[SPEAKER_02]: This season of 5 GM's in a trench coat deals with themes of loneliness, loss, the paranormal, growing older, confrontation, parental pressures, reconciliation, teenage genannigans, illusions to being people of color in the 80s and hope.
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[SPEAKER_16]: Hello everybody and welcome to 5G.
[SPEAKER_16]: I'm Zena Trenchcoat season 5 from Inside the Tent.
[SPEAKER_16]: Today we have four fantastic guests we're going to be telling a little story outside of Oklahoma.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's a sticky hot summer day and I think these souls of your shoes are heating up so much CJ that you feel it's almost like your barefoot is on asphalt even though it's so not you've been waiting a little longer than I think you intended to.
[SPEAKER_16]: What's going on in your mind can you describe yourself and can you tell me what emotion you wear on your face in this moment?
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, yeah, CJ is standing there, he's a little bit frustrated, but he's fidgeting with this very oversized camcorder camera that he rented out from the school.
[SPEAKER_14]: He's a bit of a rotundude, a darker skin, he just wears simple clothes, jeans, black shoes, but it's always a wrestling tee and a backwards hat.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's just kind of his neutral.
[SPEAKER_14]: He's waiting for the rest of the group because time tables are a major thing and he won't catch us the light And he doesn't really want to be doing this with anyone per se, but for his final he's got to need the extra hands So he's just standing next to his car.
[SPEAKER_14]: It kind of just
[SPEAKER_14]: But again, fidgeting with his equipment and motoring to himself, just, okay, I, so, um, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, I mean, I need just, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have, I'd have,
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, as you are hunched over, kind of taking the trunk, the mixture of sweat and humidity itself kind of stings your eyes and just runs down your face, making the pits of your arms and enemies kind of this uncomfortable amalgamation of, um,
[SPEAKER_16]: just your, your own existence in this space.
[SPEAKER_16]: Behind you, I think running a little bit late, I don't know how disheveled or what the energy is, but lock, can you give us a, can you paint us a picture?
[SPEAKER_16]: You're coming in again.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's, it's this war thing.
[SPEAKER_16]: And you are later than you're supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but you know what, Locke?
[SPEAKER_05]: Of course, he does not look to shovel.
[SPEAKER_05]: Locke always looks good, leaving his door.
[SPEAKER_05]: He has Steve Harrington style hair that parts of the bangs are sticking to his forehead because of how hot it is right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got a nice pair of black shades.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got a red, curchiff around his neck, wearing, even despite the heat, but you can't, you can't forsake the look like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: You gotta commit to the bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he is wearing a long sleeve denim jacket covered in various band patches, a slim white tee underneath that jacket tucked into a pair of blue jeans with a thick black belt is wearing black chuck tailors, which probably is not ideal for crossing hot pavement this time of year.
[SPEAKER_05]: But he looks rare and ready to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: He heard this might involve trespassing on Property of some kind and that sounds like a good time to him So he is striding across this parking lot not even worried about the fact that he's late.
[SPEAKER_05]: Does not care Yo, CJ, what's up?
[SPEAKER_14]: It's going on.
[SPEAKER_14]: Hey, you're You're late
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like a few minutes, not a big deal.
[SPEAKER_14]: A few minutes is the difference between as having enough light and not enough.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_14]: We got, probably.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll get a watch.
[SPEAKER_14]: No, you won't.
[SPEAKER_05]: I won't.
[SPEAKER_14]: Do we favor, can you grab that bag and put it in the trunk?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_14]: Be careful.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll be careful.
[SPEAKER_16]: There's a lot of clunk as lock move the bag into the trunk not nearly as careful as you would have white okay and what I have to assume trailing not too far behind lock would be towed yes
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, that way, I'm going to just hold in these pants.
[SPEAKER_07]: I forgot the belt.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, no, I felt that the loop is not in.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then just running cross, pulling his pants up a little higher because he did miss a couple of loops.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he's like slowly taking it apart, running, putting it through the loop, missing it a few times.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you're like, I'm sure, I know I have a loop there.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then like, still running with his backpack and stuff behind lock.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, the three of you kind of gather together as was mentioned there may or may not be some trespassing into the old abandoned and an apparently haunted house down the way off Oklahoma Highway 3 at the Oliander house.
[SPEAKER_16]: You wanted to shoot a short film or something here.
[SPEAKER_16]: for a final project.
[SPEAKER_16]: What exactly drew you to this place, CJ?
[SPEAKER_14]: So, a lot of the landscape is very wide and open.
[SPEAKER_14]: in those cases unless you paned to a certain part of the area which is very dense spores.
[SPEAKER_14]: I also heard that there was a driveway that kind of pulls you into the area and that might be really good for some b-roll.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's just particularly scenic, which is very unusual for where we live.
[SPEAKER_14]: So, um, and then honestly, you know what, shock and horror gets the people going,
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you know for sure at the least there's intrigue that comes along with a place like this.
[SPEAKER_16]: How do all three of you feel about things like haunted houses and the like?
[SPEAKER_14]: So it's funny that you asked.
[SPEAKER_14]: CJ is canonically banned from a haunted house in southern or
[SPEAKER_14]: Because of the fact that he is so skittish, his dad thought it would be funny to take him there as they were going to the Universal Studios.
[SPEAKER_14]: And there was a particular section that he guesses was filled with punching bags, but there was a black strobe like that was happening.
[SPEAKER_14]: and he could have sworn somebody ran up to him and whispered in his ear and a knee-jerk reaction he accidentally smacked the haunted house performer.
[SPEAKER_14]: They were both immediately escorted out as the haunted house performer was nursing a bloody nose.
[SPEAKER_14]: So, um, I don't vibe, but I mean if it gets my shot, I'll do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think Locke on the other hand doesn't necessarily take it seriously.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's from the governor's son, so he lives in a more privileged part of town with lots of landmarks and things like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: The kind of place where people are constantly going on tours and talking about what buildings are haunted and getting all the history behind it, and it's just
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just another excuse for entertainment for just, you know, something spooky to happen when it's kind of all, you know, just taking long walks with big groups of people.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he's not necessarily, he doesn't necessarily buy in, but he doesn't necessarily discount it either.
[SPEAKER_07]: but they are indenial and they really want to stay with this group because this is their first year in college.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the number one rule is, you find your friends first year and then you stick by them for all three years.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what he's feeling like.
[SPEAKER_07]: How would he wants to really, he wants to see them?
[SPEAKER_07]: part of the fabric of the world, like that you don't need a touch it or an interact with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you don't need a mess with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's, you know, it's there.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like animals out there.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just let them do their thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: But he wants to believe they don't exist because I know you will make him sleep better at night.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he's just sitting here like anxiously like,
[SPEAKER_16]: The three of you pile into this car.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, which is like tell us what kind of card is CJ.
[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, God, yes, I would.
[SPEAKER_14]: Uh, it is a 1982 Pontiac Trends and Firebird.
[SPEAKER_14]: Um, it is vindictive of the Devil Hasselhoff Show Nightwriter.
[SPEAKER_14]: Um, it is is all gloss black.
[SPEAKER_14]: The interior has been read decked out just the dash, uh, with all of the proper electrical.
[SPEAKER_14]: We're waiting for the steering wheel to come in, but it cost $500 and honestly I don't have the cheese right now.
[SPEAKER_14]: But the back panel does have the carbon fiber tip to the rear view lights which I cut myself fiberglass and I did put the red scope on the front of a tube so there's a small little button on the center console when you press it and the front light goes woohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoohoo
[SPEAKER_16]: Corvette engineered which was switched out to more so something with an aggressive feel and the tires are a little bit bigger because they were cheaper to buy You all pile into this vehicle that it clearly has a lot of love put into it although I don't know of Tode and Locke can really pick out just how much love has been put into a vehicle like this This is really No, should open this door stop what do you okay?
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, okay, everyone get out of the car
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_07]: Shit, all right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do I not sit in the middle?
[SPEAKER_07]: We have a set in the middle.
[SPEAKER_14]: We have a set of rules here, okay?
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I'm already, I got, I got the big cup.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's like, it's CJ physically puts his shirt over his mouth to prevent him from screaming.
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, the interior is all basic leather, please.
[SPEAKER_14]: Just being very careful, like, I took some time with my dad.
[SPEAKER_07]: Isn't that an all-course?
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, I think sometimes it is, but it's not, but I had to repurpose a lot of it.
[SPEAKER_14]: Just please don't, just don't spill it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, okay, got it, got it, got it, okay.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's a two door, so he has to push the, the front seat so you could crawl in for the, for the back.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I really have to sit in the back seat.
[SPEAKER_05]: As you were spouting off the Rolls lock was preparing to put his feet fully on the dash and then sees how serious you are
[SPEAKER_05]: I was stretching, I was stretching, I was stretching.
[SPEAKER_14]: All right, no, it's fine, it's fine, like just like, you know what's acceptable?
[SPEAKER_07]: To put it in the back is like make eye contact with lock through the mirror, just like it was acceptable out the window.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_14]: If you can do that.
[SPEAKER_14]: All right, yeah, okay, yeah, here we go.
[SPEAKER_14]: This is the whole, thank you.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's all like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rattling ice cubes in this big bowl.
