[SPEAKER_11]: Last time on Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, I'm Orian.
[SPEAKER_11]: Blue Wells at your service.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, I'm Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: We begin our story right at the beginning of summer.
[SPEAKER_02]: May's antiques and oddities had a fun little shop where you can find all tons of little strange things, but primarily fascinating uranium glassware is having a grand reopen.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think there's a fucked up dog in here.
[SPEAKER_04]: a sight and spared fucking ow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right next to the construction site, there is a downed power line, the transformer exploded.
[SPEAKER_04]: So she's going to use her call spell, a Rian taps too far into the magic.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see, little scales appear.
[SPEAKER_04]: The ears peel upward into a sharp almost like fin-like form.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then,
[SPEAKER_08]: From the second story of a building just past the construction site, there's a flash, like someone took a photo.
[SPEAKER_08]: On the beach, we'll turn the night to day Adventures on the beach, so come along and play Rose will beach, the ghosts like to play Monsters hide, but they won't stay Rose will beach, with the game that they found We'll turn this town right, back around
[SPEAKER_08]: Who knows, there's no broken thing that she can't fix At your surface Magic that comes from lost powers the way she lay I may look Ari, on this question, loving good some fishy tricks Oh, I'm a real Together, these three will surely have you transparent
[SPEAKER_08]: Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_08]: The ghosts like to play.
[SPEAKER_08]: Monsters hide, but they won't stay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Roseville Beach with the gang that they found will turn this town right back around.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just left off with opening door in the back of the corner store, revealing this creature
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know if you guys have ever watched River Monsters, but they're these giant river salamanders, they look to be like
[SPEAKER_10]: 50 to 80 pounds maybe sometimes they're really flat heads and like they have like their eyeballs like sitting right on top of the head a little farther apart than you would think like it does look kind of goofy so that is the vague shape of this creature is like long chunky flat head a long swishy tail very like acts a lot alike as well.
[SPEAKER_10]: but that is where the similarities to real-life creatures and the color palette on this thing is mostly sort of like a moss green across the majority of its body and if you look closely you can kind of see like it almost looks like wet fur covering it and that sort of formaldehyde sort of goo that Alex described in the previous episode but it's underbelly is like a bright orangeish red
[SPEAKER_10]: along it's crest, starting from the middle of its head all the way down to the end of its tail, are very long fluorescent green, cork-up pine, quill, like hairs that are, it's sort of like spike up and like hackles on a dog sometimes will go up.
[SPEAKER_10]: Its eyes are a deep soulful brown that's the most normal color to think about it, and its eyes are a bit larger than a normal salamander's with me, so it's got a very expressive face despite having like a very weird anatomy and proportions to it.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's mouth when it opens slightly.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can see there are just very tiny spikes of teeth, sort of like a catfish.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ash, you sit in the darkness of this room as the door has been correct to open.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see larger creatures staring down at you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a minute since you
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm looking for mama and so I sort of turn expectantly is this her and then the shapes are all all wrong and so instantly I sort of start backing up a little bit and like the bright green spikes on my back like kitch up and they start glowing this like uranium green almost and it sort of like backs up a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: The moment you do everything around you starts to decay.
[SPEAKER_10]: The pads of my feet sort of like sink into the ground as like the acid that I excretes sort of like eats into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You currently have some charges of your special ability for radiation and electricity.
[SPEAKER_10]: static electricity sparks are like connecting between like the spikes on its back as it's like we're trying to puff up and make themselves look bigger.
[SPEAKER_04]: Mind you, Orion is just opening the thing that you are.
[SPEAKER_04]: It has not pivoted fully to see the disaster of Godzilla that's about to emerge.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, Orion in this moment has begun speaking in my aquatic tongue.
[SPEAKER_04]: and he greets you there's a sing-songy echoey voice that calls to you from outside for these unknown creatures in an aquatic tongue and he says greetings little one I am from the tights do you know why you are here?
[SPEAKER_10]: The hissing noise that kind of reverberates over the words as it speaks back to you in this same language like this ancient language of the deep
[SPEAKER_04]: You see, Euryan's shoulders shake, you think at first, that fear, as comfortable that he is seeing something horrifying, if you were to look closer, you realized, he's a little emotional, hearing this cry.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know that the truth you can understand each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: What does it sound like to everyone else?
[SPEAKER_04]: It sounds like like melody, like a whale song, and Arian stops turns to the both of you, and just says, It's just a baby, looking for its parent, and then so genuinely and sincerely he says that, before turning back to baby Godzilla, it's in this room.
[SPEAKER_04]: When did you last see your mother?
[SPEAKER_04]: Then did you last see her?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you know where your home is?
[SPEAKER_04]: You're very far.
[SPEAKER_10]: The creature's sort of like, it tackles lowered after it heard you talking in its language, but it still sort of like, just in a closet, just like, I'm still kind of cornered.
[SPEAKER_10]: So it looks slightly agitated, but not nearly as much as when you first got here.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's sort of like, pants that's head to the side.
[SPEAKER_10]: Last, last ring.
[SPEAKER_09]: Last ring.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aryan pauses again and looks the other too.
[SPEAKER_11]: Should I give it like this as a treat if it's a baby?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that would be safe and I think we should maybe open the door a little more so it isn't back against the corner.
[SPEAKER_11]: Was there anything Alex happening in Roseville Beach the previous week?
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, last week, we started preparations to, for the grand opening of Maze Antiques not at least, as far as, like, any other major events, not really.
[SPEAKER_01]: you said that there was a different sound that was coming from in here is this one making that sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there were a couple, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: As you look inside, you can see that the shelves have sort of the screws that were being used right the wood had rotted over time and it collapsed down.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of things shattered onto the ground.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was the first noise.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ash, were you pleased to describe what it looks like you've done with all of those things all of that, like the glass shards and everything?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's weird because when something breaks and there is a danger to it, the glass shards, it looks like they've almost been smoothed out, like sea glass, kind of, like any sort of danger that this would have posed, has been shaved away, maybe like bits of
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is the same noise that occurred in the antiques and auditing shop after the glass shattered and the item that was irradiated was no longer irradiated.
