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1:14

Good evening, everyone. one. It's Friday

1:15

night, and it's time for

1:18

the season finale

1:20

of time for chaos. That's

1:22

right. You heard it. The season

1:25

finale. I said we're gonna do it in twenty.

1:28

It's episode twenty. And we finished last

1:30

week. I stayed up for hours

1:32

just staring at what I thought the

1:34

rest of this particular arc

1:36

of our story was. And I'm like, you know what next

1:38

week? Let's just play till we finish

1:40

it. So this

1:40

might be a two hour app. might be a

1:42

ninety minute

1:43

app. It might be a three hour

1:45

app. I don't know, but we

1:47

end this chapter tonight.

1:51

I wasn't gonna drink at all. And then

1:53

when I showed up in the video

1:55

call, everyone else was drinking.

1:57

So I I grabbed a bottle

1:59

of Talos pretend that I've had -- Yeah. --

2:01

for over two years because I just never

2:03

drink scotch. because I'm ready to drink nor was,

2:05

like, oh yeah, I've got a gallon of scotch next

2:07

to me. What do you drink? Nora. I

2:09

got a sixteen. Oh,

2:12

sixteen

2:12

trying to show me up. Snokey.

2:14

Oh, I just poured way too

2:16

much. Oh, I don't know what I was thinking. And

2:18

really with four fingers, do you?

2:20

Chat poor one out for our characters.

2:22

What do you drink in there,

2:24

Rob? This is a Woodford

2:26

reserve. Oh, I think it's

2:28

a Trader Joe special. Bourbon. It's

2:31

delicious. American

2:34

Bourbon. a rust.

2:36

You have AAA grasshopper

2:38

or something creamy? Oh, yes.

2:42

Yes. I I wish I

2:44

wish I had a big old white Russian

2:46

next to me, but no, I I'm

2:49

just sipping on pure spring water.

2:53

you're doing it the right way. What

2:55

about wait. Kate, you should be drinking

2:57

champagne because is it true that you

2:59

closed on a house today?

3:01

Yeah. Like, drove

3:03

back here, went and got a box of wine,

3:05

which I am drinking. I also have champagne,

3:08

but I feel like that's not we

3:10

don't know how long this is gonna go and champagne

3:12

cake is no fun.

3:13

Yeah. Same to champagne for the

3:15

end of the year. Wait on a celebratory

3:18

episode. it's gonna be. Yeah.

3:22

That's great. Box Wine is really we're

3:24

all at different levels here, and that's what's nice.

3:27

It's early, and I really, really

3:29

regret that poor. How is everybody

3:31

feeling? Did you enjoy season

3:34

one of time for chaos? Yeah.

3:36

It's been

3:37

a blast. If you need everybody, it's

3:39

been super cool. That's probably the best part.

3:41

Yeah. Tell them with you guys. The friends

3:43

you made along the way. Right. That's

3:45

the real story. Yeah. Playing

3:47

a

3:48

a system that I was completely unfamiliar

3:50

with. Super cool

3:53

and different, really into it.

3:54

character dynamics have been

3:56

my favorite.

3:57

Yeah. They've they've really The whole

3:59

team came together. Yeah. Yeah.

4:01

I mean, that's that's the beauty of doing the prologue,

4:04

the Peru prologue is it gives a chance for the

4:06

you and the not only to get to know Jackson

4:08

Elias, so that his death

4:10

has more meaning but to get to

4:12

know each other. And now these bonds, you've

4:14

been through trial you've, like, trauma bonded. Mhmm.

4:18

Yeah. Ross,

4:21

you've done a a decent monoclonal kthulu

4:23

before this, but how are you enjoying a

4:25

more long long form campaign?

4:28

Oh,

4:28

man. I love it. I love just

4:30

like

4:31

the slow burn spiral

4:34

into into the,

4:36

you know, the dark gulfs

4:38

between the stars. I'm

4:41

stoked to see how how we continue

4:43

to to fall down the rabbit hole. And

4:47

I'm I'm and and I love all these characters

4:49

and I know how brutal and

4:51

and ruthless the system is.

4:53

and it's in it and it actually I'm

4:56

I'm pre morning what

4:58

may happen to to honor

5:00

all of these dear dear folks

5:02

over the course of this evening.

5:04

Yeah. It's tough. It is such an

5:06

unforgiving system. And that's why a lot of

5:08

people I was saying that before we went live, why lot

5:10

of people choose to use pulp rules because the

5:12

character's a little more a little more

5:14

durable, a little more sticky, a little more superhero

5:16

esque. We certainly play

5:19

I think we kinda go back and forth

5:21

thematically. We sometimes get a little pulpy

5:23

in the way we overdramatize things, but

5:26

we're playing to straight non pulp

5:28

rules. And luckily, everyone

5:30

survived so far. But --

5:32

Yeah. -- you just feel like everything's

5:34

been building towards tonight.

5:37

Nora, I know you played a lot of call through maybe

5:39

log the most of any of us.

5:41

Are you enjoying the campaign

5:43

so far?

5:43

I love it. Like the the

5:46

only time I've ever played,

5:48

you know, a cult of Cthulhu run

5:50

longer than, like, three, four

5:52

episodes was also the one that you ran.

5:55

Oh,

5:55

yeah. The You know,

5:56

we did that. We ran that for ten.

5:58

Those 552 hour episodes.

6:00

512

6:00

Correct. I mean, that felt like the longest.

6:03

I guess, usually, they've just been like one

6:05

shots or like one or two games. So it's

6:07

been really nice to, like, really

6:09

sink your teeth into like,

6:10

a proper campaign.

6:13

Mhmm.

6:13

Yeah. And, Kate, we've been I've

6:15

been wanting to get you on something forever. And

6:17

finally, we get you on something with some

6:19

legs because you were on all these three

6:21

episode things. Are you enjoying doing

6:23

something a little longer? Oh,

6:25

yeah. Like playing new games all the time

6:27

was really fun. But, like, once you get the hang of

6:29

it, it's over.

6:31

And not that I feel like I'm getting the hang of

6:33

this or, like, maybe my characters

6:35

because What's cool about this is

6:37

in the beginning I mean, like

6:39

any other RPG, you're doing your

6:41

investigating phase and you don't really know what's going

6:43

on, then then when you start to get it, at

6:45

least in Peru and America

6:46

so far,

6:47

it doesn't matter. It's like all

6:49

still too much and too chaotic

6:52

and like you will never feel like you

6:54

have control at all over the situation.

6:56

And that's fun. And,

6:58

I mean, I'm attached to all the characters,

7:00

but, like, I'm ready for

7:03

some shit to happen. I wanna see, like,

7:05

crazy stuff. I

7:06

want, like, more characters come

7:08

in or one person to

7:10

live forever and just become really

7:13

meet those out. Yeah. I want

7:15

crazy stuff to happen. Rainbow.

7:17

Oh god. Yeah. That status.

7:19

That is the beauty of surviving long

7:21

into a campaign like this, your character.

7:24

It's it's unlike, you know, a DND or a

7:26

Path Finder themselves. And you're like, you got eight

7:28

hundred endpoints. No. Your endpoints kinda stay right around

7:30

the same time. but you start to unlock

7:32

magic and you start to unlock abilities

7:35

that allow you to contend with

7:37

these cosmic cars, whereas

7:40

now you're just kind of these squishy

7:42

humans. But you never become a

7:44

superhero. Like, even when you

7:46

learn that, it's like you're giving something else

7:48

away. The power got a break. cut a price.

7:50

Unless you make a pact with the God, which

7:52

is always on the table. I'll

7:54

do that now. one

7:57

of my favorite parts and one of the reasons

7:59

I wanted to do this in the first place was really to

8:01

get to learn Kala Cthulhu because you can only

8:03

read these books so much. You gotta dig in. You

8:05

gotta start playing. You gotta make mistakes. And

8:07

and and we're still learning. Right

8:09

before we went live, I

8:11

I hopped on a private channel

8:14

with Michael. And Michael, by the way,

8:16

has been so wildly helpful throughout

8:18

all of this. He's been on stream with us

8:20

since the beginning. He sends notes to me

8:22

after every session. notes for the players.

8:24

So a big shout out to Michael behind the scenes.

8:26

He's so helpful. I jumped in to ask him the most

8:29

basic question about Call of Cthulhu

8:31

Combat Rules because I just totally forgot But

8:33

it has been nice to really stretch

8:36

our legs and learn what I think is

8:38

just an elegant, beautiful system

8:40

that allows you to kind of do

8:42

whatever you want, but still has that

8:44

crunch that people like that strive

8:46

for in, you know, your more traditional

8:48

d twenty games. Also,

8:50

big shout out to Harry. Harry was

8:52

our producer for for most of the most of

8:54

the run, but his Internet wasn't correct,

8:57

so we to be like, Sorry, Harry.

8:59

We gotta we gotta move on, but Harry

9:01

did a a lot and Grant helped him a a

9:03

ton making those first few episodes

9:05

shine the first dozen or so. and

9:07

Iain stepped up and did a couple. But the

9:09

last few, our good buddy Joe O'Brien has been

9:11

behind the scenes producing these.

9:13

So Joe does tireless tireless

9:16

efforts to make sure the network

9:18

runs and so big shout out to

9:20

Joe as well. Tonight

9:24

has a feeling of finality, but

9:26

at the end, this is really just

9:28

the beginning because there is so

9:30

much more to this story. So Should you

9:32

survive? Should you die? Should you

9:34

go insane? Should something even

9:36

worse happen? This is just

9:38

the beginning of the adventure.

9:40

So I'm gonna dive right in.

9:42

because like I said, I don't know how long it's gonna

9:44

go, and I am just I'm chomping at

9:46

the bit. I have not been able to stop

9:48

thinking about tonight's episode ever since

9:50

we finished the last. And I

9:52

think the best way to start is with a true

9:54

recap of what

9:56

has happened thus far

9:58

since you came to

9:59

America. What

10:02

a season? It's been III had my head

10:05

twenty episodes and here we are at twenty.

10:07

We'll see in in a few hours to play

10:09

file. We still got a lot to go. We'll go

10:11

twenty one, but I really think we can do

10:13

this. And and this part of our adventure

10:15

all began with a simple telegram

10:17

from your good friend, Jackson

10:19

Elias, who you met four years

10:22

ago while going on a strange

10:25

expedition in Peru

10:28

where you faced these vampires

10:32

known as Kari Siri, these

10:34

face sucking vampires known

10:36

as Kari Siri, and all these

10:38

remnants of a lost cult that began

10:40

when the conquistadors came

10:42

over. Jackson

10:45

called all of you to New York

10:47

urgently to meet with him because

10:49

he claimed to have new information

10:52

new information on the infamous

10:54

Carlyle expedition. Everyone's heard of the

10:56

Carlyle expedition. Millionaire

10:59

playboy Roger Carlyle

11:01

left New York to head on

11:03

a similar mysterious expedition

11:05

to Egypt. That was the plan.

11:07

That was what was in the public eye. He was going to

11:09

Egypt. Man, they said maybe he's looking

11:11

for biblical treasures. It wasn't quite clear

11:13

what he was for. They were never very

11:15

forthcoming, but he had a lot of

11:17

money, he had the Carlisle name, and he

11:19

wanted to do that. He traveled there

11:21

with his friend, Jack

11:24

Brady, his

11:26

psychologist at the time, a man by the

11:28

name of doctor Robert Houston,

11:30

a close friend of

11:32

his, perhaps a former lover that was

11:34

taught that they were connected back in the

11:36

day, a woman by the of hypatia

11:38

masters, and they went

11:40

from New York to England to meet up with

11:42

the last member of the expedition. a

11:45

renowned egyptologist named

11:48

Sir Aubrey Penhu who

11:51

was coheading up the

11:53

expedition. After arriving in

11:55

England and doing whatever they did there, they

11:57

traveled to East Africa

11:59

to Mombasa Kenya. And

12:01

then while in Kenya, they decided to

12:03

go inland for a

12:05

safari in and around Nairobi.

