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Speaker 3: You're all insane.
Speaker 4: You expect me to get in and out of there unnoticed.
Speaker 5: No, we expect that whether or not they notice you,
they won't bother you. We'd have sent Kitty, but she's
with Sarah h.
Speaker 4: So Griff is just expandable.
Speaker 6: Now, ain't when you're the one who brackt he could
slip into area fifty one and not get caught.
Speaker 4: That was drunk, Griff. You don't think about things like
present time or what a dozen bullets from Black Raven
p dam I feel.
Speaker 3: Like, don't worry.
Speaker 5: We're going to run point while they're trying to get
me on a leash, and you sniff around where the
body was found.
Speaker 4: You're both insane, but it don't matter. Little girls on
borrow time. Still, someone better be buying me drinks than that.
Speaker 3: Wow, wow, wow, all right, let's do this.
Speaker 7: Help help, please help, he slipped his collar. Klab, come
back boy, I swear he won't buy it.
Speaker 8: Hey, man, go help the lady out.
Speaker 2: Whoa whind?
Speaker 9: May cause you're better with animals. You have like a bond, Caleb.
Speaker 7: I don't think they want to play, ma'am.
Speaker 9: This area is a crime scene. We're gonna have to
ask you to leave. Please take your dog elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Come on, kill me a big fellow. You know you
want to let me pet you.
Speaker 6: I'm really sorry. He's been cooped up all day and
I thought i'd bring him out for a rum, but
he slipped as collar as I was putting the leash
on him.
Speaker 8: He's awfully big for a dog, almost looks like a.
Speaker 6: Wolf while he's mixed with a timbolf and shepd. I
think I got.
Speaker 10: Him from my uncle.
Speaker 6: He was a cop.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, he's a big softea. He's a big softy.
You are, yes, you are. You're a big softie.
Speaker 8: Told you have a way with the animals.
Speaker 2: Who shut up? Man, If you can have me his collar,
I think I can get him leashed to get in
for you.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, of course, here you go.
Speaker 2: Here you are, ma'am. He's a bit common now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he kind of does that. Well, I should let
you boys get back to work. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome.
Speaker 11: Mom.
Speaker 3: What did you guys do?
Speaker 6: We wanted to help, so we distracted the cops while
Griff sniffed around the scene.
Speaker 12: What did they just say?
Speaker 3: Griff got a sent and gave it to Hawkins. He's
got a direction now, pretty sure it's that girl. See
we helped, Yes, you did so. I can also trust
that you wrote out here with them already changed, and
you didn't let either of them change out here in public,
right m plate Dad?
Speaker 10: Later, Daniel, we gotta find this Holy shit, fucking saw her.
Speaker 3: You saw her. He knows where she is, but she's
running out of time and fast.
Speaker 2: Let's move. Salem wears his scars proudly, but these wounds
won't stop leaving.
Speaker 13: When Abigail Whitmore uncovers the Curse Codex beneath the burned meetinghouse,
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Speaker 14: That never lived.
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Speaker 2: If you dare?
Speaker 16: I figured you'd come for me.
Speaker 17: Next, and yet you didn't even try to run?
Speaker 16: What would be the point? You won't stop. You've always
been like that, never stopping, never tiring. You always finish
what you start. Lady Lilith, who am I to stand
in your way?
Speaker 17: Who are any of you? Mistakes? Given form cursing the land.
But at least you don't hide yourself like the others do.
Speaker 16: Hide too much work easier to just be what I am.
Look at them, really, look, I do nothing but exist,
and they flock to me, only to slowly die in
my den pride and greed. They scheme and plot, Wrath
exerts so much energy in his violence, And don't even
get me started on gluttony and vi your lest What
is this?
Speaker 1: Is this some pathetic little ploy, a futile attempt to
convince me not to end you that somehow you're not
as guilty as the others.
Speaker 16: Guilty what we do, it isn't about guilt. It is
just our nature. That's why you'll never be rid of us.
Their base desires give us form. We are as much
a part of them as the blood in their veins.
Speaker 1: You export weakness, you are weakness.
Speaker 17: Eliminating you is exactly what nature didn't. I would never
have released any of you.
Speaker 16: Oh but you did just that, didn't you? Is she
next to dear lady? Will you rip the heart from
your own daughter as easily as you will?
Speaker 17: Mind, I have many children, but she is not one
of them. She was a mistick and just like the
rest again, she too will die.
Speaker 16: Yes, I suppose she will. She It only makes sense.
There is no need to fight the inevitable.
Speaker 17: Is there? Perhaps if you actually thought you might have
been worth sparing.
Speaker 16: No, that would have been too much work.
Speaker 2: Yeah uh.
Speaker 11: Oh fox sake.
Speaker 17: Swallowing something as disgusting as you saw, that would have
been fought.
Speaker 11: Too much work.
Speaker 18: Oh, come on, you're the king of Hell possessing a
dumb ass to big hood in a pure of black
site prison.
Speaker 3: Pull the other one.
Speaker 18: It has bells on it.
Speaker 19: I don't think he's lying to as Marcus, I am not.
Speaker 2: But if you wish to waste all our time, I'll
be happy to indulge you.
Speaker 18: Okay, boy, say we believe in that just means an
exiorousis will take a little longer.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely correct. But by the time you accomplish it,
this man will be dead and your world will be
well on its way towards chaos.
Speaker 20: What do you want?
Speaker 2: Straight to the point, then, I locked that what I
want is for you to help me save your world.
Speaker 18: Oh come on, do you really expect us to believe that?
Speaker 2: Expect you to?
Speaker 14: Nah?