[SPEAKER_11]: I want to kind of bend down in the doorway and hold out the CD player and be like, um, hello little friend, we will help you find your mama.
[SPEAKER_04]: A reader will translate this, this is my friend, she wants to give you a little, a little snack.
[SPEAKER_04]: We figure my help.
[SPEAKER_10]: It sort of gives like that frog blink or one eye blink first and the second one goes.
[SPEAKER_10]: It starts like shuffle up towards the same thing that you have in your hand and it sniffs it and then it turns back and looks at their new Fishing friend.
[SPEAKER_10]: It does a know what you want it to do with a CD player.
[SPEAKER_11]: I turn it around and I look to see there's any batteries in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: For sure, you can open up, it's got some batteries in it, and as you open them up, ash, you get this spike, this sense of danger, near you.
[SPEAKER_02]: and you look over at alex and just behind them the doors to like the for the fridges have been opened and left open by auntie so she can keep working it's just on balance she's taking the things off in the wrong way and this massive chunk of ice is going to fall on the alex.
[SPEAKER_10]: you see the creature suddenly look like very excited and it moves forward and you think maybe for the batteries but then it goes past you guys and just sort of like bumps into the ice so it falls down but it like puts its body between itself and alex what falls on the creature and then as the ice chunk like crashes into it this would normally be like oh god it got hurt but this thing is just like pying at it and noting on it really with its like long ass mouth
[SPEAKER_11]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_11]: Ariana, I am confused.
[SPEAKER_11]: So am I.
[SPEAKER_10]: It turns its head back to you because you said you were going to help it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Find its mama.
[SPEAKER_10]: Mama.
[SPEAKER_10]: Where?
[SPEAKER_10]: Mama.
[SPEAKER_09]: Where?
[SPEAKER_04]: I do not know where mother is.
[SPEAKER_04]: When did you last see her?
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe we'll find her together and and re-trace the footfalls that you had left on this place before.
[SPEAKER_10]: Almost like a dung beetle around the ice and then gets on top of it and like settles down for a sec to like think.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you sit down to think, right, and you're looking up, you notice behind the counter, there's a picture of your mom.
[SPEAKER_10]: Rama, and it like launches at the photo, and it's like scrabbling up at the door.
[SPEAKER_10]: You know when you see like a loser trying to climb a sheer surface, and it's just sort of like scratching out a wall, it's like trying to get up to the spoto.
[SPEAKER_02]: The area that this, the salameter is scratching at is sort of like a community board.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's a lot of things on there between like, where do all the people in the,
[SPEAKER_02]: And the tattoo parlor go, you know, uh, there's a couple other to ask for help.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then there is a missing person's photo.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the only photo of a person up there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is Gabriella.
[SPEAKER_02]: She was reported missing the week ago.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aurean comes over and suits you and it is this deep title melody that you hear as he comes on over and just like hums this little melody in an attempt to calm you down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aurean looks to the other two points to that picture and with great dismay says,
[SPEAKER_11]: Gabriela is it's mother Gabriela not down all of the stuff and is the reason why we had to do a grand reopening of the antique shop.
[SPEAKER_11]: So if Gabrielle was in there maybe she somehow summoned to this creature from something within the shop and then it imprinted on her immediately.
[SPEAKER_10]: This thing has turned giant wet eyes at you guys, just like blinking so sadly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, it's gonna be okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: But if Gabrielle is meant, when did Gabrielle go missing?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, did we know about that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's what you do know.
[SPEAKER_02]: a month ago, Gabriella destroyed all of the uranium glassware and maze antics and oddies.
[SPEAKER_02]: Since then, people have been really annoyed with her, because it's something that you would have really thought about at the time, but things are starting to fall together.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everywhere she goes, something happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like she's cursed, she's full of bad luck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bad things happen after she goes somewhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we could go, they stopped happening, people haven't seen Gabriella, we just assumed that she went on to investigate some mystery over in one of the other islands or back in the mainland and people have been grateful.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, you see on the missing person's photo, there's not even like over water or anything for finding them, it's just Gabriella's missing and then it's crawled, thank God.
[SPEAKER_11]: Some people in this town can be really rude, and I understand that maybe Gabiela isn't everyone's cup of tea, I get it, but a girl is missing.
[SPEAKER_11]: You think people would be a little bit more concerned about that than what they feel.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Regardless, now we have doubled the reason to find her as Aryan is like gently petting the salamander.
[SPEAKER_10]: Are you like petting it on its spikes on its mossy body?
[SPEAKER_04]: Aryan knows where to touch all spikes on things, I think.
[SPEAKER_11]: Aryan, can you ask it where it like came to be like, did it come out of this
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks at you, cansets head to the side, and then it looks over into the closet, and points over into the closet.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's been here this whole time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why did you leave a little one?
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sign mama.
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sign mama.
[SPEAKER_09]: And, and it.
[SPEAKER_09]: And, and, and protect mama.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you went to the...
[SPEAKER_04]: The big space with the glowing glass.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why did you sense Mama there was Mama there?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's like, it's like, Grouse a little bit when you try to talk about the glow glass.
[SPEAKER_10]: Family.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why is Lady Bird?
[SPEAKER_09]: P-P-P-P-P-P-P-O-Shit in Bax.
[SPEAKER_09]: Showlock.
[SPEAKER_09]: Family, you put O-Shit in Bax for so long.
[SPEAKER_09]: Mama, save O-Shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: I do translate that word forward to everyone else.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you say, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm gonna let that go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, maze of witch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, maze of witch.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's gonna take out a cigarette and just light it in the star.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because whatever, this place is already wrecked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Emo's not gonna yell at me much more.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's just like smoking like the callers all down.
[SPEAKER_11]: New theory, may put the curse on Gabriela, and or is the reason she's missing?
[SPEAKER_04]: Which is grudge is hard to shake.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is true in both land and sea.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see, Alex just kind of like tense, really heavy when you say that.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fuck off, it's nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you said, Luke, there's this a child who is missing, right, a young one, and we have this young one who is missing a parental figure.
[SPEAKER_04]: We have to help, but what do you call yourself the one or what Obama call you?
