[SPEAKER_07]: Last time, on Roseville Beach, the people who are featured here are having their are unjustly resold and this petition is to sort of seize that artwork and give it back to those people.
[SPEAKER_08]: Odysseus, Odysseus, and then realizes no one here has Greek names and Odysseus is an affectionate nickname that he had given because he does not know Odysseus's name only what he looks
[SPEAKER_07]: You lock eyes across the room with a painting.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is the person who taught you magic.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good bye, love.
[SPEAKER_02]: Loosen the painting!
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I guess it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission and who's gonna take off towards the new scene.
[SPEAKER_07]: The people of Russell Beach deserve better.
[SPEAKER_02]: than what.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to say that before I met either of you, I never got locked inside of a painting.
[SPEAKER_00]: 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_00]: Who knows, there's no broken thing that she can't fix At your service 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 Ari, and...
[SPEAKER_00]: Together these three will surely have you transparent
[SPEAKER_00]: Roseville Beach, the ghosts like to play Monsters hide, but they won't stay Roseville Beach, with the gang that they found We'll turn this town right, back around
[SPEAKER_07]: We needed a night out.
[SPEAKER_07]: We went out to the command.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and you work at the command, I don't you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I sure do.
[SPEAKER_08]: Lead attraction.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think you are the main attraction tonight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can you just give me a rundown?
[SPEAKER_07]: I want to know just like play by play.
[SPEAKER_07]: What the show is that you've done.
[SPEAKER_08]: A rean is the main singer in the cabana.
[SPEAKER_08]: And typically the way Arian shows work is that we usually have a few opening acts from some of the other performers guests performers that come in and perform and then it leads up to Arian and in almost theatrical performance he has three acts.
[SPEAKER_08]: This often, a small bit of storytelling that combines all three, but he performs like three different songs with different costumes and ensemble performers and it ties together this sort of like greater narrative before the end of the night.
[SPEAKER_08]: And at the end of the night, I assume when folks feel like dancing.
[SPEAKER_08]: We have a folks coming and play music at that point, but that's when the cabana opens up to a dance floor and everyone's able to partake.
[SPEAKER_08]: But obviously they're here for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: before that could happen.
[SPEAKER_07]: Before the end of the show, in the final act as everyone is watching your co-star, Miss Cherry is ready.
[SPEAKER_07]: She is up on the top of the set.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's this beautiful, very like, honestly, I say beautiful, it's kind of good.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a night of disco and of sequins and glitter and lights and at the top of the show, she's up at the pinnacle of the set and then all of a sudden it collapsed.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she falls through the set.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone panics and the set is removed off of her and she's alive.
[SPEAKER_07]: nearly impaled by a wooden spike that was rotted, holding up the set.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she rushes off stage, she's locked herself in her dressing room, and she refuses to go out.
[SPEAKER_07]: She screams at the attendance that she has been cursed ever since she entered that theater.
[SPEAKER_08]: A real like wraps up whatever is remaining, does like a cute elegant apology to attend these to his performances.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding in my gratitude for all of you, for your patience and your love and your support.
[SPEAKER_08]: For the Kavana, please enjoy one more song.
[SPEAKER_08]: very in-performs, like, a popular disco.
[SPEAKER_08]: He sings Rulay, Rulay, Rulay, Viva Abba.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_08]: Because the Kabana, yes, it is a popular place.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't think our dressing room, we have like, distinct, a single room.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think they're, like, somewhat shared.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, this cherry and I are, like, within a summer space, so her not wanting to open the door makes it a little difficult for performers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not only that, but you also know that Miss Sherry is the longest running act here, and you kind of pushed her out.
[SPEAKER_07]: She kind of has sway, and if she's not going to perform, people aren't going to come.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maria Nutsendo.
[SPEAKER_07]: This Sherry, my dear.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go away.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not seeing anybody, and you shouldn't be here.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is okay if you do not want to see me.
[SPEAKER_08]: by just wanted to check in and see how you're doing.
[SPEAKER_08]: That was a really big thing that just happened.
[SPEAKER_08]: And everyone's mentioning how upset you are as you rightfully open should be.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, that should not have even happened to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, I don't know what to tell you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it also in your eyes.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's glass shatters.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is Jerry, what was that?
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to cut to the dance floor.
[SPEAKER_07]: More people have sort of been, are filing out in disappointment that have honestly been concerned as they are no longer really here.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're going to go over to some of the bars and stuff to get some other entertainment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lewis kind of standing off to the side of the dance floor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wide stance, arms crossed over her chest.
[SPEAKER_02]: Watching everybody leave.
[SPEAKER_06]: We have established in Canon Alex's feelings about disco.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think she's still sitting at the table.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she hasn't reacted at all to everyone like finally.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's still just sitting on her drink.
[SPEAKER_06]: She looks like completely placid, just like totally calm and chill.
[SPEAKER_06]: And just like, just sitting out of drink and having a smoke sitting at the table.
[SPEAKER_02]: Luce strides over.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they could have exited, I think, in a more orderly fashion.
[SPEAKER_06]: and she pulls out like two, like, large earplugs?
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, the music stopped.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was wondering, ever, I was leaving.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, because the axe done, because somebody almost died.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alex?
[SPEAKER_06]: That wasn't part of the axe?
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever come to see one of Ariana's shows before?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm usually in a lot of pain.
[SPEAKER_06]: He knows I hate disco.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're right.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, are they injured, they're back there?
[SPEAKER_06]: Come on, let's go.
[SPEAKER_08]: You see the form of a reen rushing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, look, there he goes!
[SPEAKER_08]: Towards like the bouncer's of the cabana, dressed still in the sequined, over-college shirt, high-waisted sequence and glitter, and it's rushing over to a bouncer, or anyone who is in charge, and it's just like, I think something terrible has happened to Miss Cherry, in the dressing room, and I can't knock the door down.
[SPEAKER_08]: Someone help me knock the door down, please!
[SPEAKER_01]: I can do that!
