, we're pretty tied up during the day.
01:03:33But, we work twice as hard.
01:03:36At night, we got a whole nother day.
01:03:38Exactly.
01:03:39Awesome.
01:03:39Two days, one day.
01:03:40Yeah.
01:03:41Um, I, like, I have, I have, when you're, like, I have classes during the day, but night can be
01:03:46my daytime, too.
01:03:47Well, that's, well, looks like we're all synced out.
01:03:49Looks like we're eating dinner together.
01:03:50Yeah.
01:03:51My favorite part of Patrick Bateman is that he does what he needs to.
01:03:54Yes!
01:03:58You want to ride a scooter around?
01:04:00Yep.
01:04:00Goes a little bit faster than you can do it.
01:04:02I heard they're dangerous.
01:04:02Apparently, a guy crashed into a pool yesterday.
01:04:06That's messed up.
01:04:06Cool.
01:04:07That's not true.
01:04:08Not true.
01:04:09For anyone that has not done anything, I'll remind you that investigation can also be part of what you guys
01:04:13are doing here.
01:04:14You can also be looking out if there are any other forces at work during these couple weeks of downtime.
01:04:20I'm just going to spend the entire time trying to learn the art of Pumite.
01:04:25Chill.
01:04:25Fuck y'all.
01:04:26So chill.
01:04:27Oh, your book on the Gumbaroo does arrive.
01:04:29Your book on, like, on Northwestern stuff does get, like, was it in Northwest?
01:04:32Yeah.
01:04:33Like, lumberjack mythology.
01:04:34Yeah, I think I'm just reading mythology and doing, like, YouTube videos.
01:04:39Give me a cult and give me intelligence.
01:04:43Do I still have my hunger since it's over the course of a couple weeks?
01:04:46All of your hunger resets to one because we're in downtime.
01:04:48And our willpower?
01:04:49Oh, I got four.
01:04:50Willpower.
01:04:51I got all four.
01:04:51Four successes.
01:04:53Incredible.
01:04:54You look up and see that a Gumbaroo is a cryptid of the Pacific Northwest.
01:05:01It is a almost 100% hairless black bear that, except for extremely bushy eyebrows and a hair on its
01:05:10chin,
01:05:12its skin is said to be packed with charcoal soot and thick like an elephant's hide.
01:05:18Their skin is so thick that it can repel saws, axes, bullets, knives, but it is said to be highly
01:05:26flammable.
01:05:28And the legend goes that they were most deadly because they often exploded.
01:05:33They would get into lumber mills and blow up.
01:05:35And you remember that the book that you ate, it was dog-eared to the Gumbaroo page.
01:05:40It was.
01:05:40I also wanted to order the anaconda one, though I think that he was just looking at it because he
01:05:45was, yeah, so I didn't need to do that.
01:05:49Yeah, yeah, so great.
01:05:52So the Gumbaroo, that's good information.
01:05:55I think I'd also like to maybe try out some, like, white hat hacker stuff.
01:06:00Maybe, like, go try and jam these parking meters that are making people sign up for an app and just,
01:06:06like, break them.
01:06:07Give me intelligence and computer.
01:06:10What about crafting because it's gadgets?
01:06:12Unfortunately, there are no physical meters anymore.
01:06:15Everything is a phone, on a sign, on a QR code.
01:06:18Oh, okay, so it would be computer.
01:06:20Yeah.
01:06:20Okay.
01:06:21I've got to learn how to turn my gadgeteering.
01:06:23Okay, so technology and intelligence.
01:06:26Mm-hmm.
01:06:28I think I really want this, so I'm going to...
01:06:31Rouse for blood.
01:06:33Yeah, go for it.
01:06:34I don't get hunger, so I get two more.
01:06:39All fails and a critical, brutal.
01:06:43A bestial failure.
01:06:45Rolling a bestial failure.
01:06:47You are on your computer looking, looking.
01:06:49You're diving deep, looking at meter.
01:06:52You see a question on a perpy message board that links to another post.
