Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Well, now, I reckon, I ought to tell you a story
at a little office that handles things nobody else. Will
you know, a supernatural super unnatural haunting sexes. The whole
list is rather long, and we don't have near enough
daylight for that. What you need to know is this
ain't no script here. We make it up as we go, music, sounds, etc.
It's all produced for you live like magic and it
being a scary story and all I'm assuming it will
have all the things scary stories do. But I'm just
guessing here because of it being improvised and all all
I know is with this cast, well, well it's probably
going to be brutal, violent and have enough moral decay
to make our therapists quit. You got one of those, right, good,
So use your brain. Okay, it's gonna be scary, strange
and dumb as hell. Oh off you.
Speaker 3: So. I know that neither of you are from there,
but it's still kind of wild to me that we
make it the twenty twenty five, You know what I mean?
That's pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: How do you mean?
Speaker 5: Well, that's the great recession that's been occurrent. I know
plenty we're having difficulty getting jobs. That was my biggest
from where we have to I'm lost mine.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm. Oh so there's another one. Huh. Yeah. I
grew up in the Great Depression. Let me tell you
not easy.
Speaker 5: Now, that's what my grandparents kept saying.
Speaker 4: That makes me feel so old. Well, we didn't have
any money. My uncle was so poor he had to
wear a pickle barrel. All of his clothes he had
to had to sell them, just walked around with a
pickle barrel, suspenders either end for five years.
Speaker 5: Did you witness that do that? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had to do that, now that he think about.
Speaker 5: It, No, no, that I think your uncle may have
been a pervert.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that tracks.
Speaker 3: Anything pays in a recession. As a photographer, I can tell.
Speaker 6: You that for a fact.
Speaker 5: I ain't judging just well, okay, I'm judging a little.
A pickle barrel is kind of excessive. Yeah, you're telling
me it's just one pickle in there. You don't need
to hold barrel for that.
Speaker 6: It's good, Jim. I like it.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 6: Jim.
Speaker 4: So, now that we're all here together, I guess we've
got some sort of job, some sort of tasks, something
to preoccupy our time other than just you know, doing
crossword puzzles, and I think witty banter.
Speaker 3: Doing crosswear puzzles from the future. That's pretty cool. The
disadvantage it does actually it makes it really hard.
Speaker 4: Well, if you need any help from any trivia in
the forties, I can help with that.
Speaker 3: I get the feeling that might be slightly behind the
curve of what these things might be aiming for.
Speaker 7: M hm.
Speaker 2: Did I just hear the door? But the door?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 5: Was it your door? You just came out of your office?
Speaker 2: No, I thought I heard the door.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I did hear the door? Did you just knock on
the door?
Speaker 6: No, I was I thought I was walking into my apartment.
Speaker 2: I got you times.
Speaker 4: Welcome back, good happening back.
Speaker 6: I suppose do you have a fridge and I left
the grocery bags in my hand?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is that for us?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: But maybe the universe said it is for us.
Speaker 6: Mhm.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Some of those tart pops.
Speaker 5: Pop tarts, and they're probably more than the pantry. I
don't actually know what that would even be called storage room?
Door to many opportunities are you can.
Speaker 2: Try that door right there and maybe it'll open to
a little kitchen with a refrigerator.
Speaker 4: Hey place has got a refrigerator.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I should say, I mean sometimes it does. Yeah,
if you open the door and you get one. You
can also open the door and there's a bathroom, although
I should tell you sometimes that's the door to nowhere,
and absolutely, under no circumstances should you open it all
the way if that happens. So my advice is you
kind of just open it a little bit, peek your
head in, make sure it isn't the door to nowhere,
and then fully open it all the way.
Speaker 3: I would open it nowhere.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've never gone in it, but trust me,
not really bad vibes if you do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but didn't y'all say that if the door opens
to what would need want at that time, that's.
Speaker 2: That door, that main door right there. That door takes
you to wherever it is you need to go. I've
noticed though, that sometimes this inner second door here door
in my office always stays the same, but that door
sometimes changes. Sometimes I've waited for like an hour for
it to become a bathroom.
Speaker 4: So if there's two doors, one that turns into whatever
you want, and then the other one, which is always nothing.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's nothing.
Speaker 2: Usually it's sometimes it's yeah, no, it's always that second door.
Sometimes it's nothing. You can always tell because it's like
a crazy sounds coming out of it, and sometimes you
hear like a wailing and the Okay, well, I'm sure
at some point you will, but you know, when that happens,
don't open it all the way. I should probably go
over all the rules of the office at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that might be nice, so good because up
until this point that wasn't even on the table.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then that would have been real bad.
You would have opened the door and then I don't know,
we would have all died or something. I don't know.
It doesn't feel it's going to be a party.
Speaker 6: I'm going to just set the bags down here.
Speaker 3: You want to, Yeah, I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start.
Speaker 2: Yourself on the regular.
Speaker 6: If you would like.
Speaker 4: The pose.
Speaker 6: It's not all my food. Most of it is vegan.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Okay, what's that.
Speaker 6: Vegetable bass with no real I suppose inputs or produce
from animal.
Speaker 3: Like a really grim faced vegetarian.
Speaker 5: I get no animal products of any canned.
Speaker 2: What do you need.
Speaker 6: Yeah, mostly veggies and like boy beans and other proteine
replacements and prouteine doplements. I suppose this is a lot.
Where did you all go after I stepped out? I
thought I was going to step back, and it just
led an empty building.
Speaker 3: We didn't go anywhere. You went somewhere. We stayed here.
Speaker 2: Yeah that one? Yeah, okay, So less Number one that
I think you're about to learn is sometimes when you're
out there interacts with you differently than it doesn't here
because for us, you ain't been gone that long.
Speaker 4: How long have it been for you when you stepped outside?
My question, there's been a few days, but three days now?
Oh yeah, three days? What did you say? What was
there like an hour ago when you stepped out? How
long ago was it when you stepped out?
Speaker 2: That feels right to me?
Speaker 3: An hour?
Speaker 4: An hour?
Speaker 6: Huh?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wonder if this is a science, So if we
can calculate how long somebody's been gone and then by
the time they come back, maybe we could see if
there's some sort of connection.
Speaker 2: There's a good idea. You should write that down. Oh,
it's nice having people in the office again.
Speaker 3: Has it been empty for a while?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What happened to the people that used to be here.
Did they follow the nothing door?
Speaker 2: No, nobody went through the nothing door. Most everyone went
through the front door. I haven't seen miss Moore in
a while. There's been I haven't seen in a very
long time. I see Broud went out to get milk
and never came back.
Speaker 4: There's a joke there.
Speaker 2: He is there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad at the same thing.
Speaker 5: Real anybody else easily with cigarettes? No, my odd let
enough stayed home. Yeah, I would have found.
Speaker 4: Him real quick, right.
Speaker 2: Well, Like I said, anyway, sometimes people go out the
door and come back, and you know time time is weird,
so they could be back any second.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: It's been a long period of time. I mean, I know,
it's it seems like it's been a passive time that
you've been able to notice, you know, you have been gone.
Speaker 2: For a while. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I go buy,
I go by cases. I've had about thirty four, I think.
Speaker 4: A lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and how seldom have been.
Speaker 2: Have I solved them all? Yes?
Speaker 7: I have.
Speaker 2: That's about thirty four solved cases. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, do you have a calendar in here where you
keep track of how long you've been in this office
or don't.
Speaker 2: But that's not a bad idea. Well, how would I
keep track of how long I've been in here other
than by solving cases? Right? How do I know how
many days I've been in here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But it's stuck at four thirty? Oh yeah, I mean
that's that little hand moves. But I wasn't that it
just stays at four thirty.
Speaker 3: Wow. The entire point of a ticking clock is to
signify the passing of time, and this one doesn't. So
it's just a noise with none of the benefits. That
fucking sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, yep. Well, I guess you could use it
to maybe count time yourself.
Speaker 3: I can count in my head. I don't need an
external you.
Speaker 2: Can do that. I mean, I can clearly count in
my head, but not necessarily to a perfect rhythm. You know,
I get a little wobbly.
Speaker 3: I mean, it wouldn't be one to one. I'm sure
I could count a minute out, but then that would
sort of be mine. I wouldn't able to do anyth else.
I wouldn't be a multitask. That's why you have a clock. Sorry,
I didn't mean to make this about timekeeping.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's all right. I mean, that's what we're talking about.
How would we go about keeping track of how long
we've been here if we don't have anything to you know.
Speaker 5: A stop watch.
Speaker 3: That's not gonna if the clock doesn't take, the stop
watch isn't gonna take.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well no it should. It's just it's just counting
up time. It's not actually.
Speaker 4: I do. Let me show my phone. Yeah, is your
phone clock moved at all? I looked down at my phone.
Speaker 6: Has it moved?
Speaker 2: I still can't get over that gadget? Let me say
show it here?
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening to your screen right there?
Speaker 4: Where do you put the gears in that thing? How?
How do the gears work in that exactly? To keep
track of that?
Speaker 2: It's all fucked up. It's it's all what should I
call it? Like that thing back there at box? Like
what the box put the white lines on it?
Speaker 3: The box with the white lines. I'm gonna look at
the bug the black lines on it.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Sometimes it's like it just makes the
sound continually. I don't know. I can turn it up
if you won't. I've noticed that this knob green, Yeah,
I've noticed that this knob here makes the sound louder
or turns it down. And then this knob here, I
don't know what it does, and this knob here just
turns the whole thing off.
Speaker 5: That's just an old TV.
Speaker 2: Really, is that what it's called?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Hell of vision? Okay, well yeah, look at it. It's
like that your your phone or whatever.
Speaker 6: Did anyone that used to work here understands and this worked? Oh?
Speaker 3: No, great question.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, there wasn't a chief here when I arrived.
Office was just empty. We had to figure a lot
out for ourselves. So at least you have the benefit
of my past experience.
Speaker 3: Who keeps You don't know how any of this works?
Speaker 2: Sorry, there was two questions at once, and I'm greeted
a lot of things, but not that. That's all right
you first?
Speaker 4: Okay, Jim, I was about to ask who keeps the
fire stoked? I've noticed that this hasn't gone out, and
the candles wick hasn't gone down either.
Speaker 2: Yep, that would be the office.
Speaker 5: Timing. He's kicking. It is no reason for.
Speaker 4: Time is the measure of change, and there is change.
But this is a loop.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's so much as a loop
as maybe a void or what do I know?
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. Trying to figure out I'm trying
to develop a hypothesis here as to what exactly this
rule has. Yes, it's magic is just simply science that
hasn't been understood so rationally.
Speaker 2: Make explanation for the way the world is, and the
way the world is includes magic.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing. We won't know if it's magic,
because magic is unknowable.
Speaker 7: To know.
Speaker 4: Magic is science.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that, but I maybe could get
behind that.
Speaker 4: Just a way that I see things I don't know.
It's trying to make sense of this place.
Speaker 3: I mean, I Gotcha's pocket TV box is sort of like,
you know, I can sort of see how that looks,
you know, magical, But I understand that least enough underpending
principles as to how that functions, you know, and you
make it work?
Speaker 5: Help me?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6: It is an odde and I could probably pillet upot
see what's wrong with it.
Speaker 3: It's it's upsetting when you call it old. It's a
little upsetting to me when you call it old, because
it's the newest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: But you know, uh.
Speaker 3: This thing about bars. Last time? You got any bars?
This time? Yes?
Speaker 6: No, not in here, that's out the door. And the
threshold I did that was, let's you just someone? Oh
but none here?
Speaker 5: Okay, imagine there ain't no radio tower in here? Sell tower?
Speaker 2: Who's worthyes? Or did the office give them to me?
They were on my desk? What a pumpkin seeds? I
think some sort of.
Speaker 5: Seed my mind?
Speaker 2: Is it your is it your grim dark vegetarian food?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: No, I'm not really a fan of.
Speaker 3: Really important question, critical critical question. Okay, does that include honey?
Speaker 6: So I'm personally fine of honey, but I know many
other vacancy aunt it's like a scale.
Speaker 5: There are ethical ways to get honey without killing the
bees lava? Yeah, okay, so some some vegans I have
and Noah eat eat certain insects and crickets as they
don't view them the same way as certain animals since
their DNA is a little weird comparatively. That's what I read.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna scribble a nue here that says ethical bees.
Speaker 2: I have another question that is absolutely critical ease to
me as well. If somebody on their desk had a
box of candies for the office or rather for them.
Would you feel it was fine to go into said
candy box and take your own candies or would you
wait until they were offered to you?
Speaker 6: Specifically, I would wait until to offer to me. I think.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: The same experience.
Speaker 2: Well, we had an incident here in the office once. Yeah,
and it was like a whole debate. Gave me a
rash about philosophic Yeah, exactly, that's exactly what happened. And
it was like, well, their minds, but you got them
for the office and they're on the desk and no,
but their mind and if I offer you some, you
can have something. Is like the whole thing. I'm just
curious now that we're talking about it. Maybe we should.
I mean, that's how that happens. By the way, I
wouldn't be surprised if these are from your bag there,
but just kind of in the wrong order, if that
makes sense. So if they are, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: The well, it's fine, you ate all of them now.
Speaker 2: Well not all of them, but I can, I will,
I will.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just your last time.
Speaker 2: I'm just I feel like these would be really I'm just.
Speaker 4: Messing around those weren't actually mine. I just wanted to
see how you would react to that. Oh well, yeah,
with owners, did you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Hmmm. Have you left any food out in this office?
Oh yeah, all the time, bananas, fruits. Have they ever rotted?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Over there, Look at that table over there. Sometimes good
will show up there. That's what I'm saying. You don't
need to worry about rent. Everything you need is here.
Speaker 4: I see that we have some plants in the office.
Have they have a grown at all?
Speaker 2: Nope? They need water for haven't insure, don't older?
Speaker 3: Yes, you said you solved thirty four cases without somebody
else's assistance.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have.
Speaker 3: How long on average would you imagine solve a case?
Speaker 6: Would take.
