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that. You can find us wherever you get

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your podcasts. Hello

2:01

and welcome to the OxVenture D&D Podcast.

2:03

It is a podcast where we listen

2:06

to episodes of OxVenture and talk about

2:08

them. I'm your host, Jane. I'm

2:11

also here. I'm Andy, co-host, I guess.

2:14

And I'm not playing anyone this week because this

2:16

week it's all about Mike and also about Luke

2:18

and also about you, Andy. Yeah, it's

2:20

about Edvard and Barnaby going

2:22

in a diving bell to the bottom of the river.

2:25

That's right. It's Blades in the Dark Season 2,

2:27

Episode 3, aka To the Depths. Yeah.

2:32

Yeah. And it's an exciting sort of...

2:34

I quite like the idea of

2:37

old-timey submersibles. It's very...

2:39

it's like an unexplored frontier

2:41

in those kind of old adventure novels.

2:44

So you get like people

2:46

exploring through the dense jungle and trying

2:48

to get to the moon in a

2:51

homemade rocket or going down to the bottom

2:53

of the ocean in a home... in like stuff

2:55

that was like objectively not technologically advanced enough

2:57

to do it. Terrifyingly

3:00

so. I can't believe you

3:02

recorded this session before

3:05

the Ocean Gate sub killed all those

3:07

millionaires. Well, yeah, I don't think we probably... I

3:09

doubt we would have done it afterwards. It would have

3:11

seemed important to you. I don't

3:13

know. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Yeah.

3:16

It's like when they first... people

3:19

started theorizing that you could go to the moon. Yes.

3:22

Like a lot of people were like... with

3:24

no understanding of the science behind it, were like,

3:27

man, I'm going to... I want to be the

3:29

person you put in the moon gun and fire

3:31

at the moon. I

3:34

imagine that's the sort of same sense of

3:36

adventure that at least Edvard brings to this.

3:38

Barnaby is just sort of like... Does

3:40

it have a bar? Barnaby is the billionaire

3:42

who wants to have bragging rights

3:44

to say I've been to the

3:47

bottom of the ocean in... I don't know if

3:49

Barnaby is. I think Barnaby would rather just like...

3:52

If there's like a nice bar at the bottom of the ocean, he'd be

3:54

like, fine. Okay. I'll go down there for

3:56

that. Okay. If they're just like, well,

3:58

what's the point of going down there? like well you

4:00

know to experience the wonder of nature it'd be like a

4:02

pass. You think he's too lazy, too

4:04

luch to be seeking bragging rights? Yeah

4:06

just like I'm sure he could have a

4:09

better time with a fine bottle of brandy. I

4:11

see. Why don't you take brandy to the

4:13

bottom of the ocean? Yeah I mean it's probably part

4:16

of the survival kit right? Yeah

4:18

yeah. So reviving you when you

4:20

get crushed at a depth of like four miles. They

4:24

would need a little more than brassy. They

4:26

didn't know. You've been atomised. Yeah they didn't

4:28

know old timey submariners. Yeah true. I

4:31

mean they probably did know. So

4:33

how are you doing this week? Yeah good. I've

4:36

mostly been playing the RPG Like

4:38

a Dragon Infinite Wealth which comes

4:40

out today on the day this

4:42

podcast comes out. It's

4:45

great. About 50 hours

4:47

in. Loving it. It's

4:49

weird. Andy played some of it for

4:51

us, for me and Mike. You can

4:54

go and see that at youtube.com/outside xbox.

4:56

Yeah. And yeah at a lovely

4:58

time watching Andy enjoy himself. Running around

5:00

in Hawaii doing good stuff. It's also got an

5:02

Animal Crossing minigame which I'm going to show you.

5:04

I know. I mean that's what I'm mostly in it

5:06

for. Some of that. You're going to help me

5:08

sort out my trash island. My Animal Crossing fix. Yeah

5:11

100%. Right

5:13

now my island is like a urinal

5:15

block. Like a block of urinals.

5:17

I've got a phone booth, a vending machine

5:20

and a sort of market store thing in

5:23

the middle of it in the town plaza. All sort

5:25

of arranged haphazardly. So it's a slightly

5:27

gritty parody of Animal Crossing. Oh yeah. On

5:29

the Hawaiian, sort of offshore Hawaiian mini island.

5:32

Yeah I think they're all assets from the

5:34

actual game. From like the Kamarocho District of

5:36

Tokyo. So you just plonk all this stuff

5:39

down. So you

5:41

can like craft things like

5:43

espresso machines and arcade cabinets. As

5:46

long as you've found enough like circuit boards

5:48

and bits of metal. You can

5:50

just hammer those together with a hammer. And then

5:52

you're like yeah there you go. Espresso machine. Job

5:55

done. It's also unlike Animal Crossing in the

5:58

pirates. Keep turning off on your island. and trying to

6:00

kill you with hammers, which I think

6:02

is something that Animal Crossing's actually missing. Well, there

6:04

is a pirate that keeps turning up on my

6:06

Animal Crossing island, but he's like a cute

6:08

seagull. Right. Does he try to kill

6:11

you with a hammer? No, not

6:13

so far. He does send me,

6:15

he sends me artifacts from around the

6:17

world to say thank you for rescuing him.

6:20

So it's kind of a different deal. Yeah, different energy,

6:22

I think. I'm on the beach

6:24

like smashing these guys' heads in with a baseball

6:26

bat. Oh no. And then they drop dondoko bucks,

6:28

which is what you need to level

6:31

up your island. To make more espresso

6:33

machines or something. Yeah, there is a lighthouse on

6:35

the island. That's pretty cool. Okay.

6:37

You can get back an Animal Crossing, honey. You can

6:39

get like a miniature. Yeah, a miniature. A

6:41

miniature lighthouse. This is

6:45

good Animal Crossing talk. Sorry. No,

6:47

no, I love it. Let's make this an Animal Crossing

6:50

podcast, honestly. If anyone wants

6:52

an Animal Crossing podcast, I'll do it. Don't.

6:55

I'll do it. Don't test me. Yeah,

6:58

I will. I'll totally do it. Oh

7:00

my God. What if I had an Animal Crossing podcast?

7:03

Yeah, I mean all the six or seven people

7:05

who still play it would absolutely listen. Fine.

7:09

Fine. My

7:11

dreams dash once more. I

7:13

started, sorry, I lit a candle just before

7:16

we started recording, just for the cosy vibes.

7:18

Made a cup of tea. Lit a candle.

7:21

Actually, you got me this candle. Can you see it? Hang

7:23

on. I can't see it, no. Oh,

7:25

there it is. That looks great.

7:28

How does it smell? It smells like wood smoke. It's

7:30

designed to smell like a roaring fire.

7:33

And it does. Great cosy vibes. You've

7:35

got, Jane, you can't see this, but she's got

7:37

a cup of hot drink, but she's holding

7:39

it in the cosiest way, which is with both hands. Yeah,

7:41

which is with both hands, with my fingers looped

7:44

through the handle. Through the

7:46

handle. It's a cosy vibe. A cosy

7:48

vibe. You can also probably see that I've got

7:50

some lingering birthday balloons. Oh yeah. Some

7:53

like helium balloons. That's cool. They're

7:55

really hanging on in there. I

7:57

mean, look at them. You can't, you can't get rid

7:59

of them. them. Yeah. So they're going to be hanging

8:01

around all year, I believe. I'd be interested

8:04

to know how long they do last. Well, do

8:06

you know what? One of them broke free. So

8:08

there's a little, a cluster of birthday balloons, like

8:10

shiny foil birthday balloons behind me. One of them, I

8:12

didn't break free. I cut it, I cut it loose. Because

8:15

you know when, when helium balloons kind of lose

8:17

their pet and they kind of like start to

8:19

sink. Why do they do

8:21

that? Because the helium

8:24

is gradually leaking out of the balloon.

8:27

Is it not airtight, a bubble?

8:30

Well, through the membrane of

8:32

the actual foil. Like, whoa,

8:36

yeah, go through that. Yeah, because

8:39

matter is mostly space, Andy. So sooner

8:41

or later, it sort of gets out

8:43

through the, through the tiny holes

8:45

in the membrane of the gas in

8:47

my body go out through my membranes. Well,

8:50

you'll surely die. Is that why, is that why people

8:52

get old? They sort

8:55

of deflate a bit. It's the gas escaping. You

8:57

look at an old person, it's like a deflated

8:59

young person. Oh, God. This

9:01

is, this is a theory. If this

9:03

were the 17th century, I would be,

9:05

it would be a working theory. Yeah,

9:08

it would be the leading theory on aging in

9:10

people. So anyway, this balloon started to sink. I

9:12

cut its ribbon off because that's how you make

9:14

them float again. You take the weight off, you

9:16

know, but it had

9:18

the perfect neutral buoyancy. So

9:21

then it just kind of like floated neutrally

9:23

at sort of head height. And

9:26

because it had completely neutral buoyancy, was tied

9:28

to nothing, it kind

9:30

of drifts everywhere, just

9:32

neutrally, as, as

9:35

guided along by minute air currents.

9:38

Okay. But the creepy

9:40

thing about this is that it just

9:42

sometimes kind of wanders into the room. You're in the

9:44

room, you're in like, hi, while

9:46

you're trying to have a bath. What's going on in

9:48

here then? Yeah, setting up your ring cam, like, yeah,

9:51

there's someone in your living room. And it

9:53

sort of moves in a very, very slow, like

9:56

slightly eerie way. And I went up like, and

9:58

it follows, like, and it follows. And I went upstairs. to

10:00

brush my teeth before

10:02

bed and it sort of shuffled into

10:04

the bathroom behind me. What's

10:06

going on in here? Yeah, so what

10:08

are we doing? I'm up for

10:11

anything. So that's

10:13

the fun adventures of my loose birthday

10:15

balloon. Do you want to see the candle I got? Yes

10:17

please. It's not lit at the moment. But

10:20

it's this. Oh! Right

10:22

and it's the... Dang! It's

10:25

the coffin from the haunted mansion at Disneyland. I

10:27

mean it's like a sarcophagus. Yeah and you know

10:29

when you go past the lid it's going up

10:31

and down. The guy's like, come here! Yeah,

10:34

yeah, yeah. So it's a candle version of that and it has a

10:36

couple of wicks. Oh! So that's cool.

10:38

It's got a kind of lid on it which is like the lid

10:40

of the sarcophagus and then inside it is like a double wick candle.

10:42

What does it smell of? Like the dead? It's

10:46

a sort of slightly musty, like

10:49

you would expect in a haunted mansion. Okay!

10:52

I'm going to give you some lid photo while I put it back on.

10:54

Musty and musky. Okay. Thank

10:56

you. Alright, good candle comparison. What else is

10:58

on the agenda? Oh! Are

11:01

you watching True Detective? No

11:06

I'm not. What's it on? I

11:09

think you would like it. Oh! Oh

11:11

my! Yes, something like that. It's

11:15

probably not on one of the

11:17

streaming services you're already using. You'll probably

11:20

need to go and sign up for

11:22

something. And I'm not advocating for Sky

11:24

specifically because who cares? But

11:26

True Detective itself is very good and very

11:28

creepy and I think you can enjoy it. Okay,

11:31

yeah, it sounds like something you'll enjoy. I just

11:33

powered through all of The Brothers' Son on Netflix

11:35

which I enjoyed. Mmm. Which

11:38

has Michelle Yeoh in it. That was the

11:40

sort of the initial draw. Love that. Yeah,

11:42

it's a fun story about these two brothers

11:44

who've been separated almost their whole lives and

11:46

one of them is a sort of triad

11:48

red pole in Taiwan and the other has

11:50

no idea of his family's criminal background and

11:52

he's a medical student who

11:54

does improv in California. Does he have

11:57

like innate kung fu powers that he discovers? Oh,

11:59

maybe he does. me that. No, no,

12:01

he's just a regular

12:03

guy who enjoys improv comedy. Okay,

12:06

really hashtag relatable. Yeah, I

12:09

know, I enjoyed the show,

12:11

the dynamics, the setting. I

12:14

will get into that. And in turn,

12:16

may I heartily recommend to you, Andy specifically,

12:18

and anyone else listening who's into this kind

12:20

of thing, True Detective,

12:22

the new season that's currently coming out a week

12:24

at a time is like

12:26

the thing crossed with well,

12:29

crossed with Jodie Foster.

12:31

But the director

12:33

said that she was it the director

12:35

or the showrunner? They

12:37

said they were like a huge fan of

12:39

the thing, and a huge fan of Science

12:41

of the Lambs. And they're like, what if I could do

12:43

a sort of a horror drama

12:46

series set in an Arctic Research Station and

12:48

also Jodie Foster is sometimes there. So nice.

12:51

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I'm sure once

12:53

it finishes, it's initial run, I can just

12:55

pick it up on DVD. I'm

12:57

quite enjoying getting things on physical media

13:00

now. Okay, because they always disappear

13:02

from streaming services. And it's just nice to actually

13:04

be able to access them when I want to.

