I'm in the apartment. That stuff all on the floor. Everybody's gone.
I think something went wrong, something went really wrong. Let me help you.
Welcome to the doc this morning. Your eyes will adjust the time.
Hello, and welcome to Table Stories Nocturn. It's not the finale. In
case you were wondering, Yeah, that was I spread the word a little
bit that that's my bad. I thought I didn't know we were gonna do.
Yeah, Yellow, Welcome to season two, Flowers season two back in
time? Yeah? Oh god? But hello, So how is everybody's two
weeks horrible? Horrible? Mine? We're also horrible? Are you just saying
that? It made me feel better about being sick? I hate? Yeah,
I hated everything of my vacation. Yeah, no, you love every
second of it. There was a question. We did have a question,
which is, if you were, if you were, if your main character
was summonable via a ritual, what three ingredients would people use to summon you?
Oh my god, like like the the character of THEO. What three
I would they need in a ritual? Yeah? Actually, I mean,
if we have time, I think both would be interesting. I think it'd
be more interesting to tell us about ourselves. Yeah, let's do that.
Let's spells like, because mine would be like, uh a stripper thong bottle
of a bottle of whiskey and uh like uh like a like a picture of
my mom or something like that that's adorable in your mind. Yeah, I
was just thinking. That's what I was thinking, A thong with it.
It's gonna be intense. But no, all right, all right, Oh
I don't think I have mine, Okay, go for it. Coffee yep,
Wally, dark roast or light roast. I like a medium rope to
be honest. I'm getting this great blend. Actually it's called Zeke's Blend,
which is amazing. Every morning I drink a little Zeke's blend and it's called
the Hippie Blend and it's like a medium and it's delicious, amazing. Media.
You missed us, chat, didn't you? You missed us? Got
kids dying? Okay? So coffee, coffee, Millie and a fat legal
blunt that's what I saw quick, No, okay. So originally I thought
about this for you, and I thought I didn't think of your dog.
I should have thought of your dog. But I thought wheed for sure,
absolutely, And what did I pick? I think I picked like donuts or
something. Oh well, yeah, I mean that's a strong donuts and glazed
donut. If Millie's not available, that's a good second blunt in the in
the scene, does anybody else have their someding items? Mine would be kind
of similar to c K go for it copy for sure, a cat,
preferably one of mine. I'm kind of good with any cat, to be
honest, And I don't know, can can of really clever doblon Entendra be
as an item? Yes? Yes, verbal component yeah, guble component yeah,
play oh ship. I want to change the picture of my mom to
to a cigarette. Okay, Wow, priorities much better with the song beyond
I mean my mom like my mom doesn't describe me, but that does.
I love it. I love it. What about you KPP or Classy pas
or Dan glass probably a glass of scotch, ash of cigarette and a tear
and you just mixed it up and bippy boop. I think that's also applicable
to Brian for the most part. When we talking about our characters, who
are we talking about? We were supposed to be talking about ourselves. That's
pretty real, Dan, No, oh Ship. I was one of like
everyone got really quiet. We're talking to carry Oh god, I'll just go
ahead and delete that private message I was sending you asking if you were okay.
Yeah, we need a or seven holy ship, and I'm okay.
I guess I'll just have to go with my my brand, a mustache hair,
a dog hair, and the cat hair I don't know. I don't
know hairs from myself and animals they're not all right? Oh kpp, what
about you? Can I say something first though, Wait, I'm gonna type
it in the chat, so don't look at the chat, and then you
say your thing, your three things without looking, okay, guessing for her,
I am guessing one of the items, okay. For me, it's
obviously coffee blanket, like a blanket and a leaf or a maple leaf from
falls wondrous. I would have done a Costco membership card. Oh god,
you know if that that could be interchangeable with the blanket, like one or
the other would work. But you have like your teeth set like all set
up up there like we did like that t show, and have a nice
little cup of like tea. Then you drop the ingred incidents kinking thinking king
tea party is important to the ritual as well. Yeah, the tea party
there you go doing it, so everyone's like sipping like Earl Gray, Yeah,
one hundred percent. And like if they have a Costco membership card,
it just its bonus points. It summons me extra gosh I have I am
like, no, I have no idea what mine would be at all.
I know for me, it would definitely be like like a good like eighteen
or twenty one year old whiskey. Yeah, probably Irish over Scotch, but
I love Scotch. I was like, everyone's saying coffee, and I would
say coffee or an energy drink, just whatever has the most caffeine that's been
brewed. I respect it one of those. A light roast, by the
way, light roast has more caffeine does rourns the caffeine. And probably just
because at this point it's synonymous. Just a bow tie would be would be
wise. Yeah, That's what I was gonna say. If I were to
try to summon you, Dan, I would throw a copy of Final Fantasy
nine down a bow tie. And what was the first thing that you mentioned,
Scott Scott, Yeah, whisky whiskey. Yeah. Then I would do
those things to try to sumrout. Yeah, and then I would then would
have cooked in a frying pan. Yeah, there you go cooking. That's
that's true. That's good. That's how that's how the magic works. Gonna
remember, how would you have summoned Zeke? Just tight you talk? I
think, no, no, no, no no no, hang on.
I would maybe I would. I would. I would maybe do like a
burning shirt or something, because I know burning man's really important to him,
So I would definitely do that. And then I would probably do a hammer
for reasons. And the third handcuffs. Those are the three things I would
do to seventh seek. This is a fun game if we're playing it,
Like, what would you do to summon other people? Oh? God,
okay, I want to know about this hammer shit. Well, because of
your stream, it's something I associate with, Yeah, the big like yeah,
thor hammer style. I would use that for sure. Yep, there
we go. That would warhammer. Yes, m hmm. I was gonna
say butt plug. Somebody in chat said butt plugs, but I went for
the safety answer of handcuffs instead. I thought there were chess pieces. I
loved it with us handcuffs of the safe. Al Yeah, people don't sit
on chess pieces normally normally, oh god, how would I summon pacts?
I would do like World's Best Dad mug. Oh, this is fun.
I like this. Okay, World's best dad mug. Then I would do
uh what, oh man? Something else? Two other things laughter, yeah,
I'm trying to think of, like how I could bottle it though a
laugh just a laugh track, Well, I want it. I would probably
do okay, World's Best dad mug. Then I would do the actors guilds,
the two masks that they do, like the sad and the happy that
like the thespian thing. I would do that, and then I believe yeah.
And then the third thing, I would do a fucking film reel,
an old style film reel, and I would put that out. Those are
the three things I would do to some impacts who didn't I do yet because
I'm skipping me to say what I would use to subtle anybody else. I
didn't do Millie yet. Okay, I would totally do a cigarette. I'm
sorry, Millie, but I'm like, I think of that makes me think
of your husky voice and you, I know you smoke, So I would
definitely do a cigarette. I would probably again do something thespian, and I'm
oh, wait, I might not do a thespian. I might do a
microphone instead, and then I would probably do like a good tea blend,
but it would have to be like English breakfast or something. And then I
would do like a lyric. Yeah, and I would do that to summon
you. I don't think I did, kpp Oh, yeah I did.
I did the Costco membership, right, a Costco membership, like a robin
trinket, like a little sculpture of a robin. And the third thing would
be something scary, like a horror or something, and I don't know what
that would be. I'd have to think it would be like lipstick on the
ground and you make the pentagram and then having pugs in like cloak robes sitting
around it's going form. Oh good, that would be there, so fast,
so good, so fucking good. Okay, all right, I think
that was everybody. So where we're gonna We're gonna start the episode. We
don't have a recap because we're actually going back in time, but we wanted
to start with something really special. And I'm going to change the music because
I feel like that's probably not something that should be playing right now. You
wanted to read something, right, Zeke? Yeah? Sure, yeah,
Okay, it's not too long. It's just a fan letter that someone wanted
to post and in the Discord group chat, but it ran out of the
character limit. But here we go. Ten days ago, I watched my
first first ever episode of Nocturne. I was caught up on my other role
play streams that I watched and wanted something eerie with it being October and all,
and he wrote the letter to me asking me to share it with everybody.
So I've been a Zeke fan since his appearance in role Play Blades,
and I figured I would give this show a chance. What harm could it
do? Well? I finished the last episode last night. Doing full time
school work and fitting in an average of ten hours of Nocturne every day was
quite the trip. Sleep was initially given up to allow for more viewtime,
then was given up because I was softly sobbing into my pillow over classy packs
monologues, and then was given up because I felt I wouldn't be able to
go back to being a normal, functioning human until I caught up and there
was no more to watch. Having my first solid sleep in over week,
I can now review that which I've consumed with more rational mind. I'm confidence
saying this is the most I have ever enjoyed a role play show. As
a player, I envy the synergy the cast has. I feel like I've
always had one or two players in my own games that I work really well
with. But to find five people in perfect sync, that's pornal mancer worthy
wet dream right there. As a DM, I felt I was developing more
and more of an inferiority complex watching how masterfully Peb dances back and forth across
the chalk line of I'm the character's biggest fans, and oh, this is
going to fuck them up so hard. As a writer, I admire the
rich world and ambience that Peb has created, and how flawlessly the players execute
their characters and interacted with that world. I'd like to thank Pebe, Amelia
Tyler, Ze, Domestic Dan Cast, Katie kty Peters Plays, and Classic
Packs for all their work and dedication to this show. You guys have made
me laugh, cry, and scream so hard these last ten days. And
while there's no show today, you can bet the next time you guys go
live this was a week ago. The next time you guys go live,
I'm going to be in the chat to experience all those emotions with you in
the moment. Hopefully this gushing isn't ruined by buy too many grammar mistakes.
But for now I'm going to go back into a sleep deprivation induce coma.
Hope to see you guys next week. Can we have the username of this
person? Is that okay? Uh? Yeah, one second, I just
want to see if they're here in the chat. If it's totally cool,
kif LANKI, are you here? Ellie and k I t h what a
beautiful, beautiful letter, unbelievable, so well written. Yeah, well,
shout out to you if you're watching this later, I hope you're you're probably
sleeping Max. That fan fic he wrote was just insanely good. Yeah,
to see k I read it on her show yesterday. You should totally do
audio books if it was better paid. But yeah, that was insane and
it was so lovely to see that moment happened. Do you have that moment
highlighted by chance? Me? Yeah? On your stream? I don't think
I highlighted it, Okay, would you mind? Probably could, yeah,
would you mind dropping a highlight? And then so everybody can go to class
channel and we'll have a highlight there and what I'll probably do is I'll probably
create a link table story tv slash c k Reads fanfic, so you guys
can go yeah, yeah, and it's really really good and yeah, we'd
love for you to check that out. And there's also there's also a couple
get this here amazing Okay. There's also a trance thank you for that gift
sub. Okay, there's also oh yeah, okay, maybe it was just
a gift sub and they're not here, Okay, all right. We also
have a bunch of fan music that was made by a really dedicated Nocturnal who
can't be with us for the last couple of weeks due to some health issues.
So it definitely go check that out in the discord or just join the
discord because we check that all the time and we'd love to interact with you
guys, and the community is really loving, so you can catch us there
when we're not live. But for now, we'll go ahead and dive in.
Now we are going back back in time for the beginning of this episode
to the seventies. It is unclear exactly the year, and we are going
to begin in the woods with a woman and Claire, her daughter Tiffany,
and her husband Earl. And let me see here, hold on, I'm
going to describe what they or actually, would you guys like to describe what
they look like? What do people see when they look at Earl? For
example, we'll start with Earl kind of the traditional cut wrangler jeans, probably
cowboy with underneath, not not just trying to make a cowboy look to it.
That just find some very comfortable flannel shirt with a Rock and Roll t
shirt underneath it. He just kind of buttons up across it. The sleeves
are rolled up, and he's holding in his hand a pump Remington shotgun.
As hair is kind of looks like maybe he doesn't he doesn't really take care
of himself to it, like if he gets strungth the night before and he
gets up is kind of greasy covered hair, so his hair is all kind
of slicked down, kind of a sweaty, shiny look to it, and
overall disposition, he looks tense, tight wound, easily someone that if you
poke it, you're gonna easily agitate him, and that's kind of the overall
disposition. Wonderful. What about Claire his wife. Claire has long, dark
brown hair that stick ironed straight that goes to about her waist. She typically
wears very short mini dresses as were applicable of the time. She likes to
kind of pull a Stevie Nick's look with some chains and some leather here and
there, and a little bit of a hippie vibe. And she wears knee
high boots that are patent leather but a little worn, definitely don't look new.
She always has a cigarette at all times in her hand and kind of
walks with a displaced arrogance a little bit wonderful. And Tiffany, their daughter.
Tiffany is wearing high waisted, very light washed jeans that flare out at
the bottom and a mustard colored T shirt. And her hair is very big.
It's wavy and big, but it's short cuts to her shoulders, and
she has a lot of eye makeup on that she may have saw in a
magazine at some point in time. And she stands up tall and tries to
hold her sel fairy poised. But you can tell that her clothes probably came
from a thrift store and maybe gives off the air of trying a little too
hard. And how old is she? Tiffany is sixteen? Okay, wonderful,
thank you. And you three are in the woods and you've been in
the woods for a couple of hours. Now you're in the woods just outside
of your local town and you're looking for something, Earl, how much longer
are we going to be out here? Soon as we find them, but
we don't even know where we're looking. Tiffany needs rests, have a fucking
rest and sit down for a bit. No, No, it's fine.
I was supposed to babysit them tonight anyway, so it's fine. Just look
for like footprints something anything. There's going to be wrestling footprints. Perhaps a
broken branch as well, Earle, yes, dear, maybe a broken branch,
something along that line. Lovely, why would someone take the kids?
We don't know, darling, none of us know. Really. I'm gonna
start looking on the ground to see if I notice any small footprints or any
footprints of any kind. Yep, go ahead and roll your investigation for me,
or your investigation equivalent. Okay, ninety five, Yeah, you don't
see anything. I'll let you roleplay it out as to why or you know
the drill. It's really I have flashlights or anything. Tiffany, why are
you on the ground. I'm looking for footprints. I'm looking for you.
We just bought those pants like forty fucking bucks. Don't get them dirty,
Okay, realize how hard your father works for the clothes on your back.
I do. I'm sorry. I will wash them. I will put them
through the laundry machine when we get home. I will make sure that the
knees are clean. It's absolutely right, you will. I don't see any
footprints. Let's not pick a direction. Let's just pick a direction and go
that way. Okay. Can we do that? That sounds like an excellent
plan, dear, Let's find them and let's send this okay, can I
I guess? Do I see anything in the distance at all? Looking in
a certain direction? Any think like a maybe someone drops something something kind of
give us anam yep, go ahead and roll in your investigator or a look
or anything that you've got, and we'll see what you got, all right.
I think you see a couple of crushed beer cans, maybe an impromptu
campfire, but nothing that really strikes you as anything other than teens being where
they shouldn't be. I don't think it's what you think. It's nothing that
gives you a clue as to it could be what you're looking for. Well,
there's a campfire here, warm, I'll touch it. It's not warm?
No, I mean there's a bunch of kids party. Want to walk
or away? I could probably do something if you're okay with it, Deer.
