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Dimension 20 S28E04 Part 1 (2026)
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00:00:39Hello, one and all.
00:00:41Welcome to another episode of Dimension 20, City Council of Darkness.
00:00:44I'm your humble dungeon master, Bradley Mellion.
00:00:45With me, as always, are our intrepid heroes.
00:00:47Say hi, intrepid heroes.
00:00:48Go die, intrepid heroes.
00:00:51Last we left off, the going was getting here in Purpy, Oregon.
00:00:57Again, we stopped by Sweetie Pie's exotic dance club, where we met Susan, the proprietor, Kelly, the exotic dancer, and
00:01:04Jeff, who was stalked back to the Granite Village trailer park by none of it.
00:01:08The Darkness Man with a hand over his mouth.
00:01:11Darkness Man got on to the tip that there might be some subterranean tunnels here in Purpy.
00:01:18Maybe they got built during the 70s.
00:01:21Our other friends headed off to the Dolly's down off of Main Street.
00:01:25Where is that?
00:01:25That's on Canal Street.
00:01:27To discover that a single spirit had escaped a mass drowning event at the Whitaker Silver Mine.
00:01:34Within that mine, many miners had drowned, and Nathaniel Hoggins had made his way out to only be trapped for
00:01:42some years in the broken talk box of a drive-through at a Dolly's.
00:01:47Nathaniel, begging to know if he were at the hand of Christ, was instead tormented by ruthless vampires until they
00:01:54eventually described to him that, in fact, he may well have been betrayed by a man that he referred to
00:02:01as Wallace Whitaker, the original owner of the Whitaker Silver Mine.
00:02:05Nathaniel rejoined his undead kin up outside of town, the old abandoned silver mine, and Zayt, dodging some cops on
00:02:17his motorcycle, made his way back-
00:02:20Necessary.
00:02:21Back to the Coterie's dwelling place where you ended your first night here in Purpy, discovering that Purpy and all
00:02:28these Airbnbs circulate around the Laurent Horror Festival, a celebration of horror literature held here in Purpy during May,
00:02:37with noted local author Estelle Lorraine, a famous science fiction horror author, notable for such titles as The Shimmering, That,
00:02:52Mary, Agony, The Nantucket Absolvement, Audience with the Sanguivore and the Sanguivore Durand, Allegory of the Farmhand, and many others.
00:03:02It is, by the way, the sun sets at 6.45 October, and it will start setting earlier and earlier
00:03:07to your great advantage as winter draws near.
00:03:10So you're getting some more hours of activity while the town is bumping. It's 7.15, which means that actually
00:03:15most places are still open. About half the town closes at 8 p.m.
00:03:20Great.
00:03:20So you get about 45 minutes while most places are still open before it starts to get late night.
00:03:24Wow.
00:03:24Where we have to enter by going, sorry.
00:03:26Sorry.
00:03:26Yeah.
00:03:27Sorry.
00:03:28They're still open.
00:03:29They're still open. Sorry.
00:03:30You don't mind mopping again, do you?
00:03:32I'm so sorry.
00:03:33You guys split up and you guys headed to the university. Zaith and Mitch headed off to the interstate to
00:03:39look for this and found a sprawling subterranean government complex completely open and unlocked in the basement of a diner
00:03:51with a weird ladle and key on a railing.
00:03:55Led out to a massive series of crucibles, a giant portrait of a smiling Richard Nixon, and a subterranean radio
00:04:01tower where, having turned the key, the red glow diminishes, revealing a single footprint.
00:04:10We return to the university.
00:04:13Oh, wow.
00:04:14A car headed off to Perpee State University.
00:04:18Car.
00:04:18Car.
00:04:19Oh, sorry.
00:04:20Two Lime Scooters.
00:04:21We're on two Lime Scooters, two per lunch.
00:04:24Two incredibly unmodern businessmen on two Lime Scooters.
00:04:29And it is spelled L-Y-M-E.
00:04:30And two, like, 19 to 22-year-olds.
00:04:34You arrive at the university where you see plenty of people out in the evening.
00:04:38It looks like some people are still hanging out a little bit post-dinner.
00:04:41The meal hall is kind of winding down.
00:04:43Here it's about 7.15.
00:04:44You see that they're sort of walking across the quad, moving throughout.
00:04:49Some people are headed down to Main Street or other places like that.
00:04:52A couple of PSU signs around.
00:04:54To where do you go on your scooters?
00:04:56We said Flyers, right?
00:04:57Yeah.
00:04:58So I'm thinking the library?
00:04:59Library.
00:04:59Batchild, I know.
00:05:01We'll have to be careful.
00:05:02Yeah, just, um, maybe handcuff me to you so I don't bolt down the zoology section.
00:05:09Yeah, checks out.
00:05:09Because I will.
00:05:11I will.
00:05:12What's the closest thing we have to handcuffs on us?
00:05:14Any zip ties.
00:05:16You know, I can just hold hands really tight.
00:05:19Zip ties.
00:05:20To a young woman.
00:05:21Batchild, is it alright if we just hold hands really tight?
00:05:24Yeah.
00:05:25Okay.
00:05:25I think it's maybe good if you go look at the zoology department.
00:05:28They will maybe have a local zoology situation.
00:05:31You can find some information out.
00:05:34Madeline, what good comes from that?
00:05:37Am I going to be able to practice zoology ever?
00:05:39Yes.
00:05:41No.
00:05:41No.
00:05:41I'm not zoology.
00:05:43No.
00:05:43Do you know the Henry Dorley Zoo and Aquarium is only open from 9am to 6pm Wednesday through
00:05:48Saturday?
00:05:49And since you're a vampire you won't be able to do that.
00:05:51Right now.
00:05:52You think they don't have night watch men?
00:05:54Yeah.
00:05:54I don't want to do that.
00:05:56I want to do youth outreach at the zoo.
00:05:58They have sleepovers.
00:05:59Any youth outreach you do is a vampire for the kids who should be in bed.
00:06:03At the zoo.
00:06:03Sleepover at the zoo.
00:06:05The scouts.
00:06:05Yeah, I did that once.
00:06:07Okay, so I get one night a year of bliss.
00:06:11You're right.
00:06:13You're right.
00:06:15Okay, we got to keep you from that.
00:06:17Yes.
00:06:17We're going to flyer.
00:06:18Toxic lore that I can never have and that's why I've been grasping your hands all the time.
00:06:24Wow.
00:06:25Okay.
00:06:25God damn.
00:06:26God damn this hurts.
00:06:28Okay.
00:06:29Let's move.
00:06:29Let's go.
00:06:30I'm flying.
00:06:32I'm flying.
00:06:33The poster is just the blood, the crazy blood scene.
00:06:38Yeah.
00:06:39And then it just says movie night in Comic Sans.
00:06:43I have one of my skills is in crafts if I'm using canva.com.
00:06:49So I created the poster.
00:06:51Created a poster.
00:06:52It says movie night.
00:06:53And what does it say on it?
00:06:56Okay, we pick a date and a night and it will start for sure at like 7.30pm.
00:07:02That's safe.
00:07:03Yeah.
00:07:04Where?
00:07:05On campus at the business center.
00:07:08And now we need to figure out how to host that later.
00:07:11Why don't we just try to do it at Mike's?
00:07:13You're right.
00:07:14I feel like, yeah, let's do it in the parking lot at Mike's.
00:07:18Yeah.
00:07:18Great.
00:07:18And then.
00:07:19Okay.
00:07:19Okay.
00:07:20Sorry.
00:07:20Sorry.
00:07:21Patrick Bateman cover in blood.
00:07:23Movie night.
00:07:24Comic Sans.
00:07:25It says at Mike's the bar.
00:07:27And then it says business mixer to follow.
00:07:30Yes.
00:07:31Bring resumes.
00:07:32Bring resumes.
00:07:34So we have tabs at the bottom, but it looks like all have been ripped off.
00:07:37Cause there's so much.
00:07:38You're a genius.
00:07:38You're a genius.
00:07:39Yeah.
00:07:39All these tabs with my phone number and all of them have been ripped away.
00:07:44But one.
00:07:44Great.
00:07:45You get one person purpose.
00:07:47Well, they don't really need to call me.
00:07:49It just needs to look like there's been some buzz.
00:07:51Yeah.
00:07:52You don't need to call them.
00:07:52Actually, should I rip off that last one?
00:07:54I don't want anyone to have my number.
00:07:56Yeah.
00:07:56I think we should just leave the phone number off.
00:07:57There's just a raw edge at the bottom of ripped paper.
00:08:00And they can imagine how many tabs were there.
00:08:03In small writing.
00:08:04All right.
00:08:04There were 25 tabs at the bottom of this.
00:08:06Take one.
00:08:08Gotcha.
00:08:08You said there were 25 tabs at the bottom of this.
00:08:12Take one.
00:08:12Too late we printed it.
00:08:13Yeah, that is what we said.
00:08:14Great.
00:08:14There were.
00:08:16Please take one.
00:08:16And if they're all gone, seems like it's going to be a smash hit.
00:08:20Go ahead.
00:08:21Give me charisma.
00:08:22And I think performance or expression if there's one of those.
00:08:26Go ahead.
00:08:27And there's no phone number on any of these.
00:08:29They've all had all the phone numbers.
00:08:30All the phone numbers.
00:08:32But can I roll my dice in craft since I used Canva?
00:08:36You can use craft.
00:08:37You can use craft.
00:08:38I used Danva.
00:08:39You have to.
00:08:40I'm telling you right now.
00:08:42That is how specific it has to be to be able to use this.
00:08:45Wait, if you're using craft, I'm like geared up.
00:08:48Craft is my highest thing.
00:08:49Can I have help?
00:08:50Oh.
00:08:50Wait.
00:08:51Two more to help?
00:08:52Two more.
00:08:53You can add two more dice.
00:08:54You will need seven successes for this.
00:08:56What?
00:08:57For people to really be talking about it everywhere on campus?
00:09:02We have a fun time on this show.
00:09:06To add two more.
00:09:07I want everyone.
00:09:08We go around in real life.