Speaker 2: Maybe two days, sometimes three.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a really quick turnaround.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean people are usually like dying from supernatural means,
you know, like limbs torn up and stuff. So eventually
you either figure it out or the thing comes to you.
Is that much too soon?
Speaker 3: No, that's fine, just you know, conversations about steaks. I
just feel like I don't understand the stakes.
Speaker 5: So life or.
Speaker 2: Data sometimes, I mean, sometimes it's just a silly little
you know, anchor artifact or whatever, and you just need
to pick it up, collect it and bring it back.
And sometimes if you touch it, everything explodes. So you know,
we gotta figure it out as we go.
Speaker 6: What do we have, What do we do about that?
Speaker 2: What do we do about what the anchor artifacts explode? Well,
we try not to do that if at all possible. Yeah,
we try to avoid that.
Speaker 6: Okay, but we're expected to stove whatever the case is
as well. So what how to be This seems very
out of any kind of experience I've have I had,
I don't know about the three of you, but deeper
natural and honestly even just mundane exploding things are quite
outside of my sort of experience or frankly comfortability.
Speaker 2: We all we all shore strong suits.
Speaker 3: I don't really deal with explosions either. So if that's
any small comfort to do with robots or the robots
never explode, I'm sorry the what the robots?
Speaker 6: I again, I will say, I'm a waitress. I studied robotics. Yeah, ecatronics.
I've worked with it in classes which are already very
controlled situations. I could maybe work with them in the industry,
but even then there are many precautions. He can make
sure there is no lotions.
Speaker 2: So that's that's what we should do. Sorry to interrupt you, Kouchi,
but we should take precautions so that we don't explode.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if it helps. By the way, an electric automaton, Oh,
that would be your robot, like a construct. Yeah, excelluely.
Speaker 3: It's like a mannequ and it's been tricked into thinking.
Speaker 2: Holy shit. Okay, and usually.
Speaker 3: In the popular science that Jim talks about, they're not
happy with the situation.
Speaker 2: Usually, well, I won't be tricked into thinking.
Speaker 3: Just like, that's a lot of what science is for us.
I've gotta be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: What else about the office should I tell you about?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: Uh, there there was something I was I know how
we got here, uh you know the door and rescued
from various situations. Oh, and I realized they had no
rent and we get to solve these paranormal mysteries or
something or another. What what do we actually get out
of this? Like, I mean, I'm not not arrested. I
appreciate that very much, but I'm more curitous. What what what?
What is the extrinsic value here?
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna give me a rash.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think that's entirely up to you. Like I said, get.
Speaker 3: Out of it, we put into it, okay, I.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, something like that. Maybe that's for
you to figure out. I don't know. I like it.
I enjoy it. I feel like, I don't know, I
feel like I'm doing something really important and that feels good.
Speaker 5: Is intrinsic.
Speaker 2: If I have an answer more than that year.
Speaker 3: Just other practical questions, if I.
Speaker 2: Could, yeah, I asked away.
Speaker 3: Like am I am I giving me, you know, doing a.
Speaker 2: Speech and forgetting some go ahead?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So like back at the time where I came from,
am I just like a missing person?
Speaker 2: Now that's entirely possible, but in my experience not usually.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if I go back there where I'm from,
which I don't know that I can just will that.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If I can look at the door and like I'd
like to go home for it? Is that how it
worked out?
Speaker 2: I'd like to see you try and go for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think when I stepped out, be only an hour
two head passed at least from the last time in
problem New York.
Speaker 2: That's good. I feel like I should write that down,
because I really like Jim's idea of trying to figure
out if we can find a pattern. I haven't really
been able to do that before because it's just been me. Well,
at least for now. I will say that though I've
solved about thirty four cases, I do spend a lot
of time eating and sitting in here waiting for the
door to open or for somebody to knock on the door,
you know, And I don't know how much time I've
spent doing that. I also nap. I like to read sometimes,
il relations on that there box there. What'd you call it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Television?
Speaker 4: Television, that's right, that thing.
Speaker 2: I think there's a man trapped in there.
Speaker 4: You don't mind? Can I ask a couple of more questions?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Nothing, We're too personal, But you have to.
Speaker 2: It's excellent. Look at you all care already?
Speaker 4: No, I haven't from your nail. Haven't you still experience hunger, thirst, sleepiness,
any basic human necessities while you're here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do do.
Speaker 4: I do, but they're all taken care of. Yeah, that's right,
And that's at the thought of needing them taken care of.
Speaker 2: Well, Like I said, sometimes I've waited for that door
for about an hour to become a bathroom.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you ever panicked, I'm sorry, have
you ever panicked about that? And I ever felt nervous
anxious that you wouldn't get what you need here?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 2: Really, No, I was more annoyed that it wasn't turning
into the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's probably trying to communicate to me
in some way, and I just don't understand what it's
doing when it's not doing the thing that I wanted
to do that at the time. You know, it really
does feel like, you know, it's been tricked into thinking
some times to borrow your language. Guess you know these
drawers open? Oh that's another rule did I tell you about?
Did I tell you about Josephine?
Speaker 6: Do you bettionitn't them to me not to look into
their eyes.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: So now there is a little doll in the office.
Her name is Josephine, and you just do not look
at her too long, You do not acknowledge her. You
just let her go about her business, which is usually
standing in awkward places. All right, I.
Speaker 6: Oh, okay, he is Josephine.
Speaker 2: Okay, Right, a corner five o'clock in the filing cabinet.
Don't look I'm not gone to okay, just maybe like
turn your head a little bit until you can kind
of see her out of the corner of your eye.
Speaker 1: Ball.
Speaker 3: No, I'm good. I'm gonna leave her out of the prephery.
I think that's fine.
Speaker 2: I think that's actually preferred. But you know, she lives around,
she moves around on her own, and just don't look
at her for too long. I have a thinking, uh
suspicion here that I think she's like it's one of
those objects of power, you know, those angers, And if
we can figure out what her true name is, she'll
leave us alone. So far, she hasn't.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can't of communicate with her because she doesn't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah you am, No, No, you can. I'm convinced she
knows exactly what I'm saying when I'm saying it ain't
that right, Josephine.
Speaker 4: So you call her Josephine, Oh yeah, and you don't
know her real name and the name gives her power?
Why is the name giving her power? How do you
know that?
Speaker 2: No? I mean, I mean that's absolutely true, Jim. Names
do have power, and names do give you power. You're
absolutely right about that. But I mean, if I can
find her true name, I think it would she believes
alone should be able to rest or whatever. That's my theory.
I don't know for sure. Okay, that's my theory because
I've tried other shit, Like you know, I've tried a
magic spell to kind of just like rid the spirit
from within her and that didn't work.
Speaker 3: So you know, magic spell?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, what does.
Speaker 4: That come about? Exactly? That? That that idea that if
you know her name then you will have power over her.
Where where do you think that came from?
Speaker 2: Well, if you if you go into my office, there's
a bookshelf. There's a bunch of like a cult books
and things like that in journals from other people. You're
free to peruse those. I probably picked it up in there.
A lot of weird are.
Speaker 3: Definite things called old fairy tales.
Speaker 4: The Keys of Solomon is that by d no King Solomon,
who was king of Israel, had supposedly the power to
control demons. Oh that's not they know them by name.
Speaker 2: That's probably absolutely true. Most of the things that you
probably are like, oh, that's like fiction or fantasy are
probably based in some weird truth. You would be surprised
how many people know about the other world and magic
and all that shit. You'd be surprised how many people
are wielding it. I'll tell you that your world is
about to change your world view?
Speaker 6: How can we will it?
Speaker 2: Oh, you want a cookbook.
Speaker 5: I'm not the best at bacon normally.
Speaker 2: Well, it is kind of like a science and I
will tell you at some point at least, this is
what happened to us. All right. All I can tell
you is our experience. At some point on your desk
will appear a book that's empty, and you fill it
out with the shit that you learn, and we call
a cookbooks. It's kind of sort of, it's kind of
like cooking. You have a recipe, you follow the recipe,
and if you follow the recipe right, you get what
you're looking for. For the most part, you fuck it
up or you improvise, and sometimes you get something a
little bit different. I don't see yeah, I don't see
any badges, and I don't see any books on your
desk yet. So maybe that's because none of you all
have really decided that this is what you want to do.
Speaker 3: Badges.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we get fancy badges. I don't know where
mine is at the moment, but it's real nice. It's
like burned in and like looks like blood or something
like that.
Speaker 3: Oh awesome, but so like the concept of a badge
implies some kind of central authority, which also implies that
someone would respect that authority if I showed those credentials.
Speaker 2: That's right, that does happen. Sometimes what I've noticed is
like I'll show it to people and then I don't
say anything. I just go and I flip the bag
out and then they go okay and continue to answer
my question or they let me through or whatever. Sometimes
I say, dumb, let me through, and they do. It's
really weird.
Speaker 4: And they're fully conscious. Oh yeah, when you and if
you have you asked any of them like what does
this mean to you? Have they answered?
Speaker 2: I never thought to do that. I've been focused on
the mission or the mystery. But we could try to
have some time if.
Speaker 5: You want to seeing what they need to see. The
I think is what you're going at gym. Yeah, Like
you show up at a construction site that you look
like you're a oosha and you go somewhere else and
they look like FBI.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I could see. I could see for certain
situations where you just flip a badge and any you know,
blue collar worker is going to say, go on, buddy,
I don't have time for you. Looks official.
Speaker 2: If we're people do say you're from dumb. Though people
in the know who are aware of the other world
will sometimes go, oh my god.
Speaker 4: You're dumb, and I'm like, oh, I get that a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why.
Speaker 5: But that, okay makes that longer, and there's something I'm
stuck on. I'm sorry that that dull. We just kind
of skimmed over that. Yeah, but what happens if you
stare at it too long? Has someone done that and
you witnessed it? Yeah, well what happens?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: First there's drool, right, then there's like an unresponsiveness, and
then the slouching of the shoulders, and then kind of
a glazing over of the eyes and then mumble in
in a language that sounds like Latin, but it sure ain't.
Uh at least I assume it's a language. Otherwise it's
like tongues, another mumbling I don't know, uh. And then
we didn't let it go further than that before we uh,
you know, shook his shoulders. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it sounds.
Speaker 5: Like horse tranquilize it on me. But all right, uh,
the only thing can you touch it without looking at it?
But can you touch it?
Speaker 2: I mean, by all means, Harry, go ahead and try.
Speaker 5: To doing it. I'm done.
Speaker 2: Nobody's tried.
Speaker 5: All right, on the thought with those I mean that
door nowhere, if it opens, get some tongs and toss
it out into that door and shut it.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're welcome to try that too. But when
I tell you there is like an impending dread. Since
that starts from your toes goes on up, it's pretty
pretty intense. But again, you're welcome to try again.
Speaker 3: I'm not understanding it.
Speaker 2: I'm not an authority or nothing. I just can tell
you what I've experienced while being in here.
Speaker 3: Right, you've communicated with Josephine.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Communicated? Is she communicated back? Have you managed to establish
any kind of thing?
Speaker 2: I think so, no dialogue necessarily, but you know, sometimes
if I'm feeling a little feisty, then sometimes she shows
up and scares the shit out of me on purpose.
It's definitely on purpose, right, you know?
Speaker 4: So, did anybody warn you about the doll beforehand or
did you just immediately? No, you just had this experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just had this experience because there was no
chief here when I got here. There was just the
desk it said chief and no one was there, so
and nobody showed up.
Speaker 3: So I just kind of so you're the chief now.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you're going to do the classic give me
your badge your gun routine at some stage.
Speaker 2: I sure hope not, but boy that sounds fun. Yeah,
your badge and your gun. Does anybody have a gun? I?
Speaker 3: Do you really you have a gun?
Speaker 2: Jim?
Speaker 4: Yes, don't doesn't everybody?
Speaker 5: No, No, that ain't. That ain't something people done for
a long time. Well, I guess it depends on where
I think about that. I know plenty of people back
at home that had both open and concealed carries. So
do you know what I'll retract that? Yes, I do
know plenty that carry again regularly.
Speaker 4: Well, in my line of work, sometimes it's just good
to have the deterrent. Some people don't like it when
I snoop in their business, and you gotta defend myself.
Speaker 2: Yep, snoop and snooping it is, And.
Speaker 4: It's also got some sentimental value to me. Yeah, we
won't get into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we don't. We don't need to get into that,
but the office will. It's funny what it lets you
take in and what it doesn't. Speaking of akatcha, your
your mask was here, by the way, I just put
it in that drawer over there.
Speaker 6: You know that wasn't mine, that was my.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you get your stuff to the fridge because
I think your vegan ice cream is melting?
Speaker 4: Well, actually, let's see, is it melting?
Speaker 3: Doel?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: If time, don't do nothing. Yeah, you can just leave
it out. Why bother even putting in the fridge. It's
just gonna stay the state it was exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you want to try the door? I
have to admit I'm kind of curious to see what
happens when somebody else tries the door other than me.
Speaker 3: Which one the one that goes where you wanted, the
one that may go to oblivion?
Speaker 2: Well, the one that goes to where you want but
also may go to oblivion. Is the same door that
my office door always opens to my office that door.
That second door sometimes opens to a bathroom. Sometimes it
opens to a little kitchenette. Sometimes it opens to a
bedroom where you can sleep. Sometimes it opens to our storeroom,
in which case, don't touch anything unless you ask first,
or unless you check the cabinet there for the list
of like inventory and what everything does.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, we're those pop tarts supposed to be next
to a bunch of weird looking things.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, are you telling me we ate something from
the storeroom?
Speaker 5: I mean, you didn't really say don't touch nothing in there.
And I saw pop tarts and I was hungry, and
you told me it'd be bit gets you what you needed.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, well, we we either ate something from the storeroom
and can die at any second, or you were in
the pantry. No way to know for sure.
Speaker 5: All right, well, I feel fine, so it's probably nothing.
Speaker 2: I feel pretty good. Hopefully it's nothing, and if it's anything,
hopefully it's just gas.