You know we can do things without having a a resort to that fucked
up shit. Right, I see you doing nothing but feeling a cold campfire
and looking around in the dark. Honey, Well it's better than doing some
fucked up shit that just messes with shit. I mean, what what are
you gonna do? You're toying with crap that it's just not natural, right?
Can you not say? If? Can you walk away for a second?
Mom and Dad f talk it's yine, Honey. Just just go stand
by a tree and pretend you're looking for a footprints again. Okay, Mom,
I walk over to a tree about thirty feet probably away, and just
like lean against it, but I'm looking around to see if I see anything.
I'll let you roll one more time, but In the meantime, I'm
gonna let these you talk. We've been over this. It's not natural,
it's not right, it's not human. It's fucked up. And look what's
happened because of it. Are two small ones missing natural. Every day police
and search parties go out and find them. There are means that can be
done instead of resorting to that fucking weird voodoo shit. It's not voodoo.
Implying it's a religion is insulting. It's good Christian values. I never claimed
to be a good Christian, and I don't think you have been much of
one either, Honey, let's not pretend to be something we aren't. Still,
they know you have a picture of the girls in your wallet. You
just have to give it to me and turn around. You think you can
control it? M what if it goes to haywire again? Youna live with
that again? M M. I gotta look at it every fucking day.
I gotta look at it every day. Yes, yes, yes, here
I found I found this. Also, I know I can still hear you.
It's there's three. Remember there's three there, the girls and the boy.
Oh right, can give me that? Give me that? Give I'm
gonna give it. It's fine. Can go back to your tree. Okay,
Oh just give me the picture. Can you do it with the that
you know? I need three things? Stop making this difficult. You can
sit out here all night. You're the one to deal without my goddamn permission,
and you're the one that started this entire thing. I don't need your
permission, honey, and my wife you always need my permission. Fine,
fine, go ahead do it. You fuck up. It's not on me.
You live with it, and if we don't find them your way,
you live with it. Deal there. I hand over the picture and put
in your hand. Thank you, Please go away, turn around. I
walk off like thirty feet and just look around at the distance, more just
to tunnel something to look somewhere, not really aimlessly, aimlessly looking in directions.
What are you thinking about as you're looking off? What's wrong? I'm
trying to keep cool because we have something very important to look for right now,
and my wife wants to do something that we're strongly against. That I'm
strongly against, and I'm just trying to keep composure. And I'll start screaming
just in case they're nearby and I don't want them to hear us. All
right, Claire, what should doing? So I'm gonna kneel down by this
campfire, which I'm hoping is relevant. It's not warm, but I don't
really know what else to go off of. We have no footprints or anything.
And I'm going to set the stuffed giraffe on one side of it,
and then I'm gonna set the photograph on the other side of it, Okay,
and I would very much like to roll to use my bullshit. So
those are two items, right, It's two items. So I have to
have something from them, something regarding them, and then something about the environment
they were in, which would be the fireplace nice, okay, the fire
pit, Okay, the fire pit, yeah, okay. It just has
to be like their environment wherever they are, Okay, So like if they
weren't in this timeline, it would not work, Okay, throwing that out
there, go ahead, right, I'm gonna roll. I rolled a twenty
nice? So how does this How does this ability work for Claire? When
Claire receives information properly? What happens? So basically the way can I say
what her magic is? Absolutely? So Claire is involved in what's called gutter
magic. Which is essentially like the softest most accidental, like primal form.
It's like the hedge, which type of magic. Yeah, they're not in
a depth, they don't learn it, No one can teach them it.
It's just like accidental kind of stuff if they think hard enough. But they
basically have to have those three items of whatever they're thinking about. And then
it's called sticky. And so she starts to get sticky fingers and she can
start feeling kind of what they're failing at first. And the effect only lasts
as long as my intention. So the moment I actually find them, I
will no longer be able to feel the sticky fingers. Okay, sticky thing
interesting, Okay, amazing, And just for Lore's sake, so everyone listening
understands, gutter magic is she described hedgwich. It's the basic it's these are
people are still rabbits. They wouldn't be allowed in the Lucky Rabbit. This
isn't really considered magic. This is like the magic people accidentally stumble upon doing
taro or you know, they've got their like crystals out and something works,
and that's gutter magic. But they don't necessarily know why, or they don't
necessarily know how to do it exactly the same way every single time. Okay.
So then your fingers become sticky and wet, and you can smell a
crispy fall leaves where you are, so they must be nearby, but you
can hear. Do you hear when you do this as well? Okay,
it's all fully sensory. Okay, that's what I imagined as well. All
right, So your fingers are getting sticky, and you can smell the crisp
fall air, so they're still here or at least nearby. But you do
hear a distinct creaking sound, kind of like a and then it'll stop,
and then it goes again, and then it'll stop and then it'll go again.
Okay, And it's very rhythmic, this squeak. And then you also
hear distorted tonal sounds that are kind of like what just played by accident.
I definitely didn't mean to do that, although it seems like I did.
Yes, So that just played. You're hearing stuff like that. Okay,
I'm gonna stand up from the items and open my eyes, but they're totally
white, no pupils, no nothing. I'm gonna start to walk towards earl
looking at him with the big white eyes because I have no idea what I'm
hearing, and I'm gonna grab his hands and just start to wipe the sticky
slime on his hands so he can start to feel what I'm feeling. Hear
what I'm hearing. Oh, come on, look, look tis watching.
I've been looking over in the peripherals because I saw my dad move, and
but I don't want them to catch that I'm checking because in the past Dad
gets mad if I so I'm just I'm sneaking glances, but I'm look like
I'm looking off into the forest. Okay, you don't need to roll for
that. You've probably spent your whole life trying to sneak glances or do something
while Dad wasn't looking, So okay, roll plate you go for it,
all right, make it make it quick, make it quick, make it
quick. Hold my hand, hold my hand, hold this, feel it
you hold mine? Well, I'll touch you. I'm gonna grab his forearms
and just slide him down his hands and just wipe all the sticky, disgusting
and grab his hands as hard as possible. Listen, you fucking asshole.
Do you hear that? But I'm listening. Don't hear anything? Yes,
you will both, you will both now hear it if you're trying to focus.
What is that? It's a creaking? Is it like, is there
a windmill around here? Or a mill? Maybe? I have no idea.
Sounds like an old shed door on, like rusty hinges or something.
But it's going at the it's it's rhythmic. Do you hear that something that's
repeating itself over and over? Do you hear those tones? Echoes? Is
that a fan? Are we hearing a fan? A smell? They're in
the woods, smell they're still here. I don't know what that sound is.
I don't know these woods. Why I build a bear or tell what
what the sound is? You can roll if you'd like to try to figure
out, absolutely absolutely, just as well. What was that? You can
roll as well if you'd like six, Oh yeah, you can kind of
hear. Is that a ferris wheel? Is that a what is it that
you're hearing? Did you hear that sounds like an amusement park? Oh?
My god? Is there an amusement park here? There's one about four hours
away, but it's abandoned. Nobody goes there anymore. There's the squeaking ear
Oh, there's nothing like that around here. Do you hear that music?
That's a merry go round? Earh? Come on, I'm sorry, this
is really fucking this is really weird. This is really strange. I oh,
just stop fighting it. It's so boring. Sixteen years and you just
can't. Oh god, it'd be a theme park. Do we have a
theme park? Oh? The nearest one is the four hour drive away.
There's no way they got that far already, good they three four hour drive?
No, no, no, no, no no no. If we
just cut through the force, we can make it there right away. It'd
be a bit of a job. But we're already this deep, Like the
car is way way back there. We could just run. You think that's
it? How would they be at a theme park? All right? You
done with this? Can you let go me? I'm just gonna let oh
of them in my eyes will roll back to normal when so. But until
you find them, you still hear it, I still hear. I hear
everything they hear, and I see everything they hear in my hands are just
like a disgusting okay, until we find them, all right, amazing,
Okay, I'm gonna roll it down my sleeves and wipe the ship off my
hands and just rub it off. Tiffed the air. Yeah, what was
the name of that? Uh a place? Who took you for your sixth
birthday? What was the name of that place? Oh? God, I
think it was Augusta Storytown? Augusta Storytown? Is that? Is that what
you think it is? Did they have a fairs will there? Is that
the one of you could have? I don't remember ever going to anything else
local, not really my scene. If you remember how to get there?
Yeah, there was a field trip a few years ago. We took there
with the school. I don't remember approving that. Did it cost us money?
No, it's it's fine. It didn't cost us anything, Okay,
our dignity, all right, honey. I think we're gonna go further in
the woods. Okay. I did find that stuffed animal. Yeah, if
you could pick that up again, that'd be great. I'll walk over and
pick up the stuff. Did you Could you grab the photograph too? Honey?
I think I dropped it. I'm sorry. Yeah, And I quickly
snap it before she gets it so that she doesn't touch what you've been meddling
with. I got it. Okay, thanks Dad, You're welcome, Honey.
All right, the way, Claire, all right, I'm gonna start
walking off in the direction and just start seeing. I'm gonna start walking in
one direction, the direction we think it is, and see if the sounds
or the sensations get louder. A walk rightside on the walk right beside tiffany
kind of a little bit of a distance behind Mom. Yeah, now smells
there are smells. Mmm. I want to say, like mildew. It
smells like old, old, not not a good environment. You do hear
dogs barking in the background. You kind of hear this creaking now, which
you can sort of visualize is maybe either a swing or something else that might
be turning. But yeah, this is definitely not too far. You guys
can walk here if you want. You've already driven out of town, so
you're not You're not too far. As soon as I start to feel it
getting stronger as we're walking, my eyes are gonna flip back white, and
I'm just gonna start walking very fast with my hands out in front of me,
kind of subconsciously, kind of forgetting that they're behind me, just like
chasing the strength of the because it comes to a point I think with the
powers, it's so strong and so overwhelming her urge to finish it. Yeah,
oka know what I mean, Like it becomes like too much. So
we see we see Claire kind of like, can I ask Claire, do
you exaggerate this at all? Oh? Yeah, absolutely, She's a total
drama queen. She's stomping, and I'm wondering if it was like, you
know, you could do this without you know, maybe your eyes turning white,
but you just kind of roll them back into your head. And I
imagine you like dramatically like stumbling through oh you know, And I just that's
what I envisioned, but I didn't want to say that. The size of
relief and oh, I can't believe this is just yeah, I feel them,
I hear them. Do you hear that? You know? Just very
dramatically. We see Claire stumbling full on ahead into the woods. But I
am curious as to Tiffany and Earl what your reaction is to this, to
Claire stumbling forward and kind of being dramatic. And I try to make I
try to make less of it, like it's just mom is weird. You
know, she likes weird stuff like crystals and candles and and like to go
visit seances and stuff like that. And she's got all these weird things in
her craft and her like little craft corner that's in the living room. Yeah,
do you call it the craft corner? And she's over here like my
magic corner And you're like, no, you're crafts like that. I know
what she's up to, but I try to I try to dumb everything down
for tiff Are you ashamed? Oh? I'm disgusted by I fucking hate it.
And I hate because the world's kind of changing. And I was raised
like where you know, the dad did the job, the mom was a
housewife and obeying and stuff like that, and I got this very rebellious woman.
When I met her, she wasn't so much, but then she got
into this stuff. So I'm just and you don't you don't split in those
days. So it was just like, you're gonna fucking live with this nightmare?
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's the idea. That's the premise.
Okay, and you want Tiffany to Yeah, okay, all right, interesting
and Tiffany, how's your reaction? Mother's very dramatic don't have the best relationships,
so in I minimize it because my dad minimizes it. And I also
go, she's just having another one of her episodes, and I don't want
to antagonize her, okay, anymore than she already is. All right,
wonderful. Do you speak to your dad while she's doing this or do you
just watch him? I'm actually I probably grab can to keep pace. Oh
okay, okay, okay, all right, yeah, so I just grab
his hand and then i'd be holding the stuffed animal to my chest. All
right, listen, Tiftier, mommy's doing one of her weird things again,
and we're just going to go with it to support her freedom. Okay,
okay, so she might do some weird stuff and act a little irrational.
Just kind of nod your head, comply. Can you do that for me,
just so you don't embarrass your mom. Yeah. Yeah, it's like
her art, right, yeah, it's it's yeah, it's like her little
art corner. You don't touch it, right, You don't go in your
mom's stuff, right, No, No, I don't I never Okay,
good, I don't touch any of your mom's stuff. Okay, all right,
that's my that's my good little girl. That's my good little girl.
Yeah, all right, keep paying Okay, Now I'm gonna warn you again,
like but like we did. But if I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna
stop. I'm just gonna keep an eye on Yeah, that's just she's running
away with her. I'm gonna keep an eye on her what she's doing.
But I'm gonna stop. Then I'm gonna take Tiff by the arms and i'm
gonna pour her down to the ground, her knees, and I'm gonna pull
up to my face, like right in the face. Do you remember what
we talked about back at home. Why daddy's got the gun? Yeah,
okay. When I say, remember, remember what I said. What the
word's gonna be your muff? If I say your muff, you're gonna turn
around, You're gonna cover your ears and close your eyes because that's God of
Dad. He's got to do something. Okay, but here the word,
I'll turn around, close my eyes. Yeah. Something bad's happening right now,
and Dad's got to end it. Okay, Okay, I trust you.
Remember remember we talked about this was just a day out with your parents.
We went on a picnic. Okay, it was a picnic. Yeah,
understand that you're my good little girl. Yeah, I'm always your good
little girl. Okay, that's my good little girl. Remember muffs were on
a picnic. Okay, all right, good, all right, let's catch
up to mom. Okay in the baby. Come here, honey, this
is just I can't you know? I just had my hair done, can
you somebody? I look at Dad to see if it's okay to go to
mom for like permission. It's definitely this way. I tighten my hand around
the shotgun grip and I close my eyes. I just yeah, go go,
go go, and I run up to my mom. What do you
need? What were you and your father talking about? Oh, we were
just coming up with a plan for like looking for footprints and looking for you
know, we're not supposed to talk about the plan. No, No,
I mean like looking. Dad was just telling me how to track things,
what things like the kids. I know why we're tracking the kids? Then?
No, I just I know that. I'd oh, Tiffy, baby,
good, that's okay. We're just finding them. Yeah, we're just
finding them. Can you help me with these branches? They're just you're so
much stronger than your mother. I'm gonna probably walk up as they're like,
yeah, they're talking about and I'll start wishing the brands is away. I'll
teck the stuffed animal under my arm and just start lifting things so she has
like a clear path she can walk through and I'm gonna stomp through in my
white patent leather high heeled boots. Thank you, baby, you are a
sweetheart. Nice Where we're gonna switch scenes, so we are now joining three
different individuals. We are joining Susan, Vernon and Francis, and they are
in a what looks like a dark, dank cell for lack of a better
word to describe kind of what it is. It's like a building, looks
like maybe a bomb shelter. There's leaves on the ground, there's one light,
it's like hanging. There's cobwebs everywhere, and can you go ahead and
describe what people see if they were to see Susan. She's very her seventies
housewife, but with an air of somebody who wishes it was still the sixties,
kind of that tussled red hair. Everything's very form fitting. She obviously
is very proud that she has worked out to keep her figure so like trophy,
trophy whitefish style. That's the look she's going for. Okay, if
I think if she has to play the mom role now, she wants to
do it with a bit of style. She wants to make the other mum's
jealous. Okay. And what does she look like right now? Like,
not just looks, but her disposition. She's she's trying to stay calm because
that what she's always done. She was brought up very much to to never
really let on if something's upsetting you, and that you have to be there
to to provide emotional support. So she's flustered but hiding it. Well,
okay, And what do people see when they look at Vernon? I mean
you're looking at it. Man is a child of the era people in the
seventies. Hair, doesn't doesn't like to doesn't like to work hard, but
you know he can. He can do an odd job here and there.
