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This episode contains mature language and situations. A listener discretion. They advise you

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wake to the sound of a train, the clack clack clack of wheels in

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the distance. Is that the sound
of birds in a forest. No,

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it's angels in a choir? Or
is it demons from hell? It doesn't

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matter. You have no memory of
how you got here. All you know

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is that you are lost and that
now you belong to the Gray Rooms.

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Good evening, roomies, We have
a special treat for you tonight, as

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we look back on our season four
journey through Hell and Beyond. Our staff

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further ado, please enjoy our compilation episode

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Part one of two m to the
the What the actual fuck? Okay?

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Where in the hell am I?
Hello? Fuck? Okay, take it

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easy, girl, You've been through
worse. This isn't like to call hold

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those goddamn vampires. This is is
a train, A nice train. Oh

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train with them are? Wait?
Now? Did I get on a train?

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How? How much did I drink
last night? Wait? What did

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I do last night? If?
If, if, this is a joke,

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then sh please please don't kill me. Stay back, stay back.

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Tell Ripper I don't have it.
I'll have it next week, but I

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don't have it now and I'm not
going to be able to give it to

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him if you kill me, So
please don't kill me. Whoa hey,

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hey, hey, take it easy. I I don't work for a ripper.

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Whoever that is. Calm down.
No one in the history of the

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galaxies has ever calmed down when they
were told to calm down. I will

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not calm down. Who the hell
are you? And what the hell is

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this place? I don't know where
we are. I just woke up,

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same as you. I don't know
how I got here. Probably some kind

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of ocology transit system. Have you
looked outside yet? Oh? I bet

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we're in one of those nasty little
belt stand ups, she finds sometimes on

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the edges of systems, sent off
to be slave labor in some mind for

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a syndicate somewhere. Though. I
guess this place is kind of nice,

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isn't it. If we are on
a syndicate ourcology slave train of death and

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despair, I'm guessing the day care
would be more utilitarian. I don't know

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what you're on about, but yeah, calm down, all right, calm

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calm now, okay, okay,
knew you always take this much only when

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I'm stressed out. M Findley,
whatno, my name? My name is

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Findlay. Oh ah, mine is
a money Nice to meet you in money

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shake. Granddad always said, got
a shaker man's hand to know if they're

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were for dam Shoot. Sure,
interesting arm you've gotten there, Findley?

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Oh oh this? Oh well,
it's an off the rack model, but

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it's the most recent gen, really
nice tech from those silicon spiders at the

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bottleneck. I've got a universal socket
popped in there, so it's much easier

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than it used to be to swap
it out. Are you thinking of an

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upgrade? I okay, real talk. I didn't understand half of what you

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just said, but this thing is
so cool. I didn't think cybernetics were

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this far along, didn't think what
are you talking about? Are you from

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a retro tech colony or something one
of those religious sanctuaries. Slow down,

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fast, Tucker, Let's get ourselves
sorted. I'm a researcher out of the

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London Battle Group. I specialize in
ancient religions and mysticism as it impacts sweeping

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clear operations. What battle group are
you with now? Now? I have

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no idea what you're talking about.
What's a London? Are you putting me

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on? No? What's a London? Imarnie, you're freaking me out.

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Stop yelling at me. Finley,
stop freaking me out. Im Annie,

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Hey, since neither of you know
what's going on, nor would you shut

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the hell up? God damn it, Finley, stop yelling, and who

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the fuck are you me? I'm
bored. I thought I'd gained some kind

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of tactical advantage listening in, but
I've reached the conclusion you're both too stupid

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to be helpful. So where I
come from? You look out the window

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to find out where you are?
So why don't we shed a little light

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on our situation? That's that's not
possible. Where the hell are we?

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What was that? Was that a
lake? A fire? Didn't one else?

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Who cares about the lake? What
was that? That thing on the

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fall side? I've seen worse?
Were those horns? How tall was that

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thing? I don't need to know
where we are. I don't give a

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shit who you are. I'm getting
out of here, unfortunately, everyone,

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that won't be possible. Everybody do
like the fish says, and shut up.

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That's better you you and you sit. You want to know where you

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are? You want answers, We've
got some. Any of you gets fidgety

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or tries to leave the car,
I slice your goddamn head off. All

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right, hmm, that's better.
Okay, let's start with some basics.

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My name is Caliban, and my
horned companion is Cries. She's she's a

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Yeah, I'm a demon. You
want to make a big deal about it.

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No, no, no, no, we're all an interesting lot.

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Yes, Cries is a demon,
and I am well I am not human

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either. Wow, how can we
tell what that mask you're wearing? The

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mask is for your protection, young
one. I'm sorry to say the face

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my mother gave me tends to make
a bad first impression. Perhaps as we

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get to know each other better,
we're going to become good friends, are

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we, I certainly hope, so
we should continue with introductions. Our militant

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friend very much not a fish.
Correct, correct, don't call me that

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again. I'm not a fish.
I'm from Virex. Sure sure could have

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fooled me, but sure. The
name is Zack. I've done a lot

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of things over the years, but
I'm a soldier first and foremost. I've

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killed a lot of cybernetically enhanced humans
like you, buddy, a lot,

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and I've never seen or heard of
your species. Buddy, you live under

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a rock. Please let's move on. I think the three of you will

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find there are many new experiences you
can share with each other. And your

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name my dear Amani Talib London Battle
Group R and M R Sweep and Clears.

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My big operations were to call in
San Francisco, and I did prep

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work and prelimbs for Berlin, Chicago, and Tokyo. I get that you

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need to do this orientation or whatever, but I don't remember volunteering for this

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detail? What about my outfit?
I understand, madam, you're worried about

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your fellows scouring the earth of darkness? Right. I can assure you that

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your battle group is not impacted by
your presence here, I promise, Which

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leaves you my augmented friend. Oh
hey, yeah, I'm Findlay Findlay Montgomery.

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I'm I'm an engineer, a cybernetics
engineer. Last thing I remember,

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I was sacking out in my flat
on Karen Station. How did we get

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here? More importantly, why are
we here? Two shiny coins for the

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smart fish? Indeed, why are
you here? That's the question, isn't

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it. All three of you are
special chosen. You've got potential cries,

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and I represent an interested party that
wants to harness your special nature to channel

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it. That's why you've been brought
here. The train you're aboard is called

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the Silver Express. As you've seen
out the window, we're traveling across a

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well. It's a bit of a
strange countryside where we are as an important

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what's important is your duty? Your
task? You only have one thing you

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have to do while you're with us. Occasionally the train will stop at a

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station we have a stop coming up
in Oh, not long at all.

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Now, at each stop, one
of you has to get off the train.

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We don't give a shit which one, but one of you has to

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step off onto the platform and enter
one of the station doors. That's it.

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That's it, well, not entirely
it, you see, And this

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is a bit complicated to explain,
but at every station, the guest who

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leaves the train will choose what door
to enter. Behind each door, every

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time you die, it cries.
And I don't know how or in what

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way, but we're reliably informed that
the experience will be quite terrible. Sorry,

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huh, what do you mean?
We'll die? I know it's a

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it's a lot to take in.
But each door holds a sort of tale,

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a little drama that plays out with
you as the starring role. And

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every time, at the end of
every tale lies your death, your painful,

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gruesome death. Why would we agree
to this? Oh, it's not

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permanent. We'll pick you up again
further down the track, drop you off

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in your sleeper car. We die, but it doesn't stick. Yeah,

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so it's just torture. This is
all a complicated torture. Oh, I'm

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afraid we can't relate to you why
this is happening. Management has given us

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a great deal of leeway to explain
things to you, but that's not something

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we can discuss. Hey, it's
not all bad. In the meantime,

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you're free to walk to train.
Each of you has nice rooms. We'll

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stop her supplies to stock the dining
car now. And again, I know

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she may be intimidating. What miss
cries is actually a very talented chef.

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Ah See, hold it played like
this. It cuts through eight mortals in

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like four seconds, screams carnage,
beauty. Hold it like this. It

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cuts through onion, celery, delicious. Knives are just like people. Everything

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is in context. Hey, that's
great, but you're fucking crazy if you

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think I'm going to die just because
you tell me to. No way.

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I understand your fear, Findley,
I do. But every one of you

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has to leave the train. As
she said, we leave it to the

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three of you to decide what sort
of order you take. But this isn't

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a request, it's a requirement.
And if we if we don't what then

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Look there are people watching us real
closely right now. So I'm going to

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be as civil as I can be
don't fuck with us. Management has put

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a lot of effort into making this
thing palatable for you, squishy, disgusting

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soul slucks. If I had my
choice, I'd rip this little shit's arm

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up and beat him to death with
it, snuff your spine a little scholar,

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and mount the fish's head on that
wall the knife. But that's not

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how this is going to go.
We are your attendance, after all.

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Ultimately, we are here to make
you comfortable. You just have to let

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us do our jobs. We have
plans, and our plans include the three

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of you. I know this is
a lot to take in, but we've

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reached our first stop, and so
it's time to choose who will go?

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What door shall you pick? I
can't, I can't, Please don't.

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I'll do it. What you said, We die, but we come back.

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Right, That's correct, and there's
nothing to be afraid of. I

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faced death dozens of times, not
sure if i'd make it, never sure

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if i'd say tomorrow, If I
no, I'm going to die, well

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no, mystery too, ed is
there and I still get to see tomorrow.

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That's a very healthy attitude. Thanks, thanks, duck, Yeah,

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thanks, Just remember this cries would
you be so kind as to see them

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to the door. I'll stay with
Missy Money and mister Findley and we can

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continue our conversation. Sure, follow
me, fish, don't call me fish.

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Sure whatever, feel that heat.
You're your station. Two doors?

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Pick one and step through. That's
it, Team Spearites and Venus fly trap.

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Well, give them a choice.
I know which one outpick. You'll

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pick me up, he said.
Don't worry, Fish, You'll be back

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swimming in your bowl before you know
it. All right, let's get this

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off away, hey, fish,
Yeah, welcome to the gray rooms.

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What the hell are the gray rule? I'm up, I'm up, Captain,

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I'm up, Jesus mm hmm right
still on the train. Mm hmmmm.

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What time is it? M h
what the was not the door lock?

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Or what's what? I want?
What? Wild? How was the

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whi? Whi? Zach? He's
uck imani? Did you hear that?

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Yeah? Did they lock your door? I think so. I woke up

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as he went past, and I
didn't really want to leave, you know,

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yeah, follow me thinly? Where
are we going? I did some

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walking around earlier. I think I
know where ese word is. M it's

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halfway down. Do you see anyone, No, no horns, no mask.

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I think our attendants have moved on. Zup. Hey you all right,

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Zuck, You're part of you.
M m m hm. We're back

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at the lounge car. How I
thought it was the other way. It

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happened when I was walking around earlier
too. I think the train cars move

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somehow as you go through the doors. That's that's not possible. H m.

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We are Unless I'm seeing this wrong. I think this train is riding

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through some kind of swamp made of
writhing corpses. What the hell is that

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thing? Over? There? Are
those wings? No so funny story,

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Not the first time I've seen something
like that. Those are tentacles. I

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want to drink. You lead a
more interesting life than I do. Yeah,

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you see one class of worlder being. Hey, you've seen them all

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your battle group never saw anything like
that. Okay, the battle group?

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What's that? Well? Are you
going to start yelling at me again?

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Then I'm freaking you out. I
will try not to freak out again.

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Okay, Yeah, cheers, goodbye. That's not half bad. What was

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the label a guy getting flayed of
life? It's a whiskey. That's all

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I know this place, man,
m hm hm are you still looking at

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the tentacle guy out the window?
Yeah, it's bizarre. I've never seen

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an elder act like this. It's
like, I don't know, harvesting the

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corpses. I mean to be fair, usually when I see these things in

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the field, unactively trying to destroy
them. A battle group, right,

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okay, So just to confirm some
things. Have you ever heard of Earth?

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Oh? Oh yeah, I guess
it's some shit whole planet midpoint on

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the disk, right, all right, so where I come from from my

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Earth, humanity hasn't gone into space
in a long time, and even then

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it was just some space stations and
shuttles and things. We Uh, My

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whole life has been spent trying to
call humanity back from a really dark place.

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And I mean that literally. My
planet was ruled by a dark goddess

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for oh, we're not really sure, a long time, maybe a hundred

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years. What, Yeah, that's
what the battle groups are think of it,

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like my I guess extended family like
a Clane. The god Us died

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maybe ten fifteen years before I was
born. By then, my group had

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been able to carve out a relatively
comfortable existence. We hooked up with other

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clans for what we called sweep and
clears, pushing through the ruins of the

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Old World cities, trying to clear
out the things that invested our world,

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things like tentacle guy. I don't
know what kind of spooky myths you guys

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have in space or whatever, but
on my world, every dark, twisted,

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evil monster turned out to be real
and something that could tear you limb

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from limb bain. That's dark,
I mean it was a living Hey,

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speaking of that, I still don't
remember how I got here, do you?

