[SPEAKER_00]: This episode of 5 GMs from inside the tent includes mentions of kidnapping, a metaphoria, and vomit, high-speed car chases and guns.
[SPEAKER_00]: The season of 5 GMs deals with themes of loneliness, loss, the paranormal, growing older, confrontation, parental pressures, reconciliation, teenage shenanigans, and allusions to being people of color in the 80s.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listener discussion is advised.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good morning and welcome to 5 GM's at a trench coat, cool wave station.
[SPEAKER_03]: Listen in, as five friends take turns weaving stories, the tabletop game of their choice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tuning in now, let's hope we have a great morning.
[SPEAKER_03]: we have a moment here where it's dark and confusing.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know you should be able to see
[SPEAKER_03]: but you can't, and what you hear is kind of the sound of muffled wind as it pushes against the outside of what you have to assume is metal.
[SPEAKER_03]: You might be, no, you're not might be.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are in a trunk and Sam.
[SPEAKER_03]: you smell something nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: It stings your nostrils the way that it perfume or a chemical wood, but it smells good and it almost chokes you a bit as it's strong and there's not a lot of circulation where you are.
[SPEAKER_03]: What is it that you're smelling?
[SPEAKER_01]: I smell lavender, the strong smell of a car air freshener that is just blocking my nostrils and making me gag.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that blocking your nostrils and choking you and making you gag, it is this moment of horror that sets in.
[SPEAKER_03]: that whatever that choking lavender in is probably just the surface of whatever myriad of smells might be trying to claw their way into your nostrils from what you're now feeling is.
[SPEAKER_03]: a trunk that is not yours and we're gonna pull away from that and driving at high speeds moving as wind whips in your eyes through a cracked and broken windshield as the dry and cake blood of kind of glass spattered hands kind of move the wheel and we between things that are on this back road.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's rocks, there's divots, there's dips.
[SPEAKER_03]: we see Taya.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell me what's racing through your mind is you're on the heels of this vehicle you're going after it your hand hurts but your body is numb you know you should be in more pain than you are your nose smells like metal and gasoline and again think should burn parts of you should
[SPEAKER_06]: Highway to hell is blaring up full volume.
[SPEAKER_03]: amazing, of highway to help, players full volume, muffled, I think we can hear it in the trunk as we look back into darkness.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're searching for some kind of light or some kind of respite, and we come back to the passenger of our vehicle clearing the space out, looking for something that could help.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ren, you hear highway to help, you feel the wind hitting your face,
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you feel in this moment?
[SPEAKER_03]: Not how do you feel both physically?
[SPEAKER_03]: What are the symptoms of this scene to your body?
[SPEAKER_05]: There's...
[SPEAKER_05]: so much adrenaline, I could barely feel the wind, but it's hot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everything is just heat in the blood rushing through my ears on my face.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just hot.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we have heat, and we have dulled pain through adrenaline, and we have confusion and stinging lavender.
[SPEAKER_03]: be closed out for a moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: We all close our eyes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And just 20 minutes, 30 minutes before.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were all at a gas station.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a beating hot day.
[SPEAKER_03]: The kind of sun that beats down when there's no clouds and it skulls and a braids your skin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Humans can only take so much of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think even in movement, we move between shadows, going from car to awning into building, filling up our tanks.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll go ahead and start again with Sam.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who do we see?
[SPEAKER_01]: We see a middle gutties man with short-brown hair, short-brown beard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Glasses with a crack and one of the lens, he's wearing a pale blue suit, no tie white shirt underneath, clearly worn from the day before.
[SPEAKER_01]: he'll look to rough.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has that kind of way of holding yourself, but you're trying not to vomit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has had a rough night and is just trying to take it through the next day's best he possibly can.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Michael.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a Karan Shun silencedman and he's not having an ace there.
[SPEAKER_03]: and Michael, the thing about heat and the mixture of a long strip of asphalt road.
[SPEAKER_03]: And a gas station that mainly sells diesel to trucks that come through is that they're not built to cool down.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're just built to work.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as the heat climbs, you're throbbing headache and your boiling stomach are almost mimicked by the outside as it is as if the two
[SPEAKER_03]: Bios one of your own body in one of the outside meat in your skin or on your skin as you feel it Crawl with the fact that there's no respite you will not find somewhere to cool down your body Will not find somewhere to cool down.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to be like this at least into the night
[SPEAKER_03]: We've made decisions, we have to live with them, it's humid, it's hot, and worse than the beating heat is the rebounding heat off the asphalt, doubling whatever warmth you feel that would be forgiven by a breeze, a shot back up at you into your face, and you sit there miserably, and who is with them?
[SPEAKER_06]: So, right next to Michael, kind of leaning in a little close, a little annoyingly close to him, I think, is Flora.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is a woman who's in her early 30s, but wearing the...
[SPEAKER_06]: bright but kind of faded and messed up makeup of a teenager who'd been out on a long night.
[SPEAKER_06]: She doesn't look as tired and rough as Michael though, that's kind of like a manic glint in her eyes, I think, and she kind of never stops me being like her long skinny limbs are just kind of frenetically like tapping even though there's like sweat, sheaning off of her.
[SPEAKER_06]: She has long kind of tangled dark hair that she's tied up very massively to get off the back of
[SPEAKER_06]: And she's sort of like nodding her head to invisible music.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just in Michael's personal space.
[SPEAKER_03]: This infinite fidgeter, if you will, constantly moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: And moving at the frequency of this heat and of this day, not everyone does well in heat.
[SPEAKER_03]: you are you're you're just matching the day uh... some people do that some people love a bright sky and uh... a clear sunny day it's a good time to get a tan it's a good time to go to the beach but you're not by a beach you're at a gas station and it wreaks who's going to go pay for gas
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sitting with my head and my hands at this moment just, um, it is my car that's here and I, I'm rubbing my temples and just trying to move the smell of petrol and my nostrils that is just, I can feel the acid reflux just trying to make it swing out and just feeling like
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think floral weight kind of an unreasonably long time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, kind of an amount of time that it's almost rude that she sits there sort of waiting for you to go and pay.
[SPEAKER_06]: And just sort of watching to see if you're going to vomit in this car that I'm also stuck in.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then eventually, we'll just kind of tap you on the shoulder.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you're going to, if you're going to prop, you probably shouldn't do it in here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not gonna, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm
[SPEAKER_01]: can you just take my credit card and we'll hand over a card and say the the code just bring me a receipt.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to get that expense.
[SPEAKER_06]: You want any like pills or anything?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just if they have any crab.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you need something,
[SPEAKER_01]: would be great.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, I think that's a smart.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm flora gets out slams the door behind her, not intentionally.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she just does things with too much force and goes into pay.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you leave in the door slams in behind, I will just like unvoluntele these like, uh, uh, uh, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: And there will be a small dribble on one of my nostrils, and I will stop that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And on literally just the opposite pump.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just a single pump away behind filling up their truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have red.