Speaker 2: But right now, Marcus Miranda is realizing the most important
fact about me, the one that makes me so dangerous
Asthma dais never lies. That's absolutely right. Such a good
little Skirl girl. You were a shame you learned the
truth is so young. Destroying your innocence would have been delicious.
Speaker 18: Watch your hell Spawn. Just because we can't send you
back quickly doesn't mean we can't make you wish you
were back.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm quite sure you could. But then you'd be
wasting both our time and we have little left. She
has already claimed the first four. She Queen Lilith. She's
come top side, executing her plan as we speak, Lilith the.
Speaker 18: Queen of Hell in the mortal world. That's not possible.
Speaker 2: The gate only holds back that which has been banished
to Hell, and even then it's hardly the only way
in and out. Why Aunt Domaine's neighbor. Too many underworlds
and Lilith can roam freely through them all.
Speaker 13: No, that can't be right.
Speaker 10: Wiwith was banished.
Speaker 2: From Eden, Yes, for her lustful actions and refusal to
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just been a lovely vacation home for the past few
thousand years.
Speaker 18: Okay, So what's she doing that's going to destroy the world.
Speaker 2: Though I can't speak to her motives, no one truly
knows the mind of the Queen. However, it does appear
she aims to enslave this, to bind them to her
service for eternity. This would greatly offset the careful balance
that maintains all of our worlds.
Speaker 6: When you say the Seven, you mean the Sins.
Speaker 18: I thought those were just human failings to avoid.
Speaker 2: Oh, of course they are. But there are entities that exist,
representing each sin in every generation that returned to spread
their influence.
Speaker 6: How does one come to control a being like that?
Speaker 2: She must find the vessel, rip out its heart, and
taste the flesh.
Speaker 18: It's quite simple, really great, So how do we stop her?
Speaker 2: Introduce me to your local slayer, the man who's already
once killed a demon.
Speaker 8: You can't be serious.
Speaker 6: We don't kill demons, and even if we did, we
don't even have anyone who can.
Speaker 14: Actually. Miranda, I kind of know a guy.
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Speaker 12: You've got to be kidding here.
Speaker 23: There's no doubt about it. Man, She's in there, and
a lot of death here too recently.
Speaker 3: Wait, are you saying the girl is already?
Speaker 14: Nah?
Speaker 23: I don't think so.
Speaker 14: We better hurry up.
Speaker 18: We should go that way.
Speaker 10: Great, just where I wanted to go, the lab that
demon built.
Speaker 23: Sorry, man, the nose doesn't lie, definitely not lying.
Speaker 2: You smell that.
Speaker 10: I'm surprised we couldn't sell that by the car.
Speaker 2: What the hell I did? Wait?
Speaker 10: Look at this sign test animal containment. I think it's
through here.
Speaker 18: Absolutely, she's in there.
Speaker 20: All right, guys, I found her. She's over here. Give
me a hand.
Speaker 3: We need to call this in, or at least call Sarah.
The girl needs an ambulance.
Speaker 2: Come on here, here.
Speaker 10: Here you go, no signal. We get her out of
here and then we call for help Hawkins.
Speaker 20: Let's go.
Speaker 23: Uh, guys, I think I may have found the cause
of the smell.
Speaker 10: What the fuck happened to him?
Speaker 3: His heart's been ripped out. We need to go now.
Speaker 10: Right, Hawkins, you take Lily, Daniel, you take a point.
Let's go, Sarah. We found the girl and a body.
It's pretty bad. We did an ambulance the old slave
war lab and you need to get here fast.
Speaker 24: Okay, I'm on the way.
Speaker 25: Boys.
Speaker 2: What the hell is going on?
Speaker 26: Sam's got half the department on the way here in
A medic unit is staging.
Speaker 13: The hell did you do this time?
Speaker 3: We found her?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 2: Sarge?
Speaker 12: We found Lily Rose?
Speaker 2: How in God's name did you three?
Speaker 13: You know what?
Speaker 2: I don't care? Raven fifty one Medic three scene secure.
Speaker 26: We have an unconscious juvenile female.
Speaker 2: I need you here.
Speaker 24: Now medical Greek copy rate as sixty one hay route.
Speaker 26: Sorry second, all right, clear the way, fellas. Let me
see if I can help Lily.
Speaker 13: Lily can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 12: Why isn't she responding?
Speaker 2: Hell? I fine?
Speaker 14: No, son?
Speaker 1: Where's our patient?
Speaker 10: A front seat of a truck. The sergeants with her.
How can we help?
Speaker 8: Just step aside and let us work, sir.
Speaker 2: She semi response to a stimuli.
Speaker 1: Thanks, sergeant, We'll take over from here. Waits is that
that missing kid?
Speaker 8: Let's get the life pack on her and get her
in the back of the ambulance.
Speaker 1: She looks severely dehydrated.
Speaker 17: Can I be start on her?
Speaker 13: Stat So what do we do now?
Speaker 10: Serge, there's a body in there and well to say
it's bad it is an understatement.
Speaker 2: You think the suspect might still be on the scene.
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you one way or the other. That's
why we brought her out here and waiting for backup, Sorrge.
Speaker 10: Whoever did this is dangerous, very dangerous.
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Speaker 17: Vall map Black Riven Chronicles is a phoenix Creative Works
production written and directed by Jonathan Miller, Voice direction by
Jacqueline Burns. Executive producer and sound designer David Whitney, featuring
the voices of Adam Muhaus, Adele Valentine, Abigail Holmes, Toby E. Locke,
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David Whitney, kas Wab Travis Boyles, Jen Boyle, Adam Rose,
Crimson Rose, Sam Saunders, Bryan Willis, Ali Chavere Wagner, Damian Waldroup,
Erica Brown, RhE Helfa coolby Stamper, Jonathan Miller, Savannah Cash
and Jacqueline Burns.
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