WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.440 Hello everyone, This is Robbie, writer and creator of ghost Wax. I 2 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:09.400 am very excited to introduce you all to our first expansion season, Ghost Wax 3 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:14.279 nineteen ten. This eight episode arc will introduce some important moments and players in 4 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:19.600 our upcoming second season and let us enjoy some good old fashioned magic, mayhem, 5 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:24.359 and turn of the century horror. We are very excited for this prequel 6 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:29.120 of sorts. These episodes will be available on our Patreon for supporters at any 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.960 level and is part of our effort to raise funds for a second season, 8 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:38.640 for which writing is well under way. Casting Notices Soon. Nineteen ten follows 9 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:43.920 Olivia Beer's weather as she catalogs and details the case that cost her everything, 10 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.880 but that she never wants to forget old timey otherworldly scares at the turn of 11 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.679 the century. Thank you everyone for your continued support, and please enjoy the 12 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:00.280 first episode of ghost Wax nineteen ten, Travel by Train. Welcome to ghost 13 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:06.840 Wax, a Foreign Tall Tales production. The following story may contain graphic content. 14 00:01:07.159 --> 00:02:08.879 Listener discretion is advised. Episode one, Travel by Train. I am 15 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:21.759 oh, who am? I am? I still? Olivia? I must 16 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:34.960 be? I am still? Sometimes I wish I was sometimes I wish I 17 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:59.120 was who I was before focus focus m hmm. This is Olivia Veer's weather 18 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:10.960 Order Master. The banishing of the Cipher was two two weeks ago. I 19 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:21.319 think that is. I'm that is the trouble with battling something like the Cipher, 20 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:28.000 seeing its true shape. I thought the battle was over before, but 21 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:37.039 it was an illusion within an illusion. My victories were over and over again, 22 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:45.560 simply what I wanted to see, a convenient existence. My battered mind 23 00:03:45.719 --> 00:04:00.719 was all too willing to accept trap after trap. But now now I am 24 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:13.039 fairly confident, yes, fairly confident, that I have returned to reality, 25 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:28.360 well, returned to the vessel, our vessel, our home, our home. 26 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:39.480 My battle at the breach against the Cipher, mister Media, the Beast 27 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:50.360 mm hmm, coincided with another battle, the losses of which we are only 28 00:04:50.560 --> 00:05:00.519 just beginning to understand, to reckon with. Most of the creatures who escaped 29 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:09.480 to containment have been sealed back away or destroyed. Our losses were significant and 30 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:27.800 have left the situation in the ardent different. I am. I am struggling. 31 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:39.399 But this, this recording, this wax I am making that I have 32 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:44.480 been bidden to make, is not for me to discuss our new situation, 33 00:05:48.600 --> 00:06:01.959 but to preserve things that are precious to me. Battling the cipher has left 34 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:15.560 my mind eroded in places. I have gaps, losses. I believe the 35 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:26.560 entropy has slowed, but I cannot be sure. Bites missing from what I 36 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:34.600 am and what I know. Vonsid has success using the wax to preserve and 37 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:44.879 log stories and experiences. Many of the other Hamsa have already begun using it. 38 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:54.279 Remembrances were once a thing passed from mind to mind, from Hamsa to 39 00:06:54.480 --> 00:07:04.000 Hamsah, or Hamsa to dreamer. But here they sit locked in these beautiful, 40 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:18.959 glistening white resin cylinders. They look so fragile, as fragile asm h 41 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:33.959 ah ah. They look so fragile, memory, so easily lost. I 42 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:40.959 don't want to share. I wanted to keep these things from myself, what 43 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:53.160 what could have been, what I lost? But I cannot trust my mind 44 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:59.680 any longer I have. I've sprung a leak, and I cannot risk it. 45 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:07.560 I cannot risk losing these moments between us, the story of how I 46 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:24.240 lost what I never really had. But I am assured the cylinders are stronger 47 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:33.919 than they appear, and despite my misgivings, Von said is a venoum Once 48 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:50.120 again I had I had forgotten, forgotten what the originals are like, and 49 00:08:50.159 --> 00:09:01.840 their orders are not easily denied. So I will make remembrance what I do 50 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:09.720 not want to forget, what I mustn't forget. I will collect the context 51 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:16.759 the stories around it. Perhaps I will not feel as emotionally exposed if I 