[SPEAKER_04]: Excited to see what happens next.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ship got weird since boredom or showed up at her house.
[SPEAKER_01]: You might almost start suspecting that Mortimer's in on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's part of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And some way.
[SPEAKER_04]: The strange things that started to happen not long after I started showing up in my class.
[SPEAKER_01]: So happens when you go to school kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: Indeed.
[SPEAKER_02]: The poor boys just he just had to unpack it on horrible luck of just
[SPEAKER_02]: being in the wrong place, wrong place, wrong time syndrome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty much.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's it's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've decided that Katie is going to ask the US government, AKA steel, just a large, you know, whiskey barrel salt.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to plot more to burn it under the full moon and that should take care of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[UNKNOWN]: you
[SPEAKER_01]: Victoria, you wake up to see your love over you, and then this weirdo.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this vision, whatever just happened, it's seared in your brain, it hurts to think about.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, what?
[SPEAKER_04]: Ow, okay, or not, ow, ow.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is why you need to shrink your water.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it will pass over the glass of water and it's gone.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't forget my water today.
[SPEAKER_04]: Considering I just painted, I feel like the answer is no, not particularly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I'm not expecting you, but do you have any
[SPEAKER_02]: Returning action of what happened to make you collapse.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you did?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm asses looking at my notes and trying to pe- ow!
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, we're not going- no, no, none of that come yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she's going to help her up onto the couch and get her situated and fluff the pillow.
[SPEAKER_03]: The British way of saying I'm concerned without concerns, saying I'm concerned.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mortimer's now just given like a suspicious look to the notes of like, um, uh, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll just keep those with it there.
[SPEAKER_04]: What she was arranging were would have been like that sonar images that Henry had shown her.
[SPEAKER_04]: Moving them around trying to arrange them, kind of like puzzle pieces, but there any of it actually makes any sort of sense or not.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I, I think you might be able to recognize that both their maps or images of some sort, no one know what else you'd be able to figure out by looking at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, actually it feels like this is important and I shouldn't disturb this, but just like those relics.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that was worth it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Quite a mysterious voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of that, maybe I should go back and get the tablet now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe don't bring it back here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Also with anyone else, I don't have those images.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't worry about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Could anyone ask you haven't seen them?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to know this is probably the third time I've heard that I have not seen something today and well, are there enough that's not my first time in this type of rodeo?
[SPEAKER_02]: Has they say Texas but um?
[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome to working with the American government.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I, with what's already happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can see why you collapsed.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's quite a bit much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm going to go get the tablet and you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll leave it outside and we can all look again, look at it from outside, it's where it maybe it'll be a little safer.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Mortimer is going to go head back to the tent to go get the tablet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kenny, what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to say
[SPEAKER_03]: She's probably they probably have like a little garden in the back with like a little shack that has a table and stuff that people can stand in So she would direct more to more to go there She would then turn back to Victoria and Prown.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you're showing you all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure I'll be all right Don't know what happened It's a suit of hearts think about
[SPEAKER_04]: out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Also, she is like wrapped onto your hand Katie and just has not let go.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's not quite cutting off circulation, but anytime you go to the move, she's not letting go.
[SPEAKER_03]: If that's the case, the only thing she does is she's going to like kind of scooch a little closer and just very gently because I imagine it's they're holding the hands that have the rings on them and just kind of squeeze and place a little like a tiny little kiss where the Victoria's ring is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know it's going anyway.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just like laying on the couch.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got my eyes closed.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm trying not to think about the thing that I would like to think about, but it hurts to think about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I kind of don't really want to think about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and like Katie's just trying to wait for the right moment to wear the grip loose and it's like I'm going to go get some aspirin.