00:09:09Uh-huh.
00:09:10I want you to tell me about how many events prompted by a lone flyer you responded to in college.
00:09:17Uh, I accidentally went to a religious barbecue and then they tried to bring me in.
00:09:23Great.
00:09:23And I said no.
00:09:24Great.
00:09:24One.
00:09:25I was probably on the other side of the equation.
00:09:28That was an Easter egg hunt that I didn't go to because I knew it was religious.
00:09:32Great.
00:09:33I went to the founder of Wikipedia talking one time.
00:09:37Great.
00:09:38Same for me but Scientology.
00:09:40Okay.
00:09:40Oh, wow.
00:09:40I went to quite a few.
00:09:43I went to agape latte several times.
00:09:45Uh, I went to a religious school but I was also Catholic at the time.
00:09:48I went to a symposium on Dreams.
00:09:50Oh.
00:09:51Uh, murder mystery comedy show.
00:09:53Yeah.
00:09:53Um, stand up open mic show.
00:09:56Flyers work.
00:09:56Actually, right.
00:09:56Flyers work.
00:09:57If it's in the world of what you would already like, like a man covered in blood looking in
00:10:01the mirror, you might go.
00:10:03My college improv group, we always sold out and we always did just flyers.
00:10:07That's how we acted.
00:10:07Well, look.
00:10:09Well, look at that.
00:10:10All right.
00:10:10Great.
00:10:11Great.
00:10:11I will say based on this survey.
00:10:14Yes.
00:10:15I think it's very different when you're at a university where the campus is New York City.
00:10:20Yes.
00:10:20Rather than you're the campus is the campus.
00:10:22Yeah.
00:10:22Sure, sure, sure, sure.
00:10:24I guess that's very true.
00:10:25Everyone's going to go skip the lip.
00:10:27Well, hell, we're hosting at the place where you skip the lip anyway.
00:10:30Wow.
00:10:30Wow, wow, wow.
00:10:31That's very true.
00:10:31Okay.
00:10:32I will say that you attract some manner of people on two successes.
00:10:36If you want it to be a barn burner, it's going to be four.
00:10:38Okay.
00:10:39You got that.
00:10:40That's easy.
00:10:41Okay.
00:10:41Come on.
00:10:43So one, two, three.
00:10:45Okay.
00:10:45We're going to whatever.
00:10:46Willpower.
00:10:47We're going to willpower.
00:10:48We just need one more.
00:10:50And we got three more.
00:10:53Ooh, baby.
00:10:54Okay.
00:10:54We got six.
00:10:55Six.
00:10:56All right.
00:10:56So you post these, you're walking around the campus posting up these flyers.
00:11:01I'm ripping off all the phone numbers.
00:11:03Yeah, that part I'm clear on.
00:11:05But you can type them all out individually.
00:11:06Hey, Ally, I'm locked in on whether or not there's tabs of phone numbers.
00:11:11And you're not dropping any.
00:11:12There are no tabs left, Brendan.
00:11:14The phone numbers are gone.
00:11:16It's viral marketing.
00:11:16All of these, we've said that this is in the year 2025.
00:11:20All of these 18 year olds don't even know why you would do that.
00:11:25It's the first flyer they've ever seen, and they're delighted by it.
00:11:27They're delighted by it.
00:11:27And they're like, tabs, where's the QR code?
00:11:31Why wouldn't I just immediately punch the number into my phone?
00:11:34All the tabs are gone.
00:11:37And then I get on my lines.
00:11:38There's really nothing to call about.
00:11:42To confirm you're invited to this open event?
00:11:46Yeah.
00:11:47In a parking lot.
00:11:48There's an open event in a parking lot.
00:11:51Seeing you on a college campus, putting up posters to lure people somewhere.
00:11:55Yeah.
00:11:55And then riding away.
00:11:57Riding fully erect away.
00:11:59Yeah.
00:11:59You just look like an old prospect.
00:12:02How far away is this event?
00:12:04Oh, what do you guess?
00:12:04I'd say end of the week.
00:12:05Yeah.
00:12:06It's Sunday right now, so you'll do it on Friday.
00:12:08A Friday is a great night for a movie night.
00:12:10I think so too.
00:12:10Great.
00:12:11You start putting them up, and they're so well designed.
00:12:15Is there any indication about who is hosting this, or if it is attached to an institution at all?
00:12:22We should put something business.
00:12:24Special guest.
00:12:24The puppy business.
00:12:25We can put Worthy Industries at the top.
00:12:26Yeah, yeah.
00:12:28Worthy Industries.
00:12:28Great.
00:12:29Worthy Industries presents movie night with business event to follow in the parking lot of Mike's.
00:12:33Great.
00:12:34Bring your resumes.
00:12:36Incredible.
00:12:37Uh, I love that.
00:12:39Woo!
00:12:40And he's growing your Swedish.
00:12:41These flyers are going up no problem.
00:12:44For Madelaine and Vespers, is there anything that you guys are doing as Levante and HJ are running around?
00:12:50You guys were partying with tech billionaires less than three days ago.
00:12:54I'm gonna go get a very well-thumbed copy of the complete work of Keats out of the library, and
00:13:02then I'm gonna go to the English department and read it very performatively, leaning against a wall.
00:13:09Give me charisma plus manipulation, and you can add your dice from, uh...
00:13:14Great.
00:13:15So, charisma plus manipulation plus ore?
00:13:17Yes.
00:13:19That's five.
00:13:21I might use a willpower to just really push it over the edge.
00:13:25Mm-hmm.
00:13:27Ooh, that's a seven.
00:13:29I did get a BCL failure, but I'm assuming that a seven passes.
00:13:34Seven successes.
00:13:35Unbelievable.
00:13:36Um, as you sit there reading, um, not a...
00:13:42Oh, not a Grecian urn.
00:13:43Oh, no.
00:13:45Oh!
00:13:46Seven is an overpowering success.
00:13:49The university is one of the places in town that actually is quite lovely.
00:13:54I mean, it's, you know, like, it's a lot of, like, drop ceilings with the foam tiles inside, but there's
00:13:58some nice stone work.
00:14:00It has some civic kind of loveliness to it.
00:14:02There is a stone, a wide stone railing next to an overhang of jasmine outside the English department that actually
00:14:11has a little piece of old world poetry to it.
00:14:14Just a little bit.
00:14:16Great. I stand next to it like this as I'm reading.
00:14:19A subaudible hum of raw beauty and poetry reverberates out from you.
00:14:30On seven successes, which is overpowering, everyone who passes notices you and instantly falls in love with you, but none
00:14:40dare approach you unless you determine that you are interested enough in them for them to approach you.
00:14:47It is the best version of how this could have happened.
00:14:50Great. I wait until there's the most, like, skinny, goth-looking boy that passes me, and I go, excuse me,
00:14:57do you know when Professor Laurent has her office hours?
00:15:00This, uh, Skrillex-looking, like, long hair, he's like 6'4", but totally stooped, like, his body shape is like
00:15:09a shepherd's crook, you know, just like...
00:15:12Six foot six, but also five foot ten.
00:15:14Yes, exactly. You see, he looks and says, huh? Oh.
00:15:18Professor Laurent.
00:15:19Hey.
00:15:20Hi.
00:15:21Uh...
00:15:22I'm Madeleine. What's your name?
00:15:24Stringy.
00:15:26That's so cool.
00:15:28Wow.
00:15:30Uh...
00:15:30Hey.
00:15:32Uh...
00:15:32Are you...
00:15:33Are you in the English department?
00:15:35I...
00:15:36Want to transfer.
00:15:37I...
00:15:38I came here to study zoology, but actually that turns out it's not interesting to me at all.
00:15:44Oh.
00:15:45Yeah, no, I'm in the...
00:15:46I'm studying English as well.
00:15:48Professor Laurent is awesome.
00:15:50I...
00:15:50I took her class last year.
00:15:53Uh...
00:15:53She only teaches in the spring semester, but...
00:15:57Um...
00:15:57She sometimes is around, like, doing planning stuff for the festival here.
00:16:01Oh, great.
00:16:02Do you know where her office is?
00:16:04Professor Harmon's office, uh...
00:16:06Val Harmon, she's...
00:16:07She's one of the...
00:16:08The, um...
00:16:09She's the director of programming for the festival.
00:16:11Oh.
00:16:11So she's...
00:16:12She has an office on campus.
00:16:14Um...
00:16:14She might be...
00:16:15Sometimes she's here late if you wanted to go try to talk to her.
00:16:17Thank you, yes.
00:16:18Can you show me?
00:16:18Yeah.
00:16:20Uh...
00:16:21And then...
00:16:21Are you...
00:16:22Some of us are...
00:16:23Are going over to Barnabas later.
00:16:25If you're like...
00:16:26What's Barnabas?
00:16:26Oh, Barnabas.
00:16:27It's...
00:16:28Oh, it's...
00:16:28It's Patty Babcock's, uh...
00:16:30House over on Barnabas Street.
00:16:32Oh, yes.
00:16:33Of course.
00:16:33Patty...
00:16:33Patty Babcock.
00:16:35Of course.
00:16:35Yeah.
00:16:36How could I be so stupid?
00:16:37Yeah, it's just...
00:16:38Skip the lip.
00:16:39Uh...
00:16:39Hey, you skipped the lip.
00:16:41You already know the town.
00:16:42Whatever you need.
00:16:45Whatever you need.
00:16:46Good.
00:16:46Um, and he starts heading over to Professor Harmon's office.
00:16:50Uh, Batchild, what are you up to while this is going on?
00:16:53Um, I think, uh, Batchild realizes that Madeline has this handled and she, um, wouldn't really have much to add
00:17:01to a social encounter anyway, so I think I'm just gonna smush my face up against the window of the
00:17:07library and watch the students learn.
00:17:10Um, give me, if you would, give me, uh, awareness and resolve role. Resolve plus awareness. Uh, and then I
00:17:21would like a charisma and stealth role.
00:17:25Okay.
00:17:26I have something with resolve.
00:17:28Not even watching, just smushing your face.
