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 dock this morning. Bright. Your eyes will adjust the
time. Welcome to the darkness, everybody, Your eyes will adjust in time.
Hello, Hello, Welcome to table. Story's nocturn. How is everybody?
Oh? C K, Sorry, I cruft you weird? Hold on,
let me fix that. Wheep, there we go. Hold on,
I can move. We're we're so chatty before we go live, and then
the moment we go live, I'm like, how is everybody? And then
they're silent. I don't know if you're appaking to us or if you're asking
the chat like you're doing the intro thing, you know, but chat can't
say anything back, so I guess I've just been asking you. I mean,
like verbally. It was just like you know, I been talking to
doing what I do now. Just it's all chatbots, that's it. No
one's real. Oh god, real chat. I have that fair case,
like it's that episode of Buffy where she turns out to be in a mental
asylum and all her friends are imagined. I'm like, this can't be my
real life this m this must be a dream. God, that would be
horrific. Sometimes I wonder if we're in a simulation, let's get reborn.
I know you think, so, don't start. Well. This is one
thing that always like kind of brings me back. It's like, yeah,
sure, a lot of things could be happening, a lot of like anything's
possible, blah blah blah, but like, what do you choose to believe?
That's that's what always brings me back, Like what do I choose to
believe? I choose to ignore all those possibilities that I don't like and just
you know, be happy, Like yeah, existentialism in its finest. Yeah,
Like hey, if I'm if I'm leading live a good life and I'm
having fun, Like why fuck it up by thinking about like doom and gloom?
Yeah? I think I can. You can do both. You can
think about that. Like i'd say, sometimes I walk around and I'm like,
I'm most likely in a simulation, eh, and then I still go
about my day and it's not like it's going to ruin ruin everything. But
I don't know, Sometimes it's cool to think about. I think sure,
speaking of hard things to think about, I think Our question for today is
which actor or actress would you bring back from the dead, Which sounds like
necromancy, but I think we just mean we miss them and we would like
to have them back. Alan Ragman, Allen m Zeke. What about you
an actor that's dead that I would like to bring back? Can I say
Kevin Spacey because his career is dead? Because he was fucking amazing actor.
He was an amazing actor and fuck him in his ass of course, but
like, man, he was good. I hate it. Yeah, he
was, like I lament his career, just like I lamented Louis c Ks.
Was like, God, damn it, you guys, I fucking the
sucks come back to me. I'll think about I immediately answered Robin Williams.
But only especially, if only if he doesn't suffer, because I think the
reason he did it is because he had a mental degrading disease that was going
to debilitate him towards the end of his life. So I don't want to
bring him back so that he has to go through all of that again.
So that's the thing that he tried. I thought, like I was.
I saw someone say Heath Ledger, and I was like, yeah, that's
a good choice because like cut down on the prime didn't he didn't have a
chance to like really because he wanted like he he blew me away with with
uh you know, the Joker portrayal and stuff like that. Like he did
a lot of people. But another one that kind of got cut down before
like they could really bloom was River Phoenix. I would love to see what
River Phoenix would have done or Oran would have done, like yeah mm hmm,
Chris Farley, that's mine. He was like the guy that wanted me
to get into comedy and other things like that. Mm yeah, I said,
Brandon Lee Crow and that was just the worst. He had such a
bright future, give it. That was so good in mind. I watched
the Oh Please on Unsolved Mysteries episode of that whole situation. Yeah, and
it's crazy, like what had to happen for that that accident to occur,
with all the things that went wrong to lead up to that moment, it's
just it's just nuts. Yeah. And that's why we don't touch prop guns
on film sets, why we don't use real guns as prop guns. Yeah,
Like even a blank fire will kill you like that close enough up or
if it gets some gravel in the barrel. That's it. Don't touch them.
Of the first lessons I learned from like doing stage stuff, it's like
props mean property of not you unless it is you, and you'll know when
it's you. You have touch props unless they're your props. Thank you.
But but even in that instance, I think it was it was the person's
prop that they were supposed to use and they fired it and it just it
just killed him. It because because it had a real live bullet in it.
No, it didn't. It was like it had some sort of I
think there was some some of the casing left in it or something. Something
had gone in there. It hadn't been properly checked by the armor. Well
it actually had been checked. But what they had done was they they took
live ammunition and then unloaded it, like they took it apart and then put
the bullets back together and then left, you know, left it. Yeah,
so that's where it. Yeah, yeah, no KPP packs. Did
you guys have an answer? I think I would do. Scott Wilson or
Anton Yelchin. I have no idea who that is. Scott Wilson is most
known as playing Herschel in The Walking Dead recently, and a lot of other
stuff. Okay, Anton Yield, And he's been in a ton of stuff.
He was about twenty eight when he died, and he's been in Alpha
Dog, Green Room, He's in Star Trek. He's been in a lot
of really good movies. And he got crushed by a car. So yeah,
I remember that he was He was check off in the newer Star Star
Trek. Oh no, oh, yeah, I didn't even know he died.
Yea. Yeah, it was like a freak accident. Yep, that's
crazy. That's why they had a memorial for him in like one of the
newer movies, because they didn't replace him. They were just like, I
can't do that. I think that's what they did. Yeah, that wo'd
probably be a tie between Jean Wilder and Peter Sellers. Oh Wilders, that's
a good choice. That was a good one. They're both really good choices.
Yeah, I couldn't fuck Peter was the ship yea, God damn he
was good. Who played him in the movie recently? You're talking the Ping
Panther movies? Alright, Oh, the movie of his life? A damn,
I don't know, I don't know. Damn it great, that's gonna
bug me all episode. Yeah, get it done for us. Speaking of
which we're gonna We're gonna go ahead and dive into the episode recap while we
look up who this was in this biopic. It's a couple of minutes.
It's a hefty one, so enjoy it, and then we'll dive right in.
What's happening? Oh, nothing like that. Sounds like that, sounds
like an angry cat. I thought, I love your cat because he lets
you do that. But he's so mad, so unhappy. All right,
I'll go ahead and play the recap for last week's episode and get us in
the mood a little bit, and then we're gonna dive right into the episode.
Okay, mourning, what you were about to see may contain violence,
disturbing imagery, adult themes, and may leave you doubting who you really are.
Proceed at your own risk going to the sanctuary? Are you Are you
expecting a fight? Probably? Briah. Yeah. Do you know if you
have access to grand Theory? Because I know I can get there on my
own, you potentially could find your way to me. If I do that,
I can go. Look, if I give you something of mine,
could you find yourself to me and I look to Emma and she could Why
won't you look at me? What is going on? Just stop? Yeah,
shah, the other Emma in cold Blood in front of that bar while
you were picking songs in the jukebox. Take whatever you'd like with you,
pointing at Briar's bag just in case something goes wrong. Yeah, I grab
my bag and the gun. I can't bring anyone with me. Oh that's
the problem. I'm going to drive. Okay. Wait are you able to
talk to it? All? You like completely separating? Now? Ida,
the world around you darkens, almost like you're going to pass out, and
you find yourself standing in the veil before you is a tall, willowy,
shadowy creature with a large, wicked, grinning mouth, lots of teeth.
Can I help you? I'm looking for Broyer Perris. She's not here right
now. You know. There's two of us in a way. I'm the
butcher. Oh, right now, she's looking for a way to get you
all there with the dog m Do you not want her to I just want
there to be balanced. I feel like she's looking for a way to bring
you, but she has to find the door first. If I promise to
balance it, will you help her? They'll soon learn it all comes at
a cost. And that's when you slip out and your vision returns and you're
standing back in the parking lot. She'll probably kind of just like her head
will be shaking really bad, and just kind of like look back at Briar
and then look forward and then just start to move, leaving what would be
a trail of maggots and flash. But now, Lilith, when you do
this, when you look back to see Briar, you don't see Briar.
You see a very tall shadow with two heads where Briar was standing. And
I think my instinct will be I'll probably walk forward to where I smell the
door and just like let out this disgusting growl like a dog, pointing like
a hunting dog. Kind of okay, can you smell? For you?
After you think this through and you're driving for a couple of minutes, you're
thinking about what it was like on the couch with her in her presence,
where you could just be reading a book and then look up and see her
deep into her own book and just smile to yourself and think about how lovely
that is. You're thinking about that, and you're thinking about what you would
give to make sure she was safe at the end of all of this,
and what you would sacrifice and what you'd be willing to put aside, And
all of a sudden you're at a stoplight and a sign next you says,
welcome to Gan Theory. Good, I'm coming home. So yeah, you
pick a door and you open it and you see, welcome to Grand Theory.
All right, I'm gonna step through and I'll pat my leg. I'm
gonna trot right past her. No, don't go too far. I'll spin
around and stop. All right, I got someone gonna come pick me up,
us up, take us to wherever we're going. You don't have to
accompany me into the event, so to speak. So if I were to
say you're coming to an adult film shoot, I wouldn't be that far from
the truth. Closes the door. He looks at you. My name's Doug.
Doug. Yeah, some trick. So where are we going? Trick
A fIF fifteen minute drive from here, maybe twenty. We're going to go
to my We're going to go to my place. We pull up to tricks
driveway. He navigates the way, no, I let him in the garage.
I gotta I gotta go put in the code on the garage. Okay,
you go in to like punch the code in the garage, and as
you go to do that, and as you finished typing in the code,
you feel the connection between you and your hound, He's gone. The future
is the way of arriving unannounced. The case of this story, the future
never comes. Life can only be understood backwards. But it must be the
fotes. Nobody knows what's next, but everybody does it. Darkness is there
a world? And the hope is the bright stars that guide them of the
darkness your eyes with adjusted time. We begin today's episode with Henry, Brian
and Echo. Henry was at his garage door, punching in the code and
waiting for it to lift up and reveal something inside. Henry, go ahead
and rule for me already, okay, right and fifteen baby, would you
like to see the truth? Would I like to see the truth? Oh?
I have a choice, Okay, yes, I would of course.
All right. There are two colors in your garage. Now when you say
what I'd like to see the truth, does Trick know he can choose?
Yes? You can interpret it through roleplay how you'd like. But it's like
that itching at the back of your mind where you know something's off, you
know, and you say, I can either look the other way consciously.
I don't know if I want to see that, right. I'm just One
of the reason why I ask is because there's other people here, and I'm
wondering if I can tell, like what I see that is the truth,
and what they see, which they might not be the same. I don't
know if I can answer what they see unless they ask me. So you
see it though I hear it. I mean I view it as like two
like photo negatives on top of each other, and I know which ones,
which one's the which? Okay, please proceed. There are two vehicles in
the garage. You see your SUV and you see Theo's car. Okay.
I look at them in the car and I just give them the like the
finger, like one second, and I close the door. I go inside
and close the garage door. Okay, can you leave them out in the
car? Yeah? Okay, Now what are you doing. I'm going to
look and listen see if there's anything I see or hear that's well out of
the ordinary. Bus. The thing. I don't know. Is that a
thing anymore? Yeah? Is that a thing anymore? I think I know
what you mean, though, What would be out of the ordinary for you?
All right, go ahead and roll one more time for me? Okay,
five, got the hot hand tonight? Yeah, I'm gonna need it.
Rasing Theo's on purpose. Theo's car is kind of pulling you a little.
It interests you. Is it pulling me towards the fucking trunk? I'm
guessing yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind of like. I take half
a step towards the trunk, and I look at the trunk and I say
to the trunk, not now, motherfucker, got work to do. And
I walk inside. Okay, your pup, screet you at the door.
I get down on my knees even maybe like like roll on my back for
a second, and let them like sniff and lick me in that kind of
stuff, scratch them and give them some lovins. They seem very happy to
see you. Do you remember the last time you saw them? How long
it's been today? It's true today in real time. Yeah, it's felt
a little bit longer for you, I would imagine. Sure, I look
at their food bowl. It's empty. Actually, yeah, okay. I
look down at them, like, hang on a second, sweet babies.