[SPEAKER_10]: I should!
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's what I thought.
[SPEAKER_02]: Onti comes back into the place and she sees you with the Salamander and she doesn't actually address the Salamander.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just goes right up to you, Alex, almost passing by swoops your cigarette and puts it out on the counter.
[SPEAKER_10]: The Salamander tries to get up there and eat the cigarette.
[SPEAKER_02]: She pulls out her like a little a little sign and she writes down on it and she says like flash sale all refrigerated products 90% off and she's hanging it on the sign as she takes the community board and puts it outside.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex is going to roll her eyes and pull like the $2 like two singles out that she took from Lou, just put them on the counter, look, on the straight in the face and just go over to the fridge and take out two beers and just like, I mean, then it's the 70s, $2 for two beers is probably like almost close to full price.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like, we good.
[SPEAKER_11]: And do you have a question for you?
[SPEAKER_11]: If I come back here when we're done,
[SPEAKER_11]: taking care of this situation.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I fixed the shelving in the store room.
[SPEAKER_11]: How much will you knock off my tab?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, you brought in this alligator.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's your fault.
[SPEAKER_02]: You pay me.
[SPEAKER_11]: I do believe that this thing was in here before I got here.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I set out for two seconds, and then there is an alligator in my store.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is clearly your fault, Lou.
[SPEAKER_11]: Alright, I knew this was how this was gonna go.
[SPEAKER_11]: Fine, fine, I'll fix the shelves anyways.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you will.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you take down the poster of Gabriela?
[SPEAKER_02]: I would probably.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, she gives Alex, you a little nod, and she sort of just like, shakely points over that Gabrielle, and she says, that one is always troubled, she is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Always putting around some bad luck.
[SPEAKER_02]: She scribbles down something in, like, chicken scratch, almost like, doctors, writing, like, puts it back in your hands, and it is an address.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're looking for that little twerp, you just, she's been living there ever since she came to Roosevelt Beach a year ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, Emol.
[SPEAKER_10]: As we're heading out, O shit is going to be on A-lix's heels, like hopping up and trying to nip at the beer cans that you have, like a dog trying to grab like a treat out of someone's hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got that?
[SPEAKER_01]: That.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're too young for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's going to like pop the one of them on her belt and just like, just start drinking it as they walk.
[SPEAKER_01]: She puts she puts the other one in one of the pot like the many pockets on her pants.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just keeps going.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's just following you.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's like, at your pocket.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, she likes you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That we can't, we've got to come up with a better name.
[SPEAKER_11]: Baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just a statement effect that it is a baby.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's not a name.
[SPEAKER_11]: I know somebody who named their cat cat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Humans are.
[SPEAKER_02]: wildly intriguing right we march to the address you walk through the village and the again the power is off people are coming outside you know they figured okay well the power is off we'll just go down to the beach you know it'll come back on eventually
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe, I mean, we gotta bring in people from the mainland.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's gonna be a while.
[SPEAKER_02]: Might as well enjoy the day while we can before it gets too cold at night.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then also like people are moving into hotels that don't have a lot of people.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think there's like one or two that are just opening themselves up to the community.
[SPEAKER_02]: A good handful of people are going over to the garden of Dionysus for, you know, shelter.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then there are some people that are like doubling the price of their hotel rooms.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is definitely all of the new or fancier stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: country club is doing the same thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get to Gabrielle's place.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gabrielle's place is second floor of a little building with a little tiny like court.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not V corner mark, but it is a less popular corner mark on the other end.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you go up, it's a little rickety wooden staircase that has been built a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ash, you're getting
[SPEAKER_02]: Stingles all over the place that this thing is about to fall over any minute.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, you can almost smell the iron of the nails as they're ripping out of the wood.
[SPEAKER_02]: The door is locked.
[SPEAKER_11]: Lunacs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two no response.
[SPEAKER_11]: Gabby, I love you in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: No response.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, I think that means we can just open the door, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Mm, certainly, yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: I want to try to shove the door in.
[SPEAKER_10]: the creature sees you do this and they just sort of like put their little like padded webbed feet up on the door and start like scratching at it and there's like scratch marks and also like melting sort of like like like at acid marks as well as they're trying to like push through.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead and roll for gold harm and you know what we're going to do scared too because you're traveling around with a little monster.
[SPEAKER_11]: Great, I'm gonna do a six-ingle, a four-in-ingered, and also I'll have to do a four-in-scared.
[SPEAKER_11]: Part of it is like using trying to use brute force and then another part is like finding, oh, I put that screwdriver, I was fixing the table within my back pocket, and I pulled out and I tried like jam it in the lock and then like shove it open.
[SPEAKER_02]: The lock itself is already deteriorating melting away from the acid from this salamander and the door swings open but the force to push it out also pushes you out and the nails rip out of the wall just about to crash all the way to the ground but ash you have an opportunity here to consume the stanger if you want to
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead and roll magic, harm, and go.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are using a word of power.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to give you another one for being the spooky scary salamander.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have your help with any other friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have a special grimoire?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's a special place.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's a special time.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I think you have two dice.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's a five and a two.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'll put the five towards the harm.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the door swings open.
[SPEAKER_02]: You start to pull backward as the rusty nails begin to pull out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ash, you as the Salamander go in to sort of consume the danger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Keep the building from collapsing, but it's just too late.
[SPEAKER_02]: As it pulls away, Lou, from your previous role, you're gonna gain a scare, and I think it's gonna be shock.
[SPEAKER_02]: and Ash, you, you're not gonna gain a harm because you can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's literally you're in the end of harm.
[SPEAKER_02]: So instead, I would love you to choose one person you are next to, take that harm instead.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think what have to be Lou, since she's like right there, I think my little stubby legs just aren't quite long enough to reach everything that I'm trying to get to.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so I just want like falls on Lou instead.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would like you to take acid burn as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can now quickly get into the building before it collapses.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in fact, you manage to do that, and the wood just sort of falls against the floor.
[SPEAKER_02]: It gets the street below you.
[SPEAKER_11]: I feel like Gabrielle is not the only one who is ruining everything when they walk into places.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is actually very um...