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No, Let's see, I remember
the last thing I remember before I

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woke up here was a completely normal
We've been on an extended patrol in London.

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That's a big city on my planet. Used to be one of the

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biggest oldest ones in the world.
Ah, got it. We finally had

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some wreck time, a couple of
days off to rest and research before our

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next goal. Research. Yeah,
my specialty is digging into old religions,

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mystic traditions, stuff people believed in
in the Old World. A lot of

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that stuff has hints about the creatures
that stopped our world. Cracking the books

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made us a hit, us better
and monster hunting. What about you?

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Roboman, not a robot cybernetics,
right, Yeah, I'm a cyber doc.

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Lived on a pretty big way station
in the Zaku, the Zacharus Cloud.

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We called it the ZAC. It's
one of the twelve galaxies. Yeah.

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The ship drive made it pretty easy
to get around between galaxies. Well

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yeah, is that weird? I
mean it is for me, But again,

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it seems pretty clear you and I. I don't know. I think

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we're from different dimensions or something.
Is that a thing? I don't know

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a good yardstick for what is and
is not a thing. I spent my

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twentieth birthday defending the rooftop of a
stone zigarette from a horde of vampires.

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Wow. Yeah, so you're a
doctor. When was the last thing you

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remember before you woke up here?
I don't remember a lot, Just a

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pretty normal day. Kicked back with
a beer at Donovan's down the street,

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hung out with my crew. Nothing
out of the ordinary, ripper, Ah

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okay, fuck, I need to
put bills on YouTube. Hey cries.

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Oh god, I hope you're enjoying
the booze. I guess, but whenever

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you ever stopped coming up? Ah? Yeah? Does does it have to

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be one of us? Like the
offset. It's up to you, guys.

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I can go grab the fish and
toss him out onto the platform if

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you want. No, no,
no, Finley. We can't make him

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go again. Come on, it's
one of our turns. I don't,

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I don't, I can't. I
don't think I can do it. You

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heard him. He was a soldier, emani, a hard boy, and

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he was still fucking screaming his head
off. I'm just me. I can't.

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All right, I'll take this one. Oh bain, m Annie.

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I can't thank you if you better
buck up, boy ocause you're up next.

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But what if we just don't?
What if we just stay on the

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train. Oh please try. I
have some blades I haven't been able to

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play with yet. Oh nah,
I'll go the next time. It's you,

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all right, gorgeous leader. Choo
doors Huh yep, you pick a

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door and walk through. Not much
to it? Why huh? Why do

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we pick a door? Why do
I have to choose between smile and Sunday

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afternoon? You pick a door because
I have a razor sharp knife. I

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want to put in your organs.
That's why I know. I know you're

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terribling, But you can't just tell
me why you're doing this, kidnapping us

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to ride around on a train and
pick doors and then die. It all

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seems so complicated. No, uh, okayvin I pick, I guess smile

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if that matters, matters to someone, not me happy dying just a moment

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in time. It's just a moment
in time, just a motment in time,

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a link in time. Contime.
What the hell? What the hell?

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What the hell. We're still moving. Have a drink, eat some

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food. Stop worrying. You're only
saying that because you've already done it.

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You've gone through a door. Why
wouldn't I worry? I still I still

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have to stand. You still have
to die. M hm hm oh,

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garlic and borrow owners brand Amani you
you still don't want to talk about it?

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No, I really don't. I
just mean I think it would help

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if I had some idea of what
she went through. I promise you it

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wouldn't finly admirable how quickly you've recovered. It took me hours to calm down.

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I've had some training. I thought
I'd seen damned near everything there was

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to see, but one I experienced
beyond that door. I wasn't ready for

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it, not by half, so
as I said, admirable. Thanks,

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I guess ha ha. No,
you see, you're just trying to spook

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me, aren't you? Zook right? Not everything is about you human,

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as you said, you're next.
If I were you, I'd spend less

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time worrying and more time preparing myself
for the trial ahead. I'll screw you.

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Fish. You wouldn't understand. Hey, I understand well enough that you're

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a coward. Hey, I could
turn you into paste. You scaly fuck

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want a demonstration? Hey enough,
sit both of you. I'm nursing a

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witch of a headache, and the
idea of chewing anything right now makes me

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want to vomit. Let me nurse
my coffee and bourbon in peace. We

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were going to compare nodes, right. Have you remembered anything else about how

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you got here? No? Still
just a big blur. How about you

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anything? No? Nothing. I
was out with some of the others from

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my crew. We were at a
kind of wastation, very nice, tropical,

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lots of rain, soft breezes.
Are you familiar with the concept of

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alcoholic drinks with little umbrellas in them? I mean, yeah, I don't

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think I've ever had one, but
I've seen pictures. Ah, well,

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that's the kind of place I was
at, spending some of our payment after

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a long protracted job. We sat
down at a table in this little bar.

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I remember looking around the place,
making sure we were in friendly territory.

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And that's it. The next thing
I recall, I was waking up

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on that couch hearing the two of
you talking. All right, Robo,

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man, your turn? You remember
anything? And who's Ripper? Oh?

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Now I can talk? Come on, man, don't be like that.

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We're in this together, right right
I am. I don't remember much more

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than either of you. I'm an
engineer and doctor, okay, I specialize

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in well, this kind of stuff. I had finished up my last patient

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for the day. Lady wanted new
eyes, easy stuff. I have a

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little lab set up for myself in
the Stora genits of my flat. I

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clocked in there, started tinkering with
a few things. It was getting late.

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You asked, who Ripper is?
He's this guy where I'm from.

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You need protection, right if you're
going to do the kind of work I

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do. The gear I deal with
every day is valuable, and so I

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made I made arrangements with Ripper and
his guys to keep me safe, and

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in exchange, I do work for
them. If it comes up. They

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might come in with some spare parts
and I install them or patch them up

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if they get hurt. I'm assuming
you don't ask a lot of questions about

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where these spare parts come from.
No, I don't, because I like

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breathing. You said you owed him
something. Yeah, just a little misunderstanding.

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You know, we were going to
talk about it. That's the last

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thing I remember Ripper buzzing me at
my door, and then I woke up

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here. Not a lot to work
with. Really, perhaps they kidnapped us

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Imani from her quarters me from the
bar. Would it be fair to say,

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Finny that your friend Ripper might have
sold you out to our captors.

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Keep your fucking spec ulation to yourself. I've touched a nerve. How surprising

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are either of you familiar with the
term emotional labor? What screw it?

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Never mind, new topic, new
question, Zuck, How come I can

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understand you? I'm sorry? What
do you mean? I wasn't sure at

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first, but since we've been talking
today, I'm hearing different words than you're

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saying. Your mouth moves and you're
talking in whatever language you know, but

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I hear you talk in my language
English. Oh why didn't I notice that?

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You're right? You're doing the same
thing. Ah, that's creepy.

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So we're talking to each other in
like in our heads. Well, I

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don't know, Oh this language English? Is it possible? Good evening,

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everyone. I trust you are enjoying
the meal our dear cries laid up for

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you. Uh yeah, cal best
food of kidnap victim could want. I

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guess I did enjoy the garliced bread. I'll let her know then, is

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it is it? Almost? Oh? Yes? In a short while,

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I thought I would sit and talk
with you, although see if I could

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answer any questions. Imani makes a
fair point, Caliban, you have kidnapped

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us. You are holding us against
our will. Why this pretense of caring

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what we think? I know it
may seem hard to believe, but we

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do care what you think. Management
very much wanted to take pains to provide

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you with a sense of well,
of mortal normalcy. You have your own

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rooms, a bit of privacy.
You can get food here whenever you like,

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and the three of you rotate who
chooses the door at each station,

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So you have a significant amount of
time where you have nothing to do at

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all. I noticed Imney has found
the library car. I hope there were

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some interesting tomes among the shelves.
Yeah, a lot of titles I didn't

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recognize too, which was interesting.
I guess I hear what you're saying,

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Caw, but this is it's fucking
nuts man. You've got us locked up

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in here and you send us to
these terrible places. It's torture. Why

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is it that we die inside the
doors and then we live again? There

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are some things I can't fully explain
for which I apologize. As I said

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when we first met. The three
of you are special in your own way.

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Your choice is here, and I
know it's cruel what we do to

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you. Your choices matter. They
are the heart of the project. You're

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doing important work for us, even
if you cannot see it. When do

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we get to go home home?
Yeah? When do I get to get

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back to my clan and Zook to
his crew and finlay h his garage.

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Ah, We'll have to see,
won't we. The project has goals it

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has to meet. I'll speak with
management though, ask them if they can

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give me an estimate. Why If
you don't mind me asking why do you

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and Chries look so different? We're
from very different places. We have different

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lineages. You said mortal normalcy before. Does that mean you're not mortal?

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Yeah? Are your lineages not whatever? Mortal? We are most assuredly not

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mortal. No. I know it
may be hard to tell given my cheery

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disposition, but Cries and I are
very different than the three of you,

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from very different places. We operate
on a well, on another level.

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What does that mean? Different level? Where do you come from? Ah?

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As the saying goes, our time
is up. I'll have to see

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one of you to your doors.
I'm very sorry. I quite liked our

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conversation, though hopefully we can continue
it later. Now then, who will

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be getting off at this station?
I believe your choices are a door called

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one year and a door called jailbird
and lay I hear? I can't?

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Please? Come on, man,
we both did it. I'm I'm not

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going to lie to you and say
it's easy, But do you really want

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one of us to go through that
again? Just so you don't have to?

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I am shit, I coward.
I'm afraid I'll need an answer.

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Findley. It sounds as if your
cohorts believe it is your turn. No,

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please, I can't do it.
This isn't You can't make me.

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Actually, I promise you I can
make you, though I do not want

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to, imani, Zuck. If
Findley will not go to the station by

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choice, I will escort him if
one of you would care to go again.

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That's perfectly acceptable to myself and management. As christ said, who leaves

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the drain and is ultimately up to
the three of you as long as someone

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chooses the door at each station.
You ask me, Zuck, how I

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operate on a different level from you, and this is one of those ways.

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The choices you Mortals make are precious
important. So will one of you

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go in thinly stead? Mh no? No, all right then? No,

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please please get your hands off me. No, you can't make me

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go. Can't make me go.
Please don't make me go. No,

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please help mell hey, you can't
make me go. Please please, sir,

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right this way? Help please help
tell you how to get off.

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I don't want to go. H
oh oh oh oh, mister Finley,

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can you hear me? I thought
they fucking scream these girls they did to

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my knowledge. Why did he do
it? Why they didn't It's not supposed

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to happen. Oh, it's not
supposed to happen. Damn it. Sit

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down, She won't do it to
me, not again, not again.

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I think we'll have to call in
outside assistance. Are you thinking warden?

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No? No, your warden is
a touch violent for this kind of work.

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When will it end? Oh?
Oh, I'll get in touch with

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the architect. Perhaps she can send
down someone from the alienist's lodge. Sounds

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good, Make the call. I
don't know how long this guy's going to

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hold it together. A right,
Mommy? Over here? You I'm kidding.

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Nope, there's a little forest in
this car. Yep? How big?

406
00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:15.079
Is it? Not that big?
I think the space is still a

407
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.599
train car in size, if that
makes sense. But it's all I don't

408
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:27.400
know sideways to how you'd expect it. Were these chairs here when you found

409
00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:31.480
the place? Yep? I'm assuming
at this point. But if we can

410
00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:40.360
get into a place, we're meant
to be here. So mind if I

411
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:53.559
sit, I'm not gonna stop you
has thinly stopped? No, not that

412
00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:59.840
I could hear. I'm sure he'll
snap out of it. It took on

413
00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:15.840
so while as well. M how
many cars have you been through this is

414
00:57:16.119 --> 00:57:22.039
number nineteen, and that includes the
two sleeper cars, the bar and the

415
00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:29.280
cafe car. Anything else interesting?
Oh, loads, I think there's a

416
00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:32.159
car especially for you at the far
end. There's an inner door with a

417
00:57:32.159 --> 00:57:37.400
big water tank. That's basically what
my bunk is like. Yes, but

418
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:44.679
this one has some kind of coral
in it, little creatures, ab snacks.

419
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:50.440
We'll have to take a look.
Oh, let's see. There's an

420
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:55.360
armory with all kinds of bladed weapons, some kind of temple, a lounge

421
00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:01.280
with a green velvet couch, all
kinds of things. This is a weird

422
00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:10.639
train man being. Is it that
time already? I guess I thought we'd

423
00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:16.039
have a bit more your money.
Look, why do you enjoin us in

424
00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:27.440
the Barbley? Well that's new.
What if we at us? I mean,

425
00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:32.719
I would guest disagree with him,
but I want a drink and I

426
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:44.679
don't want to get thrown around the
place. You know there are not wait

427
00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:52.639
a tick, We're not going to
do this forever, are we? I

428
00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:59.360
mean they say they're immortal. Our
version of forever might not apply anymore.