12:08

Something happened during that

12:10

safari, and the

12:12

expedition was lost. Roger's

12:16

sister Erica Carlisle then

12:18

traveled to Africa to

12:20

investigate and it was soon discovered

12:22

that the entire expedition

12:25

was massacred. It

12:27

was a group of Kikwu tribesmen

12:30

who were tried and found guilty

12:32

of the massacre and put to death

12:34

by hanging. place

12:34

closed. Right? Or

12:37

was it? You

12:39

show up at Jackson's hotel

12:41

room at the Chelsea hotel tell and

12:45

find him freshly murdered.

12:48

It's got a strange

12:50

symbol carved into his

12:52

forehead, almost reminiscent of the

12:54

lamprey like mouths of those

12:56

Kari cereal that you faced while

12:59

in Peru, but but different

13:01

as well. You

13:03

see his killer is a trio of

13:05

strange headband wearing

13:07

men fleeing from the scene of the

13:09

crime, jumping out the fire

13:11

escape they got away. And

13:14

for the past eight days,

13:16

since that murder took place, it's

13:18

only been eight days. You've been trying to

13:20

unravel these mysteries.

13:22

The mystery of not only why

13:24

Jackson Elias was killed,

13:26

but also what he knew

13:28

about the possibility that

13:30

perhaps this Carlyle expedition was

13:32

never massacred. You

13:34

speak to his close friends and confidants and

13:36

find out that he had become obsessed

13:39

as of late with the

13:41

expedition and an obsession that seemed to

13:43

be driving him mad as

13:45

evidence in some of his late letters

13:47

to his close friends. It

13:49

it got to the point where it seemed like

13:52

he knew his life was in danger

13:54

and his dying wish was

13:56

for the four of you.

13:57

His close friends to finish

13:59

his investigation because

14:02

he believed What

14:04

happened and something going on with the

14:06

Carlyle expedition is

14:08

tied into the fate of the very

14:11

world. at

14:12

Jackson's funeral, lieutenant

14:14

Martin Poole, shows up,

14:17

takes you downtown, he knows you're at the

14:19

Chelsea Hotel, on the night of

14:21

Jackson's murder and he wants to know what

14:23

you know. He then tells you after

14:25

he realized this you had nothing to do with it, there

14:27

was just a string of similar

14:29

murders to Jackson's. you know, a few

14:31

months ago and going back

14:33

over a year, people going missing and

14:35

some of them turning up dead all over

14:37

the city. but a man was

14:39

arrested and sent to death row

14:41

for the crimes. A man named

14:43

Hilton Adams, and there hadn't been any

14:45

other murders until

14:47

Jackson Elias. He

14:49

thought all along that Adams was

14:51

set up and also

14:53

that the fourteenth precinct captain

14:55

who presided over his arrest

14:57

had something to do with the

14:59

setup. The fact that Jackson is now found

15:01

dead is just further proving his

15:03

suspicions. So this

15:05

captain William Robson

15:08

seems like a dirty cop. Meanwhile,

15:10

you make friends with the New York Times reporter

15:12

by the name of Rebecca Schosenberg who

15:15

sets you up with a meeting

15:17

with Hilton Adams' wife, Millie

15:19

Adams, They both proclaim that

15:21

Hilton is innocent, and Milli gets

15:23

you a meeting with Hilton himself

15:25

at Sing Sing Prison. while

15:27

he's awaiting a date with the electric chair,

15:29

so he can tell you what he knows.

15:31

And he tells you that long before he

15:33

was arrested he and his old military

15:35

buddies, a group of guys that were all in

15:37

the the Harlem health fighters

15:39

during the Great War. They were

15:41

looking into what was happening with the disappearances

15:43

in Harlem trying to protect their neighborhood.

15:46

And it all seemed to connect to

15:48

this little shop of

15:50

African couriers. called

15:53

the juju house. You

15:56

investigate this juju house. It's a

15:58

small, little antique shop run

16:00

by an unassuming, old,

16:02

elderly African man named

16:04

Cylus Nacwane. Something

16:06

doesn't seem right though. So

16:08

you stake the place out at night. And when you

16:10

do, you see several people going into the

16:13

shop more than could ever fit

16:15

into that tiny space. you

16:17

listen after the guard goes in, the

16:19

guy standing outside, the bouncer,

16:21

and you just hear strange distant

16:24

sounds within.

16:25

So you break

16:28

into the shop one night when no one is around,

16:30

you uncover a hidden door

16:32

on the floor leading down into

16:34

a chamber, you go into chamber

16:37

and you are attacked

16:40

by four zombie

16:42

like people, no doubt four of the missing

16:44

caramel caramel caramelites and

16:46

you open up a a hole in

16:48

the floor to uncover this

16:50

wailing monstrosity made

16:52

up of dozens of faces and

16:55

half bodies reaching

16:57

out at you with their mouths.

16:59

All of your sanity is tested.

17:01

Port Vaughan is on the brink.

17:06

the show So during

17:08

all of this, Milli Adams goes

17:10

missing as well. So you

17:13

bring this evidence to lieutenant

17:15

pool. He seems like the only

17:17

person with any authority that you

17:19

can trust and he

17:21

promises to to do something about

17:23

it off the books, he

17:25

hasn't been heard from since.

17:28

Meanwhile, you purchase tickets to a

17:30

benefit gala hosted by Erica

17:32

Carlisle. Roger's sister, where she

17:34

tells you about Rogers Dalliances

17:36

with a woman named Chanka Bune,

17:38

which may have led him to his expedition

17:40

to Africa in the first place. but

17:42

his mind seemed to be whittling away as

17:44

he delved further into these

17:47

strange tones that you

17:49

then find. in

17:51

Carlisle's library tucked

17:53

away in a safe.

17:55

That's tonight.

17:57

That happened tonight. in game time, knowing that tomorrow night is the

17:59

dark of the moon. The dark of the moon is when

18:01

most of these disappearances in Harlem have

18:04

been taking place you

18:06

know that a final showdown that somehow

18:08

involves juju house is on the horizon,

18:10

so you return to Vaughan's

18:12

hotel room at the Waldorf Astoria to

18:15

rest up before your big

18:17

day when Margo is

18:19

drawn to the balcony by this

18:21

haunting photo. She has no memory of

18:23

taking a photo She's pretty sure she's

18:25

destroyed and it's just sitting out

18:27

on the balcony as if it's been

18:29

following her. She goes to

18:31

retrieve it. and

18:33

up in the sky

18:35

a flying enormous

18:38

serpent like creature that

18:40

blocks out the very moon. dives

18:43

directly at her.

18:47

That is where we left last

18:49

week. week And that

18:51

is where we're pretty cut and dry. Really? cut

18:53

and dry. It's only been eight

18:56

days. Eight days. Oh, man.

18:58

You said that and I was like, no. really.

19:01

Yeah. I'm trying to think how

19:03

many episodes Peru was like

19:06

six, seven, so

19:08

you're about pretty much at like two

19:10

episodes a day. You know, you guys get a

19:12

lot of stuff done. I'm not like So anything else you

19:14

wanna do today? And you guys, like, no. It was just fast

19:16

forward. You're like, you know what? I'm gonna go buy a

19:18

new suit. That happens a lot. So your

19:20

days, you guys get a lot

19:22

done. Yeah. This

19:25

thing is flying

19:27

at you, Margo. I don't even think you are

19:29

friends see this. I think Carter and

19:31

Vaughan, you were like, you weren't, like,

19:33

in an argument, but you were having, like, a discussion

19:35

and and Feiruz was digging into all

19:37

these domes. But you're a little

19:40

distracted when Margot just sees the the

19:42

curtain like wafting up

19:44

from the wind. You go outside and this thing

19:46

is hurtling at you. You look

19:48

up. And I mean, you have

19:50

never seen anything like in your life. It is

19:52

so jarring. It

19:54

provokes a sanity roll. Gives

19:56

me said sanity roll.

19:58

But first, Let's

20:00

all start with a group luck roll. A group luck

20:02

roll more so individual luck rolls

20:04

to see if you improve your luck

20:06

for the last time. Not that you

20:08

can use luck on San Diego. Let's just get

20:10

it out of the way so we can sit

20:12

and enjoy our meal. I did

20:15

it. Nope. Nothing. No. No

20:17

luck with it. Alright. Or us?

20:19

You feeling lucky? I'm feeling lucky.

20:22

Went to the Cthulhu Casino and I won me six

20:24

luck points. Box guys.

20:27

Rob, any luck? Yeah. I

20:29

got ten. Whoa. And,

20:34

Kate, I got six also.

20:36

Whoa. Nice. Now,

20:38

of

20:38

course, you cannot use that on your sanity roll,

20:40

so please. Give me that d one

20:43

hundred role. You got pretty good sanity if

20:45

I'm remembering correctly.

20:46

Yeah. She's still pretty sane. Yep.

20:50

Twenty one under eighty five.

20:52

So You've got

20:54

ice in your van. Maybe

20:56

she thinks this isn't real.

20:59

Yeah? I like that. What were you

21:01

gonna say, Rob? Just sharing some

21:03

luck. I mean, some sanity. Is there is that possible?

21:05

Can you, like, kind of, shave some off the top? Like

21:07

a dark window. Yeah.

21:10

No. Some more sanity for

21:12

you, sir. Yeah. I think that'll

21:14

do. Yeah. Yeah. Here. Just look into my mask. It's where I get

21:16

it from. This thing

21:19

is hurtling down towards you. It's

21:21

dark out and you can't you you

21:23

really can't even make it all out

21:25

until it's like right on top of

21:27

you. What do

21:29

you do? because you, as

21:31

we all know, have incredible dexterity

21:33

at eighty, and dexterity

21:35

is initiative here and call it the

21:38

doo So what do you do? Margoo?

21:42

Margoo would probably run back

21:44

inside. I feel like that's a natural human

21:46

reflex to seeing something, like, coming

21:48

at you, like, you are praying. Mhmm.

21:50

And it is predator. So I feel

21:52

like she would go to run back inside and

21:54

shut the door. bolt back inside,

21:57

shut the door

21:59

at that

22:03

moment. if Ross and

22:05

excuse me. Vaughan and Ross is there. Vaughan and

22:07

Carter are are in a heated discussion

22:09

and and Feirou's is really in the books. you

22:11

come running in, do you say anything? She's

22:16

probably, like, screaming,

22:19

yelling, like, just like,

22:22

something something out there. There's a monster out

22:25

there.

22:25

And then the

22:27

door shatters and you see this,

22:30

like, twelve foot, like,

22:32

snake like tail come flying

22:34

through the window. with like talent

22:37

like feet at the end of it. You have

22:39

never seen anything like this. It's

22:41

like a fucking dragon that

22:43

just smashes in glass goes everywhere.

22:46

Fun, Carter,

22:48

and Feyruz give me a

22:51

sanity check. Why? Man.

22:53

I think it's

22:56

okay. I don't know why,

22:58

but I didn't think would be so bold as

23:00

I don't think it was real. Her

23:02

role day

23:03

fifteen under seventy

23:05

40I ice veins.

23:08

I'm just like pocket

23:11

aces.

23:14

I'll go

23:14

next because it looks like Ross' face

23:17

is more dramatic. I got a

23:19

thirty nine under

23:21

forty seven, so I pass.