[SPEAKER_01]: I can... All right, I can do it!
[SPEAKER_08]: my wonderful wonderful lesbian.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, please knock the door down.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to start taking that personally.
[SPEAKER_08]: She has the lesbian.
[SPEAKER_08]: You have the witch.
[SPEAKER_08]: You both each have your categories in my heart.
[SPEAKER_08]: This room.
[SPEAKER_06]: I won't show it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_06]: This isn't the time.
[SPEAKER_06]: So much love in my heart.
[SPEAKER_07]: We flash forward to the door.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lou, you're able to get this down easily.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can you just describe it for me?
[SPEAKER_02]: So Lou walks up and tries to handle and sees that it's locked.
[SPEAKER_02]: She has on like they're like timberland boots, but they only go to your ankle.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what she's wearing on her feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to break if that's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll fix it, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just like picks her foot up and kicks the door in.
[SPEAKER_07]: The door had nails that were faulty in it, and the door launches into the room and falls on top of this cherry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and then she grabs the door up and off of the woman and places it to the side.
[SPEAKER_07]: she's just flustered as she is clearly very scared and you can see that she has a notepad.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like stationary that is bedazzled basically.
[SPEAKER_07]: This stationary has all of the ways that she's nearly died in the last week and then it's the next page and then it's the next page and then it's the next page.
[SPEAKER_02]: Miss Cherry, I don't think you have to write that one down, that's on me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's it's going on list.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nearly killed by.
[SPEAKER_08]: A concerning amount of near death instance, how did this all start?
[SPEAKER_07]: I said a tone shift, as she is panicked, she's flustered, and then she stops, and the pencil drops on the table, and you can hear it as she snaps to your area, and she says, it all started, the night that I entered, the Roseville Pearl, and there's a flash of lightning outside
[SPEAKER_07]: And she goes on to describe how she wanted to open up the Roseville Pearl a theater that had been close for many years and is this beautiful place on Roseville Beach that just has not been touched.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because of something she thought was silly, a curse, any one who enters there means a terrible end.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you not think much of it until it was her end?
[SPEAKER_02]: That just sounds like some bad luck to me.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you don't believe me,
[SPEAKER_02]: Go check yourself.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, she opens like a drawer of all of these tips that she's got in and glue.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god, glue.
[SPEAKER_07]: Holy shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a lot of money.
[SPEAKER_07]: As she begins pulling it out one stack at a time and she is putting it on the desk as she is beginning to write a help one to dad for an exercise.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're going to pay that money to an exercise?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is anybody
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I can't do that, but, you know, I do believe you, Miss Cherry, but I just think that we should be offering other solutions to the problem, like, you know, maybe it's not a curse, maybe it is just bad luck, or you know what, maybe you're just like in the wrong place at the wrong time, but if you do need an exercise, maybe A looks can help you.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't know if you're actually an exercise, I just, you know, I can do anything you can do stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: How, how skilled are you, Alex, in the breaking of curses?
[SPEAKER_06]: She's gonna like put on the most forced like customer service smile.
[SPEAKER_08]: She sure, sure thing, she's willing to pay good money for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have to, I just, you know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she is pulling out more stacks of tips.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, mystery, you don't have to give up your entire worth for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some people like to help out of the goodness of their own heart, not A-licks though.
[SPEAKER_07]: She is in her chair as the sort of wooden peg on it snaps, and she falls backwards from the corner.
[SPEAKER_08]: Can I catch her?
[SPEAKER_08]: Goal and injury.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think Iran was like squeezing behind her to like grab her like a picture of waters that she could feel calmer, and as soon as he
[SPEAKER_02]: You can take two then for me for helping and then for strong.
[SPEAKER_08]: Five for the goal and four for injury.
[SPEAKER_07]: You both catch her as she sort of faints onto the couch very naturally rolling out of your arms and she passes out from the exhaustion of the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Louis will fix her chair.
[SPEAKER_06]: So listen, exorcisms, um, I don't know that I know specifically how to exercise something like I could I can like bring go sin, but I don't I'm not so good at like making them go away.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, but.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe we're jumping the gun here of my dears.
[SPEAKER_08]: So Miss Sherry entered the Roseville Pearl, was it?
[SPEAKER_08]: And exited with having near death experiences, that have to be exorcism or is there some sort of like, on their courses as well, that can the can impact a person this way?
[SPEAKER_02]: Expelling a curse rather than expelling a ghost?
[SPEAKER_06]: it depends on the curse really like it depends on who cast it what their intention wasn't casting it whether or not you can fulfill whatever reason they had behind it and whether or not they still hold the grudge there's like it she starts like going on like a list she has had a bit of a week and you start to realize that she's definitely like a little bit buzzed right now a little like she was expecting to have like a bit of a bite out so she is a little less
[SPEAKER_06]: different curse fulfillment things for about a minute 30.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're kind of surprised she doesn't take a breath until she finishes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lou finishes the chair in that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's sturdy now.
[SPEAKER_07]: You knock on the ground here as it just like barely pokes through the wooded floor board.
[SPEAKER_07]: Whatever's going on, Miss Cherry is not in the right place.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is no matter where she goes, it's a disaster.
[SPEAKER_08]: I see that there are two possibilities that maybe since she's nice and passed out, Ariane goes to see the broken door.
[SPEAKER_08]: She'll sit more so that's like less being seen through the inside.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe Alex, maybe you and I can tease out what is possibly reflecting her and if all goes well, it ends here.
[SPEAKER_08]: I do not like seeing Miss Cherry in this position.
[SPEAKER_08]: I, she's an incredible performer and you know, she's really paved the path for me here in the Kavanaugh.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I have to give back to my mentor really.
[SPEAKER_08]: Which would be?
[SPEAKER_02]: If that doesn't work.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's unconscious.