[SPEAKER_04]: interesting that our friend here leaps at trouble constantly.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we figured it was energy sources, but maybe we have it all wrong.
[SPEAKER_04]: What were you trying to do there that a one I say in aquatic?
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks like almost kind of like a kicked puppy because it sees that
[SPEAKER_09]: You trying to help find Mama, wanted to keep safe.
[SPEAKER_09]: That did bad job.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh shit, did bad job.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: We can't always prevent everything that goes wrong, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_09]: Couldn't protect Mama either.
[SPEAKER_04]: What happened to Mama?
[SPEAKER_09]: Danger, in danger, Mama, in danger, don't know what.
[SPEAKER_04]: I guess which is how to find her.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aryan turns to the other two and it's just like, seems to want to keep you at us away from danger.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it has good instincts?
[SPEAKER_04]: That counts for something, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's so short.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are we like sure that there is salamander and not like
[SPEAKER_01]: cursed.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm not certain of anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dance and wife.
[SPEAKER_01]: She like reaches the other beer out of her pocket and just hands it over to Lou, so Lou will stop sulking.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll take it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would let you know in that apartment what each of you want to do.
[SPEAKER_11]: I want to know if there's any tracks, not like literal physical tracks, but of Gabrielle and a Salamanderish creature.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex is going to look for signs of a curse because the things that are like popping into place here like the way that danger seems to follow this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that this is like actual salamandering or if like something is really fucky and it wasn't supposed to happen this way.
[SPEAKER_01]: But either way, she doesn't have the best opinion of me to begin with.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if there's anything that would leave like a lingering curse on a place, she'd be looking for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to take the danger detector.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to do kind of a periphery check around here.
[SPEAKER_04]: because Orion has two different theories, either that Gary all got freaked out by our sellemander friend because its name is OSHIT and got the fuck out of dodge or there's like actual danger.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm taking the danger detector with me to see if we can find like traces of what this danger is.
[SPEAKER_04]: if if an entity came, if there was another creature involved or people, and are you literally picking up the Salamander and like using it like a detector?
[SPEAKER_02]: If the Salamander so allows me to do so, yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's just chilling.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's it that it doesn't have a single goddamn song in its head.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've hold you like a prized Greek vase and I just pivot you around and ask you to
[SPEAKER_10]: the spikes just on the top of its head sort of like light up whenever like you point it towards the collapsed door frame and everything.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then also when you pivot like towards like the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh my gosh like a sense of familiarity as well as like danger.
[SPEAKER_10]: And if you go in, I think you would find like it's a bathroom.
[SPEAKER_10]: But it looks to have been sort of
[SPEAKER_10]: Someone tried to turn it into like a dog kennel sort of thing almost, but there's like broken light bulbs with like the filaments missing and like random like rusty nails that have been like condensed down like there's like bits in here that look like she was trying to figure out what to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's me, that's where I go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Your mother loves you very very much.
[SPEAKER_04]: Arian says petting you and I will keep moving around with Oshid to go and look at everything.
[SPEAKER_06]: Welcome to the Beastland.
[SPEAKER_06]: Here, the only law is of the jungle, the only call of the wild, but all is not balanced in these happy hunting grounds, and when aberrant scars of the plane scapes great conflicts tarnish these lands, only the noble unicorn knights can preserve the natural order.
[SPEAKER_06]: Or at least their recent contractors can give their best shot.
[SPEAKER_06]: The quarry is clear, the trail war.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's time to assemble our hunting party.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But whether you go for YouTube or your podcast platform
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I mean, I failed both of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will take the foreign goal on the three include.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you all begin to snoop around, Aryan has picked up our, you know, OSHIT and is using them.
[SPEAKER_02]: They discover the bathroom.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's where the thing has been living.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lou, you're so focused on trying to find, you know, this connection between
[SPEAKER_02]: Gabriella and OSHIT that you just totally missed the bathroom, you totally missed the kennel that's been built.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what do you get hyperfixated on?
[SPEAKER_11]: I think there's just some like abstract like small abstract painting that looks like I don't know if you guys remember those things that you would look at and if you looked at it in the right spot at the right angle, you'd see another photo in it.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think she has one of those and Lou is so bad at these, but is determined to see what is in that picture.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because it's a clue, it's going to answer everything.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's going to be a picture of a salamander.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex, how are you going about finding this purse?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's either not going to be out in the open.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be something tucked in by a sto-away.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's thinking like a pouch of herbs that is like the root of everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's sitting out in the obvious, but it's like inconspicuous and it's disguised.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's something that you wouldn't recognize as magical, unless you knew what you were looking for.
[SPEAKER_02]: you're looking around and nothing really seems like a totem or any sort of like enchanted object that would be used to place a curse on somebody or to be put on them as on their person.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what to do this?
[SPEAKER_02]: You have to shuffle through things.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have to shuffle through Gabrielle's stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And your hand...
[SPEAKER_02]: raises over her camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like an old school Polaroid camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: It actually like flashes, and it's taken a picture when it shoots out the picture.
[SPEAKER_02]: And instead of it being an image of you or of the room, it's an image that is deep underground somewhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a locked door.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's got like a big old, old lock on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you feel like you've seen it before somewhere,
[SPEAKER_02]: and you get a flash of vision of Gabriela.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ariana, you know, you're sweeping around the room and it goes in your home in, and it's blue.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's right there, it's blue.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh shit, so I was like clawing at the air towards the loo.
[SPEAKER_10]: What's it doing?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's pointing at you for danger.
[SPEAKER_04]: I bring our sell-em-under-front over, and as you get closer, the click can get louder, and louder.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna need you to empty our pockets, Lou.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: All of them.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yep, yep, yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Carefully, my dear.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's just these two, just that lady stuff, and I put it across like a coffee table and then in the middle of the room.
[SPEAKER_02]: The moment you step away, you dump all this stuff in your pockets out.
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't follow you.
[SPEAKER_02]: The danger was behind you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the painting.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's like wiggling back towards that area.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you get to the painting, you can't quite describe it, but you feel like the painting is important.
[SPEAKER_02]: The painting is hiding something.
