[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome in to actual play and entertainment presents episode 11 of Operation Blackstar I dealt a green campaign with some written stuff and some of our own stuff and Fuck who else knows what will happen My name is you do it's your campaign.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, but it evolves as we go it evolves.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see you
[SPEAKER_03]: You'll be surprised on how much I don't have planned out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have a very...
[SPEAKER_03]: I was just going to say that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have over one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dave doesn't have to prep.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's one page.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to hear that.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's got some things with some question marks, and that's it.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are a hundred handlers right now listening to this, who are just screaming into the universe with their 48 page campaign documents and annotated adventure manuals.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dave's just...
[SPEAKER_03]: I haven't finished my intro yet, by the way, guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: My name is Dave and I am the handler.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was my intro up to me first.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't talk.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know?
[SPEAKER_03]: That was like, get with a worthwhile introduction.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love his current, or drop show.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, what's up, guys?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I have a very loose idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is some amazing writing out with Delta Green, which is one of my favorite things about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I have hand picked a selection of scenarios and put them in an order that I may or may not change and add the things in between.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, Shane, I have changed everything.
[SPEAKER_05]: I bet it's pretty inspiring too when you read it.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, oh, you just kind of like, start snowballing on all the stuff that you're reading.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's connections if I'm like, oh, I like this scenario.
[SPEAKER_03]: and that had it deals with this what other stairs do they have that deal with this or put it in or I've or if I've read one that I've liked get sometimes I just read out the green ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well that's the race terrifying thing about delta green is that I swear it was written by someone with schizophrenia or something because you can like connect.
[SPEAKER_05]: so much to like each scenario and because there's so much like history in Delta Green in the books, it's like everything's connected in some way and it's relatable to like real life and like the other day I was watching the pilot episode of X files.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, this is literally like it's almost like a direct scenario from Delta Green.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but like it was give me goosebumps.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was freaked out watching it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like I have schizophrenia watching next files and playing Delta Green at the same time.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was even watching severance.
[SPEAKER_08]: And finally, and thinking to myself, well, this is just a Delta Greets area.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like, totally, that would be a great Delta Greets area.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just really, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is that something that you become aware of after you like turned into a Delta Greene player?
[SPEAKER_08]: Or is that something that you're just sort of manifesting because you're not playing Delta Greene and you're seeing connections everywhere, where they don't really exist?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, right perfect correct the delta green connections are endless so Yeah, yeah, it's crazy how that works It's almost kind of like frustrating how like the
[SPEAKER_05]: like the Delta Green books, how they basically like went from like the 1930s or something.
[SPEAKER_05]: They just like every year, they have all these events that like happen, like these paranormal alien, supernatural events that just happen that like connect your real world events that bring your own existence into question whenever you like these things like pop up in real life.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like I saw one on reddit earlier tonight where people were speculating that something weird happened in Miami because there was this event at a local mall were like 200 police units responded and they shut down the whole local highway whatever happened inside happened and then they said there were some teenagers fighting inside
[SPEAKER_05]: And every, you know, there's all these people that think there was like an alien ship landed in the fall or something of course, but they had like videos like like blurry cell phone footage like look, you can see the tall like ghost shadow figures walking.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the crowd and we're talking about sparkly shadows and stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what was really going on, but that may be think about like, you know, that could be a delta green episode.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's the other angle, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: There you go, it's totally good, but you're right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Was this written by somebody with schizophrenia or was this written by somebody who's like, actually an ex to green agent who's, you know, literally like, made a game out of what was reality?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, the truth is out there, but I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: The ex files are so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so good.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can make him wanna watch it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dude, I barely even watched it when I was younger.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got touched.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I got touched enough to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: My god.
[SPEAKER_06]: I watched it all the time.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then realized I thought there was only six seasons.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then realized that there was actually like a couple more seasons that I'd never even seen before that I thought I had seen.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was great.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the movies.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you watch all the movies?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: How many movies were that?
[SPEAKER_08]: Three, I think.
[SPEAKER_08]: Two, three, maybe.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: And they milked that franchise.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's for sure.
[SPEAKER_08]: And we're going to milk this franchise, right, Dave?
[SPEAKER_08]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_05]: For our own entertainment.
[SPEAKER_05]: For our own entertainment profit.
[SPEAKER_05]: But for our own entertainment profit.
[SPEAKER_08]: You guys aren't getting paid.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you guys not get your check?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like that's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like contracts.
[SPEAKER_05]: Got like.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, got a little.
[SPEAKER_08]: I got some endorsements.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you start an exp answer drop box tonight.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm endorsed by a crush cream soda Yeah, we're that it All right, let's fucking do this so gentlemen we last left off Believe the scene fading away as the black chopper Flying off into the distance
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice little aerial view of Saint who, I don't know if we really, it kind of almost fell under the radar with all the crazy shit that was going on, but you pulled off a miracle roll to Saint Ray Merrick.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dead on the ground, after being strangled with the... How do you say the word is?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it Gerott Gerott Gerott Gerott?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a piano wire.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now Gerott, we'll just say it harsh, see major.
[SPEAKER_03]: With the piano wire, the Gerott around shutters net.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, what's your medicine skill?
[SPEAKER_03]: Your first aid was at 10?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I was pretty confident going in that I would manage to roll.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's the thing, I don't know the rule, where if you fail the first aid check when somebody's in a situation like that, they die.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I just did what I did.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Joe knew the rule.
[SPEAKER_04]: Eating.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he was played it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he'd make me the microphone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please, don't, I'm for a whole mic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shut her, shut her, cut her in unconscious.
[SPEAKER_03]: He still had brain activity and then inside he was screaming Yeah, he's trying to blink more fucking code to it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah He's got a dirty bandade and a lighter in his pocket.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's trying to do a first stage check figure something out with this stuff, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: I can figure something out a little spit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just started everybody got duct tape on him.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we'll be fine Just pummeling his his chest.
[SPEAKER_08]: He did.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it worked.
[SPEAKER_08]: You did save him.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, man, of course
[SPEAKER_08]: And and no fibro man.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was the cream.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's actually really crazy that I would have for all that that literally could Yeah, that was it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You should have you should have been dead.
[SPEAKER_08]: I would have been I should have been in consulable Mike Sam I think would have said well.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did the best I could but Yeah, no, I would have been
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I don't want to do too many spoilers for our other campaign, but I believe Kurt tried to save Joe once, and it was a little less effective.
[SPEAKER_06]: But anyways, yeah, I could have tossed American knife or something, maybe that would have helped, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, it was, cut his throat more.
[SPEAKER_03]: The whole barn scene was pretty crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: And even outside when, yeah, I want to relive a little bit a little bit of the the whole
[SPEAKER_03]: when Merrick pulled the syringe that the doctor had given him four other reasons.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another note, handlers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Careful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Be careful what you give your players.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was, I had that in my back pocket for so long.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you said you slept it out in the barn?
[SPEAKER_03]: Inside the back of the head, I was like, oh, fuck.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's okay, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just what we do.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is fucking.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll figure it out and uh, it's Kevlar because you you succeeded on your role I know I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got I got
[SPEAKER_03]: Biccane turned into John fucking Rambo throughout this whole barn and majestic area John Rambo, John Wick, all the John's human shields throw in bodies and pin people down It was it was pretty impressive and you left me with knives in my pocket You were like they pat you down, but they're not worried about those little knives Yeah, I wanted to.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't even yeah
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think they even check the pockets of my tactical pants.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they were too worried when they were standing there with their MPKs or whatever the fuck they had.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've ever seen the movie under siege?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a guy and Steven said it's a
[SPEAKER_05]: Steven's to go all the time of the jones.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, they're on like this warship.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's being like decommissioned Steven's to go all the end scene is them Like you got to picture these two like old dudes having this knife fight the other hold them like Almost they know like the knife's pointing towards their forearm Like the weird way That's why I pictured Kurt's character.