23:23

Thirty nine under forty seven,

23:25

you pass on

23:27

all of these checks are going to take a miracle

23:29

at this point because correct me if I'm wrong, you're

23:31

sitting around twenty four or

23:33

twenty six sanity. I am a

23:35

twenty six sanity. Twenty six.

23:37

Unfortunately, I rolled a thirty

23:40

six. I'd rather you roll

23:42

an eighty six than, like, so

23:44

close. You know? It's like I'm

23:47

gonna need you to roll a d

23:49

ten. Roll

23:52

that one. Roll that one. I

23:54

still have faith.

23:57

Seven. Oh, It's

23:59

almost a one added a line to

24:01

the top of it. Alright.

24:03

So you take seven points

24:05

of sanity damage. and a couple things are

24:07

gonna happen. Number one, you are

24:10

seeing a true

24:12

monster of the Cthulhu Mythos, where you

24:14

have already gained five points of

24:16

Cthulhu mythos, which has lowered

24:18

your maximum sanity by five

24:20

as your mind has been unlocked

24:22

to the those. This is another one of

24:24

these type creatures that will

24:26

add to your mythos score and lower your

24:28

sanity. You've already got that

24:30

initial one So now this just gives you

24:32

another point of Cthulhu Mythos

24:34

and your sanity goes down

24:36

by one. Not your sanity but your

24:38

maximum sanity. So really for you. It

24:40

doesn't starts at ninety nine, it then went to

24:42

ninety four when you got that five meet those.

24:45

Now it goes to a max of ninety three.

24:47

Okay. In case you find a really

24:49

good therapist after the New York

24:51

chapter is over. Cool. The

24:53

second thing that happens is you

24:55

don't even have to roll to see if

24:57

you're intelligently aware of what

24:59

is happening. because you're already suffering

25:01

from indefinite insanity, you

25:03

immediately have a bout of madness. And

25:05

here's how it is going to play out. Let me

25:07

look at my sweet little bout of

25:09

madness table. You know what? I'm gonna

25:11

roll ADA0 actually d

25:13

ten. Perfect.

25:19

Physical hysterics or

25:21

emotional outburst. I'm gonna

25:23

read it to you, Ross, and

25:25

then see if you have the improvisational skills to

25:28

make this interesting. The investigator

25:32

is incapacitated laughing crying,

25:36

screaming, etcetera for one

25:38

d ten rounds. I'm gonna let

25:40

you roll the d ten to see how

25:42

many rounds you are just like. you

25:44

know, in conjunction with the fast Emotional

25:47

-- Yeah. -- spasms. Okay.

25:51

Mm-mm. Five five

25:54

rounds. Okay. So how does

25:56

this how does this initially manifest? Okay.

25:59

Yeah. yeah Fun

26:03

fucking.

26:07

He's just going the

26:09

downward spiral. When

26:12

Vaughan looked into the mask, after a journey

26:15

within, he saw his

26:17

face on the body of

26:19

a serpent. It's right

26:22

that caused him to

26:24

almost have

26:26

a moment of of

26:29

mortification of the flesh. So he say

26:32

to to purge away

26:34

what part of him remains united to

26:37

the serpent. Now the serpent is here.

26:39

the serpent has come,

26:41

the serpent,

26:43

the dragon of old.

26:46

And so

26:47

it's like Vaughn is,

26:49

like, this tail whips through the talons come

26:51

in and blast everywhere. Like, it's as

26:54

as screams happen, like, vaughn is it's not

26:56

screams. It's, like, silent clarity

26:58

because he just like falls to

27:00

his knees with his hands

27:03

up and and you can just hear if

27:05

he's if you're if you're close by, it's

27:07

like, Saint Michael

27:09

brings out his holy sword, places

27:11

his heel

27:12

upon the neck of this happened

27:15

for now. the honest drug.

27:17

The trumpet has been founded. The

27:19

dead shall walk

27:19

again. The serpent comes.

27:23

But upon all of them who should

27:25

place the mark of the beast. They were not

27:27

able to buy and sell without the mark of the

27:29

beast.

27:29

The serpent has come and he

27:31

but but

27:32

the saints and all of the thrones

27:34

and the powers of the almighty are aligned against

27:36

you. I cast you out in the name of the father

27:38

and the son and the holy spirit.

27:40

and Mr. He hit the trinity as the line against you.

27:43

And, like, it is just for, like,

27:45

this, like, litany

27:47

of of a biblical

27:51

madness as he

27:51

is seeing, like, the dragon of

27:54

revelation coming forth.

27:58

Oh my god. Amazing. So you

27:59

just crumble to the floor -- Mhmm. --

28:02

you know, trying to speak it away.

28:04

Yeah. I

28:06

love this. it now goes to Feirou's

28:08

Feirou's. You look up from your

28:10

book quick. Just see like this

28:12

long tail with like weird

28:14

spikes at the end of it and these talents and you

28:16

hear this sound that is

28:18

like a guttural scream.

28:20

Like, it's trying to get through

28:23

the window. into your hotel room? Is

28:25

it

28:26

so it's not in the hotel room. It's just smashed

28:28

the the glass. It's so large that

28:30

it seems like it can't fit

28:33

through the opening that you have there. In

28:36

fact, why don't I go to a picture? Check out

28:38

roll twenty here, if you will.

28:40

So you get a sense of

28:42

what this thing looks like in

28:44

terms of its size compared to

28:47

you. Yeah. I don't

28:47

think that'll fit in the room. It's

28:50

a big

28:50

It's a

28:53

big snake with bad wings. We're

28:55

sharing that. But that tail is

28:57

just like whipping. It's knocking over

28:59

a lamp on an end table. But

29:01

you guys are especially if

29:03

you if you got you

29:05

know, if you were away and cargo came running in, you

29:07

seemed like you're far enough away, but you don't know

29:09

how far that tail can lash out.

29:12

I don't know, but I'm

29:13

sure, no illusion. not

29:15

an illusion. And I'm like running to go

29:17

grab my gun. Alright. So

29:19

you

29:19

just take off to grab your and

29:22

then it goes to Carter. Carter's

29:25

just like, let's get the fuck out of

29:27

here now. Go go go. I'm not finding

29:29

this fucking thing. and

29:31

Carter starts running and I

29:33

wanna he obviously sees

29:35

Vaughan. And he's like, Vaughan, I have time for your

29:37

bullshit and crap. There's

29:40

put his arms around and start pulling

29:42

him up and out and go out

29:44

into the hallway. You do that and

29:46

as as your drag year. I'm just it's like

29:48

the smoker's breath in your ear, like,

29:50

the people worship the dragon saying who he's

29:52

like the dragon, but he had given him

29:54

authority into the beast Let's let's

29:56

let's find out in the lobby. Let's go.

30:01

It then

30:03

goes to you Von Von.

30:05

Do feel like you're weak enough to just

30:07

be carried with Carter or does it is

30:09

it gonna take multiple people to pull you

30:11

out? Are you you drawn towards it or

30:13

drawn away from it? I've I mean,

30:15

yeah, I think I've compelled the way I'm I'm

30:18

terrified of this thing. Yeah. I'm I'm I'm

30:20

wanting but the revelation has

30:22

come. Like, I'm I think I'm

30:24

looking around acting to see, like

30:26

like,

30:26

like, the

30:28

empty clothes from from

30:31

raptured people and, like, a dead and a

30:33

leftovers. Like, a hammer

30:35

movie. I'd like to see his hood into

30:37

blood and stuff. Yeah.

30:41

Yeah. It was given power to wage

30:43

war against God's holy people. I'm like It's

30:45

like maybe if I'm wrestling out of your hands, I'm like pounding

30:47

on the on doors as we go by,

30:49

like yeah. It's

30:52

like, arise. Alright. please. Alright.

30:55

So you're you're getting pulled out, or you're yelling,

30:57

all these things. Pharrooza is

31:00

running to get her gun, but Pharrooza, you look over,

31:02

and you C Carter pulling Vaughn

31:04

towards the door. It comes back to the top of

31:06

round two. Margo, you ran away

31:08

from this thing. It's this huge

31:10

tail like tree trunk thick is just whipping

31:12

around the room. It hits the couch and the

31:14

couch topples over on its

31:16

side. The strength of this beast

31:18

is immeasurable.

31:22

So I'm gonna grab my

31:24

stuff too. She goes to grab her

31:26

bag which has the mask,

31:28

the pictures, her notebook, and

31:31

her guns. because she thinks they're

31:33

gonna leave this room But

31:35

if they leave the room, will they be safe? Can they even

31:37

go outside? She's grabbing her gun either

31:39

way. So that's what she's going to do

31:41

with this turn is gather her

31:44

things. have gun

31:45

in hand.

31:46

Okay. It is now

31:48

the creature's turn and the creature is just

31:50

like boom. Boom. You see the

31:53

walls around like the frame of

31:55

the balcony, start to

31:58

cave in like

32:00

crack right in the middle, like they're starting

32:02

to split. Okay.

32:05

the In fact, one

32:07

of the door jams just

32:10

like one side of the door jam

32:12

that's housing the balcony just

32:14

pops off and flies all the way across

32:16

the room. It now goes back to

32:18

you, favors favors you see. It seems like

32:20

a retreat. What do you do? If

32:22

the glass isn't fully

32:25

broken, I'm going to

32:27

take cover behind that

32:29

large couch. My

32:31

bag

32:32

my bag of was

32:35

around, so I just wanna like make sure I have that

32:37

before we head out. And while I'm

32:39

still aiming at this thing, I wanna

32:41

back out of the room And at

32:45

the nearest sign of

32:47

a fire alarm, I wanna hit that

32:49

fire alarm.

32:49

Okay. Alright. So you

32:51

take cover slowly slinking out towards

32:54

the hallway. Give me a luck roll.

32:56

Right. Let's see if that fire alarm just

32:58

happens to be right outside. or

33:00

exists or exists in

33:02

nineteen twenties. I rolled

33:03

a sixteen under seventy

33:05

two. Looks

33:06

like they have some equivalent.

33:09

It's just a guy first building ever.

33:11

Fireman's building. Right. Everyone knows

33:13

that the Waldorf Astoria built the first fire

33:15

alarm in nineteen twenty four. So

33:17

you see something there that is like, you

33:19

know, they would at least alert the front desk

33:21

and maybe rear rear

33:22

rear rear rear rear rear rear. You hear that throughout

33:24

the building. So is this all of this

33:26

sound now as it comes back to you

33:29

Carter. Yeah.

33:31

Carter's just just

33:34

dragging volume I I don't

33:36

know where we are. I

33:38

mean, you know, I my

33:40

intent is to use

33:42

every available bit of effort

33:44

during my single turn to get as far

33:46

away as possible dragging my

33:48

insane friend. I guess,

33:51

find out wise to use the elevator, so

33:53

maybe starts going to the stairwell. Okay.

33:55

You got you're basically out into

33:57

the hallway and you feel pretty safe away

33:59

from its reach because we're at a burst into

34:01

the room, now it's gonna navigate a very small doorway.

34:03

But how thick are these walls? You

34:06

don't know. And

34:08

now does Yvonne still just pulled into the hallway?

34:11

Yes? Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Dragged

34:15

down down the hole just all

34:17

all all the while.

34:20

Like, I just feel like he was once like one of

34:22

them, you know. He was once like one of

34:24

them. Like like, it's like the morning

34:26

star they fell.

34:28

We saw it telling us. We've seen

34:30

it. Yeah. Fun. I'm I'm I'm worried about some

34:32

other things right now, man. We got bigger fish to

34:34

fry. get the fuck out. Big of fish.

34:36

Big of fish. Big of fish. The

34:39

the the the the

34:41

creature evolved, the the swims

34:43

in the waters. he looked upon the daughters of men and and and

34:45

and it's fountain fair. And they were giants for those

34:48

days, you know? Mhmm. I do. Oh,

34:50

yeah. I it it sounds awesome.