00:17:31Only looking for two successes here.
00:17:34Well, I'd have to beat my record.
00:17:35You can split the...
00:17:39Four.
00:17:39Nice.
00:17:40You look in and see an actually really beautifully tended library here.
00:17:47Um, you see the State University Library.
00:17:50It has those, like, giant, like, the stacks, right?
00:17:52Those shelves that kind of sort of automated slide back and forth.
00:17:56You see there's clearly some kids that do the, like, the viral video of, like, trying to run through the
00:18:00stacks before they close on you kind of thing.
00:18:03Um, the biology and zoology section is by no means the largest in this space, but there is a healthy
00:18:09zoology section inside.
00:18:11Hmm.
00:18:12Is there?
00:18:13There it is.
00:18:16Are you still holding it?
00:18:18I'm gonna make a, I'm gonna make a break for it.
00:18:20Hell yeah.
00:18:21You make a break for it.
00:18:23Uh, go ahead and give me a charisma and stealth.
00:18:25Okay.
00:18:26Okay.
00:18:26Difficulty is three.
00:18:28Oh.
00:18:29So, I do add two to stealth checks.
00:18:34I got three successes and a bestial failure.
00:18:37Three successes passes.
00:18:39That's okay.
00:18:39Okay.
00:18:39So, uh, uh, you rush inside being unseen and zip into the zoology section.
00:18:46It's an incredible section of books.
00:18:48It's less so, like, wow, exciting and exotic zoology.
00:18:51A lot of it is very local.
00:18:53It's a state university.
00:18:54So, a lot of it is the types of animals that you would see around here.
00:18:57There's a lot of Pacific Northwest.
00:18:59Some of it is very ancient.
00:19:01There is a lot of study also about, like, ranger studies, forestry studies.
00:19:06There's a lot of books written by native authors about land, like, like, tending to land, land, uh, stewardship and
00:19:14conservation.
00:19:14And you see that there is a, um, very small section that you actually see someone is already perusing in
00:19:24this moment.
00:19:24There's another student here who has not seen you on that stealth roll.
00:19:27But is looking in a very small section of the zoology near the beginning, near alphabetically the beginning of the
00:19:33zoology section.
00:19:34I want to spy on them and see what books they're taking out.
00:19:38Do they have a list of books they're getting?
00:19:40Do they have, like, um, a syllabus from a class that they're lucky enough to attend?
00:19:45You look and see that they are in the cryptozoology section.
00:19:50Uh, cryptozoology being the study of cryptids.
00:19:53Okay, okay. Madeline's voice is ringing in my head.
00:19:58I don't care about diurnal animals. I care about cryptozoology because that's what I can actually care about.
00:20:05And I'm gonna walk over and I'm gonna reach for a cryptozoology book.
00:20:14Awesome. Uh, just one at random?
00:20:17Yeah. It's just the first step. I just have to rip the bandaid off.
00:20:21Uh, give me just a basic luck check.
00:20:23Fill out.
00:20:26I failed.
00:20:27You reach out and grab a book. You see it's old, well-worn university copy called Lumber Tales, Folklore of
00:20:35the American Lumber Trade.
00:20:38And you see that there is a small dog-eared page within it.
00:20:42Okay, I'll open it to that page.
00:20:44Uh, it's talking about a creature called a gumbaroo.
00:20:47A gumbaroo. That's pretty interesting.
00:20:50Can I look and see if there are any other cryptozoology books about creatures of the night?
00:20:56There is. There is a book about South American legends of, like, super anacondas, giant anacondas.
00:21:05A sort of serpent-y book that the other student here is holding.
00:21:09Uh, this other student is a tall, muscular, handsome college student.
00:21:17He looks like he's probably like a senior or close to it.
00:21:19He has the rare quality in, like, a college student where he has already lost a lot of his baby
00:21:26fat.
00:21:26He really, he looks young but not childish at all.
00:21:30He's got a heavy sort of camper backpack on the floor next to him.
00:21:34And what looks like a pair of this sort of, like, athletic, the shoes that are almost like halfway between
00:21:40a hiking boot and a sneaker.
00:21:42You know what I mean? There's like some sort of, like, more athletic wear.
00:21:44But you see he's reading a book on these sort of, like, South American super serpents.
00:21:49Herpetology?
00:21:51Gesundheit. And he closes the book.
00:21:53Oh, no. I meant, like, study of reptiles and amphibians.
00:21:56No, no. I know. It sounded like a sneeze.
00:22:00Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Um, that's really cool. Are you a student here?
00:22:05Yeah.
00:22:05What classes are you taking? Would you mind walking me through every class that you're enrolled in?
00:22:10Would I mind walking you through every class I'm enrolled?
00:22:13I mean, presumably it's five, six if you're overeager.
00:22:17No, I'm actually not fully matriculated right now. I'm only able to take a half a course load.
00:22:23I'm working, so I can't come here full time.
00:22:25Where do you work?
00:22:26I work at one of the PXLs. I work at a gas station.
00:22:29Is there a zoo here?
00:22:31At the university?
00:22:33No, um, in Perpee.
00:22:35No, we couldn't even keep our library open.
00:22:37The library closed down, too?
00:22:39Yeah.
00:22:41Oh, what's your name, by the way? Sorry, I'm Vesper.
00:22:43Vesper, nice to meet you. I'm Erin.
00:22:45Hi, nice to meet you.
00:22:47Well, I'm not matriculating either.
00:22:50Oh, got it. Are you a student here as well?
00:22:52No.
00:22:54Got it. Oh, okay. Oh.
00:22:56What?
00:22:59Gesundheit?
00:23:05Got it.
00:23:08What made you go for that book? Because honestly, like, I used to study zoology, and I think that it's,
00:23:15like, something that I really miss every single night.
00:23:18Um, and so, uh, I was wondering if there were any books that you would recommend that I take out.
00:23:25What are your favorite zoology books at this library?
00:23:28Sorry, you used to study zoology?
00:23:31Yeah.
00:23:32You have to forgive me, you don't look like you used to do anything.
00:23:34You look really young.
00:23:37Yeah, I'm young, but I definitely, like, used to have a sixth birthday.
00:23:40Right?
00:23:41I look like that.
00:23:47I can't, I can't get-
00:23:48Look, you're meeting me at a low.
00:23:50Yeah.
00:23:51You're meeting me at a low.
00:23:52I, that makes me feel better that you say that.
00:23:55Yeah.
00:23:55Not that you're at a low, but because I see, I can't seem to get my feet under me in
00:23:59this interaction.
00:23:59I know, I understand that.
00:24:01And here's the thing is that I have felt really called to this zoology section, and I shouldn't be here
00:24:07because it's just a temptation that makes a promise that I can't deliver on.
00:24:11And so, um, I'm just, like, having a bit of a moment.
00:24:15Are you someone's sibling?
00:24:17Are you, like, the sister of someone who goes here?
00:24:21No.
00:24:27He sort of smiles.
00:24:31Anyways, what classes are you taking?
00:24:33What are you studying?
00:24:35Forensics.
00:24:37Forensics?
00:24:38Yeah, they have a forensics department here.
00:24:41It's part of the criminal justice school, but I'm not really interested in the whole criminal justice part of it.
00:24:46Um, uh, do you have a, uh, uh, sorry, your name is Vespers?
00:24:51Vesper, singular.
00:24:52Vesper, Vesper.
00:24:54Do you have a, um, are you touring the campus?
00:24:59Can you place what you're doing outside of the context of this exact conversation?
00:25:05Yeah, I understand now why you're, like, really freaked out.
00:25:08Like, who am I and how am I in this library that I'm not supposed to be in?
00:25:12Yeah.
00:25:12Uh-huh.
00:25:14I hand him a flyer for American people.
00:25:20He goes, oh, okay.
00:25:24Well, you're gonna have, like, a drive-in movie theater screen in the parking lot of Mike's?
00:25:27Yeah.
00:25:28Yeah.
00:25:28We made friends with the owners.
00:25:30We made friends with the owners?
00:25:31Yeah, I point out the window, which is probably-
00:25:35Two older men on scooters.
00:25:38Scootering between places they were flyering.
00:25:41Got it.
00:25:42Are these your, is this your family?
00:25:45Yeah.
00:25:46I think it is.
00:25:48Can we clock them talking about us?
00:25:50Sure.
00:25:51I think you see Vesper in the library talking to-
00:25:53Oh, God, she's in the library.
00:25:55We go, fuck.
00:25:58What were you reading about, about South American anacondas?
00:26:01Oh, uh, jaw dislocation.
00:26:06I was reading about, um, uh, consume- creatures that can consume their prey hole.
00:26:12Oh.
00:26:15Like, it almost seems like their mouth turns into a portal to the abyss.
00:26:20It's a weirdly specific thing to say.
00:26:23Yeah.
00:26:24Um, anyways, I think I'm just gonna, um, take a couple books and-
00:26:28There's my daughter who goes to this school!
00:26:33No, I don't.
00:26:34I don't go here.
00:26:36No, she doesn't.
00:26:39Not yet.
00:26:42H.J.
00:26:43How's it going, my friend?
00:26:44Great.
00:26:44I'm Aaron.
00:26:45Aaron?
00:26:46Mm-hmm.
00:26:46Cool.
00:26:47Are you, you busting her balls?
00:26:53Sorry, my dad is really old-fashioned.
00:26:56So we're, so you said he wasn't your dad, but now we're calling him your dad?
00:27:00Did you say I wasn't your dad?
00:27:03I said you were family.
00:27:05Who's dad are you, sir?
00:27:06I am, I have no kids.
00:27:08This is my cousin.
00:27:11Yeah.
00:27:12Through marriage.
00:27:13Through marriage.
00:27:14And this is our-
00:27:17Can you walk me through a cousin through marriage?
00:27:20100%.
00:27:21I could.
00:27:22Yeah.
00:27:24Oh, don't punch me.
00:27:30Is this the same Aaron that went for the power company?
00:27:31Is this saveable?
00:27:33I don't think so, man.
00:27:34I think we ruined this, dude.