[SPEAKER_03]: So look at the notes while getting the aspirin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Katie, as you're looking at the window.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're able to see out over the beach over the docks and in the distance you swear you see on red light blinking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tilt's her head.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like a ship late because she's probably seen a lot of those.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you think it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all in the horizon.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it doesn't seem to be moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've seen a whole bunch of these.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the most of them have been shipmates.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this one, it just kind of catches your eye and your captivated for a moment before you return to taking care of your wife.
[SPEAKER_03]: They'll shake their head and squeeze Victoria's hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want me to go get you an aspirin?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, please.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I'll be back in a few moments, so get up and look at the notes as they're walking past to go get it and look when they come back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what kind of low you want me to make.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cross by head.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you walk away and you come back, Victoria's now covered in two cats.
[SPEAKER_04]: You bracket guys both of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't still know where they came from, but they've probably been the ones who hang around the longest, calling them like, I don't know, trying to think of cat names.
[SPEAKER_03]: John and Martin, there we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: To reference another love crafty and mythos podcast.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: My spot hit in is sixty and I rolled a nine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're pretty sure you've gotten most of it memorized.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now what?
[SPEAKER_01]: What was in your notes, Victoria?
[SPEAKER_01]: What exactly were you writing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Specifically on this page that's open.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if I was necessarily writing a lot, but I think I was writing the details or the facts.
[SPEAKER_04]: Japanese ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: underground structures, serpent, serpent attack, Japanese ship, question mark.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before she started going down, Katie, you saw her riding something very intensely.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the page is still almost flipped over, so it's got this little
[SPEAKER_01]: It's got this in our night, but it has a lift to it, and you can just flip it over as you walk past.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you just see scribbled out over and over again, Pesidio Garp, Pesidio Garp, Pesidio Garp, Pesidio Garp, Pesidio, and then the line falls off the page.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your Chernobyl sanity?
[SPEAKER_04]: Probably.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Morgan, where it comes back was time to use the one passed out on the floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: One sanity loss, but it all is flooding into your brain real quick.
[SPEAKER_01]: All that happened in England.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember the glowing eye looking at you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember blackwell.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember how you met Victoria.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you remember that you died.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which remind me how she died.
[SPEAKER_01]: She, uh, she got got by one of the, uh, the city of Hounds or like the old, like the Hounds that clawed their way up from under the library.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so lots of biting and clawing and yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I imagine there's just this sharp intake of breath from Katie as she puts a hand like near the juncture where collarbone meat shoulder because that's a lot of places where predator animals will bite to pull something down and just start almost hyperventilating but because she passed her sanity check kind of pull it together with that English stoicism for you know for king and country right no it wasn't in country
[SPEAKER_03]: I think, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because I swore Victoria was queen at this point.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, Victoria was early, or kind of made it between hundreds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not being right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Edward, I think was the, yeah, Edward was the king at this time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so it's not Elizabeth yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so, you know, for King and Country.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm, I'm a fool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was George the sixth.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, George, there we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, either hit a Henry, a George or an Edward, you're bound to get the right king.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: True.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do I hear this like the entaken panic breathing?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's audible.
[SPEAKER_01]: You look over and you see her seeing your journal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Katie's everything all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: She'll kind of shake her head and come back over, sit down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Plot the aspirin your hand and wait for you to take it before saying, I died.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, that's not, what does, that's not funny.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are you trying to make me laugh sort of, ow my head?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, when you meant black will.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean,
[SPEAKER_03]: You?
[SPEAKER_03]: At the will.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I died.
[SPEAKER_04]: There were hounds.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do I remember any of this?
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember the fight in the library where Katie got grabbed by one of the hounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you faintly remember, it's all bits and pieces, but you remember she died.
[SPEAKER_01]: And by some strange miracle, she was brought back from death.
[SPEAKER_04]: I thought that was just
[SPEAKER_04]: Are we sure what did that actually happen?
[SPEAKER_04]: How do I not sure November that?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, we were there, and then this oblive mostly pain and teeth and screaming, and it does she remember coming back in England or waking up here in just kind of memories?