13:06

I like that. All

13:10

right, fine. That's fine. We won't be

13:12

able to have a conversation about it until it comes

13:14

out. All right, fine. I'll see if I

13:16

can. I'll see if I can purchase it somewhere else. Digitally.

13:20

Okay, fine. Right. Anything else before

13:22

we get into Blades in the Dark Season 2,

13:24

Episode 3 to the depth? No,

13:27

I would like to listen to it. Let's go. You would like to. All right.

13:30

Enjoy everybody. Hello,

13:36

welcome back to my channel to present Blades in

13:38

the Dark. I'm Luke Westaway, the

13:41

GM, and I'm joined by... Is

13:43

that Edvard I see before me?

13:45

Oh, too kind, too kind. I

13:47

do get recognized often because my

13:50

face used to appear on the

13:52

packets of Lumiere brand

13:55

cough syrups. How

13:57

many places was that sold? Just the

13:59

one. Place I made it have to stop

14:01

sending it cause if the an extraordinary amount of cocaine

14:03

that within it's. A.

14:07

Why? I

14:09

see when it runs. Problem was no

14:12

one was coughing and he wasn't Yeah

14:14

everyone have bigger problems and got a

14:16

narcissistic. Honestly an absolute storm in a

14:19

teacup hit and doubtless enjoying. Is that

14:21

such a recreational as some medicines is

14:23

thought of he said i guess on

14:25

of you the butcher for a few

14:28

the third at your service and what's

14:30

out there when they get pushed aside.

14:32

Absolutely wonderful. User feedback is allows. Us.

14:38

To grow Morris I gave it six stars out

14:40

of five, but I was quite easy to hundreds

14:42

of the night of. Okay,

14:46

wealth and we find advised and

14:48

Barnaby ah having a discussion about

14:50

this failed medicine Lol Failed tactically

14:53

withdrawn from the matter with you.

14:55

I don't have a now. documents

14:58

ssssss got to help me stay.

15:00

I really need to stop It

15:02

was made to destroy the hooks

15:05

by the authorities. Old man I

15:07

dumped. Girls them away I know you advantage

15:09

I don't quite a lot of it into the

15:12

pond in the pot. probably like drama me that.

15:16

I mean that is wild fish dies

15:18

mean So you're saying I could eat

15:21

the fish Bless and I would get

15:23

some of the effect of you know

15:25

I like I said a suffix buddies

15:27

I or later I got my good

15:30

evening. Oh man I go. Before you

15:32

tell me where this conversation about your

15:34

miracle elixir is taking place. can run

15:37

wild and for tax purposes assess. What

15:39

would have you been doing since we last saw

15:41

you? What are your to downtime activities each one

15:43

not Iraq was or he tax or heat as.

15:46

You. Heat is enormous. Many reading

15:48

the Get Zeller and sadness and

15:50

it went very well. That

15:53

is. Why I stopped

15:55

listening immediately. but I assumed and well as A is

15:57

A didn't go well. Like I said, how do they

15:59

go. They went fine and then they stormed

16:01

off your he says it to your wanted

16:04

level is asked to so you've only got

16:06

even. He actually got to heat. Oh okay

16:08

know that Stephanie More heat than we'd like?

16:11

Yeah let me try and lox let me

16:13

try and reduce fact that he's yes. So

16:15

are we trying to? Are we trying to

16:17

make a fuss Or we know trying to

16:20

make a fuss and. A

16:22

Slam. I. Think at this point

16:24

we have some leads now. Yeah, you

16:26

do have some late August so I

16:29

make sense. Yeah I figure I cases

16:31

like reduce the heat a little that

16:33

ah okay, say how you would you

16:36

seats at Vod and roll your. And

16:38

roll whatever that acts in his and

16:40

then we reduce heat according to the

16:42

result level. am I. Notice

16:44

there's a massive wanted posters

16:47

around with some math not.

16:50

Particularly close likenesses to the group or you

16:52

could probably figure it out and if you

16:55

do as well. So I go around and

16:57

I find every wanted poster I can find.

16:59

I had mustaches to have run except my

17:01

character for whom I a race of Us

17:04

Pacific he has he ever vets they can

17:06

never get those rights. Ah yes, cool. So

17:08

and whatever road you think that is finesse

17:10

probably. Say. And

17:17

hundred and one and that he

17:20

says okay well I'm easy play

17:22

one So yeah say nope nope

17:24

nope nope not without nothing I'm

17:26

and your second down some activists

17:28

is ah I would probably reduce

17:30

stress. I feel like yet indulged

17:32

that voice My roll dice equals

17:34

your lowest attributes and clear stress.

17:36

It's your highest. I was a

17:38

similar number three you as you

17:40

indulge your voice which is what

17:42

remind me what your vices said

17:45

on cocaine. One. night

17:47

some ways say them i find

17:49

an old guy an old antiques

17:51

shop down am an old alleyway

17:54

in the yeah the east end

17:56

of the city my go through

17:58

there and i am I

18:00

hear a Clocks or

18:02

something. No. Well, I go through

18:04

this sort of the older cults memorabilia looking for

18:06

anything that interests me And there's a sort of

18:08

wizened monkeys paw there Which

18:11

I purchased and I take home and I make some

18:13

unwise Proclamations,

18:15

you know, I wish I

18:17

wish that Barnaby would Have

18:20

an interesting day, you know things like that

18:22

And then and then you know all sorts

18:24

of chaos and then yeah And then I

18:26

take the I took it back but the

18:28

the shopper disappeared and there was just a sort of a flat

18:32

wall Where it used to be? But

18:34

I did find that quite interesting invigorating. So

18:36

it sort of made me feel better. Although Barnaby I

18:38

tell it Sounds like you had a terrible

18:40

day No, I think that

18:43

develops a terrible cost. Yeah. Yeah,

18:45

it was interesting though, wasn't it? Yeah, you

18:47

can't say that you can't say that it was a lie. No,

18:50

well, maybe Barnaby has more interesting days

18:52

ahead Let's find out Okay.

18:55

So yeah, you cleared some stress there in

18:57

vards three stress Barnaby,

18:59

what are your two town time activities? Uh, well

19:01

again, it seems sensible to try and reduce a

19:03

bit of heat, doesn't it? So

19:06

probably I'll do that. Cool. The

19:08

crew currently only has one

19:10

heat now To

19:12

reduce your heat any further you'd have to reduce a wanted

19:14

level and I'm pretty sure the only way to reduce a

19:17

wanted level Is for someone to go to prison right,

19:19

well, but does it have to be

19:22

part of the crew because Someone

19:25

else yeah, what I was thinking what

19:28

I was thinking was perhaps I could

19:30

persuade one of my more gullible school

19:32

friends Go to prison

19:35

No, no just to perform an extremely

19:37

big crime and claim to be the mastermind of

19:39

the hobby horses I could such a good idea.

19:42

I can just pay him off later on probably.

19:44

Yes. That's a great idea. Let's do that What

19:47

I need to roll. Let's say your

19:49

wanted level comes down by one.

19:51

I love this idea Okay, so

19:53

you've sent an old-school friend To

19:56

jail. Yeah, They claim to be the

19:58

leader of the hobby horses and. Does indeed take

20:00

the. Heat. Off dope in

20:03

a gang. Ah you

20:05

know to it to a fairly significant

20:07

degree ultimately will be discovered the some.

20:09

That. In that they are in fact

20:12

to step up or Cydia to

20:14

flip reasons unknown is converted to

20:16

a tribe and let's say that

20:18

costs to point. To. Go! A

20:20

guy has reduced the reduce the gangs consists

20:22

andre this with it but but yeah great

20:24

great you are tell you are as well

20:26

like because if it's all right with you

20:29

bought to be outlets made up both of

20:31

your down on max that's fine. Yep I

20:33

think we have the now I believe there

20:35

was a conversation occurring about coast say oh

20:37

yeah where is this conversation taking place. Probably

20:40

nothing to hide out, right? A

20:42

fairly play site that the only

20:45

place I would be that the

20:47

advantage would ever be be seen

20:49

so by the fireplace in the

20:51

library just going through some tones

20:53

Well it's is a couple of

20:55

days since has a mere and

20:57

Zilla made their shocking discovery I

20:59

which you will remember of course

21:01

is that the group that you

21:03

have pursuing has a name and

21:06

the name is the Bright Stone

21:08

Society for Analytical our chemistry and

21:10

had some kind of construction contracts

21:12

with. None other than Amadeus Us

21:14

Doors And of course it was

21:16

asked our new album that have

21:19

been behind apps plan of this

21:21

evil of this gallery machinations. You're

21:23

right at Vod. He's terribly organized

21:25

and rather on top of his

21:27

business, isn't he. Thought

21:30

you had my the guy actually. I

21:32

angrily sorry my with become their into the

21:35

fight for her pepper a growl you're wasting

21:37

whiskey what from we do math it goes

21:39

avast and you momentarily think you may have

21:41

some and that evil spirit because a moment

21:44

after throwing the after the roof they they.

21:48

Have no against. Now

21:51

this again Meles Meles Can you get

21:53

that I'm bizarre the you to the

21:55

only ones in the house everyone else

21:57

is out on as important as adventure

21:59

for. Any

22:03

public funding hand the condone.

22:06

Open a door for gonna be one if it's

22:08

him. Run thought. well then if

22:10

is it might have brought run we could really

22:12

improve and give me a different you whiskey in

22:14

a fire that what to say it's a rough

22:16

us up I've read about these crime people they

22:18

come into your house and a rough you up.

22:21

As fine, fine look it's it'll. be

22:23

fine. Don't you worry to be so

22:26

dramatic I don't know how attack. And

22:29

night shift. Behind of his chest

22:31

at the door is a I

22:33

as a diminutive man the barnaby

22:35

who you have never seen before

22:37

hello can you help me. Ah

22:40

yes, quite possibly I've in the

22:42

a laser sight appears on the

22:45

man school has her head. That

22:48

that isn't extending and disability

22:50

benefits of across of advances

22:53

Zoc the extending has boxing

22:55

gloves. Or he

22:57

is accompanied by to a very

22:59

burly ah looking for bodyguards. One

23:02

of them spots this laser sight

23:04

and very matter of factly just

23:06

moves in front of a. Small

23:09

man attend the dial. Service has

23:11

three. And. Isn't as. It.

23:16

Is it the diminutive person of or thing

23:18

this pumps puts out from behind the bodyguards

23:21

as I was am. I

23:23

was looking sarah Mr. Edvald the size

23:25

I see the he clearly is at

23:27

home. This

23:30

looks like one of his innocence and

23:32

saw advanced some friends used to thrive.

23:34

Don't say care of. This is my.

23:37

Business and ah, ice cover

23:40

myself in books. It's surface

23:42

a sudden. The

23:45

gentlemen at the door wait patiently

23:47

for the smoke dissipated. I'm stalling

23:49

back to the library, entirely disinterested

23:51

in whether they're following me or

23:53

not. i guess on i

23:55

will thing if the doors open i

23:57

yeah i suppose a roast for so

24:00

is, so I want us in. I so rarely

24:02

answer the door, I don't realise that

24:04

you actually have to shut it as well when

24:06

people come in. Roth,

24:08

you remember Edvard from as the

24:11

person you blowdarted unconscious in Astor

24:13

HQ. Stan's looking

24:16

around in the library looking at

24:18

the different piles of books. I

24:21

know one of these is you Edvard, but

24:24

I don't know which one. I'll

24:26

just start kicking them until I find it. And he

24:28

walks up to a pile of books and just starts

24:30

kicking the books. He's wrecking the books. Hey!

24:35

I struggle out of the pile of books. Stop

24:37

kicking my books! Where is it you want, Rose?

24:39

You scoundrel. You want another blow dart to you,

24:42

I say, screwing together my blow

24:44

dart apparatus. I'd

24:48

rather not. The hangover from the last one was really

24:51

quite severe. Harry's a dog?

24:53

Should have gone into league with Astor, should

24:55

you? Then lie down with

24:57

dogs and you get fleas. It's

25:00

funny you mentioned my employer. He would

25:02

like a word. Yes, I imagine he

25:04

probably would. What does he want? To steal more of

25:06

my interventions? No. Well guess what? He nearly

25:08

wants to meet with you in a

25:11

public location. You know,

25:13

I've rather been looking forward to meeting Astor

25:15

actually, so whereabouts can we meet? Come

25:17

along, come along. Just by the office.

25:20

Not in the office, just nearby. Don't

25:22

it? By Adlondale to meet him is

25:24

my arch nemesis. Follow me Barnaby, Advar you can come if

25:26

you want. I

25:28

wear his picture in this locket around my neck

25:31

as proof of my hatred for him. Well,

25:33

perhaps you can leave with a lock of his hair or

25:35

something. Come on. Want

25:37

a lock of his hair? Want him to

25:40

stop stealing my interventions and die in shame?