Speaker 3: I'm going to open the door perfect I would what
i'd like, what i'd like to be the kitchen. I'm
approaching the door.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see what happens.
Speaker 3: Sating this out loud because Jim's taking notes, I'm just
I'm just I'm just keeping that clear. I mean, we
have no idea.
Speaker 2: What could happen, you might as well roll a D
one hundred.
Speaker 9: Might as well as Yeah, I think actually on your
sheet you're gonna want to roll mind.
Speaker 2: Actually, hold on, follow up question, we're do you imagine
and it's just totally not in the moment, not in character,
not cannon or maybe it is who knows. Where do
you imagine your power comes from?
Speaker 3: Gus in terms of statistics or in terms of like,
comes from my pupils most likely?
Speaker 2: Okay, like that would be mine from the retinas. Yeah, yeah,
So then mind it is, mind is going to be
your main role from your sheet. Okay, okay, so you
should be able to just hit that and then roll
and there's no ship right now. It's flat, right, just flat.
Our first role, let's go.
Speaker 3: Had to be me. Yep, had to be me.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh shit, that did not just happen.
Speaker 5: Was not a thirty fucking three. Yeah, that's a well,
that's that's a great way to start this off.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: That's a great way to start this off. Okay. So now,
typically when you're so right now, your mark is twenty,
which means you're supposed to hit that or under to
succeed at the thing that you're trying to do. However,
we're in the office, thirty three is a magic fucking number.
No matter what you're rolling, thirty three is basically the
same as rolling in one in this game. So you
have critically succeeded. This isn't otherworldly success in this game.
Now go ahead, not game life. This is life. This
is real life that stays a life. I can't believe that.
So where's the door. Where's the door open to? Let's
go what happens? Describe what we see place?
Speaker 3: Where does the door open to?
Speaker 2: What's up to you? I mean, you rolled? What do
you think Gus would really want?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's I think I'm picturing like
my own kitchen is, like you know, that's my frame
of reference for.
Speaker 2: Your kitchen.
Speaker 3: Kitchen. Yeah, I'd open the door and we'd see a
glimpse of like it's not a mess, but it's it's
it's not like perfect order or anything. It's that it's
not what you call for sidious. Everything is kind of
you know, it seems like the dishes are not in
the cupboards. They're like perpetually like you know, stacked out
to dry. It seems like kind of average expected like
you know, low to middle income, you know, like you know,
like single bedroom, single bedroom plays a little dingy, But
there are polaroid pictures everywhere, like almost like to the
effect of like a post it note pretty much so
like anyway you might imagine one might live a post
it note. There's a polaroid with like like a note
scribbled under or on the back of it, basically replete with,
you know, corkboard on the wall, Love me some corkboard,
corkboard on the wall with you know, a half dozen polaroids,
you know, like thumbtacks and strings and you know, the
whole the whole works.
Speaker 2: Is there a lot of light?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like a it's like that classic like fluorescent
bulb that is like about to die but hasn't quite
given up the ghost yet. So it's sort of like
you know, intimitateently buzzing like huh.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, what are you saying?
Speaker 6: Killer's kitchen?
Speaker 3: What did you say?
Speaker 6: Oh wow, it looks like Killer's kitchen.
Speaker 4: Well, you live like this kitchen?
Speaker 2: Oh I love this part the judging. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I live like this, Jim. Usually I don't have
company over it. Jim, would you like to? Yeah, actually
we got your kitchen. Jim's yeah, it's it's my kitchen.
Speaker 4: Guys, let's let's hold on a second here, and let's
do something. Do you mind stepping inside your kitchen grabbing
at least one thing that you would absolutely know is
missing if you go back.
Speaker 3: Jim, Oh shit, Well, I mean if it's my kitchen,
then it's the rest of my apartment as well.
Speaker 4: Surely, well, how about you take that light bulb because
if you go back, you'll definitely notice that's gone. So
why don't you unscrew the light bulb bring it into
the office.
Speaker 5: Similar if you'll you know, a kitchen, where is it
actually your kitchen?
Speaker 4: Where it's going?
Speaker 3: That's a really good point. Yeah, this could be. This
could be a mental projection of my kitchen that I
have fabricated in this moment memory. I grab a chair
to like, you know, get me the boost I need
to unscrew this light bulb.
Speaker 2: You have surprisingly no problem unscrewing this light bulb. You
are extremely talented at this. Yeah, myself one of my
and you you will also successfully bring the light bulb
back into this room if you want. There's one of
those long ones.
Speaker 3: Right like fluorescent how many photographers to take the lot
up a room? I say, as I come back in
with the light bulb.
Speaker 4: Well, do one more thing for me. I hope you
don't mind, kattri Uh that vegan ice cream? Could we
see that's still frozen cold? Right? It looks like it.
Let's go ahead and leave that in Gus's kitchen and
see if it melts. I want to see if the
properties of this place continue on or do they cease
once you've stepped out of here.
Speaker 6: Okay, govern's going to kill me if this does end
up just melting and ruining the ice cream? Okay, and
what kind of.
Speaker 3: He's gonna kill you?
Speaker 6: Girlfriend? This is meant to be nice? What kind of
ice cream is this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean you're from twenty twenty five. Oh, I'm
just curious because where I'm from we have about like
six flavors, but whenever it comes up. I feel like
each year that goes by, you get more. I'm just curious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it is. It's I think it's pecan ice.
I'm a peak on ice cream.
Speaker 2: It sounds fucking delicious, but it doesn't have milk.
Speaker 5: Nope, okay, peak on praline or just peacan prayley, What
are they use instead of the milk almond?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, or they can use an enzimization process to extract
a lattuss from the milk.
Speaker 2: You're basically extracting to But that's all right, I trust
you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: The convert one chemical into another, you know, although I
guess that's more lactose free, right, So if you if
you're a vegan, I guess, yeah, you're using an actual replacement.
Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, you wouldn't mont lactose free. That's still from
a cow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I think we're still freaking Latin. Yeah,
I think.
Speaker 4: Well, whatever the case, I still think this is a
worthy sacrifice. If you don't mind, I'll go ahead and yeah,
well I don't have enough money to spot you for
ice cream, but I'll give you an I owe you.
Speaker 5: Feel like that's what this whole office rounds on from
what I've been gathering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably right, all right.
Speaker 4: Just leave it right there in the center of the
table so you can't miss it.
Speaker 3: I think for a while, don't you think I'm gonna
put it? If it's cool, I'm going to put it there.
I'll put it in my own kitchen if that's all right. Yeah, yeah, no,
it's cool. I wouldn't want you have to walk into
a serial killer's kitchen akachi. That'd be terrible.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, did just say is the serial killer?
Speaker 5: That's kind of what I figure polaroids, all the polaroids
and everything, not a not a Robin Williams movie.
Speaker 2: I hate references.
Speaker 3: Sorry, philosophical rash. Put the gonna put the ice cream.
Speaker 2: Not everyone who's from the same Winz line or Wins
or where, and sometimes your reference is not the same
as it is for somebody else, but they have a
little bit of it in common, and so then they're like, oh, yeah,
I've seen that movie. And then it's like a twenty
goddamn minute of debate and realization that they haven't seen
the same movie. And then they're arguing about, you know,
which way the movie actually ended, and they're both right.
So it's kind of.
Speaker 3: People are seeing different versions of the same thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also, and it's just time. It's also place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Wins, it's time and Wins. Yeah, all right, yeah,
you know what, It's fine, we'll go over it.
Speaker 3: At to have that conversation when you're not in the room.
That's fine.
Speaker 4: Uh you want me to.
Speaker 2: You're killing me.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Your desires. The room almost killed me.
Speaker 5: Just now, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: You can kill me with your mind. Yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 3: I do not want you to. That's not what I said. Okay,
I'm trying an ice cream down. I'm coming back in.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of like other rules that might
be like imperative and really important, like don't open the
door to nowhere. But you know, it's been a long
time since anyone's been in here that I have to
warn like that. So right, I'll just bring it up
as it comes to mind.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, anyway, a ball, we're sands bum bucket
of ice cream, which is now in my completely pitch
black kitchen. You would now you would like me to
close the door.
Speaker 5: Please, Yeah, because I actually wanted to see if I
could get something because no taking and whatnot. There ain't
no materials here. This desk is barren.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably because you haven't decided if you're actually
going to do this job or not.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well right, well, I mean, if this is all just
a fucking dream, you know, it's lucid and better than
better than a holding cell. So I mean I might
as well just accept it at that point.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's kind of how I feel about it.
But I mean, you do this job for long enough,
and I mean it's freely longer than two minutes, and
then you realize that it ain't no dream.
Speaker 5: Well dreams you can you can dream of a whole
life in a dream, It's true. But nonetheless, if it's
a good life and interesting, it was a good dream,
then yeah, so yeah, I'll say sure to. But you're
not the authority figure, so it doesn't matter if us
say it to you or not. Here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can say anything you want to me.
Speaker 5: I think, true, they one't quite my maten, but that's fine. Yeah,
sure I'll be. I'll be. I'll be on this, this force,
this this investigative supernatural paranormal. What's its that that seems
at least fun?
Speaker 2: Okay, Okayuna, do you mean what you're saying right now, Harry?
Speaker 5: I do? I mean, if it's if it's a dream,
I mean, it's still lucid, and you know, it sounds
fun and a dream. It's like flying in a dream.
Speaker 2: But I mean on a scale of like one to ten,
as far as like in your bones committed.
Speaker 5: Ow, I mean, I ain't got nothing to go back
to at this point, so it's pretty committed. Okay, very
least it got me out of it.
Speaker 2: Why don't you go ahead and roll for me and
your We both know what yours is. I don't have
to tell you what you're what you're rolling.
Speaker 5: Of the thing, I don't think, so okay, all right?
And if I'm wrong, well I'm not right, let's find out.
Mm hmm all right, any shift to this, I'd assume no, no.
Speaker 2: Not in here right now?
Speaker 5: Very good?
Speaker 2: Well, all right, my god, this is so fun.
Speaker 5: Well, leret we go.
Speaker 2: Don't say I don't have glasses in this world? What
does that?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 5: It says it's a that's a failure right there. That's
a four to six set out for a twenty.
Speaker 4: All right, it's a soul chick.
Speaker 2: Then my head snaps to your desk, or what I
think would be the desks, because maybe your chairs in
front of one. My head snaps to your desk, and
it's like I'm waiting for something, but nothing happens. And
then I look back to you and I go, maybe
when you mean it mean it?
Speaker 5: I thought I did I thought, you know, maybe maybe
if I get I'm getting to implement for notes of something,
they'll feel more real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you want to open the door and see
if you get?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll see what what happens there? Like to open
the door. I walk up right to it and I
open it.
Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead and roll again for me, same same
aspect for me. Sure, I'm trying to discover something.
Speaker 5: All right. Oh that's a one, which I believe is.
Speaker 2: A little the real that is for those in the
first session where we're rolling.
Speaker 5: The first one was a thirty three.
Speaker 2: But that's what I mean. There's only two ways you
can get another worldly success. It's a one or a
thirty three. So congratulations, we hit it twice in one
in one episode.
Speaker 5: Well, lovely, I mean.
Speaker 2: The supply closet. What does the supply clauset look like
to you?
Speaker 5: Oh? In this case, I was I was really thinking
I would go get myself one of them them popular
deal is a netbook. There, there's been a couple of
round a couple of years old at this point.
Speaker 2: Netbook.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's like a kind of laptop, Okay, a
kind of laptop.
Speaker 2: So I will tell you this even though you have
rolled otherworldly success. There is no laptop in here. However,
you can find the one singular office computer which runs
a variation of Windows ninety five slash seven slash not
Windows but Linux. So you can find the one singular
office computer. But it is in a second office room.
So you would be opening the door to the second
office and there's a desk in everything. So we can
open a supply closet, or we can open the second
interview room.
Speaker 5: It's up to you, right, So I wouldn't be able
to have any sort of computer sort for my desk.
That's that's what you not a lot.
Speaker 2: Not a laptop. But you can absolutely open to the
singular office computer. If you want a computer to write on,
then that's what would you know? We would say that
this opens to.
Speaker 5: That mind very poor, So.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, all right, Now, I'm just gonna tell you this.
I wasn't sure how we were going to do the
rolling or if I was gonna, you know, pop out
a character, stay in character. I like this, it's going great,
So I'm gonna say that. I'm just going to tell
you then that and let you role play it out.
That that's sometimes the operating system is just different. The
buttons and how to get to where you're going just
completely change. There are two things on this computer. One
appears to be a what Harry would know to be
as a website. It is the red thread, so it
is red. If follow the thread dot, it's like a forum.
It's green and black and kind of terminal looking like colors,
and you can browse through that. And then the other thing,
if you manage to find it and open it, is
a series of files with all of our names on it,
and then you can click on it and you can
absolutely take notes in this computer. You can file things
away too, like there's like a weird interface where you can,
you know, log your notes from which case you're working on, etcetera, etcetera.
There does appear to be some sort of database where
we can internally search and things like that, so you
can absolutely have that, and each icon is something different
for each person. It's not like a traditional file folders, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that that tracks. Uh. I think the
first thing I'd try to do is yeah, and please
tell me if I can't, it would be pick this
computer up and bring it to my desk.
Speaker 2: But no, you can't. Yeah, you would have to say it.
I try, yeah, and.
Speaker 5: It looks like I just can't pull the plug out
into the fused in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you found the second office.
Speaker 5: Congrats, that's huge, right, Yeah, that's okay. Well then yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Know, just firms up my theory that I think you're
supposed to work here personally, you know.
Speaker 5: Well, uh, this is this is old all right.
Speaker 3: Well this is some cutting edge tech right here.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, here we go.
Speaker 3: Check us out.
Speaker 5: What I was hoping for a laptop, But it's a
computation device. Think of it like a large calculated that's.
Speaker 4: Way too small to be a computer.
Speaker 3: Oh that personal computing is the way the future, Jim.