[SPEAKER_01]: In memory, you remember a charm to life at school, you can two met in a library, but all of this is slowly getting corrupted by, yeah, you met in the library where she was going to school, you two knew each other sort of, you just had that librarian, a researcher, relationship, and then one day, you just woke up and you were in her arms, and you were in Hawaii,
[SPEAKER_03]: We were colleagues, not like we presented now, with those who know no, but, and I died and started the wheel turned again, as I, some people would say, but this time we were entwined and then we came here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I know we were friends for a while.
[SPEAKER_04]: Before I finally worked up the curse, they'll ask you out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'd bright.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then almost at the same time, both of you see this house coming out of the ground.
[SPEAKER_01]: A mysterious figure shoots a chandelier in both of you and nearly die when it comes crashing down.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the house grabs Katie and the lights go out for Katie.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Victoria, you keep seeing this happening and then this light coming up.
[SPEAKER_01]: and bring her back almost.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you had concerns with a woman that you were with.
[SPEAKER_01]: That maybe this isn't right, maybe she's... You both joke maybe like she's a sleeper agent or something from the city of Gar.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that name finally stops hurting your head and starts to actualize what it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_04]: How could I promote to know that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Gabriella and Deckard's name.
[SPEAKER_04]: How could that be to you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Fasco's name comes back to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Gabriella.
[SPEAKER_04]: Deckard or Deckard?
[SPEAKER_04]: Wonder if anyone was able to tell its grandchildren.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've been like, seriously like, scribbling the random details that I've remembered, trying to give myself just enough on just whatever scrap paper I've found, so I don't completely forget again.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the sound of Deckard's name.
[SPEAKER_01]: Almost as if he was summoned more to where you returned with the tablets, and you hear the word Deckard.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's when more and more probably will come through on the side.
[SPEAKER_02]: I imagine there's a sliding class door for what to go out to the garden.
[SPEAKER_02]: And more and more was coming in from there and he heard Decker needs us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's, Decker's grandchildren know what's exactly in this Victoria.
[SPEAKER_04]: We both, I feel like, looks significantly more freaked out than we did the last time you were here, like, five minutes ago.
[SPEAKER_04]: And Victoria just, like, jumped in, like, reaches for the nice that she keeps, like, strapped her out into her ankle, as you come in and then just relaxes when she realizes it's you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Except that's not what's more to Mercedes, and it's not like, Katie sees.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact,
[SPEAKER_01]: You stay violent, and you stay ready to attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: The insanity has a quite worn-off on you yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: You hold this knife ready, and you're seeing red.
[SPEAKER_02]: Moorberg's hands instinctively shoot up upwards in a defensive position.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just, I'm not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, X. I do apologize.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're not going to take her.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not again.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not going to lose her again.
[SPEAKER_04]: I take stride just instinctively like trying to push Katie behind me, which definitely is a working because I'm on the couch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she is just going to very gently if allowed.
[SPEAKER_03]: take Victoria's base in their hands and be like, I'm not going into that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Victoria, roll a power.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I need a heart success.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I just got a regular success.
[SPEAKER_01]: The knife goes straight into Katie.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think I see that it's you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think like it's you, but it's not you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see the dog again, you're back in Oxford and the dog lunges at you and attacks you and you punch your knife into it and then you come back to and you're seeing Katie in front of you and you see your knife inside.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: As I'm just like packing blanket around to knife, not pulling knife out, I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: And for, and with a actual like real stern voice, he's just moved, and he's gonna go to try and do some first aid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kidney.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bro sanity.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh goodie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, eight team, and I have fifty nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that you aren't feeling any pain doesn't concern you.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, this has happened a couple times before.
[SPEAKER_01]: Once you cut yourself with the kitchen knife, you didn't bleed, you didn't feel pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a couple more times you fell and you hurt your knees.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you got scraped up a little bit, but there was no blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you thought, you just kind of, well, high pain tolerant.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of a blessing that I didn't bleed or anything, and at least the wound won't get infected.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you look down and you see this knife inside of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: about where your long would be.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she should be gurgling about now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You tilt your head.