[SPEAKER_14]: And out of it, tears off.
[SPEAKER_16]: Oh my god, the car roars awake and tears off into the waves of heat that you can all kind of see being almost made allusory before you.
[SPEAKER_16]: The only weird thing about this as it tears off is that it feels like you all have gone down this road before.
[SPEAKER_16]: I would like all three of you to make me some kind of mental role.
[SPEAKER_16]: You can pick whether it's brains or whatever it may be.
[SPEAKER_16]: But I would like all three of you to make a role for me, please.
[SPEAKER_05]: I rolled a D10 for my brains and I got a 6.
[SPEAKER_14]: Mine is a D12 and I got a 10.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have a D8 and a got a 3.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, lock and CJ you have this kind of a prickle at the back of your neck and you shake it off Um, just nerves driving as always kind of wonky the car roared to life a little more than you expected lock and CJ that freak almost put their feet on the front here on the I said I was sorry Yeah, but you keep it you keep doing it
[SPEAKER_05]: as my feet are actively up.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a reflex.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm so happy.
[SPEAKER_16]: Trying to look so cool all the time.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's so hard.
[SPEAKER_16]: But on the other end, we have Tode, who back here alone.
[SPEAKER_16]: for a moment your the size of your legs get sticky as if you're sitting directly next to people and you kind of pull them aside just look around it's just you back here and then as you look around your friends aren't in the car and it's this it's nighttime the doors are open you see these lightbugs kind of filter around outside it's this odd scene and these there's
[SPEAKER_16]: that are a little bigger than all the other light bulbs that kind of stay fixed directly in front of the car.
[SPEAKER_16]: You hear footsteps that sound like your friends.
[SPEAKER_16]: And then you're in the car.
[SPEAKER_16]: And you're not quite sure what just happened.
[SPEAKER_16]: Maybe it was just nerves to it.
[SPEAKER_16]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Powed at first seeing that the place was empty just like guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: Guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's loud.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah?
[SPEAKER_08]: It wasn't a while, just a second that could be a kid.
[SPEAKER_05]: No offense.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I like the roar of the engine.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's phenomenal.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm also listening to the music very loudly.
[SPEAKER_14]: I could turn it down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, no, no, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm here to be with the vibe.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're just fully looking even though, like, reach in, like, he's a bigger guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he will like hold the seat to kind of, kind of hear the music more and almost like pull the seat a little bit back because he's like, whoa.
[SPEAKER_07]: Making sure the doors are locked.
[SPEAKER_04]: The leather.
[SPEAKER_07]: The leather.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I wouldn't the door smell.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, no, no, bugs.
[SPEAKER_08]: What?
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, nothing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're just gonna focus on the room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_07]: Headbobbing while sipping their large soda.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we're all headbobbing.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you three continue on your journey down.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's kind of just a long stretch of road to get there.
[SPEAKER_16]: But cutting away, Ronda, there's something so special and incredibly fleeting about your last summer right before you enter full on adulthood.
[SPEAKER_16]: college is sweet, but it's still school, and it's this kind of slice of like, wow, I'm an adult, but I still get to exist in a space in which there's like this control and expectation of what my day to day is going to be.
[SPEAKER_16]: You sign up for your classes.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you sign up for your classes.
[SPEAKER_16]: You get everything ready.
[SPEAKER_16]: You know how each week should go, you know how each month should go.
[SPEAKER_16]: You're not going to get laid off from college as long as you kind of show up every day.
[SPEAKER_16]: and that is so ever present as this is verifiably the last time, at least unless you go beyond your undergrad that you'll be taking a summer and then going back to school.
[SPEAKER_16]: The next time you fill this kind of heat and this level of uncomfortability where there's just kind of
[SPEAKER_16]: pressing of your clothes on you right where your socks meet your ankles and where your waistband meets your hips they're going to be red and uncomfortable and maybe even rash because this time of year is wonderful but is a lot and again all of that might happen and you might still have to go to work how do you feel and where are you going and can you introduce yourself?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, Rhonda is in her dorm room.
[SPEAKER_11]: She has short brown hair.
[SPEAKER_11]: She's a short woman with feminine figure, kind of beige tan skin.
[SPEAKER_11]: brown eyes, she's wearing these blue pants with match suspenders and a yellow and blue shirt.
[SPEAKER_11]: And she, she has got the radio on really loud in the dorm room.
[SPEAKER_11]: and she's listening to full-in.
[SPEAKER_11]: So, so full-in.
[SPEAKER_11]: And she's like rocking out.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then she looks at the clock.
[SPEAKER_11]: Aw shit, I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_11]: Grab's her bag.
[SPEAKER_11]: Runs out to the parking lot.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, where's my keys?
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, I've got it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Opens up her dusty, great, old-smobile.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know, hops in, turns on the radio, turns on the car, and rock the night by Europe starts playing, all right, all right, we got this, we are, we are good, this is going to be just fine, everything's going to be fine, peels out.
[SPEAKER_11]: and she just like starts kind of without even missing a beat just jumping into like whoa you want to rock now rock tonight and just like all worries outside of her head for just this moment as she drives just a little bit too fast down Highway 3
[SPEAKER_16]: amazing.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda and CJ, your fates are inevitably entwined as when the senior ronda stepped up to offer to be liais on, to allow the freshman to check out some pretty high-level equipment stuff that they usually don't even let sophomores check out.
[SPEAKER_16]: This is important to the two of you for a lot of reasons.
[SPEAKER_16]: You likely aren't even really that close, but it's just the situation of like, well they're doing me the solid.
[SPEAKER_16]: you're all for on your way now to some extent Ronda, you're rocking it solo, listening to some of your favorite tunes.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's nice to drive by yourself.
[SPEAKER_16]: Windows down.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, the radio is loud enough that there is a risk of the speaker's blowing.
[SPEAKER_16]: That's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_16]: And you drive radio so loud when does down the speaker's may blow.
[SPEAKER_16]: And you head your way to meet these three freshmen.
[SPEAKER_16]: CJ, Tode, lock, tell me.
[SPEAKER_16]: How, what is it, what is it like in this car?
[SPEAKER_07]: As soon as Whitney comes on, Tode is singing full, like the highest note he can do which is not possible.
[SPEAKER_07]: But it's just like, just, you know, just in the front of the back seat.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna join you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not gonna leave you hanging like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not gonna let you sing alone.
[SPEAKER_14]: Oh no, we're all here.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're all here.
[SPEAKER_16]: Whitney comes on, you participate.
[SPEAKER_05]: Whitney is real.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: all three of you sing along to some Whitney Houston.
[SPEAKER_16]: And Todd, I think with your friends joining it and kind of taking away what could have been a pseudo embarrassing moment and making it this enjoyable kind of road trip friendship situation here.
[SPEAKER_16]: You kind of, you're lost in it.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's nice to be in a space where you're just kind of just jammed along for a bit.
[SPEAKER_16]: You did have maybe a momentary lapse of mental fortitude there, but you're back, you're good, you're singing.
[SPEAKER_16]: CJ, how would you sing, do you close your eyes and how well do you keep your eyes on the road when you're jamming out like this?
[SPEAKER_14]: It depends on the road we're on.
[SPEAKER_14]: If it's a log stretch and the moments hit, there is a moment to where CJ kind of just gently and he's just like, Oh, I want to die.
[SPEAKER_12]: I want to be with you.
[SPEAKER_14]: OK. OK. Yeah.
[SPEAKER_14]: Ah, shit.
[SPEAKER_14]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_14]: What it happens?
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, as you kind of you jam out a little a little harder than maybe you should as the person who's driving you kind of quickly glance back seeing a
[SPEAKER_16]: an animal dart in front of you.
[SPEAKER_16]: Could you roll me?
[SPEAKER_16]: I'll let you pick but some kind of physical stat I think to kind of erect the car and move it out of the way from hitting this thing.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm gonna pick a fight, which gives me the best fighting chance.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's a detain and I got a seven.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you actually fully swirled out of the way of what you now see is this kind of matted fur covered.
[SPEAKER_16]: five foot high at the shoulders.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's on all fours kind of beast.
[SPEAKER_16]: You only see the back end of it.
[SPEAKER_16]: It would almost kind of betray itself as a bear if not for the way the legs bent and moved as if it were a two-legged pretending to be a four-legged in a sense.
[SPEAKER_16]: And it's across the road in the other side of the forest away from you and you're still driving the car You just served and kept going but you all kind of get a glimpse at whatever that was You guys CCJ kind of like double back like while you guys are driving away and he's straight to crazy Just all that right Yeah What the fuck What was oh Don't do that don't do that again
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, what's your problem?
[SPEAKER_14]: What's your kind of kid hate it?
[SPEAKER_14]: Like that, uh...
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm assuming the fireworks like backseat is pretty much a little bit lower, like a CJ, like if you're in the front, the toe is just like, what did you see?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: What the hell?
[SPEAKER_14]: It's fake.
[SPEAKER_14]: Come up.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm sorry, it was fake.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bugs.