[SPEAKER_03]: You overheard bits of this oddly tense conversation.
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe not much of it because you were focusing on
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that the he Mirage?
[SPEAKER_03]: Am I seeing things?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is the is the air moving or is it just the heat or is it the asphalt playing tricks on me?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did I eat something funny and who do we see reconciling with this heat and this quarrel of types of the other side of our gas pump?
[SPEAKER_05]: On the other side of the gas pump, you see woman feminine features with dark skin and curly hair tied up in a wrap just to keep the hair off of her neck.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's exactly 30 at this point.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as she's at the pump, she's currently fanning herself with a program from a church service that she walked past did not attend.
[SPEAKER_05]: she has in the back of her truck.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard that she plans to put up later and some produce some of it is actively beginning to wilt in the heat and so will probably not do very good, but it's gonna try nonetheless.
[SPEAKER_05]: as she sees this person step out of the vehicle.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's going to say, you're doing all right, there's me heart.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm a bit worried about him now and also adjusted towards inside the car.
[SPEAKER_06]: What I think Michael is very visibly not doing well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, he's not looking too hot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I mean, looking very hot actually.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I have some, so much.
[SPEAKER_05]: to mate those and stuff if you want to, um, like I think you can make like a, what is it called Bloody Mary or something like that?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it's so sweet.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's some tomatoes.
[SPEAKER_05]: So you can take that wherever you're going and then just put it in.
[SPEAKER_06]: If I buy some from you now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you selling me tomatoes?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_06]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let me get that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to go get the gas.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will come back.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh sure, take it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I can interject, just briefly to say that definitely in the back of this car, that is a bottle of vodka.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_03]: We, that means that we're just two steps away from having a bloody Mary, and on the heels of that conversation, almost simultaneously, the way conversations and moments move, that is occurring in ending as the window to your car is rattled, just a little knock on it, and Michael, there's just sort of a
[SPEAKER_03]: Cackies, bell tucked in, polo, Lanky and sinewy, but in a deceptive way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of someone like who maybe worked most their life.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very capable, but looks less so.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this rattles your window.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, anybody?
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a flat and I need help jacking the car up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you mind helping me?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, do you have everything you need?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not doing well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Having trouble getting the tire out the back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need to get the extra, the donut.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need to get the donut out the back of the truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then once I can get that out of the trunk, we can probably just jack it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: It shouldn't take more than like 15 minutes, my friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Fifteen minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fifteen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm gonna you can do this for 15 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm gonna.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna just pretend I know exactly all the boards that you just said Sure All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and we'll Get out of the car Take a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: I put a hand on the pump.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh Stable isn't yourself there, bud?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a long 24 hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I personally believe every 24 hours is a long 24 hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so much time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We all have the same 24 hours.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean to me to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: I just need to help me get the, I can't dislodge the donut out the trunk of my car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that I, I'm just having hard time pulling it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard, let me show you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And here is going to lead you to the back of a 1978 Lincoln town car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Large trunked red car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Trunks already popped.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, where's this doing it?
[SPEAKER_01]: What we're talking about?
[SPEAKER_03]: It should it should be underneath the thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could you just like pull it up a bit?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take another moment to place my hands on the trunk and just I feel it rising in my throat again, swallow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could Michael give me some kind of role?
[SPEAKER_03]: They're not doing great.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Their heads not where it should be.
[SPEAKER_03]: What kind of role would Michael use for this moment of perception, of interpersonal interaction?
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like maybe Gervet, because of how they're feeling in this moment, Gervet feels right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll let the gate from that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds good.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's an eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We roll.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not joking.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's another eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's 16.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me another one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, one.
[SPEAKER_01]: So 17.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Michael, on a 17, you're in imminent danger.
[SPEAKER_03]: This person as they look at you is what it feels like when
[SPEAKER_03]: an animal that doesn't want you and its space is looking at you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think your muscles tighten and your stomach bubbles are gone as all of the adrenaline and stress pushes everything out of your body except for danger.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when you notice that, I think you've also noticed that he has something in his hand and he goes to give you a little prick on the leg.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you give me a roll to stop that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Some kind of physical roll against, uh, I'm gonna roll a fight for my fellow here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say flight to try and just jump out of the way and perhaps.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is my diesel M-T-Roll for.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you aim to jump out of the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your adrenaline might have pushed the feeling of lethargy out of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You might, you may no longer feel tired and slow, but you're not on peak condition.
[SPEAKER_03]: You didn't sleep well.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's still some alcohol in your system.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hell, there's some alcohol in your trunk.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, not even in your trunk in your back seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you move and maybe catch your ankle or catch your foot and stumble and just fill it.
[SPEAKER_03]: A quick little prick the way a shot feels.
[SPEAKER_03]: And pretty quickly, you know that there's something wrong.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you start to lose vision.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we'll come back over to Flora, your paying for gas.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Floor is just completely oblivious to everything that's happening outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're inside.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you're inside.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's just spent a few minutes wondering the few aisles that are debating how much snacks and beverages she can buy on Michael's card.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I pay for gas.
[SPEAKER_06]: I get him a bottle of water.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I get myself like a can of soda as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: I buy a big bag of like peanuts or something stupid and then I am very excited to head out and you know pick up some tomatoes make a make a homemade bloody Mary and and pick this day back up
[SPEAKER_03]: amazing you pay for all of this on Michael's card you as it kind of rings as you take a step out just before that shavan you've heard just the sound of gravel shuffling or scuffing underfoot it was quick maybe someone tripped it's kind of the opposite way of you
[SPEAKER_03]: You heard voices, how much mind do you pay to other people at the gas station?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think at the prospect of selling some of the produce, Chivan, like, as soon as she could leave the gas bubble, she went around to the back and was trying to sort out the tomato.
[SPEAKER_05]: So her head is like down in the end.
[SPEAKER_05]: So she heard, I think, Michael get out of the car and then immediately lost entrances.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was like tomatoes, tomatoes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, you're so tunnel-visioned on a sale that Michael wasn't going to be buying, and you've cut him out of your mind for the time being, maybe he tripped, maybe the scuffles.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just quick motions of gravel under foot, nothing insane.
[SPEAKER_03]: These things happen so quickly, and for a... you've come outside, you see you do a quick scan.
[SPEAKER_03]: Michael's not in the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tomatoes are getting moved around and set up.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like something's getting someone's getting ready to just make a sale.