[SPEAKER_05]: He just pulls out this knife.
[SPEAKER_05]: Totally, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: He's doing the back side
[SPEAKER_04]: The back has only hold the knife.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's like a guy in Instagram.
[SPEAKER_03]: They should read.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, yeah, it's David's a girl's movie with current Steve's a girl Oh my god, the idea that three unarmed essentially agents could somehow All survive
[SPEAKER_08]: taking down a group of.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, did I thought one of you was going down for sure.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're all going down.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, Kurt saved us.
[SPEAKER_08]: Kurt made his move.
[SPEAKER_08]: I really thought it's like, well, this is it.
[SPEAKER_06]: That was complete desperation.
[SPEAKER_06]: When I first rolled that grenade down, I thought there was no other chance in that best.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was like jumping out of the hay loft of a burning barn and then dying somehow from or getting abducted.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a good point.
[SPEAKER_05]: I actually forgot about the aliens.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I was like,
[SPEAKER_05]: last blood is way through the commandos and the helicopter for us while Mike was in a truck driving around honk in his form like an idiot.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was like the 80's with eight off going for a stroll in the tall grass and trying to stab him with a beautiful curve.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's the trampoline.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was pretty awesome.
[SPEAKER_04]: I had to get all the work.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dude, all the work.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's so fun, too, because you never know how this shit's gonna play out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You never we all could have died you never know I wasn't I've got that in a million years man, but it was it was a lot of fun I really enjoyed the the barn and Now we move on to the next part As the scene fades with the barn burning the chopper in the background Daint over shutter even them chest compressions and
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what sand would be going around slip and everybody's throat to make sure they're dead or double tapping people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, double tapping.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like a fucking raised machine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm checking pockets.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm getting gear off of those commandos.
[SPEAKER_06]: Those dog tags.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pop, pop, pick another one, snap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just great, just great.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that feeds out and then we hear the hospital, like.
[SPEAKER_03]: of the machine.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty slow-harpy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're super relaxed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, I'm like a morphing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's definitely... We all know I don't have to make it a surprise.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which one of you's in the fucking hospital?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the dude who barely got his life saved by crazy shocking saints with his miracle fucking role.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that was wild.
[SPEAKER_05]: You had a 10 in first date.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is the base.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, he just can't get over it and you rolled up.
[SPEAKER_03]: My, it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe it either.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's sanded in a background being like, new, I'm the creator.
[SPEAKER_03]: Running over and slow mo.
[SPEAKER_03]: Damn it, I'm like given a trick.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll give you something in the fucking shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, jams, a pen and two.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, that's what you can breathe through it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Jesus.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: I saw this in a mash episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you start to, you know, everything's hazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're definitely on paying killers.
[SPEAKER_03]: You start to have a few memories.
[SPEAKER_03]: through throughout the night of a nurse coming in, you know, checking your IV, doing all that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've been drifting in and out of consciousness, but mostly unconscious.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have a memory of two men coming in, drawing your blood, checking your vitals.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did they look like hospital staff?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, they don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, great.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know that you've only really seen the one nurse.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a stretch.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've kind of pieced together that you hear, like a, um, like a beef, like it's almost like a keypad or some sort of entry like you're in, you're in the hospital, but you don't think you're in the, um, the general population if that makes sense to use it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a term, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, not in Jen pop.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you, you open your eyes and you look around this plain room and for the first time and well, you don't really know how long.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your next still hurts, it hasn't been weeks around anything by any means.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fight your, your conscious, and you're in, in the hospital.
[SPEAKER_03]: What, uh, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's, what's going on with, with, with, with, with, with, Eric.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's probably just continuously rerunning the last few days over and over in his head, trying to like, figure it out, but he can't.
[SPEAKER_05]: parts of it makes sense most of it doesn't right he probably has regrets a lot of regrets with like that pregnant girl what was her name he's so pissy can't remember her name Jane yeah he's like how fucking pathetic I can't remember her name or girl
[SPEAKER_05]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you're, he's probably wondering, like, where that, where that baby is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you are out of the three of you definitely were.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you had the confrontation with the doctor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I remember you said a couple times like, oh man, I'm starting to feel bad for her even.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're just fucking dumped her at her mom's house.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just came out and looked at her all spaced out and left her on the porch and went back inside.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so he's probably, like, he's already had, he's already had, like, a little, I guess, a bit of depression that he's been dealing with for, like, his entire life since Vietnam.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he's just kind of like, lapsing into that headspace again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Staring like at the metal blinds on the window staring through them just like beating himself up While also trying to like comprehend what they went through and what they saw right right Razzy Thinking I could go for a smoke right now There's delta green agent smoke
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they're probably, do I?
[SPEAKER_03]: Luckily, they don't just fucking blow lines in between missions, smoking is, yeah, no doubt.
[SPEAKER_06]: Most agents don't last long enough for cancer to get, yes, they don't get much of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lots of, they're a good poet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your, uh, your phone buzzes.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're like a buzzing, and you have, you notice beside you, you have your, your personal, your personal stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I have a like a pager is how you have it's a pager.
[SPEAKER_03]: How would someone contact you?
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess before maybe I shouldn't just say phone.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just assume you had a phone.
[SPEAKER_03]: How would if someone is trying to contact Ray Merrick?
[SPEAKER_03]: It'd be the pager And I'd probably recognize the phone number.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, your pager goes off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I like I guess I try to like turn over and
[SPEAKER_05]: I thank God that the display is actually just pointed at me, and I can see the number.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's your assistant, the Cortez, her name?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll leave in Cortez.
[SPEAKER_03]: See, it's her number of that pops up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it looks like there's maybe even multiple pages sent.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if it's got like a called display, I don't know how fancy you are.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Most of Pager.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it literally has like, perfectly from wrong.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can't remember.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't.
[SPEAKER_05]: When Pager's peaked, you could also like, dictate a like a message and do it and it would like show up on the on the Pager.
[SPEAKER_03]: Either way, your Pager's fancy enough to know that.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's tried to page you multiple times.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're a journalist, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got good stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you've got good stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: But he's also kind of old school.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't really like technology that much.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're here a little like, check, check some of what your buttons and the door like buzz and a nurse comes in.
[SPEAKER_03]: She closes the door behind and she's like, oh, you're awake, how do you feel?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the pile of shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, like, spits up, like, blight into, like, onto his... Oh, lovely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like his, uh, hospital gown.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, let's, let's talk about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe you had a con-roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Also at the end of last session that you... Oh, it's hoping you forget about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's the word I'm lucky for?
[SPEAKER_03]: Crits fails.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like to say, Kurt failed, but, okay, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, that was a Joe failed.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this situation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bealing attack.
[SPEAKER_03]: So basically, that was like a con roll of you had this crazy, the injury injury, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a more severe way to say that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the rules, like it's the rules.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dave Dictate, like if you suffer.
[SPEAKER_05]: if you go below a certain hit point, get to make con save or suffer some sort of injuries that we would get out like a permanent injury.
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe is what they might refer to it as.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are the after effects of that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is there, I don't know, like it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, pretty cool badass scar.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, crosses, neck of it, a man.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she had definitely one, ex scar.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perfectly circular, neck scar.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you imagine just walking down, do you meet somebody and they have that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Just feel like I have so many questions I will never ask.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think he ended up growing out like a neck beard.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yes, you're a neck beard, though.
[SPEAKER_08]: Didn't they call that like a Glasgow smile because like gangs in Scotland would like sleep your throat Oh, let's go smile Jesus
[SPEAKER_05]: What's your what are you getting at Dave?