34:52

Let's going.

34:54

and then you try to make sure also to be screaming like, let's

34:56

go. Let's go. Like, hoping that everyone else is

34:58

is behind him. He doesn't wanna forget everybody else.

35:01

Other doors in the building are starting to open up and

35:03

people are coming out like Gorgiad,

35:05

you know, wearing

35:08

nineteen twenty lives, pajamas, night caps,

35:10

and what kind of sticks.

35:12

What is all the racket here?

35:14

You've woken up

35:16

my money. Margo,

35:18

you look like you are the last one

35:20

out of the room. As you look about the

35:22

room, is there anything that you wanna even

35:26

attempt to grab as you of

35:28

like, should you choose to

35:30

return? So

35:33

grabbed everything I want, I believe,

35:36

my photos, my notebook,

35:38

mask, my guns. Fayruz

35:41

has

35:41

the other books. maybe

35:44

just do like a quick luck roll to see if

35:46

there's anything that we missed. Okay.

35:48

Or something or -- Yes. -- versus spot hitting

35:50

or spot

35:52

hitting? Yeah. Give a spot

35:56

hidden. I don't

35:57

see anything. I'm ready to get out of the

35:59

room. I got at

35:59

eighty six over

36:00

sixty two, and he's using luck right now. Yeah. And you can't use an old luck

36:02

anyways.

36:02

Oh, use the spot hitting them. Right? So, yeah, you're

36:05

looking around. Anything of importance? No. I guess not. And you run

36:07

out of the room, do you shut the door?

36:09

You just fucking better. I think I shut the door as,

36:11

like, a feeble attempt, like, maybe it's a strong door. So yeah.

36:13

Maybe it doesn't know how to open a

36:16

knob. Maybe it's a little

36:18

bit. Right. climbing.

36:20

And as you shut the door in

36:23

your hands, more

36:26

splintering sounds

36:28

screaming. and then

36:30

silence. You're running

36:33

away and

36:33

you guys all hear these sounds

36:35

and screaming and banging. And other people are looking

36:37

around like, what is the meaning of this

36:39

at the world over story, I know

36:42

less. And then it's just like

36:44

as you're getting the elevators, the stairs, and

36:46

whatnot, that sound goes

36:48

away. You still wanna

36:50

get the hell out of the building? Was it

36:52

screaming

36:52

of people that sounded like or screaming?

36:54

It

36:54

sounded like this preacher was letting

36:56

out some sort of whale as it was

36:58

trying to fight its way into your

37:00

room. And all the people are just more

37:02

grumpy than they are. Yeah. Look, what is the

37:05

fire alarm? Wait. There's too

37:07

much money here for there to be a

37:09

fire alarm. And what is

37:12

all this screaming and crashing. So I'm sort of partying. No

37:14

doubt. And so they're more annoyed by

37:16

this. They don't know that there's a monster in

37:18

the other I

37:19

think as Carter and Vaughan have, like, gone

37:21

into the stairwell on her

37:24

running. Ferrous just,

37:26

like, completely disheveled with, like, an armed gun and, like,

37:28

a loaded gun in her hand and, like, and,

37:30

like, and, like, a curve essentially

37:33

like a go bag. we'll

37:35

actually take the elevator. So in all this, like, panic and chaos,

37:37

all of a sudden, it's like,

37:39

for,

37:44

like, slowly heading down into the

37:46

lobby. What about It's got one of these

37:48

elevator things, like, is there an

37:50

elevator operator in

37:52

there? Like, Ruff Right, man? That's all,

37:54

man. Robbie, please. Mhmm.

37:56

Robbie, coming right up. Well, your

37:57

friend's me joining you.

38:00

what about that drive my mom's time?

38:02

You go down to

38:05

the lobby. And you get to the lobby, and you

38:07

get to the lobby Bobby, and

38:09

you see that, like, the bellman and a couple

38:11

of the hotel staff are

38:13

standing outside and

38:16

they're they're, like, pointing up and

38:18

and and looking. And and then one

38:20

guy is running over to the

38:23

phone and, like, Please, please. I'm not gonna be in front of

38:25

me. And you just see that there's a bit of a

38:27

commotion so they're aware that something is

38:30

happening here.

38:33

We, we, we, we, we, we,

38:35

we. In the distance, you hear

38:37

fire alarm fire

38:39

engine coming up. What

38:42

about the rest of

38:44

you? Yeah.

38:44

Maybe Carter and Vaughan burst

38:46

through the the bottom stairwell

38:48

door into the lobby too.

38:50

Oh my god. It

38:53

because Carter, I feel like they got far enough a

38:55

way to not the

38:59

silence. So Carla comes out.

39:00

I was like, everyone, get out of

39:03

here. Is the giant dragon? Where's

39:05

the floor? Where's the floor

39:08

stand? That's where it is. And let's gotta

39:10

get out. Don't forget. Gotta die

39:12

ass. Stop your lies. That's

39:14

the dragon,

39:18

but that's this gentleman. He has

39:19

had too many gin fizzes

39:21

this evening. Take all your money, but leave some behind. I feel like

39:23

I've earned it. It's a fair recompense. Get out of

39:26

it, though. And people

39:28

are just

39:30

like, It's just it's just freezing out. And there

39:32

you know, most of them don't even have their coats in, like, they're looking

39:34

at the stuff. Like, do we have to go outside as

39:38

is really a big deal. They're like, I'm so sorry. I'm so

39:40

sorry. So I'm so sorry, madam. There there may very

39:42

well be a fire. We just have to take

39:44

precaution the middle of January.

39:46

This weather, it's it's like slightly snowing out.

39:48

It's like a cop sat in there, everyone is upset.

39:50

And now there's just people pouring in.

39:52

But now you have to worry like

39:54

things flying around. What's to say it won't just attack everyone once

39:57

they go outside? So you see this

39:59

as massive people going outside? Do you follow or

40:01

do you stay in? Well,

40:04

I

40:05

don't know if Margo ran Annealy downstairs when she hit

40:07

her. with

40:07

Margo. The silence.

40:10

Oh. because Faireus took the

40:12

elevator,

40:12

and I feel like

40:14

she was close enough to the door to

40:16

hear the commotion and hear nothing and maybe walks

40:18

by the door again before coming

40:21

down the stairs. Right?

40:24

So you got you got away and you

40:26

were the only one that caught that, like, after

40:28

all that

40:30

sound, nothing.

40:31

And so, you

40:32

walk back up to the door

40:34

and you listen and you just hear

40:36

the wind coming from the other

40:39

side of the door your hotel

40:42

room. Can I peek

40:44

in

40:44

i peek in the room the

40:46

room?

40:46

You wanna peek in the room?

40:48

Yeah.

40:50

What's the words

40:51

that could happen? Get a deal of

40:53

a picky.

40:54

Argo grabs the handle of

40:56

the door. opens

40:58

it ever so slightly to peek

41:00

in. And where the balcony

41:02

used to be is just a

41:06

massive whole, you could almost see

41:08

the beginning of its wing span

41:10

trying to get through. I'm thinking like

41:14

Is it ghostbusters or ghostbusters too where there's just like

41:16

yeah. It's it's that kind of scene where it's

41:19

just I'm sure Kate has a film

41:21

historian. You know exactly the scene

41:23

I'm speaking of. Just a whole

41:26

where there used to be building and just

41:28

going out into blackness.

41:30

And if you try to look

41:32

out there, You do not

41:34

see the creature anywhere.

41:36

You

41:36

don't hear the

41:38

of weeks sound of

41:40

wings. Before I leave and meet them downstairs,

41:42

I wanna take a picture of the room, like,

41:44

from the door so I can, like, see everything,

41:48

see the drag and shaped hole, whatever it is, and just a

41:50

destruction of that, and then

41:52

head down. Steers like an

41:53

everyone outline.

41:55

get But

41:57

money goes to the wall.

41:59

You got a

41:59

solar right now? Yep. I

42:02

think you have one of

42:04

these. Smile. You

42:06

get a photo, you

42:10

shut the door, and you're

42:12

glad you're glad that

42:14

the incidentals are on Vaughan's

42:16

credit card.

42:18

You go downstairs and

42:20

your friends are all in the lobby.

42:22

At this point, Vaughan, enough time has

42:24

passed that you are no longer having this

42:27

bout of madness. In fact,

42:29

you don't even remember

42:32

having this thing. The last thing you

42:34

remember was hearing an explosion and seeing

42:36

glass shards flying out.

42:38

That's the last thing you remember.

42:41

Yeah. Jim just

42:43

thing.

42:45

Yes.

42:46

What?

42:47

You

42:48

Hey. Are you? You

42:52

back buddy? Sitting us, what

42:54

the bloody hell happened, Mohammed? What are we what are we

42:56

doing outside? We had a bit of an

42:58

incident.

42:58

Hey. Snipcat creature.

43:01

Bad snake really. bad

43:03

snake. Good good point. A bad

43:05

snake smashed the balcony

43:08

open. That might cost you a little bit of money.

43:10

But more importantly, world life

43:12

favorites is here. Margo.

43:14

I guess we don't know what's

43:16

happened. Right? So we're sort of still

43:19

out there. Where does that work

43:21

or go? Yeah. Oh, there

43:23

you are. Say what? I

43:25

think I'll do.

43:28

gotta get out of here. What's I mean, is this thing gonna take the top of the building off?

43:30

What's going on? It's gone. It

43:32

it's it's completely

43:34

completely gone. The the room is

43:37

ravaged, and it's nowhere to be

43:40

seen. Oh my god. Alright.

43:41

But but the road, like,

43:43

there's actual destruction. Right?

43:45

If this was not like a maggots are in the shower, maggots are not

43:48

in the shower thing, this is

43:50

like physical destruction

43:51

situation. It looks

43:53

like a monster. ran

43:55

its body through the wall

43:58

and ravaged the room, and I took a

44:00

photo. So what you're saying

44:01

is we're all going

44:03

to need another a

44:05

room. Probably.

44:08

Maybe

44:08

it's a monster that does not

44:10

attack the same room twice.

44:12

it doesn't

44:13

I just say. So

44:15

yeah. So basically, Vaughn, that's what

44:18

happened. Welcome back.

44:21

I'm

44:21

losing time. I

44:23

I scarcely remember what happened

44:25

last

44:25

night. It's probably for the best. What

44:27

is happening? What is happening

44:30

to me?

44:31

Oh,

44:33

dear God.

44:34

Why? I

44:36

don't

44:37

know. You seem

44:38

to every time something

44:40

strange like this happens, you seem to ramble

44:42

off AAA lot

44:45

of Catholic Right.

44:46

Thanks. But but you're doing great. That that's not to

44:48

take anything away from your contributions. Right?

44:50

Everybody and look You

44:52

are not doing good. No. I

44:57

will consent. I'm very worried about

44:58

you.

45:00

like But maybe

45:02

Yeah. We're all we're all very

45:04

impressed, Vaughn, with what you have brought

45:06

to the table in terms of team

45:10

is mentorship. But, yeah, there

45:12

was an incident. We're down here.

45:14

Sounds like we can go back up there,

45:16

maybe go to the maybe go to the caught

45:18

Constantially, let's talk about another room maybe. Are

45:20

you mad? If if I'm

45:22

clearly,

45:25

if if you're you're saying that some sort of

45:27

wing and serpent came in through our door or

45:29

window. Yeah. That that that be

45:31

that means they know where we are.

45:33

man. So watching, they just say no.