Speaker 5: That's how small they get. They get much smaller that.
That's the phone. It's the phone that Akacha has. That
that's a computer technically.
Speaker 3: Well, that's a tiny TV now right, No.
Speaker 5: That's a it's it's a smart phone. It's it's a phone.
Speaker 2: It's just a what's the difference between that television in
that computer? Because they're about the same size, they look
the same sort of.
Speaker 5: I mean that one's got colevisions one way, no input
you can give to it. This is a two way.
Usually you can communicate out and and back dependent and
you can take notes. Think of it like a type writer.
Speaker 2: But what about the man trapped in that one?
Speaker 5: I'm one of these days I'll have to figure out
when's heal from?
Speaker 4: Because I think I think I'm understanding. So that computer
sends and receives radio signals. Where's the entire.
Speaker 5: Less it's oversimplified.
Speaker 4: We'll say, yes, interesting, that's so fascinating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and okay, well it's got two things on it.
One's a website looking forum here. This might actually look
closer to something from whence you are?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty interesting. I'm on there, but I don't
talk much. I just read it. Sometimes I get my
cases from there, which is really weird. I don't do
it on purpose, but I like read somebody's story on
there and they're scared shitless and maybe I don't know,
maybe I go to bed thinking about it or something
like that, and then I open the door and sure, shit,
I'm all of a sudden there and I'm trying to
solve this case. And then very rarely they'll come on
and follow up on what did you call that? What
did you call it?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: A forum?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Sometimes they'll come back on there and say, like,
you know, different than it's gone now or whatever.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 5: Those almost like a record quest board or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is there a magazine where you can figure out
the program schedule? So you can because you wouldn't want
to miss it. How do you keep track? Do you
just keep it on all the time so you don't
miss it?
Speaker 5: It's live and at darkives itself. Think of it like you,
it's what that is like now that it's less magic,
more electricity.
Speaker 2: And samething, Harry.
Speaker 3: It's like a really big collective archive that can be
updated from any of these terminals from anywhere around the
world at any given time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's just like the office. It's the same
thing you'll see one day. You'll understand major because it's
the same thing.
Speaker 4: So it's like a library that stores data of radio
frequencies that could then be recalled when you tune into.
Speaker 2: That do Jim, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: It's incredible, not quite but close. I think of it
almost like men, Jim, you know, and I hate I'm
dating myself this way. Microfiche right, what I used to
look at though I had to use those when the
those are from a long while ago. Maybe you didn't
use them. I don't know you'd use them for like
looking at old articles and newspapers and magazines.
Speaker 3: Like really old archives. You can go to like the
public library and you can help share the take you
to like it's ancient pretty much, but it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Well think of it. It's it's it's like that, but
it's much easier and much more accessible. It's not tiny,
and you can search for things and look back easily,
and it's live. So sometimes some of you might say something,
I'm sure you ran into that too, although right you
saw a message there and then maybe someone else responded
very quickly.
Speaker 2: Nothing's quick on that thing. I think you have to
You have to hit that button, that one right there.
It says if five on it sometimes eight refreshfresh. If
you hit that button, the screen goes blank and then
it's like slowly then it comes back and then sometimes
there's a reply. Sometimes there is.
Speaker 5: So it's on dial up here.
Speaker 4: Imagine what a country.
Speaker 6: This is just technology.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going to you know how to make it better?
Speaker 3: About Windows three point one, so that's something.
Speaker 6: Make this bets up.
Speaker 5: Any sort of upgrades you could do. I would love
this to be upgraded. I don't want to deal with that.
I dealt with that growing up, and that just ain't right.
Speaker 6: It'spected to toss it out.
Speaker 7: What's wrong?
Speaker 2: No, don't try to throw anything away in here. For
crying out loud.
Speaker 7: This is all.
Speaker 2: Also there. This is I'm gonna choke to death if
you look on that thing. Sometimes there's there's like labels
with our names on them. Is your is that there?
Because that that also might be a sign that you're
supposed to work here.
Speaker 5: We well, we all have files actually pact.
Speaker 2: I told you y'all are supposed to work here, right,
I wonder what meant to be files?
Speaker 4: Have anything in them?
Speaker 5: I'm going to check right now, I open up, I
look over your shoulder. I don't mind none.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you looking at yours?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I'm opening up mine. Oh yeah, look at that, Harrison Doarcy, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look at that?
Speaker 7: What is that?
Speaker 4: Open up? Yep? Yep?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you said, yeah, that's my name, Yeah, that's
all your information. Look at that. I'm good named, your name,
your age? Really you don't.
Speaker 5: Look at it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. No, or to three ain't that old?
Speaker 3: It's a feeling you don't look at your age either. Older.
It's my guess, but that might just be the time suckery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's probably there's probably exactly what that is. But anyway,
look at that, Scott. Is that your address your HOMEMA
address right there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that is it.
Speaker 2: It's all your information now, that's important because and I
apologize again if this is too much, but you know,
sometimes we might run into situations where the facts and
things get a little blurry or mixed up, and so
then we got to come and look at your wins
line stuff. So this stuff is from your wins line,
which is like you're aware in your win and your
wins all like lined up. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: It's the cs of when, where and what iteration of
those two things.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 3: Are there?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. I don't have all the answers
to the universe. Guess I just know what I know,
which is there's more than one.
Speaker 3: You're the closest thing to.
Speaker 2: You know, word, are you gonna use?
Speaker 3: Guess God? As far as this world is concerned, that's probably.
Speaker 2: That's very upsetting. I don't like that at all.
Speaker 3: I don't like that word not when.
Speaker 2: Nope, I don't like that either either.
Speaker 3: Oracle.
Speaker 2: Oh, I like, but I don't think that's for me.
You could keep trying. I like, Chief, Chief works Chief.
Speaker 3: You're the closest thing to an authority figure that this
version of reality has, So forgive me for putting that
upon you.
Speaker 2: But we'll soon people are going to be saying that
about you, and then you'll know how it feels.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be. You've said so far, Yeah, I love it. Yeah,
I'm actually into it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well it.
Speaker 5: Is a nice feeling normally, so I'll vouch for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, assuming you guys, you know, accept the job or whatever.
Cosmic I'm accepting the job.
Speaker 3: Not.
Speaker 2: Wait a second, weren't we doing an experiment, Jim. We
were doing your experiment and then we got distracted by
the office, the second office.
Speaker 4: Well, we have taken the light bulb out of Gus's
kitchen and we left the The vegan ice cream never
had that flavor in Gus's kitchen. Now, if Gus is
to leave and return home and find that the ice
cream is melted, that means that there's some properties here
that do not carry over to the object once it
has left this office. And also the fact that light
bulb would be admissing and the ice cream there. That
means that Gus stepped into his actual kitchen and not
just the imaginings of it. But we'll have to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does that mean do you want to try the
front door then, Gus? Are we at that stage of
the experiment or are we waiting?
Speaker 3: Oh, do you want me to open the front door
to and try to get to my house? Because I
don't know if that I I mean, I actually don't
know how to test the other half of this experiment, because.
Speaker 4: So if you leave and go to your house, gotcha,
you said days had passed and when you opened the
door to your apartment it felt like days had gone by,
but really only an hour had gone by here.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, I stepped out to make a corn after
the caller turns back to open the door. That astument
would send me back here, but it was just the
abandoned building I guess was there in the first place.
Speaker 4: All right, Now, if we synchronize stopwatches, we start to
stopwatches at the same time Gus leaves. What should happen
is that Gus's stopwatch should be much longer than the
one in here, and when Gus eventually returns, we can
then see the difference between the two times and then
know how long time is affected with us being in
here versus outside.
Speaker 5: Look, you'll you'll have to try that with a couple
people at least, because to see if it's the same
for each or if it's different. And if it's different,
then you throw the whole thing out.
Speaker 3: It watches, Well, I have a pocket a bunch of
pocket watches.
Speaker 4: I don't have a pocket watch either here, and that
clock doesn't really work. Or two unless we want to,
I mean I can put a tally mark down for
every time it does full rotation.
Speaker 2: Well, then I think technically we should maybe have three
of the stop watches. Then, right, we've got one that
one that's on you at all times, and then the
office one and we count heal many rotations and see
if they mate mhm.
Speaker 4: And then we have to replicate this experiment a couple
of times. And if we could replicate it, then that
would prove consistency that we can replicate it, which would
then hold credence to there being a science behind this.
If not, then we're dealing with something little more unknown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that requires me to go back to my
own whence and where it just occurred to me.
Speaker 2: Now, hopefully that happens when you open that door. That
door I found is the only door personally in my
experience that leads to interactable experiences.
Speaker 3: Now it can't take me back to where I came
from the first.
Speaker 2: Time, or I have no idea. I mean, like I said,
my running theory is that door, you know, opens to
where you need to be, not necessarily where you want
to be. But I'll tell you how many times I've
opened that door and it does not take me to
you know, where I want to be?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, this place I really like to not be
right now, And I get the feeling that because it's
kind of a present thing that if I that I
might end up there, if that makes sense, because I
really don't want to be there.
Speaker 2: Right Well, if you don't want to be there, but
you need to be there, then you'll be there, I think.
But we could try that too.
Speaker 3: I agree to disagree with the universe on that one.
If that's where it opens.
Speaker 2: To, you can travels far that gets you.
Speaker 3: I guess, do you have a story about someone doing that,
and no, that an't gone badly.
Speaker 2: Here, No, I just I mean that to me feels
like common sense. You know, arguing with the universe, it's
like arguing with God, ain't it.
Speaker 5: Speaking of arguing with the universe, I wanted to test
one one thing while I'm here looking at these files. Uh, yeah,
I'm trying to see.
Speaker 2: Are I'm sorry, I just had a thought and then
it came out my mouth. Please go ahead.
Speaker 5: That's usually what happens. But nonetheless, I can usually stop.
Speaker 2: It while somebody else is having one, So go on.
Speaker 5: Sorry, No, no worries. Uh. All these files documenting us
editable in any way.
Speaker 2: No, But I'm curious to see if you can see mine.
So if you exit out of that folder and you
click on mind, does it show you information or is
it a blurry because for me, when I look at
anybody else's yeah, when I look at anybody else's file,
all I see is just a blurry screen. I can't
focus on it for the life of me.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm hoping.
Speaker 2: I can access the files that you've worked on, but
usually through my own Oh my god. Ms Moore called
it something and I can't remember what she called it
a file? Maybe maybe I don't know, but perhaps maybe
I've noticed that if I click on mine, then I
can access things and I can look up certain things
like case files that we've worked on together, and I
can pull up that information. If I try to do
that for anybody else's, yeah, then I can't.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll open yours up and see if I can
see anything. And just just.
Speaker 3: I'm making maybe a quiet prayer to the universe in
this one. But like, is there a semblance of chronological
order here in that? Are you accidentally accessing things from
a when that is not now?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: And like, have you ever accessed something from the future
from this place? If that makes like a like a.
Speaker 2: How would I know? How would I know?
Speaker 3: It would be like a case that you haven't worked yet,
or like you know, information about a person that you
haven't met yet, like on one of us, for instance.
Speaker 2: No, that's a good question. Then No, I've only ever
tried looking up something that I've already worked on. But
then how would I would I just try? Like random words?
I usually so far have been naming our cases odd
and then we have a number, oh okay, But then
we also sometimes do the case of the whatever like
the woman in white or the pieboled deer or whatever.
You know, we we label them like that based on
but then they usually have a number on them in
the corner there if you want to. I mean, I
can try to show you, but I suspect it'll be
the same. If I open mind and you look over
my shoulder, it's probably going to be you know, blurry.
Can't focus on it for the life of you unless
it's this information here, which is like my name and
my address, like we can see for Harry, right, you
can all see Harry's right. Okay, yeah, exactly, so I
can see this information. But I imagine that's because sometimes I
need to verify that the Harry I'm talking to is
the Hairry I'm talking to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess I was just curious. You know,
it's not like a thing where you know, time is slippery.
I'm getting that feeling, you know, and and that it
would be good if there was at least some chronological
order in here with respect to itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure if that's the case. No, because
remember earlier when I was saying that it's entirely possible
that these home conceeds that I ate all of the
might be from his groceries, and I just ate them
out of order like before. You know what I mean,
Like that's possible, that's happened before. But then again, that
could just be somebody staying there. Candy was theirs when
it wasn't theirs, you know, so I don't actually know.
We'll have to run another magic on.
Speaker 4: That, another magic science experiment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have to do some experiment now that there's
more than just me here. Sounds great. Cool anyway, Harry,
will you try open it clicking on my thing there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll get that open.
Speaker 2: If you use that round thing and then you hit
that button on the left twice, but you gotta be
really quick. It'll like it then reacts. It'll have a reaction.
Speaker 4: That is fair.
Speaker 5: I do know how to use these.
Speaker 2: So you do okay, okay, oh okay, double click yeah,
double double click. Oh that makes sense because you're clicking twice.
Why not twice the well twick I.
Speaker 3: Think click twick kind of feels no.
Speaker 5: Because clicking twice it might be in a turtain some
amount of time. Double implies you're doing it in quick.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that makes sense. All right, Hey man, words
have palace. But hey, it makes sense. I believed it.
Double does kind of imply, you know, like I know
the phrase double time, which means you know, really quick,
So maybe maybe something harry.
Speaker 7: Enough.
Speaker 5: Who I didn't catch that, but I'm opening your fine nonetheless.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, go ahead kill me. Is it just blurry?
Or can you see? Can you see my name? Don't laugh? Yes,
that's right. It says Coyote. That's my first name, and
that Lders my last name. Yeah, you see see that,
and you see that the address part is blank and
the rest of it's blurry, right, except for like my
eyeball color.
Speaker 5: Is it blurry?
Speaker 2: I don't know? Is it you're the one looking at it?
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know if that other worldly success
this or not?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean you'd have to try again.
Speaker 5: I'll try again. I'm curious as well. Oh definitely, No,
it's very blurry, okay, seemingly blurry? Okay, yeah, well fair enough,
so then, yes, that is exactly right.