52 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:22.799 gather the work around it all. And besides, I I believe I can 53 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:31.279 improve upon thee rudimentary form Voncid employed in the structure of remembrances. We have 54 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:35.960 a collective memory web. We should make use of it, taking advantage of 55 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:43.480 this interconnectedness. The others have generously allowed me their own memories to support my 56 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:50.759 own. So I shall endeavor to create a more complete picture of the events 57 00:09:50.840 --> 00:10:07.519 I wish to catalog. Very well, then where do I begin? Well, 58 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:16.039 it was not who I am now I was another. Then I wish 59 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:22.279 I wish it had been different than it was. We are none of us 60 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:35.879 ever who we truly wish to be. If only the cry of the living 61 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:52.200 enough of the Maudlin, I suppose it begins on the train. Just look 62 00:10:52.240 --> 00:11:01.000 at him on the casciously m what's that. I don't think I've seen you 63 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:07.519 smile this much in one hundred years, not consecutively, am I Well, 64 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:13.559 I admit I am very fond of trains. We're gathering that the pace, 65 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:20.320 the momentum, the way it connects everyone's journey. Have you looked at a 66 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:24.000 map of the rails? Do we know if they know how much of railways 67 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.639 are being built along lay lines? Seems to be done unconsciously for the most 68 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:33.559 part, but I do think someone was looking into it. Oh, yes, 69 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:39.559 I think Odi mentioned one of his apprentices discovered some esoteric order or other 70 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.679 meddling in all manner of city planning, channeling energy this way and that. 71 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:50.879 How interesting to what end? Oh? Actually, it's quite embarrassing. Is 72 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:58.399 it a lodge of hedge magicians altering aspects of civic construction to increase the wealth, 73 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:07.759 prosperity and virility of large members. You're kidding? Does this seem like 74 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:15.720 something I would kid about? The sacred order? Masculine? Adonica? Stop 75 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:24.639 it completely unacceptable, sid too much, I'm serious. They are channeling life 76 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:31.399 streams to make themselves potent, desirable, and robust. Oh, this is 77 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.200 sillier than the corn flake man it's all too common. The more things change, 78 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.799 the more they stay the same. And all that they are merely employing 79 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:52.000 scientific advances in combination with ancient mysteries and magics to address the age old concerns 80 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:58.120 of men. Stop, I'm contacting Odi about this. Oh, don't bother. 81 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.960 He's having a life at us. It's not as silly as all that 82 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.960 human magicians have done, far more, for far less. Remember the group 83 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:13.879 who reversed time so they could youth in their genitalia and sire offspring well into 84 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:20.559 their eighties. Oh yes, that family obsessed with the sacred bloodline. Half 85 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:26.840 of them are mad and the other half are hideously inbred and mutated. What 86 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:37.480 are their names? Good afternoon tickets? Please? I that that's all right? 87 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.039 Never mind, I I mean, I'll come back in a moment. 88 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:48.919 Beg, pardon he saw I assume U apologies, very sloppy of me. 89 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:56.919 I am still struggling to manifest in my current host without opening my eyes. 90 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:01.279 Don't apologize. One can never know how well the bonding will take. Harold 91 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.919 Bears was a tremendous man and an excellent second. They served you well, 92 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:13.159 but not all bonds can endure for long. Some run their course more quickly 93 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.720 than others. Certainly none of us can remain together as long as boo and 94 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:24.320 osam. That's the nature of Thingsmen. Still, I'll go and deal with 95 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.919 it. Let me, it will be easier if you chase after him. 96 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.679 You'll panic. Thank you. Oh did you reach Odye so that he could 97 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:41.200 tell you? I am quite serious about the order masculine adonaka. I was 98 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:46.639 interrupted before I could make contact. Well, he can tell you in person 99 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:52.279 when we arrive. I believe he's already in Philadelphia preparing the house four of 100 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:58.399 us. Is that really necessary? Well, I am technically a tagalong these 101 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:05.360 reclaimers this ida. I am interested to see how they operate. We may 102 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:11.440 well be happy we've come in such force. I've never heard Commander Faraday sounds 103 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:16.159 so apprehensive. In fact, I've never heard him produce any emotion at all 104 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:24.799 before, unless professionally cold is an emotion. But Emeia, he sounded scared. 