He knows how to knows how to fix a car if it breaks down most
more often than not, Uh enjoys going out, listening to rock and roll
music, the odd beer, maybe a joint here and there, but mostly
he's pretty uh laid back. Okay, And what is his disposition now?
Like it's it's strange for him because it's a tense situation. Okay, feeling
a little more bound up than normal because you know, there's some steaks here
that he's not used to dealing with. Okay, and tell us what we
see when we look at Francis their son muted. Francis is muted. He's
a mute. He doesn't talk. It's the best role I've ever played.
No, Francis is a nineteen year old I guess kid is honestly a good
describer. He still lives at home. He's working as best he can to
try to kind of learn the mechanic stuff from his dad because it can make
decent money, and frankly, that's what Francis wants. He's a little more
fashionable for the time, so he's got his you know, his graphic teas,
his leather jackets, kind of swept back hair and a semi a pretty
clean shaven face and all all is just uh, he's kind of what you
would call the good kid. Like he got straight a's. He ended up
being able to go to prep school on a scholarship just because he's he's always
been like the teacher's pet. He just did really well in class, and
everyone just thought he was a joy to be around, wonderful. And he
looks a little nervous. Yeah, he looks a little nervous. He's he's
doing his best to kind of keep his cool. Not so he doesn't worry
his mom. Does he have a good relationship with his mom. Yeah,
he probably a better relationship with his mom. But he kind of did the
like the whole like as you're growing up, like go check on your dad
when he's out the car, go check go check out what your dad's doing.
Okay. That's when he got the mechanics stuff because of that, and
eventually he actually kind of liked liked that. He liked working with his hands
and getting kind of dirty. Yeah, Vernon like, if you want a
little just a little taste of the backstory, yes I do. I would
love that. Back in the back in the sixties, Vernon was I was
falling the dead around grateful Dead, and that took him all the way to
the Jolly Old England, London town and he found, uh, found a
lady there who was I don't know if we met in the pub de Yeah,
I don't know if we met in the pub or whatever. But she
was the most drop dead gorgeous thing I've ever seen in my life. She
had a long one of those long, thin like Virginia slim cigarettes she was
puffing on. And I asked you if I could borrow one, and she
said there for lady. And I said, well, you know, look
at there, I could, I could pass right, made her laugh,
And now was it wonderful? So we join you now a little bit anxious.
In the bottom of this bunker floor is yours. So what what are
we sorry, PB, what are we like? What do we see like
as far as like in this bunker? Yeah, it's literally maybe some old
tattered wallpaper that has been damaged by water and the elements you see leaves on
the ground, old beer cans, probably beer tops as well. Uh,
it's just a lot of junk and trash down in here. But this is
where you have been grouping to talk. Okay us three, okay, okay,
Francis, Danny, you're right, okay, Yeah, So I'm I'm
all right, honest, I don't really like being in a kind of war
bunker. It's not and it's no idea they're going to get us here.
I think we have to worry about that. No, I don't. I
don't think so I'm doing okay, mo, M Francis, Yeah, come
here, son, but yeah, yeah, I know times are tough right
now, going through a lot of stress. But I guess I just wanted
to ask you are you? I believe in you so I think proud of
the man you become. I think you're strong enough to see this through.
What do you think? You know? I hope, so, Dad,
I just I just hope we can do it. Of course you can.
You're just hungry, aren't you. You're hungry? I mean, unless you've
kind of McDonald's nearby. I'm sure I can find something in my bag and
reach into this leather handbag that I have with me with all the usual mum
things, including tissues and a snack. So you okay, So Susan is
always prepared as well, So you pull out a bundle of like snacks and
you know, tissues and everything for him. So yeah, would you say
you baby Francis a bit oh yes? Oh yeah, okay, okay,
all right, he's still my little boy. At I'm sorry, did you
say you were nineteen years old? Yes? Okay, just checking, all
right? Uh Susan, cue, when was the last time you checked on
them? Oh, it hasn't been alone. But are you sure we shouldn't
all go in there? I'm I mean this seems to be dreadful for them.
I can I can always check on them. I mean I babysat them
for a while, all right, kind to make sure they're comfortable, is
maybe? I mean, look at this place. I mean it's not ideal,
of course. I don't want them to get you know, maybe we
could get the ice cream or something. You know, that's a good idea.
We can go one of the machines working. I know, I'm not
sure. Does that keep I think so probably? I mean we'd have to
leave and come back. I don't know if we should risk it. Yeah,
I guess not. I'm sure it'll be fine. They just need to
get used to it. Yeah, all right, I can go check on
them if you want to come with me, can, But I'm gonna go
check the front door. Okay, sure it's locked, you know, give
a look around. Yeah, okay, all right, Susan, who do
you go with? Sorry? Am I like you like zoom? And I'm
like I'm fighting on zoom and I forget that you have. I keep sliding
you back and forth just because I wanted you to be the same size as
everybody else. I'm so sorry. And then I'm just like sliding as you're
talking, just like that's kind of like he's I'll try and keep it more
in. You're good, you role play and I will I will do it.
I will make you Susan, who do you go with at this moment?
Your son Francis is about to go check something, and Vernon's gonna also
go check something. So who do you join? I'd go with Francis.
Okay, all right, so we're going to actually join Vernon when you go
to check and lock lock some doors, Vernon, where do you go first?
Well, I don't know how many points like of visibility or ingress or
windows or whatever, we have, but I mean I probably check each one
individually, see like just look out, make sure like no one's like driving
up or walking up or whatever. Can now give give a look and a
listen? Okay, can you roll me something with your intelligence for me?
Because I'm assuming you would have made the decision. Yeah, I've got a
too, okay decision my decision. You would have made the decision on where
to bunker down pretty much and trying to stay safe. I have two skills
that might be feasible. I've got notice and leader or actually you know what
notice and conceal like like, yeah, you can use leader, conceal or
or notice. You can use either one of those, whichever one is your
strongest. I'll let you use because those are all applicable. I'll use leader
because it's kind of a catch all. Yeah, and it does make sense
here because you are trying to make the decision on behalf of everybody else.
My skill is twenty five, My mind is eighty, and I roll in
eighty one. Okay, so now roll me a one D three. Okay,
Oh, stupid wrong thing, I got too many keywords. There we
go, three three okay. Vernon. When you first got here, you
thought everyone would be safest inside of a ride called Dante's Inferno. I don't
know why you thought this, but it is a big devil face smiling its
mouth open wide. It has like vampire teeth. His eyes are a bloodshot.
There's graffiti all over him, and you know his mouth is where you
go in. It's like the Tunnel of Love, except it's Dante's scary ride
of Hell in Inferno. So this is where you all went to hunker down,
and the bunker that you all kind of meet up and talk in is
just to the right side of this ride, and that's where you come out.
So you come out of this bunker and if you're going to go check
there, I mean, the mouth is wide open, but there are several
places where you can hide inside that ride. It is very much like a
Tunnel of Love situation where it winds through and you can kind of hide in
an area. Well, I'm assuming there's like like a metal ladder or some
sort of like staircase or something that I can get to like roof like on
top of the attraction, on top of Dante's Well, it's like it's like
the entire attraction is in a gigantic devil face, right, So picturing like
uh, like the big devil face is like a facade, but then behind
it, the roof of the thing starts here, so I can like I
can like peek around the side of the devil face. I don't know if
that's what I'm If that's what you're picturing, I have picture, so m
I have a photo because it is really creepy. Let me just find it.
I didn't download it because I was like, oh, I can just
describe it, but clearly I cannot describe it well enough. But it didn't
look like there was a roof to me, where is this? Why can't
I spind it? Now? Google? Please one second, everybody, I
just want to make sure that this is This is important. They have to
hide here here it is, okay, So it's like a big dome.
I'm going to link the address here for you in the zoom chat so you
can see it, and then I will work on putting it up on the
screen for those who are watching. But I'll try again. It is like
this big dome that you can hide in, and the front of the dome
there is erected a huge like devil face with a mustache and everything, and
then it's got the you know, horns. But there isn't really roof access,
which is probably why you chose this because it's an enclosed space. But
there isn't really a doorway, so the mouth is probably the main place that
you would need to watch and make sure no one was coming in. You
could potentially barricade the side door like the fire escape kind of a door that's
there. Okay, Well, then I'll just do like a perimeter, like
a walk around the perimeter and with my eyes out to see if there's you
know, if I hear or see anything. Okay, I'll probably like I
probably got like a roach that I got in my pocket here. Okay,
I'll probably like take a couple off of that. Okay, And how do
you feel about what just happened? Uh, I'm trying not to think about
it, okay, and that's probably why you're the roach. Okay, got
it? All right? We are going to have a roll before we visit
Francis and Susan, and I need it to be something that's like keeping your
eyes aware of what might be out there, like just a notice skill.
Okay. Notice is fifteen, okay, and my mind is eighty year old
as sixty, so under over. I will let you roleplay this out.
But I think some options might be considering the situation. Maybe you think you
hear something in the woods, like shouting a little far away, I put
the immediately, put the roach on the ground and stomp it out and just
close my eyes and listen. I think you don't hear it again when you
really try to con and trade on it. What do you say? Did
it sound like something sounded like shouting, It sounded like people's bulks. And
I don't know if you because it's a sixty and it's pretty over your skill.
So it's a partial, but it's not a failure. So you did
hear this, but it's up to you if you kind of brush it off
and you're like, well, I'm just being paranoid or whatever. However,
how far is this amusement park away from like civilization? It's about four hours
away from any from the town that you're from, which is I wrote it
down. So there's just like there's just like little dotted like farm there's like
farm places here and there. Yeah. Yeah, that's the way they built
the amusement park was super far out so that they could eventually they had ideas
of expanding it, making its own like fucking Disneyland, but it never got
it never got farther than this, So it's pretty far out. It's about
four hours from your town, and it's probably about twenty minutes from any other
like house or civilization. Okay, then I will, uh, if I
if you'll let me, If you let me, I'll roll conceal to like
cover up my fresh foot. Yes, yes, that kind of summer,
and then head back inside. Okay, absolutely, go ahead and roll and
let's see how well you can seal it. All right, My conceilo is
twenty five, mind is eighty? Okay, I'd say that's I mean,
it's not a straight up success, but it's a partial. So you go
ahead and stamp that out and you hide your tracks as best as you can,
and then you you go back into Dante's mouth. Yep, okay,
and we are going to join Susan and Francis who immediately left and went back
in through into Dante's inferno, the abandoned ride. You're right, darling,
you look a little troubled. It's just it's just all this, mom,
it's a lot. I know we're doing the right thing. Where we are
I know, got to keep telling myself that because it's true. Yeah,
that's a good boy. Which where are we? Where is the room they
were staying in? I hope we had enough blankets. Oh, I think
we were up plenty. I think that all this must be very frightening for
them. Oh yeah, I'm sure it is. And I think you're a
friendly phrase for them and STU. Do you make them feel comfortable? Yes,
yeah, yeah, I'll do what I can. It's got to be
scary for him, so we'll do it. M Yeah. We just need
to keep them calm and make them feel his home how as they can.
Yeah, that's all we can do. Your father, it's just doing okay.
I think it's hard to read sometimes sometimes he doesn't like too. I
think he wants to be a good example for you. Yeah, and once
little of this is over, we can get back to normal. Yeah,
yeah, normal, No more eating out of my handbag. No, well
you always keep snacks. Well, I do what I must. Besides,
once you've been on the road and haven't eaten in two days and you have
to eat whatever you come across. Yeah, I'm glad you got a lot
of the snacks from the gas station. But uh yeah, I mean I
think they were just in this room. Hm. I'm gonna let you pick.
I do have a random table if you'd rather I roll. But inside
this dome there are a bunch of different sections. Obviously, there's like a
there used to be a maze that you would have to walk through to get
to all these different sections where they would scare you. Where do you think
they are? Where would you have holed up? Usually these places have like
an office like room, like oh okay, okay, so you would have
gone straight to the staffer room. You wouldn't have like tried to hide in
an old part of the ride, okay, because they're usually like like like
one of the back rooms a lot of the time are like in the middle
of the ride, like an okay, like that's also an office like the
maintenance people. So probably there, okay, because there might actually be chairs
and like there might have been one. Yeah, okay, the electricity doesn't
really work here, so yeah, if it was snacks, I probably just
would have broken it open earlier. Yeah, it's probably already fired. Yeah,
it's probably already broken open. But there's still like chips and stuff that
you guys can grab, Like this place is for extra stuff. Yeah,
any of those this will fast in my handbag. Okay, amazing, Okay,
all right, France, there are a mints. I'll grab some mints
because we always made mints. Who doesn't need mints? Girls? Girls?
Are you in there? Okay? Francis the guys I walk in Yep,
there is no response, but you can see them. They're like huddled on
the floor. Blankets. That are the blankets we gave them. Yeah,
they are using the blankets. Who's hungry? I pull a couple of the
bags of chips out of my back. One of them says, where's Jack.
Let's Jack's don't care at the moment. He'll be back soon. I'm
sorry. He's just gone off exploring. Well when's he coming back? I'm
not sure, Probably later, probably later today. How are you feeling?
Still scared? Yeah? As your sister. Uh, she's okay, but
she's not talking. Yeah, I know she always was shy. Yeah,
you're being brave though, you're being so brave. Thanks. I'm sorry we
had to run so quick. That's okay. When when can we go home?
Not yet? I think the bad people are still after us. Why
what did we do? You didn't do anything wrong, Nothing was wrong.
You didn't do anything nothing at all. They're just not nice. Okay,
but it's all right. Uncle Vern's out there. He's going to protect us.
We've got food. That's right. Oh, Uncle Vern there he is
there. Hi, just wondering when when when we can go home? I'm
fine to stay. I'm being really tough. But I'm just wondering if that's
if you know, and where's Jack. Jack's just gone off exploring, like
I said, and I shoot Verna luk right, give him an easy ride
on this. But I thought we weren't supposed to go exploring here because of
Tess Tennis. Yeah, we made sure that we we made sure he was
he got good boots on, so because you know, he always liked playing
out in the woods, remember when he and I would go do that when
I'd babysit, And we gave him a very very special job to do,
to go out and find some some chocolate. Maybe you'll come back with that
later more. Didn't you have some oreos? Mom? I think you had
oreos in your back? Very good idea. Her eyes light up. Look
in my bag as I lean over it, lean over to uh, oh
shit, hold on my wife. Yeah, there you go. I lean
over, I lean over to Susie. Susan and I and I say,
like, has the other one started talking yet? Not yet? All right,
He's always been that way. I think I think maybe we need to
try again. I think maybe whatever's mm hmm inhabiting her space is calling to
out. Yeah, here, can I have the oreos. Mom, give
him to the girls there. You can keep his strength up, and we
might give you a special job to do later if you think you can be
as brave as he was. I can be as brave as Jack. Of
course I can. I don't. I don't have to go alone, though,
do I of course? Okay, okay, here though, I got
oreos, and I crouched down next to them both and open the package.