Speaker 3: Listen. I just wanted to ask about the flow of
time because I don't want to open my profile and
see like time of death or something like that. At
the end of it, you know what I mean, Like
that's the thing that i'd like.
Speaker 2: That would be horrible. I don't know what to tell you. Yes,
this never happened to me before.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good, all right, that's that's one point of
data to go by.
Speaker 2: Yep. Okay. Do you want to try clicking double double clicking? No, yep,
that's okay.
Speaker 4: You know I'll do it.
Speaker 3: I'll do it. Yeah, sure, Yeah, I'm look at my
own file.
Speaker 5: I'll getting at your way.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, look at that. See there's nothing scary on
there that I can see. Can you see anything underneath here?
Or is it all blank for you? It's blurry for me?
Speaker 5: Blurry yep.
Speaker 3: Well this is me Gus Holloway and that Yeah, this
all looks right.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: And is that country of birth Australia?
Speaker 2: Is that where your kitchen is located? That little spot right.
Speaker 3: There, and the rest of my apartment as well? Yeah, unfortunately,
all right, all right, I had to commute for breakfast,
but yeah, yeah, that's uh, that all seems that cute.
And I don't see a time of death, so that's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, perfect, Got another question for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, an answer let's hope they may shoot.
Speaker 4: These data points. Does it say relationship status single married?
And if so, is the partner named.
Speaker 2: I don't see anything like that online, but I don't know.
Speaker 5: I can check mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to check your wife?
Speaker 3: I've got a formal relationship list this year.
Speaker 4: Do you see anything on that bio referencing that?
Speaker 3: As in, like, can I pull up the information on
this other person?
Speaker 4: Like status single married? Is there any any info like that?
Usually in profiles and such, they document that information.
Speaker 3: But this person is still technically my next of kins.
That's probably why they're still there.
Speaker 2: But what does it say next?
Speaker 3: Do you want?
Speaker 2: What does it say next to their name? Does it
say keep next to ken or just just list their name?
I can't see if it's blurry for me. All can
see is like your name and you're height, and.
Speaker 3: Just formal relationships status with this person that they're my
next of kins still because I haven't changed it, so
you know, I guess this is just like huh, well,
do you.
Speaker 2: Want to try to double I did it? I hate it? Right, God,
damn it. I doubted myself. Do you want to try
double clicking gym?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I'd like to see that. Okay, wow, man, how
do I do this?
Speaker 2: You just sit down there like button real quick?
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 2: It sometimes makes that sound, will so.
Speaker 5: That sound haunts me.
Speaker 2: I'll do it again quick. No, no, only on the
left hand side of hand.
Speaker 3: If you just know it so, just want ad the
whole You're not spaking it.
Speaker 2: Like a baby gym. You're using like your index finger
and just go like upside down real quick.
Speaker 3: You got it upside down, just supposed to come out.
Speaker 5: Put that back?
Speaker 3: That back?
Speaker 4: Okay? Where do I put this?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Where it was?
Speaker 3: Just where you where you took it from.
Speaker 4: See that little it's not going back in.
Speaker 5: We'll just get here handed handles it handed you here?
You okay?
Speaker 4: All right? How did you do that?
Speaker 5: This way? This way?
Speaker 4: Got it? Which one left? There's two? Last one real quick?
Speaker 3: Double click?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there.
Speaker 3: You see that.
Speaker 2: That's yours. Now this is like, oh gosh. Ms Moore
used a certain term for this. I don't know. It's
like your corkboard, your main corkboard, right, and then you
can also it doesn't feel like no I know, and
it doesn't look like it either. But if you were
to click on this thing here, if you were to
do that double click again right here. No, no, on
the on the thingy, but not yet, don't do it actually, no, no, no.
If you were to do the double tap again on
the mouse. Wow, wow, do you see this little symbol
right here?
Speaker 3: Do you see that?
Speaker 2: That's wherever that is?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: So, when that symbol is over this right here and
you do that double click thing, it's again, it's recipe.
It's like magic. You got to do the things in
the right order and then you get the result that
you want. Okay, this is really important. Don't forget that.
So okay, when this symbol is over this symbol and
then you hit the the the double click. If you
do that, then you can look up other cases. If
this symbol is over that symbol and you do the
double click, you get your information. Can you remember that? No,
you'll get the hang of it. Okay, But here, put
put move this. Move the thing in your hand. Now
you see that. You see that moving on the screen.
Speaker 5: There, No, it's not moving onto the desk. Keep it
on the desk, on the desk. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: Now, now give it like a pen.
Speaker 5: Give it like a pan.
Speaker 4: Oh, like a pen.
Speaker 2: You want to hold it steady if you if you okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: Like a pan on the desk, on the desks you're
pine flat. That ain't flat him on it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, you can. That's close.
Speaker 5: It's called a clock rip.
Speaker 4: I mean before they I hold a pen like this.
Speaker 5: I said lack a not actually a pangym.
Speaker 4: So it's like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, that actually can be a little more economic.
I'll use that phrase again. A cot.
Speaker 6: At the moment any of these people done at his computer,
a cot. You had gone back to the primary offices
at that they left a while ago.
Speaker 4: A contry, please please?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you want to sell grandpa how to use a computer?
Speaker 3: Yeah, bye, Jim, you're so close, Jim, you're so close.
Speaker 4: A side. Just watch what I do. I'm just going
to hand them mouse over. This isn't it looks like
a mouse. Looks like this is a big mouse. It
looks like a rat.
Speaker 5: It looks like.
Speaker 2: A like a fat mouse with a tail, fat mouse,
skinny tail. All right, tails coming, I guess you're I
guess you're tapping it on the butt. Then the fans tail.
Just watch, okay, tap on one of its cheeks, on
the left cheek, of the right cheek.
Speaker 6: You take your hand over it?
Speaker 4: Okay, flat right right?
Speaker 6: You thinkers one on the left mouse but one of
the right, and you can move around on this table.
Speaker 4: How how are you getting to? What's what's a mouse pad?
It's just do it? Got a rest or something or
you gotta does it sleep?
Speaker 3: Just the ft in the desk and the little.
Speaker 4: Oh you gotta keep that. That's okay. But why why
why wasn't.
Speaker 3: Why wasn't in the contacts? Oh, can't talk to the computer.
It can't talk to the computer unless unless it's flat
on the desk.
Speaker 2: Told you it's magic. You have to do the things
in the right order for it to work. It's just
like spell need to raise my voice.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: But the mouse to see the icon then the point
it moves wherever we move the mouse. So he sets
it on trying to click. Let's go with what is
this the forum? Let's go with the forum.
Speaker 2: Oh, I feel like that might be a little bit advanced.
Speaker 4: I think wanted to say.
Speaker 2: It's that symbol right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, and you double click twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you see the cursor on the screen.
Speaker 2: Cursure. Is that what that's called?
Speaker 5: Multiple?
Speaker 4: Crazy?
Speaker 5: That little arrow, the little arrow.
Speaker 2: I just call it the crooked.
Speaker 4: Yeah, looking trackle.
Speaker 6: Do you need glasses?
Speaker 4: I'm just having a hard time seeing. I'm just trying
to follow where it goes, so I know where to
where toe it go?
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, I'm gonna ask the question again, do you
need glasses? Do you have bites?
Speaker 4: Oh? No, I mean I don't glasses.
Speaker 2: Who would need glasses?
Speaker 4: What the heck? The heck is that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Oh? Sorry? Did you do the did you double
click the butt cheek or the mouse on the left
side to open?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay you don't.
Speaker 4: It's going to really complicate the.
Speaker 2: Whole Okay, okay. So then this is this is file.
That's what she called it. Miss Moore said, these are
a certain of a file, kind of like she keeps
in the other like.
Speaker 5: A file cabinet. This digital file.
Speaker 2: That's the word she used. Digital. I was going to
say dirt, but that works. I knew dirt was wrong.
I just couldn't figure out what the I couldn't remember
the other one. But anyway, yeah, this is like a
filing cabinet but magic. Anyway, So that's Jim's file. Now, Jim,
do you see the information listed there?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I do. I'm just trying to understand how this works. Okay, okay, yeah, Jim,
uh huh oh they have my nickname in there too.
Oh oh funny.
Speaker 6: What is your nicknames?
Speaker 4: Salami? What Jim Salami?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of questions, and none of them
may be appropriate. I have to think. No, I think
I have one. Why why why?
Speaker 4: That's an old boar nickname.
Speaker 6: Okay, cool follow.
Speaker 2: Up question, But I think I'll leave it there.
Speaker 8: Because you.
Speaker 3: Can grab the scroll bar on the side.
Speaker 2: You can use that to sorry the word scroll bar.
Speaker 5: Scroll scroll bar and saying grab that. That's that, not sorry,
I grab it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you hold you were about to say it. You're
about to say you were about to say the magic word, Harry,
weren't you what's the magic word?
Speaker 6: The magic word?
Speaker 5: I'll leave it all to say.
Speaker 2: That's okay, I say it. I'm not going to say it,
but you were about to. I'm just I'm just letting
you know that I know that you were about to, and.
Speaker 5: I know that you know that I know that I
was about to you.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: Oh, I feel like I missed something mission critical.
Speaker 2: It's not mission critical, but but yeah, we can move on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hold down, on the left, mask button over this
bar the right. Okay, what and you can move it
down slowly and moved down.
Speaker 2: I thought the message is ended.
Speaker 3: No, no, you can see by doing that.
Speaker 5: How did you do that?
Speaker 2: Show me how to do that again?
Speaker 3: We got page up and page down as well. So
that's that's going not add more.
Speaker 5: Let's not add more moving pods now? Oh my word?
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, how much information have I been missing?
Speaker 5: A lot?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: If you will look at half a file, have some
of have some of these cases seem like you haven't
had any of the information at all after that door opens.
Speaker 2: I mean that's every case, if I have to be honest, Harry,
I mean, here's the thing. This information it gets put
here by us. So if you don't put it here,
it doesn't get in here. Right, So after you wrap theication,
you want to you want to come here, you want
to sit down, and you want to put the information down.
And if two of you are working on the same case,
you can just label that and then you're fine. Only
one person has to fill it out. If that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Well, you got a computer expert now, so everything's going
to be just fine.
Speaker 6: Action Are you sure you can't just get a new one.
Speaker 5: I was trying. I tried very much, so that was
what I was waiting for.
Speaker 2: Television.
Speaker 3: No computer, computer computer, personal computer.
Speaker 2: Personal computer. Well it's not personal, it's shared. Could we
get a new shared office computer?
Speaker 5: Good enough?
Speaker 2: Well, we'll say, we'll see.
Speaker 4: So where's the part where relationship status? I need I
need to see what am I filed under? I need
to can't read this.
Speaker 5: It's so blurry to me, it's blurred for us. Yeah,
and then that dragging that down like showed you that
that might have it listed down? Father?
Speaker 4: Oh, I see it? What is there?
Speaker 2: What does it say?
Speaker 4: That's all right? And anyone wants want to move on?
I've gotten everything I needed? Yea cool?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 6: Okay, cool, all right?
Speaker 5: I want to see your.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why don't we do that? Why don't you? Why
don't you double click the left butt of the mouse
and let's see what your files is?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, it well looks right. It has my blood type,
which is upsetting.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Where are you from? What does that say?
Speaker 4: New York?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Underneath that?
Speaker 6: Oh place of birth? And I was born in in Hackney,
m okay, England?
Speaker 8: Wow?
Speaker 2: Say that again because it doesn't look like it's spelled
that way.
Speaker 6: Hackney.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hackney, It's not how I would have spelled that,
but okay, I got it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty things, real, real, real, right, funny.
Speaker 2: Right, okay, Hackney. It sounds familiar to me. Write that
down real quick, Write that down real quick. Somebody, does
somebody have a notebook? Do you have notebooks yet? No?
Speaker 4: No, I've been writing stuff down. Hold on, write down.
Speaker 2: Just that I had the I had the D word,
not the not the D word, D word, but I
had the other D word. You just write that down.
Speaker 5: Oh, all remembered it felt like they remembered the Hackney.
Speaker 2: Yep, that that felt familiar to me somehow.
Speaker 3: Ajavu is something signific.
Speaker 4: Work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it can sometimes.
Speaker 3: Especially when you're dealing with other wins and other winses,
you got it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it signifies that you are no longer in the
wents where you thought you were, And sometimes it can
mean that the wins that you're from no longer exists
at all.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Yeah, is that on the table that the
wents that we could be from it could no longer exist?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I think it's happened only once before.
Speaker 4: What are you saying that, Well, there I go back
out through that door, the reality that I left might
not be there.
Speaker 2: That's right, or alternatively, we just don't know how to
get back to it. But for some reason that feels
weird to me, Like I feel like, if anything, the
office would know how to get there to where you
needed to go.
Speaker 3: But yeah, what can lead to a wence disappearing?
Speaker 2: I have no idea, and hopefully you never have a
case where you have to deal with that.
Speaker 3: You've clearly had to.
Speaker 6: You said it happened once before? What was that situation?
Speaker 2: Did happen once? Well? Actually, I'm curious. Can you try
to look up this file? Can you just type the
missing boy yeah in there, and then everybody roll for me?
Please whatever your main magical aspect is, and if you
don't know what that is, you can ask me.
Speaker 5: That's a nice little failure there.
Speaker 4: Failure.
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, yep, yep. Right. Uh, so none of you
will be able to see this file. It won't come
up for you. In fact, I'm gonna have to type
it in and go on to my little profile button. Okay, okay,
so nothing comes up when you type that in. Now,
see now watch when I think that's because you didn't
work the case. But now, can you can you leave
this so that and go back to the main corkboard
so that I can use it and click on mine?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, So if if we click on mine and
I type that in very slowly because I have to
look at each thing here and type it in, unless
somebody wants to take over typing for me, it's gonna
take a hot minute. We're gonna keep going. Nobody just
takes over work that you will mention it. I have
no idea. I was kind of started talking out of character.