00:27:36And I apologize for that.
00:27:37I'm gonna be straight up with you.
00:27:38I'm gonna be straight up with you.
00:27:40Got it.
00:27:40We made it weird.
00:27:41I reached down for his backpack.
00:27:43He goes, oh, don't do that.
00:27:44Hey.
00:27:45Oh, right, H.J., come on, man.
00:27:46You're playing.
00:27:47Hey.
00:27:47Yeah.
00:27:48But you go here, right?
00:27:49And you're not busting her ball.
00:27:51She doesn't go here yet.
00:27:52Can't do that.
00:27:53Hands off.
00:27:53Is this young woman related to you?
00:27:56Who are you?
00:27:57Yeah, we're just friends.
00:27:59And we have been for a long time.
00:28:00Sometimes.
00:28:01You, you, you are friends.
00:28:02She's your friend?
00:28:03Okay, you know what?
00:28:04I'm gonna clear this up.
00:28:05Have you ever heard of a little something called found family?
00:28:08Sometimes the lines get blurry between father and father.
00:28:13Are you safe?
00:28:16Are you safe?
00:28:16And that is a good question.
00:28:18We're a couple of businessmen.
00:28:20We're having a movie night.
00:28:22If you're in the business department, we want you to come.
00:28:24You're having a movie night at the parking lot of Mike's.
00:28:25You got a flyer.
00:28:26Yeah, I did.
00:28:27You tell your friends.
00:28:28Sure.
00:28:29Your other friends in the business department?
00:28:31Sorry?
00:28:31Are you also...
00:28:33No, I'm not a business major.
00:28:35Oh, which major are you?
00:28:36What is happening?
00:28:38What do you want?
00:28:39I'm just curious.
00:28:40I'm sorry, sorry.
00:28:41There is a tremendously hostile energy coming to me right now.
00:28:45I never meant for my energy to be hostile.
00:28:48I only feel like an insatiable curiosity about what your course load is.
00:28:54I would like everybody here to make either like, I think it's called subterfuge.
00:28:58I want everyone here to make a charisma and subterfuge check.
00:29:03I have a thing called ingenue.
00:29:06Oh, yes.
00:29:07I add two dice to any rolls to avoid suspicion or deflect blame.
00:29:11That would be here.
00:29:12I got it.
00:29:12You would add that here.
00:29:13Charisma and subterfuge, okay.
00:29:15And we're looking for a DC of four here.
00:29:18I got one success and one brutal failure, which feels accurate.
00:29:22One bestial failure, gotcha.
00:29:23I am one success away, so I'm going to burn one willpower to reroll.
00:29:29I got it.
00:29:30Two successes.
00:29:32I only got to roll two dice.
00:29:33But I'm going to try to use mesmerize.
00:29:37Okay, how does mesmerize work?
00:29:38With eye contact, I can issue a complex command to be carried out immediately.
00:29:43An opposing roll is not required for an unprepared mortal.
00:29:47And I do one rouse check.
00:29:49Nothing.
00:29:50Looking at mesmerize here, he is going to roll.
00:29:54You're going to roll manipulation plus dominate.
00:29:58And he is going to roll his intelligence plus resolve.
00:30:02So he was prepared or he's not immortal?
00:30:04You don't know.
00:30:06Okay.
00:30:07The ways.
00:30:08I will let you know the number of his successes.
00:30:13You don't have to beat.
00:30:13You can meet it.
00:30:14So it's meet or beat for you.
00:30:16You're trying to meet or beat three successes.
00:30:19Okay.
00:30:21Two.
00:30:22Oh, three.
00:30:22Great.
00:30:23I meet.
00:30:23What do you say to Aaron in this moment?
00:30:26Say, big misunderstanding.
00:30:29Go back to what you were doing.
00:30:31He nods and begins to read his book and chill out here in the library.
00:30:35In that moment on that bestial failure, you may choose, Emily, between either losing one of your advantage dots, if
00:30:43you have any.
00:30:44I do.
00:30:45Or.
00:30:46Wait, what's an advantage dot?
00:30:47An advantage is like your different backgrounds and your stuff.
00:30:50Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:30:50Okay.
00:30:50Or if you want to, you can also just engage in one of your compulsions.
00:30:55But I think in this moment with the beach of failure, some animalistic part of you is revealed.
00:30:59You do something that is fully inhuman in this moment.
00:31:03I think I'm going to eat a book.
00:31:04You have this book on the gumbaroo and you eat it in front of him.
00:31:08As he looks at it and sees it vanish into a portal in the back of your neck, he turns
00:31:13to you.
00:31:13I really wanted that book.
00:31:15He turns to you and the mesmerized works.
00:31:17So he goes back and just starts reading the herpetology book.
00:31:19As he does, you see veins are standing out in his neck and his tendons are at max capacity as
00:31:27he just reads the book sweating furiously as he is.
00:31:30Because he's fighting it.
00:31:31He's fighting it internally.
00:31:33Bitch, I wish you'd get out.
00:31:34I wish you'd get out.
00:31:35I wish you'd get out.
00:31:36Okay.
00:31:36I'm sorry.
00:31:37No, I'm sorry.
00:31:38We made that so weird.
00:31:39We didn't need help.
00:31:40It's literally my flaw to be knowledge hungry for zoology.
00:31:43Get on the line.
00:31:44We're going to ride it indoors.
00:31:45At this point, I think Darkness Man and Zaith, you get into texting range, leaving the subterranean.
00:31:51Is something still rocking in the...
00:31:54No, it appears to have subsided.
00:31:55Okay.
00:31:56And the key is already like...
00:31:57It broke.
00:31:58It broke?
00:31:59It broke like this.
00:32:00Right.
00:32:01Let's leave it.
00:32:02I guess there's nothing else we could do.
00:32:04I can't undo it.
00:32:04And it seems like the people that were here were doing bad stuff.
00:32:07It's not our fault.
00:32:08So it's literally not our fault and we tried and maybe it's good that...
00:32:12It might be good.
00:32:13And okay.
00:32:14So there's a foot.
00:32:15Can I look at like investigate the shape of this foot?
00:32:19Give me intelligence and investigation.
00:32:23I only got one success.
00:32:25Sadly, it comes with no explanation here in this way.
00:32:28It is a classic footprint symbol.
00:32:32Got it.
00:32:33Okay.
00:32:34Well...
00:32:34And there was...
00:32:35Was there still a door in front of us that we couldn't...
00:32:37That we could go...
00:32:38This was the end of the line.
00:32:39Okay.
00:32:39This was the end.
00:32:40Got it.
00:32:41Let's just poke.
00:32:41There was one other door.
00:32:43I'm just curious because there was the electric room and then the other one that said don't
00:32:47go in there.
00:32:48All right.
00:32:48Let's just poke.
00:32:49Let's just...
00:32:49Run back.
00:32:50Let's get in here.
00:32:51Let's get in here.
00:32:52You go poke at that door.
00:32:52You go poke at that other door.
00:32:53You see that that one has a...
00:32:56What looks like a long hallway with a series of old like 1970s computer bays.
00:33:03Like the kind of computer bays that like print on paper.
00:33:05I want to take a stack of paper if I see it.
00:33:08Great.
00:33:08You have a stack of paper.
00:33:09I'll be writing all this stuff down.
00:33:10You've stolen a ton of stuff.
00:33:10You have a mop.
00:33:11You have paper.
00:33:12Can I do a quick like technology check to just see...
00:33:15I'll just like try to turn on one of the computers and try to see like what they were
00:33:18doing.
00:33:19Yeah.
00:33:19Go ahead and give me intelligence plus computer.
00:33:23Intelligence plus computer.
00:33:26Difficulty of two.
00:33:27Come on.
00:33:28Ooh.
00:33:29Three.
00:33:30Okay.
00:33:30You turn on the computers and it starts to spit stuff out.
00:33:37You see that this appears to be some kind of code breaking machine.
00:33:43It's like spitting out a series of directives and it seems to be generating passcodes.
00:33:48You see that this starts printing new code directives for the new date that the computer
00:33:55thinks it is, which is December 27, 1991.
00:34:03Oh.
00:34:04Okay.
00:34:051991?
00:34:061991.
00:34:07Oh.
00:34:07I know I told you to stop stealing stuff, but we should take a computer, huh?
00:34:10If Batchild could look at it, we might be able to figure out what it is.
00:34:14They're kind of big.
00:34:14Okay.
00:34:15How huge are these computers?
00:34:17Wall sized.
00:34:18Fuck.
00:34:19Okay, yeah.
00:34:19All right.
00:34:20Let's just take the papers then.
00:34:21Just the papers.
00:34:22Further down this hallway, this appears to be like an office complex.
00:34:25Okay.
00:34:25You get towards the end of it and it goes, you can tell that you're going under the interstate
00:34:30now towards what looks like a, you sort of open up, there's the last row of much smaller
00:34:36computers.
00:34:37These ones look more recent.
00:34:39Yeah.
00:34:39Like, these were maybe built in the late 80s, like, or right around the turn into the
00:34:4390s.
00:34:43And you can see that these are small enough to pick up and carry, have also been turned
00:34:48off for a long, long, long time.
00:34:50And you look out a series of windows to subterranean space, you see the gantry and scaffolding
00:34:58of what should equip to a space shuttle.
00:35:01But there is no such structure in this space.
00:35:05Instead, up, you see a massive irising enclosure in this subterranean sort of like space shuttle
00:35:13launching place.
00:35:15Is this like a missile silo or something?
00:35:17Does it seem like here?
00:35:19This would be further out off the edge of the map.
00:35:23Got it.
00:35:23Oh.
00:35:24Whoa.
00:35:25Hello.
00:35:26Um, all right.
00:35:29What else do we do?
00:35:30Do we just take a computer?
00:35:31Let's take one of the smaller.
00:35:32Let's just take a small computer.
00:35:33Great.
00:35:34You grab a small computer and you head on out of here.
00:35:38As you do so, the locker room that had the spray painting on it.
00:35:41Yeah.