She actually looks to the younger girl first, what do you want some?
First? Do you want some oreos? And the youngest girl is unresponsive.
She won't look up from the ground for her feet. I kneel down next
to her. It'skay, you are right. She flinches away from you.
It's mom, it's all right. And then it kind of like I do
like a motion of like kind of back up a bit. It's all right.
You can just talk with me, or just look look at with me
if you want. You have to eat to keep up your strength. And
it's chocolate. I know you liked oreos. Yeah, it's you know it's
your favorite. And I'll even twist and and and whoever gets the stuffing.
You know, I will do chores for a week if and she's unresponsive.
She she hasn't been talking to me for I don't know an hour now.
She just hasn't said anything at all. Has she been to the bathroom?
No? Okay, well I think maybe that's a good idea. Okay,
I need to make room for lots of lovely oreos, don't you. Well
here, I'll give you the oreos. Okay. You've been watching after your
sister, and thank you so much for doing that. It's been real good
to you. Okay. Well, I I I don't want to leave her,
So can I come to No, I mean you can when you stay.
We just want to check in on you. You can stay here with
the oreos. Okay, Okay, we'll stay here and you'll keep us safe
from the bad people. That's what we're doing, Okay. Uncle vern has
been doing a real good job of making sure that no one, no one
tries to sneak up on us. Okay. And and then we can see
mom and dad after, Yeah you will, you'll see them later. Okay.
Thanks, Uncle Francis. We're so welcome. I'm sorry you've had to
go through this. Thanks. And I put like a kind of do like
the hand on the shoulder and kind of give her a light pease. And
I do the same to her sister as well, but a little like a
little lighter to kind of see how she's doing, Like if she flinches from
me too. She doesn't flinch from you, okay, And like noticing that,
I'm just like, honey, you have to eat, I walk over
and I I sit down beside her, the silent one, a busy bee.
Gotta eat, gotta keep up your strength. She won't look up,
but she will reach out and take an oreo okay, And I'm like I
saw that I'm holding that package and letting her do that. She will you
gotta be strong, like DDI. All right. She doesn't nod or respond,
but she does take the ore and starts to like nibble on it a
little bit. Good, okay, And then DEDI will actually now take an
oreo eat after the and I nod door after doing that. There's I don't
know if the plumbing is still working, but there's an old bathroom just right
next door to hear if you can try to get your sister to go okay,
okay, all right, I will. I'll let her eat first,
okay. And I kind of look at bad and mom, like you should
kind of do you want like you want all of us to go, or
you like I kind of like stand up and like motion us away? Okay,
like family mode. Yeah, okay, okay, it's like go.
I look back at the kids and look almost hurt by the fact that they
didn't want to talk to me, and that make my way out. Okay,
I give like I probably notice your apprehension and give like a little squeezier
hand. Mh you doing so well done? Thanks mom? Oh yes,
sorry you for I was going to switch things. But if you've got something,
I want to know what it is first. Oh yeah, get up
there and are we Are they on our trail Dad? And I think they
might be. I heard something when I was out there and it sounded sounded
like shouting, shouting. They're not close. Maybe I don't know a lot
of people out here this way, but I think we need to speed up
our timetable. Yeah, she seems she seems to like you, the little
one. So how do you feel about talking to her and trying to convince
her to do what we what we said? Because I think that that thing
that's is drawn drawing him to us. It's obviously very hard. I don't
like seeing them like that. No, I can. I can do some
things maybe that'll help you add And I look at you with a knowing look.
I'm like, if you're thinking what I think you're thinking, I got
to we have to just put my hand on your shoulder, just to your
old man a favor and be careful. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll do my best. And now we're gonna switch scenes. Back in
the woods, we join Claire Earl and Tiffany h Earl. I think we're
getting closer, Honey, somewhat you hear it? Do I see anything yet?
Mm hmm let me see it? Go ahead and roll for me seventy
oh god, No, you don't really see anything, but I think I
know that's like a failure. But you are right on top of this old
appendoned amusement park, so you don't see anything, but maybe you stumble into
something. Maybe you hit me into an old ride. I think I was
probably like dramatically, like with my eyes closed, like trying to feel,
and then just walked into something I can't see it, Okay, smacked it?
Yeah, So you smack into like, you know, those stupid rides
that they had that are like those I want to say, pogo sticks,
but they're stuck on the ground and you ride on it and you just go
back and forth, but you totally stumble over one of those and you actually
like fall over it because you're being dramatic and that was a failure. So
absolutely, you run into one of those like load of the ground kids swing
for like rides and you fall over. Okay, hippy baby, Oh my
god, oh my my, look at me. Help your mother, it's
here, mom. Okay, oh gosh, it's very crusted. We've found
it, earl. I told you. Okay, it's pretty we be abandoned
amusement park. Not not what we were expecting. All right, all right,
could you go a little bit ahead of me and just look over there
real quick see if you hear anything. Yeah, I could do that,
thanks, And I'll walk ahead of them, and I'm going to look at
the ground to see if there's anything odd on the ground while I'm go ahead
and roll it for me. Four ah. Yeah. You see what looks
like the remains of a blunt and it looks likesh okay, like a cigarette
or a weed, like a weed blunt and it wasn't finished Okay. Do
I also hear anything? Because my mother explicitly asked if I had hurt to
listen for things, and so I want to make sure before I even mention
anything on the ground that I listen so I can tell her if I hear
anything. You didn't touch her hands though, right, but you were holding
you still have the items that she used in your hands. Da Dad took
the picture. I'm holding the stuffed animal, okay, and I pulled her
from the ground. Okay, do you know whose stuffed animal that is?
Who is this is? This is Busy's, Busy's okay? Oh yeah,
okay, you do hear something. You hear soft crying, and you hear
the voice of d D saying we got to be strong, We gotta be
strong. It's okay, they're not going to get us. Uncle Vern is
going to keep us safe. I'm going to just turn around really quick and
like use my arm to like call them over and like wave it frantically and
then point to where I'm hearing it. As we're rushing over. I'm going
to turn to Earle and you sure you're ready to do what we need to
do. You're acting strange. I've never really killed anyone before. I mean,
it's shocking. Oh, Tiffy, baby, what did you see?
Honey? Can you hear them? Do you touch him? Because I see
you've reached your arm out to him. Yeah, I would reach out and
touch it. Yeah. Yeah. Then then then yes, you can hear
it. You can hear it, earl and it's uh, it's the voice
of d D. I don't know how well you know d D and the
kids, but I assume you. Okay, So it's the voice of a
young girl who's saying, shits gonna be okay. Uncle Verne's gonna keep us
safe. They won't ever find us in here. It's gonna be Yeah,
that's that's that's the girls. There's this on the ground too, And I'll
I'll bend down and you can hear this, Yeah, I don't you.
Mom? Can you hear it too? I think they must be close by.
I'm gonna look Stern and I'm gonna look Stern at my wife. You
let her let her what I grab my I grab my wife. Mom.
Arm let her funk around with this stuff. I didn't funk around with anything.
She picked something up. How do you hear that? I don't know.
I helped mom up. I am how do you give me? I
told you, don't fuck with that. I just stop it. You cannot
yell at her like this, Get off of her, Get off of her,
tippy baby, give me, give me the giraffe, give me.
Thank you. I just to help mom up. And then you did fantastic
and I love you and Daddy loves you. I didn't mean to I did.
I didn't know you did. Just what Mommy said. You looked around
and you heard something, and I'm very proud of you. Do you know
where you heard that things? Maybe? Do I know where I heard it?
At least the direction? You know where it's coming from? Oh,
but they're here. There's somewhere here. I think I was trying to hide.
I just think if I was trying to hide three kids where I put
on put on, I mean, probably somewhere dark and secluded, so probably
not around Well maybe that, and I'm going to point at the creepy clown
cave on the other side, earl. Do you see that? Yeah,
that's just the ride. Why would they put them in a ride that makes
no sense? Maybe they're down by like the snack bar something, or is
there like a snack area. It's usually like a candy corn thing to beat
kids. Why would they write to a snack area? Each of you roll
for me. I'm sorry, I don't know. I'm just trying to think
of well you do to put a kid somewhere and keep them occupied, you
said, Tiffany too, Oh my god. Okay, I will let you
role play that out, because that's amazing. But when you scan the amusement
park, you notice the ferris wheel is running, slowly but running, and
that seems strange to you. Why is that moving? Look electricity, earl.
Although this place has been like woman, Look, it could be a
place we don't know, a surge. No, they shut down power breds
for places like this. Honey. Come on, you're an environmentalist. You
should know that shit. Let's go look at it. Then maybe they're over
there. Maybe it's a joy ride for the little ones. It's just finally
fucking in this. You seem awfully excited about ending this. I just didn't.
I just didn't want to. I know, honey, I know I
don't want to either, all right, Tiffany, sweetie, stay close.
I don't want to knowing with that shit anymore. You understand, don I
don't know what you're talking about. That if you start hearing stuff and you're
touching things and hear voices and stuff, just let go, Tiffy, don't
listen to him. Daddy's he's stressed. I promise I won't do it again.
You're honey. You can't go through life afraid of touching stuffed animals.
Now that's unreasonable. Let's go check out this ferris wheel your father's worried about
and see what's going on. And I'm just going to start to Yeah,
I'm gonna put on I'm gonna pull back the rack of my shotgun. Check
the breach. Okay, Earl, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
He'sn't toward it. Okay. I'm kind of peeking around the corner.
Your dog marking in the background. Peek around the corner. You see the
the ferris wheel is moving oh so slowly, Like you can't tell at first
if it's just the wind that's moving it, or if it is a small
amount of power somehow that is making this thing turn. I walk up to
the ferrest wheel and I just grab one of the rods and see if I
can put resistance against it and stop it, like maybe it's just wind turning
it around. Uh. As you reach your hand out and try to stop
the ferris wheel, you are able to see two small feet behind. Yeah,
two small feet behind on the ground behind where you would couldn't see before
because one of the seats of the ferris wheel was blocking it. So as
you stop it, you stop it, but you see these two feet on
the ground, blue shoes, blue jeans. I look at my wife.
I'll put my finger in my mouth that it'll be quiet. Then to come
here. I walk over what carved by the neck when I put my two
fingers to my eyes and I point directly at the feet. Oh God,
Tiffany, what do you do? I am walking up sheepishly behind you,
just like my arms are crossed, but I'm pretty close behind you. Okay,
I'm gonna I'm gonna back off from the situation. I'm gonna go over
to you and I we're gonna grab you by your shoulders. Okay, we're
getting close that moment, honey. Okay, we're getting close to that moment.
Hey, Okay, it's gonna be some strange things going on, and
I need you to listen and pay attention. Okay, whatever happens next,
right m hmm. Okay, remember your mouth. You see nothing right.
If you see something that doesn't seem right, I mean no immediately, Okay,
Okay, I'll let you know. Okay, okay, now, can
you do me a favor. I need you to stand right here. I
just want you to hold that doll. Okay, okay, all right,
that guy is gonna be right back. Guys is gonna look at something.
Okay, Okay, plant my feet and I'm like hugging the stuffed animal.
You can roll for me eighty nine. Okay, you are hugging that stuffed
animal, and I don't know. I'll let you decide what it is that
stops you from looking where he's walking. But you do not look. You
do not see where he's going, or I mean, you know where he's
going. He's going by the ferris wheel, but you don't see what he's
looking at. I'm gonna walk up. Sorry, No, I'm just so
used to what Dad says goes, So I start sneaking a glance, but
I go no, not now, it's not the time, and I just
stare straight ahead. Okay, I'm gonna walk right by my wife and be
like, go hug your daughter. I'm gonna start creeping through the carrous wheel
chairs going toward it. As I'm going through the seats, I'm guess I'm
starting to unveil and see more. What do I see? Yeah? You
see a young boy about twelve years old, face down on the ground.
He's wearing a blue denim, light blue jean jacket, blue jean pants.
He's got brown hair, and he's wearing blue sneakers and he's holding it looks
like a wild flowers. I walk up to the kid. I look around,
check the area if I see anyone. No. I get down beside
the kid and I feel his neck. I don't I'm not very medically trained.
I feel his neck to see if I can feel anything like, oh,
he's cold. I pull back. Do I see anything like what happened
to him? Was? There is blood on the ground as well. It's
kind of like pooling a little bit. When you get close down to his
neck, you can feel it. Without rolling him over. I don't know
if he would be able to see much more, but maybe he fell.
I don't know. It looks like I mean, he's right next to the
ferris wheel. I'm looking around where he kind of positioned on the ferris wheel,
seeing, yeah, looking to see like exactly why is there by himself?
And I would flip him over to see his face, to get a
recognition of his face to see. But it's one of the kids. It
is one of the kids. It's Jack. And his eyes are open wide
and surprised. His jaw is broken, so his mouth is abnormally long,
and there's blood that came out of his mouth. It looks like his windpipe
was crushed and the side of his face was pushed apart. It is the
most horrific thing you've ever seen, a child's broken face and body. I
quickly dropped the kid back down, like his face planted down. I stand
up. I look back at my wife and I'm looking at the ground and
facing her, and I just topped my head holding Tiff facing pearl and TIFFs
facing this way, just staring. If you're muted, sorry, can you
hear me? Yea, no, I'm just shaking in my mom's arms.
I'm gonna walk back over. It's one of them. It's the little one.
The kid makes our job easier, doesn't it. And that's where we're
gonna take our break. Oh god, damn PB Like, ma'am, I'm
not I'm not ever coming to you if I need like my day brightened or
anything like that. What you guys are on fire. But yes, we
are going to take a short break. Do you know what's going on theory
craft in the chat? Please? Yeah, So take a break, stretch
your legs, figure out trying to figure out this puzzle, and then we'll
be back in a couple of minutes. If you have a Twitch Prime and
you haven't considered using it, or you haven't used it yet, please consider
I can speak using it on one of these fabulous role players. Please please,
please, please please It would make my heart sing. And also I
know she doesn't want me to say this, but c K is in the
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there is an Amazon wish list that we will be linking here in the
chat. I'm sure one of her mods is going to link it. She
has no idea that I'm asking that, so she's probably gonna murder me on
break, but there it is, there it is. And then the second
thing is that Millie won an award. Millie, I would if you can
spare just a second to tell us about that. I would love to hear
about it, and I'd love to share the link in chat. Well,
this is kind of a weird thing because the game won an award for best
Performance. So well, but it's your performance, yeah, kind of sort
of. Yeah, The Occupation a game that I played the lead role of
Scarlet in one best Performer. No shit, it did. I played that
game. It's great, You're great in it. Oh my god, yes
it did. Yeah. That won best Performance indicated in LA last week.