If nobody's gonna take over for me, that's fine. It's
just gonna take a hot minute because I'm.
Speaker 5: Doing Yeah, okay, all right, you want to type it in,
it's the missing boy. I'll type it in and you
you do the clicking that way, okay, and I understand
you'll imput of versus mine.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you go ahead and type that in. Yeah, okay,
you see it comes up for me. But can you
read any of that or is it blurry?
Speaker 8: It'll be blurry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not going to read I see that there is something,
there's something here.
Speaker 2: But you can't focus on it. Yeah, yeah, I can
see everything about this now. I can tell you a
little bit about it, but I mean it's classified. I've
always wanted to say that. I don't know if it
actually is or not, but I'm assuming because you can't
see it, I probably shouldn't share too many details with you.
But what I will say is I have had a
situation where we couldn't return someone to where they needed
to go after they came to us for help. And
I'll leave it at that, like it felt impossible to
do so on ting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and were they at all yeah, buffed with closure or.
Speaker 6: And what happened to that?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of how we found out about the
door to nowhere. You mean, he was the first one
to open the door and it opened to nowhere.
Speaker 5: There's there read nothing there for them just okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it don't happened. Did they step through or
where did they go?
Speaker 2: I don't know because none of us followed.
Speaker 3: Did they know what was happening when that happened.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They didn't say nothing. They just opened
the door and walked through it. Now, most of the
time that door and I'm gonna say this, again, because
it's really important. That door will open to like kitchen, bathroom, whatever,
but it never goes like outside like that door. That
door is the front door, and that door usually leads
me to places where I can interact with people. This still,
this door feels like it takes you still somewhere inside
here wherever this is. So, I don't know where he went,
but it wasn't outside.
Speaker 4: Implications of that are horrifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you realize that, Yeah, I do. You said, yeah,
I do.
Speaker 3: You said there's no chief here.
Speaker 2: No, I said, I'm chief. You mean there was no
chief when I got here.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, See, there's no central authority that can answer
any of our questions. Now on you, why does this
place exist?
Speaker 2: Your guests as good as mine, I assume.
Speaker 3: What do you have a guess because you've worked here
for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like when i'm I feel like I'm
I don't know. It feels sometimes like the world is
wobbly and I'm just righting it a little bit for
a little while. It's kind of what feels like, I
feel like I'm talking people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at this point, another question would be why doesn't
it exist? It seems simultaneously it does and it doesn't.
It is and it isn't. It's like a man. I
think I might understand what you were saying, Gus. Now
a little bit more about outside of the picture frame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, h just.
Speaker 4: If I don't know. I've been writing some notes down
and I'm not sure if any of you are familiar
with the unconscious, but I am running a theory that
this place is similar to the unconscious, unknowable but there
well simultaneously being aware.
Speaker 2: So I have a running theory about dreaming and that
all dreaming happens in the same space, and that this
exists there. But it's like.
Speaker 5: A realm dream realm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a collective unconsciousness of whybe humanity or the universe itself.
Speaker 2: It feels like a physical place because it feels physical,
and sometimes when you're dreaming it feels physical too. And
again i'd, you know, I'd have to run a lot
more magical experiments on that. So the thought about it
not here.
Speaker 3: The world in in because these cases can come from anywhere,
any when, any when.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: So the universe by and large has things that issues
that need correcting.
Speaker 2: Feel that way, like you how correct in? Maybe yeah,
maybe that feels about right.
Speaker 3: It's a metaphysical trouble shooting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, I mean it's a wire here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see why we're all here.
Speaker 2: We'll see. That's what I That's what I was asking
you before when I was like interviewing you all, because
usually when somebody walks through that door and knocks on
that door, as I'm sure you're about to find out
at any moment or maybe you know tomorrow, whatever that means, uh,
when somebody comes through that door, they need our help
and they have something that they've seen that they can't unsee,
and usually it's something supernatural, super unnatural, paranormal, pair of
abnormal that this is actually really long, but it's a large,
you know, umbrella that fits a whole bunch of things,
and usually they need us to help them with whatever
it is that that is. But you all, I couldn't
seem to find something that I mean, there's something supernatural
or super unnatural and pair of abnormal for you that
all has up to each of you, But it doesn't
necessarily seem like something that I'm supposed to solve. A
lot of this is instinct and gut feeling, which is
a form of magic. So I feel like you are
supposed to be here, maybe as new office mates. But again,
you don't have to be you can you can just leave.
You can walk up the door and never come back
if you want to.
Speaker 3: Well, I've got two pretty central questions that I would
like to answer. You know, in my own world, my
own wins, I'm good to have it to get into you.
If you say that a wins can disappear, then I
get the gut feeling, yeah that perhaps the work that
we do here prevents that. Hopefully, Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2: I don't rightly know.
Speaker 3: That's a lot to thinking. That's a lot to think.
Speaker 2: It's a lot to think about. Although I will say,
I will say that that reminds me. Do any y'all
know Latin?
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, bits and pieces. I had to work with
cops a lot, so I picked up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll take a look at this. And I reach
into my pocket and even though earlier when I was
looking for my badge and I couldn't find it, now
I just reach in my pocket and pull it out
as if it was always there, and I set it down.
And what you're gonna see is like a brown tan
kind of leather bifold, and on the outside of it
appears to be etched or like burned into this leather,
moving words that move across the leather. It's like weird,
maybe trick of the light. But if you look at
it for long enough, you know instantly that this is
just nothing you've ever seen before. It's magic. But as
Older flips open the badges, I flip open the badge
and show it to you, you will see a photograph
which is rotating down here on the bottom. So when
you get your badges, this is the photograph that you see,
and you will not remember the photograph being taken, and
that's very important. So you see a photograph of me there,
and then you also see some Latin as well as
what I'm gonna call and what Alder will refer to
as the dumb symbol, which is a triangle, and I'll
put it here in the chat for you to see here.
But you see that that's also burned into the top
of the bifold. And then there is an inscription in
Latin that is also burned into the top of the byfold.
And then on the bottom half of the bifold is
where my photo sits. And then some general information that
you can see on the the computer as well. Right,
Like my it's almost like it's like a galactic driver's
license or something. And it was weird. It's got weird
symbols and stuff on it. They'll still float around to
and Harry, if you want to roll your soul, you
can right now, and I can give you some information.
If you roll well, you can have a ten shift
bringing your mark to thirty instead of the twenty four rabbits.
Speaker 6: All right, okay, I recognize some of these words. Oh
it's not greater that, yeah.
Speaker 5: Ess it says with a seven.
Speaker 2: Oh Jesus Christ. Okay. Then then I think that that
feeling that you had where it's like you see what
you need to see, or when you show someone they
see what they need to see, you feel in your
gut that now feels more right. When you're looking at
the SYS, the words float around and you're kind of like, oh,
maybe that's because they rearrange themselves to whatever it is
they need to be at that moment.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, so you see this weekly and yeah,
and I point to the Latin part, which is again
on the top of the bifle. The inscription there. Yeah, yeah, see,
I know, like the only Latin that I know is
the stuff from cookbooks that I've picked up over the time.
But I certainly don't know anything, you know, I don't
know what the hell this is.
Speaker 7: Walk.
Speaker 6: I recognize critics, but then that I don't think these other.
Speaker 3: Words obscure, obscure is mysterious, Yeah, obscure, that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the very first bit is by is walking by
oblique or something something? Indirect? Yeah, indirect walking or it walks,
he walks, he walks obliquely.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, but i'd.
Speaker 3: Have to I'd have to crack up in a book
to actually get anything else out of this.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a test.
Speaker 3: That's a lot.
Speaker 2: This is a really good tests. I want you to
leave this room, go into my office and scan the
bookshelf on the wall and see if any of the
books call to you, and then grab that if they do.
This is a good test. This is how the office
works sometimes.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's do it.
Speaker 2: All right. You got like a I don't know, one
in one chance to see baby, Okay, go ahead and
roll for me. It's going to be your mind for you.
I can also have a ten shift, so bring in
your mark to thirty instead.
Speaker 3: Of twin Do I use my applied cognition or uh
no you do?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 2: Just a plane role for now, So I just.
Speaker 3: Put ten into the total shift. Is that that's that?
Speaker 2: You got it? Sometimes it'll be positive and sometimes it'll
be negative, but for now it's all positive. Now that's
an eighty three eighty three. Okay, So you scan the bookshelf.
There's tons of books there. But for whatever reason, and
this is really important, I don't like it when failures
mean you don't get to do the thing that you
get to do. So sometimes I'm going to say, why
didn't this happen? And it can be that it happened,
but then something everything comes out of cost, Something has
to give for that to still happen for you to
get what you want. Does that make sense?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So in this moment, do you still want to
find the book? Because if so, we can still trade. Okay, so,
uh we'll do that. I'll let you find the book
if you allow for something maybe not in your favor,
to happen at a later time. Yeah, the trade.
Speaker 3: Can we symbolize can we symbolize that in this moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Can I get a paper cut on the edge of
this book? Is I as I pull it from the
from the.
Speaker 2: Desk, it's not good enough? Give me another offer a
little bit higher, a.
Speaker 3: Little bit, a little bits symbolically marking whatever comes down
the line.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: This is it's the modern convenience now, but it's it's marking.
You got something much more significant time line.
Speaker 2: You get a paper coat when I pull the book out,
But it is the book that you won't m M all.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, so drop a little My blood will stay
in the edge of this paper as I'm what does
this What does this book say?
Speaker 2: What were you looking for? You were looking for a
book on what like a Latin dictionary? Do those even exist?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, like.
Speaker 2: So then yeah, you'll find a Latin dictionary. Uh uh.
Translating Latin is kind of difficult in that it does
also require some cognitive you know, translating part where you
kind of do two and two. So if you won't,
what I will allow.
Speaker 3: You the tricky you to do is the tricky part,
I'll say is the grammar is actually knowing what the grammar,
how the grammar actually pieces again is really tricky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you won't, I will allow you to
search engine whatever you want and look look up the
words individually. But this is a little bit of a puzzle,
so I'm not just going to give you the answer.
If you, however, would like to roll to make the
conclusion with the knowledge that you have, you may, and
you would have a tend shift for that role. But
that role was final, so if you don't figure it
out at that time with that role, then you don't
get to roll again for the same thing.
Speaker 3: So I can try to I can try to put
it together myself by like you can individually translating words.
Speaker 2: That's right, Like you can all work on it together.
You now have permission to use the search engine, look
it up and then pretend like it's coming from the
book for the sake of our flush play. And then
if and you can all try to solve it together.
But if at some point you want to try gus
to Superman, you know, like solve it, and you feel
like you can't, you can go ahead and roll for
it at that time. Got time, right, All right?
Speaker 3: Well, good luck tun to a word by, because I'm
going to do it by literally like each word individually, want.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, well what if you try to need
it out loud for those listening who also maybe.
Speaker 3: Want to join in on the puzzle, I thought that
was it. I thought that was a huge trap for
a second. But no, I'll percent you that. Yeah, would
you like to read this Latin that you don't understand? Yeah,
everything's the spelled, all right, I shall to the best
of my knowledge.
Speaker 2: Now for those listening, I'm not writing it down anywhere.
You got to work together and figure it out, all right.
Speaker 3: The first part, which I think means he walks, he
walks indirectly, or he walks by, he walks obliquely, or
it walks obliquely unseen via obliqua ambulat in the next section,
which is a lot longer compared to the first three words,
which is via obliqua obliqueua, ambulance, plumina, raditchez, scenarios able, inquisitorious, obscure,
tatum at, fsaurum, vincti, mansour at the laurum vell aliorum, mundas.
Speaker 2: Now I know what that one means. That means world,
don't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Munda's means the body or world. Yeah, that's definitely.
Speaker 2: That's the only word I recognize at all that.
Speaker 6: I think I recognize world and river rivers?
Speaker 2: Which one? Which one's really? Lumino means river.
Speaker 6: I believe. So again, I wasn't great with Latin.
Speaker 2: Mute, Sorry, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I could pick up.
Speaker 2: All right, Okay, this is good. I write this down
because I haven't nobody I've been working with knows Latin
except for Crispin. And he's also likes to be a
little shit, so I don't even know if what he's
told me is true. Half the time.
Speaker 5: It's unrelated. But I wanted to know that the files
for case files, Yeah, when you've finished one, do you
notate it as completed? Does it know that it's completed?
How do you market accordingly?
Speaker 2: Well, if you're using that what you call again personal computer, Yeah,
you're using that, then it kind of just like it's weird.
It's like, once I finish my thought and I've done
it kind of just does it itself, if that makes sense.
And then if I'm doing it by hand, like filling
it out paperwork style, which is what I usually to do,
then I put it in that filing cabinet and I
close the door, and then when I open the draworer,
it's gone. And then up here, yeah, you can find
it there and if you want to try to find it.
So like something tells me, Jim and I are going
to work with the Viling cabinet more than we're going
to work with this computer, because that just seems Yeah,
I mean it's way fast around this is.
Speaker 6: Just so slow. I'm probably just going to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, it's real fast. Anyway, you can find
anything you need to find there, and then also in here.
Speaker 5: Right, I want to do another test of something because
I'm curious. Okotcha, if you wouldn't mind help me with this,
if you don't mind using the computer, I should say,
even though it's a little slow, I'm aware, would you
mind opening up a new case for me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this one's your personal file, and then this
one is the corkboard, the group corkboard. I mean not really,
but you know, kind of okay, and then.
Speaker 6: We'll just make up a case.
Speaker 5: It titled the case.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is scary. I've never tried this.
Speaker 5: Good worrying wardn't here?
Speaker 2: Well, what are you trying to do? Is this an
actual case?
Speaker 3: Not? Well?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, and no. I'm just trying to think
a good word for the title.
Speaker 6: Could be way were and.
Speaker 5: That's a different thing. But that could be interested too. Uh.
The the case of Harrison Darcy joining Dumb, I.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't put your name in there, so I would do
I just I would just not put your name in
the subject.