[SPEAKER_05]: oh big yeah are there bears around here like bear we have a bear problem I mean maybe there's a problem maybe it's just a bear oh that's what I'm saying do we have bears in this state still driving still very loud like it's I didn't I mean it's I don't know honestly but we're good right cars good everybody's good told you told you good
[SPEAKER_05]: It's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good, it's good
[SPEAKER_16]: a bit of viscera spatter's up the side of the car um hitting a bit of uh your window CJ as uh you again a bit distracted appear to have run something over and the review you quickly see it was just the carcass of something but a bit of it is on your car now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did CJ see that he goes, oh, in the back all just like as soon as CJ screams, what did you hit?
[SPEAKER_13]: It's just kind of trivial, okay?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm sure you didn't get anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sure it's fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm looking in the rear view mirror to see if I can see what ever is left of it.
[SPEAKER_16]: Oh, it's a deer.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a deer.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, it's a deer.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it was already there.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not your fault.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was already in the rear view.
[SPEAKER_14]: Realizing that a petition could be a deer, I pull the car over.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's nothing you could do.
[SPEAKER_14]: What do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_05]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll take a breath.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Take a breath.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, just dead.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's just fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just take a breath.
[SPEAKER_14]: Just every one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Stay in the car.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not moving.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't move.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lock.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just stay.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just take a go.
[SPEAKER_12]: Lock it out to check to see, you know, how bad it is.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, the car itself is fine.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, the, all the visceral and blood is just kind of spattered amongst the wheels on the underside uh, and a bit up the door and just at the edges of the window.
[SPEAKER_16]: Whatever it was like, it, it, it had been there.
[SPEAKER_16]: Uh, it wasn't like, uh, it doesn't smell fresh either.
[SPEAKER_14]: From the inside of the car, towed in lock.
[SPEAKER_14]: You could, no, like, he's still on the outside of the car.
[SPEAKER_14]: You just hear this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, let him get you got a look.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you dying?
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you dying?
[SPEAKER_07]: Just tapping on the window.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's got to get this out of his system.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you dying?
[SPEAKER_05]: We got to let him have this.
[SPEAKER_07]: You want this to come out?
[SPEAKER_05]: This is part of the process.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Get it out, buddy.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Deep breaths.
[SPEAKER_07]: Deep breaths.
[SPEAKER_05]: Deep breaths.
[SPEAKER_12]: Deep breaths.
[SPEAKER_07]: Deep breaths.
[SPEAKER_05]: Deep breaths.
[SPEAKER_07]: Deep breaths.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I feel our bodies are just like, like, just press it.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, I can't do that as the car kind of takes off again.
[SPEAKER_16]: The three of you sit here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just holding their drink like, okay, we're going.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I spill the snow, it's going to be bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're just not trying to make eye contact in the mirror.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like, yeah, I have this.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have a hold on this lid and everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm going to drink a little bit more, even though I need to pee possibly soon.
[SPEAKER_07]: just until you hear like a good like empty of the cup just like yep yep you see finish it not a spot drop not a drop on this basic leather
[SPEAKER_16]: that us but drop you three pull off the highway and into this kind of long winding road CJU kind of had the map or at least had lock have the map up knowing mostly in the direction you're going.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's this beaten path, it's nothing.
[SPEAKER_16]: The car can't handle just maybe a little bumpier than you would have preferred as you kind of took over little bits of hill and
[SPEAKER_16]: I think now for all three of you, the smell of whatever you had run over is creeping into your nose as it's making its way into the car, just the scent of it being kind of surrounded by it.
[SPEAKER_16]: It stings and has this like a bit of punch and say that's just pretty unpleasant, you know, a car gets baking on the asphalt never smells good.
[SPEAKER_16]: You three pull up ahead and see Ronda's car waiting for you, uh, the older student who had to kind of take you guys on and be the Shaperone to ensure that you could bring the equipment you did.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's been a wild, uh, not even really wild.
[SPEAKER_16]: Just, uh,
[SPEAKER_16]: a long drive.
[SPEAKER_16]: Some in the convenience is almost totally at the car and then running something over and now you have to take it through a car wash at the least and you're probably going to have to get in there, like down under the car and really getting in there to scrape off all the bits and really clean it.
[SPEAKER_16]: Told you had that bit of that moment of misremembering or maybe even premonition.
[SPEAKER_16]: I would like all three of you again to give me another kind of mental role and you can
[SPEAKER_13]: I got a 16.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that was in 11.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got a 7.
[SPEAKER_16]: That's actually fairly good for all of you.
[SPEAKER_16]: You all have again this moment of it almost feels like.
[SPEAKER_16]: Uh, being zapped by a, um, some kind of battery, like if you actually touch the to what fingers the side of a battery, or if, uh, you, your friend convinced you to, to look a battery or something, um, you all have this, this zap, this moment.
[SPEAKER_16]: of dread.
[SPEAKER_16]: You each smell metal that smell of rotting is gone for just a moment and there's just the scent of fresh kind of creeping iron.
[SPEAKER_16]: you all come back to, you don't drift in that too long.
[SPEAKER_16]: And yeah, you're here and you see the Rhonda's car, but ahead of you, you've kind of parked just outside of this large kind of brick and laid home that is supposed to be quite haunted the early ender house.
[SPEAKER_15]: You guys invite Rhonda?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, Rhonda, Rhonda's, I did not, but Rhonda's fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Rhonda's fine, yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: I have a problem with Rhonda's.
[SPEAKER_12]: Rhonda's trying to hear that.
[SPEAKER_05]: She'll be, she'll be into it, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think as y'all, we need to walk up.
[SPEAKER_11]: I overhear this conversation.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I pull out a paper from my pocket.
[SPEAKER_11]: Y'all don't remember that I'm the one that signed off on this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it's been a bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: I did.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, listen, it's gonna be fun.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
[SPEAKER_11]: Y'all be hey, then don't get me fired.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, I'm gonna get you fired.
[SPEAKER_05]: What are you planning to do?
[SPEAKER_05]: Plenty of light.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's fine about that?
[SPEAKER_05]: Five minutes did not make the difference.
[SPEAKER_14]: I've got things to light because I assume we would film in the dark a little bit.
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's do this Yeah, yeah, let's go lock
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, so what do I do?
[SPEAKER_05]: Should I just start yelling for things to come out?
[SPEAKER_05]: Are we going?
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you want me to do?
[SPEAKER_05]: What's my goal?
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's get them get out by themselves, you know?
[SPEAKER_05]: So wait, like, you're looking for something.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, how about I check the structural integrity of the house, you know?
[SPEAKER_13]: It's brick.
[SPEAKER_13]: house.
[SPEAKER_07]: Toad is now dancing just in a bag.
[SPEAKER_07]: House house.
[SPEAKER_07]: As Ronda goes forward.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, just a couch piece of cake.
[SPEAKER_11]: I find a window to look through first to make sure there's nobody camping out.
[SPEAKER_11]: that we should be aware of.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you kind of peek through this window and it.
[SPEAKER_16]: Just this empty, what you can tell kind of disheveled and even bits of rotting house.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see kind of like wood giving or bending and even little kind of pot holes within the wood itself.
[SPEAKER_16]: The house itself still has bits of furniture, tattered and kind of beat up at this point.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see a couple of bottles in there, probably some kids had stayed here before, but it doesn't look like anyone's currently taken up residency in this home.
[SPEAKER_11]: all right y'all come on in um you want me to do that yet sure watch your set I've got a first aid kit but uh that's not really gonna help if you break any bones so uh try not to fall through the floor is the door locked or unlocked um the door is unlocked
[SPEAKER_05]: Unlocked, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lock is a little sad at a missed opportunity to like Jimmy open a door, but I guess he'll just open the door like a normal person, which is not fun.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, as you open the door opens, and then there's kind of this beat.
[SPEAKER_16]: What's the configuration of everybody?
[SPEAKER_16]: How are we all standing?
[SPEAKER_16]: Behind Lock.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm right in front of the door.
[SPEAKER_11]: Rhonda's letting the younger students go first, it is their project after all.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, and CJ would be towards the back because he's filming everything.
[SPEAKER_14]: He's got like this big old Panasonic VHS camera, like on his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's like, oh, that's good.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, but it's swing it from the side.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, it's good.
[SPEAKER_12]: Good angle.
[SPEAKER_12]: Fuck.
[SPEAKER_16]: you have opened it, we have a good angle, and all four of you kind of his noise from somewhere in the forest around you.
[SPEAKER_16]: The four of you make your way in.
[SPEAKER_16]: What exactly are you looking to get out of this shoot here, CJ?
[SPEAKER_14]: Maybe some like good sweeping shots if something happens it happens I don't know like I kind of I've got
[SPEAKER_14]: Well, I mean, so I went to the magic shop and so I got like these things that are like, I could throw and they make noises that kind of like poppers and we could be like, ah, there's nothing's here.
[SPEAKER_14]: Nothing's, it's just a, you know, building.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, maybe catch some orbs in the camera and then make a story out of it.
[SPEAKER_14]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_14]: Hey, Toad.
[SPEAKER_14]: Why don't you like stand in the middle of all right and stop here as a flashlight and just stand in the middle of the room and I don't know provoked the demons.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what we're doing Demon Demon Stame Hold on, I'll inform once again.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're chess, you got the demons, it's me, it's me, it's me, it's me, it's me too.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_10]: If y'all get me curse, I'm coming.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm reporting it to you again.