25:42

Well... To be buried in a pauper's grave. Is

25:45

that so much to us? So

25:48

he brings out a little pocket watch

25:50

and flicks it open and just says,

25:53

we're at risk of being late for the

25:56

appointment now. I Did hope

25:58

you would come quietly. Behind

26:00

the two large barely gentlemen

26:03

just so nonchalantly chronicles. You

26:07

have a why? Why should I give you

26:09

a good reason why I should go and

26:11

meet with my most hated enemy You're still

26:13

some his i didn't stand at the seaside

26:15

is already stonehenge or not he's like is

26:18

he might have improved of of and you

26:20

can refill him. Know

26:22

you've made them worse, if anything, Else

26:26

I probably should be explaining this. Plan.

26:28

In front of. The. Three Sad irony

26:30

Know. A mustache.

26:33

Still thought he might be reluctant

26:35

to come along at thought So

26:37

where he in power me to

26:40

show us and he reaches into

26:42

a pocket and he pulls out

26:44

the broken and dented butts unmistakable

26:47

hand. Of. The wonderful mechanical man.

26:51

My. W M M what have you times have

26:53

you swine I say Glancing at the Hannah. Ah,

26:57

I puts it back in his pocket

26:59

you tie up on as I say

27:01

my employer would like to have a

27:03

friendly conversation in new through space. Fine

27:06

do you agree? Yes I will come

27:08

along and me to get my things

27:10

I say or not. I thought I'd

27:12

also a return with facts usually sees

27:14

claiming brimming with poisons, had weapons. Yeah,

27:19

that's fucking ah. yes, a crisis.

27:22

Probably expecting something like this. This

27:24

this. this. The bounces actually help

27:26

carry the police's Mrs. Smith cook

27:29

to. You have

27:31

been taken to. An

27:33

upscale coffee. it

27:36

looks onto a broad square on

27:38

the other side of the square

27:41

is a store hq you remember

27:43

it very clearly at thought you've

27:45

been inside it in fact in

27:47

fact you've jumped out the window

27:49

of the back of a s

27:51

down into the river upon which

27:54

it faces being as it is

27:56

but a large rectangular building built

27:58

into a cliff overlooking Volus

28:00

River. Barnaby, you know of

28:02

it, obviously, it's a landmark in Volus Port but

28:04

you've never had the pleasure of being

28:07

inside and so across from this

28:09

building, across the plaza, waiting for

28:11

you is this upscale coffee house.

28:13

The place has been completely cleared

28:16

out for this meeting. Security

28:19

folks wait on the outside door, they

28:21

do pat you down and take the

28:23

Valises, I'm afraid. Your

28:27

Valises will be releases of your

28:30

exit, says one of them

28:32

who clearly fancied

28:35

himself a comedian. You are led inside where on one side

28:37

of a booth sits your hated

28:46

rival Edvard, Amadeus

28:48

Astor, who looks up,

28:51

nods in acknowledgement to both of you

28:53

and gestures. Well

28:55

I'm not sitting down till I've had a coffee so I'm

28:57

gonna go over and get coffee. Yes, he

29:01

gestures over to someone who's working

29:04

at it, the only person, it looks like the

29:06

owner and then a little nervous, he just sort

29:08

of gestures and points at you both and

29:11

immediately coffees are brought over. It's delicious, it's great

29:13

coffee. Don't drink it Barnaby, it could be poisonous.

29:16

Yes but I'm going to need to ask,

29:19

could we could be Irish up to

29:21

this coffee please, if you catch my mini.

29:23

He's probably already poisoned it up. Astor

29:28

raises his eyebrows but again

29:30

makes another gesture and a

29:32

bottle of something that Barnaby, even at this distance you

29:34

can discern is very fine. It's

29:39

liberally topped up. Don't drink it Barnaby,

29:41

it's paid for with dirty money. But

29:44

that's very well and good Edvard, but I'm

29:46

also going to need to Cuban up this

29:48

coffee as well. If

29:50

you catch my mini. Astor raises his hand

29:52

again and a box of extremely

29:55

fine cigars which everyone in the

29:57

room is taking to be your

30:00

meaning like

30:03

opens the box he

30:05

also has a bottle of rum and

30:07

he's like seems unsure so he puts

30:09

my point of both yeah yeah he

30:11

puts a litgar into the coffee yeah

30:13

fine that kind of hisses faintly island

30:15

in Cuba areas of the city are

30:18

they yes I think so yeah yeah

30:20

they're both districts they're both canon in

30:22

again Johnny's

30:24

problem now yeah

30:27

it is it is brought over to you if

30:30

you want to drink it

30:32

you can a store

30:36

sits back Edvard you remember your last

30:38

meeting with Amadeus Astor and his unbearable

30:40

smugness hmm I knocked him out with

30:43

a single punch Barnaby oh

30:45

really oh why

30:47

yeah he's surprisingly friendly given given

30:49

your previous interaction he probably doesn't want another

30:51

one does I see today

30:54

after wears an expression that is

30:56

no less condescending but

30:59

perhaps is a little less mug and maybe

31:01

a little bit more serious and

31:04

he says um spit it

31:06

out man where you drag this all the way down here

31:08

to steal my idea to steal the coats off my back

31:10

is it you're the cotter fine fine maybe I'll give you

31:13

the coats off my back you weasel

31:16

idiot I say

31:18

struggling out of my coat are you

31:20

really giving me your coat this

31:24

is how we operate Barnaby you

31:26

wouldn't know you I know a

31:28

lot about losing with honorable later

31:30

folk in your daily life well

31:35

man I throw in his face I

31:37

still take me now hands it off

31:39

to a security detail

31:43

they take it it

31:46

is taken is placed with the releases and

31:48

smoothed out and kept nice for you Edvard

31:51

how have you

31:53

been I

31:58

think he's making to you Edvard I

32:03

thought we'd be fighting by now. What do you mean, how have I been?

32:05

Been consumed with rage over your shenanigans.

32:10

You've... gusted. Edvard,

32:13

I flatter myself that I have many

32:15

gifts, but I am no brawler. You

32:17

can put the dukes down. I have

32:19

no doubt you would easily outmatch me

32:21

in a contest of strength. I

32:26

like how he flatters you so patronizingly. I've

32:31

brought you here to show you a few things, Edvard. Well,

32:35

here's the first. He reaches under the

32:37

table and pulls out the similarly

32:39

busted up but unmistakable head of

32:42

the wonderful mechanical man. My WMM!

32:45

Its jaw hangs open and he... It's a

32:47

bit more of an MM now. Yeah.

32:50

Yeah, no, no, WMM. I

32:52

think, unfortunately. He's still W to me, but...

32:58

And he places it in front of me

33:00

on the table. Edvard,

33:03

I was given this by... You're given

33:05

this as well, are you? You rogue. This

33:09

was a gift. A gift for me. Making

33:11

it, by the way, my legal property. It

33:13

was given to me by Kelly of

33:16

the Dimmer Sisters. Those

33:18

ghost crazed old witches never

33:21

did have an appraising eye for a true

33:23

marvel and this

33:25

really has the Lumiere stamp on it. Quite

33:28

literally, I think. He turns the head around and there is

33:30

in fact... The

33:32

same picture of me that was on the cocaine. Well,

33:36

look, Astor, I'm sure that can be filed off with a

33:38

little bit of elbow grease, you know. Oh,

33:41

I'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm

33:43

Adeus Astor. You are Mr... Barnaby

33:46

Fortescue, lovely to meet you. Yes, big admirer of

33:48

your work, actually. And also the

33:50

work of his that he claims you stole. Fortescue.

33:54

Correct, yeah. joke

34:00

and then turns to Edvard and

34:03

continues, Edvard,

34:06

the assault on the Dimmer Sisters mansion, the

34:09

theft of the mist my Ruby. I

34:12

believe you were there as well

34:14

that night Mr. Fortescue. Don't tell

34:17

him anything Barnaby, we weren't there. We were

34:19

out, it was a wonderful night. I

34:21

love the opera, it's fabulous. Yeah

34:24

we were out of the opera. So

34:27

the road sort of scurries over with a big stack

34:30

of documents and says every

34:32

one of these is a witness

34:34

testimony of your

34:37

both being there at the opera that night and assigned

34:40

testimony from Miss Kelly of

34:42

the Dimmer Sisters that

34:44

you were both trespassing on her mansion. Doesn't

34:46

really well. That still waves it

34:48

away, he's not interested. Seems that wherever you

34:51

two go, ghosts and contraptions

34:55

and chaos erupt and

34:58

frankly I don't

35:00

care. He sort of raises an

35:02

arm like in signal to

35:04

some of the security people

35:07

and across the plaza distantly you can

35:09

hear bells begin to sound. They kind

35:11

of sound like alarm bells but

35:13

they're quite far off like one

35:16

after another and then a kind

35:18

of siren is going

35:21

off. You can see across the way that people are

35:23

starting to file out of Astor

35:25

headquarters, they're sort of evacuating kind

35:28

of pooling into the outside

35:30

plaza. Astor turns to you and says no

35:32

no cause to alarm, no cause for alarm,

35:34

it's a precautionary measure in case of

35:36

a suspected gas

35:39

leak. Anyway to continue, I know Edvard,

35:42

I know that you are one of the hobby horses.

35:45

Crime. Lift. Is that

35:48

what we settled on, hunnabee? I

35:50

think so. Doesn't this sound as cool when he says it? Yeah,

35:54

yeah. It doesn't sound as cool when your hated rifle

35:56

says it to you. Yeah. I'm

36:01

a Volusport businessman. I know that crime.

36:06

Gang activity. Theft?

36:09

Is part of doing business here. The flip side of the

36:11

coin that lets me... Shall we

36:13

say... Steal. Take opportunity of

36:16

creative ways... Steal IP. Of

36:18

doing business. And as

36:20

I say, I don't care. But

36:22

now, Cornelius Bagshot

36:24

has disappeared. A man with whom

36:27

my peers and I had

36:29

intimate dealings. And

36:32

frankly, Edvard, I'm beginning to suspect that I

36:34

know what you're after. What

36:37

exactly would that be? Astor, you

36:39

rogue. An evil rogue. You

36:42

make him sound a lot cooler than he makes us

36:45

sound. I'm just going to say that

36:47

when you call him a rogue, it sounds... I

36:50

don't know, sort of attractive. Okay,

36:52

well, you talk yourself up then. I'm

36:55

doing all the work here. Barnaby. Fine,

36:57

fine. We're brilliant. And yes,

37:00

yes, we are both members of the hobby horses. But

37:04

what... I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah,

37:06

I say. Trying to pick up the

37:08

wonderful mechanical manhead. Just while

37:11

everyone's talking. Astor

37:13

sees this happen and slides it over. Edvard,

37:15

I'll be holding onto this as I say

37:18

it is my legal property. He

37:20

hands it off to a security person. Have

37:23

that broken apart in the... Analyzed.

37:27

Have you broken apart an analyze? You

37:32

make it very hard for me to switch back

37:34

into not smiling. The

37:38

Brightstone Society for Analytical L Chemistry.

37:42

He simply says the words and scans

37:44

both of your faces for a reaction. There

37:47

is zero reaction for me. Edvard,

37:51

you are a singular in

37:54

eventor, but you've never been a very

37:56

convincing liar. I have. Here's one.

38:00

is good.

38:03

I think he is. I agree. You raise your eyebrows

38:05

after you tell a lie. He's

38:09

always one step ahead.

38:15

I know what you want. You

38:17

want to find this group. I

38:19

just want to ask him some questions. Some

38:22

gentlemanly business dealings,

38:24

you know the sorts. Well thank you Edvard for

38:26

being honest with me at last. I

38:29

know. Here's some honesty. You

38:34

sir. Your eyebrows didn't move then. What

38:37

does this mean? I can't read. I

38:43

can't read the underneath. He's an enigma. Edvard

38:45

please pay attention. He slams his hands on the

38:47

table. You notice actually for the first time as

38:49

he slams his hands down that

38:52

he has a little ring on one

38:54

hand that is emblazoned with a

38:57

little sort of figure of a

38:59

light bulb. We only catch it for a

39:01

minute before he regains his composure and returns

39:04

his hand to his lap and

39:07

says I know what you want. I

39:09

know you won't get anywhere without the contents

39:12

of my personal safe in

39:14

my office in that building over

39:16

there. And he points to Astor

39:19

HQ. A building

39:21

that contains God knows how many of the

39:23

secrets. Yes

39:26

I discovered a few of them last time I

39:28

was there. Astor in fact. What

39:30

do you mean? Well

39:32

quick raise your eyebrows. A simple

39:36

lie. Edvard.

39:41

Time I think. For a fresh start. And

39:44

he makes another sort of waving gesture to some

39:46

of his security who waved to someone unseen. By

39:50

now everyone out there, there's a huge crowd outside

39:52

of Astor HQ as these alarms have been going

39:54

on as the building is evacuated and all of

39:56

a sudden the piece is shattered by an explosion.