[SPEAKER_03]: I would like to throw the toss to ball in your court.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what do you think in here?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's the what's the I think he's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's a crash.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, please Yeah, boss back in your court.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's give you everything man.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: No
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, if you think it was more effective, his voice, you got a little raspier, maybe like a shortness of breath I've been reading about it and they suggest things like a negative tier charisma, things are really bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that makes sense, that's good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling you, roles maybe I might just like, if you're trying to like persuade and be nice to somebody and they're just like, you see them wide, I'd staring at your next car the whole time and you're trying to be like, no, I'm cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I might get a minus.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like that, because I really don't want to take some sort of speech impediment that you're going to make me like No, I'm never tired Mary, like you're dark with a girl Like what was it Christopher or Rust that had like the list, but when he lost like this one It's not that Yeah, I don't, I'm not doing that A neck bear, it's got to be worth a loss of charisma
[SPEAKER_05]: There'll be Chris with minuses and I think maybe there may be some coughing every once in a while Yeah, like I think you'll like like you'll go to talk and then he'll like have like a coffee and fit and like You'll a little weas Yeah, like if it's like maybe there's like some sort of like a persuade or something
[SPEAKER_05]: Like you give me like a minus yeah, well, well for like maybe like a luck like a lock roll and if I fail like I have like a like a Coffee and fit and I get a minus 20 to him like my persuade or something like.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I don't know that mate Well, we'll figure that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we'll throw it in we got the flavor of it now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me an alertness roll or what is your alertness score?
[SPEAKER_03]: 43.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, give me a roll.
[UNKNOWN]: Oh
[SPEAKER_05]: Not good enough, eh?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, not good enough.
[SPEAKER_05]: The auto pass?
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not that bad, but...
[SPEAKER_03]: A forty under forty three who she was in her little machine and she's sucking it up and taking your vitals and all that kind of stuff and you notice like on your little little medical report her clipboard just kind of got off to the side of the car you notice that ninety percent of its redacted this black bars over so much shit
[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she takes your stuff, ask you, you know, a few nursing questions about how you feel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, swallow for me doesn't hurt to swallow, takes your, you know, your heartbeat and all your vitals and then just leaves.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, close to Sidor behind her.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you have a smoke?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, she doesn't say anything to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: She doesn't even really look back.
[SPEAKER_03]: She just goes and closes Sidor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I, um, gonna grab the pager, I can't.
[SPEAKER_05]: As I notice, like, all the mispages, so many.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna try to push himself up in the bed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you strained a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: You, uh, you heal back.
[SPEAKER_03]: You, let's go with four hit points.
[SPEAKER_03]: You do, yes, that fits.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Four is four worse for me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're under medical care.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, he's gonna, you strain yourself as you push yourself up here, you're all right, you're surviving, it hurts though, you're next fucking hurts.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's not like his legs are broken.
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna, yeah, he grabs his pager and he's gonna go try to find a pay phone.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're a phone.
[SPEAKER_03]: They'd leave the room and start wandering the hospital.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'd find the phones down in the lobby.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can you talk?
[SPEAKER_05]: Right now?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I can say you talk.
[SPEAKER_03]: But your voice would be strange.
[SPEAKER_03]: You wouldn't sound like yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: You definitely would be strange.
[SPEAKER_03]: There'd be some coughing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's gonna go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's gonna try to find a phone.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess he's gonna phone.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna try to phone Where is he?
[SPEAKER_05]: He says he doesn't want to talk to anybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's depressed.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't want to talk to anybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh It's got their seat.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna think about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's like it's like I guess it's like Manjurial brain kicks and he's like, oh, she's phone man.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got a phoneer and he starts walking and He's feeling so nauseous from sitting up.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's just like fuck this like I'm not
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't need to talk to her.
[SPEAKER_05]: She needs to talk to me more than I need to talk to her.
[SPEAKER_05]: This stupid.
[SPEAKER_05]: You go to an ass and nurse for a smoke.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's an epinersing station.
[SPEAKER_05]: Give me a luck roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's 98.
[SPEAKER_03]: She just looks at you like you're fucking kidding me, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you go back to your room?
[SPEAKER_05]: You like wipes the blood from his corner of his mouth.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's spattered.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you sure you should be up, sir?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you need any assistance?
[SPEAKER_03]: Where?
[SPEAKER_05]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_05]: Fuck!
[SPEAKER_03]: Where am I?
[SPEAKER_03]: She tells you you're at whatever major hospital is in Nashville.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of their hospitals, which I like to make.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give a little hospital, you're in Nashville.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's good enough.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's just like in a federal memorial.
[SPEAKER_05]: That makes sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess.
[SPEAKER_05]: He just stands there in front of her, like just kind of awkwardly scanning around.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he's trying to see if he can figure out where they store the medication.
[SPEAKER_05]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now alertness, Role.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if that would be alertness, why are you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you think?
[SPEAKER_03]: What role are you trying to convince me of?
[SPEAKER_03]: You need to make a role to try to figure this out.
[SPEAKER_03]: um... journalism yeah okay now yep that must be me they keep it far away from wandering they should look at it from sure they keep it far away but you're trying to figure out like with it like intelligence all right give me the tell you that's right you're fucking smart as fuck you your guys would figure that uh... twenty five hundred ninety okay you figure it would be stored
[SPEAKER_03]: somewhere lock the way that would be very difficult for you to get to and I'm gonna I'm gonna go look at it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna wander towards it wherever it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a restricted access area and someone stops you and says that you can't go down here you need to go back to your room.
[SPEAKER_03]: You should not be wandering the house sir you look terrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please let me escort you back to your room what's your name
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you have a cigarette?
[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I don't.
[SPEAKER_05]: Figures.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he kind of makes it look like he's going to go back to his room and then quickly ducks and like tries to fast walk back towards the medicine cabinet area.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, no.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's kind of pathetic.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like it's almost kind of sad.
[SPEAKER_03]: He watches you and then comes back over and
[SPEAKER_03]: Ask if you're okay, you seem lost again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you see him start to wave to somebody else.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see them pick up the phone.
[SPEAKER_05]: You just kind of put this hand up, he's like, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: You just start to walk him back to his room.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you go about your room.
[SPEAKER_03]: Depressed, sad, lonely in the hospital.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go to it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Fantastic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks, dude.
[SPEAKER_03]: I give you chance to call your bond.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not what you chose to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're wondering I know.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it doesn't make sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go to let's go to a sand.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So after this whole whole bar until you never tell you guys went through the proper channels.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you said, got American.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know where America is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where do you where do you go?
[SPEAKER_06]: I just go home, Vic doesn't have a big life outside of work, so he goes home, he goes back to his apartment, he rests for a little while at first.
[SPEAKER_06]: Eventually I would reach out to my buddy Nathan.
[SPEAKER_06]: We are X-Warvets.
[SPEAKER_06]: Together he got injured.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're really good buddies.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I also have a friend Claire who also who lives in DC that I would reach out to and check in with every time I come back from mission either of them really know what I do But know that I do something that I can't really talk about right and when you project it you projected on to which bond Neonate Nathan Nathan the the vet Nate yeah Nathan O'Reilly the injured vet Okay
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, he's always talking about like, I'm a lucky bastard kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: He sort of is interested in the missions and asking and, you know, which is he could be out there.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's trapped in his apartment and hates it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's trapped and he was injured and more.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's like wheelchair bound or is he just like, yeah, we did bomb the fusel together.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he has severe burns on his arms and lost a leg.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you're better at your drugs and his.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lucky.
[SPEAKER_03]: I won't take any shots at your friend.
[SPEAKER_03]: I respect that.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, who do you reach out to first?
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I would reach out to Nathan first.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'd like to take a day for myself, probably sleep for, you know, 36 hours straight, and then kind of get my life together after that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right?
[SPEAKER_06]: But I would reach out to Nathan, see how he's doing, show up at his house, maybe even just swing by with like beers and pizza and just... Are you joking?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you down any hit points at all?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, I think so, I think I am.