429
00:58:59.639 --> 00:59:06.800
How can you be so nonchalant about
all this? Two reasons first and foremost,

430
00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:10.360
I'm thinking it I promise you.
I'm just as scared as you are.

431
00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:20.400
I just have more experience. I
guess I've been dealing with weird shit

432
00:59:20.559 --> 00:59:28.760
for a long time. Second reason
is I don't know. There's just a

433
00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:34.360
lot going on here, don't you
feel it? This is also cultivated.

434
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.119
I think they need us more than
we need them, if that makes sense.

435
00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:43.239
When they're not body checking Finny into
the wall, they've treated us pretty

436
00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:47.039
well. I'm not sure what you
mean. I mean we have to keep

437
00:59:47.079 --> 00:59:52.480
searching somewhere on this train. There
are answers to be found, my fine

438
00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:59.679
finn friend, So we keep looking, or you know, thank you us

439
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:06.400
permanently and horribly one of the two. Wow, that makes a hideous kind

440
01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:19.199
of sense. Damn it. Have
a drink with me? Sure? Who

441
01:00:19.320 --> 01:01:00.199
the hell else am I going to
drink with? So a few long enough?

442
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:06.800
Good to see you two, cries? Can I get you both a

443
01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:15.960
drink? Whiskey? Neat of samey? We stopped right? Why are we

444
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:21.960
moving again? We stopped to bring
on someone to speak with mister Findley.

445
01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:30.039
They're working with him right now.
Did something happen? Oh no, no,

446
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:37.920
he's fine. He just needed a
bit of assistance after his experience the

447
01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:43.679
first time in a room can be
very distressing, as you've both seen.

448
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:50.280
So why did you call us?
In partially to explain why we stopped,

449
01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:55.719
partially to ask which of you will
be leaving the train next, and partially

450
01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:07.920
to give you please? Is that
a tape recorder? It is one for

451
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:14.880
each of you? What is this
physical media? You record audio into a

452
01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:19.679
plastic tape embedded with magnetic powder.
The magnet in the device captures the wave

453
01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:29.719
form. Huh? And why are
we getting these things? Management is afraid

454
01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:34.800
you'll go crazy? Now Now,
they're a way for you to track your

455
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:42.039
thoughts, to keep a sense of
continuity through this stressful time. Is this

456
01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:49.159
optional? Of course if you don't
find it helpful, no need to use

457
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:55.280
them, but hang on to them
either way, all right? Uh huh?

458
01:02:55.639 --> 01:03:12.960
Sure? So death done? Yeah? Who goes this time? I'll

459
01:03:13.679 --> 01:03:20.760
go? I'm m I think I'm
ready bout a break? Are you sure

460
01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:30.159
it's my isn't it my term?
I got this, but Caliban, I

461
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:34.400
want to ask some more questions.
This isn't a trade. We stop.

462
01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:45.239
Someone dies, There's no tip for
tatty cries. We're here to whom I

463
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:54.039
am happy to answer. Any questions. I can. Oh right, m

464
01:03:54.599 --> 01:04:11.519
let's hey, Imani zook, Hello, are you feeling all right? I'm

465
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:16.079
fine, much better. I've had
a good conversation with the woman from the

466
01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:20.119
lodge. She helped me to see
how important it is for us to be

467
01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:27.719
here. You did something to him, didn't You just helped me to see

468
01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:35.159
Imani Now I can see. I
know he seems somewhat strange right now.

469
01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:42.079
Don't worry. He'll be back to
his old self soon. It's just a

470
01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:51.559
form of mood stabilization away for him
to divorce himself from his fear. I

471
01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:57.960
think I like him better this way. Socio parts, watch your mouthfish,

472
01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:24.639
Oh god, what the fuck?
Mhmm, Yeah, we were just talking

473
01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:29.920
in the lounge car. No horseman
rode up alongside us, dressed all in

474
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:35.800
black. It's tall, taller than
the train horse. Its horn is it

475
01:05:35.920 --> 01:05:43.480
looks like a corpse the rider.
Where's a hood? From within the dark

476
01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:48.960
hood are large horns like a steer. I can see its eyes, a

477
01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:59.639
full full of hate, hate,
hating. And I looked and beheld a

478
01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:09.360
horse. His name that sat upon
him was death. Power was given unto

479
01:06:09.519 --> 01:06:14.599
him to kill with sword and with
hunger. And with the beasts of the

480
01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:20.079
earth, the power of the elder
beings, the powers of the mount and

481
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:30.039
the grove, and the far and
the Hell's, the power of choice and

482
01:06:30.320 --> 01:07:25.920
suffering unending, the power of the
Gray Rooms. Sir, this here is

483
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:38.320
wanted. Choose a door and step
through. Why because if you don't,

484
01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:54.239
I'll kill you. You can call
me Bob, mister Beckett. Everyone else

485
01:07:54.360 --> 01:08:06.280
does. We have worked together for
some time now. You and I overseen

486
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:21.920
several iterations of the rooms. You
have attended dozens of guests. You are

487
01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:28.560
one of the pillars of the Gray
Rooms. Bob. I trust you more

488
01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:34.359
than that. I like you.
Tell me I have nothing to worry about.

489
01:08:36.279 --> 01:08:41.760
Tell me that you have a handle
on this. You have nothing to

490
01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:47.920
worry about. I have a handle
on this. I merely wish to understand

491
01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:56.239
enough. We have allowed this charade
to go on long enough. Bob,

492
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:01.560
Admiral Beckett has done more for the
project in this last few days than you

493
01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:10.000
have in years. I was unaware
that my commitment to the project was in

494
01:09:10.199 --> 01:09:20.720
question. The warden's deterioration, the
many little hiccups with Todd's time in the

495
01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:39.079
rooms, the loss of Miss Winters. I am deeply and fundamentally questioning your

496
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:51.840
competence, wove a wreck attendant to
the gray rooms. I belial hold your

497
01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:59.439
chain, but I have held it
for two long old friends allowed it to

498
01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:09.039
go black. It is time I
passed its links to another, a master

499
01:10:09.560 --> 01:10:30.000
that will be more attentives. Gordon, we are could have so much fly

500
01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:29.079
m. I opened my eye and
stared up at a colorless ceiling. I

501
01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:35.039
had been the project's attendant for centuries, and now I was trapped inside the

502
01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:45.479
gray rooms. It brought a weak
smile to my face, a grimace that

503
01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:49.960
caused my cracked lips to bleed,
and the pain in my head to intensify.

504
01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:58.960
We'd work so hard to imitate the
cheap concrete of Rayman's realm. I

505
01:11:59.119 --> 01:12:05.840
clearly remember conversations about poor astriations,
how cold the cells should be, how

506
01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:14.319
much flickering the lights should do,
all to manipulate a mortal, all to

507
01:12:14.520 --> 01:12:19.479
shape his state of mind, our
first fumbling effort to control the guest,

508
01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:28.359
to fulfill the project's potential. And
what had the admiral said, draw force

509
01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:36.880
blood from a stone? Now these
cells lingered here, deep beneath the walls

510
01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:45.039
of dis a memento from that turning
point in the project, when Belile's bid

511
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:54.159
for power had finally unmistakably borne delicious
fruit. The perfect place to hold a

512
01:12:54.319 --> 01:13:01.640
demon who was no longer of use
to the project old woe varak bold bob

513
01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:18.600
old me. I sat up on
my threadbare cut taking in the grim walls,

514
01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:25.319
the small table, the metal chair. I had no sense of how

515
01:13:25.399 --> 01:13:30.279
much time had passed since that meeting
in the Founder's tower. At some point,

516
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:36.000
someone the warden I assumed, had
dressed me in a set of gray

517
01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:43.520
cotton pants and a simple gray shirt, the very same clothes we had given

518
01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:47.640
to Raymond. In fact, in
the dim light, I could see my

519
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:55.159
breath condensing in the chill air.
I reached up to gently touch the filthy

520
01:13:55.319 --> 01:14:01.239
bandage covering my left eye socket.
A dull ache spread from that wound up

521
01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:08.239
into my skull. I was still
getting used to having just one eye,

522
01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:15.720
and this throbbing reminder of the mind
worms tender ministrations made it difficult to focus

523
01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:20.800
to rally my thoughts. I needed
to get my feet back under me.

524
01:14:23.159 --> 01:14:28.960
I needed to get moving. I
knew if I could just focus, just

525
01:14:29.279 --> 01:14:33.760
push past this pain, there was
something I could do. I had to

526
01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:45.560
do something before. Hey there,
buddy, I see you whom to the

527
01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:59.079
waking world warden. My only reliable
way of counting time was the warden's regular

528
01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:04.800
visit. He delighted in reminding me
that he now held my chain, that

529
01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:11.520
he could do with me whatever he
wanted. What do you think you have

530
01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:16.960
to spend in a little time together? I'd much rather rest and recuperate.

531
01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:23.039
If you don't mind, perhaps you
could send Todd down with some tea,

532
01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:32.960
queen a little worm. Listen you
sniveling like a moral Have you had tea

533
01:15:33.439 --> 01:15:41.640
recently? It's quite delicious. You've
changed, or friend, I've been telling

534
01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:47.520
you for centuries, all this time
when mortal says made you sobt rided you

535
01:15:47.720 --> 01:15:54.520
from me inside out. Agree to
disagree, old friend. And if I

536
01:15:54.640 --> 01:16:01.439
have changed, well, isn't that
something we're celebrating. You should have heard

537
01:16:01.479 --> 01:16:09.319
the founder just like you, oh
Terry, and the beg. He thinks

538
01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:13.279
I can fix you, thinks if
I can break you hard enough, we

539
01:16:13.399 --> 01:16:17.840
can put you back together the way
you used to be. But you and

540
01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:23.840
I know better, don't we.
Mom. It's just going to be you

541
01:16:25.119 --> 01:16:38.119
and me down here, But the
rest of eternity, you know, an

542
01:16:38.199 --> 01:16:43.319
upside of being your prisoner is that
I no longer have to pretend your inane

543
01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:48.960
ramblings contain some kind of deep meaning. Do you ever get tired of hearing

544
01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:57.439
yourself talk? So you want the
pain to be particularly bad? Today?

545
01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:25.920
Oh, every visit was different.
Sometimes he came down in person to treat

546
01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:30.239
me to quality time with his chains
and blades. I'd been stalked by other

547
01:17:30.439 --> 01:17:38.039
demons in his service, by mortal
soldiers brought into the hells by the Admiral.

548
01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:43.000
Once he had imported a horned beast
from the grove to chase me down

549
01:17:43.119 --> 01:17:47.680
these endless corrid horse It had the
leering skull of a deer for a head

550
01:17:48.199 --> 01:17:55.119
and hoofs shod with horns and barbed
wire. It pursued me for what seemed

551
01:17:55.159 --> 01:18:01.079
like weeks before he let me rest
again. Recently, he'd grown fond of

552
01:18:01.239 --> 01:18:09.600
unleashing the literal hounds of hell to
snap at my heels. To be honest,

553
01:18:10.520 --> 01:18:19.880
it was getting a little old.
Better run, better run, or

554
01:18:19.920 --> 01:18:36.279
I mean this time not forget to
call him mine. This was all a

555
01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:41.800
game to the warden, who was
no longer interested in anything I had to

556
01:18:41.920 --> 01:18:47.640
say, any observations I might have
heard about the project any secrets. No,

557
01:18:48.159 --> 01:18:53.439
I was nothing more than an amusement. That is why I ran,

558
01:18:54.560 --> 01:18:58.560
because I knew if I stood and
tried to fight, if I did anything

559
01:18:58.600 --> 01:19:02.359
other than put on a good show, he'd get bored. And a board

560
01:19:02.560 --> 01:19:15.800
warden was far far more terrifying than
one who was amused. Ah. I

561
01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:21.199
read for what seemed like ours,
but eventually my strength began to flag.

562
01:19:23.359 --> 01:19:27.600
I had been exhausted when he'd thrown
me into these cells, and without any

563
01:19:27.680 --> 01:19:34.119
chance to rest, I'd been getting
weaker and weaker with each visitation. The

564
01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:40.000
hill holp s ran me down,
taking out my legs, pulling me to

565
01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:56.640
the cold floor of the great rooms, so cold it burned my heart.

566
01:19:56.800 --> 01:20:11.439
Blood steamed on the concrete as they
tore in to me. He let amuse

567
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:15.760
me as a placing, batting me
about the floor, tearing the chumps of

568
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:21.520
my flesh, ravaging my gray clothes. He let them toy with me for

569
01:20:21.640 --> 01:20:32.760
a long long time until this blood
lust was sated, until I'd stopped screaming

570
01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:40.960
and just lay there trembling in agony. My good eye was taped closed with

571
01:20:41.159 --> 01:20:45.720
blood, and so I heard rather
than saw, the beasts trotting off down

572
01:20:45.800 --> 01:21:00.319
the corridor back to their infernal kennel. Have a good night, barn,

573
01:21:02.199 --> 01:21:20.479
oh you again real soon the loo. I lay there, unable to move.