[SPEAKER_01]: You look down again and the knife is still there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Victoria has plunged it pretty deep into you and with a lot of force.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should have felt something and by now you should have been bleeding.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm frantically like pat trying to pack the blanket around it to staunch the bleeding without moving, removing the blade.
[SPEAKER_04]: I
[SPEAKER_04]: There's not enough victory here right now to notice if there's anything weird that I am attempting to not have accidentally just killed my wife.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is not shock.
[SPEAKER_03]: Katie is basically feeling nothing and completely just no adrenaline spike, no nothing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just huh.
[SPEAKER_01]: No adrenaline, no blood, no nothing.
[SPEAKER_02]: When Mortimer noticed that there's no blood pouring from the wound, it'll be for state.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think because this is shocking to her that she's not feeling any of this because the previous ones were smaller things, so it's like, oh, okay, maybe just I wrote a thirty three.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to use three luck points because my first date is starting.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll use three luck points for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: as you're running to and you're seeing Victoria kind of freaking out just what happened you then realized that Katie seems pretty okay with this that there is no pain she's not seizing up it doesn't look like she's in the shock and at the same time there's no blood her pupils are known aren't dilated or anything just so pain
[SPEAKER_01]: from what you're seeing once you push Victoria off of her and you look at Katie just kind of sitting there as confused as you are like blank stare kind of just confused really um you're nice there's no blood and Katie you have the urge to just pull the knife out miss
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, she's going to kind of just follow that urgent instinctively just, you know, grab the handle and last stopped and go to, you know, just.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, seeing from how Katie's reacting to everything more and more can tell you're not in stock, he's just actually like, he's going to watch you as you pull it out, just to make sure like it's not rough or anything, if anything, he's helping you pull it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she'll let him and look down and see, I'm assuming there's a hole in my chest.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a hole in your chest, and the blade comes out yellow with powder.
[SPEAKER_02]: This, hmm, Katie, I don't know how to deal with this, but it looks like you're going to be okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Victoria is starting to hyperventilate.
[SPEAKER_02]: Victoria, I, I do believe it's safe to calm down with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead and roll psychology on her Mortimer.
[SPEAKER_02]: gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha
[SPEAKER_04]: So you came back, I said you came back, why would, what, how, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you did time.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, that's how you came into.
[SPEAKER_03]: You need to lock me up, you need to.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm misguided.
[SPEAKER_03]: I told me you couldn't take you out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know why you came out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why you came out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know why you came out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why you came out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know why you came out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why you came out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why you came
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm perfectly calm and rational other than one of my favorite classes being ruined and my wife upset and I can't give her a hug because I am somehow infected with a small that came from somewhere in the Irish moans and turned people murderous.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I would very much like if you could please buy me so I don't hurt anybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I guess that no, that still makes no sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: I must insist that we tie your hands in front of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll let them tie her hands in front of her but doesn't, you know, grumbles about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, and Mortimer's grandma, because he does not like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, I... I think you've seen perfectly rational to me, and... But, I... Fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: I seem to remember that the... It just... It just make Gabriella pass out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I should be fine, just don't breathe it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_04]: How?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is... did... did he do it on purpose?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or did... what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I... would you... to... be so kind to just... if you're willing to... tell me from the beginning... and you have my word... that... nothing here is leaving this house.
[SPEAKER_04]: I... I don't want to do that to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I wouldn't want to do that to anybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's kind of already in it seeing as he's now accomplishing me up.
[SPEAKER_03]: The more he does, the worse it's going to get.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Victoria.
[SPEAKER_02]: As at this moment, you are a person in need and as my father mother raised me, a person in need is a future friend and
[SPEAKER_02]: and you are my friend now, and I'm going to help you in any way I can.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now please, I have a glass of water, and let's start from the beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna cut the audio right there, and we will move a little bit forward to some time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That story has been told.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be the next morning.