So yay, go, okay, yay, amazing. I have the link.
Okay, perfect. So the links are going to be posted in chat.
Those listening to the MP three version of the show, don't worry.
There will be something listed in the description. And yeah, we're going to
take a quick break and we'll be back. Wash your pist mittens without a
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Thank you so much for waiting. Hope everybody had a good break. Make
sure to Oh I'm live. Did I say anything? No? Did I
spil did I spoil the beans? Oh? We were just talking about Oh,
we were talking and then I said, you guys have to fill packs
in Okay, okay, So here's what happened. Packs had to go real
quick. So he was actually away from his house for the ten minutes that
we were gone. That's why the break was so long. So okay,
we are back now, and we are joining Claire, Tiffany and Earl Uh
at the ferris wheel. Well, actually we're joining Earl at the ferris wheel,
right, and Tiffany and Claire are holding each other after that. Oh,
I came back to them. I came back. Oh that's right,
and you said it was one of them. Sorry, my bad? All
right, go ahead, makes it easies. It's no time for fucking jokes.
It's not a joke. What is it? Nothing, baby, that's
fine. Daddy found out why the stairs wheel was moving. It bad,
not at all. It's fine. It just helps us find them better,
right, Earl? Yeah? M Do you then, do you often call
your dad by his first name, Tiffany? Or is this weird? Do
I call him by yeah? Because did you just said Earl? Right?
I haven't. I wasn't talking. Oh that was me. Oh geez,
I swear to god, I thought you said it. Ok Okay, okay,
okay, all right, I'm sorry. I was watching you too.
Okay, all right, did I say it? And like now I don't
remember? No, I swear to God your mouth moved. I'm having some
dissociation here, but okay, all right, go on, my bad.
No, I don't call my dad his first name. Okay, you say
dad. You've been saying it the whole time, so I was confused.
Sorry my dad? Sorry? Kids do go through that face? Yeah?
They do. I'd pull away from mom since Dad's back over here now,
so I'm just gonna like smooth my shirt off and stuff and look around.
Anythink good, sweetie? Yeah I am. I mean, we gotta find
them. It's late. I mean, why would someone take them? They're
really young? How would they take them here? I don't know. Claire.
Time we find the kids and stop worrying about why and finish we came
here to do, honey. Uh Claire, Yes, dear, do you
think you're magic? Can find the rest? If you touch? Only?
Can you go? Try? Uh? Huh? Can I borrow the picture
again? Reached in to mind chest pocket on my shirt. I give it
over to her. I'm gonna snap it kind of quick, thanks, and
walk over to the ferris wheel. Tiffy Baby, just stay there for a
minute. Okay, I'm just gonna check out what shorted this out for a
second. Okay. I'm gonna swagger my normal walk most the way there and
then slow down and start to as I get closer, get a little tentative,
and I'm gonna start to think about exactly what I need to what I'm
looking for. I'm looking for the other two kids, but I also kind
of want to know what happened here. Oh okay, and you're are you
using the same items exactly? No, I will not be using the giraffe
this time. I'm gonna be using the body, the picture, and then
the ferris wheel. Okay, all right, go ahead and roll. That's
my bullshit. I rolled a fifty seven in my status sixty five. Ooh,
okay, so this is the sixth US but kind of just by the
skin of your teeth. So your fingers get sticky and hot, like you
feel flushed. You know, your heart starts pumping and racing a little bit.
Ah, maybe your breath catches in your throat. You feel like you
have something that you have to do, ah, and you feel uncomfortable.
You feel are you afraid of heights, Claire? Yes, then absolutely.
You feel that flip of your stomach that you get when you look over and
you see something, You see the ground from being super high up, you
get that same feeling, and then you feel surprised and you feel like you're
falling. It is your worst nightmare, and then you feel the impact as
you hit the ground. Fuck, my hands are gonna start to get increasingly
sweaty as I feel that dead stop of feeling. She's gonna sit up straight
and start to think really hard about the girls and see if they've met the
same fate or if they're around You're not again, Yeah, I was gonna
say, you're not really an adept. So this is gut her magic and
it's like hit or miss a lot of the time. And you're not using
the same elements for the girls. So what are you using differently to try
to find them? Is there anything on the body? Can I search anything?
You're gonna search him, okay? I mean there's this denim jacket,
there's this shoes. When you search him, are you flipping him over or
are you I'm going to look under him and feel through his pockets and stuff.
Pretty senselessly just start scrambling all over him, looking for something that can
be related to the girls. I need to know how earl and Earl reacts
to this. I know you're not like right there, but aren't you still
nearby? Like yeah, we're kind of watching him far but can't really see
the details. Like I imagine Tiffany's not allowed to look and you're standing there,
but you can still see what she's doing. Do you have a reaction
to her just starting to rifle through this kid's clothes? Yeah, I try
to figure out a way like to occupy Tiffany's time or focus in case you
wanted to look at it. So I started to trying to spark up small
conversation with my daughter, which I never do, Like I don't like,
you know, I protect over, but I don't really small talk with her.
He's a girl, and I just don't like, yeah, you're like
periods. I don't want to know about that, exactly, mother, Okay,
yeah, all right, yeah exactly. So what do you what is
this sixth What is a sixteen year old girl to eat? I think it's
weird that he's talking to me this way, and I don't know, I
go to school now work a dairy queen. I do my homework. You
like school, It's fine. I mean I like English. It's good learning
English. I kind of like scrunch a little bit because I like, that's
just a weird thing to say. But I'm just trying to occupy her.
Yeah, mss Brier. She's a good teacher. She I think she picks
some of the best things to read. How's the a job at DQ?
It's fine. I mean I don't really like I don't know. I'm not
good at swirling the ice cream cones, but I'm trying to get better at
it. Ice what's the dec it's the it's like the dairy queen down the
road, like they say ice cream and oh that ice cream shop? Yeah,
oh okay, I've only been there for a few months. Oh did
mom not tell you? Maybe? Uh yeah, yeah, I'm lying.
Yeah she I remember now, Yeah, she was telling me something about you
again, A part time job, pulling your weight. Mhmm something like that
is everything? Okay, that is good. That is good. Just a
little stressed out. Were you gonna? I hope? So? I do
you hope? So? Did you know them? Well? Yeah, babysit
them every now and then, you babysit. Yeah them. I mean I
can earn a little extra cash doing it. Like we Jack's a little older,
so we can sit down and play board games, and the girls usually
play with their dolls. There's another kid that they have babysit too, so
it's kind of like one of us usually helps them out. They go on
a date night or something like that. Huh. I just came to the
realization that I know nothing about my daughter, absolutely nothing. Oh, well,
you're growing up fast. Yeah. I've been looking at colleges. Ooh,
school counselor is tell him I should start looking at my options and what
I want to do. I might do what you do. Uh, I
don't know about that environmental work is. Yeah, it was an easy job
to get into. He didn't really require any education for it. You just
gotta think about wildlife. It pays the bills. What would you want me
to do? Oh? I heard that like those flight attendant ladies do pretty
good. You get to wear a pretty dress and give out coffees. I
heard they get paid pretty well. Yeah, I guess I could look into
that. Maybe I shouldn't go to college. I mean, there's other options.
I think the the travel of the World. I think that's where we're
gonna switch. That is some tragedy there. Okay, look, you're gonna
set off the go ex alart. No, all right, we're gonna we're
gonna switch and we're joining Susan Vernon and Francis take it away. So I'm
gonna do my thing so we can maybe see it. I don't know,
talk to it. That might help. All right, Well, we'll be
in the next room. Few get in trouble, need a hand whatever.
Yeah, so Mom, do you I need something of his? All right?
Are you sure this is a good idea? This whole thing isn't a
good idea, Mom, but we have to I look at them and you'll
fine with this. What choice do we have. We've tried other methods and
yeah, that has worked yet. Okay, if you think it will help.
Uh, I'll look in my handbag and take out a little a little
toy soldier. Okay, hand it to Francis. That'll do. Okay,
Uh, I got some dirt from under the ferris wheel this, Francis,
did you look at Jack? Yeah? Okay, all right, so you
have your two items I heard, Yeah, it has to be for me.
Yeah, okay, And what was that? I pull out a pen
knife and you're gonna pick my finger? Yep, that's very strong. Okay.
I see him do that, and I put my arm around you.
Let him do his thing. Be careful. Mm hmm. Magic moment's not
careful. I look, I look at Francis and I just like give him
a look like why would you say something like that. It's already worried enough.
Goddamn dude. But I'd put my arm around her and I if you
come with me, we'll leave the room. Okay, okay. And before
I go to Francis and his gutter magic, I want to know what Vernon
and Susan talk about. For just a minute. I didn't know you kept
that toy. Mm hmm. I just wanted to remember. I suppose it
was so small. It's not fair. It's not fair. I remember,
remember why we're doing what we're doing? H No, how did he go?
No pain? Right? H quick? Mm hmm. You like the
the view out there? I suppose that you got to see something beautiful before
you went. I hope this is worth it, of course it is.
Yeah, you remember I remember everything we've seen. Yes, this is important,
I remember, and I reach in my pocket and I take out a
newspaper clipping and it's some like science fiction day like way in the future.
And what does that say? It says local resta saves Catka. Can I
look at it again? Put it back in my pocket once sold, this
is over. Maybe we should take a trip, maybe go back to that
bar in Camden, Kay, and put my hand on his cheek. You
with me, like I said in Jolly old London Town. So the goddamn
stars burn out? All seems so much easier, Batman, didn't it that?
It did? All right? Now we switched to Francis. You're muted
again, Francis. Sorry I clicked at that time, but it stayed muted.
Okay, sorry, fair enough. See I'm sitting outside. I like,
I walk down to the room that they're staying at, but don't go
in the room just yet, and kind of plant myself right outside, kind
of like the walkway I'm imagining, Like the office is kind of off one
of the sides of the track. Yeah, let's actually say it's off one
of the sides of the track. And for those who can look at the
photo, you can see that you know, Dante's big mouth and his crazy
devil teeth and vampire teeth are the entrance to this thing. But off on
the side, on the left hand side of the dome or the right hand
side of the dome, there is a looks like an emergency exit. So
I'm gonna assume that the office is actually like either right there or right near
there. Right, We'll say it's close to that exit because obviously if there
was a fire and people needed to leave, then they would go through that
side door rather than through an office. So the office is right next to
there. So yeah, I'm in that hallway area, kind of in the
emergency exit hall. And yeah, before going in, kind of plant myself,
kind of cross my legs while sitting down, set the toy soldier in
front of me, and take out my little baggy of dirt and kind of
sprinkle it around the entire thing and over the doll or the toy, and
then squeeze my finger that I pricked so the blood would drip directly onto the
doll. Okay, and have you done magic like this before, Francis,
Yes, Do your parents know you do magic like this? Dad knows,
he caught me once. Mm. Mom, does not. Okay, mom
is she? She? She doesn't know exactly. I think I think Dad
told her, and that's probably why she didn't completely freak out, but flinched
when I did it, all right, and maybe didn't believe him. So
after getting the this dirt and blood covered toy, uh, I basically like
press on it with my will because it's it's gut her magic. There's no
real rhyme or reason to this. It's all about intention and desire and what
you're willing more than it is like inherent magical ability. So I'm pushing on
this so I can see and or communicate with Jack. With Jack, Okay,
you you need to roll, first of all, and second of all,
I'm going to ask you a tough question. You babysit the kids a
lot, right. Eighty one? That's eighty one, okay, that's it
wasn't a role for your magic yet. So this eighty one tells me you
need to tell me a memory that you have babysitting Jack and playing with this
toy soldier, because I can't imagine this is easy for Francis. No,
Francis is an only child, and he always liked these kids. He never
really got along with a lot of the kids his age. He either got
along with adults or just he liked being a kid. Again. He was
always, again, like the kind of the model student. So because of
that, he was just viewed as like, oh, you're just a good
boy and all that, and you're perfect, and no one wanted to really
hang out with him. So it was a lot of I just get to
relax and not think of the fact that I'm trying to get into college and
I have to keep up my grades and pass tests and everything. So I
just get to hang out with a kid that just wants to be pure and
enjoy life. So he very much looked up to me. It was one
of those like, I mean, he was like two or three, and
you know, the whole like he was I was Uncle Francis. I was
the man he wanted to be when he grew up, which you know,
for a kid, there's I just want to be you when I grew up.
I want to be a fireman, I want to be uncle, uncle
whoever. And that was kind of how he talked with me. There's a
lot of familial love. Okay, now roll for your gutter Magic seventy eight.
Okay, ooh, and you're trying to talk to Jack see or and
or talk to him, be able to communicate, see and communicate. I
should say, okay, so this is very close to a failure, right
your gutter magic and your stat your governing sat. I hear your governing set
is seventy. So it's just over a failure. So I will say that
for a moment, I think you've I think you feel kind of a goose
You get goosebumps first, yeah, and then maybe you feel kind of cold
sweat breakout the room. The lights in the room because you've managed, you
guys have managed to have a little bit of electricity with a couple of backup
generators, but not much. And you turn it off for a while and
then turn it back on. But they're on right now. So these lights
flicker a little bit, and you know it's not because of the low electricity.
And I think you hear something because you can't see or communicate, but
you do hear something. Maybe I think it sounds like breathing and it's over
your shoulder, like over your left shoulder. I'll protect her, protect them.
I don't like it either, And I think I know what we can
do to save them both. It's gonna be okay, trust me. It
starts to fade away and echo kind of and then you can't hear it anymore,
kind of shiver and get up and grab the toy and wipe it off
and put it in my pocket. Okay. It is at this moment that
somebody bursts through the side door to the Dante's Inferno ride. It is a
tall man you do not recognize, I don't think, and he is wearing
a floral shirt, and he's holding a shotgun. More importantly, your eyes
are drawn to the shotgun. There is a woman behind him and a girl
you do recognize, although not that well. You recognize Tiffany uh. And
I dashed into the room where the girls are in. Girl, did did
you see that? That's the boy he helps watch the kids. Pause for
a second. Yep, they busted in the room. So the room where
Francis is, Yes, it's not where the kids are, it's the hallway
to the emergency exit. OKAYO is off the side. Okay, okay,
yeah, okay, And you all were like around missed that. So we
don't see them yet. You see them yet? Just he does. But
I'm sure he's about to tell you. Yeah, I apologize, So,
like I dash into where the girls are? We that was? Was that
where they were my parents? Or did they go somewhere else? I think
they just went around the corner, right, like, I'm assuming they're still
near where the girls are. They're yeah, so they're on the way maybe
to the girls, so you can okay, we'd be going straight for the
guess, so I run, I run through it. If I see them,
it's like, they're here. They're here, They're here, They're here,
they're here, they're here. We got to get to the girls now,
now, all right, I run straight? Yeah, me too.