45:35

That's a great point. Well,

45:37

that means that if they

45:39

know where we are, And and whatever we're dealing

45:41

with is is something supernatural, then they're gonna be

45:43

able to find us wherever we are and that we might as

45:45

well stay in a

45:48

big building patented by other rooms surrounding us. How

45:50

about

45:50

what other four star hotels are

45:52

in the city? Can we find another

45:54

find another equivalent,

45:56

Ritzy

45:57

hotel, and then we'll this is this is where

45:59

I

45:59

come come and get

46:01

and guess. We check-in under our

46:03

get this aliases. Okay. We

46:04

come up with different

46:06

names. I will be

46:09

a thirtieth fart bender, and we

46:12

will go

46:12

in there. You guys can pick your own

46:14

names or if you want to. I can I got a whole

46:17

I got a note card here with lots of

46:19

different aliases. Go to

46:20

a different hotel, check-in under

46:24

aliases, and we'll be safe, but also in

46:26

the comfort that we've come to expect.

46:28

Split up? No. No. No.

46:32

All of No. God. No. No. We're all together. If you'll

46:34

direct yourself to world twenty, I do have

46:36

I haven't shown you this yet.

46:39

a nice little map of Greater New

46:41

York in nineteen twenty

46:44

five. And in fact, if you look at

46:46

these small inset map number sixteen

46:48

there is in fact the Waldorf

46:50

Astoria. So there are

46:52

other hotels available. There's the hotel

46:55

LLC back to where your good

46:57

friend Jackson Elias was killed. The

46:59

new grand hotel, the Broadway

47:01

Central, of course, and

47:04

other buildings So there are other options.

47:08

But yeah, there is this

47:11

lingering fear that they

47:13

know where

47:13

you are. They're watching, but

47:16

who?

47:17

i know Maybe

47:20

Times Square

47:22

Hotel.

47:24

Seems nice.

47:26

We're just thinking lots of

47:28

people, lots of big buildings, lots

47:30

of eyes in case serpent

47:32

comes back.

47:34

Yeah. Okay. That's won't.

47:37

So Margo You

47:40

think it's okay to go up there and gather

47:43

our shit? Yeah.

47:45

It's

47:45

gone. I

47:48

don't see

47:48

by now not? Maybe we

47:51

just go

47:51

up there, grab our stuff, and let's just

47:53

let ourselves out the back door. What

47:55

do you think?

47:56

agreed

47:58

Agreed. Yes. Yes. I suppose

48:00

there's a

48:00

list of

48:02

trail. Alright.

48:05

Let's

48:05

go upstairs.

48:08

Guys had upstairs and

48:10

upstairs not

48:14

unlike Margot

48:16

you. take this

48:18

deep breath and you open

48:20

the door

48:21

to go in. Favorites,

48:24

I don't know

48:24

if you were able to even grab all those books

48:26

shove them into your go bag and all of the commotion. So

48:28

let's say a couple of those are laying out. Guys grab

48:31

whatever you need to grab. and

48:34

you just see this. I mean, it's almost like a perfect

48:37

outline of not even

48:39

the full mass of this creature

48:42

in Vaughan where you'd lost some

48:44

time, you now see that it

48:46

was they weren't just blowing

48:48

smoke because you can see this

48:50

god cryptic outline of some winged beast trying to fight its

48:52

way in, shards of

48:54

glass all over the floor, that

48:56

broken door

48:58

jam like the force that it was exerting, the fact

49:00

that it was able to send that off of

49:02

the off the wall and across the

49:04

room, unsettling.

49:07

unsettling my

49:09

god. And then, yeah, like, peering over the edge down

49:11

onto down

49:13

onto Manhattan.

49:15

the Yeah.

49:16

yeah

49:17

And, like, I've

49:20

got, like, trunks and stuff, so packing

49:22

that up and that up finding my

49:25

pistol and also lifting up that

49:27

box that

49:27

I got with the those

49:29

vials inside

49:32

ride.

49:33

Right?

49:34

The ones look like they contain the entire

49:36

cosmos. It's the way they Yeah.

49:38

We kind of hid that from you, but

49:41

would imagine in the

49:44

chaos, pun

49:44

intended. I think it's

49:45

a pun. It's a fucking reference to the name

49:47

of the show. That's got spewed,

49:49

you know, that's everywhere or at least

49:52

exposed so you could see it.

49:54

Also, Carter wants to make sure he grabs that

49:56

ornamental knife

49:58

anything?

49:58

That's the

49:59

same knife that or one of the knives that

50:02

was a same make of a knife that was

50:04

used to kill Jackson that

50:06

you found. silicon Aquane's

50:08

chambers. We didn't take any

50:09

of those headbands. Right? I've

50:11

got one. You do have one. I got an

50:14

old jerky you know, the mummified human tongue. Right.

50:16

Yep. And then Carter was also, like so as you

50:18

can see, Vaughan, this

50:20

is where It came

50:22

through. Mhmm. And right over here is where I

50:24

saved your life. You were just kinda right here and

50:26

you were a gibbering

50:28

away and found it

50:30

within my self to pick

50:32

you up, my great

50:34

seventy strength and drag you

50:36

out of this room So anyway, I

50:39

just wanted to point out that the main parts of the

50:41

room that figure into

50:43

the narrative here. Well,

50:46

thank

50:46

you ever so much. Timing has

50:48

to your

50:49

Yeah. You know,

50:51

your great Braun and has agreed

50:53

to quarter. It's it just comes

50:55

naturally at this point. Fairers

50:57

will make it a point to leave

51:00

behind the fancy

51:02

dress that she borrowed with the

51:04

intention of sending a telegram

51:06

over to that lady, saying her father will

51:08

pave

51:09

the full confidence station for

51:12

the for the destruction

51:13

of her dress. Thank you for the

51:15

dress. Stop.

51:16

Mhmm. Thank you for the

51:18

dress. stop. Yeah. Well, I guess, yeah, both of us are still dressed

51:20

all fancy. Right? Like, we got back to

51:22

show up. I mean, maybe When we go back up

51:24

this this time

51:25

around, like, favors does

51:28

change her clothes, but before she was very much in that elevator full

51:30

ball gown. Mhmm.

51:32

and who

51:34

the But we'll leave it behind and make

51:36

her dad pay for it.

51:37

Yeah. Mhmm. Now you're wearing a bum

51:40

equipment sweatshirt.

51:42

I did for bed. Alright.

51:45

So so Von, you've got your trunks and

51:47

everything. You're you're moving out. You're going to

51:49

another hotel. Yeah. It's it's

51:51

not safe there. There's also a giant hole in

51:53

the wall. Right. Okay.

51:55

You get down into the

51:57

lobby,

51:57

all of you, and the

51:59

bellman is like, mister Villas,

52:02

what seems to be the problem there?

52:04

Is is everything alright? Yes. The problem with boys

52:06

is that there there's bloody great hole in our

52:08

wall. You see? It seems there

52:10

someone drove a trolley car straight to

52:13

my body balcony. But don't

52:15

think I'll be spending the night there any I'm

52:17

sorry. I don't understand a hole

52:19

in your wall. How how can that be?

52:21

We we we inspect all of these rooms

52:23

before our guests stay. This is

52:25

the Waldorf Astoria. after all. And

52:28

there is a a whole III do

52:30

apologize. This is something we should have had

52:32

looked at, but why don't we just move you to

52:34

another room? A free of charge, of course. Indeed,

52:36

III think in before

52:38

I'd set foot in another room, I'd

52:40

like you a lot to have a have a

52:42

deep and hard. Look at the

52:44

structural integrity of this building, a

52:46

job passing off as one of

52:48

the the diamonds of

52:50

your city. I'm afraid

52:52

that the world of Astoria shall see my business never

52:54

again. and

52:58

they I said good day. Good day. Good day. sir. Oh,

53:01

dear, bro. You're

53:04

the four of you storm out as if you had nothing

53:06

to do with this. Yes.

53:09

That's a off overview. Tyler.

53:16

man. And you just walk

53:19

out as all the other people are

53:21

coming in. Like, oh, it's that's

53:24

freezing outside. And as

53:26

you get to the front, you see that the

53:28

the fire engine is there and they're

53:30

they're like starting to pack up like

53:32

they already inspected and saw that it wasn't

53:34

a fire. there's a bunch of people huddled

53:37

around like broken glass on

53:39

the sidewalk and chunks of

53:42

wall and they're like, looking up and pointing and trying to figure out, like, what the

53:44

hell happened? They they don't have a good vantage

53:46

point to see exactly

53:48

what you

53:50

saw Can I role

53:50

spot him to see if I

53:53

see any suspicious or familiar characters

53:55

in this vicinity?

53:57

Yeah. For sure. and

53:59

the end I

54:02

got

54:02

smashed it. So, yeah,

54:05

I rolled a forty six

54:07

hundred seventy five. forty six hundred seventy five, you know, there's a

54:09

lot of commotion. It's all the guests of, you know,

54:12

this used to be two separate hotels

54:14

that merged So there's a ton

54:16

of guests here on a on a Friday night

54:18

in New York City. And

54:20

so you're just trying to suss through as anybody

54:22

standing out people that really jump

54:24

out of you are the police who

54:26

are, like, talking to somebody.

54:28

And from time to time, they look up.

54:30

And are they looking right at you

54:32

when you your friends to what are they? Are we

54:34

able to see what precinct they're

54:35

from by

54:38

their uniform? Yeah.

54:40

I mean, I would say that you could you could

54:42

look at their car, the police car, and see

54:44

that they're from the the

54:47

Midtown East precinct.

54:50

So maybe it's just your

54:52

mind playing tricks on you or maybe you are being

54:54

you are being watched watched. Some.

54:57

hum

54:59

I'd say other than the fact that it's colder than we just shed out here, I'd say

55:01

we've got our picks up. It's

55:03

pretty scot free.

55:05

All things considered. Yeah. Because we

55:07

just saw a dragon and our friend nearly but I feel like all

55:09

things considered you're right. That's a win. It could

55:11

have been much worse. I could just have to be count

55:13

this as win.

55:16

Yeah. We should not

55:17

walk directly to the new hotel.

55:19

We should take, you know,

55:21

non straighter routes and keep

55:23

our eyes out while we're going to

55:25

see see if anyone's rushing and filling us, anything up in

55:27

the windows, anywhere.

55:31

the sky.

55:32

I mean, can these people

55:33

really do that? Can they really just

55:35

be like, oh, we want those guys out

55:37

of the picture. Let's send

55:39

a dragon. I don't know what's

55:40

Kent? Did that happen? How does

55:42

one even call upon a snake dragon?

55:45

Bad

55:45

snake. Yeah. What

55:46

do you do? You call you the yellow

55:48

pages I don't

55:49

know if the snake dragon

55:51

is related to, you know, the the thing we

55:53

found on the floor

55:55

and juju House. I'd like to think they're somewhat tied together. I don't think

55:57

I normally, if I we hadn't found that stuff, I

55:59

doubt

55:59

we'd roll into New York City and encounter a

56:02

snake dragon. And

56:04

and I

56:04

and I I assume that maybe conversations we've

56:06

had have been kind of been tossed around between us

56:08

since, like, and doesn't that sound

56:11

rather significantly like the

56:14

creatures that had. Extremely

56:16

authentic Australian,

56:18

Jeffrey, tell

56:19

us about And this

56:21

is winged

56:24

bat sermons, the father of all

56:26

bats. Yeah. Yes. The

56:28

bat father. That does

56:30

sound like whatever day. Favorites.

56:32

That's not great.

56:33

That's not great. usually

56:36

don't want a god on your tail. That's

56:40

not ideal.