I don't want to keep my company waiting. I'll be right back. And
I go to the front door and I open it and I call them in
with my hand. Oh okay, yeah, don'gal go ahead and park,
pull the keys out and get out of the car and wait for Brian and
Echo to exit. Okay, I don't wait for them to come in.
I go back inside. I leave the door like cracked, and I,
uh go grab the dog food and uh, it's the dog food I have
is ordered labels out, it's canned, it's high it's high end food.
And I opened one can each for them. Put it in their their respectables.
Make sure the water dish is full or whatever. I probably have one
of those like big water tower things that just like keeps it full. Mhm.
Does Echo and Brian join or do you guys wait outside or do you
rather not? Does? Oh? Yeah, I have no idea. I
would just go directly. And yeah, I don't know anything about the past,
about the situation. Okay, so this is your first time in the
house, Brian. It is incredibly clean, tidy, it's a gorgeous We
decided it was like, was it in two story or I mean, I
know it was two stories, but was it an a frame or what kind
of Sorry I know from the past episodes, but I don't know is now
so you don't you have to describe it? Okay? All right? And
there are two pups here as well. Oh hey, look at you guys.
I'll kind of pause in the doorway looking at them and looking at the
house. Something about it. It's making me feel a little uneasy. And
I see the puppies and I'm just kind of trying to suss out what they're
going to be like with me. I really really want to pet them,
but I'm a little nervous. They're very friendly. Oh then I'm straight down
on the floor on my knees, giggling and letting them lick my face.
Nice dogs have got there, they are, aren't they? See? They
like that one? Indeed? Good puffy? Hey Brian, Yeah? Did
uh? I can't remember? Did we acquired an item a flask from somebody
at the rabbit did? Did they ever give that to you? Yep?
I got it? Can I borrow it? Sure? I pull up the
flask out of my pocket, and I had it right over to dug in
there and he's on his way in. He uh said his payment was going
to be a liquor that was no longer produced. And since everything seems to
fit like puzzle pieces, I'm guessing. I'm guess it's the uh the mechanerck,
the mchanrick twenty one. You've gotten that flask there, so I'm just
gonna pour out again twenty one. Yeah, why that? It's it has
to do with another Brian. You want to know the streaming, the details
worry about forget? I asked, that's the That's the only thing that snaps
me out of the the puppy adoration moment. I'm having, like this talk
of another Brian and then he doesn't want to know about it, which seems
curious to me. But then I'm distracted by the puppies again. M hmmm.
Well, if the uh the hawker was true to true to his word,
I can pour this out and it will never deplete itself. It's some
sort of ever filling flask of whatever. I'm gonna grab a glass, I'm
gonna pour some in there, and I'll give you back the flask. Deal.
Yeah, I can hold on for him. Yep, I can hold
on to it, I kind of. I go to the door. See
where Doug's at. It looks like he is taking a call on his phone.
He's standing out. Okay, but it'll I'll just go wait then.
Yeah, he'll come in after a minute. Yeah. I'll just go inside,
grab a rocks glass and start pouring a like three four fingers of this
whiskey. You'll roll for me, okay, seventy four. Water comes out
of the flask. I smell it like, smells like nothing, like a
little bit of a taste. It's water. I take a little, just
the tiniest nip off of the flask itself. Roll again. Eighty one.
This is fucking water in this flask. M hm. I put the cat
back on. I hand it back to Brian well as you can see,
and I show him the glass might only work for you, man, because
it's water for me. Maybe that's how the magic works. Yes, I
have to find out another bottle of impossible to find whiskey. Let me do
that. Yeah, it's like grab it. I just opened the Okay,
wow, this actually is seized. Okay, hold on. There we go
hoping and I just give it a smell that do I smell? You don't
smell anything, just the tinge of the tin itself. Hmm. Man,
we might have I really hope we didn't get taken. The hawker was a
shady motherfucker, but it didn't seem like a liar. He's not shady.
Yeah, a liar, h not not not his style so much. But
wording. You gotta pay attention to the wording. That's what's okay. Yeah,
well, okay, how do you think this thing works? Can I
go to the kitchen please? So I go over to pacasa like you.
So I go over to the kitchen sink and I just open it up and
I tip it upside down. I leave it on the drain. I walk
away for a bit. Water is pouring out of it, okay, and
it continues to pour out of it. I can just hear it going down
the drain going down. Mm hmmm. All right, Uh question, Henri,
do you have anything for non alcoholic friends, like maybe a delkalaized beer
shot the dark? I mean I don't have. I don't have non alcoholic
like or virgin beverages, but I have I mean I have water and juice
and okay, well, we can try something here. Let me try some.
So I go to the kitchen. I'm in the kitchen, sorry.
I go with the fridge. Open up the fridge. I find whatever readily
drink. I see milk, orange juice. I'm gonna say orange juice.
Sure, why not? Yeah? And grab the orange juice out of a
poor glass and I start drinking it. And I pick up the flask and
watch the liquid on the flask and see what if anything changes, Go ahead
and roll, okay, eight? Would you like it to be orange juice?
I'm trying to imagine to be orange juice, and it's orange juice.
It changes to orange juice. And then I stop drinking and I'm looking at
it now still orange juice. I show that trick so that he can see
the color change of it. I so I pointed him. I point at
the liquor cabinet. I tell him to look at a drink you try.
I put the flask back down the sink just like it. Pour orange juice
into the sink because it's just a it's a fun little trick with the glass.
I'm kind of semi enjoying this flask. So how does this work?
I grab the flask and I think about something, or it's the bar on
wheels, I think, so pick what you want, make it, taste
it, know it, touch it, it should change. Give it?
Well all right? I uh. I go into the sitting room where I
have like a a nicely stocked like just little mini bar, and I look
and I look at the the Bombay sapphire gin and I look at it all
right, think about it, and then I like, take a little taste
of the flask. Taste exactly like you expect it to. It's gin,
very strong, it works, and I also forgot I fucking hate Jim Promsolve.
All right, good, all, so do I have to look at
that? Can I just Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna remember what the bottle
of Machindrick looks like. I'm gonna picture it, picture the label. I
can see the factory like printed on the label, like in the background,
I can see the big twenty one like in red letters on it. I'm
gonna think about it and then I'm gonna give it one more little taste and
see if it has changed. Okay, As you are thinking about this,
both you and Brian rolled incredibly well. Brian you're fully awake in this rendition
of yourself. I think you would know that if he's had this booze before,
it'll work better if he imagines it where he was standing when he had
it previously. Mm hmm. Okay, those things matter. Have you had
this drinker trying to concoction up right now? Have you had that before?
Yeah? Very little years ago. Do you remember where you had it?
Yeah? It was at a party. Remember I had it at a party
and someone saw me drinking on something else and ordered ordered two shots of it
and said this is the best whiskey. Blah blah blah, and then I
had it. I had it there, Okay, so not in the house.
I've never had it before. Then, No, not here, No,
No, I just I just stopped it. You had this, Yeah,
that's what I was going to say. Okay, that would all so
count if you were near where you had it stored anywhere? Well, actually,
the empty space where the bottle used to be. That okay, so
I'll tell them that. I mean I I stocked it on this bar right
there. I mean you can see there's a little space where the bottle used
to be. Okay, well, try this, then I'll go over to
that. Look your cabinet, stand right, will you'd be if you're pulling
a bottle and just imagine grabbing that bottle and dumping it into the flask.
Okay, I do this, I do all that. The stronger the memory,
the better the connection is going to be with that thing. It's a
lot like the bar. I close my eyes. I picture myself pouring myself
a glass worm or porn actually poor another brianed glass. What did it smell
like? It smelled like it smelled to me. It smelled like oak and
fire. And underneath there's a there's there's a fear that I feel underneath it.
What are you afraid of? I connected to my father because he was
a whiskey guy. And I just take the take the glass, keep my
eyes closed and kind of like just pour it into there and like smell it
as it's going. Remember that freeze that you would get when you hear your
dad come home. Yeah, you get that right now as you're poorn this
into the whereas you're imagining pouring this into the flask for just a second,
and then you can smell the whiskey coming from the flask. And then I
open my eyes to see if it's yep, that familiar brown color it is.
Okay. You hear Echo bursting into fits of giggles from the side of
the room, not on what you're doing, just the puppies. But there's
something about it that seems ill fitting for what's happening. Yeah, it kind
of pulls me out of it. I look at the glass. I mean,
I keep I keep pouring it into the glass until like until it's like
near full, and then realize what I'm doing, and then like, oh
shit, put it down, and uh well, actually I take it and
I bring it over to Brian's strong magic. You got brother on my magic?
Fair enough? I hope this is enough one. I mean i'd probably
get a girl man drum anything. Oh yeah, and I go back.
I set the glass down. Actually, you know what, I don't set
the glass down because I'm afraid if I set the glass down, I'll turn
fucking back into water again. So I'm just gonna keep it in my goddamn
hand, and uh I'll walk to the walk into the foyer where I'm sure
I see Echo just like giggling and playing with the dog. I'm fulling like
on my back at the moment with poppies just licking my face, giggling.
Doug has entered and closed the front door behind him at this point, By
the way, come on in. Just should I take my shoes off?
Or if you wouldn't mind, that'd be wonderful. No, I don't mind.
Are not friends, she's she's really a passion of dogs. I see
that. So I'm sort of on a tight schedule here. So okay,
I get you. I got something for you. I had to guess.
But I'm m take a whiff of that. Oh is that that's the and
he'll lean forward and smell it. Oh yeah, I need it kind of
to go, though, I'm not gonna drink it. I need it for
something else. Okay, thanks, So, like you know, to go
cup, coffee, cup anything, I'll uh, let's see. I probably
got like like a mug, like one of those like something you bring to
like Starbucks, something with a removal. Yeah, okay, coffee thing.
So I go to the cupboard. I pour it into that. I screwed
the top one. Yeah that's that's perfect. I'm just gonna leave it by
the door here and then i'll grab it when we're done. So what's what's
happening here? Well, you're gonna accompany me to the basement. We're going
to do two scenes. One of them is is you filming and calling out
directions while I perform on myself, and then when that's done, the next
scene does it happened very quickly? The next scene is you asking me how
how comfortable I am with men and k a cup at that. We I
have a conversation, very short conversation where the gist of it is if there's
money in it, I'll do whatever. And then you perform oral on me
and we have intercourse. You are on the bottom, I'm on the top,
and we I'll just guide you from there. Anything you have a problem
with ther Nope, sounds easy enough, all right? Do you go down?
Does anybody else go down with Henry and Doug down into the basement or
are you both going to stay upstairs. I'm still on the floor and I'll
be watching to see what Brian does because I'm very curious about what's happening.
But he's I feel kind of bonded to him after this stuff with the bar,
and he's been kind and I'm aware that I'm kind of out of my
depth. Right now. Well before we go down, I just look too.
To either one of you or to both of you, you're welcome to
stay up here, make yourself at home. If you want to come down,
you can. I'm not obviously, I'm not shy. So have you
got you do your work and I can can occupy myself up here. I
goo, you were talking about checking things out that you want to watch a
few seconds. It's not for what you think it is, mum, hum,
okay, no, I'm yeah, yeah, I think all right.
I feel a little strange about it, like I might have disappointed him or
something, but I'm too curious. Right, it's actually Henry. You'll probably
realize that's probably better for you because it's stronger, more power if it's as
close to an exact reenactment as possible. So if no one was else was
there watching you, you will do better if it's just the two of you
down there. Okay, okay, So if I would is that that's something
I would know? You said, right, Okay, I would Okay,
I would have to then I would could if I could retcon like inviting them
downstairs for that reason, Like you guys, go ahead, make yourself at
home. I'd invite you down, but in order to do this right,
it's got to be just me and him because that's the way it was when
it was. So I'll be back up in a little bit, probably take
a break in between scenes. Okay, So Henry is going to lead Dug
downstairs. Looks wildly uncomfortable. You'll know, he's kind of sweating a little
bit. But he heads downstairs with Henry, leaving just the two of you
upstairs. And actually we're gonna switch scenes here. No, we are going
to join Brier and Emma. So you guys have just stepped through. What
do you do. I'm still in dog form, I think, So I'm
like, I imagine you're not in spectral hound if you've crossed the Yeah,
just okay, yep, just regular dog. And I think when we ended,
she had told me to stop and not go anywhere. So I just
spun around and looked at her, and I think I'm feeling weird because I
don't know how to make independent decisions and I don't have anyone to tell me
what to do. So I'm just gonna stare at her and wait, I'm
gonna look behind me. Is the door still there? It's gone. Do
you want to stay that's a dog or no, I'll go back to human
form, okay, and stand up and just kind of look at her.