[SPEAKER_10]: Curse, you can get curse.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nobody said that being cursed as you kind of.
[SPEAKER_16]: Cool curse mountain to this page of curse and lock offers up the chance of a cool curse.
[SPEAKER_16]: The ground below you kind of soggy with rots starts to give a bit toe to toe to go ahead and give me a probably a flight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, it's a, it's a 10 on a D 10.
[SPEAKER_16]: Oh, you get to re-roll or you get to roll and add that to it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It exploded at 13 total.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, so the ground below you gives, but with a 13, maybe in a burst of the most athleticism you've ever experienced, uh, you dodged out of the door.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna see that's what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_07]: No curse.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it just starts karate chopping the air.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just no curse.
[SPEAKER_07]: No curse.
[SPEAKER_14]: No, that was curse.
[SPEAKER_14]: That was good.
[SPEAKER_14]: Did you do that?
[SPEAKER_07]: What was that?
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't do that.
[SPEAKER_14]: Look at the flocking weight.
[SPEAKER_14]: Like I assume that you kind of like bounced on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, now they're hugging the wall full on hands on the wall No, it's an old house.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's gonna have.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I didn't do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, the house is don't do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, the house is when did that happen?
[SPEAKER_16]: Demon.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda.
[SPEAKER_16]: Can you give me some kind of intelligence or mental role, please?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah
[SPEAKER_10]: That's an eight.
[SPEAKER_16]: That spot that gave a lot of it has already kind of crumbled into the floor below, but there's bits of it that are kind of still around like the outer edge of what caved in here.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see that it is discolored on like the rest of the wood, and even maybe a bit wet, or I guess would say it has been soaked through, but the
[SPEAKER_16]: It itself, the wood itself is this kind of stained almost like brown black color with something that's caked over and has dried.
[SPEAKER_16]: In a nasty fashion.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, you see that, that moisture, that, uh, yeah, that dark spot there, that, it's probably some kind of rot, um, probably somebody camped out here and spilled something and didn't clean it up.
[SPEAKER_14]: Old hand.
[SPEAKER_14]: Bad.
[SPEAKER_11]: Not a big deal.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm sorry, I don't know why I said that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Listen, I, you're calling me, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you, I'm calling you
[SPEAKER_16]: It's repetitive and it kind of sounds like maybe something is moving against the outer wall of this building.
[SPEAKER_14]: Is it like skittering or is it like a... Like how...
[SPEAKER_04]: It's repetitive like... Yo, what if it's a bear?
[SPEAKER_13]: If it's a bear, why would you want to go check on it?
[SPEAKER_11]: So we know what we're up here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, y'all probably told some of you friends.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're going to be out here and they're trying to scare the crap out of you.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's probably nothing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, what if I go scare the crap out of them instead?
[SPEAKER_05]: That'll be funny, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: What if it's a bear?
[SPEAKER_08]: You're not going to do that.
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys long as nobody gets hurt?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Go for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are there windows on the wall that we're talking about?
[SPEAKER_08]: It's going to be a deer.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's going to be a bear.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yes, there are it's I would say so it is just the long out like outer edge of the building itself But if you like we're talking to the kitchen you do see there's like a bit of light from like the now setting sign and coming in that window I'm gonna look at the window just to see what it might be you kind of peek out the window and you don't see anything the noise at this point From your walk over his kind of Subsided you don't quite hear anything you look out there
[SPEAKER_16]: Do see, just then the kind of line of the forest line, Tufts of fur, and maybe it's kind of far, but maybe a bit of this fleshy pinkness, with a little specks of light throughout it, kind of clumped up.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can't really tell what it is.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bear?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it moving?
[SPEAKER_16]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: A Hamless Bear.
[SPEAKER_05]: A hairless dead bearer?
[SPEAKER_07]: A hairless dead bearer?
[SPEAKER_07]: You are saying the worst adjectives.
[SPEAKER_05]: I never, I never, I never expected to see those words in that order, but that's what I'm seeing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, it's gotta be something else.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, and I go over it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, come on, come look, it's weird.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can't really, it's far.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, Rhonda, you look out, you kind of peeked down this way.
[SPEAKER_16]: Go ahead and give me a brain roll.
[SPEAKER_16]: I want to see if you can kind of put two and two together and what this might be.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's a three.
[SPEAKER_16]: You squint out, and again, there's just this clump of fleshy pinkness, a bit of matted for some white specs here there.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's just this amalgamation.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's just a clump from what you can see from here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, that, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: It's probably just diseased or something.
[SPEAKER_11]: Don't, don't grid its attention.
[SPEAKER_13]: I'm not diseased hairless bear.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's dead.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's obviously not dead in moving.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hode still hugging the wall.
[SPEAKER_11]: Listen, if it's too much for y'all, we can always go back.
[SPEAKER_11]: We should just probably wait till the bear moves on.
[SPEAKER_16]: Wait, wait, wait, wait.
[SPEAKER_11]: This is cool.
[SPEAKER_16]: I want to see what's up my face.
[SPEAKER_16]: As you say that, uh, lock, you all hear kind of Abandoned upstairs as weight shifts somewhere.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, it is an old house maybe it's just shifting.
[SPEAKER_05]: Shit, um, Did you hear that?
[SPEAKER_08]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go look upstairs.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll come with you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Old house, okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: Structure issues, y'all down here.
[SPEAKER_11]: Be careful, please.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think, I think as luck goes to go upstairs, he does not want to worry Ronda, but from his front pocket, like since he's facing away from Ronda,
[SPEAKER_05]: He does take out his pocket and just because it's like that weird feeling like yeah, it's probably nothing But what if it's something and so he does have his pocket knife in his hand Wait, wait, wait.
[SPEAKER_13]: Round up.
[SPEAKER_13]: Wait, wait.
[SPEAKER_13]: Here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_13]: Take take the camera.
[SPEAKER_13]: Just a case.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I'd be doing?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'd be doing a project for a UCJ.
[SPEAKER_16]: Shut up, lock, you saw a dead disease dead, dareless bear, zombie deeplock.
[SPEAKER_14]: You have to go upstairs.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why do you have to go upstairs?
[SPEAKER_09]: OK, because I want to get sure it's flat.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then just like, their phone, they're just trying to make sure they're silencing it a little bit, because there's like a couple of beeps from nobody.
[SPEAKER_07]: And to just like slowly holding onto the wall, get to the other edge where the stairs are.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're just trying to follow lock.
[SPEAKER_13]: I told you had that big ass phone in your hand the entire time.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just a fucking brick.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like that's correct.
[SPEAKER_13]: It was that's a major.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a very pager.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a pager.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was paging.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they're just like slowly climbing the stairs with lock and like shaking.
[SPEAKER_14]: Oh, we're all going upstairs now.
[SPEAKER_14]: Find, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mine is mine.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just, I just, they just do a little like hand shake with lock like but these forever kind of like things that they're just.
[SPEAKER_10]: But you got this, it's nothing.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's CJ follows.
[SPEAKER_10]: I passed the camera back.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah, it'll take, he takes the game.
[SPEAKER_05]: CJ, you're going to put us in the credits for this.
[SPEAKER_16]: You, um, all kind of...
[SPEAKER_16]: break way into this upper part of the home.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see bits of, again, the setting sun kind of peeking in through old tattered curtains and even bits of the floor that have also given, you see some of the downstairs windows are letting a bit of light in this way.
[SPEAKER_16]: But outside of that, the space itself is a lot closer to pitch black than you'd like it to be.
[SPEAKER_16]: And there's this darkness and you hear a shift again.
[SPEAKER_05]: I pull out my flashlight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank God you have one.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was just checking my backpack.
[SPEAKER_14]: Toad has my flashlight.
[SPEAKER_14]: Like I handed to them when they called out for the demons.
[SPEAKER_16]: Demons?
[SPEAKER_16]: Can I get a...
[SPEAKER_16]: I need a count of who has their flashlight on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Toad has their flashlight on.
[SPEAKER_14]: We hold on.
[SPEAKER_14]: I...
[SPEAKER_14]: I apologize.
[SPEAKER_14]: I think the camera that I have comes with the light.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: uh... yeah the uh... nineteen eighty seven original pentasonic vhs camcorder comes with a stettered light solid that that makes it so much better guys you will kind of shine a light and similar directions on exactly one area kind of towards where you're like the
[SPEAKER_16]: The room itself, even with light shining into it, is still a dark room.
[SPEAKER_16]: I am sure you've all experienced shining a light into a dark room, or like, you know, you're the only source of light.
[SPEAKER_16]: And it's so, because everything else is still dark, and you're like, that's weird.
[SPEAKER_16]: But in that darkness is this kind of large, tough to the shape.
[SPEAKER_16]: that reflects the light back almost immediately in these kind of dense orange yellow bulbs that you are maybe realizing in this moment or eyes.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad.
[SPEAKER_16]: You've seen these before even if for just a second when you had this kind of misremembering or premonition of what might occur.
[SPEAKER_16]: going.
[SPEAKER_14]: On the 1987 Panasonic VHS camcorder, there is a nice vision function on there.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'd like to engage that and to see if I see anything different.
[SPEAKER_16]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_16]: You click that on and what you make out now is a crouched figure.