56:42

Alright. Let's take a

56:44

circuitous route to

56:45

our new hotel, the name of which

56:47

I've already forgot. The Times

56:50

Square Hotel. Not right. The Times Square. This is

56:52

good because it's

56:52

Frank's next super Rebecca works, so

56:54

maybe we can stop there

56:56

tomorrow before we save the world.

56:58

Just to make sure that she's safe.

57:00

by chance if they can send a dragon to attack us

57:02

and what's to stop them from sending it to anyone? Yeah.

57:05

There's also a

57:07

Chipotle by there. which I think

57:09

we could hit up. Of what was

57:10

what would think that a bad daddy God would have better things to

57:13

do than

57:15

to be

57:17

summoned upon just to run through somebody's

57:18

wall. Yeah. What what

57:21

I mean, god's what

57:24

you doing? These these lesser gods are just

57:26

was sitting around by the phone, waiting for it

57:28

to ring? Well, if you're trying

57:29

to destroy him

57:32

maybe, I am covering -- Yeah. -- stowage. So my god, are they

57:34

if they're

57:34

taking orders from somebody else? It's probably one

57:36

that can die.

57:37

You're not right up here. If you're like

57:39

talking crap

57:39

about this thing. And I

57:42

was, like, looking at that the sky, like,

57:44

snows. And the more the girls, it's at least

57:46

that's, like, we just laying out of the room, like, we

57:48

could take What? Maybe in the morick, the concept of

57:50

God and gods are revoked, you can just leave

57:52

on just to be like -- Yeah. -- this, but they're not gone.

57:54

This is Okay. We could talk we we don't have

57:56

to talk about it right Okay.

57:58

They can be evoked if we're by learning

57:59

secret names and situations.

58:04

It's called. Yeah. You're walking

58:06

through freezing cold New York City,

58:08

bonds dragging trunks. You've got all of your

58:10

shit with you. Mhmm. And you're on, like,

58:12

Park Avenue South, and you trying to make a

58:14

way. I've two Exactly.

58:16

thirty three cases. fight. The

58:18

forty three taxi. Forty three

58:21

street. You get there to the Times

58:23

Square hotel, and it's a it's a

58:25

long cold walk, but on top of what

58:27

the I guess what keeps you

58:29

warm is the fear of them

58:32

and in death constantly. And he sound you here. Just like, you're looking

58:34

at the skies above, but

58:36

you are on a constant

58:38

all your

58:40

way there and you get there and there's like a

58:43

stiff, tall, thin man with

58:45

a pencil thin mustache that sees four

58:47

of you stumble in, like, wet from the

58:50

snow and looking all disheveled.

58:52

It's, like, three in the morning now, I

58:54

imagine, like, you got Batacolade

58:56

from WestJet monster. You would

58:58

dig it into these books, having a couple of

59:00

cattails, and then this monster

59:02

came in. And now you had to

59:04

walk all the way across town, taking a

59:06

longer circuitous you come in there

59:08

and it's like, how

59:10

may I help you? No. It's terribly

59:12

late old man, but I don't suppose you've got

59:14

a suite of rooms available with this on

59:16

godly. now, pardon me, a sweet

59:18

for the four of you.

59:20

Or perhaps two are joining

59:22

perhaps or to adjoining Well,

59:26

clearly, you were not. From a

59:28

New York, but the Times Square Hotel is

59:30

a hotel primarily for single

59:34

men, although they

59:36

did add a floor for women.

59:40

What? Yes.

59:41

That is how things work in

59:43

nineteen twenty five. This is

59:44

a a hotel for primarily

59:46

single men, so you

59:50

and your friend here

59:52

looking at Carter. I could

59:54

stay on floors one through

59:56

fourteen. And the lady

59:58

would need their

59:59

own room on the fifteenth

1:00:01

floor. Let's I think

1:00:03

you've mistaken

1:00:04

the

1:00:06

situation here, so you see, we are two couples and

1:00:08

I'll I'll, like, just whatever

1:00:10

grab Carter or Bonhoeffer's closest. and

1:00:13

and we should like joining rooms

1:00:16

as we

1:00:17

are honeymooning all together. We are Wow.

1:00:20

wedding. Yes. From my dear,

1:00:21

I don't know what kind

1:00:24

of coupling the four of

1:00:26

you are up to, but that

1:00:27

is not the type of business we

1:00:29

have here at the Times Square out

1:00:31

town. Perhaps you would

1:00:33

prefer a flea motel on

1:00:35

tenth Avenue. Now god damn it, sir,

1:00:37

and Carter No. It was just

1:00:39

at the Waldorf story, and the only reason I

1:00:41

in this playback hotels because there was a

1:00:43

huge giant hole in our wall and the fire alarm

1:00:45

was raised.

1:00:45

And now we have to find ourselves in the cold, walk you

1:00:48

around three end, Dennis Jethai, you will

1:00:50

provide us a room, sir. We demand

1:00:52

satisfaction. That is the tenth time I've

1:00:54

heard

1:00:54

that skews this evening.

1:00:56

Madam, you're lucky.

1:00:58

A couple of years ago, this hotel was primarily

1:01:00

for men. I will allow you a room

1:01:02

on the fifteenth floor. don't make the

1:01:04

rules. I merely enforce them. A

1:01:08

couple's hotel

1:01:08

can be found up the street

1:01:10

if you so choose.

1:01:12

Otherwise, Good day to you. What's the

1:01:14

star rating on this level? a high place

1:01:16

for the ground. This is a a

1:01:19

high class hotel. I'll have you

1:01:22

know. Spilt. If you have to start to turn

1:01:24

over again, I don't think it's a very high class.

1:01:26

I mean, you keep a women up on the

1:01:28

top floor. for single men only? What kind of establishment is

1:01:30

this? How dare you?

1:01:32

the

1:01:33

How dare you all

1:01:35

have you know? My

1:01:37

father when Heather is in town goes out

1:01:39

of his way to stay at the Times

1:01:41

Square hotel.

1:01:43

Which floor

1:01:44

though? Young

1:01:47

man.

1:01:49

You are no longer welcome

1:01:52

here. I'm going to call the police. Okay.

1:01:54

Alright. Fine. Fuck We're leaving.

1:01:56

That's what we do.

1:01:58

Don't don't We're gonna pick

1:01:59

another great hotel. Oh, no. Just

1:02:02

walk around

1:02:04

that. Square. Let me check real

1:02:06

twenty. men's a

1:02:07

single men's hotel. I

1:02:09

repeated the

1:02:10

hotel quickly before you guys

1:02:12

decided to go there. Okay. It

1:02:15

was it was built for just single men. And then in nineteen

1:02:17

twenty three, they added one floor

1:02:19

for women for girls. Oh, they were

1:02:21

pretty by the books. especially

1:02:23

in Times Square with the the the sex workers

1:02:26

and whatnot, they didn't want that element being

1:02:28

in there. So by separating them, it

1:02:30

made

1:02:31

it safer. Sure. By by

1:02:32

making the whole place a single

1:02:34

net only. Yeah. This

1:02:37

is a great gold troy

1:02:39

to finish the a season where we can't fucking

1:02:41

check another hotel. Let's choose another hotel that

1:02:44

does have a Wikipedia page. Maybe

1:02:46

you like to

1:02:48

leave it. Mhmm.

1:02:51

What's it called? Hotel Girard. Oh,

1:02:57

I'm on it. Alright. So you go to the the

1:02:59

hotel Girard and that

1:03:03

was built

1:03:04

in eighteen ninety three. It's a thirteen

1:03:08

story a u shaped salmon colored brick and limestone

1:03:10

building with German Renaissance style

1:03:12

design elements. The front facade features

1:03:14

bode pairs of

1:03:16

bay windows from the third to sixth floor, and the building topped

1:03:18

by steeply pointed front gables,

1:03:20

and a high decorated dormer. It

1:03:22

was originally built as an apartment

1:03:26

hotel you come in and the

1:03:28

gentleman is like, hey,

1:03:30

what's going on? How can I help you? First

1:03:31

of all, do you

1:03:33

have any men only floors, or it can be mix

1:03:35

and mingle here. Sir, I think you're thinking

1:03:37

of the Times Square Hotel. This is

1:03:39

the hotel Girard. We're

1:03:41

all or well. compelling. Yeah. Excellent. Our

1:03:44

mistake. I'm looking for one of

1:03:46

your famous apartment

1:03:48

esque suites.

1:03:50

I hear you start as an apartment hotel room. We indeed,

1:03:52

we've just recently converted a

1:03:54

few rooms to shorter stays, but

1:03:58

we would be glad to give you how long do you plan on

1:03:59

staying? You're not gonna

1:04:02

up and

1:04:02

die in the next twenty four hours, are you?

1:04:04

I have to ask that.

1:04:07

of all of our new

1:04:10

people. No. I have no

1:04:12

idea. to shuffle off this

1:04:14

mortal coil

1:04:16

just yet. Indeed, we may be staying

1:04:18

forever. I I have a feeling

1:04:20

we'll be requiring comfort, a

1:04:22

great deal. well, then you

1:04:24

came to the right place because hotel

1:04:26

Girard is synonymous

1:04:28

with comfort. Let me see what I

1:04:30

have. And now are you was

1:04:32

this two rooms for two married couples?

1:04:35

Or are you a family? Or

1:04:37

what is what is the situation? it's

1:04:39

been a bit fried. Of course, I understand. I'm just doing a

1:04:42

job and all that. Perhaps to re joining

1:04:44

rumors for for my

1:04:47

wife and our friends here. Lovely.

1:04:49

Of course. Yes. Let me see what I have here.

1:04:51

I'm just typing on my non

1:04:53

existent computer. Yes. Here

1:04:56

you are. we have two rooms

1:04:58

on the fifth floor that should be

1:05:00

perfectly to your liking and they are

1:05:02

joining. You can choose to leave that door

1:05:04

locked or

1:05:06

depending on what you'd like. Will there be anything else?

1:05:08

We have a breakfast in the morning from

1:05:10

seven to ten AM, and

1:05:12

turn down service is optional.

1:05:16

accommodating. Yes. That turndown

1:05:18

service won't be necessary with us. As

1:05:20

you can see by the ungodly hour, if we've

1:05:23

had quite night. Yes.

1:05:25

I assume that you are

1:05:27

a blackout truck. So welcome to

1:05:29

the Hotel Girard. Your secret is safe with me.

1:05:31

Here are your keys. And for you, please, if

1:05:34

there's anything that

1:05:36

you need would

1:05:38

be here until the morning just ring down at

1:05:41

any time. Yeah. Thank

1:05:43

you so

1:05:44

much.

1:05:45

and and Vaughan

1:05:48

will when he signs the

1:05:50

ledger, sign a name that is not

1:05:52

his own. Okay. What

1:05:52

is that there? Yeah. What was

1:05:55

the one? Tillinghouse said

1:05:57

I forgot. Part

1:05:59

further tethers

1:06:02

apart because Murder.

1:06:04

Further fronting last thing. Yeah.

1:06:07

Just the tethers. mister f dash and,

1:06:10

like, f

1:06:12

dash r arthur. Alright. So

1:06:14

you go up to the room and it's late.

1:06:18

You have to be exhausted. Are we going to

1:06:20

sleep? Are we calling to the

1:06:22

day? Yes. Yes. I

1:06:24

mean, sleep in quote, I would

1:06:26

imagine. This is not the Waldorf story. It's not as

1:06:29

luxurious. There are no late night shrimp

1:06:31

cocktails and gin martinis. What's

1:06:33

the bootleg gin? You

1:06:36

go to sleep. Fitful

1:06:38

sleep

1:06:39

for all of you.

1:06:41

Imagine

1:06:42

imagine you're all up

1:06:45

pretty early, not

1:06:48

super rested in mind spinning

1:06:50

all

1:06:52

night. And it is Saturday,

1:06:54

January

1:06:56

twenty fifth or twenty fourth.