Did we just walk through the wrong door? I don't know it. It
doesn't sound well. No, no, I mean it's Grand Theory. Where
are we exactly? You are right at the entrance to the city. You
are on the road and it says welcome to Grand Theory. There are no
vehicles around you. There is a heavy fog in the area. Let me
see a couple of yards, but that's about it. Before it gets I'm
gonna pull my phone out of my pocket. Do I have a signal?
You do? Actually, let me try something. I'm gonna dial my own
number and call it. Okay, go ahead and roll for me. Three
you get it rings? Actually instead of going straight to voicemail, and on
the sixth ring you hear a click and a pickup. Hi, this is
Sherry. I'm not available to take your call right now. Please leave a
message or don't I hang up before it beeps? Okay, you calling a
friend? No, I call my own number and someone named Sherry has it?
Oh God, call my number. I don't even have a phone.
On me call my number. I'm gonna grab a phone really quick and type
my number into it. I'll just let her have it. Okay, show
me a roll, yes, please secretly or public is no matter public?
Okay? Oh god, Redfield, it goes it goes straight to voicemail.
But you recognize this voicemail. What does your phone sound like when you are
at work in the hospital and it goes straight to your voicemail? It would
say something like, I'm busy and if you don't know my schedule, you
had no reason to call me anyways. Beep but my voice. Yeah,
that's right. I'm just gonna pull it away from my face. Mine's still
there. Did you hang up? Yeah? Okay, and I'll take my
phone back. Oh, let's call the professor because if you were in the
right oh my god, yeah, oh my god. What if we're all
here? Okay, wait, we can't do that, don't we isn't that
way the trick and the we can't get well, we can go back,
I mean get them if this is the right door. Okay, okay,
yeah, I call it. Okay, I'm gonna call you, excuse me,
the professor. I'll dial his number. Professor is rule one more time
for me twenty two and doubles THEO. Your phone rings drinking. Uh,
yes, professor, it's it's brier. Uh I think so. I mean
I called you when you answered, So I'm gonna put on speaker. You've
made it. We maybe well done. That wasn't what I was expecting.
No, I just made it as well. Uh. I'm going to uh
and I send them an address to an apartment complex? Is it? Okay?
Should you make it in the apartment complex? That's the warehouse? Okay,
it is the apartment complex. Okay, I'm already there. I'll meet
you out in the parking lot. Okay, Well we'll head over now.
I guess we'll see you soon. Yes, yes, I'll see you that
soon. Okay. I hang up on him. Yes, just go here.
I mean, I'll just put it in Google Maps. Okay. Are
we gonna walk? How far is it from where we are right now?
Ten to fifteen minutes drive? Yeah, so i'd be like forty five minutes
to an hour walk probably. I mean, you could technically get there faster
than I could, can't you? Just the curtain? Is that not a
thing we can do to just skip? I mean I've never tried, but
I guess since we know where we're going, I can give it a shot.
I mean, I just I can't. I'm not letting you ride me.
No, I wasn't going. I was gonna say that you go check
it out, you make sure he's there, and I'll like find an uber
or something. Oh, yeah, we could do that. That's fine.
I'm sorry back, I mean, would that even work? Strong? It
might, but I'm I don't think I'm nice to feel in that form.
I mean I don't. I'm not not worried about that if it worked.
I mean, I don't want to make you uncomfortable, though, I mean,
why do you try the curtain out? Okay, go through the curtain
first. Yeah, I just I feel really weird. I don't I feel
I don't think we're in the right place. I don't feel trick anymore.
I don't feel trick at all. And I don't know if you noticed,
but the shitty put on my neck is pink. Now, I don't it's
I think we're in an alliances anymore. Yeah, you had that ball gag
or something right, Yeah, it was like something straight out of a fetish
book. Now I look like a fucking kitten. Yeah, yeah, that's
not right. Hum. I'm gonna turn around and Steve I can get back
into the veil to bring us to the coordinates that Professor gave us. I
need you to roll twice. Yeah. You start to feel a little unwell,
Brier, when you turn around to go and create this curtain, you
start to feel a headache creeping up in the back of your head, in
the lower back of your head, a little nauseous, and you turn around
too fast. And when you are trying to use this curtain, what this
would be creating a new ability? So I want you to describe what exactly
you would be trying to do. You're trying to pull the curtain to teleport.
Basically, I'm trying to pull a curtain, yeah, in a way
to teleport where you kind of pull it aside and you walk from one place
to the next that you want to go to. Okay, okay, but
not directly going into the veil in the reality that you're currently in. You
just want to peel back And in some ways I think Brier's trying to see
it. I'm trying to see if I can do that, but that if
I step into the veil. It's not the end of the world. I'll
just realize, oh, I can't do this. So I'm trying to like
access the curtain in general and hoping that I can just go to where the
professor gave us coordinates for all right, I believe you have. You'll be
rolling against your avatar skill. Mhmm. So go ahead and roll for us,
and let's see if this curtain works. I need buses, please,
Yeah, some serious quesses buses in the chat fifty two. What is your
skill? My avatar skill? Yeah, forty five. Okay, my soul
sixty five. Okay, that's that's all right. Okay, you pull back
this curtain and you see a parking lot. I'll hold it back and look
at Emma. I guess we just go through. I mean, I think
this is the right place. I mean, it can't be worse than what
we did, right. Yeah, I'll go first. I'll step through,
and I'll keep my hand holding it open for her. I'm gonna just slide
it next where nothing happens to you. You just step out into a parking
lot. Before I let go of it, I'm going to pull out my
phone and I'm going to see if the coordinates match up. So how are
you doing that? Are using like Google Maps? M Okay, you're closer,
but you kind of went instead of going directly to your path. You
kind of maybe went ten minutes north a little bit. But you are a
little bit closer. You would have to do this again or you'd have to
walk maybe five minutes, ten minutes, but at least you're within walking distance.
Now. Hey, it's not like I'll I'll let the curtain fall behind
me. It's not perfect, but we could walk the rest of the way
where I could try again. I'm showing em on my phone. Yeah,
try again. Okay, I guess little, don't. I'm gonna pull up
a Google street view mm hm, so I can see you can imagine it.
Yeah, there you go. Okay, have you ever been to Grand
Theory before, Brier, I've probably driven through it on like if I was
going on, is there bigger stores in Grand Theory than there are? Yeah?
I've been there for shopping and stuff. Okay, Okay, so all
right, go ahead and roll one more time, but you'll have a shift
because you have been here before and you're trying to visualize it now, okay,
rather than just using numbers yes, two, uh yeah, describe what
this is like and what it feels like most importantly, because now when you
do this, you have no doubt in your mind that you know what you're
doing. So how is it different from how you just did it? I
pull up the Google street View and I close my eyes and I visualize it,
and then without even opening my eyes, I reach for the curtain.
Almost feel like a buzzing towards my hand, and the curtain opens without me
touching it. And then when I open my eyes what I've seen is on
the other side of the curtain. That's good, Okay, I think this
is it. Okay, gonna walk in next or yeah, I'm just gonna
walk through and I'll check my phone to make sure. I mean it looks
right. Yeah, oh yeah. This is the place that you saw on
Google street View, and these are the coordinates. And this is accurate,
however, for the audience. As that curtain closes behind Brier where they were
in the parking lot, there is someone that we see in the tree line
there about five eight or five nine. They're wearing a hood, dark clothes
and they are wearing a mask, and they step back into the tree line,
and we move back to the two of you. Do we see them?
You did not know? The audience does, but you did not.
Okay, So so are you like a god now? I don't know.
But anything you can't do, Yeah, there's a lot I can't do.
I mean I couldn't find He just teleported us, you know. Can you
imagine if we ever get like, no, wait, I can go we
can go on trips and stuff. Oh my, I mean we could do
that right now. Thought about it, but we're here now though, when
the professor might see Yes, So it's probably a bad idea, probably right.
I don't like that guy. No, he gives me the the hebe
jeebis. I don't trust him. Has he given you a reason to?
I don't know. He just doesn't seem right. It's mna scan the metal
like metal, like irony, metal like blood that's copper, like a pet,
like a penny. It's not like people. Yeah, they smell like
food. I wouldn't need him, Like if you put a bunch of pennies
in your mouth. Yeah I did that when I was a kid. It's
gross. Yeah, I wouldn't. It's That's how I feel every time I'm
around that guy. It's just whatever. I guess he's the only one that
can do this. Whatever. This is why place is he here? Was
he supposed to be here? I'm gonna scan the parking lot. This is
an apartment complex now, but yeah, you are still in a parking lot
to the apartment complex. But you see a couple of cars, but you
don't see your Subaru, which is I think probably what you're on looking out
for, because that's what he drove. You don't see the super and you
don't see anybody standing out in this parking lot. No, since well,
I don't think I would remember this. Do I remember what apartment he lived
in? Theo's apartment is in Oh no, that's right. This is a
different place. Okay, different moment. Yeah, okay, I'll text him.
I'm gonna text him, where are you? We're here? There is
no response. Should we call him that needy? Needy? I mean worked
right, call that guy, call him for him too. Right now,
I'm going to call him on speaker, THEO. Your phone is ringing,
Yes, yeah, we're here. Where are you? Well? I'm looking
out right now the window. I mean, I I don't see the car.
What what number? What? What apartment. Are you in? But
no, I I'm in five to one? Yeah, but did you drive
the car? Yes? I got here. Oh god, you're not virtually
here, are you. I mean we're in the parking lot. If I
scan the building, do I be a five to one? Yes? You
do? I mean I see the number you're talking about. I just don't
see the subaru, the current or not. The curtains are closed for the
apartment. I think you are in the wrong, Bruce. It's a good
half of her. I don't think your word is supposed to be Okay,
I guess maybe we how I have a lot of questions, but I guess
we'll go back by it again. I don't think it worked. Okay,
Yeah, I don't think it worked either. Okay, I guess I'll we
got we gotta figure this out. I'm gonna hang up on him, should
we check? I'm guessing it didn't work. I don't. I mean,
he told me I can literally locate anyone in the world with my nose,
But I don't know if that crosses a time line. I don't think I
can smell him if he's not here. I don't think it's well, like,
can you smell like, if he was here right now, would you
be able to smell him that that iron copper penny smell? Yeah? Do
I smell it? You'll have to roll for me. However, I will
tell you you are in your human form, so it'll be much harder for
you to smell anything in your human form. In your dog form, you
might be able to smell something. The way that it usually works, just
so that everyone understands your ability is when you're a human, you have heightened
senses. Still, when you're a pup, you know you have dog like
senses, and when you're in your spectral form you have supernatural senses. And
then you have an ability that allows you to sense wherever that person is anywhere
in the world. And you have used it once before, but we don't
really know the extent of where it goes from here, because, like anything
in this world, magic changes and shifts the way you use it. So
it could potentially allow you to interdimensionally find someone, but we haven't tried it
yet. Okay, I'm going to look at Brier and like sigh, all
right, I'm gonna do the thing. Okay, it's gonna suck. I
don't know if I can talk to you here. So should we come up
with like sign language for yes and no? I could hear you in there?