[SPEAKER_04]: It does start with, you mention you do a deck of Lazarus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was right.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it all started when he, I, as another friend of ours, were invited to a dinner and a well-reading.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then flash forward after a traumatized ritual, but I said, bring one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Morgan was not sitting there in shock after hearing everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's actually just
[SPEAKER_02]: He's crying because number one decade was, he looked up to that man very much.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was a very, what his second favorite teacher of all time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And just to hear what Katie and Victoria went through with all that, he now personally just wants to find a member from the Green Circle and put his foot up their ass.
[SPEAKER_02]: Miss Katie and Mr. Clay, I'm sorry any of that that you had to experience any of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm back to holding Katie's hand and I'm not let it go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Katie still has their hand tied because they're afraid, but this holding your hand.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Mortimer says, looks up with a still serious looking his eye.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just, but I'm a man of my work.
[SPEAKER_02]: I said, I am going to help you anyway I can.
[SPEAKER_02]: And even with knowing all of this,
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel you need as much help as you can get.
[SPEAKER_01]: At this revelations start playing a new all realized that it's morning and that story took four ever to tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you also realize how tired you are.
[SPEAKER_04]: When I have to teach, I'm just going to call in sick.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think we're both going to call in sick today.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's not all I just is stretching them through.
[SPEAKER_04]: Truth not telling them all the details.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's not every day.
[SPEAKER_03]: You remember that you were tortured by an insane cult, and then brought back to life by strange mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it's qualify for sick day.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think there was a reason I didn't like mushrooms anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mortimer, you're just kind of tired and you start nodding off and fall asleep on their couch.
[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like we are all just kind of like sitting on the couch or maybe one of us is in the chair.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just kind of nod off just exhaustion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mortimer's in the chair.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're on the couch.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of us uses the other as a pillow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The cats have run a mock about the house, but they have finally got into their food box and have eaten half of the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're all awakened by a knock at the door.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, you're still here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Axis, but I see that Kay is here, and if she starts to stare and is you still look like you.
[SPEAKER_01]: McGuire, hope.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, go away.
[SPEAKER_01]: McGuire.
[SPEAKER_04]: as I'm just like, frantically untiein' your name for working on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was sick, smallpox.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, the... no-mo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-
[SPEAKER_04]: Give us a few minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to teach today.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can just, you can just look at relics and food.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know how I feel about team B. That's fair.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just look at Katie.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, I keep feeling up to her love.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, but going to figure out what happened to us, the family is going to stop with those.
[SPEAKER_03]: So stretch kind of probably dislodging a little more dust out of the hole in grumble and go to put on a new sweater.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which one of you would be the best at linguistics?
[SPEAKER_03]: I only got the English.
[SPEAKER_03]: Same.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Mortimer actually speaks three languages.
[SPEAKER_02]: He speaks Turkish, German, and English.
[SPEAKER_02]: He has a sixty-three hours already.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are very unhelpful on the side of the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it depends if you let us use our archaeology.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll allow you to use archaeology and then I realize something that I've added to my notes about Victoria.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see this blue tablet on the table.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's wrapped up a little bit, but you're seeing a faint glow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mortimer, you took in that you didn't understand any of the words that were there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like picked the grams that have been lost at the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: You were thinking about asking the village elder to look at it and tell you something about it, but Victoria, you're reading it.
[SPEAKER_04]: A picture she was just like gone up and started like putting her things together.
[SPEAKER_04]: She just noticed as the glow goes to investigate.
[SPEAKER_04]: Curial, Cindy.
[SPEAKER_04]: gets the better for her and she starts ringing and what does it say?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you read it aloud?
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: At least not loud enough for anyone to hear.