[SPEAKER_16]: Again, a
[SPEAKER_16]: Almost like a two-legged pretending to be a four-legged, a thing crouching down, it's arms, more defined and man-like, but covered in this toughed black fur, it's legs bent and knees snapped it back, the way.
[SPEAKER_16]: it dogs would.
[SPEAKER_16]: These kind of slick horns.
[SPEAKER_16]: And this is what you're seeing CJ.
[SPEAKER_16]: The rest of you get to kind of see the shape of these eyes peering back at you.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's faces knorled and and jagged and very, very wrong in the most organic of ways CJ.
[SPEAKER_16]: It looks like it was born in pain.
[SPEAKER_16]: And it doesn't move for a second, and maybe because of its leathery almost waxy face.
[SPEAKER_16]: That's, it's probably just like someone put something here.
[SPEAKER_13]: Who's closest?
[SPEAKER_05]: That'd be me.
[SPEAKER_14]: Lock.
[SPEAKER_14]: Lock, okay.
[SPEAKER_14]: Actually hold on.
[SPEAKER_14]: Adam, what would you say in this moment what I need to roll to contain my composure?
[SPEAKER_16]: I, okay, I'll leave this to you.
[SPEAKER_16]: I would probably say grit, but I will say what do you think is like CJ's like most personal stat like what is the closest not not your best stat for CJ, but like what is like what CJ identifies with the most brains.
[SPEAKER_16]: I'll go ahead and say either brains are grit.
[SPEAKER_16]: I'll let you make that call.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm undue brains.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's D12 for me.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_14]: Now, one of my things is cool under pressure.
[SPEAKER_14]: So what benefit does that provide to me?
[SPEAKER_16]: So I'll go ahead and say, I'll allow you, Ian, to just take head of how CJ behaves in the situation.
[SPEAKER_14]: Solid.
[SPEAKER_14]: OK, lock.
[SPEAKER_14]: And CJ is still looking in his camera.
[SPEAKER_14]: And you can, those who are looking forward can kind of see the light of the camera kind of start to tremble a little bit.
[SPEAKER_14]: And it shifts focused.
[SPEAKER_14]: Lock?
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_14]: I need you to start backing up.
[SPEAKER_14]: I can see your feet.
[SPEAKER_14]: You need to back up very slowly.
[SPEAKER_14]: No sudden movements.
[SPEAKER_15]: And whatever it is or whatever you do, do not take your eyes off of whatever that is.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think I'm at the back in the doorway still because it's their project.
[SPEAKER_11]: But seeing this thing hearing the fear, I step aside, like I back up and step aside so that they can back out.
[SPEAKER_14]: When you step aside, you see that CJ popped open the viewfinder and you can see what he
[SPEAKER_16]: Ron, I do have a question for you and you step a little out of the way.
[SPEAKER_16]: Would you say that your light is not shining into that room anymore?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm having deja vu.
[SPEAKER_05]: This has happened before.
[SPEAKER_11]: I have coal under pressure as well, so I think I have the presence of mind to try to angle my flashlight where it keeps the same angle and doesn't suddenly move.
[SPEAKER_16]: that sounds great so then I need the three people who have lights on their person to go ahead and roll just a D20 and tell me what you get oh no why would you say that I got a 17 I also got a 17 oh my goodness that's terrible news for Ronda just it's that whole thing of just don't run slower than your friends I got a
[SPEAKER_16]: the kind of of weight and movement shifting occurs for just a second and then there's a there's this thing when a large person or a large like a heavy thing is suddenly alleviated from a space via jumping that where there's like a urr and then just the sound stops and that occurs the weight shifts suddenly there's no noise
[SPEAKER_16]: And, Rhonda, I would like you to make a fight, please.
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, that's a four.
[SPEAKER_16]: Lock, since you have your pocket knife equipped and ready out, I would also, I'll accept a fight from you as well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, it's my top step.
[SPEAKER_16]: I'm going to be honest with you guys, your fights are different.
[SPEAKER_16]: Then there's definitely something for fight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Time.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got a 16.
[SPEAKER_16]: You kind of stumbled back as, again, you hear that roll, and then suddenly all sound ceases.
[SPEAKER_16]: And there's just a mass upon you.
[SPEAKER_16]: I think you stumbled back a bit.
[SPEAKER_16]: You'd jut your knife out quickly, just reactionarily, but you didn't see this thing enter your space and its feet still haven't touched the ground.
[SPEAKER_16]: almost like a full leap.
[SPEAKER_16]: You're seeing the under portion of its body.
[SPEAKER_16]: You jab the knife in and a bit of spatters on you as whatever just happens to you just did you do hear this kind of gurgle and
[SPEAKER_16]: I would say it contorted whale, but for just a moment before all of you see that Ronda is not where Ronda was anymore.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda, go ahead and give me another fight, please.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's another four, which is the comb, but I can't roll, I can't roll, I can't roll, I can't go.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's a D4.
[SPEAKER_16]: Oh, it's a D4, you roll again.
[SPEAKER_11]: And you add it, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: That could be really good, actually.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's another four.
[SPEAKER_16]: Go again, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move it in, move
[SPEAKER_16]: pseudo body check with your weight as you're both going down the stairs and whatever this thing is having been a little wounded previously from locks quick jab with the knife let's go of you you hear the thumping of it moving somewhere else around the house
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I think Lock, it's just, was just caught completely off guard by what just happened.
[SPEAKER_05]: It doesn't have time to even scream because before, like, before he can even address what's in front of him, it's off of him and on Ronda, and I think he just scurries down the steps.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_05]: What was that?
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you see what it was?
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't really get a good look at it.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, I will say Ronda's about three steps down.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, is it off of me now or yes, it's gone again.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's just gone.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's great away.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_11]: What was that?
[SPEAKER_05]: I have no fucking clue and I think we need to go on
[SPEAKER_11]: CJ, so here you go, he starts yelling for everybody.
[SPEAKER_11]: It ran out, listen, listen, it's a wild animal.
[SPEAKER_11]: It ran out, that was not fucking wild animal.
[SPEAKER_11]: That was not animal.
[SPEAKER_11]: I, are not animal.
[SPEAKER_11]: Here's the thing, it ran, it ran, okay?
[SPEAKER_11]: So we're probably good here for a minute.
[SPEAKER_11]: I need to look at this and make sure that I, what, help me with my first thing, can't, just tell me, help me and take a look at this.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, okay, all right, and I start pulling out my clothes trying to like look at the The injuries.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, how bad is it?
[SPEAKER_16]: It's it's probably the deepest of a div ever seen.
[SPEAKER_16]: Oh shit.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, yeah, and when anyone animals bite regardless of what kind of animal it's a lot worse than you think it'd be
[SPEAKER_16]: really quickly CJ and Tode are your lights still on.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tode is just like frantic behind like shaking the flash light from area to area.
[SPEAKER_07]: But still on still on literally using it like a sapper.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: And you're still so they they've gone down about like three or four steps.
[SPEAKER_16]: You're still at the top of the steps.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yes, Tode.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, CJ.
[SPEAKER_14]: So I guess I'm gonna meet the disc and like I'm gonna meet it halfway.
[SPEAKER_14]: Like I'm gonna be
[SPEAKER_14]: like past him because CJ is on the step whipping the camera around from able to angle to try to like it's forensic.
[SPEAKER_14]: Yeah but the but he's still trying to get it recorded because now he's like we have to tell people about it's absolutely yeah so i'll say ronda you drop the flashlight oh yeah it has clear fallen down the the stairs.
[SPEAKER_16]: I would like the uh two members who are still emitting light to please roll d20s again.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's a nine I can need to re-roll again the both of us.
[SPEAKER_16]: Oh, yeah, tie breaking because you've got nine I lose I gotta too
[SPEAKER_16]: and CJ got a wood.
[SPEAKER_16]: So you're safe right now, so lock you're kind of helping run to tend to their shoulder wound, who I think you like pulled your shirt down a bit to kind of show it again.
[SPEAKER_05]: This like, I don't know what to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just wrapping it with gauze and tape.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, I've poured, I've poured like, uh, rubbing it.
[SPEAKER_11]: I hook a hole on it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, god.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think it looks shredded like hamburger like hate me yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: I think there's one thing that maybe you notice lock when you're looking at it is that there are like teeth here here like around like a regular bite button.
[SPEAKER_16]: There's some here and here in like jagged areas just there.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's just such the most mal-formed and regardless of it's maybe because Ronda got yanked down the stairs and fell out of its mouth but it is like gravity.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it like, is it like it had rows of teeth or it tried to bite random multiple times?
[SPEAKER_16]: I don't think you could quite tell.
[SPEAKER_16]: CJ or Rodx, I think the two of you would be the ones that would have this.
[SPEAKER_16]: Either of you managed to get knee plans for the home, like the layout of... Ah, yeah, sorry, I would have.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, I think CJ you remember then in this very moment and Ronda, I think you also remember sitting on these stairs.
[SPEAKER_11]: I've seen right now.
[SPEAKER_16]: But I think that's the thing is you're sitting on these stairs.
[SPEAKER_16]: There's a sobering amount of pain and I could see you.
[SPEAKER_16]: And it's like, okay, like, well, I know at least I'm on these stairs.