I I probably have like a little thirty eight special yeah, in like the
back of my belt, So I take that out. I'll crouch down next
to them and in front of the one that's responsive, the one that didn't
flint. Okay, right by the doorway. Watch about I talked earlier about
you're going to have to be brave. Yes, do a very very important
job to do. All right, Okay, bad people are here. Be
brave. Okay, stay close to your sister. Don't come around the corner.
Don't come around the corner. Hands please, please, I wasn't there
to use it. Be fine, Dad, who's out there? Where's Jack?
Speak up right now? I recognized one of them was cower back into
a corner as far away from the entrance as possible. And I've got both
girls around the shoulders. Tiffany, I think she sometimes watched the girls.
It works with the dairy queen. I don't recognize the other two. Maybe
her parents, maybe someone else. Yeah, you give me the give me
the watch. What do you need to watch for? Maybe? Do you
think it's going to be fine? And I just like I handed I handed
over to you, like don't I don't even look at you. I hand
it over to you, and I I I just have my gun trained,
like, don't use that unless you know what you're doing, because unpredictable.
I got it and I put it like in a pocket in my coat and
just look at me. Can you breathe, Susan, You'll be fine,
You'll be fine. Sound off. I'm serious. We know you're under open
the door. You got nowhere to go. Uncle Lenn's going to make the
mosty people go bath. So are you guys at the at the door of
this room? Yeah? Yeah, okay, okay, So you can probably
shout through the door if you want, but they can't stay. There's no
like glass or anything. You're inside this like security office or this manager?
What maintenance office? Yeah? Who is it? Who's there? We know
you're in there, we know you have the court opened the door. Tell
me your goddamn name, or I swear to God, I start shooting.
I'll say nothing that I know them. Maybe I should just say something.
I know the girls. Tiffy, all right, do it. I'm keeping
in behind me though, Tiffy, is that you? It's me? I
have I found. I found busy stuff, the animal you you you found?
Harley? Did did you manage to sip me? Did you manage to
calm this down? I don't understand. I don't understand why toy was not
yet? Mom, we could come. We're just looking for this, didn't
you didn't get it done? Francis, No, not yet any more time?
Well, we don't have time. I don't know. And I'm not
saying this loud enough. So the door through the door, I'm just like
loud whispering Jim. We don't have time to make it. Make time now?
Then I'm to get them to open the door. I'm gonna grab the
shotguns so the butts out first. Instintiff Any, Baby, she's fine,
She's not a bad guy. I ever heard that kid's fucking mouth? Now
I have I have a animal I can bring. I could just bring it.
I'm sure it'll help them feel better. Are you doing, Tiffy?
Who's with you? Tiffy? My parents? I had them to come with
me because I was scared. Fine, Why why are you here? Baby?
Sit them tonight? I know that's not true. Why are you here?
I swear I was supposed to make me sit them tonight? And I
look at my dad with my eyes really wide, lean into it. Tell
them I can stop this. Uh, we can stop this. You can
stop this. We've pried. You can't. We've seen it from every angle.
This happens, and this has happen. All of this is gonna stop.
There's that said. We can talk together. I can. I can't
give Busy her stuffed animal. I know you want to. You're armed.
We saw the gun. I saw the gun. Well, there's no talking
with that. It's just for protection. It's just for protection. We were
out in the woods by ourselves. That's not you see you know, you
know what this is, Dom, it's just you coming in. I don't
really know what's going on. It'll just be me. I I just I'm
just out here. You got this, baby, You got this, honey.
You said you can, You said you can fix it. How do
you how do you plan on doing that? I look at my dad because
he's the one who told me to say that. Don't finkes that. You
know, there's only one way that this has happened. Let me just bring
up her stuffed animal. Let me just give her that. That's not a
good idea, Tiffany, Frances, come on, you know me. I
know I'm not a bad person. Neither are we just look at man a
little bit of a tiffy. Yeah, you say your parents are out there
with you. Yeah, it's just it's it's my mom and dad. Can
you promise me it'll only be you to come in? Yeah? I look
at I look at Francis. I look at right and Francis. What are
you doing? Frances? You know how much she loves this seg put my
hand on the door handle, just waiting for it to fill. A move
if you try anything and it's not Tiffany and I motioned I motioned to vern,
I put my gun directly on the children. He will shoot you.
Back away from the door, and I gave him next to uh, Susan,
do you know why we're here? Then you know he'll do it.
Don't do anything, stupid, Tiffany. Only you hold on. Hold on
a second. And I put my hand on my dad's hand and I look
at him. It's going on. Everything's gonna be fine, on it.
Everything's gonna be fine. Let me just go in. That's what I want.
That's what i want. That's what I want. Dad's gotta stop them,
he's gotta stop them. Just let me go in first. Give her
her doll please, Okay, all right, just just keep the door okay,
And I'll see if my dad will let me move his hand off the
door handle, gently pull it back, and I lean up against the side
of the wall edging beside the door, and I'll step kind of yeah,
I'll step in front of him and put my hand on the door handle.
Okay, it's it's just gonna be me. Okay, I'm going to open
it a crack. You're gonna slip in, and then I'm gonna shut the
door behind you. Okay, okay. And then I'm I'm gonna shut the
door and it's going to be wedged. If I feel it move, I'm
going to tell my dad to shoot. Don't. I'll be watching. I
don't know what's going on. Just it doesn't. Let's all just put our
guns down. How about that? The girls are both crying now because a
gun is pointed at them. The kids crying, well, yeah, but
he says I'm going to shoot them, so I mean they have ears,
so yeah, but there's still way. Have a Claire to come closer.
You ready, Yeah, I'm here, I'm right here. I'm right here,
okay. And so like I crack the door. I'm like behind the
door, and I open it just enough for like a small girl to fit
through, and like have my foot wedged against it so it can't be shoved
easily. Okay, And I slide through on the side, but I'm leading
with the draft doll okay, okay, And the moment her like shoulder is
through, I shut the door and keep my foot wedged. Okay. I
just want to check first, earl. Do you try to break through the
door when she gets through? Or do you let this happen? Do I
see through the crack of the door. While this is happening, you see
through the crack of the door. Roll for it. We gotta have you
for it. Yeah, okay, what needs your ye did you bring the
I was meeted for a second, guys. I know I was muted because
there was a huge siren going by. So okay, you do see.
Uh you see a woman down on the floor, red hair, long red
hair, she looks her makeup's very well done. She is holding the girls.
They are crying and huddling up against her. And that that is what
you see very briefly before you can cross the threshold the distance, right,
Yeah, that's like in the room. That's like what you see as she's
able to open the door, you can see that, and then that's uh
I see Do I see the Sun's hand at the door handle? No?
Yeah, yeah, I imagine he just opened it this way and let her
through. Yeah. Oh so like I can never see his hand coming across
the opening the grab the door. Yeah, it goes in. Yeah,
so he just slams it. Yeah, so it opens just enough that you
can kind of see inside, and then and then he he's gonna try to
slam it. So it's up to you. Do you try to shove the
door open when Tiffany goes through or not? Because if so, I'm going
to have you contest roles. So is there an angle though? Do we
we can't or can we see each other? There's no way, there's no
way. Hell, I'm gonna let my daughter go into this room alone in
the yeah, okay, okay? And vern I imagined you were behind the
door near Francis, pointing the gun at the girls right so that he can't
get see you once the door is open. Well, that's always wanting because
he can see He said he could see the kids and and Susan, yes,
because she's on the floor right. It's not a super huge office room,
So I imagine you positioned yourself safely behind the door. But why don't
we go around and actually say where everyone is right now? Because this might
matter here if we're gonna bust down doors. So, Vernon, where are
you? I'm standing over like, standing over the children, generally aimed at
their direction. Okay, Then in that case, Earl, you also see
that you see that he has the gun point and directly at the children.
If he's standing right, I am not looking at the kids. I am
looking at the crack in the door. So so then you make eye contact,
guys, Yeah, you make eye contact, okay, And I look
at him and I just shake my head like, don't fucking do it,
man, okay. And then Susan, we know you were on the floor
right next to him in line of sight of the door holding the two kids,
the two girls. Francis, you are behind the door and you are
opening it just enough for Tiffany to go through the doors opening to the inside
of the room. Claire, where are you. I'm standing behind Earl probably
with my hands on his shoulder, just glaring in the door, ready to
go in. Okay, he's got his shotgun, so I can't imagine that
you would be able to like safely put your hands on him, because he's
like it seems like he's prepped and ready to like argin like looking you're in
so you're looking, okay, So then you see this as well. You
see Vernon, you see Susan and the girls, but you don't see Francis,
okay, but you do see the gun pointed at the kids. So
Earl, do you try to shove the door open or I try to put
my foot to stop the door from shutting, and I grab my daughter's hand.
Okay, so my hand is now in between the door the friends,
and it's like probably just a small crack, just enough to like fit her
hand. Yeah yeah, And then like after that, like the door hits
the foot. Sound all you just hear is click click, Tiffany, please,
Dad, just let go. It's gonna be fine. Just we're not
gonna hurt her. Oh don't I expect us to allow our daughter to walk
into a room with a man pointing a gun at some children's heads. Not
her, It's not any of us. Brier is the keystone. Without her,
this all falls down. Once these children are gone, we avert the
end of everything. You're speaking crazy. There are other ways to go about
this? What ways? What there has to be something? Can I feel
that he does in the same magic as me? No, this is gutter
magic. It's not really It's like, okay, it's like it's trash magic.
Yeaheah, there's no way. Yeah, I'm just saying there are other
ways. You might not understand that we can go about this. You don't
need to go murdering children. You don't know, You don't know none of
us knowing there. I've been to the future and back and I've seen every
possible outcome that that I that any person can see. Wait stop, you
went to the future. How you know how? Uh, Claire? You
can roll for me if you'd like, I'd love to. I rolled a
five? Ooh okay without without hesitation. You know you've heard of this a
certain watchmaker. Do I know this watchmaker? Or no of him? Do
I know names? Well? Yes you do, and you are close friends
with his son. So you're saying, why are you holding a gun when
you're holding the answer in your stupid fucking head, You fucking piece of ship.
Why don't look what you did? I've used it. So I used
it, and used it and used it searching for another way. The only
way is to stop the anomaly right here where it begins with these children.
Doesn't have to begin right now time. It has always existed. It just
needed people to conceive of it. It's not a linear line like you're thinking.
You're right about that. We could what it is, though, we
can move one. It's what I'm saying is a cross know someone that can
do this, a crossroads where all timelines meet and all timelines end. I'm
just waiting to see what the minute Vernon moves the gunway from the kids.
What about if a timeline jumps. Okay, then Vernon, I need you
to roll three times for me, and then every couple a minute of dialogue,
you're gonna roll again to see if you fumbled again or if you wave
it at all. Fumble, but if you just like relax in your if
you waver at all, Yeah, let's see. Uh, let's roll against.
Let's roll against struggle about yep, Okay, I will take that.
You can also use a mind skill if you have something that is like even
your leader or determination or something of because this is some will power for you
to do this, because you know these kids. Okay, let's see here.
I don't know. I think maybe maybe leader would be the right one.
You could do leader, because I would allow that you are trying to
stick to your guns and control the situation. So yeah, think you're guns.
Yeah, so leader is twenty five, mindus eighty. Let's roll ninety
seven, twenty four and eighty seven to fail. Okay, So then yeah,
we'll say, since the dialogue's already happened, I want that dialog to
happen, but go ahead and roll play out a moment where you do maybe
lose your guard for just a second and ear can have an opportunity. I
honestly like, let me let me think. I think I probably like.
And as I'm talking about the timelines and them converging and stuff, I'm thinking
about all the spots that the watch let me like or the all the yeah,
all the times that the watch let me see play out, and every
single one like goes towards the same ending, and and what ending is that?
As I do that, I like, I point at the end.
The ending is the end, like the end of everything. Yeah, everything
crumbles and stuff like that. And as I say that, I I point
the gun like as like you know, like absluindly as my finger at Tiffany,
and I'm like, you don't know, you haven't been there. I
have. I look at Francis. It's just true. Do you are you
okay with this? And I step away from the door and like walk in
front, like in between my dad's gun and Tiffany. Okay. So as
Vernon waves the gun, yeah, you feel the pressure come off the door.
Vernon absentindly waves the gun towards Tiffany, your daughter. So I'm gonna
assume that's the moment through the door into the side, and I'm gonna pull
up my shock and I'm gonna gime it right at his fucking face. Okay,
hold it down now. So I've like I'm right next to Tiffany.
Then yes, I'm gonna behind the grab you, Francis. I'm gonna grab
you and have the barrel over your shoulder. Okay. So Vernon and Francis
are sorry. Vernon and Earl are right next to each other now, Susan,
you are still on the floor. The girls are screaming and crying and
they can hear the yelling. Francis and Tiffany are kind of tucked behind the
door because Earl just burst in. And I think it's okay to assume that
Earl would try to protect Tiffany. So he just went all in to push
her behind the door to protect use the door to protect her, and then
he went into Vernon. Yeah, and then he went straight to Vernon.
So, Francis, you and tiff Tiffany are kind of stuff behind the door
now, right, I would assume because you went towards her, right,
I went towards her. You always said you were between between your dad and
me. Yeah, hold on one second. Yeah, let's ask since the
movement is happening with Earl. Yeah, Earl, where do you want to
be an end up? Oh? I was so if it's a straight shoe
with the door open, I could see you and my daughter's in between.
I'm pushing her against the pushing her in against the wall that puts her to
forty five degree cut. If your son was between us, I'm going to
move right to him, putting my barrel over his shoulder and grabbing his shirt.
That's what you're behind him. Oh okay, I'm sorry. I thought
you were going to got it. You're using using franc as a body bad
your body shield since he went between So I went forward toward you, and
I'm attempting, I guess right, attempting to grab him. Yes, we're
going to do a grapple roll for that, but I do need you to
roll really quickly to see how hard you push Tiffany up against the wall,
because she's like tiny and you're feeling pretty okay, all right, so you're
going to push her up against the wall. The door does open this way,
so as the door opened and she was there, you've moved the doors
now wide open. Just so everyone is clear, the door is wide open.
Claire can see now she's sort of involved in this. Okay, go
ahead and roll your grapple, Earl and Francis. Do you fight back?
Do you resist? I guess that's a major question to quote grapple. If
he is trying to like bar my arms, I'll say yes. If he's
just like grabbing the back of my shirt or shoulder and actually not going to
fight him, Okay, then I'm trying to grab you like in the center
of like your your your clothing and treating you like a little punk kit.
Right. Oh, I see, then he's got the gun on arm.
I will I will struggle that way then, but I'll try to just turn,
so I'm just trying to turn to put my back kind of to you,
Kit. I'll for the grapple seventy three. Go ahead and roll,
Francis. Thirty three. Wow, that's doubles as well. So I think
Earl, you feel like you've got him. And I'm gonna say because it's
a thirty three and that's a magic doubles that you grapple him, you grab
him, but the way it happens, you feel like it was the way
you intended it. But you're grabbing now kind of the top. He's just
the back of his shirt, like, so he's able to turn before you're
able to grab him. So now you're grabbing the back of his shirt and
Francis is facing the direction that he wants to be facing. But your gun
is still pointed at him, like you've got him as a hostage, but
you've just got the back of his shirt instead of the front of his shirt.