[SPEAKER_03]: And a trunk closes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And can you give me some kind of role to see how well and how perceptive you are at scanning this area?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to do brains because I think it's just like awareness.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she has a level of paranoia that sometimes matches on.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she suddenly becomes quite hyped for a while of sound and people.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm going to go with that.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's an 11.
[SPEAKER_03]: Within 11, you scan quickly.
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, these kind of things happen in the amount of time it takes for three heartbeats to occur.
[SPEAKER_03]: People go missing in a breath.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I've never seen again, but on the exhale, you see what you know is the shirt of a man you've been traveling with for at least an hour, as a trunk closes, and as the Lincoln begins driving away.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, hey, and Florida kind of takes a few steps off the cars that drives away.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then I turned back around and I think Shivon is the first person I see, given that we've spoken, we've made contact.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm just going to... What?
[SPEAKER_06]: He... How?
[SPEAKER_05]: What's wrong then?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, did you see what happened?
[SPEAKER_05]: Did I see what?
[SPEAKER_06]: Michael's gone.
[SPEAKER_06]: The guy, the guy in the car, that I'm with, um, that was, um, okay, I, I don't know if you're going to believe me.
[SPEAKER_06]: I swear, I swear that guy was putting him in a trunk, um, I know I sound insane, but I, I know I saw, and he, okay, brief, gone down, and second, now, the man you were with in the car, he got out of the car.
[SPEAKER_05]: Someone else was talking to him, while he went inside.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't see where he went.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is he someone put him in a trunk?
[SPEAKER_06]: Ugh.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I saw his shirt.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's him.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he's not in the car now.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he, I don't know why he would have got out.
[SPEAKER_06]: He was about to vomit.
[SPEAKER_06]: That, that was stupid.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I, you didn't see anyone.
[SPEAKER_06]: Anyone get out or talk to him?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he, they were.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, he, he was talking to someone.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um,
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not gonna lie.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't really hear what they were talking about.
[SPEAKER_05]: Somehow, don't I?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't see where he went.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was looking at my truck.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Look.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm slow.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was like kicks.
[SPEAKER_06]: Michael's car.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm actively looking around to see if I see this
[SPEAKER_05]: either of the people I saw next to Michael's car, Michael or the other person.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, as you look around, you kind of start to, piece together, there's no one else here, whatever cars were here, driven off.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did hear the car that pulled off right as Flora came out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see Michael, you don't see a man that was with Michael.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you give me some kind of role that you feel would make sense for you checking the area?
[SPEAKER_03]: Brains, grit, whatever you might think it might be.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think...
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we'll go with grit because if this is happening as she said it did then we have no time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, that's in eight and have plus one for grit.
[SPEAKER_05]: So that's nine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Scuff marks where the car was, and then you see a bit of trunk felt, just a piece of trunk that fell out maybe from someone holding it when they had to kind of stable themselves from not puking before something terrible happened.
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe a nail clotted or a hand pulled it, it's maybe about yay big, no large than a quarter, but it's there, and it doesn't look like it's been tread on.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see the back half of a syringe, kind of the plunger portion, and whatever type of scuffle may have ensued that.
[SPEAKER_03]: has fallen there, similarly has not been there long, it's not trampled on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Usually places like this with heavy foot traffic that I've trucks and things coming through to get gas, things like that get dirty and get trampled fast.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're along a long road dirt gets kicked up.
[SPEAKER_03]: These are still clean like they just came from the inside of something.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's what you notice.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think the syringe is the thing that sets off the most
[SPEAKER_05]: Get in the car, girl.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Floor, like, throws herself and stow it with my close credit card, which she puts in her pocket as she, as she, pauses how to sleep out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you floor it, I'm assuming, you start driving.
[SPEAKER_03]: The air is hot, but the wind is biting.
[SPEAKER_03]: When you drive this fast on a lot of open space where it's already hot and windy, it usually doesn't feel great if your windows are down and I think,
[SPEAKER_03]: for the purposes of getting gas and stopping, maybe you rolled your window down for the time being to not let the car heat up too much.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're flooring it, Michael, can I get a grit roll from you, please?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I grit roll.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to do eight for grit roll.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is that three.
[SPEAKER_03]: A three.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are
[SPEAKER_03]: present but in that way where you're just shy of being awake but your eyelids are still so heavy and the space around you hasn't quite been registered by your body so you're still just under but you're aware you hear things you hear rocks kick up and hit the side of a car you hear gravel skirt under a car and you're wind
[SPEAKER_03]: slap against the sides of metal and it's hot wherever you are and you know stings but you're not quite sure why yet and then we'll come back to flora you're in this passenger seat of a stranger unsure of where another functionally stranger may have gone
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Flora as soon as she the car is moving there's an element of like almost relief even though the the mania is still quite high there's a okay it's fine we're doing something we're doing something and then I think she starts talking at a hundred miles an hour at Shibon
[SPEAKER_06]: Because I I don't know why anybody would want to take him because you know if that's to him But he's kind of boring like his life is kind of boring and normal, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: So the thing that worries me is that because I mean, I don't know how much you know I don't know how old you are but the government covering up all kinds of shit lately and I'm worried because they They might know that I know and if they know I know they might have eyes on him But he's nothing to do with it.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's just some guy that I met and he's boring and he is gonna vomit in their trunk He's gonna vomit in their trunk and I'm gonna be mad at him and
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't if you don't stop talking just for five seconds But put you at this any What's this fella's name Michael right, um, that he has a surname he does These called Michael
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, Michael, we're gonna get Michael back.
[SPEAKER_05]: So don't you worry, that pretty little frasal head yours.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now, the second thing, and Shavan is like, hands tight on the wheel.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now, the second thing I'm gonna need you to do is, wait, actually, wheel and back.
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you know Michael, if you don't know his last name?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, we, we crossed parts, uh, last night, oh.
[SPEAKER_06]: He, he offered me a lighter and it was nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: He was nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: See, this is, this is why I'm panicking because he's nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's not going to cope in a, in a trunk, in a government trunk.
[SPEAKER_05]: In a government, I don't think it was the government, it's sweetheart.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm, I'm just going to be put that on the table right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: I shouldn't have left him.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, I mean, oh god, I mean thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you for for for for doing this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I know, nobody else at that cast station seems to care.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, well, you know, I mean, I'm not going to let someone just get kidnapped.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, if it turns out he's not in fact being kidnapped and that's a whole mother cat-lifish to fry.