[SPEAKER_06]: uh... current hit points oh it's blank i think i have thirteen i've thirteen o'clock maximum and my current is empty right now i don't actually know why let me check it all their file see where i should be well you if you're down hit points you regained two okay all right you i don't there's no way i was at zero though i've no idea okay sorry i'm holding things up no that's right well it doesn't matter
[SPEAKER_03]: That's really bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so you, that's just what you do.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got beer, some pizza, and you're going over to your buddy's place.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's steady lives in the home apartment.
[SPEAKER_03]: Describe his health.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got him an apartment in anapolis that's kind of close to, you know, facilities that he can use and stuff for us.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll tear access.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, right on.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, that's where I live, so nice and close.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, okay, you show up with beers and pizza and knock on the door and he doesn't answer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, like knock a little outer and shout like, Nate, let's meet what's up.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can hear TV on, but you don't, you don't really hear anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I try the door as it open.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's open.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I pushed my way in, like, okay, Nate, what's up, man?
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear like some like, broaning, like, uh, like someone is even just, it's just waking up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the first thing you notice when you walk in, that is places that this ester.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a mess.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's shit all over the place.
[SPEAKER_03]: A couple empty whiskey bottles on the counter.
[SPEAKER_03]: You go in the room and he's basically passed out.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it looks like he's been on a bit of a bender.
[SPEAKER_03]: He stinks.
[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't look like he's washed himself much.
[SPEAKER_03]: And there's wheelchairs like tipped over on the ground and he's just laying on the couch, passed out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I think that, because I projected my bond onto him, I don't think that I handle this super well, I'm kind of,
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm kind of frustrated that he's not taking good enough care of himself while I'm away working and I start to get mad and I'm like, come on man, what do you do it like wake up and I sort of shake him a little rough and He's wakes up with like that like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's having like a almost like a nightmare or something terrible and then he comes and he stops and
[SPEAKER_03]: They've been.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nate, Nate, what's going on here, man?
[SPEAKER_06]: He's looking like a fucking mess, like, what, did you, did you let the cleaning lady in that I've been paying for what the fuck is happening around here?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I don't trust her.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't, and as you see, it starts like looking on the table for something, something to drink.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know how hard this is?
[SPEAKER_03]: You reach this for something like knocks over a bottle, and he's like sliding himself on the couch and like trying to grab his like wheelchair.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't get it in his way, I don't stop him, but I don't help him.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he eventually pulls it up and gets it and sits on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where have you been?
[SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean, I was on a work trip?
[SPEAKER_06]: I had to go away for a few days.
[SPEAKER_03]: He seems annoyed and frustrated.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, he sometimes maybe he gets like this, like he goes through bouts of depression, and this is how he handles it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Usually you're there to kind of keep him on his benders.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you guys I imagine Talk and communicate a fair bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you see seems probably You know, so he gets I like to say he's he's slips into these and he he beats himself up pretty good and he sees almost Sometimes even gets mad at you if you're not there to help him and you know if he does this kind of shit
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I'm I'm used to that it it pisses me off and I'm not handling super well But generally I would just kind of like try to take care of them.
[SPEAKER_06]: I clean I just start cleaning up a little bit make some food What time of year is it right now?
[SPEAKER_06]: I was really just trying to figure out what kind of sports we'd be watching on the TV It's fall so it's like October Like a baseball yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I can you turn on the game and that's Early world series game
[SPEAKER_03]: Marlins are up in the series, pound and take it out on the Cleveland redacted.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if I'm going to do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, we would hang out.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'd spend the afternoon the evening with Nate.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, we'd like, we would chill and watch some baseball.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'd like clean up and get him sorted out again.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I'd be kind of frustrated about it.
[SPEAKER_06]: He'd probably ask a lot of questions about the work.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he totally does.
[SPEAKER_06]: Knowing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is his barrier comes down a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Once you guys start ponding again.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know, I hate it that I rely on you so much, but I, I hate it man, I hate it, I can't do shit for myself, you know, he's talking like that, he's, he's opening up to you again, he's definitely not his angry buddy, he seems like he's, he's getting into a depression and he's getting into, he's not in a good state, he's not doing good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know this is hard for you man, um, I know, I know it sucks, but like, you know, we keep setting you up to take care of yourself, I got Vicki coming to clean the house every week, you know, you got to let her in, you know, you got to trust her, I've added her, you know, I, I'm just like you, I don't trust people either, I don't want people help with me all the time, but you need help, man.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't keep coming back from work trips and finding you just flat on your face, drinking yourself to death, you know, we got to
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he, he reluctantly agrees.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you, it's, it's a, what do you ask the questions of, you guys are, you don't watch it and then crack in your beer.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, the, what was, what was the trip this time?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, let, let me live by careously through you, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I, I, I missed last night, all I see is these fucking walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, man, I would love to share it with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I say that so much.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't, I know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing, just tell me anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I can't.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like some sort of like, you know, if that's a game like fucking drug rings
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was related to a drug ruff.
[SPEAKER_03]: I fucking knew it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you know, he pre-presses you for details and you guys end up having a nice a nice little experience.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that actually let's give you back Give me Romi a sanity check Oh, I curt failed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No
[SPEAKER_03]: I roll the 88 oh my god, a fumble means okay Backed it out That happens here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so he keeps grilling me for Love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought we were closing this scene, but now it's gonna get juicy
[SPEAKER_06]: And at some point, and I know I shouldn't feed into his addiction, but we drink all the beer that I brought while watching baseball, and then we get into the whiskey a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he's still grinding me for details, and I'm drinking a little bit too much, because I'm wound up.
[SPEAKER_06]: And eventually I fire my whiskey glass at the wall smashing it, and I'm like, oh, last fucking time you know I can't say anything, and I shout at him and rattle him a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you just come here because you feel sorry for me?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't need your fucking help.
[SPEAKER_03]: They like fire some pizza box off for the fucking table and tells you to get the fuck out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Get out of here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, maybe I won't come back any more then.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell that fin I just storm up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fucking person who steals my money to stop coming to clean.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't need any of your help.
[SPEAKER_06]: And the door slams behind me as he's shouting that.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he could just close.
[SPEAKER_03]: He seemed like as angrily we all up as you slam the door and he opens in.
[SPEAKER_03]: It slams it again to get the last slam it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fuck yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, give, roll a D4.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Reduce your bond with him by an additional two.
[SPEAKER_03]: An additional two, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's it that now?
[SPEAKER_06]: It is at a six.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh man.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm trying to figure out, did I lower it before?
[SPEAKER_06]: It was, it was at an eight.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, see what I have lowered the number at the time or what I would.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, you would have lowered it when you project us.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay, so it's at a six.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh damn, and your sanity goes down by one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh man, you're not feeling yourself mentally.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're, oh, I love you're all jacked up and up for the farm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm fucking ready.
[SPEAKER_03]: Remember that's the, you're still, uh, you're still just not an edge man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the ranch feeding into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's go to, uh, let's go to St. What does, where, where, where are you from?
[SPEAKER_08]: at St. Liv's in a suburb of Wichita, Kansas, okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it's a it's a bright, sunny mid-morning and you see a gray, Chrysler something about 14 year old car rolled down the street and pull
[SPEAKER_08]: postworld war two kind of house and uh... he pulls up into the driveway and and uh... turns off the the car and steps up cats in the cradle and looks over the uh... the fence at his neighbor's house this is misses clamp it
[SPEAKER_08]: and she lives alone next door.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's in her 80s and he's been away for a while and usually the first thing that he'll do is just check and see how her yard looks and everything like that.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it kind of goes over to the fence and checks and see, you know, how's the yard look?
[SPEAKER_03]: But when was the last time you were there?