01:06:58Someone says, this is crazy.
01:07:00This person's talking about perpy, right?
01:07:02And it links to a different subreddit.
01:07:04Subreddit you go to is a paranormal phenomenon subreddit.
01:07:09And you see there is a post that says, ghost people ate my husband.
01:07:15The poster is Beth underscore Kelleher, and it describes her saying, the police are calling it missing persons, but I
01:07:24know what I seen.
01:07:26They came through the roof, and they ate my husband.
01:07:29They still got the hole.
01:07:32How would it be a hallucination if there weren't still a hole?
01:07:38The hole's still there.
01:07:40That's real.
01:07:41I ain't crazy.
01:07:42And there's a picture of a hole in a roof in a clean attic.
01:07:46And she says, here's the cops.
01:07:49And you see that there's a cop standing in her front yard, gesturing to a friend, like, sort of making
01:07:55a this, like, pointing a thumb at her.
01:07:58You see that someone else goes, like, this happened to me, too.
01:08:02After I got vaccinated, question mark.
01:08:05And someone else has, there's a bunch of different posts on it.
01:08:08But there's another post that doesn't have too many upvotes, but says, DM me, I'd love to talk to you.
01:08:15That one is ErinBow02.
01:08:20B-O-W?
01:08:21B-O-W, yeah.
01:08:22And that one was posted immediately after she posted it.
01:08:25There's another one from a couple days ago that looks a little bit different and says, hi, Beth.
01:08:30You might be more right than you think.
01:08:32There's a lot of ways people can make us doubt ourselves and think that we haven't seen something.
01:08:38But, obviously, our world is filled with unexplainable phenomenon.
01:08:42I'd love to come talk to you if I can.
01:08:44And I've gotten my newspaper to shell out some money for me to do so.
01:08:48Posted from Nancy Danderhoof.
01:08:50Fuck.
01:08:52Danderhoof.
01:08:53I need to know Kumite more.
01:08:55More than ever.
01:08:57We move out from the Coterie's Airbnb at a beautiful blue Plymouth Voyager.
01:09:06A minivan that pulls into town as a 51-year-old woman who's last discovered clues of the presence of
01:09:17the kindred at the Henry Dorley Zoo and Aquarium who has just driven across the country from Omaha, Nebraska.
01:09:26And that's all for this episode of Dimension 20, City Council of Darkness.
01:09:31She works for the Omaha Sunday Scoop.
01:09:36You got robbed?
01:09:37Yeah.
01:09:37By who?
01:09:38We don't know yet what they took, but a guy busted in.
01:09:41Cal sells NFTs.
01:09:42Do we need to protect him?
01:09:44From, like, a blood bag perspective, yes.
01:09:46There's blood bags freaking everywhere.
01:09:48For you!
01:09:49I think it's time we befriended a few of the boys in blue.
01:09:52I think so, too.
01:09:53D?
01:09:54Yes.
01:09:55Nah.
01:09:55You're so sweet.
01:09:56This seems like such a fucking bad idea.
01:09:59That's my idea!
01:10:00I knew it!
01:10:00I listened, man.
01:10:01We know it.
01:10:02You know what gives me a fucking shot?
01:10:04We have to tell everyone how fucked we are.
01:10:07We're so fucked.
01:10:08What could he take?
01:10:09He can't take my pleasure.
01:10:10Oh.
01:10:11Cool.
01:10:11What?
01:10:12You guys haven't drowned a dog before for power and money?
01:10:15Oh, grow up.
01:10:16We have your last location as Omaha, Nebraska.
01:10:19Okay, we have to leave.
01:10:20We have to leave.
01:10:20Yeah, I think we have to sign up for the fucking metaphors.
01:10:23We got ten pumpkins, triple wick, going full tilt.
01:10:28Otherwise, it even smells crazy to us in here.
01:10:30Ten pumpkins?
01:10:31Otherwise, it smells crazy to us.
01:10:34I'm sorry.