105 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:31.559 Apparently it's all they can do to contain the stain from spilling out into 106 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.799 the city. And here I was hoping for a quiet century. Oh, 107 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.399 I'm sure this is just a little hiccup, and the rest of the era 108 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:48.159 will just breeze by. I'll return after I've dealt with our little issue tickets. 109 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:52.080 Yes, thank you, and yes, thank you very much, sirs. 110 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.759 Excuse me, young man? Oh, yes, apologies, you you 111 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:03.759 startled me. Yes, sir, are you feeling all right? You look 112 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:10.720 quite pale. Is there a problem, sir? I don't believe so. 113 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:15.840 Our room is very fine and the ride has been lovely. I quite enjoy 114 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:25.879 trains. And your companions they are all right as well. They seem to 115 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:30.799 be. Yes, you you know them both. Well. No, pardon, 116 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.279 I'm sorry, sir. I neglected to knock. Very rude of me. 117 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:42.759 A simple oversight. Oh I don't think that is true. Beg pardon. 118 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.120 I don't know what you mean, but you do. You see, 119 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:55.080 I'm something of a professional interrogator. I've a knack for spotting a lie. 120 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:02.480 Not that you are making it difficult here my handkerchief or the perspiration. You're 121 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:11.039 a detective, an investigator. I investigate, and your companions are as well, 122 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:18.319 among other things. I see. Well, that's just it, isn't 123 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:23.839 it. You were barging in without knocking to see what were you trying to 124 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:30.680 see? What were you expecting to see? Well, it's just just a 125 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:37.279 young woman traveling with two men who peers so very different than her. Clearly 126 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.279 not her family. That's clever trying to pass it off as a simple matter 127 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:47.720 of racial prejudice or decorum. But no, I don't think that's it. 128 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:56.200 I need to continue my duties. Tell me, I it was your friend, 129 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.039 the young gentleman. At first I thought, but it was his clothing, 130 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:06.799 the jeweled color of a suit, a burgundy suit, an emerald green 131 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:14.400 tie, that sapphire pen. I couldn't help but stare, and it seemed 132 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:19.880 it should all be so garish, and yet it isn't. It's elegant, 133 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.599 sophisticated, so interested in fashion? Are we, no, sir? But 134 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:33.880 his dress caught my eye, and once it was caught, I couldn't unketch 135 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:40.039 it. Havan part of him was born a prince, born onto a bed 136 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:45.400 of gemstones. I guess you never can really give up that kind of opulence, 137 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:53.720 a prince part of him go on. Once I start staring, I 138 00:18:53.759 --> 00:19:00.480 couldn't help but feel odd. The longer I looked at him, something about 139 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:06.799 him seemed off. Not the clothing, not his manner or the accent, 140 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:15.079 but just something seemed off. I understand you are more attuned to it than 141 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:21.480 others. Poor Von, it is a shame to have a bond only last 142 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:26.200 a few hundred years. Sir, never mind, he is sick, that's 143 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:38.160 all I Well, your companion's deformity. Ah, you did see that the 144 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:44.880 eye in his palm? Yes, sir, it is not a deformity. 145 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:52.599 Here, have a seat. Ooh when did we come in here? This 146 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:56.160 gesture I am making here? You see this? It is hypnotic. I 147 00:19:56.240 --> 00:20:00.599 began making it a short while ago, and I used it to bring you 148 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:04.079 to this train car, to this private room. Not a very busy day 149 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:10.160 on the train today. What is what is happening? Well, I need 150 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:15.000 a bit of privacy to conduct a small, mostly painless surgery. You will 151 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:21.599 feel a small sting here? Wow? What in blazes was that something bit 152 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:23.920 me? It was a sting, As I said, it was mine. 153 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:32.680 See this tendril here? Oh my god. I have quite a good many 154 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:37.039 of them, as does my friend