00:35:42You get towards the last one, which was that first kind of steel door that you went through
00:35:45that was reinforced.
00:35:46And you see that there's a small sign next to the door saying, please remember to lock
00:35:52up if you are the last one out.
00:35:54This is a top secret government facility.
00:35:57And you see that there is still a key hanging up on there.
00:36:01It looks like someone did not follow the science instructions.
00:36:04All right.
00:36:04Let's take the keys.
00:36:05Let's lock up.
00:36:06Yeah.
00:36:06The keys to the kingdom.
00:36:07I know.
00:36:09Great.
00:36:09And you lock up just that one room past, like the mop room past the diner bathroom hallway.
00:36:16I'm going to go back and lock up the other stuff too.
00:36:20I still close random doors, yeah.
00:36:22You just start locking up more of the stuff.
00:36:23You get up top and you see as you walk up, you see that-
00:36:27I just have the computer under my trench coat.
00:36:30Mama Angie turns around as you walk up and says, your coffee's getting cold.
00:36:34Oh.
00:36:35Oh, the sprites?
00:36:36Yeah.
00:36:36We got nine sprites on a table over here.
00:36:38This mop was in the hallway.
00:36:40That's what took us so long.
00:36:43Give me, give me subterfuge and charisma.
00:36:47Two successes.
00:36:47Can I use awe?
00:36:48Sure.
00:36:49Okay.
00:36:50Give me two, only two successes.
00:36:52Okay.
00:36:54I got one.
00:36:57You see, you look at her and says, the mop?
00:37:00Yeah.
00:37:01I run through the glass window every time.
00:37:06You're gone.
00:37:07I'm sorry.
00:37:09I run out the door, I guess.
00:37:11And she says, hey, hey!
00:37:14And she leans out the broken window after both of you and goes, no more government agents!
00:37:19Stay out!
00:37:20I leave cash for the sprites.
00:37:23You leave cash for the sprites.
00:37:24Yeah.
00:37:24You guys take off and can connect with your friends at this point.
00:37:29I start furiously texting them.
00:37:31I text them a picture of the computer looking confused like, what?
00:37:36He's using a stick.
00:37:37It's so blurry.
00:37:39He gets so much in the photo.
00:37:40Yeah, it's just mostly my face.
00:37:42Your arms are just so long.
00:37:44Picture of, I guess, just like a question mark emoji over a picture of the foot.
00:37:50Found this below the diner.
00:37:54Missile silo also, question mark?
00:37:56Picture of the, like, space shovel-y thing.
00:38:00So they're trying to keep Bigfoot out?
00:38:02Is that the implication?
00:38:03It's like a human foot or it's like a paw print foot?
00:38:05This is a classic foot shape.
00:38:07It's a little prefabricated button that has a foot on it that is in the tower.
00:38:14As you think about Bigfoot and cryptozoology, you are like Bigfoot and realize that because you just ate the book
00:38:20with the gum brew on it, that would likely be the one.
00:38:23Hey, it was a bestial failure.
00:38:25It was a bestial failure.
00:38:26Yeah.
00:38:28Madeleine, walking with Stringy up through the English department, very, very late at night.
00:38:33It looks like there, I will say, however, there are, it's a Sunday, there are a couple different study halls
00:38:38that actually will be here until like 9pm when they'll start to sort of shut the building down.
00:38:42But you walk up and see that there is a lovely little office that has some sort of those, like,
00:38:49sadly prefabricated cultural artifacts.
00:38:53Like, oh, here's like a little dancing masked figure that you bought on Etsy from someone who makes the same
00:38:58little dancing masked figure hundreds of times a year.
00:39:01And here's a little sort of small, like, air plant that's just hanging from a thing is a professor's office.
00:39:07And Stringy knocks on the door and says, Professor Harmon, and you see this older woman who, she's, I'd say,
00:39:14around 60 years old.
00:39:16She's got like long, sort of stringy, very, very flat, not a lot of volume to it, stringy hair, thick
00:39:22spectacles, a kind of like purpley gray tie dye professorial top, some chunky necklace.
00:39:31And she turns around and says, hi, oh, Russell, hello.
00:39:36And you see that the sort of student says, there's a student here who's interested in transferring.
00:39:43I was wondering if you're having it.
00:39:45She says, well, I'm just, I'm wrapping up.
00:39:48I'm here.
00:39:48I got my Keats book.
00:39:49Keats book.
00:39:50In the doorway.
00:39:51You see that she looks out at you with this book and goes, hi, what's your name?
00:39:57What's your name, young lady?
00:39:59I'm Madeline.
00:40:00And then I turn to Stringy and go, thank you, Stingy.
00:40:02I'll see you at the bad cock party.
00:40:04He goes, he goes, yeah, do you know how to get there?
00:40:08I'll find it.
00:40:09It's on Barnabas Street.
00:40:10You can't miss it.
00:40:11Yeah, Barnabas Street.
00:40:12He turns around and heads out.
00:40:14And she looks at you and says, visiting town, you already got invited to Barnabas, as they call it.
00:40:21It's a big deal?
00:40:23My understanding, it is, it is the party house du jour of this crop of our excellent Perpee State students.
00:40:33Oh, that's so fun.
00:40:34Yeah, absolutely.
00:40:35I'm here because I have a lot of love for poetry in my heart and I was just wondering.
00:40:40Ugh, my heart aches, the drowsy numbness pains.
00:40:44I loved the Nantucket absolvement and I'm wondering if I could help volunteering for the festival.
00:40:52Oh, you're here, you're here asking for the festival.
00:40:55Well, don't let the dean hear you.
00:40:57Sure, come on in.
00:40:58Close the door.
00:40:58The dean doesn't like the festival?
00:40:59Uh, I, um...
00:41:02What's that drama?
00:41:04Do you want to know the tea?
00:41:05Yes.
00:41:05Do you want me to spill the tea?
00:41:06Close the door here.
00:41:07Do you want some, do you want some tea yourself?
00:41:08Some real tea?
00:41:09Oh, no, thank you.
00:41:10I never drink tea.
00:41:11I have Bigelow.
00:41:11They give me Bigelow.
00:41:12That's what the caterers have.
00:41:14Um, and you see that she starts to open this little drawer of like pre-packed tea things
00:41:17and takes a little green tea out.
00:41:20Uh, you see she actually sort of makes herself what looks like a little tea suicide.
00:41:23It's like a bunch of different tea bags.
00:41:25Uh huh.
00:41:25She's concocting her own super herbal mix.
00:41:27Uh, and has a little pre, the little water fountain that does the hot water straight out.
00:41:31That's not quite hot enough to make the tea good.
00:41:34Yeah.
00:41:35Um, uh, oh, the dean.
00:41:37No, they, they've been slashing, uh, funding here at the university.
00:41:43I asked for a raise.
00:41:46It's the third time I've asked for a raise and not gotten one.
00:41:50And, um, Ms. Laurent, uh, offered for me to come on, uh, as part-time as the director of programming
00:42:00for the festival.
00:42:01And to be very clear, uh, Estelle pays a lot better than Purpy State.
00:42:07Oh, I bet.
00:42:08I love how they shiver in that one book.
00:42:10So shiny.
00:42:11The two boys and the one girl.
00:42:14Oh, yes.
00:42:15Yes, yes, yes.
00:42:16So you're a fan.
00:42:17Talk to me about yourself, Madelaine.
00:42:18What brings you to-
00:42:19Oh, me?
00:42:19I'm not interesting.
00:42:22The Keats book you're holding up.
00:42:27Aha!
00:42:27Keats.
00:42:28Yes.
00:42:29I, I, uh, which, which, which of his poems, uh, uh, speaks to you?
00:42:33Oh, the, the long one, uh, the short one.
00:42:36I like the one about the fairies, uh, I like the one about, uh, the, the, the pot.
00:42:44All kinds of poems.
00:42:46Uh, you see, she says-
00:42:47So romantic.
00:42:48She says, which one, which one about fairies?
00:42:51Ah, la belle dame son merci.
00:42:53Uh, oh, I, uh, uh, uh, excusez-moi.
00:42:57No, no.
00:42:58Oh, a wat canal, the knight-at-arms, alone and palely loitering.
00:43:02Ah, what a cultured young lady.
00:43:05Uh, where are you looking to transfer from?
00:43:07The Sorbonne.
00:43:09Ooh la la.
00:43:10Well, that's something else.
00:43:13It's something else.
00:43:14I was just drawn to the city of Papi because I love horror festivals so much.
00:43:19Now that's really delightful.
00:43:21That's actually really charming.
00:43:24Uh, well, listen, we're always looking for volunteers, uh, not to disparage the initiative
00:43:30and, and pep of our young student body here.
00:43:34But, uh, we only ever have a handful that sign up this early.
00:43:38So if you want to put your name on the list, I'd be happy to, to consider it.
00:43:43Um, what, uh, uh, what kind of work?
00:43:47Do you have any experience, uh, interning or-
00:43:50Oh, I am familiar with the world of work.
00:43:53I've done it a lot.
00:43:55And I know how to do it.
00:44:00Go ahead and give me subterfuge plus, uh, manipulation.
00:44:03I mean, I do have seven dice in this.
00:44:05Oh, shit.
00:44:06Seven?
00:44:08Difficulty?
00:44:08Plus, plus maybe two with my, with my entree.
00:44:11Okay.
00:44:11Yeah.
00:44:12Uh, this will be a difficulty of three.
00:44:14Uh, thankfully I crit.
00:44:16Hey!
00:44:16But that's all I got.
00:44:17So four successes.
00:44:18Great.
00:44:18Yes.
00:44:19She says, marvelous.
00:44:20Well, Madeline, uh, you know, uh, I'm, I'm persona non grata here at the university
00:44:27at the moment while I'm on the, the dean's shit list.
00:44:31Sorry to curse.
00:44:33Uh.
00:44:33I love it.
00:44:34Uh, mailed.
00:44:36Uh.
00:44:37Oh, you speak French?
00:44:38Uh, uh, uh, oui.
00:44:41Uh, well, uh, yeah, good boy.