[SPEAKER_03]: So you would have been close to them in Tennessee or the conspiracy to send you there.
[SPEAKER_03]: The hall you tell on you, think you've been away.
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like I've been away for two weeks, like longer than just the mission, because the mission was a couple of days, but I think I was at work a way before that as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I feel like I've been gone for a while.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it's like the first thing he's doing.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's been away for two weeks.
[SPEAKER_08]: he's just gonna look at the yard if the yard looks okay then he knows that she's still you know getting out and tending the roses and you know the bird bath is full and the hummingbird feeders full like is that stuff done or do I need to check on her?
[SPEAKER_03]: no it actually looks it looks pretty good you you see her out there this is going through like they clip in some where are we in fall so yes she's she's
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hello there, Mr. Slampett.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who's there?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, hello!
[SPEAKER_03]: Samuel!
[SPEAKER_08]: That's right, it's me, Samuel.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, you're the only one who gets to call me that, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oops.
[SPEAKER_03]: She, uh, she smiles.
[SPEAKER_03]: She appreciates that joke.
[SPEAKER_03]: What, how have you been?
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry I've been away for so long.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, everything's been wonderful.
[SPEAKER_03]: The weather's been nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lots of time out in the yard, getting my exercise.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, you want to be a job keeping everything looking good.
[SPEAKER_08]: The roses look real nice.
[SPEAKER_08]: How are you?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, you know me that fine, you know busy work trip, but uh, uh, uh, happy to be home.
[SPEAKER_08]: I need a, I need a long hot shower.
[SPEAKER_08]: You find a woman yet.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, Mrs. Clampett.
[SPEAKER_03]: You need to find yourself a woman.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're a very nice man.
[SPEAKER_08]: I thank you very much for saying that, but I'm not as nice as you think I am, I don't think any woman will have me at this point.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm done and dusted as they say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Done and dusted.
[SPEAKER_03]: As she laughs, she laughs, you guys have your banter, she enjoys your jokes and, you know, yes, we'll be each other a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I know she's doing good.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's doing well.
[SPEAKER_08]: Good.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's going to go inside and drop his shit by the door and go and have the longest hottest shower ever.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's just scrubbing.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, because we know that there were all sorts of particulates and everything like that in the air from the, uh, from the my go.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: We saw that with the spray.
[SPEAKER_08]: So he's like, he's been drinking gallons of water and just trying to flush the system.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Cleansing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now, and he's just like having the longest hottest shower.
[SPEAKER_08]: He feels like he feels like for a second shaving his head bulb like he just.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, like all the clothes he goes back out and puts in in a garbage bag and and puts it in his burn barrel in the backyard and yeah, he kind of does all that.
[SPEAKER_08]: He looks in the fridge and there's like a half block of cheese that's gone green and two beers and so he cracks himself a beer and
[SPEAKER_08]: And what I want to do with my downtime is to continue the case.
[SPEAKER_08]: So that's one of the things we can do, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Like, St. has a bit of history with Adolf.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let us.
[SPEAKER_08]: from Majestic 12 because he's been with Delta Green long enough that one of his first missions that he did with Delta Green, Leppis was involved with it.
[SPEAKER_08]: He was actually super surprised that Leppis didn't recognize him.
[SPEAKER_08]: Not that he's, you know, so memorable, he didn't have that much to do with him, but he he knows him.
[SPEAKER_08]: And so he's going to go into a room and start pulling out old notes and things from those old missions that he did.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm very interesting, very interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what's your route to stay on the case?
[SPEAKER_03]: So you spend your nights and weekends, basically, over the next little while, just pouring over your shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: and going through it.
[SPEAKER_03]: This reduces your bond, one of your bonds by one as you ignore them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You let your responsibilities lapse.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I've got an old army buddy.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not the same situation
[SPEAKER_08]: But I'm definitely going to not ring him up and hang out with him.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I'll take that score down one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: He tries to reach out to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You brush him off, kind of deal.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, the phone's ringing and I just don't answer it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_08]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Answer machine goes on.
[SPEAKER_03]: How else do you know what to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: How would you find out more about him?
[SPEAKER_03]: Cause obviously his, with majestic, it's not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's Google him and find out stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: So no, I think that one of the things he's going to do because he's FBI, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: So he's going to go into the field office in Wichita.
[SPEAKER_08]: Where he works.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he's going to open up the, and I researched this a little bit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, the, I didn't know.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't worry, it's okay, that's all right.
[SPEAKER_08]: I got you, baby.
[SPEAKER_08]: I got you.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's going to open up the NCIC, which in 95 is the FBI's National Crime Information Database.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, uh, and he's just going to start, you know, searching by by keywords, things like black helicopters and, and he knows that it's not likely to turn anything up because, this is what majestic 12 and Delta Green do, right, is they purge records of, of all of that shit, but he's going to try and look for, you know, anything that comes up in that database.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, that's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You spend your time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I need you to roll a D6 for me, please.
[SPEAKER_03]: E6, I was already to roll a percentile, though.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm getting ahead of myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, can you please roll?
[SPEAKER_08]: Give myself an extra.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, uh, roll me.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's supposed to be a secret headler roll, but we don't need to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Roll a criminology check.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mine's at 50 because I'm an FBI agent.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what's okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[UNKNOWN]: Pay a 97.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I don't know why you seem excited about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not the number I was expecting after your initial reaction I know I was all excited Oh man, you're not really finding out Much at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is like you said they scrubbed this ship There is no fucking record of this guy anywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now give me a D6 roll now Alright, this determines basically how you handle it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell you the mechanics of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are going to roll a 1 D6 minus 3 sanity
[SPEAKER_03]: So, either you, you know, you come the terms with what's happened, you know, you find your stuff up.
[SPEAKER_03]: You gain a bit of sanity.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if you end up with a negative tier sanity, you start to obsess over it and self-destruct a little bit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I rolled a 1.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, minus 3 is negative 2?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, negative.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: which is basically, you had the worst outcome of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You failed your role, miserable.
[SPEAKER_03]: Most of the post you could have crit failed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, second worst outcome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Failing your role, miserable, and then losing two sanity.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you obsess over it and self-destruct?
[SPEAKER_03]: How do you think like, let's, we're playing out kind of and we'll get to merit to do the same thing a couple weeks, like you say that.
[SPEAKER_08]: you researching this not finding anything how so I think that the self-destructions can actually happen at work like I think that you know he's got a solid reputation but he's not likable and
[SPEAKER_08]: you know, he, he starts, you know, cutting people off, ignoring people, even ignoring his supervisor, and he keeps, like, plugging away at this database and digging further and digging further and getting more and more upset.
[SPEAKER_08]: And, you know, you hear him swearing inside of this, you know, office where the entry keyboards are, and he's like,
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, so that's that's I think what's gonna happen.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's gonna start impacting his his work Jesus and his his relationships and reputation there right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, that's not great at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's go to America again.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we had your little your little hospital scene.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious to see how you'd handle that and and reach out so eventually you What's your hip like you said you're at six?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your max?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'm at seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good seven, sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: How is that three in the new game you ever?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your match?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you still pretty hurt?
[SPEAKER_03]: 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you're doing okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll say you get out of the hospital like a day later, give yourself another two hit points.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then eventually you're gonna heal up the full anyways.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the hospital cares, but that kind of stuff up.
[SPEAKER_03]: So after you get out of the hospital, so you're in the hospital for a few days, do you ever reach out to work or reach out to Cortes or do you just keep going to everybody?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, he's he's ghosting for sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think like while he was in the hospital he probably He probably would have tried to phone his daughter okay But like knowing that she would ignore his uncle oh to almost make him feel even prettier
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you know to like justify his like shitty feelings about him.