Havan the woman Ema. We live within 155 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:42.160 the flesh of our bound companions, and sometimes exerting our abilities to shape the 156 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:48.720 vessel or to communicate become difficult, especially as we begin to lose sync with 157 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:56.839 our partners. Okay, Oh, dear God, please protect me. But 158 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.920 that's exactly it, Gregory. We protect you, We all do. We 159 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:08.119 have been protecting you a long time. See this symbol. This symbol has 160 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:14.839 existed for millennia. It came to be known as a ward against evil, 161 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.880 A hand with three fingers raised and I in the palm. You see that? 162 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:26.079 Ughhhh, I suppose you'd have to. You see, Havan is not 163 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.680 deformed. He is simply losing sink with his companion and will need to transfer 164 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:38.079 hosts soon. It is perfectly natural for us. Sometimes the host even survives 165 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:42.839 and lives on God's willing, though it is rare. Thank you for being 166 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:47.160 such a good listener. By the way, it does feel good to tell 167 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:52.960 the truth, even if it will only remain temporarily. I wish there was 168 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:56.519 no need for all the subterfuge, but well, we tried to be honest 169 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:03.319 with your kind before, with barry unfortunate results. I suppose we should get 170 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.920 on with it. The part of me that is my companion is informing me 171 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.079 that you seem frightened, and I think they are right. We will not 172 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:17.720 harm you. The ancient Egyptians some of the mystery cults. They knew of 173 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:22.000 us. They added an extra jar to their embalming procedure in case the body 174 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:27.599 was found with one of ours within it. An honor. Really, there 175 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:33.400 were quite a lot more of us than well. The Egyptians were excellent surgeons, 176 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:38.400 and one of them showed me a superb technique for reaching the brain through 177 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:44.200 the nostril, which I shall employ now with this hooked tendril of mine, 178 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:49.119 a very small physical surgery as well as a psychic one. You will not 179 00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:53.960 remember this conversation, but I am still glad we shared these moments together. 180 00:22:55.640 --> 00:23:02.519 Please do ease on the racial biases and peeping tam tendencies as well. You 181 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:15.119 might get yourself into trouble someday. How embarrassing I am A bosh I am. 182 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:19.599 I really wanted to impress him, to impress you both. Oh, 183 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:26.759 the opportunity has hardly passed. It's just we haven't worked together as I am 184 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:33.680 now, I'm already nearly in need of another transition. And how this slip 185 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:41.240 Nival Neussa. He breaks about you constantly to the other venerum. He's proud. 186 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.720 I'm not the one who bloomed you into existence, but I'm proud of 187 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:52.079 you as well. We never tire of taking credit for your achievements. A 188 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:56.839 hundreds of years old, and you two make me feel like a child. 189 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:02.480 Just the matter of perspective, this was all such a rush. I neglected 190 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:07.880 to check our itinerary. We arrive in Philadelphia this afternoon, Have some lunch, 191 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:12.119 Take a trolley? Are we heading right to the scene? No trolley. 192 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:18.200 I'm afraid a general strike has been announced and they won't be running. 193 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:22.440 Oh, bon Sid will be so disappointed. Let's hope he doesn't pout all 194 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:30.359 afternoon. I guess everyone can seem infantile at times, no matter how venerable, 195 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:40.000 very true, everything swell just fine. Turns out he wanted to get 196 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:45.240 a closer look at your immaculate fashion, and in his excitement, neglected to 197 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:49.480 knock and got an eye full cheeky all taken care of. He was a 198 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:56.640 fine patient. Shall we discuss the reason for our hasty departure before our arrival 199 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:03.319 and the itinerary? Yes, Capital idea. Three weeks ago, there was 200 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:10.519 the issue with the observers in the northeast. Wait what happened with the observers? 201 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:14.359 Emia was in the hive at the time. Oh, how is the 202 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:18.720 five very well I've brought a fair amount of it with me. Three weeks 203 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:25.680 ago, every observer in the entirety of the American Northeast and the Canadian Eastern 204 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:32.319 Seaboard went into a fit, shaking, convulsing, foaming at the mouth. 