574
01:21:21.479 --> 01:21:27.079
I could already feel my wounds beginning
to close. That would take days,

575
01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:31.520
even weeks for them to fully heal. If I was patient, I'd

576
01:21:31.560 --> 01:21:36.039
be able to crawl back to my
cot within just a few hours. This

577
01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:42.479
was why the warden was so happy
to hold my chain. He could play

578
01:21:42.680 --> 01:21:46.359
as rough as he wanted, with
me, assured in the knowledge that eventually

579
01:21:46.479 --> 01:21:57.319
I'd be whole again and ready for
more torment. My body lie broken in

580
01:21:57.399 --> 01:22:02.840
the flickering light dark light of the
hall way. I was too exhausted even

581
01:22:02.960 --> 01:22:10.079
to weep, and too full of
self hatred to care for After all,

582
01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:16.720
hadn't I laid the groundwork for my
own suffering. We say that the choices

583
01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:23.399
of the guests mark them as special, but we demons make choices as well,

584
01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:42.560
and mine had damned me to a
hell of my own creation. In

585
01:22:42.760 --> 01:22:49.199
the shadows, I heard movement,
soft, furtive, a footstep Hello.

586
01:22:51.479 --> 01:22:58.880
That was new. If it was
a torment dreamed up by the warden,

587
01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:06.520
was effective. Snarling beasts I could
handle quiet movements in the dark weren't really

588
01:23:06.760 --> 01:23:13.399
his style. I tried to open
my eye, rubbing at my face with

589
01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:18.680
my hat, and through the crimson
fog that filled my vision, I thought

590
01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:24.399
I could make out a figure standing
a dozen paces away at the end of

591
01:23:24.479 --> 01:23:34.000
the hallway. I squinted. He
looked familiar. Ray Raymond, our first

592
01:23:34.199 --> 01:23:42.119
guest, the man this complex had
been built for. I'd known intellectually that

593
01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:45.920
he was down here, somewhere.
I was, after all, the one

594
01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:53.239
who'd kept him here. But these
passages were an endless maze. I'd never

595
01:23:53.399 --> 01:24:05.119
once considered. Raymond. Please,
I know, I'm sorry, but m

596
01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:15.119
can you help me? He regarded
me silently. The flickering light didn't allow

597
01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:20.279
me to see the expression on his
face. He merely raised a hand,

598
01:24:20.920 --> 01:24:30.960
pointing off down the corridor to his
right. I I don't understand. He

599
01:24:30.119 --> 01:24:36.239
stood there mute. I blinked,
trying to clear my vision, and he

600
01:24:36.319 --> 01:24:42.319
must have taken the few steps needed
to clear the hallway. When I looked

601
01:24:42.359 --> 01:24:56.119
again, he was gone. Raymond, no answer, no movement. Digging

602
01:24:56.279 --> 01:25:04.199
deep my hold on the last of
my strength and hold myself upright using a

603
01:25:04.319 --> 01:25:12.239
hand on the wall, I managed
after several tries to stand. My clothes

604
01:25:12.319 --> 01:25:19.199
were in tatters and blood pooled in
footprints as I slowly, agonizingly slowly made

605
01:25:19.279 --> 01:25:26.319
my way down the hall. I
reached the end and peered down the right

606
01:25:26.399 --> 01:25:32.560
hand passage. He was there again, at the far end. He held

607
01:25:32.600 --> 01:25:41.279
out a hand, beckoning me forward. Please. I'm exhausted, Raymond,

608
01:25:42.680 --> 01:25:49.439
will you help me? My legs
shuddering underneath me. I continued to shamble

609
01:25:49.600 --> 01:25:55.159
forward. I was within just a
few feet of him when he stepped off

610
01:25:55.239 --> 01:26:00.720
down a side passage, not even
glancing back behind him. This little game

611
01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:06.720
went on for long minutes. The
mortal stuck to the shadows, never allowing

612
01:26:06.840 --> 01:26:12.319
me a look at his face.
He never spoke, no matter what I

613
01:26:12.439 --> 01:26:17.000
said to him, no matter how
much I begged. Finally, as I

614
01:26:17.159 --> 01:26:25.079
dragged myself down what seemed just another
corridor, Raymond held out his hand,

615
01:26:26.239 --> 01:26:33.319
palm out. Stop. I did, and nearly collapsed. He pointed.

616
01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:43.159
I looked and realized I was standing
before a door. That was not terribly

617
01:26:43.279 --> 01:26:47.239
unusual down here, but most of
the loci had been loaded out years ago,

618
01:26:47.960 --> 01:26:54.960
the doorways left hanging empty, this
vast worn of always left to rot.

619
01:26:55.920 --> 01:27:00.840
Somehow, we'd missed one, a
plaque glimmer in the dim light,

620
01:27:00.279 --> 01:27:06.000
and I could just make out a
flickering illumination beyond the hinges. The sign

621
01:27:06.199 --> 01:27:16.159
said, simply invasive. What what
is this? He gestured, and the

622
01:27:16.239 --> 01:27:28.560
door swung open. You you want
me to go through? The figure nodded.

623
01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:33.920
It made a certain kind of sense. The rooms, terrible as they

624
01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:41.119
were, paled in comparison to the
endless torment I'd find in these dour halls.

625
01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:48.079
I'd no doubt return here upon exiting
the room, But perhaps this might

626
01:27:48.199 --> 01:27:54.199
be my only chance, a chance
to set the warden on his heels to

627
01:27:54.359 --> 01:28:00.640
find an exit, and all because
of Raymond. Thank you. I don't

628
01:28:01.880 --> 01:28:08.239
I don't know why you're doing this, but thank you. Even in the

629
01:28:08.439 --> 01:28:13.800
end he said nothing, merely watched
as I took a few steps forward,

630
01:28:14.640 --> 01:28:18.800
watched as the power of the rooms
claimed me, and watched as the door

631
01:28:19.359 --> 01:28:26.479
closed behind me. For all I
know, peace watching there still in the

632
01:28:26.640 --> 01:29:40.239
darkness, in the cold of the
gray rooms. Ah h M. Prior

633
01:29:40.439 --> 01:29:44.680
to this occasion, it had been
a considerable amount of time since I'd actually

634
01:29:44.800 --> 01:29:53.359
gone through one of the gray rooms. My reintroduction was deeply unpleasant, But

635
01:29:53.520 --> 01:29:57.640
as I lay there on the cold
floor of the complex. I could feel

636
01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:02.199
that some of the old magic still
at play. Many of my wounds from

637
01:30:02.239 --> 01:30:09.399
the Warden's playtime had healed. My
headache was just a dull lump behind my

638
01:30:09.560 --> 01:30:23.880
left eye. Ah ah ah.
I rose and pressed my back against the

639
01:30:23.960 --> 01:30:30.399
wall, bracing myself. I was
still so very very tired. Slowly,

640
01:30:31.159 --> 01:30:38.880
tenderly I unwrapped the bandage that hid
my empty socket. I lifted my hand

641
01:30:39.000 --> 01:30:44.520
to my face, traced the edges
of my ocular cavity. The left side

642
01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:48.960
of my vision was still the haze. Apparently the power of the rooms was

643
01:30:49.079 --> 01:31:01.199
insufficient or it was disinclined to restore
my eye. Oh, tarts me?

644
01:31:02.159 --> 01:31:06.720
How you holding up? I was
ripped apart by hell hounds not that long

645
01:31:06.760 --> 01:31:15.079
ago and just emerged from a locai. So I'm not doing well? Er?

646
01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:20.720
Yeah, what do you want?
Has the warden given you leave to

647
01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:28.880
taunt me as a reward for your
service? Oh? Never listen, I've

648
01:31:29.039 --> 01:31:32.600
order saying O Lord Thomas saying things
are changing in the room or head management

649
01:31:33.159 --> 01:31:38.000
changing, false pars and love everything. And here I thought you all would

650
01:31:38.039 --> 01:31:45.760
get along fine without me, You
too, will you very well? The

651
01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:50.079
emperors said. Everything on his ear
and his recruits are the Farer's new favorite

652
01:31:50.119 --> 01:31:55.439
toys. I've been doing for I'm
not sure ward goes an't talking in it

653
01:31:55.560 --> 01:32:00.359
and the lands. I've got a
mission the army things it is he I'm

654
01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:03.000
going to make shake up with a
ball. She would have means, don't

655
01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:06.520
stop the folks from other realms.
Look, oh, coins are weird creatures

656
01:32:06.560 --> 01:32:11.199
trumping through attire. Well, they
owned the place. I made a new

657
01:32:11.399 --> 01:32:15.840
version of the project doubt running.
It's weird, weird even by assdit.

658
01:32:17.159 --> 01:32:24.359
This is all fascinating. I'm sure, Why are you telling me? I'm

659
01:32:24.439 --> 01:32:29.760
telling you because they're distracted. They're
not thinking about you right now, and

660
01:32:29.880 --> 01:32:38.600
I think I'm going to help you
escape. Escape You and I both know

661
01:32:38.880 --> 01:32:42.720
that will never happen. Even if
you were able to pull me out of

662
01:32:42.760 --> 01:32:46.239
the complex, where would I go
they discover it was you, Todd,

663
01:32:46.760 --> 01:32:50.880
You know they would. Mister Warden
finds out that you're talking to me,

664
01:32:53.920 --> 01:33:00.439
go back to your job, stay
safe my time. But the project is

665
01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:12.039
over. Nothing can change that.
Now the project, you bloody You'll think

666
01:33:12.159 --> 01:33:15.159
I'm in here. We'll rescued my
skin for what shit sickningles, so I

667
01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:19.720
get you back on the project.
I'm your friend. You asked whole I'd

668
01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:23.840
have call it a bunch of favors
againsting, set up and reach out and

669
01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:28.039
look. But I know you'll be
a lot safer, a lot easier to

670
01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:32.079
leave you writing down there, easier
for me anyway, I'm not. You've

671
01:33:32.159 --> 01:33:35.199
got people to want you free,
and I can help you, so I

672
01:33:35.319 --> 01:33:45.640
will know what you think of us
mores. And you're right every time you

673
01:33:45.760 --> 01:33:50.319
point out what ship I wasn't Barbie
a poop with skill through you. But

674
01:33:50.640 --> 01:33:54.800
there's why I've got to do is
right. Because even though our tall light

675
01:33:54.880 --> 01:33:57.800
a blow, that the lord who
blew up the domes, even though I

676
01:33:57.920 --> 01:34:02.680
got his name and remember his chili
shappeared, all that I ain't himful are

677
01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:09.439
just. I don't have to prove
that to nobody, but I want to

678
01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:14.600
know. So a we it would
your sad sex. He'll find a way

679
01:34:14.640 --> 01:34:20.239
to jolly old freedom. You always
joined on to the guist amount how a

680
01:34:20.479 --> 01:34:28.079
choice is made of special I are
well not choosing. I quite literally had

681
01:34:28.159 --> 01:34:32.199
no idea what to say to that. The idea that Todd mathis of all

682
01:34:32.399 --> 01:34:41.520
people would attempt to set me free. It was insane. But then I

683
01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:45.199
looked up and down the endless corridors
that stretched out to my left and right.

684
01:34:46.640 --> 01:34:58.039
What did I have to lose?
Tard I thank you. I did

685
01:34:58.119 --> 01:35:04.119
not expect this, nor on some
level do I think I deserve it.

686
01:35:05.880 --> 01:35:11.399
You're a right ars of a demon. You know that I have been told

687
01:35:11.439 --> 01:35:18.439
as much. Yes, so what
is your plan? Still works? Right

688
01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:24.199
now? I just eat you to
hang tie that a crabs urso in the

689
01:35:24.319 --> 01:35:28.239
works. I don't know how you
figured out find one of the work in

690
01:35:28.359 --> 01:35:31.159
north down there, but I put
the warden into all kinds of face.