[SPEAKER_05]: So right Do you know it's like just because of his depression and everything so he would like He would yeah, he'd walked on the the hall in the hospital dial her number It would click over to the answer machine And then he would just hang up damn
[SPEAKER_05]: and then just give him more ammo to like, hate him.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, she's a sage, Christ.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and then...
[SPEAKER_03]: Dark downtime.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, right up.
[SPEAKER_03]: We gotta keep these guys alive, guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, dad, huh?
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, he's just wallowing his own... Yeah, self-hatred.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think what he would do, like, once he was released, is that he would probably go into the office,
[SPEAKER_05]: because he's like, he runs this, like, the Sentinel.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he probably go in the office, like, either, like, one o'clock in the morning or something.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got the keys, he's letting himself in.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's trying to get some stuff done that he's, like, let laps since he was out on that mission.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, a couple, so let's just say, we're out three days later.
[SPEAKER_03]: When you go into the office, even late, you notice as you go to the building that there's lights on in the office.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you know that perhaps maybe this happens sometimes if there's like something big has happened, you know, like something big has come across the wire or they're working late on something.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that picture interests that you're like, oh, there's people here still working, something.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe there's maybe there's big news, maybe something has come across the wire and they're trying to get something out for the morning kind of deal.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you've noticed too that she pages you more and more and then just stops paging Or test Okay That that pisses him off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Even though like he knew he was ignoring her.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah He was hoping that she would just forever be trying to get him at one point.
[SPEAKER_03]: She was probably paging you like every 20 minutes half an hour and then as it gets into the evening that day she stops
[SPEAKER_03]: And then that's you go to the office at night.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see him trying to avoid people Yeah, but he wanted to get the work down like he cares about the right The magazine Give me an alertness roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Or what is your alertness?
[SPEAKER_03]: 43 I give you a roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: I actually this last time about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like 43 that number's familiar
[SPEAKER_04]: I already rolled that, a 90-year-old Jesus say, trust.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, yeah, very much.
[SPEAKER_08]: We just can't help myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's 88 are lowest rolls.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I had a good roll earlier.
[SPEAKER_05]: I forget what it was for.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was the first roll.
[SPEAKER_05]: What did you make me roll Dave?
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't remember when I made a roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: A locker roll?
[SPEAKER_03]: You're a cigarette.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you know, you failed that one pretty bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was the first night check in the tapes that was all the last time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it wasn't on the right, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, you look to see her, uh, the redactives, how your files basically all redacted.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this nurse knows nothing about you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: But okay, so yeah, so you go to the officer standing in the parking lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see the lights on, um, mountain, you see the lights on in your offices.
[SPEAKER_03]: The you're like area, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: in, in my own.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, not necessarily your office specifically, but like your floor, where people that you work with are the news.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't, is, is it a big building?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is there more than just your news?
[SPEAKER_03]: People are just your news office.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I, it's pretty substantial.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm pretty sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, he's going to, um, yeah, he's going to see that light a cigarette.
[SPEAKER_05]: and walk into the building.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Greg going first.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: First it's 90s.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: OK, yeah, you walk in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if they'd have a security person there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they have a security person just against an evidence probably.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, maybe, but whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: He knows where he nods.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to like your collar pulled up or it's fucking turtle neck on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, definitely.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, he's been working on his neck.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, you got to have a nice little neck beard going I can be the solution.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I was wondering if it's gonna be turtle necks or what it was But it probably is probably still a band of stuff like he said it was only three days later.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you know what?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you're yeah He's got something covering it for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay trying to hide it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a big little belliclavot
[SPEAKER_03]: You go into your floor, I imagine, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it'd be like when you first walk in, it would be open, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like lots of people going back and forth and yelling at it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's like some cubicles and there's probably like a bank of like telephones, so like reporters can go up and like make phone calls, you know, for their sources.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who would be in charge and be annoyed that you should be there, but you're not.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's a good name from the 90s?
[SPEAKER_03]: Nick Tartine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nick Tartine, I love it.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, let me write that down somewhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: You better write that down too, because I'll forget.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nick Tartine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's say he's a bit boisterous and a bit louder than your average person.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he's got a loud voice.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the holy shit, look who it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been having your little little assistant here, page you nonstop all day.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's how that saw that why didn't you call her back Do you hear I've been busy but get over here check this out.
[SPEAKER_03]: This just came across across the wire I kind of like lean over to shoulder cigarette and mouth dropping on his Sports coat there's news coming out of the hospitals just outside of in Tennessee Beard heard of a little town called Grover's Vail Tennessee
[SPEAKER_03]: apparently they got like an avian flu and there's like hundreds of dead people there.
[SPEAKER_03]: People who just died the hospitals are full.
[SPEAKER_03]: All sorts of stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's crazy there.
[SPEAKER_03]: The CDC is shut to place down.
[SPEAKER_03]: If FEMA's involved, it's going crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all breaking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Apparently it's hospital has been overrun.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all just
[SPEAKER_03]: but I'll just all of a sudden happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're trying to figure out more.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's where we've been trying to call you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, all fucking day, we're getting words of these leaks and, but it's real, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're running something in the morning.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is like, they get a stand-in, do you check for me?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think they have a stand-in, they get a raise.
[SPEAKER_05]: Stomach drops.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's like starting to rub his neck, you know?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like this, oh, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's probably a fail, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: 53 over 29.
[SPEAKER_03]: 29.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I forgot what a wreck he was.
[SPEAKER_03]: I already used one more sanity as soon as he starts to say, Groovers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's my draw.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's out of the way, oh my god, yeah, like at this point like raised managed to get like his doctor to give him like a prescription for some like pretty heavy duty Medication or that he's like He's taking a little bit too much of So he reaches into his pocket and he pulls up a little Pill jar, you know, and you hear it rattling in his hand
[SPEAKER_05]: Pops of pill, as he's like, we're trying to, we're trying to get people down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We do, we got some people working on the story.
[SPEAKER_03]: We need, we need to run it, we got to run it tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad you're here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's, let's go.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he, you know, like, starts clapping and trying to rally people who are tired.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, there's, there's lots of news coming in that the hospitals are just full of people and within the last, like 24 hours people in Grover's Phil Tennessee, I've just started dropping dead and they're saying it's because of like an avian flu.
[SPEAKER_03]: She is.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, pause for a sec.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need to deal with Cortez.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, and I don't know how.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I thought for sure you're going to have really come into the hospital and uses going to tear a strip off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I'll wait for you to call her.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was, yeah, well, I won't tell you what would happen if she comes to the hospital.
[SPEAKER_03]: But there's no Ray Merrick listed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, yeah, that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: So she would come to you like once you guys started going and like the team starts moving she would she would come up You so if she's you're like subordinate is she like pretty me, but she'd be like or she what's no Like tight, so she I feel like she'd be coming up to him like super excited and Me and like have you heard about this like right right like really like like a real keen kind of like energetic positive like
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, we got the story to report on and he would just like shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now that you're you're there and everything gets going.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody's all the moving parts are moving you you take a minute and go into your office and Cortez follows in.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like I like close the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm like almost like almost closes in her face.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, she's like, oh, and slips in my mess next to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: yeah and she's she's very excited and very much uh oh my god i'm so glad you're here this is this is crazy this is i know it's awful and tragic and this is a this is the big story this is oh this is crazy working we can be up on night she's super excited about this big story in this big break and she is immediately goes into work mode with you and talking and asking questions and it's just nonstop um
[SPEAKER_03]: They can take your scarf off.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's warm in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: But she doesn't say that, I'm just joking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I've been reading your stuff lately.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just, I don't know if it might have made a mistake bringing you here.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: You just kind of like, you're not going.
[SPEAKER_05]: We got other people on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a big story.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're not ready for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: She doesn't say anything and you see, she starts to well up in the corner for eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you fucking kidding me?