40:00

extremely loud series of explosions. It's

40:02

like a rippling broadside Like

40:05

that and you see a you see a series

40:07

of Explosions

40:10

along the bottom of Astor

40:12

headquarters. Oh no and the

40:15

building goes And

40:21

falls away from you And

40:25

is completely sunk into

40:27

the Volus River Bravo

40:31

Bravo, I mean you really excelled yourself

40:33

this time certainly better than a boxing

40:35

glove on an extending stick Can't

40:38

believe the wishing well finally came through As

40:41

a real last-ditch effort there. I

40:44

still sort of Stretches and he says do

40:47

you know I feel somehow lighter you seem

40:49

remarkably calm Your whole

40:51

office just exploded

40:54

hmm. Why not? So what are you?

40:56

What are you trying to hide? Come on? Well,

40:58

I suppose whatever I was trying to hide now

41:00

lies at the bottom of the Volus River where

41:03

you will never ever ever be able To access

41:05

it so I feel somewhat lighter

41:08

Edvard I wanted to show you this because I want to tell

41:10

you something very serious I don't want

41:12

to hurt you Edvard or your friend

41:14

this de forces you believe me That's not how I prefer

41:16

to do business no matter what you might think But

41:19

I will not stand idly by and what

41:21

you pursue the course that I believe you

41:23

are currently pursuing I will not stand idly

41:25

stand idly by and see you destroy the

41:27

world Is

41:30

that really our plan I stopped my

41:32

piece every time we start

41:34

planning I just I don't know I just zone

41:37

out No

41:39

Barnaby, it's not the plan Do

41:41

it okay, right? Are you sure yes? We're

41:44

in faith with our leave the world the

41:46

opposite man a story standing up

41:48

He's like putting his coat on Wally while

41:51

you have this little conversation between you At

41:53

that Edvard at you saying we're trying to

41:55

save the world He sort of shoots you

41:57

both a look to try and see

41:59

if you'll see serious or not, and he shakes

42:01

his head. We're

42:03

leaving. Gives a clap and the whole retinue

42:06

swarms around him, and

42:09

they move away

42:11

and are gone and leave

42:14

you there in the coffee

42:16

house. You see what I

42:18

mean Barnaby about this absolute afternoon

42:21

farmer of a man? He's going to flare

42:23

for the dramatic though, you've got to admit,

42:25

you know, blowing up his entire building. When

42:28

was the last time you blew up your entire building? I

42:31

mean I wouldn't do that,

42:33

because I'm not a cow-handed love award like

42:35

that idiot. It

42:38

looked like a fairly precision operation

42:40

to me actually, the man's growing

42:42

in my estimation, honestly. He's

42:46

a triceprer of the narrow seas, sir.

42:49

I would never allow such a charlatan

42:52

rogue. Anyway, from

42:54

what he was saying it sounds like we need this thing

42:57

in this safe, and it sounds like this safe is at

42:59

the bottom of the bloody river. A

43:01

blue coat sort of pops his head into the,

43:04

oh everyone out. This building's being

43:06

evacuated. Oh okay. Didn't you

43:08

see? Astor HQ just

43:10

exploded. What happened? How did it

43:12

explode? Well I had the pleasure of talking to

43:14

one of Mr Astor's personal guard

43:16

myself, it seems a suspected

43:19

gas leak is to blame. Luckily,

43:22

Mr Astor's brilliant alarm gas

43:25

detection system seemed to be working flawlessly, and the

43:27

entire staff was able to be safely

43:30

evacuated with no loss

43:32

of life or injury. He truly is

43:34

a remarkable man. I

43:37

think so too. Yes, yes. I have no credit

43:39

to the city here. Anyway,

43:42

anyway, out, out. We've got to clear this

43:44

whole area. Fine, let me get my, let me

43:47

get my valeases of legal things. Yeah,

43:50

your valeases are just, you know, just by the door.

43:52

Fine. What's the state of the street

43:55

now? Is it all cordoned off? Are there blue coats

43:58

everywhere? Yeah, the place is... is swarming

44:01

with blue coats and just people,

44:03

just sort of panicky bystanders. There's

44:05

a lot of like brick dust

44:08

in the air, everything looks kind of hazy.

44:11

Be careful Barnaby, don't breathe any of this in, terribly

44:13

bad. There is

44:15

suddenly an uninterrupted view to

44:17

the Volus River. Edward,

44:19

I'm getting a bit of a cough. Any

44:25

of your mister available? I

44:28

told you, if you want it you're going

44:30

to have to go and drink the water out of the pond

44:32

in the park. Fine. That's where it all is. I

44:34

wet out the handkerchief and hand it to

44:36

Barnaby so he can put it over his

44:38

mouth. I'll do the same for myself.

44:41

In the middle of the square, Astor is

44:44

there, he's like addressing

44:47

the staff.

44:50

He's kind of like stood up on a

44:52

little soapbox that's been arranged and he's just

44:54

talking to everyone and saying, I'm

44:56

so relieved to see that all of

44:58

you are safe. I

45:01

screw together my blowpipe and I fire a paralysing

45:03

dart. Yeah, okay. We're

45:09

not, yeah, roll me for that, why not, yeah.

45:12

I'm going to finesse that. That's quite a shot. Yeah,

45:15

sure. Oh, it's a three

45:17

and a two. Ah, okay.

45:20

The darts

45:23

sink satisfyingly into the shoulder

45:26

blades of one

45:28

of the security detail who stood just next to Astor,

45:31

who actually just falls, just absolutely

45:35

face plants, and

45:37

Astor turns, is

45:39

interrupted by this, looks down at the floor,

45:42

looks up at you, Edvard. Must

45:44

have been overcome by all these fumes. Probably not safe to be

45:47

around here anymore, is it? Well, I

45:49

suppose we'll be leaving. Astor steps

45:51

down and walks over to you, Edvard, and puts

45:53

a hand on your shoulders and says, Edvard.

45:59

Flashbacks. Head coach

46:01

my shoulder and a paralyzing. Just

46:06

in case anyone tried to patronizing he touched me

46:08

on the so this is as real hot or

46:11

of my lately as a little takes his hand

46:13

away and looks at his leather gloves. the season

46:15

ah fees that has covered it up as find

46:17

white powder and is slightly so siblings. Advice:

46:23

As I say you are a fine and

46:25

of into. And

46:28

I really do warn you of

46:30

course of action. This gesture that

46:32

I've made today Yes, expensive, but.

46:34

I. Can afford it. Is. It worth it.

46:37

To. Destroy

46:39

or Korea's worse is

46:41

potentially incriminating secrets. I

46:44

think so. maybe tonight to I'll sleep

46:46

a little easier knowing that. With.

46:52

It. Is t. Lied.

46:54

The bottom of the voters river to knows?

46:57

maybe not. Maybe I'll let me know. Just

46:59

enjoy my usual sleeping drops advantage. Bp.

47:04

Well. So

47:09

and I'm walked away such a lovely

47:11

guy. I mean really so polite. I

47:13

sing and lot of you might have

47:15

misjudged the Japanese a man I would

47:17

You did mention all the you know

47:19

the many many years of mislead and

47:21

wicked things but otherwise seems like Senator.

47:24

From the years as we can. Misdeeds?

47:26

Yes. Clear so

47:28

the new hasn't on. The is wicked Mr.

47:32

Most people. right? I would say.

47:34

Rights Okay. Other you

47:37

wonder what? what does he's gonna save? Must

47:39

be some real dynamite juicy stuff in I

47:41

mean I've already I do So when I

47:43

was talking about bad back in there that

47:46

I didn't want to spring just now is

47:48

I do have physical evidence is in stealing

47:50

people's ideas that I got lost on. I

47:52

was in their rights made up in holding

47:55

onto. To. So blackmailing with.

47:57

the really i don't i find it's like you know So

48:00

when you get someone like the perfect

48:02

Christmas present early Right And

48:04

you're like, I just want to give it to them now Mmm

48:07

This might, I mean, I don't

48:09

know if I can hold on to this stuff much longer We

48:11

could just release him, ruin him That'd

48:13

be fun Yeah, but I'm

48:16

getting to venture that there's probably something even worse in there If

48:18

he was just determined to bury his

48:20

entire office at the bottom of the ocean

48:22

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking So let's get

48:25

it And also probably it

48:27

would help out like the gangs objectives

48:29

that we're trying to do as well Right

48:31

Yeah I'm going to assume that

48:34

that's the case and where I'm concentrating on what the gangs

48:36

objective is I'm sure I would agree with you Well

48:38

Barnaby, let me say this He's stolen

48:41

every idea I've ever had So there's

48:43

probably a bottle of my famous cocaine

48:45

Well, why didn't you say so earlier?

48:48

Let's get that safe I don't

48:50

know why we're hanging around Kwong, come

48:53

up with an idea, quick For

48:55

context, as citizens of Volusport, you

48:58

both understand why Astor would feel

49:00

extremely secure and confident that

49:03

no one is ever going to find anything

49:05

that was anywhere in his headquarters having sunk

49:07

it into the Volus River Not only is

49:09

this a particularly deep river

49:12

with a strong current that

49:14

kind of... It opens onto the sea, so it's

49:16

tidal There are

49:18

waves, strong currents It's

49:20

also murky, dark, filled

49:23

with the sort of filth

49:25

and sewage that the city pours out And

49:28

apart from that, just absolutely rammed

49:31

with eels that

49:33

feast on the refuse and the

49:35

fishes They're parasites on the leviathans

49:37

that you find out to see

49:40

and that is a source of energy for

49:42

the city But sometimes they detach

49:45

and come in... in

49:48

looks... in looks... Up

49:51

river Edvard, you've

49:53

swam across this river before So

49:56

you know that it is stinky and scary Yeah, I wouldn't

49:58

want to go down into it. Be have it all

50:00

around me. I hear you.

50:03

But also I'm really really jones in

50:05

for some cough syrup. And

50:07

yes, No yes, he said yes. I'm

50:10

okay, right? We need to figure out

50:12

some way of going under the water

50:14

and not dying. Sex.

50:17

Ideas: Some sort

50:19

of i'm submersible.

50:22

Until maybe a diving bell? Yes,

50:25

Read about those mean nothing. Should.

50:27

Be fairly easy to construct or. We.

50:30

Could. Create. Some sort of

50:32

and on mans. Situation. I

50:35

could create say at the specifically underwater

50:37

themes. Wonderful! Mechanical man go

50:39

down there and. Getting. Before

50:41

us. What are we counting? Oh man

50:43

and yeah wonderful mechanical mammoth as a

50:46

and we could go for a very

50:48

massimo mechanical man. We could ever have

50:50

a very much mans operation just pay

50:52

a large number of for people to

50:54

keep diving in until one comes last.

50:58

Year. But then I mean a lot of them

51:00

would. Die. That like for great.

51:02

I mean. Yeah this is what

51:04

I take how we we probably need more.

51:06

It's a bit like am I sort of

51:08

test for robots isn't that you would be

51:11

a was like identify the safe among all

51:13

these this debris they probably I don't think

51:15

I could program. And wonderful mechanical man

51:17

see that lot if we were if if

51:19

we with the bill some kind of diving

51:22

bell take ourselves down there with. The.

51:24

Said as submersible Mechanical man of it also

51:26

build and I must be found that safe

51:28

We could send him out. And.

51:30

He's impervious to use. Made

51:32

of metal and would. You. Don't

51:34

like the sound of this plane because

51:37

there is almost nothing I can help

51:39

with in that entire process, so let's

51:41

go for that. Were.

51:43

Actually you has expertise in some areas of

51:46

something been to be than you can add

51:48

to this. Know

51:50

know it sounds like robots Niven

51:52

Bells which is really more. You

51:54

also feel ah yeah but I

51:56

can. maybe they'll be as society

51:58

eris down there. Could he possibly?

52:01

Yes, Yeah, let's fingers crossed. Yeah okay

52:03

well let's go let's go around some

52:05

i wish the shore and kind of

52:07

get the get the measures. Absolute

52:09

going on in Missouri. Or

52:12

I called yes, I write a head on

52:14

down the river As I say that the

52:17

river is very very deep. almost nothing of

52:19

the building that his just. Smashed.

52:22

Into it is visible. Although

52:25

the wreckage that so much stone pouring

52:27

into the river all at once has

52:29

created is visible in the sense that

52:32

both sides of the river or kind

52:34

of flooded as as as as a

52:36

huge wave of with a kind of

52:38

head down. Along the

52:41

promenades when bright signs. "UP

52:43

Marketplace or there's lots of lots of

52:45

swells who now have like wet trousers

52:48

and damn fancy types with were injured",

52:50

says he. Quite. Furious.

52:52

Some. He had bought the could you,

52:54

could you take your little slide rule

52:56

out or whatever And and could you

52:58

give a rough measurement of where exactly

53:01

based on the height of the tower

53:03

which I'm sure you know intimately because

53:05

you'll know exactly how much taller. Than.

53:07

Your office. It. Was if

53:10

you could work out maybe the

53:12

trajectory in the height might have

53:14

a vague idea of where the

53:16

penthouse office has landed. Why

53:18

I have been insides As to these

53:21

keys, I do remember the layouts. If

53:25

I could probably estimate.