Could I can I hear her out here? I don't know, We'll
have to see. I mean, I guess it's probably good to have it
as a backup plan. And I could hear you in the veil. Maybe
I can hear you out here, but just in case I can't. Okay,
No, I'll scratch the ground with my right paw. Okay, yes,
I'll sit. Okay, I'm a fucking dog prior. I know how
to give you a job. It'll be fine after. I mean, we
just gotta get through this and then we're gonna figure it out. We are
gonna have to pick up the pieces. Okay, Okay, can be fine.
I fucking hate this. Okay, here I go, and I'm just
gonna burst all over her, into flesh and guts and maggots, and in
the place would just be like this, heaving, molting, bloody, bony,
maggoty dog resembling somewhat of a pitpole. I'm gonna shake my head and
maggots will fly off everywhere. This is your dog form, or your spectral
form. Spectral Okay, keep in mind that does take charges to change into
your spectral form. It takes minor charges, right, minor? Yepkay,
you have Yeah, you have too significant and you have a shit ton of
minor. But I just want to make sure you're keeping track. I am,
thank you, okay, okay, And then I'm gonna kind of pace
in a circle and like sniff the ground a little bit. And then I'm
gonna try to sniff real hard and see if I can smell him anywhere in
the area. Not my special smelly ability. Just do I smell the penny
smell? You do? Not? You smell a lot of other smellsone I
know, Okay, yep, go ahead and roll because I knew you were
gonna say that. All right, let's thirty four. Are you so you're
sniffing the ground? Are you going anywhere else? Or are you just doing
it in spot? No? I think I'm pacing up and down. If
we're in the parking lot, i'd probably start pacing the cars. Do you
go near the building? Yes, okay, yeah, that would be I'd
probably go up the stairs and see if I could smell them anywhere. Oh
then, hell, yeah, you smell the faint coppery scent coming from five
oh one. Okay, I'm gonna trot up to five oh one and just
sit in front of it. Can I hear her thoughts? You cannot?
Okay, here, so I'll just go up the stairs. You cannot see
her either in this form, by the way, but I'm sure you could
hear her padding around on the ground. But just they are aware you cannot
see her, my nasty tail. Will I hear her? Yeah, you
can hear her padding on the ground, She's like moving around. Okay.
Then i'd probably follow her wherever she was going. Okay, So if I
went to touch her, would I be able to feel her? Yeah,
you can feel her when you touch her, but she can't see her.
Okay, So I reach down and start touching her. Sorry, I'm just
doing this to make sure you're sitting. And I touched down her back.
But then I start petting her so she knows it's okay. Yeah, So
I'll just start like petting her just instinctively and notice that she's sitting. And
so, what's the door number? I misspoke, it's five twenty one.
Okay, Yes, let's go in. Even though I can't see her,
I'm still talking tour and I'm gonna knock on the door coming here, I'm
feet uh and the door opens, and standing before you is a Desa Bellow
and that's where we're gonna go to break, shitting me, shut the fuck
up. Let just smell the desa what well, what well, well,
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return to THEO, THEO. Where are you? I am driving to Adze's
apartment, right, okay? And what's this drive like for you? Because
it's been quite a while. Yeah, I don't get to make the drive
that often. It's not too many cycles. I actually make it this far.
Probably, I feel like in this one it's probably been maybe a year
or so. Nostalgic is maybe the right word. It hasn't changed. Everything
looks exactly like I left it, which makes sense. What does it look
like? It's a mid sized town, grand theory. It's not a small
little town. It's probably one of the bigger ones in this area. The
place that people go shopping, the place that if you were going to travel
for a time Arsty festival, you might even if it's an athmore, maybe
you'd stay here if you wanted somewhere a little nice, maybe an actual hotel
instead of a motel. Because it's in the middle of nowhere. Streets are
actually pretty clean, there's a good amount of activity. People would be walking
on the streets like it's a safe place and people are friendly and everyone knows
each other. That's kind of that town. Mid size for the area is
maybe a better word. It's Yeah, that's what it would be normally.
Did she ask you to move here? Did you consider moving here for her?
Yes? And yes. We discussed it a long time and realized it
would probably be better not to because I still have to work in Athmore and
she still wants to and has to work here in grand theory. So we
ended up doing kind of weekends together. A lot of the time. We'd
trade apartments, so she'd stay at my place for a while, I'd stay
at her place for a while. If maybe I had a few days off
in the middle of the week, I might go travel up and vice versa.
There was a lot of like apartment sharing. Which apartment did you prefer
hers? I think I had mentioned before that my apartment in Athmore was very
clean, very tidy, very neat, and that was a lot of because
of her, so her habits kind of bled over in that sense. But
I still always preferred her place because it felt more homey, still very neat
and tidy, but still it was so welcoming, like it was made to
receive a guest and keep them there for a long time. So you arrive,
I don't want to say you get into the apartment, because I don't
know, would you go into the apartment right away? Would you sit in
your car just for a little bit, just to look and see, like
are the curtains drawn? Are they open? They are closed? And you'd
expect that it's usually how it is, But at this point there's no point
in not taking a moment to check. Leo's basically always had time, so
he kind of just is looking to see if there's anything out of place.
So I'd like to use mcanny's sight. Yeah, go for it. Eighty
one. It is one in the afternoon for you, I think, so
the time window has passed, so you know she's not there. Yeah,
so that's normally what's sitting with you while you sit in this car, like
she's not in there. And I've known I've never been able to beat her
from leaving when I've tried, She's always gone by the time I get here.
Yeah, I know roughly when she leaves, but I can never get
here before then. What time does she leave? Roughly? I believe the
call was at eleven every day, and it was usually about eleven thirty is
when I kind of gathered that she had left the apartment. She was kind
of excited heading toward the Sanctuary, and I think the earliest I've ever been
able to get here is about noon, So I'd be kind of like the
just misser sort of thing. When I'd anticipate it, wake up, try
to drive here. Something would happen on the way to the drive, and
I'd lose a number of hours before I could even get here. What do
you do now? With you? As usual my book, Get out of
the car, take the key with me. This is the super Ruin,
not even my car, and lock the car and go up the stairs to
a Deese's apartment. You have a key, right, yep, yeah,
absolutely, we had keys for each other's apartments. So you go in the
key, you know, obviously it fits, turns in, you don't hear
anything, and you go inside. What do we see? What does this
apartment look like? Very modern, so kind of those like the matte black
and silver kitchen, where kind of semi nice but well well loved, like
you know, pleather couches, so like they're they're not quite ripping and fading,
but like you can tell that it's got the creases from being sat on,
kind of like you would see. It's just it's not a big apartment
at all, it'd be like a maybe two bedroom apartment, so you'd have
your office, you'd have the bedroom, and you'd have the living room and
kitchen next to each other. When you enter the apartment, you said,
not a big apartment at all, and here Toronto, I'm like, okay,
so like five hundred square feet and then you're like two bedrooms probably okay.
I mean now for a small town, that's that's that's a standard.
Like small towns have bigger apartments for the same price. You'd get a closet
here in front exactly, I gotcha. Yeah, okay, So yeah,
it's just it's very tidy. There'd be some papers probably on the like the
not the desk, but the table next to one of the armchairs. I've
just nothing in particular, probably some research notes that I've gone through dozens of
times trying to see if there are any clues to the ritual, and there
aren't. Every time I checked it was just something on it fology that I
had written, or but nothing. This time is different. So do you
check anything again? Yeah? I checked the papers just to see if maybe
there's something I missed or something that there is there this time, same old
papers anthropology, notes you took things like that, Yeah, what are you
hoping to find here? I'm not sure. Part of the routine. Make
it the grand theory. Check her apartment just to see if something changed,
to see if maybe she's still here this time. Yeah, I know that
she's not. But it's at this time that your phone rings. And then
you have the conversation with Brier and Emma and go to the window during that
conversation and they're not there yet, and tell them that this is wrong and
they didn't make it. Now, what are you thinking when you realize they
went to the wrong place? What is your thought process? Like a bit
of panic, which is what I tried to convey to them. Panic that
they may have screwed this up. They need to get here. Panic because
are you worried for them? Worried that it might be messed up? This
is our last shot. And after all those the call and the conversation,
go to the bedroom, do my normal sweep, see if anything's changed,
which I'll roll for that ninety seven. Nothing's changed. Yeah, sorry,
I just need to look something up. Please go ahead, I am still
listening, and go to and just take a seat on the bed and think
for a moment because I want to see her again. But actually her,
not the monster, not what I keep seeing. You haven't seen her other
than the monster form, right for the past eight years. Yeah, and
other than her body in the back of your trunk. Right. Yeah,
that's not really but that's still that's not an enjoyable experience, right, Are
you going to wait here for them the you? No, I'm going to
do something a little different this time. I head into the bathroom and look
for her hair brush. Yeah, her hair brush is there. Go and
pull off a number of like clumps of hair that are usually stuck on a
hair brush. Good sir, All right, I'm listening. What are we
doing with this hair? Holding on to it for now? Okay? Pocket
it? All right? Are you taking anything else? Yeah? I look
for her knife. Oh, go ahead and roll for me. I never
saw her use a knife, but forty nine because of Izzy having one.
He's thinking maybe there's some similarities he wasn't realizing at first. So where do
you look for this knife? He's looking at all the bathroom drawers, because
if you're going to do anything drastic, you're going to probably do it in
the bathroom, or you can clean up easier, there's nothing in the bathroom,
and then from there he'll go and look into the bedroom and look in
the night stands and then the dresser. If there's nothing in the nightstands,
there is something in the bedside. It is actually a casing in which a
pen would sit. The pen is not in it, but you can surmise
it definitely it's as is. He said, which I think she had said
out loud before, that she had a pen that she kept. Yeah,
pen or maybe even a pen knife. I think, yeah, it was
a pen knife. Yeah. Yeah. The box. If you pull the
box out and look at it, that's exactly what it is, the box,
and it's got the like velvet on it so that you could just lay
it in there. Yeah. So yeah, he takes that pen knife box,
places the hair in that so it's not loose, and then pockets that
whole thing and then moves to the dresser and starts digging through to see if
there's anything you missed this time, or if something's different outside of clothes and
whatnot. Are you angry at finding this part that you didn't know about?
Concerned? Not angry, concerned for her, concerned for your relationship, for
her why he's starting to piece together that a sick ritual wasn't well. He's
known that the ritual wasn't good based on how everything turned out, but he
never knew what it was for and still doesn't quite Okay, But yeah,
when you're searching, are you doing anything else to help aid you in your
search or are you using your or site or anything like that. Yeah,
I'll be using my orosite because she was one of the few people, as
we've found in the past, that he could kind of catch traces of her
scattered around things. I've also just been assuming that because of how you've described
your relationship and your affection for her and your unwavering trust in her. I've
just been assuming these last eight years of you you looking around, you've just
kind of written it off. But now that you actually have evidence that there
may have been some secrets she kept from you. Yeah, I will let
you go ahead and uh rule six way under my skill. Oh yeah,
So describe what this is like when you light up the uh the aura site
and you go looking around the apartment. So now that it was a Wraith
born is our site works just a little bit differently. Before you kind of
had to defocus, like in a you know, the the U the magic
picture books whatever those were called, or you had to like defocus and you
can see the image behind stuff, and that's how we'd kind of activate it.
Now it's more like he partially goes a little spectral to kind of look
more. And where does he look first? Oh god, I just lost
all sound? Did my cat? Oh my god? One second, I'm
so sorry. Please go on. My cat just sat on the mute button.
That is all right, muting everyone or muting it was just you.
It was just you muted. So you went into your spectral form? And
where do you go and search? First? So he doesn't go into spectral
form, but he like almost okay, to make it easier to catch the
auras, which are more or less a part of the spectral. That's why
he was able to see them in the first place. So that's kind of
what he does. He more or less partially like pulls himself into that realm
just enough to start seeing bits and pieces of it. And so he's now
looking for anything with very recent residue, very recent aura of a desa.