[SPEAKER_05]: He says that out loud is just like, and any, like, instantly regrets not being sensitive to her, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: And he's like, where's this what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tartine, Tartine, he's like calling Tartine over to... Get her out of here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Get her on something else.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, centered under the DMV covering crashes or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Should I just send your home?
[SPEAKER_03]: You think we got this cover?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_05]: We need we need our eight people on this.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a big story.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, and he he takes her and talks to her and she just has her head down and and collects her things and and leaves
[SPEAKER_03]: You see that she's obviously visibly upset and chokes back a couple of tears.
[SPEAKER_03]: She figured she doesn't want to talk, she goes to say something and then she just doesn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Stop, she doesn't want to.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Embarrass herself.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's obviously very emotional right now and upset.
[SPEAKER_03]: The person she looks up to the most.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just dunked.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you did your dark time and then you stepped over her and told her to get the fuck off the court I think he like justifies it because he thinks These ought he's protection or like he doesn't want to pretty go anywhere in here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, and I'll make sense time make sense But like you just 100% sabotage that relationship
[SPEAKER_03]: Whether it's the bond score you have with her currently one one Yeah, that's why I explained this crap.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, wow All right, wow, I should have spread them out.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's not a fuck for ejector
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, so the, though for the personal pursuit, like fulfilling responsibility, you get back to your roots, stuff like that, what do you think America is going to try to do to get any sort of sanity back?
[SPEAKER_05]: He's probably going to focus on his writing and just managing the magazine right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, alright.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see which one should we go for?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I'm probably like he's gonna, you know what else is gonna do, Dave?
[SPEAKER_05]: Actually he's gonna, all those photos that he, oh yeah, you got a lot of them.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so I was thinking about that today, like, where do you go in and those people are like, the, you got to phenomenal ex people all tied up and there's like, take a picture of him, they can picture it in shame.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, no man, he's got some, you got some crazy shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna, uh,
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, when he's done there, he's gonna go back to his place.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got a little dark room in his house.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's gonna like, you spend the night having too many drinks and pop in probably a couple of too many of those like paying killers that he got from his doctor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, he's probably gonna lose it with his sanity, actually.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, we have to make it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need a sanity test right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a it's a tech to see if you gain sanity or loose sanity from okay, so it's just goes against my current.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, okay Oh, hey, wow, that's 2528.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, these these pictures actually yeah, but
[SPEAKER_03]: brings them joy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it joy, but it's definitely brings maybe it's close here, I don't really know, that's uh... Mmm, yeah, probably.
[SPEAKER_05]: Probably brings it into contact, so it's not like just flowing through his head.
[SPEAKER_05]: It probably gives it more concrete feel right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me a D4.
[SPEAKER_03]: do you not have your own default or do you want me to wrote for it that's that no no that's my dad joke I'm working on my dad you think you still got time to practice you encourage a three three you gain three sanity oh hell yeah oh yeah so yeah what did you say these pictures they bring in like some closure and like an understanding of what's going on yes so something's like abstract like thoughts that he can kind of like run away with it's like
[SPEAKER_05]: brings them back into like right the shoes right like it's kind of more grounded he's like yeah yeah that's right I was there I did see Jane I did see those phnomonacs like even though it's like super traumatizing events at least it's like these concrete events that did happen right so
[SPEAKER_03]: Over the next couple weeks, this story does come out a big story that makes national news about an avian flu outbreak in Grover'sville, Tennessee, where 60% of that town just basically drops dead in 24 hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_03]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_08]: I wonder if Jean died.
[SPEAKER_03]: So give me a, I already got one out of,
[SPEAKER_03]: What about, uh, let's get a sanity check from Saints and Sand regarding this.
[SPEAKER_03]: When you see the story on the cover of the newspaper, the cover of the Sentinel, the it on TV.
[SPEAKER_06]: I rolled an eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you don't give it to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I rolled a six.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, neither of you fucking care it off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just saying no.
[SPEAKER_05]: Was that role?
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you think that was helplessness, violence, or what?
[SPEAKER_05]: Because I feel, oh, yeah, what are you kicking?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good question.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you think?
[SPEAKER_03]: I am leaning towards unnatural, but is that just me being an asshole, handler?
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't check that box.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe helplessness because he couldn't help save anyone in the town?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a feeling of helplessness for you, though.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it is unnatural to have all these people.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's violence.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I think it's unnatural, too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, everyone's had a chance to kind of over the next few weeks how you choose to do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Her crit failed his, he's having more of a falling out with your bond.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got your, yeah, you failed all your roles of trying to look into Lepus.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, Merrick succeeded.
[SPEAKER_03]: And got some sanity back.
[SPEAKER_03]: What you do with your photos after you developed them?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sheep them hidden away?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, imagine so, huh?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's probably got, like, in his crawl space, like, under his house.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, we got, like, a safe somewhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sweet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So after a couple of weeks past and you're going through your lives, let's get into a specific scene with damn graves.
[SPEAKER_03]: one afternoon and you see a park you take it even though you're like what?
[SPEAKER_03]: you're just parked on a side of the road yeah no you're right doing something you're in town you know what?
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm coming back to my car after attending a first aid course that I signed up for
[SPEAKER_08]: You're a big hot shop first day, I guess I better figure it one.
[SPEAKER_08]: Geez, I could have killed the guy, the way I did that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, I've realized how terrible an idea that was, holy shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: A little bit lower, and I could have been the end of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Be your mom, what that is, you're learning your first aid, and you're confused by this part, because you shouldn't even be a assistant in area where you would get a violation, this wouldn't be anything.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm looking up and down the street for the guy that gave it to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, there's no one there.
[SPEAKER_03]: How you go and do you pull the ticket off and immediately you know that it's not a park you take it It's got a little bit of code in it giving you an address and The set of three numbers Aha, it looks like a normal parking ticket But you you pick up on it that it is Probably from the conspiracy
[SPEAKER_01]: Mmmmm, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: What'd you do?
[SPEAKER_08]: What are the numbers?
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm gonna write them down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you want me to actually make this up?
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did have it actually written down.
[SPEAKER_03]: I did make it up, so let me see what I did with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I couldn't find this, so I was just gonna brush it off, but now here we are.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nope, now I need the number.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there you need the numbers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you give me an example of the handwriting?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's actually, it's printed out.
[SPEAKER_03]: It talks about how you're in violation of parking 2, 2, 1, 3, 4, A, B, whatever, which you're like, fuck is that?
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it says, you know, go here to pay your fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it says, Miller's Crossing, County Road 17.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's just outside of the city where you live.
[SPEAKER_03]: Inside of the town, it's, it's, you know, Bay Area, you've lived here a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's, it's out in the backwards.
[SPEAKER_03]: Backroads.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the three numbers?
[SPEAKER_03]: Looking at the code and looking at what they list, you figure that there's a code of 29, 18, 41.
[SPEAKER_03]: Huh.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, he knows his area pretty well, so he knows immediately sort of whereabouts, millers crossing is, it's a ways out.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, he's not going to rush right there.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's going to take it back home.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: And when he gets home, he's going to try and run a little bit of home forensics on it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just try and see if I can pull a print or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, give me a friend's a troll.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, I got a bit of friends.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just didn't take it over there, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: 91.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I got it, I got a fingerprint.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, you're right it, it's you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that's my own goddamn print.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, roll for seven.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh my god, it's me from the future.
[SPEAKER_08]: or maybe from the past, okay, interesting.
[SPEAKER_08]: And there's a whole bunch of things that St. wants to do.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, honestly, we played downtime all night.
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like there's a bunch of stuff you want us to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're saying it's just funny, it's been like two or three weeks since you got some left go over stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, the other thing that he's done, would it make sense that he took the stuff from the detection spray?