00:44:44Good thing I'm in the English department, uh-huh, not the French.
00:44:47Um, well, I tell you what, um, we'll get your name.
00:44:50Let me get your name and email.
00:44:51Um, uh, uh, go ahead and she takes a little sort of like index card and hands it to you
00:44:55with
00:44:55a pen.
00:44:56Oh, I don't have an email.
00:44:57What?
00:44:58I, I've never needed an email before.
00:45:02Sweetie, you, you gotta get email.
00:45:07No, I just like sending letters handwritten.
00:45:11Well, that's delightful.
00:45:13What I need is a way to contact you to let you know how to help.
00:45:17Okay, I have a phone number.
00:45:18I give you that.
00:45:19Lovely.
00:45:20Uh, you read that down and you see, uh, she looks out and says, yeah, well, you know,
00:45:25I, I, I think that'd be lovely.
00:45:27I'll, I'll get you started up.
00:45:28And is there, there, so, so we'll reach out and you can, you can submit.
00:45:32And while I'm here, just because, um, I'm, I'm interested in learning the local culture.
00:45:37Is there some, like, you know, something, the universities have a, a weird secret underground
00:45:44kind of group.
00:45:45That's all of the rich kids in the school.
00:45:47They get together.
00:45:47They say oaths or put blood into a bowl or something.
00:45:53The skull and bones, uh, would have no desire to open a chapter at Perpe State University.
00:46:00I'm afraid.
00:46:01Um, there's not really, if we had a secret eyes wide shut chamber, they would have, um,
00:46:08auctioned it off to some kind of tech company a long time ago.
00:46:11So.
00:46:12You know, I had to ask.
00:46:13No, of course.
00:46:15Uh, may I ask, what, what, this is sort of an interesting thing to say.
00:46:21You seem to be very full of life.
00:46:25You don't seem, your energy that I'm reading this moment, it doesn't seem very drawn to horror.
00:46:32You seem like someone who life would be lined with flowers for you.
00:46:37You don't see, I, you know, I can't see you being interested in monsters.
00:46:42But who are the real monsters?
00:46:46What these books presuppose is sometimes it's a beautiful teenage boy who's actually 400 years old.
00:46:57Okay.
00:46:59That's right to me.
00:47:00We're the only two in this room.
00:47:01Okay.
00:47:02All right.
00:47:05Hey, hey, who, who ordered, who ordered lunch extra spicy?
00:47:09Uh, well, it's been nice talking to you.
00:47:12Uh, and I got your, and I got your phone number.
00:47:16So we'll reach out.
00:47:17Again, I love to work and, uh, and, and thank, I will volunteer.
00:47:23Well, I'm glad.
00:47:25I'm glad.
00:47:25The festival can always use, use a hand.
00:47:28And we know it's a, it's one of the last little lifelines this town has, this sleepy little town.
00:47:36But, well, keep it chugging along.
00:47:39Um, very exciting.
00:47:41Uh, wonderful.
00:47:42Well, as I'm leaving, I open up my phone and I text the, the, uh, contact is Sire.
00:47:48Yeah.
00:47:49And I go, they don't even have a secret society at the university.
00:47:51Get me the fuck out of here.
00:47:53And you see, it's just all blue texts.
00:47:55I've been texting this guy nonstop since I got here.
00:48:00All cries for help.
00:48:02Uh, you walk out having gotten on this, uh, professor's shortlist, who seems to be actually be a significant individual
00:48:09that can get you, uh, lined up with other people in town.
00:48:11The group converges together.
00:48:13Where do you guys converge post library?
00:48:15I think I really need to lay low because I super messed up.
00:48:20Uh, Darkness Man, I'm pretty sure that they're going to be on to us.
00:48:24There's a guy named Aaron.
00:48:26He asked very specific questions about someone swallowing someone whole.
00:48:30We think it might be Beth's kid.
00:48:32I met him.
00:48:33And we also think he came by the house pretending to be the electricity guy.
00:48:36I think it was Aaron because he said he works for like a gas station.
00:48:39And then she swallowed a book whole showing that her mouth opens really big.
00:48:43Here's the thing, Darkness Man, I was in the zoology section.
00:48:46And on top of that, he was reading a book about herpetology.
00:48:50And you know I have a weakness for herpetologists.
00:48:52I do know this.
00:48:54Um, is it possible that he's Inquisition?
00:48:56That's my other thought.
00:48:58I hadn't even thought of that.
00:48:59Because if it was someone related to Beth, then he probably wouldn't be pretending to be with the power company.
00:49:06But he had some special power though, because isn't your concern?
00:49:09Yeah, I let you guys know that I felt some resistance when I usually wouldn't.
00:49:13Inquisition would, yeah.
00:49:14And I think that also Inquisition would know that there have been at least two instances of swallowing something.
00:49:22A person being swallowed and a person being swallowed.
00:49:24I've got to stop swallowing things.
00:49:25Can we say that we met at Mike's?
00:49:27Yeah.
00:49:28Yeah, we need to ask permission for it.
00:49:31Better to ask forgiveness than permission.
00:49:33I'm in.
00:49:33I got you something.
00:49:35We found, um...
00:49:36Ooh, a laptop.
00:49:37Wow.
00:49:37We...
00:49:40It's honestly not a laptop.
00:49:41It's pretty large.
00:49:42It's huge.
00:49:43Oh, but I can put it on my laptop.
00:49:44Yeah, yeah.
00:49:45These computers were in like a room that looked like they were launching a space shuttle or like a freaking
00:49:51missile or something.
00:49:51We found a kind of a jackpot.
00:49:53Yeah.
00:49:54And then there was also...
00:49:55There was the foot.
00:49:56And then also the room started shaking like something escaped when we, um...
00:50:00When we were just carrying on with the standard investigation.
00:50:05Got it.
00:50:06And then there were people with hazmat suits.
00:50:08And then there was a statue of Richard Nixon.
00:50:10And he was smiling.
00:50:12What?
00:50:12Ugh.
00:50:13No.
00:50:13Yeah.
00:50:14But we got the keys to the kingdom.
00:50:17Oh, and you show us.
00:50:19So we can go back at any time.
00:50:21Any time.
00:50:22Yeah.
00:50:22Unless it's a trap.
00:50:23The diner, they are going to be mad at us when we go through it, but that is, uh...
00:50:29Do you think that the end it all, um, writing that was scrawled on the lockers, it could be a
00:50:34warning, but what if it was a rallying cry?
00:50:37What if it was like, let's end it all?
00:50:39When was the last time it felt like someone was in there?
00:50:41The, um, computer thought it was 1991.
00:50:45Okay.
00:50:46I'm going to just crack into this real quick.
00:50:49I'm going to just take open the...
00:50:51Yeah.
00:50:51Um, I'll start working on the computer.
00:50:52At a booth at, uh, Mike's.
00:50:54We set up a whole thing.
00:50:55Set up a whole thing.
00:50:56Plug it in.
00:50:57Can I Google puppy?
00:50:58Mm-hmm.
00:50:59December 27th, 1991.
00:51:01Yes, absolutely.
00:51:03Give me intelligence plus investigation.
00:51:05And Batchild, you can give me intelligence plus computer.
00:51:08I'm going to blood search.
00:51:10Okay, you blood search.
00:51:10And can I give a...
00:51:11You can give help.
00:51:12I have two dice.
00:51:13Yeah, you can add two dice from Darkest Man as well.
00:51:15I got a two.
00:51:16Okay, you got a two.
00:51:17Googling what happened, it doesn't seem that anything happened perpy specifically on that date.
00:51:23Uh-huh.
00:51:23You're looking out, you're trying to see, like, there's a couple little, like, newspaper articles about some stuff that doesn't...
00:51:29Nothing that sort of connects to you.
00:51:31Sure.
00:51:31I'm doing, like, Oregon that date, Pacific Northwest that date, just history news that date.
00:51:38You don't see anything for that date.
00:51:40But on a two, I think you realize that when they turned it on, the computer spit out the codes
00:51:48for a new date.
00:51:49Oh.
00:51:50So, it's possible that the date before is significant.
00:51:54Right.
00:51:54Okay, so, December 26th?
00:51:56December 26th.
00:51:57Oh, Boxing Day?
00:51:58Boxing Day.
00:51:59Boxing Day, the day after Christmas.
00:52:01Also, the date considered the formal dissolution of the United Soviet.
00:52:04I was thinking about the places I saw.
00:52:06Yeah.
00:52:06Oh, tear down this wall.
00:52:09Yeah.
00:52:09So, the end of the Soviet Union.
00:52:11End it all?
00:52:12End it all.
00:52:12Tear down this wall.
00:52:13Mm-hmm.
00:52:14Uh, this is really fun.
00:52:15I got invited to a really cool party, and, um...
00:52:19I'll go.
00:52:20Great.
00:52:20Hmm.
00:52:22Anybody else want to go to a cool party?
00:52:24Is Bigfoot loose somewhere?
00:52:25If we're Googling things, I'll Google Gumbaroo.
00:52:29And I want to try and buy the book that I ate.
00:52:31Oh, smart.
00:52:32Cool.
00:52:33Easy to buy the book that you ate.
00:52:35Levante, what are you thinking about this?
00:52:38I think...
00:52:40I'm thinking about the poo-poo platter again.
00:52:43I'm just...
00:52:43I'm watching us nibble here, nibble there.
00:52:47And I'm just...
00:52:48I feel like if we keep eating this way, we're never gonna get to the meal.
00:52:54We gotta do it tiny kid style.
00:52:57Eat all of one thing.
00:52:59That's what...
00:52:59Eat all of the next...
00:53:00I think that's what I'm feeling right now, is there's a little bit of, like...
00:53:04Is Bigfoot loose?
00:53:06Maybe.
00:53:07We gonna go and party with a bunch of 21-year-olds?
00:53:11Sure.
00:53:12But, at the end of the day, keep driving by City Hall and saying,
00:53:18When is the word worthy gonna be on the front steps?
00:53:24Yeah.
00:53:25We could do that right now.
00:53:26We could just write it.
00:53:27We could.