[SPEAKER_04]: I might she might like kind of like male that as she's reading it but she's not like reading out loud the intention of other people hearing.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a certain poetry to the or the first bit of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The large tablet, but you read it, you start reading it to yourself, and you start over once you've realized poetry, and you start reading it a little bit under your breath, and you start feeling the air, start to shift, and you start hearing a ringing in your ears as if the pressure is shifted.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as you finish reading it, you hear a siren off in the distance.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a tidal wave siren.
[SPEAKER_01]: you all look outside and you see that all the water further than where the beach usually is is gone.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would imagine there's some sort of emergency precaution drills instructions of what to do when this siren goes off.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's get the higher ground and then as you realize what has happened, you're back to read it with a knowledge that almost feels like it's not yours.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the waves just sort of roll back in as you read it again as normal and the sirens go off.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I knew it would define in everything darling, as Kitty comes back and wearing like a dark green sweater and a Saint metal around their neck, but maybe let's not do that while we're living here.
[SPEAKER_01]: In your mind, you hear priests, they're still real.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've taken the first step.
[SPEAKER_04]: I made agreements with you.
[SPEAKER_04]: She says that's in her head.
[SPEAKER_04]: Because she didn't actually agree to anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was given freely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyways, the docking at the door comes again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Done by bunch of stuff on top of the tablets to cover the glow and then like gather up all minutes and stick them in my bag that they always have with me.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's good, some of the cats.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Victoria will come out of the kitchen after writing the food, bucket, and grumbling at them affectionately, and putting the lid back on.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, more than where I know you're in there, bringing the artifacts that you took.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not trouble.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just needed a second opinion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to bring them back.
[SPEAKER_00]: I figured.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, goodness.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, but...
[SPEAKER_02]: Looking at more relics is going to be good, and I do believe we can possibly find some leads about certain information we need.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe don't say that part out loud.
[SPEAKER_03]: As they're going out the door, Katie is just going to class.
[SPEAKER_03]: A very, sixty is a pretty strong string, so very firm hand, a mortimer shoulder.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next time, don't admit to the crime until they throw the evidence at you, and even then try and twist it and walk out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mortimer feels so conflicted, he's like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to be here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I would follow their lead.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he follows behind.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I have something to say if you say you're supposed to be an archaeologist.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm using a museum.
[SPEAKER_00]: Specifically, the British Museum.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you think the British Museum is full of dawning?
[SPEAKER_04]: things I don't belong there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I say as I fish a kitten out of my bag and just put it on the ground.
[SPEAKER_04]: How many times do I stop sleeping on my bag?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can still hide in the spare spoons in there, dear.
[SPEAKER_01]: You all have gotten ready and you leave the house, more than where you're carrying the tablets in.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in a little cloth to cover it up and then
[SPEAKER_01]: Katie, you're carrying the others.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get to the research tenderness.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a humid day outside, and it is even more so in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have fans blowing and everything, and it is still horrible.
[SPEAKER_04]: The phrase is so bad.
[SPEAKER_04]: Victoria spends most of the walk trying to get her hair onto a control, and then making sure there are no other kittens to lay.
[SPEAKER_01]: there are no kittens.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Victoria will just pull out an extra like little nineteen forty's car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Katie, I'm big.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Katie, why don't I keep singing for you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably because I have the characters in Victoria.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, Katie will pull out of like you know too little or head skirts and pass one over to Victoria.
[SPEAKER_03]: She can hide the hair.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was going to get to very annoying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, it's nice and y'all to find the join us.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, uh, Major Fletcher.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's the leader of B team.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a researcher.
[SPEAKER_01]: He actually does pretty decent work.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's maybe not as good as y'all, but he's well on his way, and he joined the military just because it was the only way that he'd be able to get that kind of experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all respect him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He wants to make sure things get done, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is something that you know that flexure and crane don't get done, because they would prefer to be anywhere else, but here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then, private Jones looks like he's already on something.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's looking at a couple of fragments, piecing them together pretty quickly for private.
[SPEAKER_04]: Apologies for the tirediness, ready to get to work.