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't think I have that, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who would have thought of that, would anyone have taken advantage of leaving the hotel the burnt?
[SPEAKER_08]: Was there a Delta Green Cleanup crew that came and helped us sort of everything out?
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, there was like, we burnt the motel down.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, I didn't write it down.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one took any detections for.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think I would have taken some deception down there.
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Shoked a death with the piano wire.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry if I forgot to grab the spray.
[SPEAKER_05]: You definitely didn't get any of the spray.
[SPEAKER_08]: But can I have, that was his name, Scott Adams.
[SPEAKER_08]: Remember he had a laptop?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Last night as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I know we didn't let that go up in flames.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_08]: You don't have that stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: Or would cane if taken that stuff or would our band or had that stuff?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's up to you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: What would you have done with it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you have turned it in?
[SPEAKER_03]: Graves wants it.
[SPEAKER_03]: so he would have he would have on well it's it's up to you don't anything that you've really run into without the green is is for merit and get him to the hospital for these couple weeks these two or three weeks if you've tried to reach out like you call the burner phone you call the orangeer light just goes dead yeah no i i mean like i guess i'm looking at curt like curt you think that you would have wanted that stuff like with sand of one of that
[SPEAKER_06]: I probably would have let you take it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think before we left the motel, I might have tried to keep my hands on it, but then after the whole barn scene, getting married to the hospital, I don't think I would have cared quite so much.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so that's the other thing, he sort of takes the address and the number and he brings it into his office, and his office now is full of all the phenomena, ex files, and he's been sorting them and cataloging them and going through Adams' laptop and all of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, hold on.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you take the unique the address and then into a pin point.
[SPEAKER_08]: Work with you, the Delta Green, I don't know, no, no, no, into into his home office.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you crazy motherfucker?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, do you've got all this stuff in your office?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can keep everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you guys have ever assumed you would have brought some detections, spray and had it in the vehicle if you want to absomber that, stashed away.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna say if you can argue with every, you guys are smart guys, whatever you would have taken from the hotel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm fine, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, okay, so that raises the question then, so after all of my like flushing my system and hot showers and everything like that, when I spray myself with the detections spray, what happened?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, oh, thank god.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, thank god.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: So he takes Lysol wipes and wipes everything down that came out of Adam's apartment or like that catalogs at all and he decides that the next day He's gonna it's Saturday and he's gonna go and and visit this address see what the house up there
[SPEAKER_06]: because Lysol definitely kills alien germs.
[SPEAKER_03]: 99.9% isn't that what it says?
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because it's because
[SPEAKER_03]: just desolate straight up fucking backwards.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you come on to county road 17, this little outside of this area, they call Miller's cross and it's basically just an intersection.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you pull up to a driveway that leads up into the woods and you see the little sign with like a faded seven on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're like, oh, I'm here.
[SPEAKER_08]: and it's just a number at the side of a, is there a driveway that, yeah, there's a shitty driver that leads into the driveway.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think it goes into the, into the forest.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fuck.
[SPEAKER_03]: That drives into the woods and like fans, you can't see what's down there, but then it's not like a, it's more or less looks like someone cut down a bunch of trees and then it's just driven up and down at a bunch of times.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it's just grass growing in the middle.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like two ruts for the tires and you can kind of like pump your way up this little back road if you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Or this driveway, sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, Sam's gonna drive off the road to the start of the driveway.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's gonna stop.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's going to make sure that his safety is off and his gun and that it's loaded.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he's gonna get out and see if he can detect whether there's been any recent traffic on this driveway.
[SPEAKER_08]: And what kind of traffic?
[SPEAKER_03]: Very nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: What kind of road you give me?
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know, is that an alertness?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that a... No, I don't think it's really an alertness, what do we got on here?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, what have I got on here?
[SPEAKER_08]: Search?
[SPEAKER_03]: Survizer?
[SPEAKER_03]: It should be survival room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Survival?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Are you an outdoorsy type?
[SPEAKER_08]: Hell no, 64.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hard to tell.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, he's not a camp.
[SPEAKER_08]: Can't make sense if he's a fuck.
[SPEAKER_08]: It gets back in the car and continues on up the road.
[SPEAKER_03]: Up the driveway?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got up the driveway and it's totally just like, you go slow and you bumping and jarring around.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it goes for a little bit and it turns into the woods and it comes to a little clearing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see like a dilapidated, probably like an old wood shed or something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of falling over.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a couple deer that skirt off into the woods and you see a camping trailer that's like off to the side, green, it's got like branches and debris all over it, moss growing up the side.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like an abandoned,
[SPEAKER_03]: like derelict old camping trailer.
[SPEAKER_03]: On the side of this clearing kind of tucked in the woods, looks abandoned, that's look like anyone's been here for years.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, and so are you said there's the camper and there's also a cabin or a shed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Does that it looks like an old like a wood shed and it's basically like, oh, so it's over.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: So he's going to get out of the car.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's going to be swearing under his under his breath.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, and he's, he's really looking around hard for anyone.
[SPEAKER_08]: Give me an alertness role.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Good alert.
[SPEAKER_03]: What is your alertness?
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me food.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't even give me a roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what's your deal?
[SPEAKER_08]: My skill was a 70, but I bumped it up because I failed at a couple of times.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it's at a 71, and I rolled a 71.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I was about to say, you don't even need to make a roll with it that high.
[SPEAKER_03]: You pause and you see like the deer are looking at you.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some birds chirping, some normal wilderness force, these sounds, and you scan.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it doesn't seem like there's anyone within like a fucking hundred miles here.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just dead silent.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, okay, so he'll go over to the camper and kind of see if he can appear to windows.
[SPEAKER_03]: The windows are completely covered in moss and, and, and, Brian, of course they are.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, he's size.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's, uh, and goes over to the door and hammers on it with the butt of his gun.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, come out of there.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nothing.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, he's injected, or is it open?
[SPEAKER_08]: The door is open.
[SPEAKER_08]: Another long deep sigh.
[SPEAKER_08]: Another look over his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_08]: He kind of opens the door and looks inside.
[SPEAKER_03]: You open the door and you look inside this small trail and it looks the inside looks like how the outside is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's moldy, smell of mold.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, the water damage all through it, it looks abandoned and derelict, it looks like it complete pile of shit, like even if you're like, you're worried that if you step on the floor, your foot's going to go through it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you, do you take a step in and you look around doesn't look like there's been anyone in here, uh, for years.
[SPEAKER_08]: to what the hell am I doing in here.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's gonna like kick stuff over on the ground and like check the bathroom door, or I don't know if there's even a door in this thing to another room.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a little bathroom and you're like the door.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's off to hinges and you kick things over and you open some cobbards and you go over to one of the bench seats and you lift it up and there's like an old shitty rope in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: A couple like Jacks and there's a bunch of stuff and you move it and you see a small lock box in the bottom with a combination lock on it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Shit.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh no!
[SPEAKER_08]: I just...
[SPEAKER_08]: He says, ah, this fucking job.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he's gonna pull out the lock box and enter the the code.
[SPEAKER_03]: Snaps open.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you open it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I open it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Search for traps.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm just joking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Flash check.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jump south goes up your nose.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't eat man.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one safe flash take ever again.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have deep-seated trauma now.
[SPEAKER_03]: You pull out the box and you put it on on the table and you enter the code and it snaps open.
[SPEAKER_03]: You take the lock off and you open it up and it looks like it's a stack of papers in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first paper on the top looks like it's far, it's like a vitals report or statistics report for someone from the US Marine Corps.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's sniper, 63 confirmed kills.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, go through all these stats.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're reading about it, black-op in Cambodia.
[SPEAKER_03]: All these like missions for the Marines and CIA.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the name across it is Adolf Lapis.
[SPEAKER_08]: No way, what?
[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll see you next time.
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: Ah-ha-ha!
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.
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