Speaker 5: But it can be. It can be listed in the
in the case itself. That's the because I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the case of the new recruit, that's great.
Speaker 5: New recruit or I mean I was gonna say occasionally
and my my previous employment, they would call me the taxman.
Speaker 6: Oh, just want to be specifically about you.
Speaker 5: Correct, That's why I'm testing you could do the.
Speaker 2: The case of the thieving recruit.
Speaker 5: I didn't did you call me a thief?
Speaker 6: And I ain't no fa of the recruits?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: Sure for now? That was and all you need to
type in there in the the body of that Harrison
Darcy has had decided to join Dunn as one of
their agents.
Speaker 2: You see when you're wow, holy ship.
Speaker 5: That's I want to see. How were you doing.
Speaker 2: That without looking? How are they tapping without looking?
Speaker 5: How do you do that? You just get used to
you practice riding a bike, you don't need to look
at the pedals and you ride a bike.
Speaker 4: Well that is true, I guess. I guess. So, well,
why aren't you using the mouse? How does it work
without using the mouse? You didn't click it?
Speaker 2: Launch buttons?
Speaker 6: You don't need to click the mouse when you're piping
unless you're trying to.
Speaker 4: Oh, I see, So you put the mouse where you
want to type, and then wherever you put the mouse
pointer is then when you type. But I don't see
moving the mouse.
Speaker 6: He stops.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, but I've never seen anybody do it without
looking at what doing.
Speaker 5: Advanced technique.
Speaker 6: Okay, ah, right, well looking down at the keyboard while
I'm typing. But I've just worked at one for a
while now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I mean, yeah, I still have to
look down at the keys when I'm on my typewriter.
I must admit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never typewriter I'm familiar with. But I've never
seen nobody you do it without looking at what they're doing.
But I mean it's not like I, you know, frequently
around typewriters anymore. But you know, usually people have to
look at what they're doing. Very impressive, is what I'm saying, Akachi.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, very aggressive, and I haven't seen that sort
of skill since Morse Code. Well seen those guys operate.
Speaker 2: No, I've never hit the pleasure.
Speaker 4: No, very aggressive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what what next? Period?
Speaker 5: Yit?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: Okay? You see, First of all, nothing's blurring for nobody, right,
we can all see it because this is a case
that we're all here for working on together. At least
that's my work in theory. Now do you see how
when you type his name, it puts those bars there,
It's like now all black, it's like a black box.
Speaker 4: Yes, at.
Speaker 2: Will do that on its own, and it does it
with with us to see it doesn't say dumb. Did
you type dumb?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well just the with the periods or without with
the I mean, of course absolutely, but I mean who
would not do that? But anyway, like you see it,
what did you call it? It redacts that as well.
So sometimes it'll do that, But I find I still
get the urge to put the name down, like it
feels right, to actually write the file the way you're
supposed to. But I think it's only doing that for us.
I think the office.
Speaker 5: There it's just I think not readable. It's the idea
that that really is all I was thinking. It's just
that the I join that and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well we're good, okay.
Speaker 5: And I think that I mean, and then maybe just
I don't case closed at the end of that.
Speaker 2: But you see, like it doesn't. So normally when I
feel like I feel like, you know, it's done done,
it just like the whole screen moves and then it's
like and then it feels complete. But it's not doing
that now right.
Speaker 6: There's there's no confirmed but it just will.
Speaker 2: Sit there with information mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Interesting. Well, or as it'll finish itself sooner than later,
I guess, hmm interesting. All right, well I figured out
check and see if that that went through or maybe
here let me let me see the mouse real quick here, katcha.
I'm going to open up MYLN profile and see if
anything's updated, like maybe maybe agent status pending or or
or some sort of information that might give me any
any time.
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything. It's his agent status. But maybe
that's one of the things that I just can't see
on yours open And this one has no shift.
Speaker 4: No shift.
Speaker 5: That's another one.
Speaker 2: Holy fuck. I okay, I don't know what to do
except to. Obviously you get it, but why do you
have it? And we don't? And that's a fun mystery
that I don't have the answer to. But you can
absolutely see that. Your status then would be undecided.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I'm entirely lucky some the fact that
I have it.
Speaker 2: There, I holy ship.
Speaker 5: I had a question. I not wanted to see that,
so of course I'm going to see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh do you think do you think it's because
your magic that you're able to see this or do
you think it's the office? That's my question for you.
Speaker 5: I mean it's me. I don't believe it's the office.
It's definitely me.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's my luck. This is your luck that's doing it.
Speaker 5: Okay, absolutely, ain't no office thing.
Speaker 2: Okay you can. You can have an extra dining point
for that, So just write that down. We'll do it
at the end. Anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Oh that was mostly Yeah, it says undecided.
Speaker 2: Well there we go. Well mine doesn't say that. Well
can you can you open can you open our files
and see what it is like? Maybe it won't be
blurred out for you, like open mind?
Speaker 4: What does it say?
Speaker 5: I've opened yours? And do I see that now. Yeah,
it says yeah, agent status. Uh current, I say current
operating chief.
Speaker 2: Oh see, I've told you fantastic. What does it say
for everybody.
Speaker 5: Else I'm going through here? Let's see. I'll let them
answer form me, since they would know what's in that
that box, But I do see agent status for everyone? Jim,
what was yours note?
Speaker 4: Oh? Hold on, looks active.
Speaker 5: Active?
Speaker 2: Chi?
Speaker 5: What what was your say? When I opened it up?
Agent status?
Speaker 6: Oh? I think as I cutch, he leans in, I
I cat parly keeps the let's us keep moving.
Speaker 7: Hmm.
Speaker 5: That's ah, but yeah they are. I guess it's not
even undecided, it's just beyond undecided.
Speaker 2: I have never seen that before. And that's weird. Hm hmm,
that's fucking weird.
Speaker 5: And uh, well, I'll make note of that. Gus. Well,
I know you're reading here. You want to take a
speak at agent status? Does it say anything in particular
for you?
Speaker 7: There?
Speaker 5: I mean I could see it, but I'm curious what
you said?
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, agent status? Does it say undecided or does
it say active?
Speaker 3: Or what? Is it up to me to decide?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Gus undecided? I'm locked in.
Speaker 2: Gus is locked in then it would say.
Speaker 5: Active active active.
Speaker 3: Check that out right, and hey, look, wow, I've written
down a bunch of the direct translations of each of
the words, so hopefully that might give us enough to
go for.
Speaker 2: My best Yeah okay, so.
Speaker 3: I can give you my best guesses right now if
if you guys want them now, But sorry, were you
in the middle of something I got zoned in on this?
Speaker 2: Does that happen a lot because it will be very helpful?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, fantastic, So.
Speaker 3: My best guest, these are all my best guesses.
Speaker 2: This is just my best attempt to us.
Speaker 3: We'll get you via oblique ambulance is either it walks
indirectly or he walks in directly.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Uh, we've got flumina, radichs, scenarios favilla. The source of
the river brings ashes and embers. That's my best guess.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Inquisitorus obscure tatum at fasorum divincti mensurant the investigators of
deep darkness are bound to measure it, and elorum vel
alioram mundis of theirs or of another world. That's a
all pretty uh wow. Like again, I don't know if
I'm conjugating any of the grammar correctly. But this is
just my best guesses of Yeah, so altogether it walks indirectly.
The source of the river brings ashes and embers. The
investigators of deep darkness are bound to measure it of
theirs or of another world that uh might need another
pass on that one. You guys, think.
Speaker 4: How far that? That's a head scratcher. For sure, you'd have.
Speaker 2: To see it with that book. I mean, maybe leave
that book on your desk and we can all look
at it later. Maybe there's a section on the grammar
I can give you.
Speaker 4: Wow, how deep does it go? Is it literal metaphorical?
Speaker 3: Well, that's the same the question, like, you know, translating
Latin is one thing, you know, translating word like you
know a one for one, like what does this word mean?
You know, if lumina means rivers, But I don't know
if that means rivers in this context or if it
means you know, like the concept of flow. So I
don't know. I'd have to regard spend a lot more
time with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to have to look deep into.
Speaker 2: This, Yeah, I think so maybe it's one of those
mysteries that we just it continues, Yeah, you.
Speaker 4: Know, something gets me thinking that this will deal in
a matter of truth, and that matters of fact just
the way that we're supposed to interpret this, so more,
I think we should interpret this as a metaphor. But
that's just my hunch. Maybe it's both, I mean, could be.
Speaker 3: I mean, the part that I'm most convinced is close
to right is the the first bit and the last
two bits. The second I'm not so sure on the
source of river brings ashes that I'm not so sure
that's even remotely in the re moile park.
Speaker 4: I mean ashes and embers. Ashes could be referring to
the past. Embers are present, but they're burning out, so yeah,
one has passed, one is present.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this word redditch's ridichs. I'm not really sure how
to pronounce it. Is like, I mean, it's a source,
but as it pertains to numbers, so it's like the
origin of something or the base of something. And I
tied it together because source river. I don't know that
that was just the That was just my best guess.
But it could be referring to counting something.
Speaker 4: Could I Investigators of deep darkness are bound to measure
a deep darkness could be things that are hidden yet
to be un covered, because darkness isn't something you can measure.
Darkness is the absence of light.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The start here inquisitori's obscuritantom at is uh the investigators
obscurity and so you know, the the investigators of mm hm,
investigators of obscurity. The sum is like fissures, but it
can also mean to split the cleave, to break something apart, but.
Speaker 4: It's clean, but fissure it would be not clean. Cleave
is clean clean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was my So I called it deep
darkness because you know fissures in that regard. So again
just a just a wild guess. But at least the
end here like da vincti means bound and mensuran means
they measure, so they are they are bound to measure
is or they're they're bound to count or to keep count.
Speaker 10: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, this is a deep one for sure, already unknown.
Speaker 2: You already have a better grip on it than I do.
I mean, all I knew was.
Speaker 3: Spend some time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, your guess is as good as ours. I'm just
throwing stuff out there.
Speaker 2: Well at this junkure, but better than I'm just saying
you have a further hypothesis than I do at this moment.
Speaker 3: I'll spend some time with the grammar book.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I think that's right. Good job, validations all
I need.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I work really well with validation.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh thanks, everybody needs a bat on the back.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's not I like that too. But height Now
that you have we've looked at the computer to see
that you two are at least active, do you want
to go out to your desks and see if you
have a see if there's anything on it.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, sure, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Okay, So for those of you that answered that you
were an active, you will have a tone on your
desk as well as a bifold badge. You can decide
what it looks like in terms of color. It's probably got.
It does look like a leather that part's the same,
but it can be whatever color you imagine. When you
open it, however, you will see exactly the same information
that you saw for me, except you don't have the
Latin script yet.
Speaker 3: You just have the.
Speaker 2: Dumb symbol, which again i'll put in the chat. I've
got to do that, sorry, And then you have on
the bottom you have a photo you don't remember being taken,
but just so that we know and the audience knows
for those looking, it's not that one of guess that
just came up, but it's the other one. You know,
there's two types. There's that like main character art that
we see in the beginning, and then there's this stuff here.
It's that second photograph. It does look like it was
taken with gus. You would recognize a polaroid like kind
of style, but there's no border around it, and it's
just there and it's like embedded into this bifold, so
that one a gym right there, Like, no, it looks
like a photograph, but it does look like the edges
were like burned in, not sewn in or anything like that,
but it does look like it's like a polaroid photo
on top and the edges have been burned into the leather.
And then you do have some basic information, but again
those words on that are floating around almost like they
don't know they have nowhere to be yet. But if
you were just so you know, for role play purposes,
how it's going to work. When you flash that batch
to somebody, they're going to see whatever it is that
they need to see for you to get to where
you need to go. So sometimes they're gonna think that's FBI.
Sometimes they're gonna think whatever. But that's why the words
are moving aroun on that bottom part, because they don't
have nowhere to go right on. Yeah, it's a Swiss
army badge. It's fucking great. Now, it doesn't mean that
that always works, okay, but I'm not going to tell
you why not yet so, but in general that's how
it works now the Latin, as you look at your badges,
you feel you are supposed to say something now as
you look at this badge, and if you would like
to say the thing, you can, But it does mean
you are a dumb agent. So if your character isn't
ready yet, that's okay. But if you're ready, tell me
and I'll tell you. I'll put in the chat what
you feel compelled to say. Actually, I can just put
what you're compelled to say right now if you like,
oh wait, no I'm not, I ain't doing it, not yet.
You feel compelled to say something, but you don't know
what the words are yet, and that's what I'll say
to that unless you want to roll. But I don't
think you do because it's part of a puzzle. How
about that. I don't want to spoil the puzzle for you. Okay,
if you're compelled to say something but you don't know
what yet. Yeah, but you do see your your baffled
your little badge there, and here's the doom symbol triangle
with an R and then like lines coming out the
top and it looks kind of like like eyelashes almost.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're with me pulling it out now.
Speaker 6: I think at this point a catch has gone to
the desk as well, half expecting to see something on
theirs and sees nothing. They looked to the drawer that
older had pointed to earlier. Today we returned, and she'll
open it up and find the Venetian mask that a
brother was wearing.
Speaker 4: That she was killed.
Speaker 6: But it's Halloween costume. You didn't realize you kept it
once she ran. I don't think you really noticed much
that was happening. It was more of a fugue dates
but it's still slick with blood, and she like entally
shut if it's hers or his.
Speaker 2: Sort to look something like that, and then it feels
weird if you pick it up and touch it like
it feels. Oh, I don't like to tell you how
your character feels about anything, unless maybe there's magic involved.
So I'm going to say this. I'm going to let
you decide what it feels like physically, and I'm gonna
let you decide. If you've ever felt like you were
meant to do something and you found out what that
thing was, that's what it feels like when you hold this.
This is your purpose and so whatever that would feel
like to you, whether that would feel comforting or scary
or what. Oh anyway, and that oh, this is the
other fun part. What do your tones look like? Because
they each look different, but think of like it's a spellbook,
but it would be tailored to whatever yours would look like.