[SPEAKER_02]: We let her stay here and get her rest because she's obviously been going through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we go to the Roseville Pearl.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I was afraid that might have been the suggestion for the next step of this doesn't work.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just think that being hands on is often better.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thoughts, Alex, my dear.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't believe I'm gonna say this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think Lou is the right idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a bit, I see how there was like an insult in there, but I'll take it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, letting it go really isn't an option and without any other information, the only way to handle it is to get there and see what it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Fine, you're both twisting my arm.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let me get changed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you help?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, please.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: The camera is going to go up as you begin to help hit Ariana out of this very flashy costume.
[SPEAKER_07]: The camera pans up and it goes through the floor boards and up to the street where it's night.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to jump forward in time as we have approached the Roseville Pearl.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Roseville Pearl is silhouetted in the stormy dark clouds.
[SPEAKER_07]: of the day and the lightning's flashing as it sort of flashes on to the building revealing these stone statues looking down for me as they hold up the sea and every time they flash, it's almost like they're watching.
[SPEAKER_07]: Watching you move left and right.
[SPEAKER_07]: The door to the entrance has
[SPEAKER_07]: abandon all hope you enter here.
[SPEAKER_07]: To the site, there is a fair escape you could climb, but this building was never built with proper fire code, and that's that is the reason there was such a tragedy years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are there any leftover construction equipment around or anything?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking for a sledgehammer to break the lock on the front of the doors, what my look is.
[SPEAKER_07]: You find a sledgehammer.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not necessarily from like a construction site,
[SPEAKER_07]: But from sort of people who have left to hear, vandalizing the area, you know, the youthful rebels dare each other to kind of break in all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're just going in, so I can just break is that the vibe?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that what's happening here?
[SPEAKER_08]: I thought we were going through Alex's way and points out to the fire escape situation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I understand.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, Alex also doesn't understand what that means.
[SPEAKER_08]: You never go through the front door.
[SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean I never go through the front door?
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, that was the art gallery incident last week.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then we had the incident before that were you also didn't enter through the front door.
[SPEAKER_08]: You just don't like going through the front door.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just assumed that that's the witchy approach you take.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I could jump up there and pull the ladder down if you really want to.
[SPEAKER_06]: We can go through the front door.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's totally fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not, I'm not averse to front doors, or anything like that and she pops a cigarette out of her pocket and just lights it on her fingers.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've been like, chainspoken those tonight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, picks up the sledgehammer and wax it against the iron lock.
[SPEAKER_07]: You knocked this thing once and with like one swift,
[SPEAKER_07]: motion, the lock breaks, all to the ground, and this might be the most competent loose looked in a while.
[SPEAKER_07]: The door swings open, letting in a draft as it beckons you in.
[SPEAKER_07]: Inside, all of the lights have shattered.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is no illumination other than from the holes in the ceiling
[SPEAKER_07]: fire curtains have dropped to the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: But, woo, it's odd.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're not in safety protocols.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somebody's just off about the fire curtains in the way that they have dropped.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like, you're not sure why they were even here, really.
[SPEAKER_02]: This building is really not up to code.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's when you see in the center of this grand entrance, right before you would
[SPEAKER_07]: start to enter the theater.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a fire curtain that is hanged from the ceiling down to the floor in the middle of the room and like a perfect circle.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's barely parted open as it floats.
[SPEAKER_02]: You all think that's weird right because this draft coming through the door isn't still coming through the door and that's moving.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, certainly, and Lou, you should go and take a look on the inside of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Felix is going to conjure a little lightball, and that soft purple light is going to fill the room out from where she's standing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, sure, I guess.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let me cut your back.
[SPEAKER_08]: Good job.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm right behind you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Lou will stride across the floor and pinch the fire curtain and open it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You pinch the fire curtain, you open it, and it actually falls off of its original banister.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it drapes onto a statue.
[SPEAKER_07]: A beautiful, honestly, very well crafted statue of what kind of looks like to be a sailor, of some sort.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's similar to the ones outside, but this one is on candy, it's lifelike.
[SPEAKER_02]: Miss Cherry, did not mention this.
[SPEAKER_08]: Arian dips out from like two feet behind Lou and finally approaches the statue and taking a look.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's the sailor handsome.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to say yes, because of a lot of reasons, but mainly the fact that the person who made this statue
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, wow, it's been a long time since I've seen statues such like this, so hence, friendiers or, uh, you turned to look at Alex and you turned to look back and the statues I have moved, they're looking at you, arian, flirtatiously leans on the stone and smiles and looks up at the statue.
[SPEAKER_07]: My my art you have wondrous one and as you do that there is a bolt of lightning that strikes through the hole in the ceiling on to the torch that the statue is holding.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lightning strikes his torch that he held at old's loft, and it illuminates the space around him, giving you even better look as the statue starts to kind of shake off the literal dust that covered its body.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is slightly changed to the appearance of the lightning fully struck its body,
[SPEAKER_05]: Which was once just white marble cracks have now been filled with like Ebony almost like the art of Japanese like pottery repair where they used gold and this is just Ebony that has been completely filled the spots and you are now staring directly at this man who His eyes can follow you, but no expression but calm Just covers his face
[SPEAKER_05]: And you can hear a voice, no lips movement, welcome to the theater.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we're going to see a performance.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was a generalized welcome to the space I have no show to give you.
[SPEAKER_08]: What do they call you friend?
[SPEAKER_05]: I am Atticus.
[SPEAKER_08]: You match the look.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm called Orian.
[SPEAKER_08]: These are my companions.
[SPEAKER_08]: Please multiply it to both of you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Introduce yourselves.
[SPEAKER_06]: Alex, I do magic.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can see your familiar.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can sense the blessing of Hector Tate upon you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, sure it's not one of your friends.
[SPEAKER_08]: I would remember, I think, but happy to make your acquaintance.
[SPEAKER_08]: Lou, my dear?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you just did it for me, I'm Lou.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have anything special to present.
[SPEAKER_02]: But is it your home since you don't have a performance for us to live here?
[SPEAKER_05]: I live forever.
[SPEAKER_05]: I stand.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wherever that may be, I call my home in for the last several decades.