[SPEAKER_06]: But if he is, I don't think it's the kind of guy that would enjoy being thrown in trunks.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just putting that out there, just from my experience.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know any person who would enjoy being thrown in a trunks again.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to put that clear and present on the table.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I don't know what, I don't want to know what kind of people you know.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Not important now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Speeding down the interstate.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a lot of space and a lot of road, not many other cars.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even for as early as it is, it's still warm.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are ready to close the great distance between you and any car that might have left that gas station before you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see the back of this red vehicle with a large trunk.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has an Oklahoma license plate.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oklahoma is okay it reads it's red and it's entirety red is one of those things that's a choice to drive as a car you get pulled over so much more with the red red paint is like asking to get pulled over for speeding even when you're not speeding the Lincoln town car on assuming a nice car
[SPEAKER_03]: write that down your brain tells you to write that down you don't know a lot about kidnappings you know you should know a description of whatever took or whoever took your friend even if it's a government car and you're so close you're no more than 20 feet behind this car now you see it what do you want to do it's a car driving on an
[SPEAKER_06]: How far away is it from us, like ahead of us?
[SPEAKER_03]: 20 feet, 15 feet closing here.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're speeding.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're trying to catch up with this car.
[SPEAKER_03]: You think something is a miss?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna reach over and like, honk the whole.
[SPEAKER_06]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_05]: You get two good honks in before I think ship on like bodily, like takes your hand off through that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Girl, are you trying to alert the entire county of our presence?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, shit, yes, sorry.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't have a license for obvious reasons.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, obvious, obvious reasons.
[SPEAKER_01]: hearing that, can I just sound kind of like kick?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yes!
[SPEAKER_03]: So there's two things for you one.
[SPEAKER_03]: You failed to roll a little bit earlier, so you get an extra point, you get a token.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can hold on to that as long as you want, and you can use it at any point to attempt to re-roll a roll or add plus two to your roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you hear this honking with a three-on grit
[SPEAKER_03]: your body was still heavy but you're being pulled out of it and you said you want to attempt kicking where are you trying to get your eyes open and target kicks in where you're trying to loosely kick because that'll vary what role you want here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think in a hangover style state that it's probably going to be more like a loose kick.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in the dark.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have the direction of what I'm actually going
[SPEAKER_03]: amazing so with a loose kick I would like you to just roll me a D20 and this will be a luck roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna see how lucky you are in this moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was an 18 on the 20 and 18 is so good and you kick and it's so stuffy and your nose burns of lavender and you
[SPEAKER_03]: And then there's a rush of fresh air.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not the best fresh air.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's mixed with exhaust.
[SPEAKER_03]: The two of you see a crack in the top break like kind of pop out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not the entirety of the thing, but one of those pops out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see anything beyond that.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just see it pop out or give.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're honking the gentleman, you see the mirror gets tuned and turned, they look, and he turns his blink around and begins merging over to pull over to the side.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't think this fall I didn't think that for sorry baby Jesus.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Shivan as this gentleman starts to pull over it's gonna pull behind.
[SPEAKER_05]: Because we saw the head like pop out.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we know that there's someone in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will try and be quiet.
[SPEAKER_05]: What I need you to do is I know you said you can't drive.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to get out this car.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I don't have a license.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't drive legally.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what being a can't drive.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to get out this car.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's your name?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: Floor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Shivam.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's me too.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to need you to slide into the driver's seat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cause when I get up this car, someone might, I don't know what they might do.
[SPEAKER_05]: But just in case, you need to keep driving.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Immediately.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: He ignition, brake.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're looking where I'm pointing brake, gas.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, yeah, yeah, right gas.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know, I have to have been before.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can drive.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I'll make sure this is crystal clear to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Shivan is going to unbuckle and her seat belt.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_05]: And step out of her vehicle.
[SPEAKER_03]: You step out and immediately see that he has also stepped out and is standing at the back of the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Waiting, waiting your approach.
[SPEAKER_03]: A little little smile on his face.
[SPEAKER_03]: His eyes are beatier than you'd expect for just anyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're just a little they reflect a little more than you'd like them to.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're a little colder than you'd like them to be and his they kind of
[SPEAKER_03]: wrinkle out into crow's feet from the constants of a smile of a very pushed smile that pushes the face up into wrinkling.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, um, was there something I could help you with?
[SPEAKER_05]: Shivan with her pale flannel pushes the sleeves up a bit more.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, Sir, I'm so sorry for the inconvenience.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think there might have been a little bit confusion as she continues to step closer towards him.
[SPEAKER_05]: you see I was over there in the gas station and you know one of my friends got this crazy idea and I just you know just for her sake in mine I just need to clarify one thing I'd love to clarify one thing for you what is that and can I run up and clock him in the face?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, roll me a fight please.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Also, I'm tough.
[SPEAKER_05]: So if I lose a combat roll, I'll add three to the negative number.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: A 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this person is
[SPEAKER_03]: not new to physical attacks, you strike him, you successfully strike him, he staggers back, all of the smile and humanity and mask just fades away as he staggers back, hands still on the car but he's moved back from the trunk and his closer to the back door now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why is it that you struck me?
[SPEAKER_05]: and Chivalya is just going to shake her hand a bit, you know, pressing the muckle into each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, well.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm so sorry, I get a little impulsive.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sometimes, you know, you know, it's really been suggested that I talk to somebody about it, but you know, all that aside, it was that thing that I was telling you about the crazy idea when my friends had she said that she saw that you put someone in your trunk.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now, oh, I'm just, I understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, actually, I have something in my back seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's an open his back seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he pulls out a shotgun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Get back in your car.
[SPEAKER_05]: Shivan will raise both hands.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now, sir.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think this might be taking it a little too far now, I know I'd just hit you in the face.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, assaulting people on the side of the interstate's not taking it too far.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, it's the country.
[SPEAKER_03]: uh, Michael, you hear this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear the ruffle.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's muffled and then muffled again by the hangover and the things running in your system.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you're becoming more and more lucid.
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel that fresh air.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's giving you a bit of clarity.
[SPEAKER_03]: What would you like to try to do in the moment being stuck here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, has the lighting in the space change since I last kicked out?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I see any more?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, there's a bit of light peeking through that hole you made, and it is giving you a glimpse of what is at your feet and of your own like feet and legs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and on my hands, but... They're not, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, um, I would like to try and break from the trunk into the back seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I'll take a Bronn or a fighting for that, I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I'll go for a run because it's the higher dice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, That it from that's a sex.
[SPEAKER_01]: Geez.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and a three.
[SPEAKER_01]: So nine.
[SPEAKER_03]: So nine.
[SPEAKER_03]: So with a nine, you begin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Both hands are both feet kicking at the back of the seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which one?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so both feet you're kicking and it is giving isn't quite broken, but you hear parts giving.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shivan, you hear the thumping and this gentleman you've slugged in as holding the shotgun is going to raise it high and just take a shot past you but to get you to duck.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Past me.
[SPEAKER_05]: So will not hit me.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so here's something you see that it's not aimed at you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But there's still a barrel in your general vicinity.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think she won't fully duck, but she will flinch.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, like, listen, listen.