205 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:37.519 My heavens, those who were in the vicinity of multiple observers took note that 206 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:45.160 each was shuddering and contorting in a sort of pained unison. How dreadful. 207 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:52.440 This sort of collective syncopation had never been recorded before in the history of the 208 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:59.440 observer program. There have been mass reactions, but this particular phenomenon was different. 209 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:03.880 After the tremor subsided, the observers all turned and stared in an easterly 210 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:14.000 direction for a prolonged period. Memory reconstruction from witnesses led us very quickly to 211 00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:21.519 a conclusion. They were all staring off to the British Isles Avalon, we 212 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:26.799 thought at first, But still no sign of it. Damn missed. It 213 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:33.039 appears the source of this phenomenon may have emanated from somewhere on Greater Avalonia. 214 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:40.000 However, the pillar deep well nor endless steps reported any odd behavior from observers 215 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:45.960 within their purview. The pillar is especially nearby far closer than the observers in 216 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:52.559 North America that reacted. So whatever the reaction was, it may have originated 217 00:26:52.799 --> 00:27:00.359 in Avalonia but cast its impulse west. Well that answers my next ques question. 218 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:04.200 Why are we headed to Philadelphia and not Avlonia? She said, as 219 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:10.720 if we haven't been banished from Britain since Victoria and could just go waltzing back 220 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:15.119 to the folded library whenever we want tash. We stayed away as a sign 221 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:22.000 of good faith, not because we can't go back. It's time be that 222 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:27.559 as it may. It does seem likely whatever originated over there has come over 223 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:34.880 here. If you'll look at Blade Faraday's reports, you'll see his description of 224 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:42.079 a crime impossible to have been perpetrated by human hands. Abraham f Endicott, 225 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:49.319 a very wealthy magnate in the business of timber mining and rail construction, certainly 226 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:56.759 a member of the large Adonica, was found pressed in his Philadelphia manor home 227 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:04.079 yesterday evening. Someone had placed massive timbers, essentially whole tree trunks, some 228 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:11.359 weighing in the tons on his body, one at a time, slowly flattening 229 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:18.599 him from the feet up. Well, that's certainly original and impossible of course, 230 00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:23.319 considering this happened in his upstairs study, and the logs were still found 231 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:29.839 to be damp with river water. Upon their discovery. His staff, his 232 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:33.519 rather large pack of hunting dogs, and the pinkertons he had on the site 233 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:38.880 of his manner to protect him from disgruntled workers were all found deceased in equally 234 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:48.279 brutal but far more succinct fashions. Oh my, and here an effigy burned 235 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:53.559 on his lawn, the king about to die. You don't think whithersid Coven 236 00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:57.680 had anything to do with this, do you? I very much hope not, 237 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:07.039 But wsh that effigy certainly looked like one of theirs. The final detail 238 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.880 is why we had to leave so urgently. There is a photograph in the 239 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:18.000 packet. It was drawn in an unknown substance near the body, a symbol 240 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:23.200 that only a member of our order can possibly know. It's not just any 241 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:33.359 member, someone significantly high up within it drawn without error in a steady hand. 242 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:53.960 Oh oh no, the mark of a true Hamsah. Thank you for 243 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:59.519 listening to ghost Wax, a production of Foreign Tall Tales. Find us at 244 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:04.319 Foreign tal Tales dot squarespace dot com. Ghostwax is an independent podcast. So 245 00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:08.599 if you liked the show, please rate and review and consider joining us on 246 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:15.319 Patreon at patreon dot com. Slash Foreign Tall Tales also give a listen to 247 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:21.920 our fantasy roleplay show Could Have Been Heroes for something completely different. Ghostwax is 248 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:26.279 written and directed by Robert Kannutsen, production and editing by Aaron Schoenrock. Our 249 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:32.839 theme song is by Bo Hoover. This episode features h. J. Raider 250 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:38.079 as Olivia, Robert Kannutsen as von sid Ala, Ilushka as Emiya, mark 251 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:56.640 Ar Kusha as Havan, and John Gregory as Gregory.