691
01:35:31.239 --> 01:35:41.079
Do you think you can do it
again? Perhaps I'll try? Good Gay,

692
01:35:41.600 --> 01:35:44.880
look sty cycle right, find another
door that will throw the warden off

693
01:35:44.920 --> 01:35:48.039
your trail for a while. We'll
talk again soon. Wait, what is

694
01:35:48.119 --> 01:36:02.680
this plan? God? Damn it, tard Ah. I stood on unsteady

695
01:36:02.800 --> 01:36:10.199
legs. I brushed my hands across
my gray clothing, trying my best to

696
01:36:10.279 --> 01:36:15.760
remove the dirt and grime, and
with my head held high, I moved

697
01:36:15.800 --> 01:36:20.760
off into the complex. For the
first time in a very, very long

698
01:36:20.920 --> 01:36:27.720
while. I felt a bit like
my old self. I might have been

699
01:36:27.760 --> 01:36:35.319
exhausted. Defeat it but now I
had a purpose, even if it was

700
01:36:35.439 --> 01:36:43.359
given to me by a mortal I
had a purpose, but no idea how

701
01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:48.279
to find another working door. My
knowledge of the original Gray Rooms was long

702
01:36:48.479 --> 01:36:54.880
years out of date. I'd asked
management to keep the complex around as a

703
01:36:55.000 --> 01:37:00.439
kind of keepsake. The architect was
extremely sentimental. After she took over the

704
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:09.000
project. She thoroughly approved of the
minor expenditure of resources required. The complex

705
01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:15.079
was originally built to confuse a mortal
mind to torment Raymond in a way unique

706
01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:20.760
to him, as well as provide
him just enough succor between doors to keep

707
01:37:20.840 --> 01:37:28.560
him emotionally stable. After thee incident
that led to the conclusion of his time

708
01:37:28.640 --> 01:37:33.039
in the Rooms, my orders had
been to have him destroyed. I had

709
01:37:33.119 --> 01:37:44.199
ignored them, one of my first
small acts of rebellion against management. I

710
01:37:44.319 --> 01:37:48.479
am still not quite sure. Why
Why did I allow the remnants of his

711
01:37:48.720 --> 01:37:55.439
mortal consciousness to remain? Why keep
him here? By no sum in the

712
01:37:55.680 --> 01:38:04.399
alienist large belief in signs and portens, But I I do not. Still

713
01:38:05.560 --> 01:38:11.520
it appeared that, even after all
these years, after everything that had transpired,

714
01:38:12.479 --> 01:38:17.680
the first guest of the Gray Rooms
was still of some use Raymond,

715
01:38:20.319 --> 01:38:30.640
Raymond, if you're still there,
I need your help. I need to

716
01:38:30.800 --> 01:38:34.119
find a working door. I need
you to lead me to a room.

717
01:38:36.560 --> 01:38:45.159
Please. I stood there in the
darkness of the halls for long moments.

718
01:38:46.640 --> 01:38:51.239
I listened, hoping that he was
near by, that he was in the

719
01:38:51.399 --> 01:38:59.920
mood. And then there he was, at the far end of the hall,

720
01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:08.239
a silhouette, a darkness against the
deeper night. Raymond, thank you?

721
01:39:09.960 --> 01:39:14.640
Where should I go? Can you
lead me like you did before?

722
01:39:15.880 --> 01:39:20.399
Wordlessly he regarded me. I could
just make out the light reflected off of

723
01:39:20.479 --> 01:39:28.119
his eyes twin mirrors. He turned
and began to move, but this time

724
01:39:28.479 --> 01:39:33.640
he did not walk. He ran. Raymond wait for a mortal that had

725
01:39:33.680 --> 01:39:39.319
been trapped in this maze as long
as he had. Raymond moved with surprising

726
01:39:39.439 --> 01:39:53.880
speed. I didn't understand why until
I heard the sound oh bab He'd known

727
01:39:55.520 --> 01:40:01.560
somehow, Raymond had known the Wharton
had returned. Why why are you running,

728
01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:10.359
Bob? Do you think you can
out run me? Do you think

729
01:40:10.920 --> 01:40:20.960
you can out run pain? Oh? No? I didn't bother to reply.

730
01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:27.159
I needed to focus. My weary
mortal shell was beyond the point of

731
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:31.800
exhaustion. I put one foot in
front of another. My eyes on Raymond's

732
01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:40.279
fleeing form, and I love my
little chant so much. If you're not

733
01:40:40.520 --> 01:40:54.800
feeling talkative again, it's time for
the screens to start. The Architect's pre

734
01:40:55.000 --> 01:41:01.520
bery hasn't been out of its cage
in so long. Oh, she mentioned

735
01:41:01.640 --> 01:41:09.119
she wanted to let it stretch its
wings, and I knew just what to

736
01:41:09.319 --> 01:41:30.680
do. Why it was all I
could do to keep my legs moving,

737
01:41:30.560 --> 01:41:36.359
stride after stride. Raymond was always
always length ahead of me, just disappearing

738
01:41:36.439 --> 01:41:43.199
around the turn. Sometimes I saw
him pause to excited me before he ducked

739
01:41:43.239 --> 01:41:46.399
around a corner, and I thought, in the dim moments where I could

740
01:41:46.439 --> 01:41:56.199
see his face, he was smiling. It's going to be good. They've

741
01:41:56.279 --> 01:42:00.600
got a little snack and everything.
I can't wait to ast management layer.

742
01:42:03.079 --> 01:42:09.479
And then one more corner, and
he was there, standing at the fore

743
01:42:09.680 --> 01:42:14.920
end of the hall, that dark
figure, his arm raised, pointed off

744
01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:20.319
to the side my side. I
looked and saw the tall tale glimmer beneath

745
01:42:20.399 --> 01:42:30.439
the doorway, and not a moment
too soon, the Architect's beast rounded the

746
01:42:30.560 --> 01:42:41.720
turn, a nightmare in feathers and
leathery skin. It barely fit inside the

747
01:42:41.840 --> 01:42:49.880
tight corridor, its horrific skull scraping
against the ceiling, stubby wings, dripped

748
01:42:49.960 --> 01:43:00.920
ichorps under the cement from clipped and
broken pinions, and its eyes terrible and

749
01:43:00.119 --> 01:43:10.520
malevolent, and worst of all,
human, all too undeniably human. Came.

750
01:43:11.119 --> 01:43:15.520
She called him most mortal realms had
known him once as Cain. She'd

751
01:43:15.600 --> 01:43:19.479
never told me how she'd come to
keep him as a pet, and I'd

752
01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:31.279
never asked. Now he towered over
me, only a few arm lengths away.

753
01:43:32.119 --> 01:43:40.000
Hungry for pain and sorrow and death. I grabbed the doorknob and flung

754
01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:50.399
it wide. How don't let him
escape? I threw myself at the doorway,

755
01:43:50.880 --> 01:43:56.039
being careful of the edges. For
a fraction of a second I could

756
01:43:56.119 --> 01:44:17.800
hear the sound of the beast's screams
mingling with my own. Then the shimmer

757
01:44:17.880 --> 01:44:23.840
of the loci broke upon my face, like water, shutting out sound and

758
01:44:24.119 --> 01:44:30.039
light. And finally, thought,
blinded, deafened and alone, I fell.

759
01:44:31.319 --> 01:45:51.520
I fell forever ah. I was
beginning to understand experientially why the guests

760
01:45:51.600 --> 01:45:58.520
were always so out of sorts when
they returned from a room, Being unceremoniously

761
01:45:58.720 --> 01:46:15.840
dropped back into this end endless maze
was deeply irritating. Ah. I cautiously

762
01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:20.640
got to my feet, looking around
warldly in the darkness. No birds.

763
01:46:21.920 --> 01:46:27.680
It appeared I would have a few
moments of calm before the madness began again.

764
01:46:29.439 --> 01:46:34.359
Cautiously, I flexed my limbs.
I felt, if not quite myself,

765
01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:42.079
then better. My mortal shell had
been injured severely by the warden's visitations.

766
01:46:42.640 --> 01:46:45.880
With the exception of my eye,
which appeared to be well and truly

767
01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:53.039
gone, I finally felt whole again. All thanks, it seemed, to

768
01:46:53.199 --> 01:46:59.279
the gray rooms. The irony of
a jailer made whole by time within his

769
01:46:59.399 --> 01:47:08.319
own and was not lost on me. Raymond, I called out into the

770
01:47:08.439 --> 01:47:27.439
darkness, Raymond silence, Todd,
can you hear me? Nothing? Wait?

771
01:47:28.159 --> 01:47:33.880
No, not nothing in the distance. I heard it a sound of

772
01:47:34.079 --> 01:47:42.920
chains. I didn't pause, I
didn't wait. I turned and I ran,

773
01:47:45.239 --> 01:47:55.119
Babe, did you make me?
I should have known, after escaping

774
01:47:55.239 --> 01:47:59.880
him twice, the warden wouldn't be
content to leave the dirty work to beasts.

775
01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:09.319
He'd want to deal with me himself. Once again, the warden stalked

776
01:48:09.359 --> 01:48:15.960
a hapless victim through these gray and
unrelenting halls. Once again, I found

777
01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:20.880
myself on the run. Where are
you going, buddy? You know there's

778
01:48:20.960 --> 01:48:28.920
nowhere to go. Are you hoping
to find another door? Oh? Well,

779
01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:33.720
bad news. I still don't know
where you managed to find them down

780
01:48:33.840 --> 01:48:40.000
here, But that's not going to
happen again, and make sure of it.

781
01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:48.680
I found myself dealing with a paradox
of success. I finally felt strength

782
01:48:48.840 --> 01:48:55.520
in my limbs once again. I
ran with long, looping strides. If

783
01:48:55.560 --> 01:48:58.880
it came to it, I thought
I might be able to hold my own

784
01:48:59.039 --> 01:49:03.479
against his assault for at least a
little while. And yet, now that

785
01:49:03.560 --> 01:49:09.000
I'd finally had time to recuperate,
I found I very much did not want

786
01:49:09.039 --> 01:49:15.640
to be torn apart by his rusty
blades, not again, And so I

787
01:49:15.880 --> 01:49:21.600
ran, Why run? Oh friend, you know this is going to end

788
01:49:23.159 --> 01:49:33.239
it all weed in the same way
you and I. I didn't bother to

789
01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:39.479
respond. He would flame me alive
now or later. It was just a

790
01:49:39.600 --> 01:49:44.680
matter of time, true, But
for the first time in a long time,

791
01:49:45.399 --> 01:49:49.840
I felt some of that old fire
return. I'd been so tired for

792
01:49:50.000 --> 01:49:56.000
so long. I didn't care if
I succeeded. I wasn't going to make

793
01:49:56.039 --> 01:50:00.159
it easy for him. As I
rounded yet another corner in this endless gray

794
01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:06.199
maze, I heard a familiar sound, and despite my situation, a tight

795
01:50:06.359 --> 01:50:15.760
smile slipped onto my face Todd,
where she run down and gabble, tid,

796
01:50:16.479 --> 01:50:21.359
get out of here, you little
worm. Yeah, no shirt naughtice

797
01:50:21.439 --> 01:50:26.439
time? Sorry? Want it?
When I get done with Bob your next

798
01:50:27.279 --> 01:50:30.520
And this time I'm not going to
stop. I'm going to rip your soul

799
01:50:30.560 --> 01:50:36.159
apart and throw you, screaming bloody
meat into the pit to burn and burn

800
01:50:38.079 --> 01:50:45.479
and burn. And I wanted roys
Time royal friends about me in Vain.

801
01:50:45.000 --> 01:50:56.560
They just don't ask scary anymore respectfully
shut ain't by asshi fucking chuckabo. As

802
01:50:56.600 --> 01:51:02.000
amusing as this exchange was, I
hope my start to burn the warden's fury

803
01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:11.800
would carry him further longer than my
determination. Todd, I could use some

804
01:51:11.960 --> 01:51:15.039
help down here. Plans come,
I get it, don't you worry?

805
01:51:16.560 --> 01:51:31.319
What plan? I quick and so
began one of the strangest experiences of my

806
01:51:31.560 --> 01:51:39.039
long life. As I was pursued
like hunted game through the unending corridors of

807
01:51:39.079 --> 01:51:45.000
the gray rooms. The man I
once kept imprisoned guided me through its twisted,

808
01:51:45.399 --> 01:51:49.720
benighted halls all the while like a
hound who had caught the scent of

809
01:51:49.880 --> 01:51:56.159
blood, the warden gave chase.
Just give in, now, just give

810
01:51:56.279 --> 01:52:01.479
in. I can torture you while
you're fresh. How it torture you?

811
01:52:01.680 --> 01:52:11.319
Woul tiring? Doesn't married the Without
Toard's directions, I would have been hopelessly

812
01:52:11.439 --> 01:52:18.560
lost my rounded turn after turn,
past door after door. This original construct

813
01:52:18.720 --> 01:52:24.079
was a template fro the blueprint we
used for every version of the rooms.

814
01:52:24.319 --> 01:52:29.199
Since it was, of course,
why to this day we still called them

815
01:52:29.680 --> 01:52:34.000
the gray rooms. Now I was
struck by how simple they were, how

816
01:52:34.920 --> 01:52:44.760
uncomplicated, A call back to a
time when my thoughts fled as my feet

817
01:52:44.840 --> 01:52:51.000
found themselves cemented in place. At
the foreign of the hall stood a relic

818
01:52:51.399 --> 01:53:00.439
I thought long since destroyed. What
in all the hells tart is this gate?

819
01:53:00.760 --> 01:53:04.640
At the end of the hall,
The corridor widened out to a massive

820
01:53:04.800 --> 01:53:10.680
chamber that I knew for certain had
not been part of the facility's design.