[SPEAKER_05]: I- Now.
[SPEAKER_03]: kidnap in a person if that is like glancing at the sounds coming from the vaccine is one thing murder is another you're following up on the your your attempt of conversation your ears ring you start talking and you see that he kind of like talks his head in this way of like oh my god i'm still getting talk to like there's no way like why are you not running and is going to get in his car and start driving again
[SPEAKER_03]: uh... come on uh... so on will run back yeah as you run back michael you're kicking you hear this thing giving you've been given this breath of energy at the fact that you hear people you hear something you've heard that someone knows you might be here
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear the firing of something, it bounces around a trunk, maybe a little more intensely than it would bounce around just open air.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so it rings your ears more than you'd like it to.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're kicking, and you hear the car start up again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that moment of like, oh, this is where I'm, this is where I'm getting out, starts to slip a little.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you give me another fight or a brawn as you try to kick this thing down?
[SPEAKER_03]: And Shavana, as you run back to your truck, the window has partially shattered and at the bottom part.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think Flaura has jumped to the driver side, as you gave Flaura the instructions and ran Flaura down on how to start driving.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Flaura, your knuckles have a bit of...
[SPEAKER_03]: Glass or are cut up in some capacity this the bird shot pepper to the window and the windshield and spattered it in you're not hurt but Sting sting but the sting of Everything is dulled by the focus of get in we're following this car and Michael would you get?
[SPEAKER_01]: I rolled a four on the dice and If I need to I can add those adversity tokens
[SPEAKER_03]: I think now would be a good time to add the adversity to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I absolutely will do that, and I'll show you, I can slurred, I'm just gonna let me hear you fucks.
[SPEAKER_03]: you give another heave of a kick as you slur yell and the backseat part of it, boom, hits, bust down and hits and pops back up, but doesn't lock in if you've broken whatever locking mechanism.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is half open now.
[SPEAKER_03]: you just hear like you should be asleep still as he's driving can't focus on you there's people tailing him you're moving around he's driving fast what would you like to do Michael now in this moment again you're still slurred you're still out of it uh so can you explain to me again like like what's the kind of
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, so we have the two back seats.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've kicked one down, so they're not both connected that they wouldn't both come down.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've kicked one of them down and hit the ground with a fork, like not the ground, hit the bottom of the seat and bounced back up, but you broke the locking mechanism.
[SPEAKER_03]: So instead of locking, it kind of is just, it's at half play.
[SPEAKER_03]: So here's the main seat, here's the second seat and you're in the back here.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you can see into the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're able to probably start climbing
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to start to make my way through and try to take control of the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Understood, yeah, you're crawling through.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would like.
[SPEAKER_03]: What kind of role do you think for you would make sense in trying to dig deep?
[SPEAKER_03]: You're still numb.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have full control of your limbs.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are we working with here?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is fight, even though that is my worst.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stacked by things actually what I need to be trying to do in this case.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, that's a one on a D4.
[SPEAKER_03]: you get a token and you lunge out, you pull yourself out and heave with whatever energy you could muster halfway through the back seat, shoulders half arm and head into the front seat and reach for the wheel and you kind of turns here, you're supposed to any grab side of your head sleep and he pushes you against the side of the neighboring chair and you kind of thump your head
[SPEAKER_03]: Pretty bad, it probably can't hurt much worse, but for a moment you see stars you're a bit more disoriented But you do hear the rattle of another vehicle behind you You can hope is in pursuit and we'll come back to Chavan and Flora tailing this possibly government vehicle again What is going on in here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Flora has flawed it, and is now so rigid in the driver's seat, hands are like gripping the wheel, sort of eyes like berry-wide bulging straight ahead, she has locked in and she's still kind of like tapping her head a little bit as a as a self soothing thing and she's going to breathe and she's focused and she's driving
[SPEAKER_06]: And then she sort of processes everything that's just happened and turns to Shivon and You were amazing that that was really cool God damn it busted out my god damn wish you oh my wife's going to kill me Oh, yeah, sorry.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean I
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, we'll worry about that when we come to it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, geez, oh.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you, you didn't, you didn't get you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I'm fine, fuck.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Your friend is in the back of the trunk hours.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I still wasn't completely sold, despite seeing that a headlight pop out, but now I'm 100% certain that there's man in the back of that trunk.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we got to catch him.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, that guy, the guy you were speaking to, fucking weird, fucking weirdo.
[SPEAKER_03]: honestly yeah did not see the shotgun coming was not fair for that yeah yeah the guy you're tailing as you're talking and locked in tunnel vision following you see through the the back window kind of your friend crawl like half crawl through get pushed is moving less there's a lot of chaos in all of this moment as the car you're
[SPEAKER_03]: onto a bumpy road, the road is already not paved well.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a road that's traveled a lot, hardly repaved very often.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's not no one cares about this space out here.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's just so much space.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're going down a back road now.
[SPEAKER_03]: As you follow, there's the whips of vines and trees and branches and branches snapping and shooting up and hitting the under carriage of the cars and vehicles.
[SPEAKER_03]: As you just go down this bumpy road, the thing is
[SPEAKER_03]: a regular sedan a Lincoln is made to go down roads like this especially at the speed but a truck is going to be a little more efficient at it and this is where you're beginning to gain on whoever this person is but you're not quite at them yet they're not going to pull over this time so what do we think to do?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Flora screamed at the sudden turn, like she's done it, but that's the room her.
[SPEAKER_06]: When she is, she is locked in and then I think if she can see movement in the front car from our car, that's like given her some strength and something to hold onto because she's now very clearly like, I can see him, I think that's him, I think he's, oh god I hope he's not
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know how much sensibility your friend has, but and Shivan is gonna take hold of the gear shift now.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's gonna stick for a second and then it's gonna go a bit faster and then I need you to ram him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the other car being hit in the side of the head again after trying to take control of the wheel, Michael is going to vomit and his involvement directly
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, son of a And he's but now flustered.
[SPEAKER_03]: This was supposed to be very simple and in every capacity It's been complicated.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's you nasty mother and reaching for things driving a bumping You vomit and he's like you
[SPEAKER_03]: ruined my day and then rammed by the speeding truck right as another bump or a crop of rocks has Scrapes the bottom of his Lincoln you have dented in this truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would like a grit roll from Michael as you are not buckled in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Neither is this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna get a grit roll from him.
[SPEAKER_03]: See how well he handles getting I roll this seven
[SPEAKER_03]: a seven you grab onto the passenger seat as you feel the force you just threw up you got hit you need to stabilize yourself just in movement you've locked in to maybe maybe you've grabbed the seat belt and wrapped it around your own wrist and this car gets hit and the driver flings forward and hits their face on the wheel as they have not buckled in they're racing
[SPEAKER_03]: Immediately lose control of the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: It swivels and pivots and side swipes a tree and stops.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he is going to stumble out and just begin attempting to leave the sea.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's just leaving him to wherever there's open space.