53:28

Based. On the angle of collapse

53:31

and to deaths as the waters

53:33

force of the explosion. And.

53:35

Give it a goat. you can really

53:37

narrow it down. Yeah. narrow the search

53:40

radius out. Yes, I will not dredging

53:42

meantime. Bloody River. Yes or I. I

53:44

do that. Let's say, That

53:48

there is forty eight hours between

53:50

this point where the building explodes

53:53

ah and the recovery operation commencing

53:55

because it sounds like we're hurting

53:57

and on. The plan involves the

54:00

a diving bell and day. What?

54:02

Are we calling it Submersible?

54:04

Mechanical Man. Submersible. Mechanical Man.

54:06

Submersible. Mechanical man. Vs.

54:09

Mm vs Mm. Maybe the

54:12

wonderful mechanical Frogman is my

54:14

yeah yeah. Exactly So let's

54:16

say you got forty hours to play with.

54:18

we even do a little bit more. are

54:20

planning if there's like anyone's a anyone you

54:22

want to look up any people's help, you

54:24

want to enlist anyone you want to consoles

54:26

or look up any records you wish to

54:28

find you know like all this kind of

54:30

are you planning stuff anything more that you

54:32

want to do with do a little bit

54:35

more like planning I'm and everything else we

54:37

can get a flashback. Fun! To be

54:39

anyone you are. You know,

54:41

does he knows anything about diving

54:43

or salvage? All. Ah

54:45

water know not specifically when I tell

54:47

you I could speak to do I

54:49

get from reach out to the chief

54:52

of police in an area it's and

54:54

dumb and see whether they have any

54:56

source of operations on the river. that

54:58

might guess in a way or a

55:00

or a does this a is thinking.

55:03

Good. Things mobile to go do that,

55:05

Contracts and higher ups. And.

55:07

The Constabulary other any yeah, blue

55:10

princess as to was a scheme

55:12

and he's on the floor plan

55:14

layouts. Of them either

55:16

any something that you could get your

55:19

hands on Lbc the the interior is

55:21

a was highly confidential and the you

55:23

know as as a prominent landmark the

55:26

general layout of the building is the

55:28

exterior is fairly mapped out. there be

55:30

public records of that and you know

55:32

the interior so received by combining those

55:35

yeah to probably hadn't I never saw

55:37

as those personal safe did I. Know,

55:40

but you were in his office, were allegedly

55:42

with cats and okay but I could probably.

55:44

I mean I saw does make safes and

55:46

I. Am. Aware of. What

55:49

would be considered their top of the line one. Yes,

55:52

certainly right. So yeah, I'd like to

55:54

see my guess Im schematic so that.

55:57

Seventy two feet to the wonderful

55:59

submersible. Krugman. What goodness? Well, not only

56:01

can you get that, I would say with

56:03

forty hours, you could probably secure yourself an

56:05

actual version of the okay line say Sudan

56:08

added to get I could get a malpractice

56:10

in cracking in. Fact.

56:13

That was very sensitive. Go say I'm going

56:15

to get to work on them a diving

56:17

bell and am. I'm going to adapt to

56:19

the wonderful mechanical man blueprints to operate and

56:21

water. And a good it's and like. That.

56:24

Who shoulder mounted cross? those the she

56:26

feels with. Your. Highness. A

56:29

getting suffice nature's be sound like

56:31

good fact. sorry actually just just

56:33

as a flashback I believe that

56:35

damn Had vowed. Went through a

56:38

phase of reading am these kind

56:40

of Pope's pirate and sailing novels

56:42

and he got very excited about

56:44

the whole idea need started working

56:46

on. A diving bell idea

56:48

for salvaging shipwrecks because he wanted to

56:51

laugh. Get. Fired treasure and I was

56:53

a sort of should blame say that you went through

56:55

but he does has done some preparatory work in this

56:57

field. Yeah, that sounds

56:59

absolutely reasonable. I'm okay. I

57:01

would say these are some

57:03

big construction projects for forty

57:05

eight hours. Ah, the wonderful

57:07

The sorry the submersible mechanical

57:09

man. That's. A

57:12

given. Granted, No

57:14

problem because apart from anything else you're

57:16

modifying an existing design something the and

57:18

spent a long time working on. The

57:21

diving bell as well. I feel like it's

57:23

something that you would have no problem constructing

57:25

but I am gonna ask you to give

57:28

me a location where you've been constructing it

57:30

because it's gonna be quite large. I imagine

57:32

there isn't say something like that in Barnaby.

57:34

Do you have any contacts is like the

57:36

ship yards or anything. My last. Well.

57:38

yes i mean i'm family and shipping

57:40

on so we've got a spare warehouse

57:43

summer other arm that was going on

57:45

at the weekend and with and organize

57:47

on some of the phone have a

57:49

family owned my right in thinking or

57:51

did you lie about that too impressive

57:53

to impress that wailing karma company of

57:55

some description but probably on the folks

57:57

i'll go back and check i can

57:59

it remember these things there's so many comings

58:01

and goings of the business well I'll go and

58:03

check okay either way warehouse space is not going

58:05

to be a problem at the dock yes let's

58:09

do a few roles for those so Barnaby

58:11

why don't you tell me how you are

58:13

talking to the approaching the head

58:16

of police and make me

58:18

a role for that well it

58:20

just so happens there's a charity ball coming

58:22

up and you know the the

58:24

good and the great of those for the

58:26

present and obviously chief chief of bluecoats is

58:28

there and I'm just going to sidle up

58:30

to him at the bar and say I'm

58:33

sure you know my father I'm Barnaby

58:35

Fortis you the third please

58:37

meet you and then I'm going

58:41

to say terrible business with the with the

58:43

building that came down what was that one

58:45

all about you folks looking into

58:47

that all a gas

58:50

leak yes yes

58:52

it just so happened I was having

58:55

coffee across the road it looks a

58:57

little more suspicious yeah yeah

59:01

yeah it's very strange to me I just

59:03

wonder whether you're investigating it at all I

59:05

mean obviously do not worry I

59:08

see that you're concerned yes

59:11

I want to feel safe in my own

59:13

city you know as a very very privileged

59:15

person I'd rather like to protect the people

59:18

in this room and

59:20

to a much lesser extent the people outside

59:22

of this room have

59:25

no fear it was a

59:27

gas leak it was a one-off we

59:30

are conducting an investigation

59:34

to find out to make

59:37

absolutely sure that nothing similar will

59:39

be happening I expect it will

59:42

take about a week and in that time

59:44

we will have lifeboats

59:48

salvage ships cordoning off

59:50

really yeah how you're bankrolling

59:52

you know the next year

59:54

of the bluecoats

59:57

Christmas party is that how it's working oh no

59:59

we have been forbidden from trying

1:00:01

to retrieve anything in the river,

1:00:04

orders that supersede even my own.

1:00:06

I shouldn't really be sharing this

1:00:08

but here I am in my cups

1:00:10

at this society ball. The

1:00:13

policeman's ball always gets me emotional and

1:00:15

I tend to overshare. Thanks for that.

1:00:18

There will be no disruption to your lifestyle

1:00:20

Mr Barnaby. I agree with you. Your views

1:00:22

of the river may be slightly interrupted as

1:00:27

our lifeboats go about their business. We

1:00:29

will cordon off the part of the river that was

1:00:31

affected but it will mostly be a problem for shipping

1:00:34

and freight going up and down.

1:00:36

Well we do have concerns. We do have shipping

1:00:39

concerns yes. Perhaps we could make sure that

1:00:44

we open a lane for you. That

1:00:46

would be marvellous actually. Is there

1:00:48

some sort of signal arrangement that

1:00:51

we could perhaps speak to you or perhaps? Well

1:00:53

you tell me. You're the nautical expert. As

1:00:55

long as your men are informed that we might be

1:00:58

passing through the area and we have a warehouse not

1:01:00

far so there may be some loading and unloading that

1:01:02

needs to be done but it shouldn't

1:01:06

take more than... I mean we could do it in

1:01:08

the evening if your folks are working during

1:01:10

the day. Yeah well I mean

1:01:13

they will be working. It will

1:01:15

mostly be a sort of guard duty

1:01:18

through the evening but... Right. Yes

1:01:20

yes I mean well just let me know your

1:01:23

vessel's call sign and its

1:01:25

signals and of course. Absolutely.

1:01:28

I'll have it sent to your office. Yes there's

1:01:30

no problem at all. Lovely to

1:01:32

see you again. Anyway and best of luck with all this.

1:01:34

I mean it just seems like an awful clean up job

1:01:36

but it sounds like you chaps are on top of it

1:01:38

so... As I say

1:01:41

our commitment is to keeping everyone in

1:01:43

this room safe and able to enjoy

1:01:45

the amenities of our beautiful city. Wonderful.

1:01:47

Let's preserve that status quo eh? Yes

1:01:49

rather yes quite. Glug

1:01:51

glug glug glug glug glug glug. Cool. I

1:01:54

was going to ask you to roll for

1:01:56

that but actually it all sounded totally reasonable.

1:01:58

So yeah no worries. Submersible mechanical That was

1:02:00

a given. Let's

1:02:02

say that also Barnaby, while we're sticking

1:02:04

with your jobs... Mm-hmm.

1:02:09

Don't we have to roll to see whether I

1:02:11

actually have a shipping company or not? Yeah, go

1:02:13

on. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's true. You've said all

1:02:15

this, but let's do a roll to

1:02:17

determine if you have a shipping company. All right, what do you

1:02:20

want me to roll? Oh, God,

1:02:22

I don't know. Which one of these... What's

1:02:24

the number Remember? Which one of

1:02:26

these dots refers to, do I own

1:02:28

a shipping company? Well, maybe Consort.

1:02:30

Yeah, I'd have to check. Could be

1:02:32

Consort, could be Study, Source of... Yeah,

1:02:34

whatever you like, really. I've got a

1:02:36

couple of dots in Consort, so I'm

1:02:38

going to roll with that. Yeah, yeah. All

1:02:41

right. That's a five and a three. Okay.

1:02:44

Yes, you... There is, in fact, a... I do!

1:02:46

I do have a shipping company. You

1:02:50

do have some shipping interests. I did wonder. I'll tell

1:02:52

you what, because that was a strong roll, you

1:02:55

also, upon making these

1:02:57

inquiries, you find out that you

1:02:59

own a few warehouses on the

1:03:01

dock front, and that actually one of

1:03:03

them is manned by a

1:03:07

salvage diver, who

1:03:10

used to work on the Leviathan ships

1:03:13

that your family has some

1:03:15

sort of interest in, on

1:03:18

a former whaler. Yeah, so they operate a

1:03:20

warehouse that you could use. People will look

1:03:23

the other way, of course. I

1:03:25

feel like we're getting there. Okay,

1:03:28

I'd like to get the submersible

1:03:31

mechanical man working on cracking

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this safe. Hi folks,

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Andy here, busting in quickly just to tell

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you some exciting news about

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on it, now is your last chance. It is

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also the last chance to get your hands on

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the A

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little way down the river from the

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site of us to Hq. It

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is a big empty warehouse where I'm

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gonna be. As you walk in you

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see the diving bell that is. Now

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being constructed, Edvald what's a lot like I've

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taken quite literally the does look like a

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large bells. And whistles, bras

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and as good as like a

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secular window for us to look

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out of. Am that sad because

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of the previous work I had

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done on a it is also

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covered in my Jolly Marches and

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some sort of Piratical. Motifs

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And dammit yeah the Wonderful: The

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submersible mechanical front man is also

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dressed like our players as well.

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Because I would have because you

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said I thought it would be

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effort to be fun phone without

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to the fundamental. Saying

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them. The I rolled a

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six of identity Missing and they from where

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we take the sake of course I'm the

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at Barnaby you also a tube survey in

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the same you see at piratical version of

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this. Wonderful! Mechanical man with

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as or big slippery feet this

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type s and to remedy action

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man that swims at his arms

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to scale up yeah apathy. guess

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I like the exactly setting specific

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best if I that's over at

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and it is at it is

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is currently doing so the had

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to go light. On

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on A and timing with so

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much. As

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the evidence uncovered and forty something and

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I don't want you to get angry

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because I know each case leave fly

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into up a fit of pique when

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know when I mentioned his name. I

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do wonder whether it

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might behoove us. To

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Fairfax. Paint.

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Amadeus Astor's logo on

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the diving bell and

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perhaps also the wonderful

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mechanical Fred men are

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just too. If

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some idle passerby

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spots the diving bell being lowered into the

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river, they'll assume it's Astor

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going to retrieve some of his belongings.

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You told me, just before this conversation when

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you came in from the ball, that you'd

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spoken to the police and they'd given us

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the okay. Yes, but belt and braces. Belt

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and braces, you know. The

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police are informed. That's not a problem. I've taken care

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of that. But, you

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know, anyone else on the riverside might

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spot this. And, you know, if you

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could see it within

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yourself to... To

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feel the bile rising in your throat and...