What you would have gone to first or next? Oh, okay, when
you look in with your our site. Everything lights up and you can see
you can see her aura that you recognize, and then you can also see
residue of something else like her aura mixed with a different color that you're not
expecting. Does it look similar to her monstrous form? Yeah? It does?
Actually, yeah it does. And it leads to a wall in the
apartment on the right hand side of the bathroom. Anything else odd? Yeah,
before I check that out? Was there anything else that stood out in
the dresser? There's nothing else in the dresser now, okay, just closing,
so that's all right. Well, then THEO walks over to that wall
and starts looking to see where it's concentrated, probably for a handprint or something
like that, where someone might press or push, because this strikes him it's
very odd. And why would she walk up to a wall without doing something
to it. There doesn't appear to be anything standing out from the wall with
your regular human eyes or with your oro site. Are you feeling around the
wall? Absolutely? Okay? And do you limit it to the wall if
they like? No, If if nothing is found there, he'd maybe go
around to the other side of that wall. So like, if it's you
said it's in the bathroom. No, so the wall it leads to her.
Aura continually goes to this wall next to the bathroom. But when you
go into the bathroom, it's just the bathroom. Like you, it's to
the right side of the bathroom, and there is actually space behind the bathroom.
I mean like he'll be feeling around, like, hit on it a
couple of times to see if it sounds hollow. Yeah, so I'm gonna
start looking around to see if I can find something that'll push it, or
if there's any seams that he can notice anything if this is a if this
is what I think see is, which is a room behind this? Yeah,
there is no seam or anything that you can see. Unfortunately, what
are you doing? Osa? And he plops onto the bed and goes spectral.
Okay, go ahead and roll for me, I would like to declare
a goal, and that goal is specifically what was she hiding? Okay,
finding out what she was hiding from me. So this just so the audience
is clear. This means any role that you make while this is declared related
to this. Correct, Yes, yes, okay, go ahead. That
is a fifty one which matches my skill. I will i will say yes,
okay, then I will roll again. Okay, we're going spectrum,
which I will make us seventeen by we'll change that, okay. So I
think, why don't you go ahead and describe this for us, because it
is your ability to switch that. So what is it like when THEO starts
to goes back to feels like he's going to fail, and then tenacity pulls
through and he forces himself to go through. So he was walking a path
that is the whole thing of the Pilgrim, and especially being an avatar in
the Pilgrim, and it when he's found his goal, something is very clear
in front of him. He can tell when he's slipping off of that path
and readjusts his balance kind of like pulling out like the the a tightrope walker's
balance and kind of like readjusts, so he kind of leans back onto where
he needs to be. It feels almost like he's jerking himself away from where
he doesn't want to go. Okay, you're now spectral. Anything else that
was in here that I couldn't see with oris sight now that I'm in the
spectral realm, No, Okay, that's reassuring, mostly because I didn't want
to see something just chilling there looking at me. Yeah, nothing else.
Okay, I go through that wall. There are books, notes, notebooks.
It's a little nook that you've never known about, she's never told you
about. They all look physical. Yeah, they're all physical things. Yeah,
this was an actual nook that she could access. I look around first
before looking at any of these or trying to read what they say on the
spines or if anything's opened, and see if there's a door somewhere or a
switch on which side, so I can kind of maybe determine what side or
where it might be. There is on the on the back of the wall
where you just came through, there is a simple and there is an inlet
in the wall. What is the symbol of It looks like it's kind of
a twisting either rope or you might recognize it. Actually, let's go ahead
and have you roll and you do get to use your ability for this,
because this is about finding what's hidden. Okay. Sixty seven. Okay,
it's under my soul and mind. Okay, So you vaguely remember seeing the
symbol in that she probably had something on her person that would then activate it
and allow it to open. It is magically sealed this wall. Okay,
so there's no standard switch or anything like that, could be either breaking it
physically or having whatever that that pendant or item is. Okay. Yeah,
I start looking around on those books first to see if there's anything like lying
open. Is there a desk in here? Is it just like there's a
little jeskin here? And yeah, there is a notebook lying open? And
see what weather bound journal? It's a leather bound journal of hers. What
is it open to? It's open to today's journal entry this morning or last
night's before she called you, before she called you this morning, but after
she called you last night at like eleven pm, being like, guess we
gotcha? Yeah, what does it say? Oh god, I'm going to
need you to roll. We'll slip that to a twenty four twenty four.
I don't think it matters what it says, because your words, your eyes,
you can only focus on my proxy THEO, and something about that really
troubles you. And I need you to one more time for me, and
this is not something you can switch forty nine. What's your avatar stat?
Fifty one? Oh boy, these desires you've had to save her at the
risk of sacrificing everyone else, nobody else meaning anything to you. Is that
love or is it a spell? Do I know that? I think you
know? Now? Yeah, I start thinking through the first time we met,
the first time she talked about magic, the first time we did magic
together, all those little moments, every happy memory, every sad memory where
there's sad memories. Go ahead and roll this one. You get to flip
twenty five pet slipped. You can recall no sad memories aside from anything you've
had in the last eight years and seeing her in the way, in her
state of course, but no thinking back. No, you can't remember any
sad memories as you are flipping through the pages of her journal, probably a
little bit more feverishly. Now. Yeah, you can go to the beginning
and you can read about how she met you on your first date. It's
very hard to read because, like any relationship in its early stages, she
was sort of flippant about it in the beginning. And then yes, she
does write about how there is promise and there is potential. She thinks she
can trust you, and she thinks she can manipulate you. There are details
about the spell about how to make you a proxy. There are details about
succeeding seeing the spell, seeing the components and everything. Is that enough to
know how to break it? You remember a little bit about proxies. I
tried it. Yeah, it didn't work. It's that's you want to know
why. Now you know why it didn't work. You can't proxy a proxy.
That's why it didn't work. You can't recall off the top of your
head right now exactly how to break it. But it is possible. You
can break it, and THEO I need you to roll one more time.
Nine. You find something else in this journal. The ritual. You see
the original that she's based it off of, and you find her notes describing
what she thinks she can make it. The original ritual was something about the
ability to change worlds, moving from reality to reality, and it was something
only a secret group of people used. This book is not hers, This
book is not yours. She has taken this book from somewhere. She talks
about that as well. She talks about going to the book I have the
book you have, that's right. She talks about finding out that her grandfather
had sent her away as a kid. She writes in detail about watching Brier
as a kid and like going to this cabin and finding this book in this
cabin, Actually not in the cabin. She talks about finding it in a
van that was parked outside the cabin and how she took it and how angry
she was and how she was going to use it to exact revenge. And
then that desire faded after a year or two, and she went back to
the book and found this ritual. And this ritual should allow you to switch
from reality to reality. But with her abilities combined, she thought she could
change it to allow herself to take power from herself in other realities into this
one, kind of like the butterfly effect sort of thing exactly. She writes
about wanting to become an avatar and that this is her way to do it.
He was looking for something as he flipped through and sees farther and farther,
like of all of this going along, and it's one thing that he
wants to know. What do you want to know? Did she ever care
about him? Go ahead and roll seventy five and flip it to a fifty
seven. She writes about you more like a pet, a pet that's loved,
a pet that's useful. Theo closes the book and we're going to switch
scenes and we're going backwards. So Brian and Emma, oh you open or
there were opens? And Adisa Bella is standing right in front of you,
and she seems a bit surprised to see you. What are you doing here?
Uh? Is THEO here? No? Why are you looking for THEO?
You're not gonna like ask like, who are you? I know who
you are? Do you know who I am? Yeah? I'm gonna like
reach down and like wiggle my fingers to feel if Emma's still there. I
think Emma's still there. Emma, did you leave? Yeah, Okay,
she's still still there. She's still there, horrifictly silent. I think this
is a mistake. I'm gonna start backing up. I don't I don't know
about that. Blair. Yeah, I'm just looking for THEO. It just
seems like he's not here right now. So I'll come back another time.
But you you came all this way. You don't want to talk to me?
Why would I want to talk? Do you rule forty six? Oh?
You ruled better than she? Did? You feel weird sort of mental
probing happening right now? Can I you can you have stopped it. You
have blocked it. Yes, your roll beat hers, but you can feel
it because she didn't rule as well. I just sat off my head.
She's a bit surprised by that. What did you want, ce K?
I wanted to try to sneak into her apartment while they're talking. Oh yeah,
you can totally. Okay, I totally sneak into the apartment while they're
talking, and I'm gonna start sniffing around. Okay, what are you looking
for? I'm trying to smell for you see if it gets stronger if I'm
in there, it's faint. You can smell him in certain places, the
kitchen, by the coffee maker, the bedroom, if you go there,
like you can smell him all over this apartment, but not strong, like
he's actually here. Okay, I want to go. Does she have like
a study? They have like a study? They have like a yeah,
desk, they do have an office kind of area with a desk, and
there are books and things in there, and notes and stuff. I want
to go in there and see if I see anything that looks like important.
Okay, go ahead and roll anything with the symbol on it or like a
big important looking book on her desk or something like that. Okay, oh
nine, thank god, Yeah, you see where your scent takes you.
I can't fucking believe this. I'm sorry for those listenings. She rolled a
nine. Okay, so you're like moving around. You can kind of smell
him. You went to the kitchen, you kind of go into the study,
but then your nose is kind of like poles. And you look over
by the door and where she is standing and speaking to Briar, thinking it's
Blair next to her, looks like her bag. It looks like she's about
to leave, and that bag smells really fucking powerful to you. I'm gonna
very silently pat it behind her and try to lift the bag with my mouth
and back away with it, away back into the apartment. No like out
Okay, Well she see it. She can't see I mean, I can't
see you, but she is facing the door. So if you okay,
I'm gonna take it and book it out the door as fast as I can.
I need you to roll to be able to pick it up and take
it, okay, and then I need you to roll the book it.
So the first one is gonna be actually a soul roll like anything magical,
and then you're gonna be rolling against your speed, against my speed. Okay,
we really need some busses in the chat, yep, I need some
busses. You guys can light it up for me right now, that'd be
really great. Okay, Okay, here we go. Gosh, anxiety,
I'm picking up the bag. Oh my god, I got a thirty.
I picked up the bag all right again. Up there, I have the
really super powerful bag in my mouth. Here we go. I'm gonna roll.
I rolled it to I'm fucking out of there. Wow. Okay,
dog, yeah, thank you for the bus fires. Okay, So I
would like narratively because the only way for this to occur without her having noticed
is some magical bullshit that did not occur. So Briar, describe what it
is like when you do distraction here, because you see her pick up this
bag and you see the floating bag. You don't see her, but you
see the floating bag of contents, and she clearly is gonna come in towards
the door. So you've got to do something. Why the fuck are you
in my head? And I'm just gonna start waving my arms. Okay,
what the fuck is wrong? With you. So you like get up and
wave your arms in her face and Amma is able to well, lil if
now is able to like get out and down this around the corner. I
assume you don't go down the stairs. You just get out of sight Emma
with the bag. Yeah, I think I'd get I'd probably crouch down with
the bag, and then I'd wait for her to distract and as I went
by, I might try to like throw a diza off, like bump into
her and throw her on her feet a little bit. Oh wow, Okay,
that's another rule. Oh yeah, okay, oh god, No,
that's fine. I mean you don't have to bump into her. But okay,
then I don't want to, Okay, I'm getting the opportunity, thank
you. Nope, I just want to wait for distraction. Okay. Yeah,
So she distracts and you are able to dash out and dart around the
corner and hide there without moving and making a sound with the bag. Briar,
you have seen that she has taken this bag. I'm gonna I'm sorry.
I asked you who you if you knew who I was, I know
who you are. Yeah, but why are you in my head? And
I'm gonna start putting my hands fire face weird about it? Do you like
this? I'm probing you. Okay, well, no, of course I
don't like it, and stay out of my head. She laughs. This
is what it could have been like. You know, that's that's that's what
siblings do they you know, stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop
hitting yourself. And she reaches out and she kind of like smacks you in
the face a little bit, but she's laughing, and I'm gonna like push
her arm away. I don't Maybe this is a conversation for another day and
maybe we can deal with it then, but I think I should go.