[SPEAKER_03]: You if you
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of on the heels of this, you haven't stopped entirely.
[SPEAKER_03]: They lost control and swirped forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you stop the car once their car stops?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you teabone it again?
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you doing in this moment?
[SPEAKER_03]: I know tensions are high.
[SPEAKER_05]: As the car swivels around, Chivan is gonna scream, break to, to Flora.
[SPEAKER_06]: Flora breaks extremely abruptly.
[SPEAKER_05]: and in that momentum is gonna open the passenger door and leap out of the truck and start running after this week.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Truly, truly reckless, and I respect it in love it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think floor is gonna jump out and follow out of pure, like she has no sort of coherent thought.
[SPEAKER_06]: At the minute, and her instinct is, Shibon seems to have a plan.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we're gonna do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm just gonna also jump out the car
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the two of you chased down this person.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not moving fast.
[SPEAKER_03]: He just likely fractured part of his face.
[SPEAKER_03]: But he's still moving away from this direction.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're following Michael your alone and the heat is gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: The heat of exhaust, the heat from inside of you and the heat from the sun.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're again, slipping in and out of consciousness, and the radio has clicked to some station and it's static and a 70's song and static and a 70's song and you can't quite make out with the 70's song is you hear the words forget me not and what where do you drift off
[SPEAKER_01]: how life has been going for Michael recently and that last night was very much a mistake for him and he is just trying to figure out how he got into the situation he's in right now he will look around this car, see the shotgun in the back, hear the music switch over to
[SPEAKER_01]: And just like once again, hold back the vomit and look to see if there's any sort of gum that he could get to try and live freshness breath.
[SPEAKER_03]: you reach around and you open something, you grab a handle and it clicks open and a small kind of glove compartment kind of hangs down giving to its own weight.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't open slowly in old cars.
[SPEAKER_03]: They just slam open.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see, a collection of average stuff, you see a small pack of some kind of mental something.
[SPEAKER_03]: It might be cigarettes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your vision still blurry.
[SPEAKER_03]: It might be a nicotine gum.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not quite sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see a pile of IDs next to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so you're able to reach for the gum or the menthol or whatever it might be.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think you pop it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as you pop it out, you pump it and realize it's some kind of nicotine gum.
[SPEAKER_03]: the kind that a smoker would use to try to ween off.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it is a strong gum, I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what you're looking for.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like popping and feeling his mind stopped to come back to some semblance of normal.
[SPEAKER_01]: People look around and see the former driver running.
[SPEAKER_01]: Shavan following.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then think.
[SPEAKER_01]: have I got myself into this and then reach a hand out and close the door of the car and try to reverse and drive off.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is so incredibly rational and
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that the car runs, it's just got rammed inside like old cars or hunks of metal.
[SPEAKER_03]: They work, you, the thing what didn't stop running, and never got turned off, you kind of orient yourself, you look around, things are falling out of the glove compartment, you haven't closed, that stack of IDs of names and faces that
[SPEAKER_03]: are blurry and gone to you because you're so driven and not being in whatever you've gotten yourself into in this moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get the car moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: You reverse.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to pull around the truck.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see Chavon giving Chase and behind Chavon, you see Flora, the person who has your card and who is with you and you begin to drive off.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I look at my one reflection and the real view mirror and to say,
[SPEAKER_01]: This is one for the book, Sanjury.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, Chivon and Flora, you are giving chase with so much heat and animosity and truly the worst thing to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: you are chasing down a lion who had its paw caught in a bear trap and he's dizzy and stumbling and stops and turns as you're on his heels you're moving faster than he is you've been in this you re-rended him your
[SPEAKER_03]: fighting the way humans fight to survive, and he was hunting the way a predator hunts when conditions are to his favor.
[SPEAKER_03]: But he's scared and dangerous, and his eyes are haggard, and his crows feet are deeper,
[SPEAKER_03]: The way when a primate shows all of their teeth, they're not smiling at you, they're bearing their teeth that you to know that they're dangerous, and all of us teeth are showing at you as you close it on him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shavon, you're there first, what do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I'm skilled at something as one of my strengths, so I'm
[SPEAKER_05]: with the punch that I threw earlier.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I be skilled at a martial art?
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, you have to tell me, you have to tell me which martial art would we talk about?
[SPEAKER_05]: Ooh, uh... Appleware.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't fool me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just just high kicks all the time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Actually, you know, I like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: amazing.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I think he might be expecting similar to the punch that came before and she thinks the punch but then round houses and then it's just that kick to the side of the head.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's the thing about certain types of things like Capware of this that they're so chaotic and Have so much power behind them and fill to so many things you throw this punch that he knows and he puts his hands up like this Not a fighter not someone who knows how to fight doesn't have ball fists hands up like this just to cover it
[SPEAKER_03]: and you let the punch carry your body weight down as you pivot on the back foot and your right leg swings into his ribs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Connecting.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's full connection.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you roll me a fight to see how much it hurts him?
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'll give you a plus two because you're skilled at something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe that's what that's what skill it's something does, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it says you are assumed to succeed when making even moderately difficult checks, 9 or less involving this skill.
[SPEAKER_05]: If the GM determines that you do not need to roll for a more difficult check, add up to plus 3 to your roll.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, I still need to roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I will say this one is going to be one you need to roll, but I'll let you add the plus 3 to it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, thick.
[SPEAKER_05]: That is just a 6.
[SPEAKER_05]: So plus 3 is 9.
[SPEAKER_03]: that you connect it hurts him.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's winded, he's wounded, his face is bleeding.
[SPEAKER_03]: He staggers back, his arms gone down to his side now.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is going to attempt to lunge at you, and he's gonna roll his fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, a 36, um, and it's not anything flashy.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not Cabuera.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a type of fighting, but he is, this isn't the first person he's attacked.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you feel it in the way, the minute he connects with you, have a question for each of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Have you ever had to fight anyone else for your life?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's why she learned Cabuera.
[SPEAKER_03]: and the weight and pressure of human muscles when they're truly fighting for their lives.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not sparring, it's not a street fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is the loser of this is not going to make it out, is a pressure that you learned capware because of.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in this moment, you feel it again, your knocked,
[SPEAKER_03]: directly in your chest with just the side of arm and shoulder.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not again, he's not skilled.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's strong and ravenous and he strikes you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You tumble back are winded, but you're skilled at fighting.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're skilled at doing this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've been winded before.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're knocked back and I think you catch yourself on
[SPEAKER_03]: in like almost crab position where you're on like for your two back two arms and your two legs but with one arm still one arm up defending yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: But he's taken that moment to knock you back and attempt to begin running again, but floor a you've covered that distance would do you want to do you see him knock your friend clean out of their butts winded I will say for a second there.