Yeah, and you're putting the gun barrel like over my shoulder, yeah,
yeah, yeah, to point it at Vernon. Yep. Okay,
I would be screaming, yeah, my dad to leave. Don't touch Francs
he do anything. Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Boh, whoa whoa. Okay, I have an idea. We don't have
to kill them. We don't have to kill them. Okay, all right,
I think I can do it. You just gotta trust me. Listen
to your boy. He's a smart kid. Shuts up, do you,
Tiffany, And I have the dolly and like put my arm out, like
left arm because he's probably off that way. Yeah, and I just I
put the doll in his hand, and I like reach in and take the
watch out and put it in that same hand with the doll. So I'm
kind of squeezing them together, and I start walking forward, Like, while
you're holding me, do you like let me walk forward, Earl. I'm
not struggling, but I'm starting to walk closer to the girls. I kind
of want to get close for a little bit. So I'm gonna kind of
go with you. Well, they have no hold on your jacket and guessing
kind of yeah, I'm backing up with a gun still pointed like over the
shoulder at like trying to get a beat on, Earl. But I'm backing
up, Francis, Francis, what are you doing. It's gonna be okay
to face him, but I've got them by the next it's gonna be okay.
They're they're hugging you, Susan. Yeah, okay, it'll be okay.
I know what we have to do. They don't have to die.
I've thought about this, Mom. We're not going to kill them. We're
not gonna kill them, mom, Brier, Honey, prior you want to
see your mom and Dad, right. Uh, the youngest girl stiffens up
in your arms, Susan, she's holding on to Dedi's shirt. Briar,
come to me, now, Briar, come to me, and I look
at my mom. I can take care of it. Mom, be ridiculous,
Briar, come to me. Francis, what are you doing? This
is the only way, Susan. I'm gonna have you roll against me.
I rolled to thirteen. So let's hope you can hold on to Oh okay,
So I will let you role play this out. I mean, this
is a pretty close to a critical failure. But it might not be just
that your grip wasn't there. It could be that you love Francis and you
trust your son like I will you know, do whatever. But somehow the
youngest girl busy will will slip out from underneath you, Briar will get out
and run to your son Francis. And then like with the the arm of
this stuff, Danel, I kind of put my arm, that arm around,
and I like, I take the gun away from from from Earl and
move it towards as she's running, I move it towards the little girl.
Dad put it down, don't you do it? Trust me and put it
down. Put it down, please, Francis, what are you doing?
Dad will help me. God, I'm gonna put twelve. I asked you
a question, young man. I'm gonna do this, and I grab the
shotgun and pull the trigger. I'm not gonna let you touch my and then
pop and pop the watch. Oh okay, we need we need a roll
because I don't think Earl's gonna try to let you grab the gun. My
god. No, okay, hey, so Francis, go ahead and roll.
Earl roll contested. You're gonna fight for the gun fifty seven Earle manages
to keep control of this gun. Now, Earl, I'm gonna need you
to roll again to see if the gun goes off accidentally. Absolutely, because
we're getting closed. Anything over a fifty is a yes. It does not
go off accidentally. So now I'm like struggling. Yeah, So now you
guys are struggling with the gun. Vernon. It looks like your son maybe
get a fake out. I'm not sure, but he's trying to grab the
gun right now, and I don't know if you want to take an opportunity
here. Yeah, so I see my son try to grab the gun and
get it to fire at me. Well, he just grabbing the gun.
It looks like he's just struggling with the gun. I mean, so I'm
my assumption is that he's struggling to get the gun off of me. So
I can take my shot, and I do. I take my shot at
Earl. All right, go ahead and roll. Fuck man, However,
I will say, Earl, you rolled a twenty and a six. You
have maintained great control over this. I will also allow you to roll to
see if you want to take a shot at Vernon, because as Vernon is
pulling the gun up on you, I'm trying to keep control of the situation.
This kid is struggling with my shot, and I'm trying to keep it
pointed on Earl. So this is yeah, this will be a separate roll
for sure for okay, what this is? All right? And a two
for Earl? Holy FuG what go What happened? So? I aim like
this is all like slow motion, Like he goes grabs the gun, they
start struggling. I take my cue off of him and try and take aim
at and try not to like you know, like because they're struggling. I
fire. What happens. Let's roll please, it's a ninety nine, so
it's doubles and failure. So I need you to roll A one D five
Okay, no, I'm sorry, a one, and I need everybody to
sound off their number right now, starting with Susan. Susan's a one.
Francis, you're a two, Earl you're a three, Tiffany, you're a
four, Claire you're a five, and the lower hold on, yes,
I think I don't think Earl can be a part of it because it has
to be a failure, right, yes, true, all right, so
we'll do the same, so his number will be like the wall. Yeah,
okay, all right, all right, all right, all right,
that's fair. Three will be the wall, and then the fifth number is
a child in near Francis. I can't even say her name. Go on,
okay, please don't be so one six? Right, No, I
think we're just doing the five because you don't count six. Would be you?
So one, two, three, four or five? I'm sorry,
you're right six? Yep, all right, here we go. It's a
two Francis. Fock shoot your son, all right, So let's let's fucking
describe this as this happened. Susan you're going to watch as Francis's left shoulder
explodes in blood like he is rocked backwards as the shot hits him. It's
so strong from this gun at such a short range that he actually backs up
and cracks his head up against the wall. It is incredibly traumatizing to watch.
This happened to heap. The Earl's behind me, Oh, I thought,
Earl is, oh yeah, that's right. Okay, so you kind
of like, okay, then maybe you don't crack your head on the ceiling,
but you jerk up against Earl. However, Earl maintains perfect control and
shoots Vernon Vernon. I'll let you guys describe what happens. Let's go,
I actually want to shoot him. Oh I wouldn't shoot him if after your
shot, after you shoot your son, what would it be instant to do
next? I want this is decide what I do. Yeah, okay,
we would be the next. The next thing, I drop the gun and
run to my son, okay, and then as you're running up, I
just put my butt up and I smack it across your fucking forehead. Okay,
I'm gonna shot. I fire the gun. Yep, I see it
hit my son. I drop it, and you hear me, just go
Frankie, Frankie, no, yeah, and then his two will be to
knock you out because it was to shoot you. So instead we'll say the
two is to knock you out, and he wants you clear right the fuck
out, so he hits you with the shotgun falls. So, Susan,
you've just watched your son get shot. Vernon is now knocked out on the
ground, Claire clear, and I go right I go right over to uh
sorry d D Susan. I go right over tow and I put the gun
wrapper head. I've got my hand right around this kid's throat. Now let
him go. Now, I put the gup in the air and I take
a shot talking of it. Let him go. Now, we've got to
do this. You think I want it to? Mom? You can let
her go, Tiffany hair mups. That's what I'm going to be, okay,
Okay. I turn around and I close my eyes and think of something
beautiful. Okay, let go go, let her go, mom, please,
And that's what I'm going to take my own blood and smear it on
the watch and hit it. Okay, I need you to roll. This
is not your gut or magic. This, Francis is your trigger event,
and this is where you wake up. Yeah fucking right, So please describe
to us what this is like. As you use your powers for the first
time and you have your awakening. The extreme pain focuses Grancis into what he
has to do, which is take Brier away so that they don't grow up
together for an Adisa and I focus on the future, and I focus the
time far away from here. Do you have a year in mind? Or
would you like me to tell ninety seven? All right? Nineteen ninety seven?
All right, that's so far away. And I hear ticking and clocks
and feel, well, you know when you walk into a room and you
forget what you were doing in that room. Yeah, it's kind of like
that where you sit there and there's that blankness that goes over you for just
that hint of a second, and then you leave the room and know exactly
what you were doing, okay, And it's that feeling of what the hell
just happened? And I just wanted to point out like I've always pictured this
year being nineteen seventy nine, So yeah, switching it swapped it like a
swapped roll all right, so everything slows down for you, Francis, as
you're doing this and imagining this, and you're focusing on this year nineteen ninety
seven. You look down. You see your dad knocked out on the ground.
He's got a cut across his cheek bone. There's blood trickling down.
Your mom is looking at you, like, what are you doing? How
could you do this? I hope you're okay. It's like she's got a
world of emotions happening all at once, but she's clinging to DEDI and she
has her hands on her throat. Earl is pointing a shotgun right at your
mother's face. Tiffany, Tiffany, are you looking at Francis or you're you
know, I'm sorry, your hands were your ears and your eyes were closed
and you were not looking. You were listening to daddy's instructions. Right,
Yeah, I turned around and missed the wall. Okay, So Tiffany's facing
the wall, her hands are on her ears. Claire, what are you
doing here? I'm kind of taking in the whole situation. I think I'm
going to try to start moving towards the children. Okay, so the child
they're separated, So which one are you heading towards Francis is? Yeah,
okay, so Francis, you see Claire kind of like a lunge getting ready
to lunge for you, and everything is in slow motion. Please describe what
it is like when you time travel to nineteen ninety seven. I do my
best to yell out take care of Adisa toward Claire, and then it feels
like you're slipping down a slope and you've lost control, like that ice has
hit. You didn't see it there, black ice, and you starts slipping
and sliding and hurtling faster and faster and faster until you get where you want
to go. And where do you end up? Francis, Briar and Odze's
mother's and father's house, just outside on the sidewalk, kpp. I will
let you now resume playing of Briar, since she's been quiet this whole time,
if you'd like, are we I kind of like taking knee because now
probably the pain's hitting a little bit more after the adrenaline is starting to wear
off. We're home, Briar, Uncle Francis, where's Jack? Jack's with
your sister, but he's also watching over you. Well, I see them,
maybe but I don't think you should focus on that. Can I help
jeff We Oh yeah, and I pull one hand out over the giraffe.
Yeah. I grab Jeffrey and just hold him tight. I thought I lost
him. No, you're not lost, and Jeffrey's not lost. Your mom
and dad are inside. Okay, it looks different. It does look a
little different, but don't worry about it. I uh, I gotta go,
Brier. I don't. I don't know if your your mom and dad
are inside. Are you come with me? I grab his hand, but
I I can't. Oh god, it's you. Keep an eye out for
me. Okay, you can't tell your parents that I did this, all
right? And you keep a secret just for me. Yeah, if they
ask who who saved you, because they're going to be real surprised. It's
going to be a big, happy surprise. I just saw them. It'll
feel like a long time for them, which will make the surprise better.
Don't tell him, don't tell him Francis did this. I think Francis has
been gone for a while. I fish in my pockets and like kind of
start looking through them, and I just go home and tell your mom the
aviator sent you home. Abato like wiping it to your way to kind of
hide him. Go home and be a good girl, Briar. I kind
of push you to the door and start jogging off as quickly as I can
shuffle my little feet to the porch. And I look at him running off.
Uh. You watch him run off, and actually something strange happens,
Francis. I have a question for you. Do you stay in this time?
No? No, okay, So as as you turn and watch him
leave, Brier, you will remember seeing him disappear like a blink once he
hit the corner, okay, and you turned to face the door. Do
you knock or do you just go in? It's a different house, so
I would knock very quietly. Eh, I'd run over to him and hug
him. And that's where we're gonna end the episode. Sorry, that wasn't
no. I knew. I knew you were trying to pull the wig off,
but I think everyone knew. Everybody knew. Zeke stepped in to roleplay
her dad. Thank you, Zeke. That was amazing. Ah. I
have chills from when Zeke came out. Yeah, and your fails, I
have to s say those. I know we have so many people that just
listen to the show, but you need to boot this up on YouTube and
watch that last scene there because Zeke almost made me cry. Who thanks for
watching, everybody. Yeah, dude, a fucking rough one. Holy holy
moly, oh god, damn. A journey, what a journey. Indeed,
should we do some shout outs? That's my favorite episode so far,
hands down. Wow, and right up there with the dinner table one.
Yeah, yep, same that. You were all so incredible and I think
like that. There was a moment there where I felt, Okay, if
you've ever role played before those watching, you'll know when you get into a
right group. You can kind of just know when the moment to come in
is. And there was a dialogue moment between Vernon and Francis and they were
kind of like arguing, and then I came in to cry just a little
bit, just for a second, and then Susan was like, sh it'll
be fine, It'll be fine, and then Vernon and Francis went right back
to their argument and was like it was insane. I just it just with
everyone was so good. Sorry, I will gush for for an hour and
a half or two hours, So let's just do our shout outs Susan played
by the beautiful Amelia Tyler very flammable today. Hello, I'm Amelia Tyler.
I just nearly killed some children. That was an emotional thing I was not
prepared for. Never thought I was a kid person, but turns out actually
killing them. It's a hard line. That's good to know. I like
kids, I just don't feel the need to have them. It's like horses.
They seem like artwork. Yeah, that was insane, Jolly Fox,
you'll make me blush. Yeah you can. You can find me over on
Twitter and now on Twitch because apparently I'm an affiliate. Now what the fuck
you? Yeah? Yeah, and play the Occupation because it's badass and it's
very socially important to Yes, it is. Yes, it's very good.
It's incredible. It's really really good. And might I say, without spoiling,
there is a bit of some timey wimy wibbley wobbly time is fucking in
that game as well, right, because you're switching between you No, not
really right. Well, there's two people that you switch between, and there's
a mystery you have to solve, and yeah, it's an investigative thriller and
it's all it is time, so wourish hours. Yeah, place start to
finish, and it's you are a journalist and you have to figure out what
happened. Or you can just sit on a bench and listen to eighties music
for four hours and the plot will play out. So that's what I meant.
It's the first game I've ever played where time doesn't really pause for you
to go and do your investigating. Like, if you don't do the ship
you need to do, stuff will happen regardless, and it's going to be
there will be consequences for you not solving the mystery ahead of time. So
yeah, yeah, yeah, that was That was really weird, and it
felt very very strange doing the breathing thing, especially given what kid I was
talking to. Yeah, that's where she got that from. That's probably where
she. I was just gonna say those listenings. She gestured to her red
Wig as to where maybe Echo pulled road hair from. Yeah, what a
badass episode. It was amazing, completely and give it a whole new slam.
I love that and I love that we can all just dip into this
for a one shot and it's this badass. Yeah, so rare, so
rare, so thank you all right, Zeke who played Vernon for us today
and briefly Brier's dad yep oh man. Thank you guys for tuning in every
week. This is this isn't emotionally cleansing for me. Every week I get
to feel all kinds of different emotions. I get to play, I get
all of like it's it's so cathartic. If you don't like, have a
something at least similar to this, it would benefit you to try and find
it because it's it really like touches on all like some of the best parts
of being human. And that's why I love it. That's why it's my
favorite thing to do is roleplay, and doubly so when you have a group
like this, triply so Infinity times whatever. My name is Ezekiel the Third.
You can find me at or slash Ezekiel Underscore. I I twitch,
Twitter, at YouTube if you want to catch me. Tomorrow, I'm starting
a brand new game. Well not a brand new game, but I did.