Okay, well, you know, I would love to talk to you and
get to know you sometime, Briar. I have somewhere to go anyway,
so today it's not a good day for me either, But I well,
maybe not do that. You will notice, she said Briar and not Blair,
and that is weird. Apparently you're not being fully honest with me,
kind of like your boyfriend. So I'm gonna go you take care whatever you
need to have a good night. I'm gonna turn walk away from her.
Oh my god. Okay, we actually have to switch scenes. But before
we do that, I need Emma and I need well not Emma. Well,
yes, Emma, I need Emma and and Brier to roll for initiative.
Please, we're gonna switch seems away from her. Would you like to
know the key word that you said your boyfriend? Your boyfriend has been talking
to you. Yeah, now she knows something's wrong. People say that though,
like mocking, like your boyfriend. Yeah, but why would THEO be
talking to you? Why would the O be lying and not being forthcoming to
you? It tipped her off? But yeah, fair, all right,
go ahead and roll your initiative and then we're gonna switch scenes to Henry.
I got eighteen yeah, twenty one? Oh wow? Okay, all right,
rolling initiative and then switching scenes defies. I know, I know,
deal with you. Just sit and stew I'm stewing. Split the party three
ways next time. Okay, I'm doing the best I castag playing Briara.
No shit, she lived the door open for us, So all right we
are now joining. Uh Henry, Henry, do you want to tell us
how you're feeling right now? Uh? Where do you want? Do you
want to be? Like? After the scene is done or before or what
say, let's do both. I want to kind of know how you're feeling.
We're not going to those listening, We're not going to go into graphic
detail about the scene, but I want to know what Henry is feeling before
and you know, I want to know that kind of stuff. So that's
what we're going to talk about right now. Okay, So yeah, go
ahead and tell us what's it like, you know, as you're getting ready
for this. Like so, Trick Magnum was born on this day. This
is his birthday. He remembers it remembers the smell of the room. The
room. It was a basement just like this, well not just like this,
but it was close enough, and it smelled like like sweat and had
that that tang of sex in the air. Trick kept in the the first
camera that he ever recorded his first scenes on. So before the scene starts,
you see him in the basement closet, rummaging around through old boxes of
stuff, different keepsakes and all kinds of different stuff until he finds Until he
finds that old camera takes an extra second because he has to find the the
cord to plug into the wall because the batteries are not charged. Well,
he finally finds it, gives the camera to Doug, looks, looks around
the basement. Takes another few minutes to push push the because it's a it's
a nice big sectional, so he has to push one couch, one part
of the sectional away, so it's just like a a piece with two cushions
and just a white background, white wall background, and nothing else there.
And as soon as he gets done pushing the the part of the sectional into
place, he turns around and looks at Doug and it just feels right.
It feels like like an old basketball star coming back to his high school.
Everybody's cheering for him. He went off and played a little a little bit
in the in the majors and or the you know, became a pro for
a little while. But he comes back to his high school and you hear
the crowd cheering. He's a hero. It feels like home. And you
see like Trick looked down and then just smirk to himself and he looks up
at Doug says, I'm gonna call action and then you'll know when to cut
you ready, let's go. So my questions for you, Trick are h
what does it make how does it make you feel during? Do you think
about why you're doing this during or do you just kind of lose yourself in
the moment of what's happening. Are you constantly thinking about no, I was
here in doing this? Is it very mechanical? Are you trying very hard
to make sure it was exact? Yeah? The mind is more on the
remembering how this went the first time, getting everything precise, okay, because
there's no joy in what I'm doing. There is, It's just it's like
trying to deconstruct a math problem. Okay, my hand was here. I
looked at the camera. Then I remember this was the look on my face.
This is where I asked the director what to do? Do you want
me to keep going? Where do you want my eyeline to be? Listening
to the director telling me to just feel it? You're doing great, giving
me like the boost that directors do. So while you're doing this trick,
every time you say to yourself my hand was here, I was saying this.
The more meticulous you are, you feel a thrill of power. The
longer this goes, the more accurate you are, the stronger you are becoming.
I think I feel the call of the ritual of it. Yes,
it's not about sex, it's not about anything other than than the power I
will receive the reward at the end, the pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow. And then my mind drifts, not drifts, but underneath
it all there's thought, thoughts of Lilith and how what I'm doing is not
just for me, but it's for us. Okay does that? What does
that do for you? Mentally? It strengthens my resolve, my determination,
my attention to detail, the meticulous nature on which I'm trying to perform this
because I'm not it's I've never had children, but I imagine it's similar when
you have to think about not only yourself, but how are you going to
care for the people you love. I needed to roll for me fifty three.
So you notice, probably about midway through, that you don't have to
tell Doug what to do anymore. He's just doing it. Your abilities,
your power that is coming up from this ritual is seeping back into itself,
and you are sort of controlling Doug and how he feels, and his face
is moving to how you want it to move. Expression is changing. How
does this feel? Does this feel good. It's it's kind of like the
first time that you have when you lose your virginity to somebody who is similarly
unskilled. If there's a lot of nervousness and fumbling, but eventually you sort
of get into this, get into the rhythm, and Doug like, I
remember, I we're coming to a part of the of the shoot where the
original filmer Phil phil right, Yeah, I fel Yeah. His name is
his real name is still is Richard Hanger. He actually came down and went
in for a close up. And I didn't have to tell Doug to do
that. No, Doug just knew. And it's like he doesn't. It's
very clear Doug doesn't know. He's just doing right and you, you are
controlling it and you know that like you going here's next, this is next.
It's more like he is a puppet in this moment. He's still there,
but the ritual has taken over and you both are reliving this moment.
You are re enacting it. You don't have to try to remember any more
either. You just do what it is that you need to be doing.
It does feel strange to feel like I'm in control of somebody else. It's
not necessarily a good feeling to have my powers dominate someone else's will. But
he was willing to be a part of this rite. So he's moving without
me having to tell him, yeah, because he's under my power. Is
that kind of what I'm feeling. It's yes, but it's not, like
I want to be very clear, it's not you puppeteering and controlling him and
dominating him. He is still. It's just more like you're both this ritual
magic has taken over, and you just know what you have to do before
anybody tells you. Like he just reaches out because he was supposed to reach
out, Phil or Sorry, Doug probably thinks he wants to reach out and
touch you. He thinks he's probably caught up in the moment. He doesn't
know this is what I have to do, But he just does what he
needs to do. And you're aware of that, but you're also very acutely
aware that it is the power of this ritual. It is everything that you
guys are doing that is leading to this moment, and it gets easier and
easier and easier the longer you go on in this act. For you to
remember what it is that you were supposed to do and eventually gets to the
point where you don't have to try to focus on it and remember it either.
You just do what it is that you need to do. It is
the ritual itself that is consuming both of you and as we as we come
to the climax after that that part is completed. I remember exactly like sitting
there, spent, but like I like I had accomplished something that like some
door had opened. Oh yeah, and I remember, and I remember looking
up, I looked directly into the camera. Was that alright, mister hanger,
can you roll two things the eenie meanie roll okay, and then go
ahead and roll a one D ten for me? A okay, and roll
one D ten okay. Seven. You have just gained seven minor charges from
this act okay, and this is the this was Uh, I don't mind
getting minor charges for this particular thing. Yeah, this is a reenactment.
You will get significant Yeah, if we can do the next one, I'm
hoping again. Well, actually it's the whole thing. We'll have you roll
when you're done, gotcha. Okay, So after after the do you break
or do you go straight in? Now that you've built up this power because
I'll tell you now that you're in the moment of the ritual. If you
break, you'd have to rebuild this up again. You will get more reward
if you just continue. Okay yeah, yeah, definitely like yeah yeah yeah
yeah okay. So and I beforehand, uh I would have like written down
what uh Richard said during our shoot, which is not much. Yeah,
but I would have down like lines for him to either look at like cards
or memorize them or whatever. I'm not sure if he needs them. Now
let you decide that no, he doesn't. Okay, he hasn't needed anything
since about midway through. Because that's this is exactly how it happened. When
it happened. Yeah, the first scene was done and then he asked you
right, and it went straight in okayyepk. And then we went straight in
and he actually offered me see Alis or viager or whatever. Yeah, and
I told him I don't think I need it. Okay, I need you
to roll three times for me, okay, regular roles fifty eight, thirty
seven. Okay, go ahead and roll your D ten for me twice now,
okay, nine five, you get five more minor charges and you get
nine significant charges. E's amis though amazing. Yeah, okay, now I
have a question for you. Trick or Henry, you can get a lot
more if you take them from Doug. You realize Doug is a magic user.
In this moment, this whole ritualistic act has made you realize that you
can just take a little from his reserve. He probably won't notice. I
mean, my instinct is saying, don't who is yours or tricks Trick okay,
tricks, not a thief. But to notice that I can do that,
It's something I'll definitely keep in my back pocket just in case. And
I like, once once our our session is is complete for the night or
for this for this time, I look at Doug. We're both like just
sweaty and just breathing hard. M I kind of you know, we both
just kind of sit on a on the carpet. There's more to you the
metsia, isn't that Doug? He smiles at you, and you can see
it's like he's double exposed his face. You can see when he smiles at
you for a second, you see him like sobbing and weeping at the same
time, like his two faces. Where did you come from. I don't
think that matters much. You didn't think to wonder why I looked just like
Phil, and then crossed my mind. I just got lucky, but I
should know by now no one get that lucky face begins to shift and suddenly
you are staring at yourself. What's a neat trick? Yeah, I got
a few on my own tricks. I'm on a tight schedule, though this
was fun. Your name even Doug, he smirks at you. You can
leave it Doug in your phone and you can call me Doug. Your name's
not really trick. Come on, so you got another name? You know
what I mean? Just to be clear, Are you asking for his bar
name? Yep, yeah, I thought so. I need you to roll
try to convince me. I will try to convince him. Twenty five underneath
thirty, which is my convinced skill. They call me the YouTuber. I
didn't pick it. We often don't. Sometimes they pick us. They call
me the paramore. I like your star. QUI pleased to meet you as
well, Paramore. I'll happily help you again if you need. Don't forget
your payment on the way out. Oh I won't. I reach out my
hand to shake his He will shake hands with you. In this moment,
you will learn something new trick. When you shake hands, it is a
there is a magical exchange that happens you to read each other's auras. So
he hesitates for a moment when you hold out your hand to shake, but
he goes to shake the hand. Go ahead and roll sixty five. I
don't know if it mind your solar speed or whatever, but it's soul.
But your your you just you'll know this now because this is part of being
a magic user. That's what this exchange just was. When you shake hands
with another magic user, if they are open and they don't have any like
barriers between you and them, it allows you to read each other. And
that's what he did. He extended his hand to you and allowed you to
read him. Okay, you will. I'm going to say a word that
doesn't occur at a trick, so you will interpret it however, but just
so that I am clear and you know you are clear, zeke, he's
a persona answer, Okay, So you can interpret that and figure out what
you think that means. Face changer, you know, personality change or that
kind of thing. But that's what you've gathered from him, so you get
snips of him, you know, as a as a newscaster, you've seen
him as a politician, you've seen him as a her, you've seen him
as a they like you've just you see in a quick moment, you get
a really good feel for who Doug is. Obviously his name is not Doug,
right, but that's who you That's what happens there. And as we're
shaking hands, and this is happening, I just I don't try and hide
like my okay, surprised at this, like this is the first time this
has happened, your first hand chick, How could you tell? You gotta
you know, maybe be a little bit more careful, learn how to get
some barriers up so people can't read you like an open book. I appreciate
that you're honest with me. Thank you, Doug, No problem. I'll
be in touch you. Take care now, trick you too, and he
will leave. And this is as he's leaving tricks. Uh gets up,
puts on puts on his pants, and then sits on the couch downstairs or
do you go upstairs downstairs? And Uh just sits there and thinks, tries
to think of the last time he made a friend in a while, and
it makes him, like, makes him feel better than he's felt in a
long time. Do you stay down here or do you go upstairs with Brian?