1:07:00

remember. I'll tell you in a second, but tell

1:07:03

me what your plan is

1:07:04

for the day Michael just chimed

1:07:07

in as Saturday, January twenty,

1:07:10

Fourth,

1:07:10

a week ago, you were attending Jackson

1:07:13

Alliance's funeral in

1:07:16

Brooklyn. And

1:07:18

now, you

1:07:19

are set to do

1:07:21

what? Carter, you had

1:07:24

mentioned you were like fuck the dog of

1:07:26

the moon. We need to go and get you

1:07:28

guys during the day and figure out what the hell's going on. Milley Adam's life could be hanging

1:07:30

in the balance. What do you guys think?

1:07:33

Yeah. I mean, that seems like a pretty decent plan.

1:07:36

That seems

1:07:36

like the most pressing matter. Yes. After

1:07:38

checking, you

1:07:38

know, ignore that for a

1:07:41

bit. do that as party. Mhmm.

1:07:43

I'd very much like to, yeah,

1:07:45

check-in on the pool situation so that

1:07:47

the and And

1:07:50

if we can't get in touch with him, let Joe Sandberg

1:07:53

know where we're going and then kicked down some doors. I

1:07:55

thought you meant, like, see if this

1:07:57

hotel had a pool It's

1:07:59

like Oh,

1:07:59

yeah. I appreciate the pools that you're really letting his

1:08:02

hair down. He's a twenty berry's and yeah.

1:08:04

Yeah. What is the check out the

1:08:06

pools that you're wearing? and changing It

1:08:08

was a bottomless mimosa

1:08:09

branch. No. Downtime

1:08:12

to me was a good time. Here we go.

1:08:16

Okay. Alright. So it's a little early and maybe

1:08:18

if you wait

1:08:18

to get this, you know, the breakfast is

1:08:22

from seven to ten. get some eggs and French

1:08:24

toast, and then call

1:08:26

lieutenant pools precinct. There

1:08:28

was a message for

1:08:30

you waiting at the Waldorf Storia

1:08:33

that said what? Do you remember? Something about all was going

1:08:35

according to plan -- I think.

1:08:36

-- according

1:08:39

to plan. Yeah. Who

1:08:41

is that

1:08:42

from? From pool? From lunch? Hell. Allegedly from pool. We

1:08:45

could

1:08:46

try to call him

1:08:49

Again

1:08:51

-- Yeah. -- try to give him a ring, ring, ding. Let's give

1:08:53

him a buzz.

1:08:55

Give

1:08:55

him

1:08:56

a code word. that way,

1:08:58

if he can't speak because he's surrounded by people,

1:09:00

he'll know to be the leader

1:09:02

at the park bench. Mhmm. Just

1:09:04

be like, hey, if you and

1:09:06

if this is not a good time to speak, meet us

1:09:08

here, and just say

1:09:10

the word bagel

1:09:13

of locks.

1:09:15

Mhmm. You

1:09:16

call up

1:09:17

the number that you were

1:09:18

using to call pool. rings

1:09:22

three times. Dan

1:09:25

Prisik, how can

1:09:27

I help you?

1:09:28

Yes.

1:09:29

Hello, my head. Just always make sure I

1:09:31

can call you. Is that

1:09:34

how can I help

1:09:36

you? I was

1:09:38

in a pool if you would be so kind. a pause.

1:09:42

the pause Who

1:09:44

may I ask

1:09:47

this calling?

1:09:47

This bullshit again.

1:09:51

I'm sorry. Is mister

1:09:53

i'm sorry mister paul of unavailable

1:09:56

porno unavailable?

1:09:57

the lieutenant

1:09:59

pool not been in in

1:10:02

three days, actually. Who

1:10:04

do you? Did you did

1:10:07

you have a meeting with

1:10:09

the the tenant pool. Who who

1:10:11

is this? Tell them it's dry cleaners is is Yes.

1:10:13

Late to pick up and order.

1:10:15

I'm like, yes. This

1:10:19

is a tip top dry cleaning. Just calling in

1:10:21

to let him know that

1:10:23

his his we've got

1:10:25

his shirts. So stopped and and about a bit

1:10:27

of a difficulty with those French cuffs. Sure. Sure. If if

1:10:29

you if you know anything about the ten and twelve, please

1:10:31

please let us know. We're we're we're we're we're we're we're

1:10:34

we're we're we're this is very very strange. It's not like him to just not call.

1:10:36

Odiero. Odiero. I should

1:10:39

Tell him. Should hate to

1:10:41

think what that means for a

1:10:43

state who's trickling. Mhmm.

1:10:44

What was that

1:10:46

time? Tell him, why not?

1:10:48

Why?

1:10:48

how him why not device Like,

1:10:51

he's disclosing this to

1:10:52

i can't really was yeah

1:10:56

us.

1:10:56

Yeah. And

1:11:00

after

1:11:00

that Yeah.

1:11:02

Sir, I'll only

1:11:04

say

1:11:08

that If the tenth precinct wants

1:11:10

to know where a pool told

1:11:12

me that he

1:11:15

was going to be

1:11:16

speaking as a representative once

1:11:18

again of tip top dry cleaning. He

1:11:23

told me that he was place up in Harlem

1:11:25

called the juju House. That

1:11:27

was where his

1:11:30

investigations

1:11:31

were leading him.

1:11:35

Click.

1:11:39

Yes. How to cut

1:11:41

jobs out? I'm sure that depends on the What did

1:11:43

you make them looks? Pecos. He

1:11:48

wasn't even there. Shit. I

1:11:50

collapsed the golden wager time.

1:11:52

The golden wager

1:11:55

to the tenth. And And then

1:11:57

So I don't know. Tonight is the night that they

1:11:59

that another abduction

1:11:59

happens. Billy Adams has already been taken

1:12:02

by the mayor. III don't

1:12:04

think addoms

1:12:07

too. Pool is gone. Let's go to

1:12:09

two new houses. Let's go to two new houses.

1:12:11

At least two monsters. Let's go

1:12:13

right now. Let's go. It's daytime.

1:12:15

Let's go. Paul has gone and

1:12:17

disappeared. That means they they they

1:12:19

may bloody well have him as

1:12:21

Yeah. There's no

1:12:22

there's no time to spare. We should we should go now. Now is the time he quesadito's lost.

1:12:24

now is the time he

1:12:26

was a teachers last

1:12:28

And then

1:12:29

let's let's start a montage. Should we tell Schismberg where we're headed

1:12:31

just so Nismans? Yes. Absolutely. Mhmm. And so

1:12:34

you have another ring,

1:12:36

ring, Although

1:12:38

we're next door now, right? Could

1:12:40

we just drop in? Yeah.

1:12:42

Hopefully, she's in on Saturdays. But

1:12:46

we can call first, I suppose, to see. Yeah. Yeah. But if we don't wanna be seen by by others Mhmm.

1:12:48

You get

1:12:49

patched

1:12:50

through. This is Rosenberg Hi,

1:12:55

mister Villas. I'm so

1:12:57

glad to hear your

1:12:59

voice. Mister Villas, in any news

1:13:01

on miss Adams, I've I've heard

1:13:03

nothing on my end. Nothing on

1:13:05

my end. We set loose the dogs of war to fetch her

1:13:07

back, but they've, alas, disappeared in the form of a

1:13:11

one lieutenant pool. We

1:13:13

told him everything, gave him all the information

1:13:15

that we had at our disposal. He swab blinded. He was going take action

1:13:20

on it. he has not been seen for three

1:13:22

days. I fear he may be a victim as well of this horrible cult that's operating

1:13:26

out of that place. We are are you sure the pool could be trusted?

1:13:28

You gave him all of this information? I

1:13:30

don't even have this information yet. Every scrap.

1:13:34

Well, you you need to get that to me because if

1:13:36

if anything should happen to to any of us, that

1:13:38

needs to get out. There needs to be a plan

1:13:40

in place. Now you're you're telling me you get this

1:13:42

to pool and and then pool is this thing?

1:13:45

How do you know that he's

1:13:47

done? He don't know, damn it. I don't But

1:13:51

yes. Yes. We will provide you

1:13:53

with what we have. Stay stay there. Oh, no.

1:13:55

No. Meet us.

1:13:58

Make a lot. No. That was a code predetermined by

1:13:59

someone else. Did you need to

1:14:02

make a loss closed months ago?

1:14:04

And I'll arrange a spot where

1:14:06

we can make a handoff nearby.

1:14:09

Cut

1:14:09

two exterior, bagels, bagels, bagels, on forty second street and

1:14:11

ninth Avenue. Rebecca shows in

1:14:15

Burke standing outside. waiting, watching

1:14:18

the four of you walk up. Thank god. So

1:14:25

give give me everything you have, as I told you before, that all of our lives are at

1:14:27

stake here. I can't just go to the

1:14:30

press with this, but but

1:14:33

But God forbid anything should happen. Well, we need to we need to get

1:14:35

this out. I have people that I trust that I can give this

1:14:38

to if you trust

1:14:40

me. Margo

1:14:44

walks

1:14:44

up to her and hands her an

1:14:46

envelope. It's a copies of the photos.

1:14:48

I think we told her a

1:14:50

lot,

1:14:50

but it's over the phone. So I gave

1:14:53

it to her. And I said don't don't don't don't

1:14:55

you have to open these in public.

1:14:57

Opens them when you

1:15:00

are alone?

1:15:00

she closes them after starting

1:15:02

to finger through. They corroborate our stories that we

1:15:04

told you when we went

1:15:07

to this YouTube house. Okay.

1:15:10

So so what is

1:15:10

your plan? What are you gonna do? It's

1:15:12

best that you don't know.

1:15:15

It's just that. Wait. Also

1:15:19

don't know, but we're gonna figure it out.

1:15:21

When will you contact

1:15:22

me next? Because if I

1:15:24

don't hear from you, I'm I'm

1:15:26

gonna

1:15:27

expect the worst. If you don't hear

1:15:29

from us by tomorrow morning, then the

1:15:31

worst can be expected. tomorrow

1:15:34

one morning morning. Tonight

1:15:36

is the new moon.

1:15:38

You need to

1:15:39

stay safe. I've

1:15:42

been I've been spending at the night at this

1:15:44

horrible guy's house. Yeah. What isn't

1:15:46

going on? He's very kind, but

1:15:48

he's just not my type. and nothing's

1:15:51

happened, but he's getting antsy. I

1:15:53

can do it for one more

1:15:55

night. But after that, I

1:15:57

really we've got to we've got to put an end to

1:16:00

this. Yes. Of course. Yeah. I would not

1:16:02

wish to stress your suffering to that situation

1:16:04

any longer than it goes there. Very, very sweet.

1:16:06

Well, listen. The Times Square Hotel has a lady's only floor. Oh,

1:16:08

I'm I'm quite familiar with the Times

1:16:10

Square Hotel. I that's not

1:16:14

my It's fine. We just please be safe. Whatever is

1:16:16

you're doing, you're telling me if I don't hear

1:16:18

from you by the morning to worry. I'm

1:16:21

I'm already worried. So please, whatever it

1:16:23

is you're doing. Be careful. Be shout. I will go to this. And mister Schuesenbeck,

1:16:28

Yes.

1:16:29

Where? Whenever you

1:16:31

sleep

1:16:31

tonight. Do it away from windows. In

1:16:36

shower curtains. in

1:16:37

anything.

1:16:38

Okay. I should sleep

1:16:41

so

1:16:43

under a bed.

1:16:45

Yes. Good day. It's a good idea. That's not

1:16:47

bad. And

1:16:47

she walks away clutching the folder

1:16:49

back in

1:16:50

the direction of the New York Times.