[SPEAKER_16]: And I'll see it.
[SPEAKER_16]: And then it clicks like, oh, shit, there's another staircase.
[SPEAKER_16]: And CJ, you remember as you kind of realize you have your back.
[SPEAKER_16]: To what you know is the staircase leading up from the and it's not necessarily and it's like you guys are in the center of two staircases Like there's one of the kids.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, and you Recognize that you kind of have your back turned that way as you hear the The weight shit.
[SPEAKER_16]: We got to go CJ go ahead and give me a fight roll, please.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to go Everybody shut up you're being the loudest one here Literally talking the most did you guys still talking I think I heard that noise hold on
[SPEAKER_14]: You said a fight?
[SPEAKER_14]: Yes, please.
[SPEAKER_13]: I don't want to do this anymore.
[SPEAKER_16]: I got a four.
[SPEAKER_16]: You all kind of hear a like, Yelp as CJ gets yanked into darkness.
[SPEAKER_16]: And then follow back a- And like a- You all don't see CJ.
[SPEAKER_16]: Give me one more fight, please.
[SPEAKER_16]: And this one matters the most.
[SPEAKER_14]: 16 total.
[SPEAKER_16]: That's you guys are doing so good on the second fight.
[SPEAKER_16]: You get yanked down the stairs like a couple of stairs in the way down.
[SPEAKER_16]: You're slam into the wall that kind of gives to your weight and the weight of this thing that's on you.
[SPEAKER_16]: There's two things that you note.
[SPEAKER_16]: One is that as strong as this thing is it doesn't weigh nearly as much as you think it should.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, it's like its bones are hollow, and two, it's that you feel this thick leathery skin over your mouth, holding your mouth shut, preventing you from yelling.
[SPEAKER_16]: But with a 16, you're able to wrestle your, I would say probably like arm out of its mouth and get your mouth free to begin thrashing about any yank away from this thing.
[SPEAKER_11]: question.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: So CJ is the one that drove the other car, right?
[SPEAKER_16]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think in this commotion, I shove my keys at lock.
[SPEAKER_11]: Get towed out of here.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, what?
[SPEAKER_05]: I gotta go help CJ.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: You'll get towed out of here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna go get CJ.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have to.
[SPEAKER_14]: Okay, lock your going down those stairs real quick like in that moment like after it's been a thunder like I'm running after him as well Yeah, you you hear CJ he's like Sticky
[SPEAKER_05]: Locke descends the stairs like when you're going so quickly down the stairs that if you stop moving your feet You will fall like he's barely making contact.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's a full-on sprint down or CJ is I turn back and toss my my keys at Toad get the car ready No, hey, lots going I can't I can't I can't no no get it no get it ready now Okay, okay, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's gonna be like glad it
[SPEAKER_16]: So toad scrambles down the other stairs towards the front of the house.
[SPEAKER_16]: You two scrambled down these stairs towards that go towards the kitchen towards CJ.
[SPEAKER_16]: You get down there in CJ.
[SPEAKER_16]: You kind of, I think right now you're like struggling kind of like a turtle to get out of the divot in this wall that you in this beast made.
[SPEAKER_16]: You pull out as like again chunk of your arm is
[SPEAKER_16]: You feel now that like your arm is probably broken uh the adrenaline's still there so you can move But there's it looks like your arm was run over by like like a 16 wheeler like there's that this part of it right here Just torn up, but there's nothing here with you three There's nothing it's gone.
[SPEAKER_16]: Oh, it's gone
[SPEAKER_05]: CJ, can you move?
[SPEAKER_05]: Can you move?
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Toad's getting the clock out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_16]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_16]: I can't see.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're going.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're going now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where's the camera?
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: Leave it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Leave the camera.
[SPEAKER_11]: Where's the camera we needed.
[SPEAKER_11]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll come back and get it.
[SPEAKER_05]: You get in the car first.
[SPEAKER_05]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll come back and get it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Go in the car.
[SPEAKER_11]: I know, I know.
[SPEAKER_11]: I will explain to the school, it will be okay.
[SPEAKER_14]: I think after realizing his arm is so fucked up, you see him.
[SPEAKER_14]: He's like, I just, you're gonna have to drag him.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you, you two, even with your wounded shoulder, given the fact that your shoulder is higher up, it's a little easier for you to still have that mobility.
[SPEAKER_16]: It hurts, but it's not a fully mangled arm.
[SPEAKER_16]: Right.
[SPEAKER_16]: You guys help CJ up.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad, can you roll me a flight, please?
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a 3N of D10.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad you get down these stairs and begin like breaking across the room and as you do from the opposite end of this like large kind of den slash living room.
[SPEAKER_16]: Where that window was in the kitchen that lock was looking out of earlier from that like entrance way you see or more here there and you see this kind of figure coming out give me another flight would you like to know the number you need to be sure that's it's gonna be a 10 for you here Okay, I'm a day 10 you could explode
[SPEAKER_14]: Just explode.
[SPEAKER_14]: That's all you gotta do.
[SPEAKER_05]: If I'm in root, maybe I can, maybe I can help you since I'm coming up the stairs.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it deep in?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it deep?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it deep?
[SPEAKER_05]: Toad supremacy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, 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_16]: That's a 25.
[SPEAKER_16]: Again, in a moment of athleticism that Toad perhaps did not know was inside of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, their belt loops are in and they're holding their big jeans just like, oh, going through.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you burst out with the speed that you didn't know you have.
[SPEAKER_16]: And you managed to leave this thing that by all means should be much, much faster than you are in the dust.
[SPEAKER_16]: You get into the car, you start it up.
[SPEAKER_16]: So you get into a Ronda's car, you get it, you get it kind of turned over.
[SPEAKER_16]: Are you just waiting here now for everybody?
[SPEAKER_07]: They are literally, if they're going in the car, putting it in, starting it up, unlocking the doors, and they're just like, okay, okay, all right, all right, all right.
[SPEAKER_16]: a think of note to it is that whatever was chasing you stopped before you got here so you don't see anything the three of you who's you're both carrying CJ or just wanted to be a did they feel it though like like as if it was right there and then no you were running so fast that I couldn't in good conscience I couldn't in good conscience make it beyond you
[SPEAKER_07]: and they were like, go at it.
[SPEAKER_07]: You terminate your sprint.
[SPEAKER_07]: The fear gave them the final flight, maybe.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, they were flying.
[SPEAKER_16]: The three of you are making your way.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see the outline of the door.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's nighttime now and you do see these kind of flickers of little light bugs kind of making their way around outside.
[SPEAKER_16]: As you are approaching the door again, you're moving much slower than you typically would be locked.
[SPEAKER_16]: You don't have your knife out, I'm assuming, because you have to have someone up on your ears or your trunk.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't, I don't have my knife out because I would have used my hands to, I was addressing Rhonda's injuries.
[SPEAKER_16]: You three move and you hear kind of, I would like all of you to just give me
[SPEAKER_16]: Just luck rolls, just throw a D20 and let me know what you get.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: Adam, I'm going to message you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Unlucky number 13, 18, 14.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I use it versus the tokens to add two?
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can't have over.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it going to make a difference?
[SPEAKER_05]: Adam, look me in the eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it going to make a difference?
[SPEAKER_16]: I mean, it means it's better for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you know what?
[SPEAKER_05]: Actually, I'm going to use an adversity token, because it'll get, it'll have more bang for its buck anyway.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to give an adversity token.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to use one for Ronda.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Ronda can get a plus two.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just help in each other along, like predicting where, you know, CJ is going to stumble and try to compensate for that.
[SPEAKER_05]: So Ronda can keep me up.
[SPEAKER_16]: I think I should ask here, lock or Ronda, have either of you ever hunted, do you have people in your families that hunt?
[SPEAKER_11]: lots of people in my family hunt.
[SPEAKER_11]: I've never been able to go hunting, but I would love to.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think my family's too bougie to be hunters.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're not into that kind of sport.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda, something that human hunters don't do, but that animals when they hunt often do is they'll try to target the the weakest link.
[SPEAKER_16]: You have this kind of inkling of like, oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_16]: The weakest link, like a thing, a wolf, a bear will always get the wounded or a young, a deer.
[SPEAKER_16]: you three look up and can i really quickly ronda can i get everyone's numbers again ronda has a 15 now 18 i have 14
[SPEAKER_16]: with the 1415, all three of you, again, here that are all, and like even like a half, and you look up and standing almost in defiance of gravity with its feet holding the ceiling and its face directly at yours.
[SPEAKER_16]: leathery and entwisted and you see now that you're so close here in this moment that it's narrow teeth and the bones underneath it stretch and contort in a way that its skin can't quite support.
[SPEAKER_16]: it's mouth now that you see it was you can only imagine had to be the mouth of some kind of person before as you see that it wants words to come out and you know that they're not kind words.
[SPEAKER_16]: you three know right here that if it could say anything, it would say the worst things to you to make this more fun for it.
[SPEAKER_16]: It slips kind of our peeled back and you see bits of gum that have kind of gone and given to the teeth you see job bone that is thinly veiled by just this leathery skin as its hand kind of reaches down for will lock with a 14 I think it's going to
[SPEAKER_14]: In that moment, Locke feels CJ take his good arm off of them and russles in his pocket and pushes on Locke's chest towards the door.