821
01:53:11.560 --> 01:53:17.119
Dominating the chamber was a single,
massive wrought iron gate. I was staring,

822
01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:24.239
somehow at the front entrance to the
iron keep, the iteration of the

823
01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:34.720
rooms which had been Todd's prison.
Ha, this isn't possible against fast,

824
01:53:39.920 --> 01:53:44.479
I jogged to the base of the
Portcullis. The iron keep hadn't been much

825
01:53:44.520 --> 01:53:48.840
of a step up from Raymond's prison, just a flagstone maze with a few

826
01:53:49.039 --> 01:53:55.560
common rooms to keep the guests amused. Except for when Todd had first entered.

827
01:53:56.000 --> 01:53:59.680
To my knowledge, the gate had
never been opened. I could see

828
01:53:59.720 --> 01:54:03.319
the rusted mechanism beyond. There was
no way to lift it from this site.

829
01:54:04.720 --> 01:54:11.319
Well, no easy way soon be
gain, saw it. You'll slow

830
01:54:11.359 --> 01:54:18.840
it down. We can give if
your goal is to infuriate me and therefore

831
01:54:18.960 --> 01:54:28.479
spermy to action. It is working, and then your game You got me.

832
01:54:28.520 --> 01:54:33.439
It's queen now. I rolled my
eyes, squared my shoulders, and

833
01:54:33.640 --> 01:54:49.199
knelt before the massive gate. My
mortal form had been refined and improved numerous

834
01:54:49.319 --> 01:54:55.600
times over the many years of the
project. By necessity, it kept my

835
01:54:55.840 --> 01:55:02.680
demonic strength in check, and I
had been removed from the project. The

836
01:55:02.800 --> 01:55:09.000
warden had insisted on keeping me in
the shell I'd crafted for the Admiral's time

837
01:55:09.159 --> 01:55:15.159
in the rooms. As my chain
holder, he could force me to stay

838
01:55:15.319 --> 01:55:19.840
within its confines, force me to
act out the part of weak, pathetic

839
01:55:20.239 --> 01:55:28.520
mortal. But I was far more
myself now than I had been in some

840
01:55:28.840 --> 01:55:33.760
time. I felt at home with
this mortal form. I was natur all,

841
01:55:34.359 --> 01:55:41.279
the attendant to these dark cause I
had lived and breathed their air for

842
01:55:41.479 --> 01:55:53.079
centuries. I was Bovarik, and
I was a going to sell the rest

843
01:55:53.119 --> 01:56:27.159
of town. Here, and still
the ward his playing, Yeah, where

844
01:56:27.199 --> 01:56:30.359
did this come from? The remark
you may do? I show you,

845
01:56:33.479 --> 01:56:38.359
I'll be do this in no time, And when I do, I'll peel

846
01:56:38.439 --> 01:57:45.680
you out of that suit and climb
inside your own glasses. Within the old

847
01:57:45.920 --> 01:57:51.119
keep, the odd torch still guttered
in iron sconces upon the walls. The

848
01:57:51.279 --> 01:57:57.199
doors were gone, of course,
but the empty frames stared out from the

849
01:57:57.319 --> 01:58:02.279
stone walls like lidless eye is.
On some level, I was still in

850
01:58:02.479 --> 01:58:08.800
shock. I thought the keep had
been cleared away, torn down long ago.

851
01:58:10.239 --> 01:58:14.359
The fact that it was still here, deep within the walls of this

852
01:58:15.279 --> 01:58:18.359
clearly I had been deeply out of
touch with the project I was supposed to

853
01:58:18.399 --> 01:58:30.760
be managing it. Surprises on surprises. Speaking of surprises, Todd, are

854
01:58:30.840 --> 01:58:38.640
you still there? Where am I
going? Ostia? I'll warre me from

855
01:58:41.159 --> 01:58:44.079
Look, you're doing great, Just
all of my old at the door.

856
01:58:44.640 --> 01:58:48.439
You know you should go. We
steiple, He'll take the water a good

857
01:58:48.479 --> 01:58:53.279
walking to keep. You have to
get a long way random. I'm about

858
01:58:53.359 --> 01:58:56.640
have you oh my, oh,
my, dad, you are a tick

859
01:58:56.760 --> 01:59:00.560
or two. I'm a feeling they
could be a bihering between the just this

860
01:59:00.960 --> 01:59:13.279
entire chaosson. I did, indeed
recall the way to the dining hall,

861
01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:18.920
even after all these years. The
main corridor of the castle was enormous,

862
01:59:19.319 --> 01:59:25.960
a cavernous chamber that just went on
and on. As I walked, I

863
01:59:26.159 --> 01:59:30.520
mused about the decades I'd spent in
this structure, the number of times I'd

864
01:59:30.560 --> 01:59:35.520
tried to wrangle Todd through one of
these doors, the number of times I'd

865
01:59:35.560 --> 01:59:44.520
had to collect his broken, bloody
remains from crimson soaked flagstones. My exertions

866
01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:49.000
at the Portcullis, and the stress
of the day weighed upon me. My

867
01:59:49.159 --> 01:59:58.600
stride slowed, and as the lights
of the dining hall approached, I looked

868
01:59:58.640 --> 02:00:09.720
forward to a seat on one of
the many wooden benches that I stopped,

869
02:00:10.520 --> 02:00:15.640
struck dumb for the second time today. The enormous room had that it sent

870
02:00:15.720 --> 02:00:20.359
her a pair of high backed chairs, the royal thrones for the King and

871
02:00:20.640 --> 02:00:26.600
Queen of the Keep. They had
been useful props during Tod's time within these

872
02:00:26.720 --> 02:00:32.000
walls, but it sat vacant,
gathering dust since his departure. That was

873
02:00:32.079 --> 02:00:38.800
no longer true. The king's throne
had been toppled. It had fallen from

874
02:00:38.840 --> 02:00:44.359
the dais upon which they sat,
broken into pieces on the flagstones. A

875
02:00:44.479 --> 02:00:51.520
figure sat atop the queen's throne,
a familiar figure. She saw me standing

876
02:00:51.560 --> 02:00:58.399
in the doorway and stood. Her
hair fell to her shoulders, and her

877
02:00:58.439 --> 02:01:04.399
clothes hung like royal finery from her
petite frame. Her eyes burned with intensity,

878
02:01:04.680 --> 02:01:20.199
but incredibly she was smiling. Sam
Samantha, Hey there, Bob,

879
02:01:21.000 --> 02:01:58.239
did you miss me? You're in
the gray rooms. It's a hotel,

880
02:01:59.119 --> 02:02:04.560
this time an old one, and
I am in charge. Your name is

881
02:02:04.640 --> 02:02:14.119
Samantha Winters. You can't leave.
I know everything. And as for who

882
02:02:14.239 --> 02:02:24.399
I am, my actual name you
wouldn't like. But he called me mob.

883
02:02:25.760 --> 02:02:30.199
Samantha Winters, an art student swept
up in the furor of a cult.

884
02:02:30.079 --> 02:02:33.920
She was touched by an eldritch power
pretending to be a penitent god,

885
02:02:34.399 --> 02:02:41.840
and died after a century's long rule
as Earth's cruel and unforgiving deity. Do

886
02:02:41.960 --> 02:02:46.079
you blame a cat when it places
a mouse I could, so I didn't.

887
02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:55.920
I was a god. Well your
no god here or yes? And

888
02:02:56.079 --> 02:03:03.119
it's a bit of a bit.
Bob, Oh, you don't regret.

889
02:03:06.199 --> 02:03:15.199
I only regret it so over happiest
time of my life. But please tell

890
02:03:15.279 --> 02:03:21.439
me those tapes aren't real, that
she's not me. I make it a

891
02:03:21.560 --> 02:03:28.920
point not to lie. How is
that possible? How are she and I

892
02:03:29.199 --> 02:03:32.479
the same person? I don't.
I don't feel that way at all.

893
02:03:33.560 --> 02:03:39.920
Why did Samantha leave the project?
This isn't something we can discuss with you,

894
02:03:40.039 --> 02:03:45.399
mister Beckett. Well, it's interesting
only you see, when Bob and

895
02:03:45.520 --> 02:03:49.359
I met, he mentioned there'd been
an incident not that long ago. He

896
02:03:49.479 --> 02:03:57.479
said, the repercussions were unpleasant.
Now, if Samantha was the guest just

897
02:03:57.640 --> 02:04:01.319
before me, that would mean the
incident was during her time on the project,

898
02:04:03.039 --> 02:04:48.239
wouldn't it. The walls of the
Iron Keep soared above me as I

899
02:04:48.399 --> 02:04:53.399
stared up into the face of a
woman I hadn't seen in a very,

900
02:04:54.199 --> 02:05:00.239
very long time. She descended the
deis like royalty. The last time I

901
02:05:00.319 --> 02:05:04.399
had seen her, she'd worn the
simple street clothes we'd given her in the

902
02:05:04.560 --> 02:05:13.079
old hotel. Now she wore a
black gown inlaid with onyx colored pearls.

903
02:05:13.880 --> 02:05:18.760
A jade choker was a dark green
and gray line across her throat. A

904
02:05:18.960 --> 02:05:25.680
curved blade hung in a scabbard from
a sling, its hilt inscribed with runs.

905
02:05:27.159 --> 02:05:30.800
Perhaps my time in the rooms,
my time with the warden, had

906
02:05:30.880 --> 02:05:39.079
fractured my sanity, or I mused, this was some kind of manipulation,

907
02:05:39.960 --> 02:05:46.720
a mind crafted illusion of the kind
Almah was so skilled at creating. Samantha

908
02:05:46.800 --> 02:05:51.680
Winters reached ground level, and now
I had to look down to meet her

909
02:05:51.760 --> 02:05:58.079
gaze. She was still a foot
shorter than I was. She must have

910
02:05:58.159 --> 02:06:02.760
seen some of the thoughts cross my
face, because her mouth screwed itself up

911
02:06:03.199 --> 02:06:09.399
into a crooked grin. You're not
crazy, Bob, and I'm not an

912
02:06:09.479 --> 02:06:17.399
illusion or whatever. I'm here?
Oh? How am I here? Or

913
02:06:17.640 --> 02:06:25.600
how am I not burning forever at
the bottom of the hells both? Your

914
02:06:25.640 --> 02:06:30.399
second question's got a long answer one. I don't think we have time for

915
02:06:30.640 --> 02:06:34.319
right now. As to why I'm
here, let's just say I have some

916
02:06:34.479 --> 02:06:41.640
friends who want you saved, So
here I am. She seemed terribly pleased

917
02:06:41.720 --> 02:06:45.159
with herself. Then in that moment, Now I am the one who has

918
02:06:45.239 --> 02:06:54.600
the secrets to keep I don't understand. Same old Bob, and he said

919
02:06:54.680 --> 02:07:03.079
you changed its amount's time. I'm
pleased to see you. But the Wharton,

920
02:07:03.720 --> 02:07:09.119
he's right behind me. If he
finds us here, I'm not sure

921
02:07:09.199 --> 02:07:13.600
I can protect you. Oh,
don't worry about me. I can take

922
02:07:13.640 --> 02:07:17.560
care of myself these days. She
hefted the blade at her side to emphasize

923
02:07:17.600 --> 02:07:21.800
her point. But you're right,
we need to get moving. She turned,

924
02:07:23.239 --> 02:07:28.279
scanning the room as if hoping to
see someone there. As she did,

925
02:07:28.800 --> 02:07:32.079
I saw the changes I had overlooked
in those first few moments of recognition.

926
02:07:33.159 --> 02:07:39.439
Well heeled scars ran down her neck. Her hair, which had always

927
02:07:39.520 --> 02:07:44.479
been a golden hue, had faded
to bone white. If this was not

928
02:07:44.640 --> 02:07:48.399
a trick, an illusion, the
Samantha that stood before me had been through

929
02:07:48.520 --> 02:07:56.800
a very great deal since our last
encounter. Damn it, he should be

930
02:07:57.000 --> 02:08:07.520
here by now. The surge of
strength of confidence that had gotten me past

931
02:08:07.640 --> 02:08:13.520
the keeps Gate fled to my body. I staggered to a nearby bench and

932
02:08:13.720 --> 02:08:22.960
slumped down onto it. Are you
all right? I'm I'm fine. I

933
02:08:22.079 --> 02:08:28.359
have also been through a great deal
since we last saw each other. Maybe

934
02:08:28.439 --> 02:08:39.119
you have changed? How did you
lose my eye? Yeah? The warden

935
02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:50.479
right right, Samantha saved. This
is my boy. This is even more

936
02:08:50.520 --> 02:08:56.039
awkward than I thought it'd be.
Look, I know a lot more about

937
02:08:56.079 --> 02:09:00.800
the project about you than I ever
did during my time in the rooms.