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There's displays, there's a logo of that... Gadavow,

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that pop in jade. But just on

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this one occasion. That absolute zanderkite. Now,

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I did say, please don't get angry

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with me, Edvard. Because it's just... You're

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the one who brought up that, Commolacha!

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Just a suggestion. This

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absolute scaramouche of a

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man vexes me at every turn. Okay,

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how about this? How about... Placed it

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over the skull and crossbones? No. The

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skull and crossbones is... That's a load

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bearing, the skull and crossbones. Right. Can't

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be removed. How about

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instead, I will add some slashes

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of the Astor logo to the outside that

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can be operated via a switch from the inside. So

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if we need them, we can

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deploy them. That's very big

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of you. But if we would have

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to abandon this diving bell and then it's

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retrieved, that's another of my inventions that he'll

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have claimed to, because his logo's all over

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it. That is true. Very

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well. Edvard, you're the genius

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inventor. I'm

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prepared to go with your... Alright,

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I'll add slashes that can be deployed

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if needed of the Astor logo.

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No, I think you've got it a bit wrong. It's

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all curly at the edges. Yeah. Also, I've drawn a

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bum on it. Not

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that curly. See, my distance doesn't look the same. Okay.

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Okay, no, you're right, you're right. But if

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you look close, there is an unmistakable bum

1:10:05

on the logo. The other

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thing you see Barnaby, as you survey

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this scene, is the operator of the

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warehouse, who's a peg-legged

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gentleman who's kind of stomping

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around. Okay. Like kind of

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tapping the diving bell. Let's say they've got a hook

1:10:22

hand as well. Yeah,

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kind of tapping it with the metal hook. Very

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fine construction. Oh yes, marvellous.

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Thank you, sir. You

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done much salvaging yourself? Oh

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yes, yes. Did

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a fair bit of salvage, yes,

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back in the day, for although

1:10:43

down there, the pressure can

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do funny things to you. Yeah, so this

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is double tough. I've

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reinforced it according to the

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readings I've had about the pressure in the rivers.

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I hope a little hold up. Do you have any advice

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for us? We're going to the

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river. Plenty of advice I could offer. Let's

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see. Well, eels,

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if you see an eel, you look it right

1:11:06

in the eye. And then you find a means

1:11:08

to kill it. Yeah. That

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would be my main advice. Main advice. Hang

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on, let me note this down, this sounds

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important. Kill eels. Kill eels.

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But not in a way that makes any blood come

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out. Oh, if those eels get in

1:11:22

the blood frenzy. In

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a, okay. That's

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the one thing you don't want. No

1:11:30

eel blood. What

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if your character risks becoming elevated? Sure,

1:11:35

yeah, something about eels. Yeah. I

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say, do you want to come along on the mission, old boy? Sounds

1:11:41

like you'd be good company. I

1:11:43

would love to, and my name is

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Bell. Billy Bell.

1:11:48

Billy Bell. Billy Bell. Billy

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Bell. All right, Barnaby,

1:11:53

Barnaby, Billy's coming along. Oh, Billy Bell.

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Wonderful. Does He smell bad? He Looks

1:11:57

like he smells bad. He Smells bad.

1:12:00

Earlier fish about is formed a

1:12:02

strong bond with. To play

1:12:04

lead in a confined space. Philly Bow

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may very well be my best friends

1:12:08

ssssss and I would love for him

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to come along on misadventure. A

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for I find I believe I'm voice

1:12:15

and how out as one climb aboard

1:12:18

something like this our the ladder and

1:12:20

then again it. And

1:12:22

I were going to to. We're going to drive it down to

1:12:24

the river in a carriage or something. That

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if he when I get comfortable

1:12:29

now I think we're probably moving

1:12:31

the point where it's beginning of

1:12:33

the school at what is. So

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let me ask you questions. The

1:12:37

questions A load. What's everyone's load?

1:12:39

Light. Normal. Like

1:12:41

normal Go! Ah what kind of

1:12:43

operation that is this would you

1:12:45

would you like reminder of the

1:12:47

flavors of yes please You can

1:12:49

do a salt Duvall him and

1:12:51

to with have kids deception and

1:12:53

loot. Recommend to how badly a

1:12:55

relationship goes in the diving bell

1:12:57

How many as three down their

1:12:59

self trespass unseen a cult engaged

1:13:01

to supernatural power, social negotiate been

1:13:03

bugging, afraid and principal or transports

1:13:05

carry target will people three danger

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guess I wanted them. Is

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it or is it still has an end

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of this kind of both as a or

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if it's if is going self the i

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just need to detail of the point of

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infiltration if you'd rather be transport I just

1:13:20

need the detail the route and means I

1:13:22

want to say that's a stealth will throw

1:13:24

a like a black blankets over it was

1:13:26

real nice some is a large top all

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and. Drive. A novel I can't

1:13:30

stand to the riverside and then nod to the

1:13:32

cover of darkness. Move lie down to the sit

1:13:34

right which will be my the boat. Would.

1:13:38

Eliminate if it has asked me that is

1:13:40

it a little? Is it a little Costs

1:13:42

are we going for? Is it a lot

1:13:44

costs quite as just needs a wins for

1:13:46

lowering the. diving bell

1:13:48

into it says on the close enough

1:13:50

to fit the bow and have a

1:13:53

wins but i think everything past this

1:13:55

point we can determine how good it

1:13:57

is with the engagement second Go

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diving! Engagement roll! Yay!

1:14:02

The best bit! The

1:14:05

bit where I roll some dice. OK, 1D for

1:14:07

sheer luck. Here it is.

1:14:09

Is this particularly bold or daring? Always. Does

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it expose a vulnerability or hit them

1:14:15

where they're weakest? I

1:14:18

wouldn't necessarily say so.

1:14:21

No, I don't think so. But then,

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are there any particular defences or preparations

1:14:25

you're facing? No, Astor is very confident

1:14:27

that now that he's sunk his entire

1:14:30

HQ, he's in the clear.

1:14:33

Can any friends or contacts provide aid? Yeah,

1:14:36

how about Billy Bell? That's Billy's

1:14:38

popular character Billy Bell. Beloved

1:14:41

character Billy Bell. We'll

1:14:43

say Billy Bell is going in with medium

1:14:45

load as well. And

1:14:48

decades of salvaging experience. And decades

1:14:50

of salvaging experience, that

1:14:52

is true. Enemies or rivals involved?

1:14:55

I should say. Not

1:14:58

really that we know of, but OK. Well,

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I mean, do you think that Astor counts

1:15:02

as an enemy or a rival who's involved?

1:15:05

Yeah, I mean he's involved, I suppose. Scrantilius

1:15:07

Popinje, if that's fair. That

1:15:10

is fair enough, but it does mean minus 1 to die, so.

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Dang it. For a grand total of 2.

1:15:16

I guess he's not involved, is he? Because he's gone, he's

1:15:18

left. He's already fled the

1:15:20

scene. Yeah, he's withdrawn himself from this

1:15:23

whole scenario. Alright, we'll rank it

1:15:25

up to 3. Yeah!

1:15:28

OK, here we go, let's find out how we

1:15:30

do. Whoa!

1:15:32

2, 6's and a 5. Hehey!

1:15:37

So presumably the safe leaps out of the

1:15:39

water. Safe leaps out. And

1:15:42

the door swings open. The contents

1:15:44

fall into your waiting hands. Yep.

1:15:48

Excellent. Back

1:15:50

to the club for a whiskey all day. He's

1:15:55

where we're at at the start of the

1:15:58

score. boat

1:16:00

that you have loaded the diving bell onto

1:16:03

is of a really good sturdy size it

1:16:05

can easily bear the weight of the bell

1:16:07

that was the first thing that was gonna

1:16:09

go wrong if the roll

1:16:11

had been different but but

1:16:13

yeah it's just a nice

1:16:16

good midsize boat. Discrete, nondescript

1:16:18

and as you pull up

1:16:21

Barnaby you have not only made

1:16:23

a note of its of its number

1:16:26

but you you give its signal in

1:16:29

actual hoisting of flags

1:16:33

running them up a little well in fact

1:16:35

that doesn't sound like maybe maybe you tell

1:16:37

me. Barnaby would have been in the cadets

1:16:39

at school surely. Actually yeah

1:16:41

yeah that does check out yeah definitely.

1:16:44

Yes they made me. What

1:16:46

time at what time of day do you want to be doing

1:16:48

this? Golden hour. Whenever

1:16:52

the shift finishes. I'm

1:16:54

imagining a beautiful sunset as

1:16:57

the light dips below the horizon. Oh that's

1:16:59

lush. Yeah it's

1:17:01

the golden hour the surface of the

1:17:03

river is like a sheet of hammered

1:17:05

bronze as the

1:17:08

sun descends and

1:17:11

a large proportion of

1:17:13

the blue coat patrols

1:17:15

and lifeboats that are kind of

1:17:17

poodling around on on little they're

1:17:19

kind of like big glorified rowboats

1:17:21

basically. Most of them

1:17:24

are leaving there

1:17:26

are a few more and when your signal is flashed

1:17:28

to them they sort of

1:17:30

row out of the way. Bear in mind they're

1:17:32

only they don't believe that you're going to be

1:17:35

like stopping there they

1:17:37

think they're just letting you through. Although

1:17:39

I did I did let the police

1:17:41

chief know that we do have warehouses and we

1:17:43

may need to do some loading and unloading. Yes

1:17:46

that's true. Although they know it's

1:17:48

not a straight passage through. Yeah

1:17:50

necessarily. Yeah so you're able to

1:17:52

sort of navigate into

1:17:54

the cordoned off area which

1:17:57

is you know this large portion of the river. The

1:18:01

diving bell is well constructed.

1:18:04

What's the seating like and is there a

1:18:06

drinks cabinet? Yes, there's a drinks cabinet.

1:18:09

Of course there's a drinks cabinet. Are we talking plush

1:18:11

seating? We're talking plush leather. And

1:18:17

also... Waterproof, I like it.

1:18:20

It's a bit like a sort of floating tiki

1:18:22

bar because of the steaming that I put in.

1:18:26

I'm here for it. It was

1:18:28

a phase, certainly. I

1:18:30

mean, we didn't want all that work to go to waste. No.

1:18:35

But there are umbrella drinks, so help yourself. Wonderful.

1:18:37

I don't want to patronise the viewers at home

1:18:39

by talking to them as if they don't know

1:18:41

how an 18th century

1:18:43

diving bell works. But for

1:18:46

those unfamiliar, we are

1:18:48

talking about a large bell that three

1:18:50

people can comfortably sit inside. And a

1:18:52

robot. On a bench on the inside

1:18:54

of the bell. The

1:18:56

bottom of the bell is left

1:18:58

open, but as it is lowered

1:19:01

uniformly into the water, oxygen is

1:19:03

sort of trapped there. There

1:19:05

is a system of

1:19:07

pipes that is kind

1:19:10

of lowered down with a barrel

1:19:12

alongside the diving bell and that

1:19:14

provides oxygen. So

1:19:16

that's kind of external. And there

1:19:18

are sort of weights attached to the bottom to

1:19:21

make the diving bell lower. So

1:19:24

why don't we say the point where we jump

1:19:26

into action. You are

1:19:28

your craft is bobbing peacefully

1:19:31

on the river. You

1:19:33

are roughly over the spot where you believe

1:19:37

Astor's office would have crumbled and

1:19:39

fallen, come to rest on the riverbed. And

1:19:43

you are on the deck of this small ship with

1:19:45

a large diving bell. And

1:19:48

around you there are, let's say,

1:19:50

three patrol boats, but they

1:19:52

all understand that you are to be given passage

1:19:55

through the area. Probably

1:19:57

they don't understand you operating.

1:20:00

a diving expedition in their crime scene

1:20:02

but that's where we're at. Okay.

1:20:06

Alright, leap into action and pour myself a pina

1:20:08

colada. Good. Okay. Do

1:20:10

I need to roll for that? Let's

1:20:13

say, yeah, roll to see how strong it is.

1:20:18

Stronger is better or worse. Sounds like finesse if you want

1:20:20

to do that. Yeah, it's finesse. I've got two in

1:20:22

that. That's five and a two. Okay,

1:20:25

so success. There's a confirmation to your pina colada.

1:20:29

Success, you have made a great pina

1:20:31

colada. Complication, Billy

1:20:34

Bell has already got into the liquor cabinet.

1:20:36

Exactly. Billy! And

1:20:39

is humming but not singing loudly a sea shanty

1:20:41

of old. I

1:20:43

expect this from Billy Bill. Not

1:20:45

from you, Billy Bill. Okay,

1:20:48

well, if we think this is the sort

1:20:50

of area that we want to be in, we should go down and

1:20:53

have a look and see what's down there because then

1:20:55

the secrets will be revealed. Do you reckon we can just drop

1:20:57

this diving bell into the water and none of these patrols will

1:21:00

be mad or should we? Well, we're going to

1:21:02

be lowering it slowly anyway, aren't we? So,

1:21:04

is there a side of the ship on

1:21:06

which it would make the most sense to

1:21:08

lower it? Is the one that is less

1:21:10

visible to the patrolling

1:21:13

guards? Do we have a window

1:21:15

or an area? I

1:21:17

could survey if you like. Yeah, good idea.