[SPEAKER_04]: I wager over and look at the fragments that Jones is putting together.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're cutting this.
[SPEAKER_01]: He stands up until he's too.
[SPEAKER_01]: As he always does, even though you've told him not to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm just doing my job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Looks like it's going to be some sort of vase or something.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, for this thing, when it's done, you're doing a wonderful job.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm guessing whatever you stuff like this, it was they did decorate their pottery.
[SPEAKER_01]: It probably also means that they had a livestock and field and other stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I wonder how it's been found out here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Copy any number of reasons that things get lost in the ocean depending on how long it's been.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we even know where these artifacts came from?
[SPEAKER_04]: They could have originally come from anywhere and been transported anywhere before they ended up here unless I missed something in the morning meeting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, ma'am, you did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cass, that he was just telling us that these artifacts were taken off of Japanese ship about where Mr. Henry found his son, our pictures.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know they had Henry doing so in our work yet.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go on him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Continuing to play, I don't know what he's been up to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, he just told everything to the military police last night.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we got all the information, apparently.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's about where the British found this ship is where he was doing the sonar investigation.
[SPEAKER_02]: And did they happen to say the condition that the ship was founded?
[SPEAKER_01]: They said it was derelicts, but they won't tell us any more about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're surprised to see a derelict ship out there that is perfectly fine in condition.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Japanese would have at least fired on them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right now, Mortimer is just making a doing his best poker face, but inside of his mind he is just screaming.
[SPEAKER_04]: And where is Henry?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, uh, he's resting.
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems that, uh, he had quite the night last night.
[SPEAKER_04]: Check on him later.
[SPEAKER_01]: Saying too much again.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, uh, he's, he's at his barracks.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's dead asleep right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was asleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: They kept him up all night.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait, it smells like we're going to tell anyone.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're here working with you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry, I'm telling you a little story.
[SPEAKER_03]: I even brought scones for it, and she'll reach into her bag and pull out one of the boxes of scones.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, but we don't think that your expertise is really needed here for being honest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Harv's got most of this taken care of in John's doing his bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Liz, you get over there, and you see Sergeant Crain look up from what she's doing, and she doesn't have anything in front of her except for a journal that she's just writing in.
[SPEAKER_01]: something like that?
[SPEAKER_01]: We've already done a glance over it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It all looks like just artifacts made with the Japanese found on their own home land that they're trying to confuse us with.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe even they were digging in Russia and they're just trying to evade Russian patrol boats being this far south.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, Mortimer's just, I mean, if you looked, you actually wouldn't have to look that close to see how massive of a vein he's got on his forehead and how much he's trying to suppress his rage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I guess I'm going to have to second guess your opinion and granted I don't know how much expertise you have yourself or where your education comes from, but I haven't known quite a few actual real archaeologists who would probably look this over in would happily tell you that that's wrong
[SPEAKER_02]: No, these are clearly not made by the Japanese.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are not Russian.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go outside for some air real quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: And where do we go outside?
[SPEAKER_02]: And just here, I'm screaming.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, look, while this is good, while he's doing his little rank, can we just do a little peeky peek with our archeology to see what we get?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just what while he's ranting, just like look over some of the stuff.
[SPEAKER_04]: Come on, dice.
[SPEAKER_04]: My luck pool was very low, so I'm not going to spend luck on that, I fail.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think I'm a little scared to look too close after what happened the last time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I looked an artifact from here.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: My archaeology is sixty-one, they got a fifty-eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you all take to looking at these things, you sit down and more or more, you still have the tablet in hand as you step outside, but you bring it back in.
[SPEAKER_01]: By the time that you've gone back in, everybody except for Harve and Jones have kind of vacated, Fletcher and Crane, they don't seem to care too much about this position.