[SPEAKER_03]: on you're going to be gasping for your breath.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard to fight when you're winded and so right now you just have to you're gonna have to roll grits on your turn to try to return to breathing normally and flora you've caught up.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think in the panic and the distraction of the two of them fighting each other, Flora is going to have tried to cut him front of him, you know, anticipating that he's going to keep trying to escape, and I'm going to try and trip him as he tries to run away.
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can, what would you like to roll for that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because I'm going to say, tripping is not necessarily fighting.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to roll fight because it is okay for me.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think this is how Flora fights people, you know, Flora is not somebody who goes in punching, Flora trips and scratches and is, you know, underhanded.
[SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's the 17.
[SPEAKER_06]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: man was so tunnel visioned, knocked your friend down, turned to escape again, and like a fucking soccer player, like a football player, you slide ankle tackle, just destroying his left ankle, as he's trying to like mid sprint, take it out from under him, heat tumbles, at a 17 on a trip, they're going to the ground, like that person with hitting the ground, he hits the ground hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, don't know if you ever seen someone get slide tackled, it's nasty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Full force hits the ground.
[SPEAKER_03]: You kind of hear that shoulder crunch of someone who wasn't prepared to fall falling.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then in that heat, you feel the dust from the ground, push up the dirt kind of kicks your face from that person and you even sliding on the ground, all of that occurs.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you hear the movement of wheels and you see the car, the red Lincoln beginning to pull away and drive away.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you're in this, and Shavan, give me that grit roll to see if you catch your breath again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I actually argue, Braun?
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_03]: You, like you said, you have been in a physical altercation for your life before, and this is a thing of physicality.
[SPEAKER_03]: It might be a mental thing, but breathing, you can suck air in when you need to.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all except a Braun on that.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was a three.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, here's a little, you know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll give you, I'll give you a good one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's a little, here's a little tracerotops for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did fail that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you get to your, you begin to get to your, like, beat and fall forward a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: So now you're,
[SPEAKER_03]: kind of hunched up you're not on your hands and knees you're it's almost like you're squatting on the balls of your feet but lean forward on your hand a bit still trying to gasp that air in your mouth tastes like metal and your nose is beginning to
[SPEAKER_03]: bubble as you breathe as the bits of blood from the force you took to your chest is kind of just doing that a little bit of Gurgle you're you're in a fight you've been struck you've also been in car wrecks you guys aren't doing perfectly You're just doing a little better
[SPEAKER_03]: and we then go back to the man and he's on the ground, he's crumpled, he's hurt, he's going to make a grit rule, he doesn't have fantastic grit, it's just okay, he is staggering himself up, holding his left foot that you kind of swept out from under him and he manages to get to a one foot
[SPEAKER_03]: But he's babying that left foot.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not even putting pressure on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just kind of dangling there above the ground As he stands there kind of begins trying doing that like a little limp hobble away He no longer wants to be engaged in whatever this is that fighter flight the fight is gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's trying the flight portion of this now You're up again, Florida.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you want to do in this moment?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Floor is found like a stick on the floor, so she's sort of armed, she's not doing anything with it but she's just sort of has it as the threat and as the way to ground herself because she's very concerned by the car driving away, but she's so locked in now with this man that she doesn't quite have the the strength to draw away and follow up on that, so she kind of brandishes the stick.
[SPEAKER_03]: while you're brandishing the stick you kind of hold it up and he like looks at you in his eyes narrow and he begins to turn and just hobble away.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not going to fight you, but before you do any thing, I kind of want to evoke the fact that well if if the government was involved don't government agents have partners and the cars getting away could possibly his partner be
[SPEAKER_06]: Thore kind of malfunctions for a moment as this thought takes root in her brain and she looks back at where I think the like dust is blowing up from the car in the distance and actually I think what's prompted from that thought is the concept of but I didn't see anyone else in the car with him and there wasn't anyone else at the gas station
[SPEAKER_06]: Unless Michael was in on it and somehow this is all connected and I've gotten myself wrapped up unless Michael knew who I was when he offered me that lighter last night and it was all some kind of intel and so I'm gonna keep going after this guy and just the jokes up I the jokes up you don't need to you don't realize me anymore you can't get away I just need to know
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know who I am?
[SPEAKER_06]: Was this either so all of a sudden?
[SPEAKER_06]: And she still got the stick that she sort of waving around.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, his eyes have narrowed at you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You say no more lying.
[SPEAKER_03]: No more all of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have a stick holding a stick up.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's so injured.
[SPEAKER_03]: Stop lying to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me the truth.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you know who I am?
[SPEAKER_03]: His eyes narrowed.
[SPEAKER_03]: How do you know that I know who you are?
[SPEAKER_06]: because I'm not stupid, okay, this all has to be connected.
[SPEAKER_06]: That there's no way that the random guy who's just, oh, he's so nice and boring and his suit and his sharp, that's the easiest trick in the book, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I just need to know where this is going, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I need to know if he's driving off somewhere to give my details to somebody higher up or to put me on some kind of database
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you see, the thing is, is that I could clear out your file if you just help me get back to the gas station.
[SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what he's doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to deliver your information and work.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have a small file.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, we have a fucking new it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's going to fill it up with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shavan, you hear this as you now see that what this man is is so quick to glam and grab onto anything that he can leverage and you hear it happen and take root fast.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead and give me that brawn again.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll give you, you have your dinosaur, so if you need to re-roll it or add a plus to it, you're more than welcome.
[SPEAKER_03]: The dice has been lowered now that your further turns removed from having been struck.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh God, it's an eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's fine, it was a five because you're good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you gasp finally gathering the energy back into your chest.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your limbs are heavy now, the way that when you're on that, your gas tank's almost empty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your adrenaline's wearing off, your physicality's wearing off.
[SPEAKER_03]: You stand up, you hear that going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you do, Shifat?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Shifat gets the wind under and is just,
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, he's a fucking liar.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's a what?
[SPEAKER_05]: He's a kidnapper and a liar.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she?
[SPEAKER_03]: is in on it too, they're in on it too.
[SPEAKER_03]: We, everyone that you've met in the past 24 hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has been filled up our file on here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh fucking hype.
[SPEAKER_06]: God, that's how you, you knew you're martial arts.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's, that's, oh my, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: In the car, I'm just trying to go, I've been through the desert on a horse with no money.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, and this scene just kind of risen to your mind, Shaman is you've done all the right things except maybe you shouldn't have pursued this person, but overall you're the good guy here and suddenly this whole scene is caving in on you for helping someone for a
[SPEAKER_03]: You're standing here, everyone is your enemy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, you get me in that truck, you drive you back to the gas station, leave me there, and I'll make sure that we get rid of everything in your file.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna turn back to Shibon and just... It's that tree.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is he being... You're gonna get rid of everything, you promise.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sweetheart, what?