1:21:19

I would like to disable the speakers that play sea

1:21:21

shanties that I added when I first designed

1:21:25

the diving bell. Let me just... Billy,

1:21:27

you look sad. Yeah, we'll turn the best one later,

1:21:29

Billy. Yeah, I'd like to have a look around and

1:21:32

see if there's a sort of line of sight benefit

1:21:35

to dropping the diving bell off a particular

1:21:37

point on the ship. Yep, yep. I

1:21:39

only have one in survey. But...

1:21:42

Ah, let's see. Four. Okay,

1:21:45

yeah, yeah. Yeah,

1:21:48

success was a complication but it was not too

1:21:51

difficult a thing. Yeah,

1:21:53

you look around and you see

1:21:55

that two of the boats are

1:21:57

stationary. They're kind of like...

1:22:00

resting at anchor. Another

1:22:02

one is kind of patrolling the

1:22:04

area in like a long sort

1:22:07

of wide slow circle. But

1:22:10

that means that there is a good few

1:22:13

minutes where you can lower the bell

1:22:15

on whatever side you wish and none

1:22:19

of the ships, none of the other patrol boats will be able to

1:22:21

see. So we should probably leave someone up here

1:22:23

to keep an eye on these patrols and

1:22:26

signal to those in the bell if we

1:22:28

need to be aware of anything.

1:22:31

So what do you think Barnaby, do you want

1:22:33

to stay up here or do you want to come down and

1:22:35

we can leave Billy up here? Ah you can rely on me

1:22:37

he says. Um

1:22:41

I'd like to see this diving bell I mean

1:22:43

that you've done a wonderful job of seating in

1:22:45

the drink cabinet and all right tiki theming so

1:22:47

I think I'd like to come down. Okay Billy

1:22:50

I say gruss him firmly by the

1:22:52

shoulders. As

1:22:54

you know Billy we are best friends. Yes

1:22:57

Envirod I've come to see you as a

1:22:59

brother. Indeed well I'm going

1:23:01

down there now it's gonna be very dangerous. Ah I

1:23:03

tell the murky deep. Be

1:23:05

sure Mr Envirod. Yes the briny

1:23:08

the briny deep it may claim

1:23:10

to me. But

1:23:12

I don't remember what I told you about eels. Yeah

1:23:15

kill them but don't let their blood come out. So

1:23:20

are you talking strangulation of some sort?

1:23:22

Strangle the eels yeah or a blunt

1:23:24

object back of the head. But

1:23:27

Billy I need you to keep an eye on these chips and

1:23:29

if anything. We all have a back of their head. Surely the

1:23:31

back of their head is their butt. Yeah hit

1:23:33

them in the butt with a blunt object that's what Billy

1:23:35

says. Right. But Billy I need you

1:23:37

to stand watch and if anything happens

1:23:40

you're to signal to us using this speaking tube

1:23:43

and I show him how to operate the speaking tube. Ah

1:23:46

this be the oxygen pipe I'm sure

1:23:48

don't worry I'll keep you well supplied.

1:23:50

You start blowing into it.

1:23:53

There's a separate oxygen pipe

1:23:55

Billy that's. Stop blowing

1:23:57

your fumes into the oxygen pipe. We need that.

1:24:00

I would rather do the Mr Ed Fardock. Okay,

1:24:03

well have a lie down but also, once

1:24:05

you're feeling better, keep an eye out.

1:24:07

Alright Billy, I trust you with my life.

1:24:09

Hehehehe. Remind me

1:24:12

how the oxygen works. Hehehehe. Billy,

1:24:15

you have decades of salvage experience. Ah,

1:24:18

but I was in the bell. Right, I knew

1:24:20

it well. And often I didn't have no bell. I

1:24:22

say the pressure. Hehehe. The

1:24:25

bends, Mr Ed Fardock. They do funny things to

1:24:27

you after the upon the years. Yeah,

1:24:30

it really adds up all that bends. Well

1:24:33

I feel great about this plan, let's go. Okay,

1:24:35

I give Billy the eyes.

1:24:38

He does a salute with his

1:24:40

hook and... That's

1:24:43

himself quite bad. Hehehehehe. Cuts his

1:24:45

eye off. Pointing inward. Alright,

1:24:49

yeah, I load up the

1:24:52

submersible mechanical man in my mechanical

1:24:55

man backpack. Of course. And

1:24:57

we climb into the diving bell. I'm imagining it

1:24:59

has retractable arms and legs and is a sort

1:25:01

of wall-y style. And then he has two straps

1:25:03

that pop out and I can just wear them

1:25:05

like a backpack. Adorable.

1:25:10

Okay, great, so you're being loaded

1:25:13

into the bell. Yep, Billy, lower

1:25:15

us into the briny depths. Lower

1:25:18

away to Davey Joes' locker.

1:25:21

Yeah, cool. Uh, let's... Let's

1:25:25

make an all-encompassing roll for

1:25:27

the lowering away. It will encompass

1:25:29

the strength of the bell. It'll

1:25:32

encompass how well you instructed

1:25:35

Billy beforehand. Okay. Don't

1:25:37

forget, you can work together, you can push yourself, you

1:25:39

can ask for devil's bargains and stuff. All these different

1:25:41

things you can do. Well let's work together. Yes.

1:25:45

So yeah, I'll lead a group roll.

1:25:47

Yep. In

1:25:49

lowering. Which I guess

1:25:51

because it's mechanical can this be a

1:25:54

tinker? I should think so, yeah. Yeah. Yeah,

1:25:56

all right. I have nothing in tinker, does

1:25:58

that affect things at all? You

1:26:01

may roll Tinker and take the highest

1:26:03

result but Edvard will take one

1:26:06

stress for every dice that

1:26:08

is a failure. But

1:26:10

if I don't have Tinker I roll two dice and

1:26:13

take the lowest result? Yes, that's right. I

1:26:15

guess you could probably describe this as finesse though.

1:26:18

In which case I have two dice. Yeah. I

1:26:21

also have two dice and finesse. So... Gaming

1:26:24

the system. I

1:26:26

mean it would require, it requires a real finesse to

1:26:28

lower a... It's about getting

1:26:31

in smoothly and evenly isn't it? Yeah, I

1:26:33

think you're right. Okay, the finesse roll is

1:26:35

happening now. Yeah, fine. Ooh,

1:26:38

I've got a four and a six. I've got a four

1:26:40

and a two. Well that is

1:26:43

no stress for you Edvard. Great

1:26:46

job. So what was the highest result there out of

1:26:48

everyone? Six. Six? Yeah, brilliant. There's

1:26:51

a set of levers and switches on the

1:26:53

inside of the diving bell. They

1:26:55

sort of release it. And

1:26:58

then Billy Bell, he's a...

1:27:00

He does have some experience of you know, salvage

1:27:03

and pulling levers and stuff. So back on

1:27:05

the deck he's humming to himself again. The

1:27:09

old muscle memory, the old magic. Exactly. And

1:27:12

he... Like that.

1:27:14

He's taking extra care because

1:27:16

his best friend is in that bell.

1:27:18

Yeah, his very best friend Edvard

1:27:21

is aboard precious, precious cargo indeed. Did you

1:27:23

ask how he lost his hand? Was it

1:27:26

while lowering a diving bell? This

1:27:28

sort of occurs to you as the diving bell goes... And

1:27:33

softly and uniformly hits the river. It

1:27:35

was actually a disastrous game of 1990.

1:27:39

Oh yeah. That right

1:27:41

into the wrist, the whole hand came off. Yeah.

1:27:46

The very first... The very first... Boom.

1:27:49

Straight up. It's a land

1:27:51

off. Well he did, they didn't explain the rules very well he

1:27:53

told me. He thought he was doing it

1:27:55

right. Billy Bell does. Easy

1:27:58

mistake for me. Whoever can cut their hand off. quickest

1:28:00

is the winner.

1:28:04

He thought he'd won. He should

1:28:07

ask him to tell you the

1:28:09

stories sometimes. I absolutely won't but

1:28:11

yes. Sounds

1:28:14

like he's a capable sort. I'm

1:28:17

looking forward to this. Well speaking of sounds

1:28:20

all of the noises of the outside world

1:28:22

immediately become muffled as the diving bell begins

1:28:24

to be lowered. Looking

1:28:27

out of the sort of

1:28:29

porthole windows to either

1:28:31

side you can see the that golden

1:28:33

hour light filtering through the the Merck

1:28:36

of the Volus River but

1:28:38

it's not long before it

1:28:41

begins to become enshrouded with darkness.

1:28:44

Did you turn on the lights? Yes

1:28:48

let's make that a flashback for the

1:28:50

light just because I've not heard

1:28:52

it mentioned yet. I don't think it's a reasonable

1:28:54

low. Maybe just one stress. I probably should have

1:28:56

mentioned it but I assumed it would be dark

1:28:58

down here. One of my patented incandescent bulbs. Yeah

1:29:01

exactly. A bright bulb. So

1:29:04

where is it? Where's the light? It's

1:29:07

on the top of the diving bell but it is directional

1:29:09

so you can move it. Yeah so

1:29:11

beneath you obviously like around

1:29:13

your ankles there is water

1:29:18

now lowered surface of the river and also

1:29:21

just by your ankles poking up there's

1:29:24

a thick hose pipe which

1:29:27

is where fresh oxygen

1:29:29

is being hopefully pumped in by Billy

1:29:31

Bell. Good old Billy. Good

1:29:34

old Billy and yeah

1:29:36

you you're not really aware of the

1:29:38

lowering sensation but you you do feel

1:29:40

the the bell kind of sway

1:29:43

a little bit like this. I'm

1:29:45

going to have to drink some

1:29:47

more to... Yeah yeah.

1:29:51

Well let me let me mix you up a

1:29:53

hurricane old man. Thank you. Wonderful. Yeah.

1:29:55

Such a fine host Edvard. Well it's

1:29:58

five o'clock somewhere. You

1:30:00

um, it's golden though. It's probably five o'clock here.

1:30:02

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it is well past the

1:30:05

yard arm drinking

1:30:07

wise Yeah,

1:30:10

eventually I think that was a six

1:30:12

wasn't it yeah, so the

1:30:14

the diving bell sways and and

1:30:16

lowers down and it and after

1:30:18

a Few

1:30:20

minutes of gentle lowering Edvard

1:30:22

with the light Suddenly

1:30:24

you begin to be able to discern

1:30:27

shapes Beneath

1:30:30

you no trifannabe and point out the window.