[SPEAKER_04]: I moved the painting, I tilt the frame.
[SPEAKER_04]: I put you down for us, because you're very heavy and I'm a twink.
[SPEAKER_10]: You try to slowly set ocean down, but by the end of your arms to give out and just like fucks onto the ground.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, little one.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's unbothered.
[SPEAKER_10]: It does not care.
[SPEAKER_02]: You go to move the frame in the corner, and it actually pushes in.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the whole wall swims.
[SPEAKER_02]: And on the other side is a map of Roseville Beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has all of the mysteries that Gabriella has been following.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has a big, I'm so sorry, around maze antiques and oddies and then it has oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, written all over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next to maze antiques and oddities.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then something catches your eye.
[SPEAKER_02]: You recognize the last photo that was taken.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's recently pinned on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is none other than your trouble on this island.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bobby Johnson, Roseville Beach's Crypto Hunter.
[SPEAKER_02]: And on the back, some handwritten notes from Gabriella quickly done obviously in the field that says, this guy is after OSHIT.
[SPEAKER_02]: We gotta get them some more safe.
[SPEAKER_02]: and it matches something about a door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fariki.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh shit, you feel danger coming from a region.
[SPEAKER_04]: You feel the instinctual feeling of when a creature feels cornered.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you felt it too in that little room.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think Oh shit turns and looks at you.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then it just sort of like, it instinct is to eat danger, but your friend can't eat friend, but friend is danger.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so it's just like, it's two brain cells are knocking against each other right now as it's looking at you and it looks over at the other two in the room and it looks back at you.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see little gills flap open for a reeneste like flare of someone hyperventilating and then it relaxes.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't worry that a one.
[SPEAKER_04]: I won't let them hurt you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alex and Lou, I thought we have issues.
[SPEAKER_04]: Tell me about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, I have a different thought now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I do want to know your previous thoughts.
[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't matter anymore.
[SPEAKER_11]: But are you sure?
[SPEAKER_11]: How's it is?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think if she's made that determination, we trust.
[SPEAKER_11]: So OSHIT was saying that there was or baby or whatever we would like to call it.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're saying that May was a bad woman and was keeping them in a box, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: Keeping a lot of things in boxes.
[SPEAKER_11]: So if we're looking for a key to something, maybe it's in the box or sorry, brain.
[SPEAKER_11]: What is that called a brain flat?
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm calling it that now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, it looks just like I'm not saying anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to say it.
[SPEAKER_11]: What if OSHIT is the key?
[SPEAKER_01]: You've lost me.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, maybe that wasn't a good thought.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, that's not a terrible direction to think in.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was more thinking of where would...
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it seems that maybe the first instinct that Gabriel had was to...
[SPEAKER_04]: put you in the shop for safe keeping, where you'd be close to food, you'd be hidden from sight, but we found you, so it wasn't, but there's no door or key with related to that.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's sort of like shaking its head.
[SPEAKER_02]: You feel just like a little flash of danger as the
[SPEAKER_02]: Polaroid burns your skin, Alex, and it's almost like you drop it and the photo, as it hits the floor, there is this change in it, right, it's closer to OSHIT, it has a reaction to the chemical nature of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And something mixed with the magic of it and with the radiation
[SPEAKER_02]: Proceeding from OSHIT is it's like a signature.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could probably use this to help define a location.
[SPEAKER_10]: OSHIT starts to move towards it with their mouth open with the intent to eat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait, wait, wait, wait, one moment of the one.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, the X!
[SPEAKER_04]: My dear, my beautiful darling.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you think perhaps this is a clue?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's what you call it, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Humans, clue?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think anybody would call it a clue.
[SPEAKER_04]: We don't have mystery novels in the deep.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you understand what those, we'll come back to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That camera took a picture of something that's not in this room, or someone is using cameras to communicate.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that I understand that exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've never been burned by a picture before that's new.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's gonna like try and like touch the picture again.
[SPEAKER_02]: You touch it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's still a burn, but do you pull away or do you lean into it?
[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of want to tilt it so that our danger lizard can look at it and see the door that's on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you touch it long enough to rotate it,
[SPEAKER_02]: Alex, you really get a sense that, this is magic being wielded by somebody who is not trained in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, oh shit, you sense the same thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is...
[SPEAKER_02]: Danger.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a buffet.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a delicious ice cream Sunday.
[SPEAKER_02]: Magic is the best kind of danger.
[SPEAKER_10]: Their eyes sort of like light up.
[SPEAKER_10]: And they like take a big long with and like in this and it's like try to like follow the stink line of magic to like where more of this could be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead and roll.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think goal clue and scared.
[SPEAKER_10]: Six for goals.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'll do scare.
[SPEAKER_10]: At four.
[SPEAKER_10]: And clue it three.
[SPEAKER_02]: you pick up on this magical central and you immediately recognize that it is intertwined with Gabriella's scent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Gabriella is in this danger and you immediately deemed the scare loss of family.
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you scramble down from here to get to where that's going with no stairs?
[SPEAKER_10]: So I can borrow that's one of my skills.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think you guys see, oh shit, just go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mama and then just dive into the floorboards and they just like disappear and you crash into a crowd of people that have all gathered in this corner store to like get ice cream because this is one of the, you know, this is the half of town that sells electricity and everyone starts screaming as the ocean lands into this area and you take off towards the municipal building.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know if you guys have ever seen an iguana try to run, but it's just sort of like very sideways wiggling and it's broken, it's little chubby legs are broken.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like to think that it happened so fast that Alex didn't even have the chance to react, and she's just sitting there holding this fucking photograph and suddenly there's a hole in the floor and the sound of screaming.
[SPEAKER_11]: Lou's gonna go down, jump down the hole.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not that far, I think you can land just fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is gonna let you stay at pace with ocean.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not enough time has passed for her.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have it fucking singing.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's still just holding the photo to empty air burning her fingertips on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: A-dix, A-dix, we're losing both the salamander and and Lou.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, day that ends and why.
[SPEAKER_01]: She just, like, drops the photo.
[SPEAKER_04]: Arion also jumps through the hole, lands poorly.