[SPEAKER_04]: God's name, are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_06]: You don't have to do that anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, he's like, you're a big bus guy, he's fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: We just need to get back on the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I'll, I'll, I can drive if you need me to drive.
[SPEAKER_06]: Again, I can do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't, I don't mind, I don't mind risking it.
[SPEAKER_06]: But we can do that, we can go back.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then we can all just pretend this didn't happen.
[SPEAKER_05]: Chavan is forever-gasted, and says,
[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely the fuck, not he's getting in my truck.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I can't know, both of you can stay the fuck out of here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't need this today.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she's gonna go back to her truck.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think Flora just tends to the guy and it's like, wow, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've figured you guys would be a team.
[SPEAKER_06]: I thought, you know, you'd have a better partner.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes partners are hard to come by, I'm gonna go and he just starts walking towards the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, well, I mean, I'm going that way too.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, you know, I can keep you company.
[SPEAKER_06]: I won't accuse you of any more stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna keep saying, I'm not gonna tell anyone anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: No one's gonna hear it's shit from me about what happened.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, you know, I'm cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, you know, we can just be cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: We can just, we just not in the field.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: He puts his hand up.
[SPEAKER_03]: You need to go somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I, I, I want to go back to the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you, are you, are you, are you, are you, are I, I'm, I'm going to go that way, you need to go the other way, okay, like for for my well-being, right, like it's better for me, yeah, okay, I got it, I got it, don't worry, I got, I got you, well, I just keep toppling, bye, thanks, thanks for a, huh.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think Flora does turn around and I'm going to go, I'm still heading back to the road sort of trudging through the field.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think that overwhelming feeling she has is relief.
[SPEAKER_06]: She narrowly avoided something, you know, she was, she was really caught up in it for a second.
[SPEAKER_06]: But she made the right choices and she was smart.
[SPEAKER_06]: And now she's going to be okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: The sound's true.
[SPEAKER_03]: We the day this took maybe maybe an hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: All of this happened so fast.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shvon, where do you go once back in your truck?
[SPEAKER_05]: I get back in the truck.
[SPEAKER_05]: Look at my busted windshield glass everywhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: the produce which most of it is on the highway somewhere scattered across this offroad portion.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is the worst fucking idea I've ever had.
[SPEAKER_05]: Try to help somebody.
[SPEAKER_05]: Try to help somebody and what you get.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bananas, absolutely bananas.
[SPEAKER_05]: and she's going to turn the key and pull off and head back to the gas station.
[SPEAKER_03]: You head back to the gas station and you just the wind comes in.
[SPEAKER_03]: The heat comes in through the hole in your windshield.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you just listen to whatever music is on and you know that this day is behind you, it might have gotten away from you, but at least it's behind you.
[SPEAKER_03]: That man is too hurt to do anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: You pretty much won that fight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Flora is gone somewhere and Michael drove away from the scene and you just drive to wherever you're going after filling up your tank and your day closes kindly on a terrible day as you still have whatever it is in your life left to go to and Michael
[SPEAKER_03]: you drive in this red Lincoln, where are you going?
[SPEAKER_01]: Andrew pulls into a dirt road off of the
[SPEAKER_01]: reaches into the back of this car and grabs a shotgun shell, opens it and steps out of the car opens the fuel intake, puts the tie in, pour us on some shotgun shell and then likes it and runs.
[SPEAKER_03]: You run down this road.
[SPEAKER_03]: It goes up fast.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a loud pop that accompanies it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever was here is going to be gone in the coming hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where do you run to?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you just on foot?
[SPEAKER_03]: Where are you going?
[SPEAKER_01]: I...
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, walk until there is a safe spot in which to put out a thumb and a hope to hailed down the next ride onto somewhere, sitting and we'll look at the card keeps which is for a card insurance and just say to himself as a normal log I'll claim it back, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we leave this scene and we follow down the interstate, we see Flora walking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Flora, you got away from whatever may have been happening, whatever government plan and plants this was.
[SPEAKER_03]: And
[SPEAKER_03]: You go for a bit, and then a 10 Volkswagen Beetle pulls over, and pops it open, it's like,
[SPEAKER_06]: Me to ride, young lady.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thanks.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Flora just hops right in.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think her backpack of stuff is was in Michael's car, which is gone to her.
[SPEAKER_06]: But she has someone else's car in her back pocket.
[SPEAKER_06]: And honestly, today has been a win for her, because whatever record she didn't know she had has been scratched off now as clean.
[SPEAKER_06]: She can start again.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think that's just absolute trust as she gets into this new person's vehicle and just kind of let's how I sigh of relief as she sits down in the passenger seat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's get going, and the beetle drives away, and we just see this 1968 full black and beetle just driving you look around the car and we'll at least on your side, the door handles a little broken on the inside, and we'll pull out and we see the interstate a long strip of road.
[SPEAKER_03]: in between trees and dirt, in cities, on opposite ends, and states, on opposite ends.
[SPEAKER_03]: And well, I think that's the story that we told here today.
[SPEAKER_03]: This has been five gyms and trench coat from inside the tent.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys were all amazing guests and if you could please tell us a little bit about yourselves, tell us yourselves plug your stuff I want to hear and everyone wants to hear so much more about you, amazing job you guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, I've been Ren, I've been playing Shivan today, you can find me at Mask Ren on the socials and I am a cosplayer and actual play performer and I do some voiceover sometimes.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's been me today, thank you, Adam.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello folks, my name is Sam, my name is Priyazar Hihim.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am a UK-based science communicator and actual play performer and producer.
[SPEAKER_01]: My main stuff is over at science and sorcery where we bring together STEM subjects and actual play and smash them together.
[SPEAKER_01]: as well as my own channel who hurt you, which is focused on telling sad, melancholy and angry stories.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, come and check us out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much to the team of 5Gms for having me here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been an absolute blast.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hi, five GM's listeners, my name's Taeya, my friends are Shihah, and I've been playing Flora today.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can find me at Taeya Campbell over on most social media, I'm a UK-based actor, theatre maker, and actor play performer.
[SPEAKER_06]: My main work in the TTRP G-Sphere is with damsels in die stress, where you can check out all long running super-gay, super-sad, Regency Aerody and D campaign, as well as some
[SPEAKER_06]: But fully me as well because I pop up on various things such as this.
[SPEAKER_06]: And yeah, thank you for having me Adam.
[SPEAKER_06]: Today has been incredibly fun.