[SPEAKER_05]: This empty theater has been my home.
[SPEAKER_07]: last week, a ledger of art purchased from the coffee shop, one of them being a statue.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, so this particular place is is recent.
[SPEAKER_06]: For you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Recent.
[SPEAKER_05]: Define a recent sea.
[SPEAKER_06]: How do you track time, I guess?
[SPEAKER_06]: I should have asked.
[SPEAKER_05]: Time is like a dream.
[SPEAKER_05]: I recall days like fleeting moments of unknown reality.
[SPEAKER_05]: You, I recall it once, once when I was man, I recall the reality of dreaming like something like a haze of alcohol.
[SPEAKER_05]: had it's my reality, but almost more sad.
[SPEAKER_05]: I suppose.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Alex has a little haze about the hole on her right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right, but rude.
[SPEAKER_05]: The drink, the drink is good, the drink reminds us that we are alive.
[SPEAKER_08]: That means you have mortal memory, friend.
[SPEAKER_05]: Were you once in a different place form other than this?
[SPEAKER_05]: I have been stoned for nearly 3,000 years before the Gorgon that me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Perhaps a cruelty of fate.
[SPEAKER_05]: My mother, you see, was a priestess of Athena.
[SPEAKER_05]: It just seems appropriate that what would do me in would be a Gorgon.
[SPEAKER_08]: We have ben churned and seen many types of enchantment of wondrous things that have occurred on Roosevelt Beach.
[SPEAKER_08]: And often he does not hold hope of anyone who knows of a world that he understands, and a re-ense eyes light up.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he looks to you and the eyes shimmer cold and he would recognize this Atticus as the glow of a siren.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know of your world.
[SPEAKER_08]: I've seen it so long ago.
[SPEAKER_08]: This place must feel so...
[SPEAKER_05]: foreign to you lonely perhaps you cannot see an emotional change but his eyes seem to actually go wider the stone seeming retracting and then going back in like cute as people's can move as that flash and your eyes was very recognizable to him in his life creatures like you sirens killer of my kin
[SPEAKER_05]: I have no desire to harm someone like you, but I do not trust someone who would summon my brothers to their death.
[SPEAKER_08]: A reen recognizes that, smiles, Riley, that I understand.
[SPEAKER_08]: My kin have killed many sailors, traversers, voyagers.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was our calling, our purpose and the seas, but that is not our purpose any longer.
[SPEAKER_08]: The second obvious discomfort of being referred to as a killer, that Orion has exhibited in this moment, and he leans back.
[SPEAKER_08]: I actually came here to assist some mortal, a colleague of mine.
[SPEAKER_08]: She seems to be afflicted with something since setting foot in this building, and we came for answers.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're not here to harm you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I would not wish to harm you.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's not my purpose.
[SPEAKER_08]: Any longer.
[SPEAKER_07]: With the room now illuminated by Atticus's torch, you see beneath Atticus.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where you're standing, actually?
[SPEAKER_07]: There is the shadow, almost like the burned, a charred shape of a man, and all around you.
[SPEAKER_07]: are these shadows, these charred remains of the people in the fire, and it's like Ashens Suit, but one that cannot be scrubbed away.
[SPEAKER_05]: You come here seeking answers, and I can only give you this.
[SPEAKER_05]: The Steater has been cursed by those with ill intent.
[SPEAKER_05]: those with jealousy in their heart, that jealousy caused the end of this theater, but it also caused the end of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: They remain as a curse, and unfortunately for you who have stepped inside this theater, you too have become a victim.
[SPEAKER_07]: The ground beneath you begins to splinter and crack.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh fuck.
[SPEAKER_07]: and the floorboards rip themselves up, as you fall into the...
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to... Oh, John, it's physically or magically.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm drunk.
[SPEAKER_06]: Magically.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're rolling for gold magicians and the injury.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have a 6x5, it's a full success.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm using two words of power in opposite directions, which is not something that I do often, because it's harder to do, but she's loose and reckless.
[SPEAKER_06]: So she uses bind to try and hold the floorboards together, while she uses call to move blue away from the split.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's like left hand and right hand doing literally opposite things.
[SPEAKER_07]: As the floorboard has opened up, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Lou did drop, but the floorboard you were able to stabilize, and it's almost like they scooped Lou up and throw you into the room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that I know how to fix this, and we have to lay to rest all of these dead people.
[SPEAKER_08]: Certainly, but there's also the matter of the crudge, the jealousy, at the heart of all of this.
[SPEAKER_06]: It kind of did it to themselves, too.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right?
[SPEAKER_06]: That's what the Americans were saying.
[SPEAKER_08]: They did it to themselves.
[SPEAKER_08]: How do you lay someone like that to rest, who's all anger?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you talked to them.
[SPEAKER_02]: But now we're back at exorcisms, and I know we already put a cabash on that.
[SPEAKER_06]: But it's not exactly what I said.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just said I don't really know what I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want to raise like all of these ghosts at one time?
[SPEAKER_02]: That'd be kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: You could put that in your repertoire going forward.
[SPEAKER_07]: As this discussion is going on, Atticus, this is your first time awakened hundreds of years, maybe a thousand years.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you were witness to the fire.
[SPEAKER_07]: What are the memories that you actually remember?
[SPEAKER_07]: What did you cling onto?
[SPEAKER_07]: What did you force yourself to remember?
[SPEAKER_05]: Atticus remembers the sound of glass shattering and flames roaring as a theater full of hundreds of people is raised to the ground.
[SPEAKER_05]: unsuccessful.
[SPEAKER_05]: The whirling of the curtain falling around him, this monument to wealth that he represented to this theater was protected while the people within it were not saved by its flames.
[SPEAKER_05]: And
[SPEAKER_05]: probably most of all, the memory that clings tightly within his stone mine is the person that you see at his feet terrified at the flames that were surrounding him in this curtain protected me who did not protect him as he suffocated and eventually burned and
[SPEAKER_05]: Friends, by allies, by anyone, it burned itself into Atticus's soul, whatever that looks like now.