[SPEAKER_04]: And it's just like, excuse me, excuse me, pardon me, very sorry, excuse me, yes, bye.
[SPEAKER_04]: Helix, darling.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just like, takes a step down into the hole.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ash, you follow the central all the way to the municipal building.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, this one is also kind of under construction.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are sectioned off areas, but it's still an open library.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's, this is,
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the only end-oldest library on Rosalbeach.
[SPEAKER_02]: One did open up kind of recently, but it's got like private membership rules.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really weird.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one is slowly being turned into a government building, but for now it is still a library.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so it's open to the public, and I think, do you just keep following the trail?
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, shit doesn't know what library is.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, shit doesn't know what government is.
[SPEAKER_10]: There is a wall, which isn't even really that big of an obstacle to it, and it's just going to keep going.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's got to find Mama.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you enter into the building, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: The doors swing open and then they close back in front of Lou with this like burned, oh, shit-sized hole in the bottom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as you charge in everyone,
[SPEAKER_02]: is focused on the reading.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, it's so quiet in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Even OSHIT is so quiet in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: This place is just your classic library.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think everyone missed OSHIT, but noticed Lou coming in and turned their head to see Lou.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_11]: Sorry, uh, just come through here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it follows back into this sort of like
[SPEAKER_02]: construction zone where blue sort of paper has been put up to stop people from entering.
[SPEAKER_02]: And again, there's like a little rip in the hole where OSHA has gone through, but you can push it aside and enter into this restricted zone.
[SPEAKER_02]: And at this point, the two of you have caught up as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Beyond the paper is almost like an urban legend at this point, deep in the basement of the old library is a door that's been locked for 50 years, ever since it's been here.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one knows what's behind the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of theories, there's a lot of possibilities it could be.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the key was never found, and they were never able to pick it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is where the centrale is leading.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think Oshik goes up to the door, and they pause just long enough to turn and see that the three of you are still here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Mama!
[SPEAKER_10]: Mama here!
[SPEAKER_10]: Danger!
[SPEAKER_04]: It says like, Gabriella's here, and there's danger up ahead.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ugh, I hate spritig.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well since we haven't gathered a key also did you notice why are all the why are there so many people at their reading It's a middle summer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't got it, baby.
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[SPEAKER_10]: as you're saying that OSHA turns to the door and then they like level their their like spikes at this and they go they're going to do a danger expel and expel the pent up like degetative radiation at the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is magic.
[SPEAKER_02]: So roll for magic, goal and harm and any one of the sorcery skill can help.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am going to help by throwing up a magical ward to not get hit with a shit ton of radiation.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was a veterinary technician.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know what like, like, led jackets look like.
[SPEAKER_04]: A reen just like sees this little spark of radiation.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just like, oh no.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think a reen uses their magic to kind of create a little bubble of like a very high pitch noise.
[SPEAKER_04]: that probably only you get here, Salamander friend, that's going to keep this radiation contained.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like the first light of defense, Alex is the final light of defense, if I fuck up with Alex.
[SPEAKER_02]: Special timer plays.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, this is giving a special place.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a place that is deep in urban legend.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think I'm going to do goal five, injury five, and magic three.
[SPEAKER_10]: Radiation classically is not visible unless if you're like hitting with like a black light or something like that, so you guys don't see anything like they glow and then they're pointing at the wall and then something happens to this fucking door and I don't know if you guys are familiar with the elephant's foot at Chernobyl, but it basically just sort of like melts it's like this thing goes through the process of being like broken down by radiation just super super fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: The door breaks down on the left ear level, melts, and the wards keep everyone protected on this side.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have a choice to make, Ash.
[SPEAKER_02]: Normally, your regenerative power protects you from all forms of harm.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think me a hundred percent because even if this does, if it's, if it's, if it's like an overdose of like a vitamin or something, it's gonna fuck, oh shit up.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think that in their mind at least they're still like, I'm built to eat danger.
[SPEAKER_10]: And because their goal is to find mama, protect mama.
[SPEAKER_02]: What does it look like when you take on this radiation and how is it different than you normally do?
[SPEAKER_10]: So normally when OSHA absorbs just danger in general, they're not specifically built their biology for radiation in particular, but it is a kind of danger, but it is a more volatile kind than they normally encounter in the wild.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so normally when they ingest danger or radiation, it's in smaller amounts, they store radiation and danger like in like the spikes along their back.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's sort of like, is like a kickback on a shotgun, almost, where the, for a moment, everything still looks and feels normal, and then they feel the sort of like peeling.
[SPEAKER_10]: along, they're like spine.
[SPEAKER_10]: In their peripheral, they see these like bright green sort of like strands of their porcupine quills, like falling down a little bit.
[SPEAKER_10]: And they lose like a good chunk of like sort of ridge along their back.
[SPEAKER_10]: And there's like bits of like skin that are exposed and even like bone in a couple spots.
[SPEAKER_10]: And there's a moment where they like,
[SPEAKER_10]: Register this and there's like a panic that starts rising because this is the first time that they've felt pain before, start like trembling a little bit because they do not know how to react to this.
[SPEAKER_10]: They're just like in shock because they're feeling pain for the first time and they do not know what to do.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I think, Orion, you can kind of like feel this sort of like undercurrent of panic, just like radiating off of them now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take two harm for an irradiated.
[SPEAKER_02]: it will take up to three by the end of the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Inside of the room is Gabriella, she is changed to the radiator by handcuffs.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a dark room all along the from wall to wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are like clothes lines and pinned to them are tons of, how to sleep really blurry images.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's like this one could be a Sasquatch.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one might be fairies.
[SPEAKER_02]: is very clearly the photo that was snapped a few yesterday.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is Bobby's secret dark room.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is where he is doing all of his work and you have just found it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Additionally, along his desk, he has notes and papers and all of it is on the Selenander.
[SPEAKER_02]: The thing that catches your eye, though,
[SPEAKER_02]: right in like big letters, scrolled across the notebook is may figure it out.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh shit, like scrambles up to Gabriella and it just sort of like plops their big head on her lap and it's just like crying out of relief from fighting their mama and then also crying because they have booboos now and they don't know what to do about and they want their mom to help.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you hear the scraping of metal from the handcuffs against the radiators.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh shit!