00:53:28But I...
00:53:29I wanna write it permanently.
00:53:31So, y'all go party.
00:53:33I think I'm gonna do...
00:53:34I'm gonna hit the books.
00:53:35I wanna take a look through the bylaws here in Purpee.
00:53:38Anything in particular I wanna know about that dog mare.
00:53:41I'll also be studying with you because I'm dog shit at social interactions.
00:53:44Yeah.
00:53:45I should've never gone on a social mission.
00:53:48I guess it's time I use something that I've been wanting to use for a while.
00:53:54Incredible.
00:53:55Which is power to change my appearance by shifting the skin and bones in my face.
00:54:06Okay.
00:54:07So, I'd love to give myself a really botched facelift.
00:54:10Great.
00:54:11Oh, my God.
00:54:11That I can go to this party.
00:54:12I do not look away.
00:54:15You just sit there really grunting hard.
00:54:20My cheekbones.
00:54:22Do you still have a huge mustache?
00:54:26You also need to, like, buy mics or at the very least ask if it's okay to have a mic.
00:54:31I think that's...
00:54:31These are all the things I...
00:54:32I heard you loud and clear.
00:54:37It looks...
00:54:38It looks good, HJ.
00:54:40It looks real.
00:54:41Jesus.
00:54:42Those lips.
00:54:43Did you have to do the lips, too?
00:54:44Let's go to the party.
00:54:46I'm gonna tell them that you're my drug dealer.
00:54:48I don't think they're gonna believe in the students.
00:54:50I got five to get into the computer.
00:54:53Amazing.
00:54:54That's the willpower to re-roll 3A.
00:54:56Awesome.
00:54:56You get into the computer and pouring over this stuff.
00:55:00It's like plugging this ancient 1991 IBM into this other thing.
00:55:05Getting into your tablet, you begin to sort of look through the file folders of it.
00:55:09On that high investigation check, it looks like in the late 80s, the United States government
00:55:16that had built this massive...
00:55:18Over the 70s, they built this massive subterranean place.
00:55:20First of all, as a launch site for nuclear weaponry.
00:55:25That was the first place it started.
00:55:26It was about having a swift response to Soviet aggression.
00:55:29Over time, the instruments they were using for a prototype radio frequency to hopefully be able to detect missile launches
00:55:38ahead of time, became aware of a strange frequency.
00:55:43It was said that they could hear wails and cries and the noise of rushing water.
00:55:48Yeah, so they tapped into the ghost.
00:55:51It seems that the United States government, in building this subterranean radio tower, the technology they used to be able
00:55:57to broadcast radio waves through a layer of basically subterranean earth, tapped into a deep and profound frequency.
00:56:05Possibly something about being subterranean on the same strata that the mine was.
00:56:11Looking into the computer further, you see that that radio frequency appeared to be disrupted over a length of time.
00:56:20As they began to explore it, there was an instance in which there was a mass casualty event in the
00:56:27early 70s before construction ended.
00:56:31Mass casualty?
00:56:33Does it seem...
00:56:34What were the circumstances around it?
00:56:36Does it seem as suspicious as the other mass casualty?
00:56:39These government records indicate merely that people died and it indicates that their families were informed that they had actually
00:56:48died in military service because the families were not aware that these government agents were working in secret.
00:56:54So the families were informed that they were killed by Russian operatives, but that does not seem to be what
00:56:58actually happened.
00:56:59It looks as though they died on site without any evidence of a military attack from Russia.
00:57:06And what was the effect on the operations?
00:57:09Operations ceased.
00:57:11You see that in the early 70s, they stopped building the compound, but work obviously continued on the compound all
00:57:17the way until 1991.
00:57:18During the 80s, it looked like this compound shifted its work away from the Cold War towards this thing that
00:57:27they had discovered of this weird frequency.
00:57:29However, that casualty event in the early 70s shut the site down for several years until a modification, the megalopedarian
00:57:41frequency was added to what they referred to as the command tower.
00:57:46And after that, the site was able to reopen.
00:57:50However, it looks like the years after the casualty event that the site was closed, management had shifted in the
00:57:58federal government.
00:57:59So once they figured out how to reopen the site, enough management had shifted and too much was classified for
00:58:05them to ever be back at full operational capacity.
00:58:07That original casualty event had succeeded in dampening the mission statement of this place.
00:58:13So they continued to try to catch up on old investigations into this frequency, but it seems like the funding
00:58:20just dried up during the Reagan administration.
00:58:23And then in 1991, with the end of the Soviet Union, the place was shuttered.
00:58:28Right, and megalopedarian, that's Bigfoot.
00:58:30Yeah, that's what I would think.
00:58:32Right?
00:58:32Yeah.
00:58:33Oh, so they tapped into Bigfoot to then get it back up and running.
00:58:37Interesting.
00:58:38Is that name of the bronze statue in the trailer park in these notes anywhere, that guy?
00:58:45Oh, Zachy Lee?
00:58:46Zachy Lee Maple was an original construction worker on the site who lived in Granite Village.
00:58:54And it looks as though he was from a family that had been living in Perpi for some time.
00:58:59And he is one of the people who died in that casualty event, it looks like.
00:59:05And yeah, when they had that funeral, it was just for him.
00:59:09Just for him.
00:59:10So was he the only one who passed?
00:59:11A weird hole in the story.
00:59:14It's possible that the other people that died, none of them were from Perpi.
00:59:17Yeah.
00:59:18But given how many Perpi locals were hired, it doesn't make sense.
00:59:21Weird.
00:59:21Whoa.
00:59:22Yeah.
00:59:23You also think, dying in a secret government facility, why does that get you a statue?
00:59:30What is the story told about him?
00:59:32But you can see that he was a foreman and seemed to be someone who also advocated for...
00:59:37There is a record of him in a negotiations catalog in terms of getting a better deal for Perpi locals
00:59:45working on this site.
00:59:47So is it, the question I asked when I was down there, is this history repeating itself and they killed
00:59:54the people that were working down there?
00:59:56Is this a strike?
00:59:57Oh.
00:59:58Yeah.
00:59:59Was the Nixon statue the same material as it did look similar, right?
01:00:04Was the Zachary Lee statue?
01:00:05Well, the Nixon wasn't a statue.
01:00:06That was a portrait underneath that American flag.
01:00:09Oh, it was a portrait.
01:00:10Oh, I see.
01:00:11So, you guys are here at Mike's.
01:00:13And I think, Levante, you're considering in this moment what you said here.
01:00:17There are a lot of leads here in Perpi.
01:00:20But also, like, leads to what?
01:00:23Mm-hmm.
01:00:23Right?
01:00:24You, effectively, I think, are doing a lot of investigation in this.
01:00:28I think we're gonna move into our first section of...
01:00:31Unless there are any scenes that you want to run specifically this night, like if you wanna head over to
01:00:37that house party, we can do that as well.
01:00:41But I think, Batchild, H.J., you're also feeling heat is really up right now.
01:00:48Beth's husband, whatever this interaction was, like, there is a certain degree where, like, the heat is on in this
01:00:56moment.
01:00:56But there's a really strong desire in me to put myself in danger to try to summon the spirit of
01:01:03Zachary Lee Maple by going to his statue.
01:01:06Oh.
01:01:06Oh, cool.
01:01:08Cool.
01:01:08Is anyone else curious about that? He might have some really good answers for us.
01:01:12That is really interesting.
01:01:16It's not too far from Mike's.
01:01:18Yeah.
01:01:19Do we wanna do that and then lay low after that?
01:01:22Sounds good.
01:01:23I'm down.
01:01:23Let's maybe case the joint and make sure we haven't been followed already.
01:01:27See if Aaron is lurking somewhere.
01:01:29Good call.
01:01:29We did give him a flyer to this place, right?
01:01:32Yeah.
01:01:36It went really bad.
01:01:37Different date.
01:01:38Different date.
01:01:39Different date.
01:01:40I think we don't show up to the night.
01:01:43You see that the bartender sort of looks out and walks over to your table and says, do you guys
01:01:46know anything about this?
01:01:47Yeah.
01:01:47And holds up a flyer.
01:01:48We wanted to host something here if that was alright.
01:01:51We were gonna buy the bar out for the night, like pay for every single drop of alcohol in the
01:01:56joint.
01:01:57It should be real, real good.
01:02:00Get out!
01:02:02You're being crazy.
01:02:03See, really? You're turning down us buying every single drop of alcohol?
01:02:07I mean, how could I make that call? I'm not Mike. I don't own this place.
01:02:11Where the hell is Mike?
01:02:13At home!
01:02:14Where is Mike's home?
01:02:17She folds up the paper.
01:02:20I have never been to my boss's home.
01:02:23But you've met him? He comes here?
01:02:24Yeah, he comes here.
01:02:25Okay.
01:02:26I have never been to my boss's home.
01:02:28That's actually really healthy.
01:02:30That's good.
01:02:31Yeah, because the bosses that invite you over to their house are creepy.
01:02:35Yeah.
01:02:36I'll tell you this, one day real soon, we're gonna change that.
01:02:40Oof.
01:02:41Alright guys, can I get you anything else?
01:02:43You guys never drink. Can I bring that up?
01:02:45Yeah, but we tip so well.
01:02:49We tip so well.
01:02:50What are you looking for? You know, it's like...
01:02:51Are you a different guy?
01:02:55Full Mar-a-Lago face happening every year.
01:02:58Fucking insane, bro.
01:03:01Now, are we going to that party or what?
01:03:03I think you're...
01:03:04I think you made your cheekbones too high.
01:03:06It looks like your eyes are bloodshot from bone pushing into them.
01:03:11Have you considered that?
01:03:12Are you thinking something sweet?
01:03:13I get on my scooter.
01:03:17Do you guys wanna go to the party?
01:03:19We'll go to Zachy Lee Maple real quick.
01:03:21Yeah, I mean, do you think...
01:03:22Do you think that that could be...
01:03:26Is that worth the bite of the poo-poo platter to try to talk to Zachy Lee Maple?
01:03:30I mean, undeniably.