And I go. I go to the guest bathroom down here. It's
got it's it's it's got a small stand up shower. Probably goes in there
and takes a shower. Okay, what are you thinking about in the shower?
I'm I'm this is the time where I'm actually, like really thinking about
why my connection with Lilith is gone. Okay, okay, and I'm trying
to, like, I probably take some time to try and reach out and
see if I can, like, you know, give her a mental phone
call or something. Oh, okay, go ahead and roll Okay twelve,
Yes you can, for the sake of a timeline, Emma, yes,
oh boy, I gotta think about when this happened. Geez, I don't
think it's happened yet. We'll revisit it. How's that is that? Okay,
we'll revisit your call to her after her things encounter. Okay, for
sure, we are going to switch scenes to upstairs. That message wasn't for
you, Okay to mess someone else privately. Sorry, that's all right,
Okay, So upstairs, what have you guys been doing. I'm sitting on
the floor next to the door down to the basement, kind of listening.
I've got one of the dogs going down next to me at this point,
just scritching a little place between it seats, between its size, and kind
of puzzling over how to feel about this, and glancing across at Brian to
see what he's doing. I'm probably actually kind of sitting near the kitchen counter,
looking over and looking back at Echo and seeing that she's listening or trying
to listen. I'm guests to the basement door. She's so obviously she's probably
curious. Is that what I'm assuming? Is that what it looks like?
Echo? You'll have to tell me is yeah. She's kind of easy to
read with most things, but there are so many different thoughts going through her
head at the moment. I don't think you could really latch onto one of
thom But she looks sometimes a little flustered, sometimes a little what's the facial
expression you have on right now? Would you describe? I can't describe it.
It's like a cross between being confused, interested and having a puzzle you
can't solve. Okay, Intrigued is a good way to describe that. Intrigued.
Okay, I'm thinking about that and knowing she's kind of newer here,
and that's kind of being thrown to the deep end thinking about sex and porn,
like that's a whole different world. I try to strike up just a
conversation and kind of change the topic. You know, the pug right there,
that type of dog that's actually a very ancient breed. Oh yeah,
yeah, they go back to like was it four hundred BCE or something like
that, Like an ancient like Chinese breed of dog. Yeah. A lot
of people think it's a newer breed, but no, that's that's uh pit
bulls and old dogs and stuff like that. They're the newer ones that are
kind of having issues. But that dog's been around since pretty much the beginning.
It's an ancient one dog. No, not that particular one, No,
just the breed, the the style of dog. Very old. Yeah.
My daughter, she she was obsessed with dogs, obsessed. She wanted
a puppy so bad, and she was she was so meticulate. Tidy girl
too reminds me of this house. Actually her bedroom was like a lot like
this house, like everything had its place, everything was cleaned. We never
had to clean a room, never had to tell her to do anything.
She just took care of everything herself. We don't get we don't know where
she got her from, because my wife and I we were we were not
like that kind of we kind of yeah, we just bounced through life moment
by a moment and just saving the details and leaving the wreckage behind us.
But her, not her. She never did that. And to the point
of where she actually made a scrap book, well not a scrap book,
but more like a breakdown business meeting with like even like pie charts of happiness
to dog ratio as she showed all these different breaths that she was selling it
so hard. I remember too, because I was looking in the back of
my head like, yeah, we could probably get one. I was gonna
probably give her one on her fourteenth birthday. But yeah, yeah, I
looked like suddenly like something's hit me in the chest, and I look about
and and look back at him with this kind of sympathetic, sad expression,
and I'm trying to make my face to the right things to match the story
he's selling. But my head's all over the place. What's wrong? Nothing?
Just maybe I'm repeat again, repeat, m what do you mean?
I kind of actually sit down beside her on the ground, rips of the
door with the dog and just start the petting the pug as well, curious
to what she means. Well, it's you knew her as Izzy, right,
Yeah, sometimes I remember. It's it's all mixed up and kind of
hard to get a grip on. But I get this. I don't know,
flashes or like somebody's just put one scene from a movie on and I
can't really control it. You ever thought about trying to control it? Yeah,
I'm not even used to to explaining things. I don't know how.
I don't know how you do that. Well, Disney was pretty good at
helping people control their problems, or at least trying to fix the alleviator get
over them. Maybe there's something in there that you can dig out and use
yourself. Maybe I don't know. It's this is all a big adjustment,
and I kind of look at the door down to the basement and kind of
bite my lip. Not sure how to explain any of this because I'm not
used to explaining anything. What are you thinking about right now? I shouldn't
say it's has he had this thing? It's go on? Has he had
a therapy thing? She used to say, it's not my secret to tell
It feels like the confidentiality thing isn't just for therapist. I don't know.
Sometimes it's good to be open about stuff like this, get off your chest,
have someone listening. She did that a lot for me. That's the
lot with therapy is it's just having someone listen if you don't want to share
it. I mean, where are you sitting right now? Just on the
ground, right beside you against the wall? Okay, I I think she
would be yeah, so much better season to this situation, to all of
this, I feel like a like I'm in like I've been made wrong,
Like it's God. I wish I could put you in my head so you
could hear it made wrong? Nah? Nah, nah, you were made
perfect. Well, here's why the most fragile and happy people DestinE themselves live
lives and the concert, reminding themselves that they're happy. You just came out
of nowhere, and the amount of joy that you had with you this fresh
experience in your past is nothing but from what can I understand? It's just
fragments of someone else. They're not even yours. Everything is new to you,
you got everything and nothing. Yeah, me is new. I don't
I don't know how to explain it you. He's so used to. Yeah,
your thing is new, You is new. Whatever there was before gone,
fragments, just little collections of thoughts. Forget them. Not every but
he has the luxury to dump their past. You do because it wasn't your
past. No, that was hers, but exactly hers. But you,
you're your own person. Why are you hanging on to someone else's stuff?
It's not just hers? Where are used to be? I didn't need to
explain, and it was warm and easy. I know. I don't know
how to do this. I don't know. I don't know how to be
useful. You're used to more than you know. I'm thinking about her just
for how pure she is, that she didn't have any baggage behind her like
other people have their whole lives. So she's got this opportunity that as myself,
as a person, never had. You're more useful than you possibly can
imagine. Trust me, trust me. I look at you and I see
my daughter. Yeah, she was so pured. I'd missed that so much,
the curiosity the kids had. Everything was new and fresh. No sadness,
no stress, no loss. Believe it or not. You have it
really good and you should live it. You should live it fully. You're
your own person now and you should just go and explore lived life. Don't
let these other people drag you in and pull you down. I'm getting these
flashes in my head of memories that is he saw, of the blood on
the bedspread, and of his daughter giggling and dancing around in the yard,
and of a night she regretted, and of of everything she doesn't want this
to be, and seeing is he trying to deal with what he was going
through, over and over and over again, trying to find the right way
to do it, And she never did. I just fool and hug him,
just I hug her back to echo. Everything's good, Everything's all right.
Snowflakes are the one of the most fragile things in nature, but when
they're together they make something so special. You don't have to be helped.
Last night, I mean, why are you doing it? I just see,
I just see a chance. I don't know, Sorry, I don't
even know why I'm breaking down. I just I just see a second chance,
if that makes any sense. Yeah, maybe I really want to m
h m hmmm mm hm echo mm hmm uh. I need you to roll
for me. Okay, that's private, public spine. How do you How
do you feel about what he said about a second chance and all this baggage
and memories that you're caring from somebody who you're not. I don't think he
understands what I was talking about. I don't see is these memories as baggage
anymore. They're useful, but being being on my own is not something I'm
used to. And I suppose in my logical brain, which is all I
had before, was it seems like a transferable thought process, like I could
use that for what I'm experiencing. It doesn't have to be about right the
same thing. Maybe he doesn't need to understand, but there's something about what
is he could do that I wish. I wish we could. She'd just
be so much more useful. It's so strange to be in this situation and
be able to see those things and not do it. Well. Thank you
for that very accurate description of imposter syndrome. Holy shit, Okay, thank
you. I just wanted to know where you were, and I think where
you're at mentally is that you kind of feel a little helpless and a little
more on the worthless side. And why am I here instead of easy?
Is that is that accurate? Yeah? I mean it's been said as much
over and over, and the only things that people have hinted at that I
could potentially be useful, I've got no for would road for except something I'm
really worried about trying out. And these flashes of memories are not helping.
I'm not used to that. I'm not used to having to remember things.
It's it's all just so different, and I don't think I anticipated that.
Welcome to being human. We're going to switch scenes Emma and Brier. Oh
shit, it okay, I'm gonna have to hold on. Let me go
pee first. Wait. Wait, can you guys see this? Can you
see what I rolled? Mm? Hmm, okay, I'm gonna pick it
up. Watch watch can you can you see that double zero? And can
you see that one? Oh? No, that's no, that's what I
rolled for Ada's Yeah, that's what I meant for the bad guys. Yeah,
I'm uncomfortable as you should be. All right, so you don't hit
ADSA. But what happens is Brier says, you know your boyfriend is hiding
things from me. Essentially, what did you say? Do you remember exactly
what it was that you said? I think I said, why don't you
just go talk to your boyfriend? I think you said, I see you're
lying to me or you're hiding is just like your boyfriend? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, that's what you said. And then she was like,
all right, yeah, sorry, it's a it's a crit success for
what I'm about to do, not initiative. Okay, so Brier, please
roll uh to dodge, but hundreds bad hundreds. I rolled zer zero one,
as in one percent, not one hundred. Oh yeah, I rolled
a critical success. I got us seventy eight. Okay, you are flung
back against the railing and you are actually going to topple all the way down.
It's five floors, correct, that's five fucking floors. You're gonna tumble
down, so you're gonna take some serious uh damage, a lot of pain.
So you're feeling some bones break as you come down these stairs as the
stairwell and you land and you hit the ground and the wind is knocked out
of you for a minute. Emma, what do you do? It is
very clear, like you see this happen. Adsa just goes like this and
Briar goes tumbling back over the stairs. Adsa doesn't seem to notice you though,
Where am I? How far did I get away? So all you
did was turn the corner so that she didn't see you, so you were
still relatively close to Briar. I'm going to run down to Briar, make
sure she's okay. Okay, are you taking the bag with you? Yeah?
Okay, go ahead and roll okay, Oh no, eggs, Okay,
you're a dog. I think it's silly narratively for a dog to not
really be able to do this. So I am going to say that in
your fervor, though, and in your excitement, you grab the bag and
you you know, maybe maybe trip and you're going to skid down the stairs
with this bag, and Adisa is going to notice you. She does notice
the bag dragging by with that ninety five okay, and you do hear footsteps
coming down the stairs after you. You are also racked with pain as you
stumble down the stairs and you break through a railing and then you fall the
rest of the three floors, like you skid down and trip with the bag
down two flights of stairs and then you're going to fall the other three after
you break the barrier and railing and you land very very close to Brier,
who is breathing, what's struggling a bit? Okay, do I still have
the bag? You do still have the bag contents? However, let's see,
uh roll the eenie meani for me two means yeah, lost some stuff
me I've never rolled a meanie meenie Oh so on the gear tab Oh okay,
sorry, not the gear the three little like notebook one you should say
mean, just go ahead and click in bar there, then go ahead roll
that all right, anie meani? Here I go, just for transparency one.
Okay, the bag manages to stay closed and you're able to like it's
nearby. Nothing seems to have fallen out. Okay, I'm gonna try to
stand up if I'm physically I'm am I like heart. I don't think I'm
harmed, right, I don't know if I can get you? Are well?
You are? You took some damage out of breath? Okay, yeah,
you definitely you got sucked. Yeah, you can still get up.