[SPEAKER_12]: Shit!
[SPEAKER_12]: This shit, it's back.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: I'm sorry, sorry, please.
[SPEAKER_12]: You are so painful to touch.
[SPEAKER_12]: Why are you crying?
[UNKNOWN]: Mom!
[SPEAKER_12]: I don't know how to help you.
[SPEAKER_12]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_12]: Shh.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there petting you and there actively being exposed to radiation petting you?
[SPEAKER_11]: I get real, I wouldn't maybe stop doing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, uh, okay, well, it's kinda hard, it won't leave me alone, and I'm stuck to the radiator.
[SPEAKER_04]: It has imprinted on you, Gabriella, I think, so it's mother.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I don't want to do with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so cute, but it literally causes danger everywhere it goes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where do you live?
[SPEAKER_02]: How do I get you back home?
[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to help you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: One step at a time, let's just, and permit me a cadryp.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just gonna like flick my hand and unlock her handcuffs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Rola D6.
[SPEAKER_02]: A one, two, three is the success and a four to a six is a failure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Six, I think it's the radiation is magic based.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's, she's been consuming that as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it just sort of like bounces it off.
[SPEAKER_02]: She sort of meals down as she gets very close to ocean.
[SPEAKER_02]: and she looks you in the eye and she says, I am really sorry that I knocked you out of your jar and I wish I could help you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never seen you hurt like this, but let's get you back home, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was trying so hard to find where you were going and
[SPEAKER_02]: I did, I found it kind of, it's, it's here in Bobby's journal, but he didn't like me asking questions, so I got stuck here.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I, I, I, I thought I found a, I did actually, I think you, you're the, you're the, yeah, yeah, you're the one that's the siren, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, that's you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're the one, you're the one who I got to.
[SPEAKER_02]: She kicks over this pool right camera to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you, I got to you, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look, look, look, I'm gonna be fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just gonna totalize and you can tell it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just get this guy home, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: And out of the risk of each, I'm really scared of what it's gonna do.
[SPEAKER_11]: Can I try to wiggle the screwdriver in the handcuffs to undo them?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can get in pretty quick and get the sun done fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably easier just to like undo the radiator and slip her out than it is to try to pick the lock.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could do that now, and she'll still be handcuffed, or you can take a little bit longer and undo the handcuffs.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, then I'll do that, I'll do that.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll get her away from the radiation.
[SPEAKER_02]: She pulls out, and she doesn't like step back or anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could tell she's like a little tired after having the salamander on her lap.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in fact, I think there's probably even like some burn marks on her clothes.
[SPEAKER_02]: As she goes over to the book, and she flips it open, and she goes to the middle, and she
[SPEAKER_02]: And she flips back over and she's like, yes, this is it.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is it.
[SPEAKER_02]: She looks up at the map and she looks up at the map.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she sort of like takes a pencil and she draws on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a location in the middle of the Roseville forest.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a little sea cave, a little swampish area.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is that's where this thing had to have come from.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no other answer.
[SPEAKER_11]: Except you said it came from a jar.
[SPEAKER_02]: It did come from a jar, it was in a jar, but it wasn't in a jar always, things aren't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bored in jars, I'm so sorry, I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just a little preoccupied.
[SPEAKER_02]: She turns each of you, thank you so much for saving me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I gotta get this thing on.
[SPEAKER_04]: three things.
[SPEAKER_04]: One, if you found that answer in that book to correspond to that map, that means he can too, and Orion tears that page on.
[SPEAKER_02]: The moment you tear it out, there's something written behind that page, and it says the elixir of life.
[SPEAKER_04]: Scrooge this up back into my pocket.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thing number two.
[SPEAKER_04]: Multiple things here.
[SPEAKER_04]: are also pictures that will bring eyes to the little one over here, and Orion blocks them.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like starts going around the room and blocks the ones of the settlement, doesn't care about all the other ones, he can have the blurry ones, and also stuff then another pocket, and his high-waisted trousers that are covered in mud and all sorts of terrible things.
[SPEAKER_04]: Point number three, you're welcome.
[SPEAKER_04]: You have certainly brought yourself in a heap of trouble, and we have
[SPEAKER_04]: Donna best to aid you, saved you from that, about your camera and what you may have seen today to be having an understanding, and she thinks to herself, and then she looks over at OSHAD and she sees how much she was wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: She knows in this moment that she's been no better than Bobby.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she might have not wanted to capture and get rid of cryptids, but she, it's the same thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Her fascination with mysteries and cryptids only puts them in danger.
[SPEAKER_02]: For people like Bobby to find, and she looks back at you, and she says, Yeah, actually.
[SPEAKER_04]: Knowledge is a powerful thing, a double-adged dagger, laced with poison.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is a great tool, but it can harm.
[SPEAKER_04]: There are things like myself, like OSHIT, that may have at one point been able to walk free, but not right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you for understanding.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh shit, looks between like you and Gabriella, and looks back at you, and it just goes, uh, pop a mad, pop a mad lie, mama's safe.
[SPEAKER_04]: You see, all of like, our eyes like hair stands on the hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: to young to be a father.
[SPEAKER_01]: Attention was very much on, all right, and during this, but the second that he said knowledge is a double edge dagger.
[SPEAKER_01]: A, it looks just like started like rubbing her collarbone, like really like absent-mindedly, just like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Very tense just like and of course the second that you say have too young to be a father She stops looks at the disaster lizard doing the face has the experiences of that tech It puts two and two together and it's just like
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not, we can't, we already have one, we can't, I can't.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, we are, no, little one, be a sunny little one.
[SPEAKER_04]: We will find you a place that you can live and thrive away from danger.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you will be safe there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Every will do it together, and I am not, I am not angry.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am just, there are many things that are dangerous out there, little one.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah me.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you cannot eat them all.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, if we take, oh shit to the little place in the middle of the woods, then we would know where they were, and then we could bring them, danger things to eat.