01:03:31I mean, Zachy Lee Maple, at least from what we learned, sounds like a big deal to a lot of
01:03:35people.
01:03:35After that, we lay low.
01:03:36We lay low.
01:03:37After that, we lay low.
01:03:38After the party, after the statue, we lay low.
01:03:41And I just wanna say, like, as far as getting Purby back on the map, maybe at some point we
01:03:46reveal this nuclear silo under the town.
01:03:48We turn it into sort of a cave tour situation.
01:03:50Ooh, or a roller rink.
01:03:53Roller rink cave tour.
01:03:55Definitely.
01:03:56Wouldn't that be fun?
01:03:57Old people salon.
01:03:59How fun would that be?
01:04:00And a roller rink.
01:04:0110 levels of ladder to get down to this level.
01:04:05I love skiing.
01:04:05I wanna side with Levante.
01:04:06I mean, heck.
01:04:08I got a taste of something before we moved here that I'm on the hunt for.
01:04:13I just need to let you know.
01:04:14I am down to pay attention to the poo-poo platter.
01:04:17I just gotta go with the young, with the young people.
01:04:21And I gotta find out what this SRI is.
01:04:24And I gotta get another taste of that.
01:04:27Hey, you know drugs above everything.
01:04:30They rule the world.
01:04:32Yeah, they rule the world.
01:04:33Alright, great.
01:04:33I'll go to the party, but all this Cold War talk has got me in my feels.
01:04:39I think that's okay if you go to a college student party and you just sort of brood in the
01:04:42corner.
01:04:43And you kind of talk about the Cold War under your breath.
01:04:45When you were like young, what did you think about the Soviet Union?
01:04:51They were the bad guys.
01:04:54It was messed up.
01:04:56Totally.
01:04:56It's kind of when I came up.
01:04:58Pretty formative years for me.
01:05:00Totally.
01:05:01Sputnik.
01:05:02Who?
01:05:04You just don't really strike me as like the guy that would be that worried about it or anything.
01:05:08Did you ever see Red Dawn?
01:05:10You guys head to the party.
01:05:13Darkness Man, Batchild, you head to Granite Village.
01:05:16Levante's coming with.
01:05:17Levante's going with, gotcha.
01:05:19Nice.
01:05:19Zaythe.
01:05:20Zaythe.
01:05:21And Madeleine.
01:05:22You guys head to Barnabas Street.
01:05:25Which thankfully is like a very short street for you guys to go check out.
01:05:29Right over here, Barnabas.
01:05:31This house right here, with kind of a larger yard next to it, appears to be very well lit.
01:05:38And it's a Sunday, so it's not like a rager in terms of the vibe here, but it is packed.
01:05:47There are a lot of people here that appears to be a much more low-key college hang.
01:05:53As you guys approach, AJ, your face warped with vicissitude.
01:05:57I would love to like put on a hat, kind of switch what I'm wearing.
01:06:01I'm kind of looking like relaxed.
01:06:03Cool.
01:06:04To tie your blazer around your skin.
01:06:05AJ, I've never seen you cut loose like this.
01:06:08It's a...
01:06:09Oh no.
01:06:11The lips are so...
01:06:16How many units of filler you got in there?
01:06:19Yeah, so many.
01:06:20So upsetting.
01:06:22Who knows where I pulled it from?
01:06:25Your butt is so loose now.
01:06:26My butt is concave.
01:06:28I love it.
01:06:29It's just sagging.
01:06:31Wait, what is the little top that you just put on this one?
01:06:33It seems different than the other one.
01:06:34It's a little different one.
01:06:36Yeah, exactly.
01:06:37Is it a megaphone?
01:06:38It's like a flag.
01:06:39Yeah, a little circus flag.
01:06:41You guys start approaching the house.
01:06:43As you do, you see a bunch of college kids.
01:06:45Madeline, you see Stringy up on the porch.
01:06:47Madeline and Saith, it's not hard for you guys to approach.
01:06:49AJ, you're a little more out of place.
01:06:51I've kind of changed my whole thing.
01:06:53Stringy, we found a guy who has coke.
01:06:55Stringy turns around and goes,
01:06:57whoa, shit.
01:06:59As you say you have a guy that has coke,
01:07:01a bunch of college kids look around,
01:07:03not whom have never done coke before,
01:07:04but it's certainly not the vibe of this gathering.
01:07:07And look around going like, oh.
01:07:09And weed.
01:07:11And the whole place cheers.
01:07:13Which is legal here.
01:07:15You see that they go like,
01:07:17dude, yeah, play the fucking Douglas commercial again.
01:07:20That shit's so crazy.
01:07:21You see, there are a couple people
01:07:23sort of on the porch area of this house.
01:07:26And you can see this is an old-
01:07:27That's where the cool people hang.
01:07:28It's an old, dilapidated, large family dwelling
01:07:33that has clearly, it looks like eight different college students
01:07:36can live here.
01:07:37And you can hear some people approaching.
01:07:39The name Barnabas has become a sort of piece of college synecdoche
01:07:43where the street that the house is on is the name of the house.
01:07:47And it is a central locale.
01:07:48You can feel the miasma of significance and importance in this house.
01:07:53Stringy comes down and says, oh yeah, come on in.
01:07:55Uh, uh, yeah, this is, this is the spot.
01:07:58It's Stringy?
01:08:00Yeah, what's up, man?
01:08:01How's it going?
01:08:02I'm Stringy, nice to meet you.
01:08:03Safe.
01:08:04I'm feeling a little sad, but I'm trying to rally.
01:08:07Oh, sorry, man.
01:08:08Yeah.
01:08:08Sorry you're bummed.
01:08:09Yeah.
01:08:10I start massaging the shoulder really hard with one hand.
01:08:14It's a lot of energy, H.J.
01:08:16The energy is a lot.
01:08:17Sorry.
01:08:17Are you, are you friends with Madeline?
01:08:19Are you, are you looking to transfer here too?
01:08:21Yes.
01:08:22Uh, oh, cool.
01:08:23Awesome.
01:08:24Do you have any night sports?
01:08:26Night sports?
01:08:28Yeah.
01:08:28Blow frisbee.
01:08:30You know, uh, like a-
01:08:31Ooh.
01:08:32The big game plays at night.
01:08:33You see that there is a kid who has the most enormous gray hoodie you've ever seen.
01:08:39Hair kind of tied back, cargo shorts, flip-flops, kind of wearing a cursed set of college clothing,
01:08:45but actually looking very fit and alive, who looks out and says,
01:08:51Glows frisbee dude?
01:08:53Glows frisbee?
01:08:54Fuck.
01:08:54He says, I don't, I have a, I have a day glow Arabee.
01:08:58We could do that.
01:08:59What the fuck is an Arabee?
01:09:01Aerobee.
01:09:01It's like a, there's like a, it's like a orange circle.
01:09:04What's up?
01:09:04It's a frisbee.
01:09:05He says, fuck it.
01:09:06Let me go show you.
01:09:07Uh, and he says, what's up?
01:09:08I'm Patty.
01:09:09I'm Madeline.
01:09:10Madeline.
01:09:10Oh, enchanté.
01:09:12Uh, come on in.
01:09:13What's your name, man?
01:09:14Zayth.
01:09:15Zayth, what's up, dude?
01:09:16I'm feeling a little bit down, but I'm trying to rally.
01:09:19I'm sorry to hear that, man.
01:09:21You know who would make you feel better?
01:09:22Who?
01:09:23You see he goes, bingo!
01:09:24And you see that a dog comes running out from, it looks like it's Patty's dog, who runs up and
01:09:30you see, runs over to a cooler, grabs a can of beer in his mouth, and runs back and jumps
01:09:35up on the railing of the porch.
01:09:39He's like, what's up, buddy? And he cracks the beer and hands it to you.
01:09:41That's crazy.
01:09:42Can I look at how big the moon is right now?
01:09:44The moon appears to be a waxing half moon.
01:09:47Is this the mayor?
01:09:49You see he laughs and says, no, that's Rufus, dude.
01:09:52Rufus.
01:09:53He goes, this dude's like a little mutt, fox terrier kind of mixer or something like that, but this is
01:09:59Bingo. He's the man.
01:10:00You see Bingo goes, and licks him and goes, and you see everyone goes, Bingo!
01:10:07What's his name, though?
01:10:09You're cheering up already.
01:10:11How can you stay sad when you see a little guy named Bingo?
01:10:14Get off my shoulder for two seconds.
01:10:19You see that Bingo, as Patty is standing there, steps up and actually goes and sits on Patty's shoulders.
01:10:26And is like fully, almost like a cat, like wrapped around his shoulders.
01:10:29He's like, what's up, dude?
01:10:31He's a good boy.
01:10:32Value that.
01:10:34Hell yeah, brother.
01:10:35Value that.
01:10:36I will.
01:10:37The charisma palpitating off of the dog around this kid's shoulders is undeniable.
01:10:43This is one of the most charismatic dogs you've ever seen in your life.
01:10:46Looking out at the rest of you, he says, well, grab me some drinks, come on and hang out.
01:10:49You said you had some weed?
01:10:51Yeah.
01:10:51Yeah.
01:10:52Someone's around here.
01:10:53Yeah, somebody has some.
01:10:55I'm already so deep in the party.
01:10:57Yeah.
01:10:58You vanish into the party and start enjoying yourself.
01:11:01Let me know if there's anything that you pursue in your time at this party.
01:11:04I would love to use my insight class status to look for anybody who I believe to be playing poor.
01:11:11Ooh.
01:11:12No.
01:11:13Go ahead and give me intelligence and then what is your class awareness a part of the skill that it's
01:11:17a part of?
01:11:17It's insight.
01:11:18Insight.
01:11:19Go ahead and give me insight and intelligence.
01:11:20Great.
01:11:22So, anybody who's like, it looks like they're wearing raggedy clothes but I can tell that it's like chrome hearts.
01:11:27Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:11:28Or, you know, they have a signet ring on but they're wearing otherwise very obviously thrifted clothes.
01:11:33I love that.
01:11:34I love that.
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