[SPEAKER_14]: And all you hear him say is, just don't fucking crash it.
[SPEAKER_14]: And he turns around towards that thing.
[SPEAKER_16]: Okay, I need two rolls then, I need a, and I think this will, I'll let this be up to Kelly, and I want you to be, try to be as impartial as possible.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: Is lock two stunned to like resist the shove?
[SPEAKER_16]: And then CJ, I need a, I need a fight for me.
[SPEAKER_14]: So I have the intuitive thing and in this particular moment I feel that CJ would notice that lock is being targeted and using that intuition allows him to do this action.
[SPEAKER_16]: I like that and I will honor that I need Kelly's answer here.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think he would have seen the shove coming.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: In that case, then I think Ronda, you're on the opposite side of this field CJ's hand slipped off of you as like all of CJ's weight shoves lock to the side and that hand that was I think moments centimeters away from locks face grips CJ's instead and yank CJ up now I would like a fight from CJ Ronda and lock I think at the moment you two
[SPEAKER_11]: Ronda is not leaving CJ to deal with this on his own, like she scared out of her mind, but
[SPEAKER_16]: you rendez-see as CJ is grabbed by the front of his face, this claw hand being large enough to cover all of CJ's face, and mind you, CJ is in adult man, even though he's a younger adult, isn't adult man, two of this thing's fingers kind of crush in the bottom portion of CJ's teeth and enter his mouth kind of fishhooking him.
[SPEAKER_16]: And as CJ's yanked up, you see their other hand, again, they're hanging directly upside down, almost into finds for gravity, like they're standing on the ceiling, and dragging the other hand from directly under CJ's chin, and pulling CJ up, you all hear more than C, I would say, given how dark it is.
[SPEAKER_16]: A, fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
[SPEAKER_16]: and then a few as CJ has been pulled up and apart in a matter of seconds.
[SPEAKER_16]: I think you do hear the crack, the initial crack of CJ's sternum and CJ for you in this moment, you hand your keys off as you're getting pulled up.
[SPEAKER_16]: Everything's kind of slow for a second.
[SPEAKER_16]: I think that you know it's bad.
[SPEAKER_16]: you knew what you were doing was like this is like I could get hurt here and it goes from like okay like what am I going to do next to like as suddenly your lower jaw is immediately broken and then your chest and stomach and into groin are made to feel like they're on fire but in a cold way and then suddenly you are just cold and
[SPEAKER_16]: What's the last thing you think about CJ?
[SPEAKER_14]: The reason why CJ was even in college was because he has his mom at home and the fact that she throughout his entire childhood always made it a point to push for something better a week before this project.
[SPEAKER_14]: He was at the college.
[SPEAKER_14]: but he was standing outside of the admissions office and his mother walks out.
[SPEAKER_14]: And she looks at him and she goes, I got cleared for graduation and they hugged and they embraced.
[SPEAKER_14]: And she looks at him and she goes not too long after this we're gonna be here doing the same thing with you.
[SPEAKER_16]: Back to Ronda and Locke.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda, you were mid-step when you heard the splash.
[SPEAKER_11]: Ronda gives a weak scream.
[UNKNOWN]: Go!
[SPEAKER_11]: Go!
[SPEAKER_11]: Run!
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm pulling you with me.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're going together.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lock the second he sees this happen.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's an athlete, and he's locking in right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: He knows his buddies in the car, and this way it happens just now, is not gonna happen to Tode, and he knows Tode's alone, and he's pulling Ronda with everything he has to go.
[SPEAKER_16]: You're gonna go ahead and get Ronda.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda, are you like resisting, pulling against?
[SPEAKER_16]: Are you kind of just stumbling along with being pulled by Locke?
[SPEAKER_11]: I think that she, in this moment she,
[SPEAKER_11]: Her worst fear has come to pass.
[SPEAKER_11]: And I think she collapses and is weekly trying to shove lock off of her and then turning and just go, go, go, go, go, please, go!
[SPEAKER_05]: If she's not coming with him and she's resisting that much, he's going to run for Toad.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's going to leave her.
[SPEAKER_16]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda, you're staying back to... She doesn't know what is going through her head.
[SPEAKER_11]: In her mind, maybe there's a chance that CJ is not dead.
[SPEAKER_11]: Maybe he is dead.
[SPEAKER_11]: It doesn't even really matter.
[SPEAKER_11]: the worst thing has happened and the other two need to get the hell out of here and she doesn't know what she can do.
[SPEAKER_16]: Really quickly then Ronda you'd hear the
[SPEAKER_16]: As you see at this point now, like the light kind of backing, this thing is standing on its two legs on the floor now.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see it reaches down and kind of just, it's hand makes the scooping motion into what, it's just kind of a bits of floor to you.
[SPEAKER_16]: You can't quite make out whatever it's scooped.
[SPEAKER_16]: And it begins walking towards you.
[SPEAKER_16]: Lock, you see, towed, waiting in.
[SPEAKER_16]: Ronda's car, can you give me a brain rule while you're running?
[SPEAKER_16]: And I would like you to do it with some kind of, I'll go and roll twice and take the lower roll.
[SPEAKER_16]: I'm going to give you this advantage.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is just straight up tunnel vision, survival mode is kicked in.
[SPEAKER_05]: I got two sevens.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to spend an adversity token to bump it up one to an eight.
[SPEAKER_16]: What can I use now?
[SPEAKER_16]: You can use both.
[SPEAKER_16]: With a nine year running and you realize and it's kind of this, like, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_16]: You've pinned in Ronda's car.
[SPEAKER_16]: See, this is a single car, like, long strip of, like, kind of off-road.
[SPEAKER_16]: And CJ's car is directly behind Ronda's.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad is in a rondous car with it on and toad is kind of waiting looking at you now who you see running out full speed toad is Look look look get in.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't I don't we kick it out the cars we're blocked in with what do you we got again to go the car Can you the car we're on there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: You're, I think, just standing there in shock, absolutely in shock, and it crouches down and you smell its breath as it's kind of nose to nose with you.
[SPEAKER_16]: Again, its face has this contorted portions of its skin.
[SPEAKER_16]: There's one thing of note now, whatever it's scooped up.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see that it must have eaten on the way.
[SPEAKER_16]: There's blood kind of smeared across its face.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's breath smells not only of it smells like petrochor, dirt after rain, and then so that was what you pick up as its own breath, but following that is metal and what you know to be blood.
[SPEAKER_16]: And you see its face
[SPEAKER_16]: It's bones move a bit and it's eyes kind of dilate a bit and it becomes just a tad bit more human Oh god, what are you?
[SPEAKER_16]: Can you roll me a fight, Ronda?
[SPEAKER_11]: That's a three It cleans in.
[SPEAKER_16]: It's
[SPEAKER_16]: And it's going to break your knee kind of backwards and it's just gonna throw you to the side Lock it in towed you guys are running to the other car.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad, you've evaded this thing once.
[SPEAKER_16]: You had some form of premonition.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad, I would like you to give me your role.
[SPEAKER_16]: What is Toad's role?
[SPEAKER_16]: Whether or not it's your best stat, what makes up Toad as a person, as someone who is rolling, as someone's stat.
[SPEAKER_07]: Code is charm in a way that they're unique in their own little box, even if it's behind lock.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are protective, and they're always loyal.
[SPEAKER_07]: So this is their spot of like, this is what I came here to do, make sure to lock.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, make sure, make sure people are okay, because they were demons, and just their charm comes from the fact that they've always been that stable.
[SPEAKER_07]: part of lock-in-tode.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good room, you're charm, please.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a 12 of a D20, 20.
[SPEAKER_07]: Plus, how many adversity tokens I would mean?
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I think you had three up to this point.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you wanted it.
[SPEAKER_16]: A 12 is good, a 12 is good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: Before you, before you use them, I'll let you know.
[SPEAKER_16]: 12 is a good, you upon getting out of this car.
[SPEAKER_16]: You see, you hear Rhonda's scream and it doesn't stop.
[SPEAKER_16]: Rhonda's in pain, but it's not dead.
[SPEAKER_16]: and then you see just outside of your periphery and you don't know how you notice it you look and you know it was just shy of your periphery like you didn't see it but you felt it and you look and you see these bulbs of orange that kind of flicker and lighten a bit and for a moment stop catching the light and then dial back in a little more pinpoint and catch the light and it's tracking you alongside the edge of the forest as the two of you are running.
[SPEAKER_07]: The code is pressing their hand on the back of lock to the go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go
[SPEAKER_05]: oh yeah absolutely even though even though like he is he's got tunnel vision on a goal right now and that is too live um it's just there's so much pent up energy in his hands like he may be even like just fumbles the keys at one point and tries to scoop him back up
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad, you see, as you feel, you see that the car and locks on lock side, and right as it does, you see this thing behind the lock.
[SPEAKER_16]: It looks like it's going to make contact, and it misses, and you're like, oh, hard against the side of the car, as lock gets in, unlocks your side, closes the door, starts the car and was zooming.
[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely, yes.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad, you get in?