1:30:33

Mmm Looks like we're here Yeah,

1:30:36

now look it's

1:30:38

a sort of um kind of hills

1:30:41

and valleys of shattered

1:30:44

brickwork is is the

1:30:46

is the kind of Bottom of

1:30:48

the river landscape and in fact the bell

1:30:50

just comes to rest slightly lopsidedly like Conk

1:30:53

like that on a little

1:30:55

bit of you know on a little bit of

1:30:58

what what used to be the facade

1:31:01

of Astor HQ Okay,

1:31:03

I'd like to take out that blueprint of

1:31:05

the of the Astor

1:31:08

HQ and just have a

1:31:10

look at it and see if there was anything Architecturally

1:31:12

that would mark out what would have been Astor's

1:31:14

office if there was a particularly ornate window

1:31:16

or I had a balcony Or if it had

1:31:19

anything like that. Yeah, would identify it

1:31:22

make me a role for that clock perhaps Nice

1:31:24

fat o'clock at the top. Yeah, I did So

1:31:27

this I guess study for this yeah,

1:31:30

don't forget to boost the role if you want

1:31:32

to using all of the ways I

1:31:41

feel like sort of at a clock on top being

1:31:44

a sort of mechanical type Yep,

1:31:48

there's a clock You

1:31:51

can see it. It's I mean it took

1:31:53

only the mildest amount of stress

1:31:55

to shatter and break the clock

1:31:57

completely But you

1:31:59

looking at out the window you can see hills

1:32:02

and valleys of this the

1:32:04

peaks and lows of

1:32:06

this shattered brick landscape you

1:32:10

can see one window

1:32:12

that that yeah that does stand

1:32:15

out because it has a let's

1:32:17

say it's like a sort of

1:32:19

sundial carved into the the brickwork

1:32:22

on the outside and that you

1:32:24

recognized Edvard as being the one

1:32:26

that looks out you

1:32:28

actually saw standing

1:32:31

out this window and looking out

1:32:33

over the river how odd to see it now

1:32:35

inverted on the bottom of the

1:32:37

river it's a it's really a

1:32:39

metaphor for his company and fortunes that

1:32:42

once is what stood so proud Barnaby you're not

1:32:44

listening the one who has been so proud now

1:32:47

I was at the bottom of the river covered

1:32:49

in sludge and eels standing around

1:32:51

got it got it soon so well no you

1:32:53

that's not the one what

1:32:56

once stood so proud Barnaby now lies

1:32:58

at the river covered in eels soon

1:33:00

so will Astor himself would be the

1:33:02

same Astor lies yeah got it the

1:33:04

usual yeah so okay

1:33:06

it's out the window and you

1:33:08

can see well you can see out of

1:33:11

your window this window it's like a sort of it

1:33:13

almost looks like a hole in the floor it

1:33:16

looks like a hole in the riverbed although you're not

1:33:18

on the actual riverbed you're sort of on the you

1:33:21

understand right okay

1:33:23

so it's it's now that the time that

1:33:25

we deploy the wonderful submersible man send him

1:33:27

over there I mean

1:33:30

not sure that we can move this well

1:33:33

is it possible to move the boat

1:33:35

with the boat let me let

1:33:37

me have a word with Billy on the old

1:33:39

speaking to you Billy I'm gonna

1:33:42

make a fortune-hold me is he

1:33:44

asleep yeah I'm gonna go for

1:33:46

Billy's that's

1:33:50

a six yes immediately almost

1:33:53

before you finish saying Billy

1:33:55

he comes over the yeah

1:33:58

that's Chris Chris please to attention

1:34:00

yeah mr. Edvardo you're okay

1:34:02

are you all right down

1:34:04

there everything's ship shake down

1:34:06

here Billy eels and seize

1:34:09

Jazzy eels haven't seized anyone nothing's

1:34:11

been seized by eels but we do need

1:34:13

to move a few kicks Southwest

1:34:16

a few clicks Oh no kilometer no

1:34:18

okay no I can't say all don't

1:34:20

you worry Barnaby

1:34:25

how far away would you say that window is 40 meters

1:34:27

okay we need to move

1:34:30

about 40 meters absolutely

1:34:33

mr. mr. Edvardo what direction well

1:34:36

what direction is it Barnaby from here do

1:34:38

you have a compass there's a built-in

1:34:40

compass underneath the window right

1:34:43

I'll take a look at it north

1:34:45

northwest okay that's 40

1:34:47

meters north northwest mr. Bell north northwest

1:34:49

it shall be over yeah

1:34:53

you um you sort of put the

1:34:55

speaking trumpet back on its little hook

1:34:57

and sit there patiently and

1:34:59

after a moment you do start to

1:35:02

feel the bell just go like that

1:35:05

and just gradually just okay

1:35:08

great along the ground beneath

1:35:10

you through the might

1:35:12

I Barnaby no one yes you're way ahead

1:35:15

of me yeah read my thoughts I wonder

1:35:18

if there's any sort of I wonder

1:35:21

if like I wonder if you get more drunk when

1:35:24

you I mean you're not technically like under

1:35:27

prayer you're getting thin yeah

1:35:30

yeah but like I feel like some I feel

1:35:32

like the composition of your blood might

1:35:34

change I suppose a little like

1:35:36

because yeah yeah

1:35:39

you feel the diving bell kind of slide

1:35:41

and great along the floor and you can

1:35:43

see this this window it moves out of

1:35:45

view you can no longer see it

1:35:47

through the porthole it's briefly out of sight and then

1:35:50

you see it come into a more sort

1:35:52

of wobbly shape beneath your

1:35:55

feet Wow through

1:35:57

the wobbling surface of

1:36:01

of the river there's another on

1:36:04

the speaking trumpet yes mr.

1:36:06

Bell mr. mr. Edvard are you alright

1:36:08

you haven't been claimed by the eels

1:36:10

tell them still

1:36:12

not claimed by eels how about

1:36:15

how about this if I get claimed by eels

1:36:17

I'll let you know as

1:36:19

soon as it happens why then

1:36:22

I would have no need to ask every time I

1:36:24

call but yeah exactly you

1:36:26

wouldn't have to worry I feel like

1:36:28

you're worrying too much mr. Bell affecting

1:36:31

your performance when

1:36:34

you when you spend as

1:36:37

much time in the brain as you do

1:36:39

nothing but worry yeah you hold your

1:36:42

friends close because you don't know when

1:36:44

any or suddenly leaf out

1:36:46

of the ocean did you say eel did

1:36:48

you see any I see

1:36:50

no eels currently right okay

1:36:52

wait wait that's the oxygen tube sorry

1:36:55

this is a stuck to be eel

1:36:57

shape there's a chap

1:36:59

up here mr. mr. Edvard wants

1:37:01

wants to know what we're doing

1:37:03

he seems a little seems a little upset

1:37:06

what should I tell him you what you want

1:37:08

me to gouge him with the hook with the

1:37:10

claw hand just give a nod okay well there's

1:37:14

no don't gouge him with the claw hand but some

1:37:17

tell it off I'm

1:37:19

asking about I part

1:37:21

of me you're good at these sorts of bring

1:37:24

him over to the speaking tube well chat to him I'm

1:37:27

sorry mr. mr. baro me sir say again

1:37:30

bring him over to the speaking tube and I'll chat to him

1:37:33

oh put all right yes

1:37:36

oh so I would hand it right gotcha

1:37:40

you really hit like you hear two boys and

1:37:42

then Billy if that doesn't work then the hook

1:37:45

oh yes mr. mr.

1:37:48

edvard eventually

1:37:50

another voice comes on hello

1:37:55

hello what seems to be the problem to

1:37:57

whom am I speaking Barnaby for excuse the

1:38:00

third socialite

1:38:02

general Gadabout charming

1:38:05

what the bloody hell are you doing at the bottom of the

1:38:07

river well we're we

1:38:09

have the crime scene yes we

1:38:11

have permission to pass through I spoke

1:38:14

to the chief I know you have permission to pass

1:38:16

through I wait your ship through part through does not

1:38:18

mean whatever this is listen

1:38:22

you might not have heard of it but it is it's

1:38:25

the latest newfangled medical

1:38:27

technology for curing migraines

1:38:31

it's a sort of pressure therapy you head

1:38:34

down in a small diving barrel and you it

1:38:37

clears your migraines it's the latest thing I

1:38:39

can't believe you haven't really heard

1:38:41

of it I'm a doctor

1:38:43

I shall I have my doctor

1:38:45

here with me conducting the

1:38:47

the treatment and yeah

1:38:50

we really must get you back to your treatments

1:38:52

the pressure in your head your head to explode

1:38:55

if we don't believe it I know doctor

1:38:57

and I it's fine just a gentleman here

1:39:03

just wants to know why we're moving so

1:39:05

slowly through the through the region but it's

1:39:07

very very important for the treatment and you

1:39:09

know if I don't get these migraines cured

1:39:11

it could have you know

1:39:14

terrible terrible consequences for you

1:39:16

know things like police funding maybe

1:39:21

maybe a roll for that I

1:39:23

guess part of me yeah yeah

1:39:25

that is a sway presumably which

1:39:28

I have three dice in don't forget you can

1:39:30

don't forget all the things you can do if

1:39:32

you want should I push myself bit of extra

1:39:34

stress why

1:39:37

not why not you do

1:39:39

enjoy white and outlandish play okay

1:39:42

I've got two sixes of two and a one you

1:39:49

you riches whatever sorry I didn't

1:39:51

quite hear that what was that you said you rich

1:39:54

what yeah mr. mr. Fordersky I said

1:40:00

Hmm I

1:40:02

said Carry on you

1:40:04

know I feel like speaking to you's actually

1:40:06

bringing my migraine back a little bit I'm

1:40:08

starting. Oh my god these readings are often

1:40:10

in Chuck's Barnaby you set us back hours

1:40:15

Yes, rather better if you let us get

1:40:17

on with it, I think mr. mr. Fortescue

1:40:19

that is absolutely reasonable all that I ask

1:40:21

is is would you be able to? Would

1:40:24

you be able to move this operation along

1:40:26

within the next sort of 10 or

1:40:29

15 minutes? Give

1:40:32

us a Yeah,

1:40:34

45 will be fine. Mr. Fortescue if

1:40:36

you could well very delicate point of

1:40:38

the treatment And I don't appreciate being

1:40:40

disturbed, but thank you for your concern

1:40:43

if we could not be disturbed any further I need to drill some

1:40:45

holes in his head, and I don't need anything Knocking

1:40:47

me about thank you Heavens

1:40:52

Yes, mr. Forders you would you like me

1:40:54

to put this other gentleman

1:40:56

back on? Yes, please if

1:40:58

you would all right, please please

1:41:00

get well soon and thank you.

1:41:03

No, I appreciate that I really do

1:41:05

I hope the treatment works I'm sure

1:41:07

my wife will be keen to try

1:41:09

it if it comes in I'm assured

1:41:11

it's very effective Yeah, I'll stop bothering

1:41:13

you now mr. Forders give thank you

1:41:15

Please please enjoy your time at the

1:41:17

bottom of the river at our crime

1:41:19

scene. Thank you Mr.

1:41:24

Barna mr. Barnaby yes, put me back on

1:41:26

is it time to your claw in the

1:41:28

eye? No, no, no claw Billy Not

1:41:32

necessary All

1:41:35

right, well he's he's gone he's climbing off the

1:41:37

boat anyway, so the moments passing for the old

1:41:39

claw in the eye Yeah, don't worry about it.

1:41:41

He's going back off it, but not not now

1:41:44

Going back to his boat. Yeah, don't

1:41:46

keep it literally in your back pocket. You might

1:41:48

spike yourself in the bottom Yeah, okay, well Billy

1:41:50

you know how to handle your you're a claw

1:41:52

owner Anyway,

1:41:55

are we in the right spot now? Are we by the window? Yeah,

1:41:58

you're above the window. Yeah Okay, right.

1:42:01

Okay, let's shine the light in the window and see if we

1:42:04

can see the lay

1:42:06

of the office, how damaged it

1:42:08

is, if there's anything obviously weather

1:42:10

safe would be. Hmm,

1:42:13

let's make this a roll

1:42:16

I think. Okay. I

1:42:19

will study the office. Fixing

1:42:23

the two again. Wow, okay. Yeah,

1:42:26

the light that you shine through

1:42:28

the window illuminates, smashed

1:42:32

up, distinctly

1:42:34

recognisable furnishings. At

1:42:37

this depth, like, you

1:42:40

can't, everything appears sort of monochrome,

1:42:42

kind of, sort of dirty brownish,

1:42:44

bluey colour under the light,

1:42:49

but you can clearly see, Edvard, a

1:42:52

very fancy chair

1:42:54

and some, the corner

1:42:56

of what looks like it was once, was once

1:43:00

a table that you yourself sat

1:43:02

on the other side of. So yeah, this is absolutely the

1:43:04

right room. You cannot

1:43:07

see the safe through this

1:43:09

window, but this

1:43:11

is the right spot. Hmm, okay.

1:43:16

Is the leaf going to be identifiable? Is it going to

1:43:19

have some sort of, you know, adornments

1:43:22

or, you know. The safe will

1:43:24

be obviously a safe, but knowing

1:43:26

Astor, you know, he's a theatrical

1:43:29

idiot, he'll probably be hidden behind a portrait

1:43:31

of himself or something, something along

1:43:33

those lines. Can you see anything like that,

1:43:35

Barnaby? I can do

1:43:37

a survey if you'd like. Have

1:43:40

a look, see what you can

1:43:42

see. That's a six again. Oh

1:43:44

my god. There is a, there is

1:43:46

a portrait

1:43:48

of Astor. In

1:43:52

fact, you know what, let's

1:43:54

say there's just

1:43:56

a big gilded frame.

1:44:00

clearly didn't take much from

1:44:02

the building before he intentionally blew it

1:44:04

up. It appears to have

1:44:07

saved this portrait. All right. But

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you can see where the portrait was.

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Okay I'll just jump onto the flashback

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harpoon gun and I'll fire it

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into the frame and see if we can pull that off the wall. Yeah

1:44:21

cool. One stress for the harpoon

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gun. Yeah

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and I think we'd better

1:44:29

have a role for the

1:44:31

firing of a harpoon as

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well. All right. It's mechanical. Tinkers.

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Fire the three and the three. The harpoon

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darts out and shoots

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into the water. You can't

1:44:48

hear but you can almost sort of feel through

1:44:50

the wire as it

1:44:53

thunkers and sort of connects with the

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picture. And in fact there's a sort of

1:44:58

shiver that goes up the into

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your hands that kind of implies like

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the harpoon struck something metallic. Yeah.

1:45:06

Through the painting. As

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you wheel it in the frame

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is hooked on the you know on

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the harpoon. The frame is probably too

1:45:18

big to like get into the bell

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but you can you know you've

1:45:23

pulled it away you can you know

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get it. Would

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it get out the window? Let's

1:45:29

say yes. Also like

1:45:32

let's say that as you give it a target

1:45:34

kind of comes apart because

1:45:37

it has you know been massively

1:45:39

massively damaged. Yeah. So

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yeah and you can now see clearly where

1:45:44

it was the

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faint metallic shine of an Astor

1:45:49

brand safe. There it is old man.

1:45:51

Check the safe. As

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you're both looking down at the at

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the safe you do see a

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