[SPEAKER_07]: You and only you, hear the stage manager from the theater, call for places.
[SPEAKER_05]: Places.
[SPEAKER_05]: and Atticus moves for the first time in thousands of years from his pedestal, torch a loft, and he looks at all of you in simply says places, walking towards the stage, slowly, this feet being stone are loud and
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't wonder how they aren't crushing the wooden floor beneath, but you can seemingly move gracefully.
[SPEAKER_07]: At the moment that you step off and you call places the three of you see smoke rise from the floorboards as you are separated into three different locations of the theater.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I like this in the booth.
[SPEAKER_08]: Arian is close to the stage.
[SPEAKER_08]: If this is an old timey theater, there would be busts of theatrical motifs everywhere.
[SPEAKER_08]: And Arian, who was one set on your pedestal, looking up at you, like a devotee before a goddess or god.
[SPEAKER_08]: He is purged underneath,
[SPEAKER_08]: A helmeted goddess with an owl perched on her shoulder, and looks up as he looks to the rest of the stage.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lill, the smoke rose and through clearing the area, you wave it off and find yourself standing 100, 200 feet above the ground on a thin catwalk.
[SPEAKER_07]: This thing is chart.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is burned.
[SPEAKER_07]: The iron here for the chains is cracking.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it creaks and kind of shifts under her weight a little bit and she grabs on tighter to the railing.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as you grab onto the railing, like crumbly, almost until it's just like the core of the wood.
[SPEAKER_02]: Her breast starts to get quicker and I think that her old scare of shock is starting to come back and overwhelm her.
[SPEAKER_07]: to your left are the wings, at which point the entire catwalk is thrust into darkness.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the same is true if you look to your right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Behind you is the backdrop of the stage and in front of you, the theater.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can actually see someone moving around and sort of the balcony.
[SPEAKER_07]: and then all of a sudden the cat looks starts to swing as a pair of eyes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Step forward from the darkness.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK, before I deal with that, are there any ropes hanging?
[SPEAKER_07]: There are loose ropes, and there are ropes that are tied to the pulley system.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can't get to the pulley system ropes.
[SPEAKER_07]: It would be a jump to get there.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are some loose ropes that were frayed in the fire.
[SPEAKER_02]: Keeping it in the back of her mind for an escape route.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are eyes that step out of the darkness and the person that sort of steps into the catwalk is a figure from 50, 60 years ago, clearly somebody from the turn of the century just passed that who would have worked here during the time of the fire.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey!
[SPEAKER_07]: They step onto a beam that is missing and continue stepping forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, so you're just kind of like going about the motions right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna get out of your way Can you roll to shift your way and not fall?
[SPEAKER_02]: Goal and drew skies fun fun news.
[SPEAKER_02]: I Fail all of them
[SPEAKER_07]: This person begins to pick up speed.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can tell they are going through their motions, but there's a moment where it steps closer to you, lighting flashes in the theater and their entire tone shifts as their eyes, almost like sparkle.
[SPEAKER_07]: And every step they take leaves glitter.
[SPEAKER_07]: and they lunge forward to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: You do manage to swing yourself out, but it's too much force and the wood shatters against you.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you pull out, you grab onto that rope that you spotted earlier, but you're gonna take fear of heights and dislocated shoulder.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it the one that you're grabbing with?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: It looks, we cut to you, the smoke clears, and you find yourself on the belt.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not meant for guests, but meant for people who are working the theater, working the events.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are guests, lamps, to your right and your left meant for small kids.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you can see everything from up here.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see Lou, who is walking the cow locks.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see Aryan, who is standing on the stage.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see the light of Atticus entering into the theater.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is there a door?
[SPEAKER_07]: You look all around you.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, there is only a single ladder which has fallen off of the railing.
[SPEAKER_06]: How far down is the next landing?
[SPEAKER_07]: You peer over and it's at least a hundred feet.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a ladder going up, so you could hang more lines.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want to stick around here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want to do anything to get them going to the ladder.
[SPEAKER_07]: The ladder's a little shaky, but you can get it up pretty easily as you make your way above.
[SPEAKER_07]: Up here, it's like a hollowed out space.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a small walkway that leads forward and extends to the left and right, where you would be able to hang more lines.
[SPEAKER_07]: All of them, cast lights, and you take a few steps in before that smoke starts to come back, but it's different this time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alex, you are currently suffering from, like, gas lamp poisoning.
[SPEAKER_07]: I need you to rule to resist that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go on, injury.
[SPEAKER_06]: Double-sixes.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think she might have her flannel with her tonight.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's gonna like try and rip like a strip off the under of like her flannel and just like put it over her mouth to try and block some of the smoke and gas.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she also gonna get lower to the ground and like crawl.
[SPEAKER_07]: You turn around to try to exit the same way you came back and somebody has lots that were behind you.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are stuck up here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I fucking hate this place.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where did this then?
[SPEAKER_07]: Atticus, you are walking over all of the charred scorch marks of all of the remains that people who died in the fire and all over the ground are belongings.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mixed in with the playbills of the performance.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can see inside they have like the art of the play they're doing inside.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a little photograph section of all of the actors.
[SPEAKER_07]: Aryan, you are on the stage, locked eyes with this being and this owl.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's only one person who could be, it is clearly Athena.
[SPEAKER_07]: She calls out to you to join her on stage.
[SPEAKER_08]: Arian hears this call and would be if he were an ordinary mortal, lulled by it, but he isn't fully lulled by it, but he stands up to his full height.
[SPEAKER_08]: Looks Athena and like steps up properly on stage, and he keeps thinking about the
[SPEAKER_08]: the ashes of the people who have fallen here, the blood soaked tragedy, hallowed by Ember, that is this theater, and he looks over to this goddess, and asks, and at what
[SPEAKER_08]: that holds this place like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: The greatest show.
[SPEAKER_07]: I could have been.