[SPEAKER_16]: yeah of course you then hear another on the other side of a car you begin trying to pull the car out and you hear the air of the wheels scraping against the frame as
[SPEAKER_16]: The car's been dented in on the sides to prevent the wheels from moving appropriately, and the car is kind of just sputtering in place.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, okay, okay, we need the other keys.
[SPEAKER_05]: You have the other keys, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: We got to get back and run this car.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know where we're going to go, but we got to go, we got to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, okay, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: Which of you two would you say is more scared?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think a toad is scared because they haven't seen what's happened out of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I was going to say that lock is more scared because of what he's seen.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, lock, you see a hand, this large hand that you've seen, grab your friend, come off the
[SPEAKER_05]: I think he just doesn't, he's froze, he's trembling, it's like in a dinosaur movie when you hear the T-Rex coming and you're just like if we don't move, maybe it'll go away.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, you are frozen there.
[SPEAKER_16]: I think even you told, even though you're not nearly as scared as lock is here, this is unsettling and then you both here, CJ's voice, um, would it, would it be better if I used your friends voice?
[SPEAKER_15]: Come on out.
[SPEAKER_05]: DJ?
[SPEAKER_05]: She just stops.
[SPEAKER_05]: What would it?
[SPEAKER_05]: I see this, I see it's a different body, right?
[SPEAKER_16]: You don't see the body, you just saw this hand tap.
[SPEAKER_16]: And it taps again.
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did you find him in?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, stop.
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw everything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Everything.
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did you get ripped apart?
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it true?
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw it ripped apart.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need your help.
[SPEAKER_04]: I need your help.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need your help.
[UNKNOWN]: I need your help.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need your help.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why, what do you mean that's on CJ?
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw, CJ get ripped apart in the house.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not him.
[SPEAKER_15]: Don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: Open the door.
[SPEAKER_15]: Don't tell lack to open the door.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's all part of the movie, I got it, I got it, I think my project is complete.
[SPEAKER_15]: Don't you have to try to be really good, don't you have to try to open the door, don't you?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's
[SPEAKER_07]: lightens a bit as if something moved off of it and you two sit there still hands around their ears and they're just slowly alluring it to like that wasn't CJ.
[SPEAKER_03]: No it's not CJ.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and in like full shock is like shaking and like pulling back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where is Ronda?
[SPEAKER_03]: I tried to, I tried to bring her with me, she didn't want to come.
[SPEAKER_03]: I tried to pull her out of the house, she told me to go and I could, it was you or her?
[SPEAKER_03]: I came to find you.
[SPEAKER_03]: What if it comes back?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you're shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're just like looking at the car and like at the thing, if it comes back, they're just like, we're running that thing over.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_16]: You too.
[SPEAKER_16]: sit in the car for quite a amount of time I figure.
[SPEAKER_16]: What do you want to do in this car?
[SPEAKER_16]: That's not working.
[SPEAKER_05]: So the car honestly, it's not even a matter of doing anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just lock nose getting out of this car.
[SPEAKER_05]: could be a death sentence.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's not like absolutely petrified tears or at least like just streaming down his face.
[SPEAKER_16]: Code, if lock never gets out of the car, do you ever get out of the car?
[SPEAKER_08]: It's lock-in-tode, no.
[SPEAKER_16]: You to sit here.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're locking the door, but there's a thing I will say with Toad, that was CJ's voice and CJ and Toad were close in high school in the way that they consistently were in the same classes or things where they never were friends, the way that they unlock were, but they were going to be and there was always that potential.
[SPEAKER_07]: So they're like holding onto the door handle of like, I would
[SPEAKER_07]: You can't, you can't tell me that's the last time I'm gonna hear CJ.
[SPEAKER_16]: Toad.
[SPEAKER_16]: You sit there with your hand on the door.
[SPEAKER_16]: Lock you, aren't getting out of this car.
[SPEAKER_16]: You noticed, Tode, that there's no light bugs here anymore, and you don't hear any noises outside.
[SPEAKER_16]: Tode, a hand reaches down.
[SPEAKER_15]: Tode.
[SPEAKER_15]: Come on, man.
[SPEAKER_15]: You helped me out so much.
[SPEAKER_15]: I want you to see what I got.
[SPEAKER_15]: It's really good.
[SPEAKER_15]: Toy, come out of here.
[SPEAKER_15]: Buddy.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hear you're this.
[SPEAKER_15]: Come on, buddy.
[SPEAKER_15]: I got it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think you just wordlessly lock is so tired and just you feel his hand grab your arm and just look at you wordlessly.
[SPEAKER_05]: And just please.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have to roll grit to withstand this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have the DC or is this going to be good?
[SPEAKER_16]: Do you want me to tell you?
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_16]: I think for this, how Toads Fairly Rational, as much as Toad as a little head and the Sky Toads Fairly Rational.
[SPEAKER_16]: So I would say that this DC is going to be a seven.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just get at least a four.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's all you have to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: Since this is also considered protective, could my adversity tokens count for two.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's it says add plus three to roles when defending one of your friends.
[SPEAKER_16]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yeah, I'll count that as this because yeah, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, and they'll use one Edvardshade token for a seven to just be like, they're holding it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Can they look straight where the tapping is coming at?
[SPEAKER_16]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_16]: Um, yeah, you see it's an overreached hand from the top of the vehicle.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're like a big hand or like like on the side.
[SPEAKER_16]: So, I'll say this much of the vehicle didn't bend like it did last time.
[SPEAKER_16]: Uh, like there was additional weight on it and the hand doesn't look as big as it had previously luck.
[SPEAKER_16]: This is a little closer to man-sized.
[SPEAKER_08]: They just look like, hey, hey, hey, hey buddy, hey, hey.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_15]: I got the shot.
[SPEAKER_08]: You did it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Get the shot.
[SPEAKER_15]: I got a shooting.
[SPEAKER_08]: Get out to the front.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know I'm coming.
[SPEAKER_08]: Go get out to the front.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're going to come out to the front.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like to the lights real quick.
[SPEAKER_12]: Why?
[SPEAKER_12]: Tone?
[SPEAKER_12]: I have it.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're going to come out.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, we're coming out until we get them seated.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_12]: What did you do to you?
[SPEAKER_08]: Boxed sounding like some dumb stuff.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're always saying something.
[SPEAKER_15]: I don't know why you keep following behind them.
[SPEAKER_15]: I always get you in trouble.
[SPEAKER_15]: You're so smart.
[SPEAKER_15]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_15]: It quickness nonsense.
[SPEAKER_15]: Come let me show you what I finished.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know.
[SPEAKER_08]: Go get out there.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm coming right behind you.
[SPEAKER_16]: you to sit in this car, the rest of the night.
[SPEAKER_05]: They don't move in front of the car, they refuse to.
[SPEAKER_16]: No, I don't want to front of the car at all.
[SPEAKER_16]: You sit here and after I would say probably like two hours, the noises of the forest come back and the sun breaks probably another two hours later.
[SPEAKER_07]: code is holding lockshand for like the longest bit of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And when that being disappeared, they're breaking down in tears of like,
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, and they're singing the last, like, Whitney Hughes's song that they were singing with CJ.
[SPEAKER_07]: You'll just quietly, just humming, like, a quietly as they're just tears or just dropping from their eyes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wasn't gonna open the door to lock it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just, I just wanted to see it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry, I can get them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_16]: And I think that's where we're going to end tonight's episode.
[SPEAKER_16]: Yay, yay, you guys are so great today.
[SPEAKER_16]: You guys are so cool.
[SPEAKER_14]: It's going on everybody.
[SPEAKER_14]: I'm Ian, or you boy big one, also should be the, and I played CJ Henderson.
[SPEAKER_14]: And I do mean that type of YA, B-O-I-B-I-G, and your preferred social media, and you'll find me.
[SPEAKER_14]: And if you don't, let me know so we can monopolize that part of the internet as well.
[SPEAKER_14]: Over to my buddy, Sandy.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hi, I'm Sandy Passley.
[SPEAKER_11]: I played Rhonda Smith.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can find me all over the internet at Oakleaf in Signal.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, I'm Kelly.
[SPEAKER_05]: I played Locklin, Lock Prescott, and you can find me as the Kellhotball over the internet.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hi, I'm Maz, or Megan Wright.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am a voice actor who was playing Marvin Tidley or Toad.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can find me everywhere at its mozzarella.
[SPEAKER_16]: start mugging, roll it into a looks max Kelly, please thank you.
[SPEAKER_16]: I know all the TikTok lingo because I work with kids.
[SPEAKER_16]: It sucks.
[SPEAKER_16]: I'm full of brain rot.
[SPEAKER_16]: I'm so full of brain rot guys.
[SPEAKER_16]: Don't you start on your farm?
[SPEAKER_16]: I have I have opinions on our farm and
[SPEAKER_11]: According to my folks, it was mainly the drug dealers who had phones.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't we need that phone, Frog?
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't know the toes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've got some questions, CJ.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've got some questions.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't need to know the answer, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_13]: Hey, listen.
[SPEAKER_07]: I saw Scarface too, dog.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was a good movie when the sad three times.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: A special thank you to Supria, Sup.
[SPEAKER_02]: Remi, Badhu's podcast, Lee Karnel, Inkmaster, Theresa Jacino, and Imagineif Media for making 5 GM Season 5 from Inside The Ten Happen.