I played some matter of worlds. You know, went eh, it's
it's It's okay. But I've been putting off AI Somnium files or whatever for
a while, so I'm going to give that a go starting at noon Pacific
tomorrow if you want to be there at the beginning. But uh yeah,
that's all I got. See you next week. Our formatting's fucked up on
this command. Sorry. I just put a command and chat for everybody to
go follow all these beautiful people Dan who played Francis aka the Aviator for you
today. Bye. I'm Domestic Dan. Uh. I love this show a
lot, and I'm glad that today wasn't just yet the finale. Uh.
I also just want to say props to uh Hi, c K, Classy
and KPP for leading all of the audience astray so well just like two hours.
Yeah, beautiful, all of you so good. Yeah, but yeah,
you can find me domestic man Dan doing pretty much everything. I just
got back from Japan last week, so we've just been going hard and trying
to catch up with all the stuff that came out during October. So I'm
diving into horror games as I can, and cooking and doing all of what
I do. I think I'm just chilling out with Minecraft tonight because it's always
good to chill after Nocturn. Yeah, yes, but yeah, yeah,
it was so good. I'm glad. I get to do this. C
K, who played Claire today our gutter magic fiend, say that was that
was pretty cool that I learned that class in the five minutes before the show.
Yeah, I feel like I soaked up what I could. I had
the book here the whole time. I'm like, what can I do?
So that was really fun because I didn't really I didn't. I mean,
the flash Worker was awf but obviously I know it pretty well by this time,
so that was super cool. I don't know what else to say.
I'm I really hope that finale just never happens. But I love you guys
so much, and this is my favorite day of the week. I hate
when we're not here Nocturne season two hashtag you can find me over in Classic
dot T or twit TV, slash Classic or Classic dot TV. I am
playing a lot of destiny lately, you pews. I love it so much.
It's so good. Really, Yeah, shooters are like my dirty guilty
pleasure mine too, Like I've been playing mom Stalker. I fucking love Stalker.
It's so good. Sorry, I love them. No, it's fine.
I love all of you. That's that's all I got. And don't
forget to check out her Amazon wish list. Yes, please moving a toaster
or there's there's a joke in there about a Nocturne related thing, but my
brain is actually fried, so I don't know. But there's all right.
Kpp who played Tiffany for us, which I have to say, Kpp,
your performance today was amazing and I was gutted because of the way you portrayed
the wanting to please your parents and also just like that was it was intense
for me. It was very good, honestly, I yeah, I don't
know. It was very easy to play with impacts like not that you guys
are abusive normally. I love you too, honey. Yeah, just I
don't know. Today was crazy. Thank you Francis for saving Briar so that
she could be a part of nocturn and yeah, be in Monday Head.
It's just it was kind of weird watching this all play out though, just
because I don't know, it's just nuts and like, I don't know,
my brain's broken just from it. Tied a bunch of loops together. Yeah,
and I love I love how we all work together on that. Think
this is not the first time that we've done that as a cast, but
we really kind of were like all putting our ideas in the hat and being
like, oh what if this and this text you know, connects to that
the audience figured out the relationship with Yeah, I don't know, the episode
tically gave it away. I mean it didn't, it's not Yeah. I
felt so bad for Susan having to push a little hi I have a feris.
Oh she's might a stn stuff but not quite that stern. That was
That was an experience. And then and then being there with the gunfight going
off, thinking am I just going to have to strangle this child? Yeah?
I thought, yeah, yeah, she was going to go for it
save the world, right, But I don't know, I'm just grateful to
role play with all of you because, like you said, we just kind
of all jumped into this today and it's freaking awesome. I mean to think
that you're not just saving the world, you're saving all world. Yeah,
yeah, like that's the motivation, Like these three children had to go because
you have to, because that's the only way to save all the worlds and
all the time timelines. Yeah, I don't know. I just want to
say one more thing. I'm just so impressed by our specific Like I'm just
bragging our ability to pull one shots is like, yeah, how even I've
never known anyone that the one shot queen. I'm sorry, that is the
one thing I will brag about. I'm pretty good at pacing. I love
pacing. I'm so good at it. Sorry God, but I mean you
guys did it. But you know what I mean. We remember that long
discussion we had after last last time we had a show. Yeah, it
was your guys idea and forth. Yeah, yeah, and then it just
started just brainstorming. Yeah, we all went in together and brainstormed it for
the next hour and I was like taking notes, like Okay, let's do
this. We'll make this happen. But yeah, it would be weird like
the origins. Yeah, it's so fulfilling to see, like like the skeleton,
the bones are there. Yeah, and we just like all take a
handful of like meat and muscle and sinew and just throw it at it.
Also like the dice rolls having such an important role in that there were details
in this that works so perfectly and was so heart wrenching that only happened because
of the dice roll Yeah. The day I didn't want good rolls. I
got way too good roles, right, ridiculous rolls. There was a lot
of times during the stream where rooting against myself no success. I was like,
all right, we got to get this thing wrapped up to Yeah,
that's so good. Chats very much in support of law based origin stories.
I think it'd be cool. What a way to like stretch the I don't
know if I could. I don't know if I could mentally handle Brian's I'm
just saying they're all going to be around, be terrible. Get a little
boy off of Ferris Wheel, Dan, come on, yeah, I mean
this one, this one's really really up. And no Pax. To answer
your question, nobody caught that thing yet. So we're gonna leave that.
We're gonna leave that. We're gonna leave that. I can't keep that.
You gotta try, you gotta try. Nobody caught it. It's still there,
though somebody might. They might, they might find out later, they
might discuss it in the discord. I tell them what game to play to
kind of get to see them. No, that is a dead giveaway.
Do not do that. Do not do that. Look if if we if
if it's not, like you know, if nobody figures it out, then
we will just revisit it later. I'm sure we will, and that reveal
will be so cool when they realize you just gotta wait. Have patience,
my son. Okay, oh sulky, now I know. I'm sorry too
good. I'm more disappointed Chat not figuring it out? All right, Chat,
you've time to uh, it is time to I don't know what I
want to know. Everybody chat roast all right, get in the discord and
put put your theories in there. Three craft you can do it, all
right. Let's sorry, KPP, we cut you off. I think we
fine. We just start talking. Cool. No, I'm Katie Peter's play.
I play a lot of horror games and sci fi games. We started
Moons of Madness today and it was really fun. So come watch me do
that. And I'm gonna be doing special effects makeup this Friday with Ashley,
who's done a lot of fun crazy knocked Drink Friday evening probably around six pm
my time, which is about eight pm Eastern. So yeah, that should
be fun amazing. Oh oh all right, yeah, we're all just gonna
go for five minutes. He Sarah, who played Earl for US today him
earl uh hi, Earl. I like these I like I like these episodes
like a stupid amount, really good for creative flexes, and it was just
Oh, I like going down those paths and make you very uncomfortable. I
find you find the richest stuff in the most uncomfortable places when it comes to
role play, when you can push those boundaries and make you question things like
just morality and whatever. There's just so much juicy stuff to sift through.
Obviously, it's very it can be times risky and very out of character,
hard to tread through, but the payoff, if done right is nothing beats
it. Nothing beats it. I am not looking forward for this to be
over, so I'm just trying to find excuses to like make it go longer.
And uh if we did like orange stories for all the characters before we
did the wrap up, I'm a little bit maybe toward Christmas and then we
can just kind of do like a Yoho, We're done. Yeah. You
can find me over at twitsh dot TV SO has classic packs. Sometimes I
talk too much and give away spoilers, so if you want to figure stuff
out, I might drop it by action on my cattle don't you dare It's
already happened. God, I love it you. Also, I have to
say, though, Pax has also been playing Wounds of Madness, and I've
never seen you so tense before. He was whimpering. I'm sorry the reason
you really Okay? I pluck around my house with you on my my big
fucking TV, and I'm like, what what what is happening? And then
I had to up what I was doing. I stopped doing my dishes and
get out popcorn and like, sit down and watch you play this game.
Yeah. I like the I like to play scary characters and role play,
but I hate playing scary games. Two things happen. One I turn off
my web cam because I make the dumbestest faces and not even like good I
just gross faces. And then two I get very punny. It's like like
a defense mechanism. I gotta like find the humor in this thing, and
I just make puns on everything I say, and then I just yeah,
yeah, it's very enjoyable. Go watch which TV slash classy packs. You
guys have anything else cool coming up that you want to shout out before I
take over? Yeah, but I'm not allowed to because India used Oh damn,
but no, something cool is coming the way of Amelia Tyler, so
follow her on Twitter. The pation you must refer to it from now when
as award winning Melia, Oh my god, okay, from you com bust
from this point award winning. It's weird. Actually, unless you've won an
award by name, you can't call yourself award winning. What Who makes up
those fucking rules? No one? Yeah exactly, Okay, I'll get you
an award your name on it. Yeah, I mean, it's just just
spin it so worked in award winning ye award winning games. The game won
an award, We all won an award, But what did they get?
Sorry? What did the game win an award for? I'm just curious was
that? What was that award? And I think technical plays? But like
all of a fit, I mean, how many people perform This isn't therapy.
Leave me alone. We love you, we love you, and you
did a great job and we're proud. And I love that about this cast
as well, that we're all really proud of each other. We gotta change
that. That's so stupid. That's like it's like I'm getting a music award
and best song and then the guy that comes in to cut the thing together
in the studios like thanks. So yeah, I made sure the drum levels
were just right. Oh god, all right, So I am Pumpkinberry.
I was your narrator today and this is definitely one of my favorite episodes.
I also too, love these crazy one shots. They are a lot more
work for me as a GM, but I don't care. It's it's totally
worth it trying to, you know, make sure everything lines up and you
know, pacing and stuff like that. It's good practice for me because pacing
is something that I really really enjoy. So yeah, this has just been
an incredible rewarding experience and watching you guys just bring these people to life when
we're talking about this idea that we had and then just you just like it
came alive before my very eyes. And I imagine that's probably what you guys
feel watching or listening to the show. Everything just is sprung to life out
of nothing, out of an idea, and then Dice rolls and really talented
individuals who are creative and trust each other make it real and it feels real
for a time. And I am very grateful to be a part of Nocturne.
Here's something from point of view, It kind of blows me away that
even though we have these big moments like guns pointed each other, these very
big moments, these tiny little moments are what really stick with me. Like
the sniping between the husband and wife. Yes, oh God, that was
so good. That line where he was like, you always need my permission?
I was like, God, damn. Just that little moment of quiet
with me and Zeke, and it's happened with every member of this cast during
this one episode. Just those tiny quiet moments that really hit your heart and
give it that depth. No, it's black or white, it's it's that
muddying of not knowing who to trust. I love that. God something about
trust that I wanted to speak on as far as like, uh, if
you want to start your own group and you want it to be, like,
I don't know, as good as ours, because our group is great.
Trust is super important. And the way you establish trust is to is
to trust yourself, yes, like not trust yourself, but trust your other
people first, show them, Like the best way you can get people to
to congeal is to lead by example, give of yourself first, and then
people will see you giving of yourself or take a chance. Uh, don't
be afraid to be embarrassed if you if you lead by example, then everybody
else will be, Oh, it's okay, it's okay. Yeah, And
it's like a trust fall that is exactly right. And I think a key
thing that everybody in this cast does if you're new to role playing and you
want to learn kind of like how to do the way the Nocturne folks do
is they will always strive to when they are in a scene with another player,
they think, how can I reveal more about my partner? How can
I make my partner shine? How can I bring out some of my partner's
backstory right now? They're not thinking about themselves or their moment or their character.
They are always trying to coax out more from whoever they're dancing with.
And it's incredible, it's really really good. Well, Dennah, he said,
the DNIE group, my man doesn't really do a lot of role play.
Well that's I mean, if you can get over your own fear of
it, of looking of looking like a fool, and they'll, I mean
they'll see how much fun you're having, Like, eh, the best Linds.
I know of the person just leap in and go, well, I'm
not scared of looking like it's that. Yeah, and there are some groups.
I will say this, there are some players who like to play DANDIAN
don't like to role play. They just kind of want to sit down and
you know, dungeon crawl and that's okay, that's one way to play D
and D. It just like it just might mean that you need to find
a group that wants to role play. But chances are your group probably wants
to roleplay. They all just feel like a little insecure. Maybe they don't
want to look like idiots. So just be like the first person to look
like an idiot and you'll be great. It's so good. It's fun,
so good. You give me like like like I don't know, I don't
want to say a dig too, but like you're just like you're like a
rat hitting the feeder. Bar're like, I want to do more role play.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's good. It's a really
good analogy. Yeah, it is a really good analogy. I love it
more where we do. Oh and I'm Peebee. I was the narrator.
You can find me at twitch dot tv. Slash Pumpkinberry and at Twitter at
the same handle or Pumpkinberry dot tv. I do a whole bunch of shit
on the internet, so you can find it there. Tomorrow, though,
I usually do a Nocturn recovery room where we just sit and chat and hang
out after Nocturn, so you're welcome to join me for that. We have
some cool stuff happening on Table Story. If you're a fan of Harry Potter,
we have a Harry Potter show coming and it's premieres next Tuesday, and
I will play the trailer before we leave. But I've seen the cast,
wach McCall it roll thing that they do together, the character creation. It's
gonna be good. It's gonna be really good. I'm gonna be there to
watch it, so you should be too. And that's it. That's all
I got. Oh no, it's not, Jesus, I totally forgot the
thing. If you want to support Table Story and what we do, you
can head over to Tablestory dot tv slash pledge. That's one of the best
ways you can support us. The other best way to support us is just
continue doing what you're doing. Nocturnals. Literally you are a powerhouse community.
Super Mega made a dice roller. Have you guys seen the dice roll he
made. He made the Lucky Rabbit and you pour your you put your dice
in and then it spits the dice out and gives you your result. And
it's the Lucky Rabbit and it is a three D printer and he's made it
available for you to grab. That don't count because they forget when we leave
the Lucky Rabbit. Nice, but so the plans are available. That was
so good. That was so good. The plans are available for everyone.
Every nocturnal can grab one. Go to your library, use the three D
printer at the library, get yourself a Lucky Rabbit dice roller, and bring
it in role play with your friends. And that's that's what I got to
say. And then the other thing is is if you have a Twitch prime
or you just want to buy a coffee for one of these amazing role players,
please please please go smack their follow buttons if you haven't already, and
just drop drop some love there, hit that sub button, get yourself some
emotes, do the thing, and that's it. That's all the more emotes
in my collection. That's what you're trying to say oh yeah, sorry,
sorry, I don't know. If you don't want to talk about Minecraft thing
and all people want to get involved, yes, show, Yes, there's
a way. If you don't feel come with the role play thing, there's
a way that's coming down the road. If you want to kind of like
get into the world and make a world, yes to talk about it.
Yes, I do so packs and I have an idea for projects. It's
gonna happen after Nocturn, but the start building it might start beforehand. So
what we want to do is we want to do a D and D campaign
in Minecraft, but we want everybody in the community to to build the world
together, and then every NPC will be played by like an actual person,
so there are no MPCs really, and then we're gonna have like a crazy
like three day event where we played it together. Yeah, it's gonna be
amazing. Yeah, all right, now we're super overtime. I apologize.
I'm going to take it out. I love you all so much. Wash
wash your fucking piss, mittens and living and you pay them over the tag the ma