[SPEAKER_11]: I don't know what that would entail.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ryan does tear your suggestion and ponders it a little too seriously for a little too long but regardless Ryan I think smiles in this very ethereal faraway manner he's so distant from the experience of mortals that's hard to comprehend his feelings but it's definitely a smile to reassure at the very least and says
[SPEAKER_04]: if we are all done with vandalizing this place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had a look.
[SPEAKER_04]: I really like it when you have a certain look when you're pondering something and you had it and it vanished.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was thinking Arson, but there's collateral damage and also I realized that I don't think, and she jerks a thumb over, you know, shit's directions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like, I don't think they'd be that cool, like they wouldn't keep it calm, frankly, with that much.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, thought was there, I think maybe we don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna try doing another wave and just like another absent-minded just like wave and like fuck off unhook.
[SPEAKER_02]: This place is too irradiated for it to work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like magic isn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, I think magic is being like drawn into ocean.
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, see, sometimes you just need good old fashioned muscle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ocean.
[SPEAKER_02]: You start to feel very weak.
[SPEAKER_02]: The sun is beginning to set.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to go.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think OSHA is unused to like fatigue and so they think maybe they're just sleepy and so you guys see them sort of just like sway a little bit with the like confused look on their face as they sort of like try to like settle down oh oh no no no no no no no no no no what did you do no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
[SPEAKER_01]: Something's something wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, here I thought you were okay with radiation Ooh, we need to get outside before I do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I agree.
[SPEAKER_11]: Ha ha, up is!
[SPEAKER_11]: All right, see Daisy!
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll try to use the screwdriver to get the handcuffs off if I can.
[SPEAKER_02]: By the time that you get upstairs, the handcuffs are put
[SPEAKER_01]: As soon as we are no longer underneath a building, that's going to house a lot of people and in the open air, and are somewhere like semi-private.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alex is just kind of like sit down next to Toshit and just like do like thing like pull back the eye a little bit and like look around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, ah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Ah, you look inside, it's like a catfish mouth or like like the inside of like a turtle's throat where there's just like serrated teeth facing inward.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All of the signs, all of the evidence is pointing to less of this creature is actively dying and more of this creature is malnourished.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been eating food that is not, it's like regular diet.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you, what have you been feeding them?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, well, yet, you know, uh, okay, hey, look.
[SPEAKER_03]: really likes glass and there was just a lot of it in the dump and I went and grabbed a lot of the glass that was broken there some of it might have been glowing okay look yes okay I took all of the irradiate glass and that's what I've been feeding oh shit okay I know that they're
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I know what a Salamander would fucking eat from Grimwar knowledge?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we established that it's fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like looking around for like scraps of like wood or plant or brush but like or like twigs.
[SPEAKER_11]: The beer would it help at all?
[SPEAKER_11]: Because I didn't finish it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, go ahead and drink the right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you take that?
[SPEAKER_01]: You ran with that?
[SPEAKER_02]: You didn't have to go far to get some reprived.
[SPEAKER_02]: The construction site is private.
[SPEAKER_02]: People aren't going back here, and there is for sure flammable things back here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we're gonna get some like cloth and put it in a pile, and maybe like a small amount of accelerant, and just like the fire appears in the end of her fingertips again.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, ah, please be right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And lights like the pile on fire.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it's just like... As soon as that happens, this was like, the thorgic like swing that OSHA is doing kind of like the like perk up a little bit and they go,
[SPEAKER_10]: and it scrambled towards the fire and they just like fully go into this bonfire and then they like split out on the ground and then they roll over onto their back and they're just like rolling back and forth like consumed in flames just looking so happy and this flame burns away the irradiation from you oh thank god Gabriella has a look a thought hmm ha what is it?
[SPEAKER_03]: hey oh shit mama
[SPEAKER_02]: I have been following a stream of arson cases that have broken out all over Rosewitch.
[SPEAKER_02]: I bet you you could help me figure that out.
[SPEAKER_09]: How am I?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yay!
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to say that was good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, no, no.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, shit's thrilled.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're willing to keep it?
[SPEAKER_04]: The little one?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I should probably give it a different name.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, preferably.
[SPEAKER_04]: You need a noble name, a good one.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the both of you know he's about to suggest a Greek name.
[SPEAKER_01]: I lean over to Lou, and I'm just like, okay, uh, $10 on the facetus.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what I was gonna say, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, what I'll say for Muthias.
[SPEAKER_01]: Deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: She like holds up her fist.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lou, bomb spists.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think Prometheus is an excellent name.
[SPEAKER_04]: Prometheus, good name, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Looks like the other two for affirmation.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, that's what I thought it was gonna be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you owe me $10 less.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: We walk away from today with Prometheus and Gabriela hot on the case of Arson, all throughout Brazil Beach.
[SPEAKER_02]: volunteer fireman militia.
[SPEAKER_02]: That leaves us with one thing still glaring from today's mystery, Aryan.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have a spell in your pocket for the elixir of life.
[SPEAKER_02]: The main ingredient, well it's not only an ingredient, it's more of like a research notes,
[SPEAKER_02]: When performed correctly, let's you take on OSHIT's abilities to consume danger and extend your life.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's not something you're going to learn today.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to take a long time, but you do have
[SPEAKER_04]: I think the last image is when we are wrapping up we sit in the sunken sofa in the living room.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aryan just like lops into it.
[SPEAKER_04]: X-Hail's feels a little roughness and his like high-waisted trouser sees this crumpled up paper.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to take a bath, which means he's about to go and try to sit in water for a while.
[SPEAKER_04]: And as Orion sits in the water, the black scales furl out from his waist and we see this almost like terror-like silky fins begin to bloom out from where human legs once was.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he's staring at that little formula because it's probably incomplete.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe you have your useless yet, Bobby.
[SPEAKER_04]: and Aryan will instead of scrunching it up, fold it and place it on the side of the bathtub.
[SPEAKER_04]: Before ducking his whole head in and all we see is like the fins blooming from the side of his face.
[SPEAKER_11]: This series stars Alexander Christopher as the Game Master, valiant Dorian as Aryan, Dan Pixel as A-Lix Chow, and Kenzie Tartaglioni as Lou Wells.
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