1:16:55

fucking dragon grabs. Are

1:17:02

we heading to the Q2 house? Yes. The

1:17:04

afternoon. All roads lead there. I don't

1:17:06

know where else to go. I

1:17:08

mean, are we getting there? Taking a

1:17:10

cab, train? It's too long to walk, but it's a nice day. Yeah. It's

1:17:13

actually surprisingly it's

1:17:15

probably, like, low

1:17:18

forties. Like, there's still snow all over the place. No place

1:17:20

to put it in New York. Cabs maybe.

1:17:22

But I'm I'm I'm just, like, for

1:17:24

the sake

1:17:25

of knowing, not to

1:17:27

over plan, but What we gonna do when

1:17:29

we get there? Yeah. Let's get in let's get

1:17:31

in our mode of transportation and discuss this. Alright.

1:17:33

So you're in the

1:17:35

cab. Where too?

1:17:37

I love you. Funeral to

1:17:40

talk around. No. No. No. A few blocks

1:17:42

from Few blocks from the jujure house,

1:17:44

please. Few blocks from the jujure house. Come

1:17:46

right now. You too. surprised us. He knows the truth to us. No.

1:17:48

So you tell him, like, you know, I think it's

1:17:50

on, like, a hundred and forty seconds. So a couple

1:17:53

blocks away so that you can approach at your home

1:17:56

discretion. So he's like, you got it? You're

1:17:58

all is anyone sitting in the front

1:18:01

or you all forced to cruise of the bag.

1:18:03

You might have to someone might have to be outside the driver. Yeah.

1:18:05

Alright. Carbers in front. That's it. It's pretty

1:18:07

crazy weather.

1:18:07

It's only in

1:18:10

the low forty. I

1:18:10

I don't mean to pry, but What

1:18:13

happened in

1:18:14

your face? Oh, horse

1:18:17

horse hoofed.

1:18:18

Horse did that to

1:18:21

your face. Yo. Yeah. It's a long

1:18:23

story. Horse kicked

1:18:23

me in the

1:18:25

face.

1:18:26

How?

1:18:27

They end. He should have better story than that. He

1:18:27

should have said, you should have seen the

1:18:30

other guy. No. He's missing his whole face.

1:18:32

It's just a horse.

1:18:35

It's the other guy. Does

1:18:37

it earth still? You know how they talk about,

1:18:39

like, ghost phantom limbs? Phantom limbs. Yeah.

1:18:41

I got a cousin

1:18:43

with one arm. he still

1:18:45

feels. They aren't, they don't have anymore. Well, then, yeah, then you know it. I've

1:18:47

got a phantom face. Sometimes. Phantom face. Sometimes,

1:18:50

I'm like, oh, go

1:18:52

leech. What's that? Is

1:18:54

that a blackhead? I don't know what that is. And then, no, it's a hole. It's a it's an absence of matter. should really

1:18:57

make an

1:18:59

opera about it.

1:19:00

That sounds good or maybe a a comic

1:19:02

strip, like one of those Dick Tracy's phantom face.

1:19:05

It could be one

1:19:07

of the villains. I

1:19:10

never thought about that. That's a that's a great

1:19:12

point. And then Why do you do

1:19:14

your camp drivers love chatting with people

1:19:16

in the car? This camp happens to

1:19:19

be one of those ones that doesn't exist

1:19:21

where Kartik hit a button and a window goes up. But

1:19:23

They're in the proxy. Chief. What

1:19:27

are the

1:19:27

three of you in the back discussing? Yeah. I remember, I'm just,

1:19:29

like, listening to this conversation, like, well,

1:19:32

he's occupied. I

1:19:37

feel like first thing is

1:19:39

poo. Is he there? Well, regardless of who's

1:19:41

there,

1:19:42

who's not,

1:19:43

even if they're hidden.

1:19:46

first thing is this is a daytime and

1:19:48

and are we

1:19:50

going to encounter this

1:19:53

is normal business hours. It's not when you

1:19:55

just walk in and sneak in like we did last time,

1:19:57

unless we wait for

1:19:59

the lunch hour.

1:19:59

It's -- Wow. -- are you going

1:20:01

to bloody burn the place of If somebody has

1:20:03

some

1:20:03

ether and dish rag, Mhmm.

1:20:05

Oh, no. Go in guns blazing.

1:20:06

I mean, if that Nekwane, a chap is there. He's

1:20:08

going to have to be

1:20:10

have to be subdued somehow. tense

1:20:14

to eat in the dish rack. Yes. Yes. Of

1:20:16

course. Though we told Pool

1:20:18

to

1:20:19

stay in the abandoned

1:20:21

place that we were in, So maybe there

1:20:23

are clues there if there was a struggle, if they found

1:20:25

them, if they're still there, and they just

1:20:27

haven't contacted anyone. That

1:20:30

is an excellent idea,

1:20:32

Margo. Yes. Perhaps we choose that

1:20:34

place first and

1:20:34

see if if he had

1:20:38

been

1:20:38

there. Just a

1:20:41

Looks like a

1:20:43

storm's coming. Guy looks up

1:20:45

in the sky and, like, what was

1:20:47

a beautiful day? Like,

1:20:50

very quickly gray. cocomb,

1:20:52

you hear some thunder. Pitter

1:20:54

powder of rain on the cab. For for

1:20:59

for from

1:21:00

window

1:21:03

windshield washes. And

1:21:07

perhaps as we go

1:21:09

by Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm. Very well. Not for learning

1:21:11

whatsoever. Yes.

1:21:11

So we trundle

1:21:13

past the

1:21:14

movie house that may showing

1:21:16

phantom of the opera that came on nineteen twenty

1:21:18

five with launching it. Like like Do

1:21:21

you guys see

1:21:23

the phantom yet? No. No.

1:21:26

Never take the pleasure. I did not even watch your movies about people with half masks.

1:21:28

They've got a random

1:21:30

face of the armor. Right?

1:21:34

Hey, Scott. You know, you're gonna be at. My name

1:21:36

is so right. Hey, man. What's your

1:21:38

name? My

1:21:39

name is That's Charlie. Chad,

1:21:41

thank

1:21:41

you. They call me. Charlie cabs. Charlie cabs, and I like to cut

1:21:43

your jib, bro. Yep. You too, Charles.

1:21:45

What are you guys doing

1:21:48

in Harlem?

1:21:48

tell giovanni that got an olive Well,

1:21:51

there's a

1:21:51

renaissance. There sure is. There sure is,

1:21:53

but it's a little too early to

1:21:56

watch me in the hooch if you know what

1:21:58

I mean. A lot of speakeasies up an

1:21:59

island. That's where you're wrong. Never told me.

1:22:02

where you're wrong. Never told me. Oh, I

1:22:03

like to carry your gym. Charter Caps. Are we

1:22:05

there yet

1:22:06

a what, man? Oh, it's

1:22:08

a a long way to go.

1:22:10

Just wanna make sure you guys did all your role played in the back seat. That's a

1:22:12

long way. What do

1:22:14

we want to

1:22:15

do? Yes.

1:22:17

yeah What's

1:22:18

his focus? Is is

1:22:21

what's in the is

1:22:23

is manning the the

1:22:25

front desk. Here's the deal. We go in

1:22:27

there. upset. I got nothing to fear with

1:22:29

this. He's an old man. We fucking deck him.

1:22:31

We keep going. Perfect. So

1:22:33

people

1:22:34

give me Not about Bye

1:22:36

lovely. If necessary, you're in a movie. We're gonna

1:22:38

surprise a friend of ours. You guys are pictures.

1:22:40

We're writing a

1:22:43

musical. Yes. I'm musical. And

1:22:45

a man old man gets decked? Yeah. It's called deck in

1:22:47

the face. It's gonna be awesome. First thing we do, we check out the pawn

1:22:49

shop,

1:22:52

guys. think

1:22:53

that was I I heard some of

1:22:55

that over this guy's chitter chatter. Mhmm. We check that out. We move right on in If he's standing

1:22:57

there. Pap. Pap. Pap. Right

1:22:59

in the space. Keep

1:23:02

going down. We gotta find Milli. If

1:23:04

she if she

1:23:05

and all pool are down there

1:23:07

and if not, just

1:23:08

I

1:23:10

haven't mind to burn the bloody place down. Okay.

1:23:13

That works. Feeling

1:23:14

if they are down there If

1:23:16

they are down

1:23:18

there, they may not be themselves.

1:23:20

Oh, here we are. You

1:23:22

guys want the

1:23:22

the near corner or the

1:23:25

far corner. There's nothing

1:23:27

really around here. Mr. Far

1:23:30

corner. Far corner. That's fine. Thank you. Alright. That'll be Don Nickels.

1:23:33

don't know

1:23:35

Don's highway robbery. Hey.

1:23:39

Thanks. I can't wait to see those musicals. Star

1:23:41

in the phantom face. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

1:23:43

You're great. Charlie, thanks so much, man.

1:23:45

You want me to Gary, I'll venture

1:23:47

Broadway. Now you know what, but I'll be around if somebody dies and you

1:23:49

didn't end PC. My stats are pretty

1:23:51

low, but I got

1:23:54

a high

1:23:55

Saturday. See you? It's incredible charlie

1:23:57

cabs. We haven't heard the last of him, I'm sure. Oh, charlie cabs. The

1:23:59

amelie

1:23:59

crashes into a telephone pole.

1:24:02

Right. Like, oh, god. He's been

1:24:06

throwing from his feet through the windshield. We

1:24:08

should do the -- Too bad. -- the

1:24:10

animal house ending of this, where we see

1:24:12

what happened to all the MPCs. It's the

1:24:14

free trial and cash. died ten minutes later. That

1:24:16

was how my sketch comedy

1:24:18

group would end ninety percent

1:24:21

of our sketches. Oh,

1:24:23

yeah. I love that. No way.

1:24:25

I know I didn't end it.

1:24:27

Just to say everyone died. It's really dumb.

1:24:29

No. No. No. No. You're about six and a

1:24:31

half blocks from than

1:24:35

juju has. He's got a

1:24:37

loose plan here, but like you

1:24:39

really don't know what to expect.

1:24:41

But coming during the day, you do feel a little bit better than if you were to

1:24:43

go in there at night when you've seen a

1:24:46

lot of people going

1:24:48

in. although

1:24:50

after the damage that

1:24:52

you caused there during your

1:24:55

break in, don't really

1:24:57

know what the state of that place is

1:24:59

because you haven't been back since you all ran out of there into the night the door on its

1:25:01

hinges. And they may be

1:25:03

expecting an incursion them.

1:25:07

Come on. Come on. Thunder in

1:25:09

the air and you're

1:25:12

getting now like

1:25:14

the temperature has dropped. five

1:25:17

or six degrees since when you first got in the cab, it

1:25:19

got darker out. You know, it's still daytime, but it's it's darker

1:25:21

out. It's gray. It's just one

1:25:23

of those dreary wet

1:25:27

New York days, and the snow that's lingering

1:25:29

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1:25:31

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1:25:34

So it's you're walking through and it's starting to get

1:25:36

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1:25:38

you just feel uncomfortable and

1:25:41

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1:25:43

you walk about three or

1:25:45

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1:25:47

of juju house, not

1:25:49

knowing what to expect when

1:25:53

all of

1:25:55

a sudden.

1:25:58

three police

1:25:59

cars. Pull up next to

1:26:02

you. One comes

1:26:03

from across the street

1:26:05

and pulls up on the opposite

1:26:07

side. Another one comes up behind you, and

1:26:09

then one comes up behind that one and

1:26:11

kind of wedges in

1:26:14

so they're surrounding you.

1:26:16

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1:26:18

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1:26:20

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