[SPEAKER_07]: But never was.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can join me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Join me.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I want to invoke my special ability right now to speak with statues.
[SPEAKER_07]: In this moment, you do hear this.
[SPEAKER_07]: But it is not the voice of Athena.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know the voice of Athena.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have heard it.
[SPEAKER_07]: How could you possibly forget?
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a mirror imitation, this is someone acting as the goddess herself.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think you hear just from as I'm walking further into the theater first of all he does reach down to grab one of the playbills, but for right now he calls out his voice boisterous in the theater falsehood, how dare you
[SPEAKER_05]: mimicry of the highest degree to the goddess herself of justice, of peace, and he starts moving faster towards the stage, lifting his torch like a club almost ready to strike.
[SPEAKER_05]: Speak now, creature, why, why lie in such a facade.
[SPEAKER_08]: Arian, despite all of the heavy conflict and tension between Atticus and himself, cannot help but be enchanted, be inspired by this man.
[SPEAKER_08]: Because that's what Syrians are.
[SPEAKER_08]: We are enchanted by mortals.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're enchanted by men.
[SPEAKER_08]: We long to be close to them, even so much as to drag them into the depths with us.
[SPEAKER_08]: And a rean is called to that.
[SPEAKER_08]: And as Atticus challenges the being, turns towards the statue, under the assumption that
[SPEAKER_08]: beckoning the soul out.
[SPEAKER_07]: In the statue, once animating, once speaking, once moving, slows and cracks freezes.
[SPEAKER_07]: And from it, almost like pulling plateau apart comes the spirit of a woman.
[SPEAKER_07]: She is in,
[SPEAKER_07]: Not too dissimilar clothing are on to what you were wearing earlier today.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's clearly a performer, one who haunts this place.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she is filled with sprites and anger.
[SPEAKER_07]: Atticus, this is the person who died at your feet.
[SPEAKER_05]: Spirit, why?
[SPEAKER_05]: Why do you linger?
[SPEAKER_05]: Why do not allow these people to go on and enjoy this theater?
[SPEAKER_07]: Her face is blackened, not like shadowed, but ashy, burnt crisp.
[SPEAKER_07]: When she speaks, it is with smoke and brimstone.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she says, why do you remain?
[SPEAKER_07]: Why do the portraits remain?
[SPEAKER_07]: Why did we tie?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is the real question you should ask?
[SPEAKER_07]: she hisses as she sort of decimates into smoke beneath her and you start to smell fire.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lou, you are currently hanging from a rope dislocated the statue which was underneath you has just set the building on fire and there is a angered ghost.
[SPEAKER_07]: They've pulled over one of the beams of wood and they're attempting to like pull you back to them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, yeah, let's do it and grab the wood that the ghost is trying to pull me backwards.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you look over the rope?
[SPEAKER_02]: Not until I'm secure on the wood.
[SPEAKER_07]: Roll for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Goal, injured, and clue.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I am going to roll a treble die.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bad idea, shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great, I'm going to put a two for the treble die.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to put nothing in injured.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to put a two for goal and I'm going to put a six for clue.
[SPEAKER_07]: You reach out to grab the wood and you manage to hold onto it and your other arm just sort of collapses behind you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, as the...
[SPEAKER_07]: Ghost is about to sort of, it looks like they're teetering between whether or not they want to help you or they want to harm you and you're never quite sure which one is which and just as they are about to push you off, lightning strikes through the roof onto you.
[SPEAKER_07]: A misguided bolt meant to hit someone else and your arm begins to petrify.
[SPEAKER_07]: Whatever force turned
[SPEAKER_07]: is attempting to strike something in here again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alex, you are up in the catwalk.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've been locked in, poisonous gasses, slowly pouring in.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've managed to make yourself a makeshift mask.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can still see everything above you.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, you are in a unique position because all of the lights are available to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: When you look down, you see the ghost clearly.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are traveling the feeder, they are setting the perimeter on fire.
[SPEAKER_07]: On the ground, the smoke is rising, and it's difficult to see, because you are literally in the smoke.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you can see above it all, so you can see what's happening.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's there another way that is not the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: That is the only way in and out.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's small, but she got a lot of anger in her heart.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's going to use that strength and it looks like it's going to charge the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's just the same kind of like plant kick.
[SPEAKER_06]: She knows how to break a door down.
[SPEAKER_06]: She gets right by the door handle and it just smashes the thing off its shitty hinges.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're able to scramble down and you see the person who sort of locked the door behind you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's another one of these ghosts that is there, but not there who is going about their previous life,
[SPEAKER_07]: flashes into these moments of aggression toward you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, what's your fucking deal?
[SPEAKER_07]: It turns behind you as it's actually holding onto like one of the spotlights and it moves the spotlight lit to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, okay, look I do you want to do this or you have to do this and If you've got an answer for me, it means you might not have to do this.
[SPEAKER_06]: If you don't have an answer I'm gonna assume that you don't have another choice and I'm If you want me to help you like fucking blink twice or something because Like nobody wants to be trapped like this the sage lady.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's probably shutters No fucking way
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, who's doing it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Can you show me?
[SPEAKER_07]: As they swivel the spotlight on two of the ghosts, sort of this charred ghost that is setting the building on fire and it is following it through the smoke.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I might be able to do something with that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to hold this fucking burning ghost and ask whole in place.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to use bind and command in combination.
[SPEAKER_07]: So magic, harm, goal.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to make the argument for special time because of the ghost aligning with me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ariana and Atticus.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have both been plunged into the smoke.
[SPEAKER_07]: You saw the flash of lightning above you and Atticus, you know what this is.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a clear sign of Athena's wrath.
[SPEAKER_05]: anything that would resemble a musician, like a major or a wizard or a witch or whatever.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nothing like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: However, I have been touched by that, pretty thorough.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I do have a word of power.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I feel like it is apical in this exact moment as the building goes up, smoke and flame.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I would like to not stop it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think I have that power.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I think I can maybe wrestle control over the flames that this ghost is trying to have.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I want to use my words of power.