938
02:09:01.640 --> 02:09:05.119
I know you were just doing your
job, doing what you thought was the

939
02:09:05.279 --> 02:09:13.600
right thing to do. If you
had to do it over again, would

940
02:09:13.640 --> 02:09:20.199
you still toss me in that pit? My instinct was to prevaricate to him

941
02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:26.239
and Hall, but my exhaustion got
the better of me and my mouth opened

942
02:09:26.319 --> 02:09:33.279
of its own accord. No,
I would not, and it's because of

943
02:09:33.479 --> 02:09:39.840
you. It's because of what you
did to me that day on the battlements.

944
02:09:41.520 --> 02:09:46.960
What I did. You attempted to
control me as you had with Todd.

945
02:09:46.720 --> 02:09:52.880
Hinted at work. No, but
somehow when you touched my mind,

946
02:09:54.119 --> 02:10:01.760
it did something to me. You
touched my very nature, Samantha. Demons

947
02:10:03.119 --> 02:10:07.159
are not supposed to be able to
change, you know. I know well

948
02:10:09.479 --> 02:10:13.800
I have changed, and I have
no doubt it is why I am sitting

949
02:10:13.920 --> 02:10:20.520
here talking to you today. The
warden could sense it, the architect could

950
02:10:20.560 --> 02:10:31.439
see it. Even the guests could
tell I was different. Somehow, Samantha.

951
02:10:33.680 --> 02:10:37.840
I don't know where you've been or
why you're here, but if we

952
02:10:39.239 --> 02:10:45.479
escape the rooms, will you help
me to understand this? I feel so

953
02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:50.640
lost. Yes I will. I
just need one thing from you. Name

954
02:10:50.680 --> 02:11:00.079
it. Oh why did you hit
me? Because you threw me in the

955
02:11:00.319 --> 02:11:05.359
hell? You assholee We had both
changed, it was true. As she

956
02:11:05.520 --> 02:11:11.239
laughed at my confusion, which quickly
turned to amusement, I felt some of

957
02:11:11.279 --> 02:11:18.479
the tension that had been holding my
shoulders tot ease for literal centuries. I

958
02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:22.239
had known what my future held,
what my life would measure up to be,

959
02:11:24.439 --> 02:11:31.800
And now I hadn't the faintest clue, but perhaps with allies at my

960
02:11:31.000 --> 02:11:39.560
side. The sound of running footsteps
took us both by surprise. Wow,

961
02:11:39.760 --> 02:11:45.560
Wow, Wow, sam it's me, tot he weird old bastard. Where

962
02:11:45.600 --> 02:11:50.199
have you been? I would open
missus mousey, I get the safety blush.

963
02:11:50.279 --> 02:11:54.199
I'd stop off and get ritual stuff. You know, no mind,

964
02:11:54.239 --> 02:12:01.079
old Todd. I felt my single
remaining eye twitch in its socket. What

965
02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:07.239
in the hills was happening here?
Wait? You two have been working together

966
02:12:09.119 --> 02:12:16.079
sort of, Like I said,
I've got some friends friends, we are

967
02:12:16.439 --> 02:12:20.079
mutual friends. Right, Yeah,
it's good to see you in Persian Miss

968
02:12:20.119 --> 02:12:26.439
Winners, A big old lug.
Not on your life, you perverted old

969
02:12:26.520 --> 02:12:31.079
goat, Oh loyal? All right, you can't blame a blot for drawing.

970
02:12:31.600 --> 02:12:37.520
I can. Could we focus on
our current situation? What ritual are

971
02:12:37.600 --> 02:12:43.039
you talking about? How long have
you had these friends? Can they be

972
02:12:43.159 --> 02:12:48.479
trusted? Since back during the Admiral's
times in the rooms? I promised to

973
02:12:48.560 --> 02:12:54.359
get me out an exchange with some
little favors. What kind of favors?

974
02:12:56.000 --> 02:13:01.720
Oh, you know, some information? A little bit shoot there, laying

975
02:13:01.720 --> 02:13:05.479
a big old stake into the manner? Yew, things are that you na

976
02:13:05.560 --> 02:13:11.399
oh un expected look on your fine. As much as I'd love to stand

977
02:13:11.439 --> 02:13:16.119
around and watch Bob try to make
facial expressions, thank you. The three

978
02:13:16.159 --> 02:13:20.520
of us can catch up and answer
your questions after we've escaped the warden amb

979
02:13:20.520 --> 02:13:28.359
the gray rooms, and certain dismemberment. Yes, wait, is there any

980
02:13:28.439 --> 02:13:33.800
way that we could go back for
Raymond? Raymond, he was the first

981
02:13:33.960 --> 02:13:39.279
guest before either of you were in
the rooms. The complex just beyond the

982
02:13:39.439 --> 02:13:46.319
keep. He's trapped there. Perhaps
we could leave him instructions on where to

983
02:13:46.439 --> 02:13:52.800
go, someplace to meet us He
helped me before Todds could lead me to

984
02:13:52.880 --> 02:13:58.199
safety. I don't know why,
but I would not have survived without his

985
02:13:58.319 --> 02:14:09.319
help. I'm sure of it,
Bob, Raymon's gone. What do you

986
02:14:09.439 --> 02:14:13.640
mean gone? Ah? My early
architect talking about it. I didn't know

987
02:14:13.760 --> 02:14:18.359
you kept him random, and I'm
a pretty pisted about it. Before I

988
02:14:18.439 --> 02:14:24.800
set you down there, the women
went in well cleared him out. Raymon

989
02:14:24.960 --> 02:14:33.199
was gone before you got dropped in
there. Hey, I don't then what

990
02:14:33.399 --> 02:14:43.239
did I see? Who was that? The woman who had once ruled a

991
02:14:43.399 --> 02:14:50.039
planet through fear and pain? Cheased
her blade and took my hand. I

992
02:14:50.199 --> 02:14:56.239
started uncomfortable, but she gripped it
all the harder. Bob. I've penned

993
02:14:56.319 --> 02:15:03.600
through a lot since my time in
the enough to know not everything is explainable

994
02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:09.600
or understandable. Sometimes you just have
to take the win when the universe gives

995
02:15:09.640 --> 02:15:20.840
you another shot. You know.
I'm sorrybl I can mold this over later.

996
02:15:22.319 --> 02:15:28.880
In the meantime. The rooms are
inescapable magical constructs designed specifically to stop

997
02:15:28.960 --> 02:15:33.920
the kind of escape attempt you're describing. What is this ritual you mentioned?

998
02:15:33.479 --> 02:15:39.039
How in the nine hells do you
propose we free ourselves? Abo boy,

999
02:15:41.199 --> 02:16:24.880
you are gonna love this. I
do not, in fact love this now

1000
02:16:26.039 --> 02:16:31.800
patting the fifth floor ladies fully undergarments
and the perfume. I thought the hotel

1001
02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:41.319
had been destroyed after you threw me
in the pit. Yes, something you're

1002
02:16:41.319 --> 02:16:43.639
going to get used to. Old
man management, the architect and the light,

1003
02:16:43.920 --> 02:16:48.200
the lie by everything. It turns
out she had us breakdown the lobby

1004
02:16:48.239 --> 02:16:52.479
in the old Sure, but she
picks and chooses a bitch of the project

1005
02:16:52.840 --> 02:16:58.159
light and squirrels them away for a
rainy day. How did you connect this

1006
02:16:58.360 --> 02:17:05.000
to the keep? Do you have
what did you call Samantha's gift? The

1007
02:17:05.159 --> 02:17:07.760
whammy? Oh no, no,
no, missus winners. Here is the

1008
02:17:07.879 --> 02:17:11.639
heavy here. I'm just real good
at taking notes, you know, gathering

1009
02:17:11.760 --> 02:17:18.280
materials, following instruction and stuff like
that. The whammy? Who would you

1010
02:17:18.479 --> 02:17:28.719
call it? Then? I mean
good enough? I guess where are we

1011
02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:37.360
going? Only part of the hotel
has left. Bah bah boy, the

1012
02:17:37.520 --> 02:17:46.799
restaurant. It's one of her favorite
places. She used to come up here

1013
02:17:46.840 --> 02:17:50.920
when Miss Windows was in the hotel
to check with the warden or make plans.

1014
02:17:52.639 --> 02:17:56.239
And we had such a lovely meal
here too. Oh, I know

1015
02:17:56.399 --> 02:18:01.559
you're joking but still think about that
apple pie. Sometimes you go give me

1016
02:18:01.639 --> 02:18:16.440
the recipe someday. Can we focus, please? This is the blake,

1017
02:18:16.079 --> 02:18:26.719
all right? How couldn't mag a
rabbit disappear about? Our friends said it

1018
02:18:26.760 --> 02:18:30.479
should be easy. He's putting together
about to chili. I'll just get his

1019
02:18:30.559 --> 02:18:39.200
shaven working, You too, this
shit. Keep him busy, work quickly,

1020
02:18:39.520 --> 02:18:48.120
please, really quickly. Still glad
you came to get me. Ask

1021
02:18:48.200 --> 02:18:52.159
me after we get out of here. I turned from Samantha, a grim

1022
02:18:52.360 --> 02:18:56.399
smile on my face, just in
time to see the warden leap onto the

1023
02:18:56.520 --> 02:19:05.319
restaurant balcony. He wore his badge
of office, the cloak of keys,

1024
02:19:05.479 --> 02:19:11.760
laid by the founder in the early
days of project. It swirled about him

1025
02:19:11.799 --> 02:19:16.440
as he drew himself up to his
full height. The fury edged on his

1026
02:19:16.559 --> 02:19:22.760
face was terrible to behold. No
bloating, no threats, not this time,

1027
02:19:24.559 --> 02:19:30.879
ha ha. He rushed towards us
that I moved to stop him.

1028
02:19:31.520 --> 02:19:33.799
All I could do was hope I
could hold him, and hope that I

1029
02:19:33.879 --> 02:19:39.600
could buy some time for Todd to
do it whatever it was he was doing.

1030
02:19:41.440 --> 02:19:46.600
I duck deep and summoned forth my
last reserve of strength. I capped

1031
02:19:46.719 --> 02:19:52.239
into the demon with him and kilt. My human hands snapped and gnarled as

1032
02:19:52.319 --> 02:20:13.000
they grew into clawed talents. Come
on, just a little bit more.

1033
02:20:33.760 --> 02:20:39.680
I didn't even shrink. The Warden's
blade had left a jagged wound in my

1034
02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:45.000
arm. It pumped dark blood onto
the ground as I staggered back from my

1035
02:20:45.079 --> 02:20:50.520
opponent. For my part, I'd
managed to give as good as I'd gotten,

1036
02:20:50.159 --> 02:20:54.079
But the Warden was far sturdier than
I was, had been marshaling his

1037
02:20:54.200 --> 02:21:03.559
strength. Samantha stepped forward, her
own blade held before her. Now,

1038
02:21:03.639 --> 02:21:09.520
where did you come from? My
dear? Oh, you know I missed

1039
02:21:09.520 --> 02:21:16.479
you, guys. Laugh a minute
around here tis tisk desk. Another loose

1040
02:21:16.639 --> 02:21:22.079
end, bob, another failure.
Allow me to take care of that for

1041
02:21:22.239 --> 02:21:41.079
you. Yeah, not this.
Samantha's strength tattled down upon the rooftop like

1042
02:21:41.200 --> 02:21:46.600
a suffocating mist. I felt myself
slow, like I was caught in a

1043
02:21:46.680 --> 02:21:52.879
mire. Todd's eyes were huge as
he tried to continue his work, his

1044
02:21:52.079 --> 02:21:58.879
fingers moving in pantomime motion. Among
the ritual implements, the warden hung arrest

1045
02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:05.799
did in me dare. His cloak
billowed behind him, his blades arching for

1046
02:22:05.000 --> 02:22:11.920
Samantha's face. Effortlessly, she stepped
to the side. Unaffected by the power

1047
02:22:11.079 --> 02:22:16.280
she had brought to bear, she
strode forward, moving to stand at the

1048
02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:24.719
warden's side. You know, I
was so afraid of you when you had

1049
02:22:24.760 --> 02:22:30.840
me trapped here, when I was
powerless. The Warden's eyes bulged with hatred.

1050
02:22:31.479 --> 02:22:35.280
I could see him trying to form
words, but to no avail.