Okay, it takes you less time to recover than it does rier. Okay,
I'm gonna start nut her with my nose even though she can't see me,
and like moving her body around and trying to see if she'll get up.
Okay, go ahead and maybe crying. You guys have a round to
do something before Adesa will come down the stairs and catch up with you.
Just because we haven't done a lot of combat. I'm letting you know it
would go down. So you have one action each pretty much to do something.
Okay, Ryan, do you know what you want to do? So
where is she at? She's just coming down the stairstairs and now she's coming
down the stairs because she's seen the bag and you can you can hear her
running down the stairs. I'm going to try to open the veils so that
Emma can drag me and do it. Okay, curtain or veil. I
want to get out of this timeline and into the veil and close it behind
me. Okay, go ahead. Oh buses sixty four? Okay, what
is your soul stat? Sixty five? Okay? Oh, this is really
dangerous because it's a just pass. So think of it as scaling success to
just failing. So why don't you go ahead and describe how you barely are
able to fucking open this veil before she comes down the stairs. I'm like
the wind's knocked out of me, so I'm just panicked and I can't see
Emma, but I know she's there, so I'm trying to conjure this thought
and it's just panic and trying to also use my words to explain to Emma.
I'm gonna open it, and I need you to hold me in.
And then as I'm reaching back so I can try to open it for her,
but it's very painful and it's the wrong way, so you're kind of
like yo, and I'm trying to weigh all my options, but this is
the only thing. So it's just very panicked and chaotic. But then I
feel it behind me, and I feel like a rush of calm, and
I just throw it open and hope that Emma knows that it's time. What
do you do, Emma, I'm gonna throw the bag in her hand and
clamp my jaws down on like her trapped shoulder, so I know no clothes
are gonna rip nothing. I'm going to break the skin and just yank her
into the curtain as fast as I can, so we as an audience,
will see Mark's teeth marks appear on Briar's like right near her collarbone. It's
almost like you purposefully hooked her right under there to know, well, she's
coming with me because I can get my teeth around the bone. She probably
erupts out in a cry because it's very painful and she is dragged invisible through
this veil that she has opened, and I'm gonna shut it as soon as
I get through. I need you to roll to see if you can because
you roll just under your ability. I'm gonna see if you have the ability
to do this before she catches up to you. I'm trying to seal it.
Yepree, what the fuck? So in my brain I was like,
it's got to be under ten or ADSA is gonna get one final hit,
and she rolled us three, So wow, just what the fuck? Okay?
Can you slam an astral curtain? Yeah? Like holy shit? It
just like so what we see is as Briar is being like the you know,
these teeth have clamped into her and she's being dragged across. She's like
screaming out in agony, and she just like puts her hand up Locke's eyes
with Adsa's ADSA is coming down the stairs. Lisa raises her hand if you're
all over her face. She knows that you have her bag, and Briar
just waves a hand and the curtain fucking closes in front of a Lisa.
I'd flip her off too right before, so you'd be like flipping her the
bird, all right, and then the curtain closes, and that's where we're
gonna end today's session. Yeah, oh boy, did we get away?
How? I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, she's in serious
trouble. Also, I saw somebody in the chat ask a question that I
will answer just because it's part of the system. Somebody asked if Briar would
get charges for that. It's actually putting yourself purposefully in a situation where you
know you are going to either you know, live or die or get hurt.
This was an accident that she cannot take advantage of. Unfortunately, that's
usually how that goes. Yeah, but that's okay that happens. I'm actually
shocked that that's how that went down. But how we feeling lucky a lottery
ticket? Crazy fucking episode, you guys, I thank thank you for being
so amazing while we hopped into three different sets of people for an entire episode.
Holy shit, should we do some shout outs? Give me a second.
Yes. I feel like so much was revealed and happened based on roles
in this episode, like THEO my god. Okay, oh yeah, that
was a big chunk of story that I was expected. Yeah. I was
expecting that to not come out probably ever, or if so, at the
very very end. But yeah, no, he he rolled it three So
yepkayl that happened. I can't wait. I want to I can't wait for
for the conversation between I mean obviously selfishly between me and the professor, but
him and everybody. Yeah, yeah, so I just got to like push
push him out of the hatred hole and push a decent into it. I
guess we'll see, we'll see. Yeah, okay, I can do shadows
the Americans. Somebody's got to reach a blame what human nature? Come on,
human nature? I think the brittles just think it. They won't say
it. Yeah, no, no, no, no, it's fine,
Thanks so much, that's fine, thanks so much. Fuck you, that's
basically what that is you? How are you guys? Half the world?
I'll never know so much to say, but I'm gonna shut my mouth.
So you would like to start with shout outs? Should we go in reverse
order this time? Let's start with Emma? Yeah, let's start with a.
KA. Who is where are you right now? In case you guys,
I don't know England specifically, I'm in Millie's house. Would you guys
like to switch through? Yeah? Switch just yet? Just join each other.
Yeah, we already had enough of that this episode. Yeah, no
kidding, don't split the party? Yeah? Hello everybody? Are we both
in knock? Bringing everybody together? TV? Oh there there. I don't
know what I played, Emma, I fucking frowned. A yeah, I
feel pretty badass and invincible right now. I mean, what can I ask
you a question? I just want to know, as Phoebe, what do
you think is in that bag? I honestly no idea. I think it's
gonna be like important spells or something that might be able to help THEO.
That's my idea. I have no it was that or kill Adisa or try
and that seems safer. I got a picture of like the big Lebowski,
and Walter's is like, it's the Ringer Dude, my dirty andies the Whites.
Yep, we're gonna open it up. It's gonna be like her lunch,
just a sandwich. It's like, that's why I smelled theo. There's
body parts in there. That's what I think. He's lunch. Oh you
found her boyfriend? Yeah, this is the leftover. Talk to your boyfriend.
She just pulls his head out of a bag. What do you think
about that? Oh? Yeah, all right, kpp I'm Katie Peter's place.
I played Briar for you today, causing trouble by accident. I'm alive,
so yeah, I stream on my channel. I won't be around this
weekend, but I'll be back Sunday for Dying Order with Peebe, the new
D and D show on here on Table Story. And yeah, I'll be
doing a charity stream next Tuesday. If anybody wants to watch, it's be
really cool. By the way, thank you. It's been fun to do
something a little different and maybe not so aggressible time as me Briar. I
love aggressive Briar, though she curses a lot which is like one of the
only areas on Twitch that I can actually curse. So I would, I
would, I would love. I never asked specifically for fan arts. I'm
not actually asking, but I'm just saying I would love an actual comic strip
of that last moment where you're like waving and just you know, you're being
dragged and you're flipping a disa off and she's like angry and you're just like
defiantly fuck you, yeah, with your other arm all fucked up. Yeah,
like just fuck you. I'm destroyed. But you know what, I
got one over on you. It's really good. But yeah that's me.
Yeah, looking that Keanu Reeves movie where he's playing that demon hunter and he's
getting dragged up to Heavens. He just pulls Yes. I love that.
Yeah, it's so good. It's amazing. All right? Packs here up?
Hi, I play Brian's plural. Uh. You can find me a
Twitch TV fords Us class packs stuff around the Bend here tomorrow Borderlands with Bike
Gassi and Kletus. Tonight not too sure yet worth on I got a massive
content update. There's also GPA. I've been playing this new character named David,
who's played Stanley parable I have Yeah, you know what that's about,
right, Yeah, So it's kind of the same concept. So I switched
between this narrative of his life as he's walking around the wind the world,
and then he's playing he's like the most mundane and boring person ever, and
then just basically the chat controls what he does. I have a screen yes
and a no, or an A and a B, and then I just
find out what chat's saying the most of and we just do that. It
just dragged me along with this concept. It's it's been a lot of fun.
We did one uh stream with it, and I'm gonna probably give it
another world again. It was a lot of fun. I want to kind
of see where how deep down the rabbit hole we can go with this character.
How much Chat's gonna get him into trouble. That's amazing, that sounds
incredible. So if you guys want to be like mini gms basically of David,
go hang out with packs control where David goes and what he does.
Almost got laid in two hours, of course, of course, yes,
it was interesting. I was in the apartment of someone and she was dressed
in laundry. Does this make me look fat? And then I had to
put up yes and know what my screen the first time they asked. That's
how I got into her better than the first time, Like do I look
fat too? And I'm like oh, and then yes and no. I
put it on my screen and the chat's like yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes. I'm like, oh, like you look like a healthy
oh. And so she took me to her apartment. She stripped down to
her underwear. Does this make me look fat? And I'm like, put
some talk up on the screen. They said no that time. But it
was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. Oh my
god, that's amazing, Dan, you're up Hi there, I'm domestic Dan,
I see me too long on the show today. But I feel like
I learned a lot. I know. I'm so sorry. I didn't have
suspicions of anything like this ever, at least I am. I am curious.
Did you kind of have an idea? Oh? Yeah, oh good?
That makes me feel Yes, okay, obviously THEO had no idea.
That's part part of the whole thing. But god, I just I felt
I felt so badly during that scene. I felt terrible. I was like,
I'm sorry, and then the whole sorry for asking the questions you didn't
want me to. Yeah, I was like hoping I would skirt by without
that, and then you asked me and I'm like, nod, you like
lie to make him feel better, and I was like, no, I
can't. You. Your fucking roles were to discover what she's hiding the truth.
So I'm like, you know, I'm always like, do you want
to know the truth? Do you want to know the truth? Well,
yeah, you wanted to know the truth, so I had to. I
had to do it. Jesus yep. But yeah, domestic tan cooking streamer,
veriety caster, all that fun. I'm making curry after this because I
need some comfort food. So that's what I'll be streaming after this, because
food is delicious and it doesn't lie to you, oh well, or cast
magic spells on you to make you Yeah, I mean, the smell of
good food can kind of be like magic. So so you're gonna go make
some magic ritual of your own. They were having butter chicken with a side
of regret, oh god, And for an advertiser, we'll have some shrimp
cocktail with nostalgic longing. You're just like weeping into the shrimp. It's so
good and I know it's not nice to be and I've never had this good
again. You're like an abuse puppy. Yeah, he do. Oh god,
all right? Zeke here up? What everybody? Thank you for joining
us here on a table story. My name is Heguiel the Third. You
can find me at r Slash's he Heel underscore. I I thank you to
everyone for being a part of this. It's exhausting every time in the best
of ways. Yeah, this is This is some of the best role playing
I've ever been a part of. And I'm grateful to be a part of
it. And I'm grateful you guys are here to watch it. Uh.
Fun thing coming up tomorrow for me. You want to join me. I'll
be broadcasting at noon Pacific at my usual time, however, at six pm
Pacific time two eight pm Pacific time, say bye bye to the beer.
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I'm kidding. I don't want any of that. Are there style?
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elephant? Could you imagine just undressing it? So it's kind of fucking arrow?
What is that? Oh it's my dog bolts. I'm sorry, Sorry,
Zeke. I'd like to say that I haven't seen that before, but
I actually have being hair shaved in the in the in an arrow children,
Yeah, in an arrow form. But for somebody to be like I was,
it's downfloaded anyway. I just well, if it was like a Facebook
thumb and it was be different. But yeah, anyways, if you want
to set in for the shaving stream six pm to eight pm tomorrow Oppecific time,
I think we have a little guest with us. Well, little classy.
I'm so glad he doesn't have headphones. You're gonna be so tall.
You're not gonna say want everybody? Can you say? Everything comes at a
cost? Okay, that's adorable. Sorry I didn't mean a way. But
he's in a ballerina dress right now. He's doing his thing. Hell,
yeah, be your dancer self brother dancing to yeah and show. Okay,
I'll be I'll be at your big show soon. Oh show's okay, all
right, well best best not be late. So Billy, I believe you
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am a voice active for video games and now I do this thing and this
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We met a bird today and eight scones. It's been very English, very
very terribly English, and it was like seventy one American degrees, which was
amazing. Yeah, it was very strange and warm. I was hot,
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