[SPEAKER_01]: As I've said before, but Harve, he wants everything to be done right and sees a lot of the times that the Americans get it wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jones just seems to be a prodigy at this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody really knows where where he came from or what his background was except for that like he was thinking about going to college.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he's really good at this and he should really keep at it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Kids are really good at puzzles.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you all get to work and more than where you bring back in the tablet and you put it down and the heart takes a look at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, this was a thing with what they brought in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes, it was very heavy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It took a very long time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea how it could have gotten lost.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'll leave that one for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been trying to figure out these inscriptions over here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he shows you, and... Ooh, main, more of my role is archeology.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, I got a forty seven out of fifty.
[SPEAKER_01]: You still don't understand the script, but it does, from what you're seeing, it looks like part of a wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like whatever the Japanese dredged up.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a part of a wall that had collapsed and possibly a storefront, you're thinking.
[SPEAKER_01]: after like hours of staring at it and kind of taking it part by part looks like a fish market of sorts.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is just again, taking another chicken market for more murders, kind of more of a waterfront civilization and island-based civilization.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he's not thinking because Japanese ancient archaeology, all their buildings did not use stone.
[SPEAKER_02]: they had very elaborate woodworking and clay, but not hard stone.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this definitely is not, does not check mark for ancient Japanese archeology.
[SPEAKER_02]: This, once again, adds more credence to his original theory that this might have been for, like, Sumerian, or if we're going from, because Kathulu, with those hyperboring, aren't even Mesopotamian.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, and he relates this information to Henry Jesus.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for sharing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is actually really helping me to really paint a picture of this civilization now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm glad it paints a picture for you because I've been staring at this forever and I cannot figure out what earth these pictograms mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're saying it's a fish store storefront.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a, um, if, so, from what I'm finding that this is definitely was a piece of a structure of building and a marketplace.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, and clearly, and he's just going over the symbols, and granted he can't read on what he's saying from the way they're definitely laid down, and from way that the, just the actual pictures look that this clearly is depicting a fish market.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's so, this is, this is a big cornerstone right here.
[SPEAKER_01]: If this stone were, then the city must have been huge, because I can't imagine having a fishmonger who owns almost like a city block.
[SPEAKER_02]: exactly and that's why I say this doesn't make sense for like a piece of Japanese archaeology that come from their civilizations because they didn't use this type of material on their buildings.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was more timber, lumber, clay work, very elaborate gold in laying, but hard stone work was that's
[SPEAKER_02]: More of European and other civilizations in that area is just intrigued.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some more pottery over there that I think I'm going to start working on, but yeah, that was good work, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then Victoria, do you ever come over to see this?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think Victoria is moderating around attempting to be helpful, not being
[SPEAKER_04]: particularly helpful with identifying because of my archeology role was bad, but I'm at least able to help hand people things.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just a little space out a little distracted, but I am kind of like looking to see if there's any other things that I can just read.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not going to read anything out loud, but I'm like, is there anything out here that I can read you to that I shouldn't be able to?
[SPEAKER_01]: and you are able to read it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything that has the pictograms on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: From what they're working on, it's a fishbanger.
[SPEAKER_01]: Immediately you were able to clock it, you didn't say anything because this is almost horrifying to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you look at the pottery that Jones is working on.
[SPEAKER_01]: This was a grain or just a vet that they kept grain in.
[SPEAKER_01]: he's got a long way to go and with putting that together and he's he's almost there at a base but he's got a couple of things out of whack and then as you're staring off you're starting to sit like you drift off and you see this giant city
[SPEAKER_01]: with pyramids, with a staking almost arch system that keeps up the buildings and all of a sudden you're at the top of a large, almost pyramid like structure.
[SPEAKER_01]: That isn't a straight up and down pyramid, but it goes out over the ocean.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has like that angle of a pyramid, but it jets out over forest and then into the ocean.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while the city is at a shorefront, the land goes deep and deep into wilderness beyond.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can't see the ocean on the other side despite how high you are up.
[SPEAKER_01]: as if you're on another continent.
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