1051
02:22:37.319 --> 02:22:50.639
Well, I'm not powerless anymore.
What was that you said that first day

1052
02:22:50.680 --> 02:23:00.440
in the hotel? Oh? Yeah, say goodbye, warden. Samantha Winters

1053
02:23:00.600 --> 02:23:18.600
reached out and casually brushed a hand
against the warden's chest. The force of

1054
02:23:18.680 --> 02:23:24.040
the impact blew the warden clear off
the building. One moment he was there,

1055
02:23:24.760 --> 02:23:31.280
one moment he was not. Her
strength spent, Samantha sagged and I

1056
02:23:31.399 --> 02:23:35.040
rushed forward. My wound continued to
spat her blood on the ground as I

1057
02:23:35.120 --> 02:23:45.440
caught her, and we swayed there
unsteadily. Ah was it wasn't shout,

1058
02:23:45.479 --> 02:23:56.079
I would actually work, most impressive, Miss Winters, to honor just about

1059
02:23:58.440 --> 02:24:05.879
Todd's ritual working coalesced into a tear
in space, a hole in the sky

1060
02:24:05.159 --> 02:24:11.479
above the balcony. The hungry wound
that tugged at my feet and set my

1061
02:24:11.600 --> 02:24:16.440
blood spatters soaring through the air to
disappear into the infinite. This is it

1062
02:24:18.040 --> 02:24:22.079
all? Why are the rooms?
Where does it go? A wife?

1063
02:24:22.120 --> 02:24:26.520
From here? A boy? Come
on, it's a brand new tape.

1064
02:24:26.200 --> 02:24:33.000
Ha ha. I already fought you
was worse a Grappard with those words.

1065
02:24:33.360 --> 02:24:41.879
The old caretaker and former terrorist leapt
at the terror and was gone, You're

1066
02:24:41.920 --> 02:24:48.159
coming right. I'll be right behind
you. You'd better be. You know

1067
02:24:48.239 --> 02:24:52.000
how much of todd I've had to
put up with to make this thing come

1068
02:24:52.040 --> 02:24:56.200
together. She stepped to the edge
of the tear and Samantha Winters exited the

1069
02:24:56.280 --> 02:25:05.920
gray rooms for the second time.
I turned to look out across the dismal,

1070
02:25:07.120 --> 02:25:11.719
gray sky of the fue city beyond
the balcony. It had been an

1071
02:25:11.760 --> 02:25:18.319
embellishment on the architect's part for one
of the hotel's few amenities, an artistic

1072
02:25:18.559 --> 02:25:24.920
choice not meant to create joy or
wonder, but to manipulate and control,

1073
02:25:26.879 --> 02:25:33.360
to cow the mortal mind with fear
and submission. Demons are not supposed to

1074
02:25:33.479 --> 02:25:39.600
be able to change. But I
looked at that sky and felt, for

1075
02:25:39.719 --> 02:25:46.840
the first time a likeness inside of
me. Hope for a future of my

1076
02:25:46.959 --> 02:25:54.239
own creation, a loosening of the
chain bound around my very soul. My

1077
02:25:54.399 --> 02:25:58.760
last thoughts. Thus, I stepped
through the portal and left the gray room.

1078
02:26:00.120 --> 02:26:05.600
Forever were of the founder. A
man I felt sure I would never

1079
02:26:05.840 --> 02:26:11.840
see again, but then again,
for the first time in eons. I

1080
02:26:11.000 --> 02:26:52.399
had no idea what would come next. I had no real memory beyond awakening

1081
02:26:52.559 --> 02:27:00.040
to the gentle swaying of the carriage. Other men would have been afraid I

1082
02:27:03.959 --> 02:27:09.360
was called. I didn't know why
I was there, but I knew what

1083
02:27:09.559 --> 02:27:13.760
kind of man I was. I
trusted my choices. I knew that.

1084
02:27:16.639 --> 02:27:26.799
And my name. My name was
Beckett, Dadmiral David Beckett, a petty

1085
02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:33.200
war criminal who became admiral via self
appointed title. The flourish of a narcissistic,

1086
02:27:33.319 --> 02:27:39.719
power hungry dictator. You died mourned
by no one. A legendarily despotic

1087
02:27:39.840 --> 02:27:45.959
emperor who held the twelve galaxies in
his fist. A recruiter, Yes,

1088
02:27:46.840 --> 02:27:50.719
I could act as your recruiter.
Give me a chance, and I'll prove

1089
02:27:50.760 --> 02:27:54.440
it to you. I've met some
truly twisted morals in my time in their

1090
02:27:54.520 --> 02:28:00.360
rooms, perfect candidates. Let me
return to some of my low side,

1091
02:28:00.920 --> 02:28:05.639
talk to some of the damned.
I was a leader. I can be

1092
02:28:05.760 --> 02:28:15.200
again, and if you fail.
If I fail, well the warden here

1093
02:28:15.319 --> 02:28:50.360
can do with me what he pleases
death. They're back just a moment three

1094
02:28:52.040 --> 02:29:03.719
two one, gentlemen, you're back. Come write in Boss. How in

1095
02:29:03.840 --> 02:29:11.600
the head do you do that?
Oh? You know me? John,

1096
02:29:11.280 --> 02:29:24.760
I have my ways. Take a
seat, please? How did it go?

1097
02:29:26.000 --> 02:29:31.319
God was with us? Master?
Assignment was a complete success. What

1098
02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:37.840
is your will? What the more
may we do for you? Gregory?

1099
02:29:37.959 --> 02:29:43.319
Your enthusiasm is impressive, but those
of us with artistic minds and immortal constitution

1100
02:29:43.479 --> 02:29:50.040
need time to rest and recuperate.
Yeah what Brand said? I don't have

1101
02:29:50.159 --> 02:29:54.040
it in me for another trip like
that anytime soon. I mean you two

1102
02:29:54.120 --> 02:29:56.479
must get to stand by and watch
me do my thing. I take exception

1103
02:29:56.600 --> 02:30:03.280
to that warlock, as do I. The Almighty invested me with great gifts,

1104
02:30:03.440 --> 02:30:07.520
Jonathan. It was for a higher
purpose when I am pleased to carry

1105
02:30:07.559 --> 02:30:11.159
out We work for the other side. Now, lover of the Russian Queen,

1106
02:30:11.959 --> 02:30:16.840
you my cat are really far gone? Why do you insist on calling

1107
02:30:16.879 --> 02:30:24.479
me that? Enough? Brand?
The situation was dealt with. Yes,

1108
02:30:24.959 --> 02:30:28.879
my plan worked perfectly. The demonic
soldiers were dealt with. The scroll work

1109
02:30:28.959 --> 02:30:33.840
I forged should prove enlightning. When
their master finds it among the dead,

1110
02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:39.920
this duke Mammon will be most displeased. Good work, very good work.

1111
02:30:41.159 --> 02:30:48.559
No discipline problems this time, John, It woun't we boss. What you

1112
02:30:48.639 --> 02:30:54.000
call lack of discipline, I called
feeling my oaths. He speaks the truth

1113
02:30:54.200 --> 02:30:58.799
Master, least time good to hear, Dad. The architect is heading this

1114
02:30:58.879 --> 02:31:03.879
way. You've got a little time, but she she does not seem happy.

1115
02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:09.760
Gentlemen, apologies, my infernal senses
tell me my employer is on her

1116
02:31:09.799 --> 02:31:13.280
way. As you may recall,
she is not overly fond of mortals.

1117
02:31:13.760 --> 02:31:18.760
Why don't you return to the barracks. We'll speak more this evening. You

1118
02:31:18.840 --> 02:31:24.879
can consider yourselves on leave until further
notice, as you wish muster. Thank

1119
02:31:24.959 --> 02:31:37.799
you, sir, You got a
moss again. RHISPETI father Russian between who

1120
02:31:37.000 --> 02:31:46.799
was a cat who belie was gone. I mean you're the one that wanted

1121
02:31:46.799 --> 02:31:50.920
to be a leader again. Dad. The next time I get a great

1122
02:31:50.079 --> 02:31:54.559
idea like that, you have my
permission to smack me. You and I

1123
02:31:54.680 --> 02:31:58.639
both know my ghost hands aren't going
to smack anything. A fair point.

1124
02:32:01.440 --> 02:32:09.319
Where is she now? She's working
her way up the tower of the Slow

1125
02:32:09.360 --> 02:32:16.239
Way's she looks really mad. Any
idea, what's got her wings in a

1126
02:32:16.319 --> 02:32:20.000
twist? No? I started getting
a read off the mortals when I far

1127
02:32:20.079 --> 02:32:26.280
see now, But the demons are
still like blank walls. All right,

1128
02:32:26.360 --> 02:32:30.920
might as well do some work while
we're waiting. Bring up the map,

1129
02:32:31.000 --> 02:32:39.639
Son, let's see where we are. Let's count their trip up to the

1130
02:32:39.719 --> 02:32:43.600
fourth Circle as a success. Then
go ahead and color that part of his

1131
02:32:43.840 --> 02:32:56.680
territory green. Mammon and the other
dukes will eventually figure out where the teams

1132
02:32:56.680 --> 02:33:00.079
are coming from. I feel like
it's as much luck as planning. I

1133
02:33:00.200 --> 02:33:03.239
know you like the group you've assembled
here, but they're not exactly what it

1134
02:33:03.399 --> 02:33:09.879
calls subtle. It's a fair point. Remind me to ask Todd to arraigned

1135
02:33:09.879 --> 02:33:13.760
another trip into the LOCHI some of
these new rooms they've arranged for the Silver

1136
02:33:13.879 --> 02:33:20.440
Express have potential for recruitment. I
will let's see, I mean, Dad,

1137
02:33:20.479 --> 02:33:24.879
based on everything we talked about from
the beginning, we're there. If

1138
02:33:24.920 --> 02:33:28.920
the dukes of the fourth and fifth
Circles aren't at war within the next few

1139
02:33:28.959 --> 02:33:31.719
weeks. I'm not sure what else
we could have done to push them over

1140
02:33:31.760 --> 02:33:39.079
the edge. M what about this
fortress over here? Have we sent a

1141
02:33:39.159 --> 02:33:46.280
team in there? That's cronics counting
house. He's some kind of infernal accountant.

1142
02:33:46.319 --> 02:33:50.639
I guess one of Lucifer's favorites.
Dangerous to send a team, then,

1143
02:33:52.600 --> 02:33:56.440
what if you want yourself made?
It more about a conversation than the

1144
02:33:56.479 --> 02:34:01.399
team normally likes to. You're saying
Brand's tendency to cut throats for paint supplies

1145
02:34:01.639 --> 02:34:07.159
might not send the right message.
Probably not. It's a good suggestion.

1146
02:34:07.360 --> 02:34:18.200
In the meantime, Architect, to
what do I owe the pleasure? Mortal

1147
02:34:18.799 --> 02:34:28.280
problem? Meaningless words? I've had
to put up with your respiration, your

1148
02:34:28.000 --> 02:34:39.520
fluids, your your oils, all
over everything. I am disgusted by your

1149
02:34:39.959 --> 02:34:50.319
flesh acts. I am done with
you mortals. I'm very sorry, architect

1150
02:34:50.879 --> 02:35:07.479
about my oils. But is there
something I can do for you? There

1151
02:35:07.600 --> 02:35:13.520
is a meeting of management assembling soon. We'll lead you there, Admiral.

1152
02:35:15.879 --> 02:35:24.440
Certain events have transpired that require an
immediate response movement from the other dukes.

1153
02:35:26.280 --> 02:35:39.360
Are we on war footing? No, swore far Bob has escaped from the

1154
02:35:39.520 --> 02:35:50.200
gray rooms, He was apparently assisted
by Todd and an interloper from outside the

1155
02:35:50.399 --> 02:36:00.840
wars. The warden was wounded in
the escape, apparently quite badly. Bob's

1156
02:36:01.520 --> 02:36:09.159
escaped. How I thought that was
impossible. It should have been impossible,

1157
02:36:09.360 --> 02:36:16.680
Admiral, by all reasonable measures,
by every known quantity in this realm or

1158
02:36:16.799 --> 02:36:26.120
any other. What Bob has done
should not have been possible. And yet

1159
02:36:26.639 --> 02:36:37.200
here I sent Holy shit. Indeed, now, if you an accompany me

1160
02:36:37.399 --> 02:36:43.399
downstairs, the founder will be joining
us. We could use some of your

1161
02:36:45.159 --> 02:36:52.159
vaunted mortal expertise to be their boss. The guys and I were wondering if

1162
02:36:54.600 --> 02:37:01.120
John now is not the best time
you must be the boss. Lady efforts

1163
02:37:01.159 --> 02:37:16.639
so much about Hi. Nice to
miya. My name is The pleasure is

1164
02:37:16.879 --> 02:37:26.879
all mine, you know what.
I take it back, Admiral, thank

1165
02:37:26.959 --> 02:37:35.959
you for doing the work you do
That makes me feel much better. Glad

1166
02:37:35.319 --> 02:37:41.639
I could help. We'll see you
downstairs. Then I'll be right down.

1167
02:37:54.920 --> 02:37:58.239
Samuel, make a note that we'll
need to go get a new job.

1168
02:38:09.440 --> 02:38:13.760
Run far and run fast, Bob, and by the hells, I hope

1169
02:38:13.799 --> 02:38:31.360
I don't have to chase you.
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1170
02:38:31.520 --> 02:38:35.799
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