[SPEAKER_05]: Stage fire is this exact words we used.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think that's very applicable since I am standing on this stage, holding my torch aloft as a theta is throwing down lightning.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you using any sort of device, any arcane, sort of crumboor, or some sort of magical thing to channel the magic?
[SPEAKER_05]: My torch, it's a symbol of hope and humanities like reaching towards something better, I think,
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a kind of our game tool.
[SPEAKER_07]: We always roll for magic.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to roll for goal, injured, scared.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, um, do you help them?
[SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to also assist because I would like to say I wrote a 543.
[SPEAKER_06]: So 5's going to magic.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I don't lose control of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then I have 43 for injury and goal.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will take the 3 in injury and the 4 towards goal for a mixed success.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I would like to put that towards an assist of like that and my source where you scale for 2 die for Atticus.
[SPEAKER_07]: The mixed success here is going to be that it's, it's an incomporial spirit.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are not as you have told us, experience and exorcisms, but describe how you have sort of held them in one place tried to.
[SPEAKER_06]: it's been binding command combined so it's the same like kind of left-hand and right-hand ship that she's been trying recently but this time she's layering on top but the plan that she's doing that kind of like goes around because I'm taking an injury on this at some point is that like it doesn't hold the way mortals hold I don't think she has an understanding of like the plane separation like maybe she wasn't paying attention maybe whatever she just doesn't have that
[SPEAKER_06]: And so, it's causing more strain to hold in place.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to take the exerted through your injury.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ariana, how are you helping?
[SPEAKER_08]: Ariana is watching Atticus do all of this in commanding fire, and the stray's boats, boats of lightning.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm certain Atticus has complicated feelings about what
[SPEAKER_08]: his song, actually tapping into his siren abilities, and calling to the spirit promising things, because that's what siren's do, if they promise things, they link to a deep ache within you and say that they can sue that, and that's exactly what Arie and those he sings to this
[SPEAKER_08]: poor afflicted spirit, they down your flames and rest with me, lay down your flames and be at peace, lay down and lay down your flames and rest with me, lay down your flames and be with me.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's just like calling, like trying to wall her over with the promise of comfort.
[SPEAKER_07]: With these two things I have occurred.
[SPEAKER_07]: the ghost attention is on alex, as you are holding them in place, and their back is turned to uaticus.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have, I think, three more dice to add to that pool.
[SPEAKER_05]: Three-fives and two-sixes.
[SPEAKER_05]: He holds the torch aloft into the theater, centering it.
[SPEAKER_05]: The light
[SPEAKER_05]: Ghost flying around is all of a sudden it clips by his own light from his torch as the flames that were burning are almost pulled into his torch and a brilliant burning flame it should be hot.
[SPEAKER_05]: It should be like incredibly burning to anyone who is near him as a giant fireball just hangs in his hand but instead of heat you just feel comfort as he pulls out whatever evil
[SPEAKER_07]: As the flames are pulled in, the smoke is pulled in swirling onto the stage, there are so many ghosts.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone who died is in the smoke.
[SPEAKER_07]: Drawn forward by you, by Alex, by Arion.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're ready.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're ready to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Atticus sees them and says,
[SPEAKER_05]: Please, return to the lands of what you, where you will settle peacefully, the fields that ask without, wait.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go ahead and attempt magic again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Definitely a scare, this is definitely a goal, this is definitely magic.
[SPEAKER_05]: Two fives in a six.
[SPEAKER_07]: You have made this claim to the people of the fire, now I need you to make a plea to Hades.
[SPEAKER_05]: O Father of the underworld, accept these souls, bring them into your home, show them the love that only you can give the dead, accept them with all.
[SPEAKER_05]: of your hope and all of your joy.
[SPEAKER_05]: He stomps with his right foot, horribly just loud and like a crack, a fissure opens on the stage.
[SPEAKER_05]: We don't have the time to get two coins, no owls are around, to put on all of these ghost eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: The least I could do is give them a fast track down straight to Haynes.
[SPEAKER_05]: He welcomed them in.
[SPEAKER_07]: all of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, they all go willingly, except for one.
[SPEAKER_07]: The ghost who was impersonating Athena, the one who is the Ingress, the one who died at your feet.
[SPEAKER_07]: She refuses to enter.
[SPEAKER_05]: You refuse the peaceful death that I have in willing to grant you.
[SPEAKER_05]: allow those that wish to leave and he kind of gestures to the three of them that are here and the spirits.
[SPEAKER_07]: You bargain with this being.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she looks over to the balcony.
[SPEAKER_07]: She looks to the stage.
[SPEAKER_07]: She looks up to Lou and she looks to the fire.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she says,
[SPEAKER_07]: you destroy the things that lived, they can go free, and then I will go down with the spirits.
[SPEAKER_07]: Only then will I take my rest.
[SPEAKER_05]: Very well.
[SPEAKER_05]: The contract has been set.
[SPEAKER_07]: She sort of waves her hand as the fire stops.
[SPEAKER_07]: She gives you a nod, and she disappears into a puff of smoke.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lou, your grip has tightened as it is turned to stone.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can pull yourself up onto the balcony or you can fall.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those are sort of our two options here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Beneath you are your allies and above you you are still traveling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kids, somebody catch me.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh God, Lou, yeah, don't hear, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna put my trust in my friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ariane, roll the catch loop.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is a goal and a injury.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm using command as I command the air to cushion your fall.
[SPEAKER_08]: Five for the result of magic.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, we got another five for the goal.
[SPEAKER_08]: Four for the injury.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, there we go.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're good, we're good.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oryan sees, though, gets on his knees so he can focus on the movement of air, so scarce with water.
[SPEAKER_08]: But begins to kind of like exhale, and we spell the spell, Rose will reach, and the sea flurry into the open cracks in the building, and try to cushion you as you fall.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's still not a fun ride down, but very least cushioned.
[SPEAKER_07]: Atticus, Lou is hedgefying, into stone, a bolt surely meant for you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Please, you know of this, don't you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it is, the cursed that has befallen me.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do we do?
[SPEAKER_05]: What can we do?
[SPEAKER_05]: She doesn't deserve this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have made promises to this spirit here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need that promise to be fulfilled.
[SPEAKER_05]: Take upon my burden.
[SPEAKER_05]: put to rest the evil that lived within this city.
[SPEAKER_05]: Those that caused this curse to harm any and all.
[SPEAKER_05]: and I will take upon this bird from your friend.
[SPEAKER_05]: With my voice, it is sealed.
[SPEAKER_05]: To safer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Atticus stands, holding his torch off a haloft, and walks over to loon.
[SPEAKER_05]: You will not suffer as I have, and touches your arm where the petrification is beginning.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'd like to take the petrification back into me, turning me back to a statue.
[SPEAKER_05]: Atticus.
[SPEAKER_07]: This, you can tell.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can feel as your last day on earth.
[SPEAKER_07]: This bolt, this opportunity to set the wrongs right and your choice to save Lou will free your soul to.
[SPEAKER_07]: As Hades calls to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: you can't see it.
[SPEAKER_05]: No one can perceive it.
[SPEAKER_05]: But the statue that was once calm and collected now has a slight kind of lift at the cheeks.
[SPEAKER_05]: A bit of a smile as the hand that is touching you Lou is is becoming already was stone but is becoming more rigid.
[SPEAKER_05]: You might want to move that as soon as you can.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the life that was in his eyes, it doesn't go away in a sad, almost, it was his time moment.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now his time was a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was 3,000 years ago.
[SPEAKER_05]: He was not meant to be in this world to live this long, to live in a haze.
[SPEAKER_05]: And finally, as long as you fulfill this promise, he is free.
[SPEAKER_08]: siren weeps for the memory of home, of a life he knew.
[SPEAKER_08]: And for the memory of a soul that was as enchanting as you, the siren weeps.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lou tries to move her arm from where Adikas is turning back into stone, but it is the one that has been dislocated.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then she grabs it with her other arm and like has to move it, not of its own accord.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she is crying for a different reason.
[SPEAKER_07]: We watch.
[SPEAKER_07]: Atticus's step from the statue, greeted by your mother, and brought down as the stage seals itself.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then we pan nice and slow over to Alex.
[SPEAKER_07]: Way off in the distance.
[SPEAKER_06]: Alex did not see that, Alex.
[SPEAKER_06]: After, what's her rich went away?
[SPEAKER_06]: Alex like fucking drop to her knees against the railing, and there is like a stream of blood coming from her nose, and she is just like, limply hanging, like arms over the railing, it's just like... Gus.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's just gonna hurt each for a second.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then very before she lights it, she thinks about where she is.
[SPEAKER_06]: It takes it out of her mouth and puts it back in her pocket.
[SPEAKER_06]: As soon as you get A looks down from there, and she sees that Lou has a dislocated shoulder.
[SPEAKER_06]: The first thing she's going to do is just pass her her wallet.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like, fight this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't like where this is going, but okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's okay, my idea.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just lean into me.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's your bubble.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or should our server rolls?
[SPEAKER_08]: Just lean into me, listen to my sweet voice.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to forget that you owe me a bunch of money and I'm going to buy you drinks tonight, okay?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not?
[SPEAKER_06]: Just not?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, what's your favorite drink again?
[SPEAKER_01]: I just just read, just read.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're going to have a little montage at the end here as we approach our drag queen, Ms. Cherry, who pays us, because we perform the exerciseism.
[SPEAKER_07]: Whether or not you have fulfilled the goal that you have been promised to Arion, the ghost has stopped haunting everyone who enters the building.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't know how long you have until that begins again, but for now, everyone is safe.
[SPEAKER_02]: the amount of money seems to be a rather large sum of money.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm sure it was going to be split.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm sure that there's enough that Lou gets to pay off the debt to Alex.
[SPEAKER_07]: For now.
[SPEAKER_07]: And those those stacks of tips coming out, all ones.
[SPEAKER_06]: She doesn't know how it
[SPEAKER_06]: But she can feel like whatever happened, even if they explained it to her, like it doesn't convey like
[SPEAKER_06]: exactly the emotion, but she like picks up on some of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so I think there's a couple of things.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think this is another stressful scenario, the first thing that she's going to do is immediately the same thing she did after her last stressful scenario, because she still hasn't really had that resolved, and so she's going to have a night where she goes out, gets absolutely fucking lit and goes home with a relative stranger and walks of shame back home the next day.
[SPEAKER_06]: The other thing is that the next time,
[SPEAKER_06]: that Orion has their show and does disco.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's going to take the earplugs out for it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And she's going to grimace through it, but she's going to listen.
[SPEAKER_08]: As most Greek figures gets pulled into a...
[SPEAKER_08]: a quiet melancholy for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think there are multiple opportunities where Ariane goes back to the Roosevelt Pearl to look at Atticus, leave trinkets, and then go.
[SPEAKER_08]: But he's done it again, where he's promised an aspect of himself to immortal.
[SPEAKER_08]: It is a very, very bad habit that he is forming.
[SPEAKER_08]: for Atticus?
[SPEAKER_08]: Perhaps he'll be worth it.
[SPEAKER_08]: As he, I think, sits by the beach.
[SPEAKER_08]: Close to our house, because it's overlooking the beach in the ocean.
[SPEAKER_08]: Leeds over the tensing and looks out as he thinks of what cruel hand could have orchestrated the doom of all those people.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we see it flashes at this montage as we end with a final one on the Sun.
[SPEAKER_07]: rising onto Atticus's stone body.
[SPEAKER_02]: This series stars Alexander Christopher as the Game Master, valiant Dorian, as Aryan, Dan Pixel, as A-Lix Cho, and Kenzie Tartaglioni as Lou Wells.
[SPEAKER_02]: This episode's guest star was Logan, as Atticus.
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