So if you want it to look like a composition notebook,
that's exactly what it looks like. If you want it
to look like something else, have at it. But out
of curiosity, what does gusses look like? Hate to put
you on the spot.
Speaker 3: I think it looks like a combination, like kind of
like a like a photo album with like page is
to write an as well, So it's like there's already
spaces set aside for photos and pictures to be placed
on like once, so like each each page has a
place for photos and a place for writing and notes.
That's what makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: Okay, fantastic. Is it? Is it like a big like
old school like rim war like tome or is it small?
Speaker 3: I think it's like a reason like a working like
like something you might expect to carry around with you
rather than you know, like a like a a massive,
a massive tome. But are these like are these the cookbooks?
Speaker 2: Is that the this is your cookbook and it looks
like whatever Gus's cookbook would look like spillbook.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, so yeah, I think maybe it is a
bit more more tomy in that case, but I think it.
I just think it already has these predesignations for like
photos and like like in a sense of like you'll
know what to put here where the like you'll know
what your favorite reference.
Speaker 2: Is and okay, yeah, real good.
Speaker 3: The kind of thing, it's the kind of thing that
he would go out of his way to get custom made,
and it's that sort of level of oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: You'll never find anything like this. This is yours and
yours alone.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Now everyone will also have like a basically, what is
a black mole skin notebook with like a band or
like what is that called an elastic bit that you
kind of like put around there and it has the
dumb logo on it like kind of like depressed into
it so you can kind of see it in the light,
but then sometimes not. Otherwise it's just a plain black
notebook that you that you can carry around with you
for taking notes and a pen or whatever your character
would use to write with. If it's a ballpoint pen,
it's that'll be what it is. If it's a pencils,
then that's what you find. It's a piece of charcoal,
then that's what you have, that kind of idea. But
those of you who are ready and have kind of
sworned and that's what's on your desk, your cookbook, your bifold,
and your notebook in writing utensel and your chairs probably
pushed out a little bit ready for you to sit down.
Uh no, you can absolutely do that, Ikotchi. It's not
what I hadn't mind, But I like, I will always
say yes to your crazy ideas. I love them.
Speaker 5: I'm carried the word yes, thank you. Ah yeah, I
was carried as what Jim's looks like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4: It's one of those It looks like it's one of
those old fashioned flip note. Well, I can also do sketches,
then I do like the doodle and does help. But
standard doesn't have any branding on it. Just about as
basic as a sketch pack could be. Just nothing but
function nice, perfect.
Speaker 2: Some of the best cookbooks look totally disarming like that,
like there's nothing to them.
Speaker 4: M okay is what it is?
Speaker 2: Nothing fancy, Harry, do you think you have anything on yours?
After seeing this?
Speaker 5: I was gonna ask you a question older. There's nothing
there at the moment, this very specific moment, right, but
you keep saying okay, safe and criminal and all that
about me, And maybe that's where I'm getting hung up
because I didn't do nothing.
Speaker 4: I truly didn't, right, Well, is that true?
Speaker 5: Yes, truly? I went. I rolled my dice. I won.
I did not cheat. I know what a cheat is,
I know what they look like. I know what cod
counting is. I don't count no CODs.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, at the risk of giving myself a rash,
do you think it counts if you're using innate magical ability?
If Harry found out that he did have the ability
to wield magic and he used it to get what
he wanted at the card table. Would he would that
be considered cheating?
Speaker 5: Not if unintentional and unknown, that's a that's an advantage
for sure, now that.
Speaker 2: Nobody okay, if it's just intentionally however, uh would if okay,
hold on, now I am getting a rash. What if
you could count cards but you didn't realize what you
were doing. You just thought it was like a skill
that you had. You just know how many cards are
in the it and you look at it and you're like, well, shit,
I know. I mean, is that considered cheating or not?
Would you not take that person and kick them out?
Speaker 5: Not necessarily right off the bat. You have to determine
what's going on now, maybe when you talk to them
about because that's what happens. Sometimes. You don't always kick
out a person you suspect immediately. You until you all
in tairogates maybe a bit too strong, but you do
interview them and figure out things and maybe learn it. Oh,
you are counting cards.
Speaker 2: Don't realize that you're counting cards?
Speaker 5: Correct? Right? Because you don't necessarily kick them out right away.
You give you warm them, you inform them, and then
if they keep doing it, then yes, then now they're.
Speaker 2: There tain't okay?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: So would you call what happened before accidentally cheating? What
is the word for that?
Speaker 5: I mean it's for me, it was just playing the game.
Speaker 2: But well, I mean, what about the person who can
count cards and they don't realize they're counting cards? What
would you call.
Speaker 5: That playing the game? They just happen to have an
unfair advantage, perhaps okay, and then when they don't use it,
then it's the long.
Speaker 2: One fair, But it is innately unfair when they're playing
a game with an advantage.
Speaker 5: I think it could be sure I'm in an extra
lucky and it's unfair of those who ain't.
Speaker 2: But the reason that was my question?
Speaker 5: Yes, sorry, continue, no, no, that's that's good clarifications. And
now that the reason, and I was curious about this,
all it would be, could I expand on that innate ability?
If it is indeed magic?
Speaker 2: Is this you asking me? Or is this Harry asking older?
I know that's weird. Why not both? Okay?
Speaker 5: Then I'll answer you because I think I would absolutely
ask both as Harry, but mechanically but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Go for it, then ask me is Harry and the
best I can?
Speaker 5: All Right, I'm curious you keep calling me a thief
on this indability and luck, but I treat myself as
lucky because I am. Could I get luckier with this
magic you're talking about?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Again, it's dangerous and everything has a cost, but
you absolutely could.
Speaker 5: Well, I've already paid some costs for my luck, but
I still ended up on top.
Speaker 2: I mean, you think you've paid, but your ultimate tab
hasn't come due.
Speaker 5: Maybe well, I mean I lost my job, got arrested.
I'm talking about that, and yet I'm heading out and
in a much better position than I was before.
Speaker 2: Right. All I'm saying is time is wacky and weird,
and maybe your bill hasn't come to do yet, So
just be careful spending when you don't know magic is
kind of like you're trading in the dark with a
merchant that you can't see or talk to or communicate with,
and you don't know what the price for anything is,
so you just kind of kind of like throw as
much as you can money, will say, magic, power whatever.
You throw as much as you can into the dark
and pray to God or whatever that it's good enough
to get what you want, and it's always better to
overpay than to come up short.
Speaker 5: So what you're saying is it's all up to chance
and luck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: I mind interject. Yeah, it sounds like some sort of alchemy. Yeah,
some laws of equivalent. Yeah, the laws of equivalent exchange.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, sounds fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. I guess.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: I work about with chemicals and chemical mixtures. I have
to make myne developer and things like that. I kind
of think of it like alchemy. Sometimes got to treat
the photos right.
Speaker 5: True, but if you don't know the formula, and you'll
never know the formula, that to me is luck. Especially
if I get what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 2: Well, well see that's where you're maybe kind of wrong.
And that's where cooking comes involved, because sometimes it's a science.
Sometimes we do get a it's magic science, same thing
I told you, But like sometimes you do get a
formula and you write it down in your little you know,
cookbook or recipe book or whatever, and if you follow
it exactly the same way, you get the same result,
which means maybe we kind of can guess what the
price is.
Speaker 5: Is kind of well, yes, and that does I mean
like craps, you know the probabilities, you know the rough
outcomes of what will happen when certain things happen, there's
still some give and take as well as you may
not get what you want and it may not work
all the time. Is that because you said things are
not as a stable one percent? Every time you cant
you do your cookbook, it doesn't work hundred percent? Right?
Speaker 2: Well, if I follow the recipe, then you I can
get a reliable result each time. Sometimes there's fuckery, but
usually that's if I'm trying to substitute. That's if I'm
doing something wrong. Use your issue, right, That's what it's called.
Speaker 5: Use the error.
Speaker 2: That's the one.
Speaker 3: It's more round two of the Latin translation. Gang you ready, yep, ready,
all right? So I was looking at the formatting of
it all I.
Speaker 2: Think, I'm so sorry. I guess I know you were
locked in, But why are you asking, Harry? Are you
getting it in your head that you want to, you know,
somehow get stronger.
Speaker 5: If I can get lucky. I am not staling, no,
but if I can get luckier, I will absolutely take it.
That's why I was asking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: I like lucky. I've always been lucky.
Speaker 2: Just be careful, So I'll say about that, you.
Speaker 5: Always got to be careful and know when to play
your hand and when to hold and when to fault.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, well to bet I never learned that.
Speaker 5: Some people never do, no, but I do because I'm
lucky and ill will. I'll happily accept this if you
can get me even more self all right?
Speaker 3: Have you seen people go too far trying to you know, gatherer? Yeah,
I don't know, power prowess.
Speaker 2: Yeah I have. Sometimes the people you help end up
being a case.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: They see a thing and they can't get it out
of their head, and then they just spiral out and
continue down a dark path. And you warn them, you
tell them everything comes, uh get a cost, and they
can't help themselves. People be people.
Speaker 5: I suppose that I'm very familiar with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, doing nothing comes at a cost to it,
just a different one, you.
Speaker 2: Know, that's true. That's why everything comes at a cost?
Speaker 6: An't well?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: All right? Anyway, My advice is to figure out maybe
write it down in your little notebook, or figure out
what what would make you cross that line?
Speaker 5: Mm hmm you'll you'll tell you you're worries of going
do far? Yeah, write it down window folder.
Speaker 2: Hold, yeah, absolutely, and then just keep that in mind.
Speaker 5: You don't want to push your luck.
Speaker 2: No, not with the universe involved, your own extra arm that.
Speaker 5: Would be convenient, dandy. Yeah, I'm in handy.
Speaker 2: It was good, all right? Sorry, so you gus you
were saying another round of the translation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I was just looking at the formatting of it,
and I realized that the sort of second bit there
is sort of I'm just obeying the punctuation. It looks
more like a list of things rather than like a
conjugated sentence. So with direct translations. With a direct translation,
it's he walks sideways, rivers, roots, ashes, embers. The investigators
of the deep Darkness are bound to measure it of
theirs or of other worlds. It's the best I've got.
Speaker 2: Would you make a role for me? Please use in
your mind.
Speaker 6: A mind you can have.
Speaker 2: A fifteen shift.
Speaker 3: Is my applied cognition.
Speaker 6: Matter.
Speaker 2: I mean it does, but I've already applied it for you.
You're fifteen shift.
Speaker 8: No worries, would you get I got it?
Speaker 3: Seventy five?
Speaker 2: All right? Okay, Remember when I was like, you feel
compelled to say something. H that's it if Discord will
agree with me and actually send that message through. Because
I say that it's right closer, so you can say
that whenever.
Speaker 3: I see m hmm. So as as I'm speaking this, yeah,
this is this is what comes into my head basically,
like I'm assuming this is the actual translation.
Speaker 2: Actual translation. Yeah, but you see, you're you're basically spot on.
But this is an oath that you'd be making, which
is I think the feeling you get as you read this.
You were just reading the translation now, but if you
were to say it again with a few of those
words changed, you would be you would be taken an
oath to the office for this otherworldly task you have
been assigned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I finished reading. I'm just just sort
of oh hmm.
Speaker 2: I'm going to send it to you as well, Jim,
because you were ready.
Speaker 3: It's gonna look over it, Jim, so to see what
he's about. Mmmm.
Speaker 2: Now when that when you start to speak this, you
will say it in English, but everybody else in the
office will hear it in Latin.
Speaker 4: All right, Okay, is this an oath?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure is?
Speaker 4: I want to join this but I swear no oaths,
but I will guarantee that my yes will be yes.
I'll sign on under that condition.
Speaker 2: Then you don't see anything happen to your byfold at
the moment of words don't show up if you choose
not to say them, they won't show up on them
on the baffle. And that's really fine.
Speaker 4: What I mean to say is, I don't have any
it's a personal conviction. I cannot make any oaths, but
I can right, So, if this is, if this is,
if this is an oath, I cannot swear by it,
but what I can guarantee is that my yes will
be yes, that I can.
Speaker 2: Do so for you. Well, again, this is getting philosophical here,
but ah, oath and creed I suppose are interchangeable for
you or not Because to you it's like, wait a minute,
how did you get married? You swore oaths, you took
vows when you got married?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wait, is this? Should we not be talking about this
right now?
Speaker 4: No, it's fine. You make a good point. I guess
what I'm meaning to say is maybe I just don't
understand there. There isn't time anything that I can give
to guarantee this oath other than my word. When I
was married, that was a different story. What do I
give for this oath? I can only give my word.
Speaker 2: I see what you're saying. This strange equal exchange and costs,
like you're selling your soul right, you don't want to
accidentally be doing that. Yeah, so, oh boy, Jim, You're
gonna do so great here. They're very good, very good instincts.
In this case, I will say to you, this is
more like I actually think we should just leave it there,
and that you won't say you don't say these words,
but you're yes will mean yes for now? Does that work?
Because I think this is a really good instinct and
i'd like to see it out in role play.
Speaker 4: That works, all right?
Speaker 2: So Jim doesn't say these words, and you don't have
to either, Gus if you don't, up to you, but
if you don't, you're saying them.
Speaker 3: I'm glancing around and everyone just be like, are you
feeling the thing that I'm feeling? Like? I'm going to
look to Akachi and Harry and be like, you got
anything off?
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 3: Does that feel like anything for you?
Speaker 6: Looking at anyone that's looking done at the mosque right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Harry, do that feel like anything to you?
Speaker 5: Did date it feel like anything to me? I've well
determined I'm happy to be here and do this, especially
if I would remember before I was asking about intrinsic
and extrinsic value. I've seen my I've seen both for.
Speaker 3: Me, right, Okay, Well, in my pursuit of the universal truth,
which is when I'm going to keep calling it, I.
Speaker 2: Think seems reasonable thing to call it.
Speaker 3: I don't see any reason why I shouldn't at this point,
I think that I've already basically committed fully, So yeah,
I'll I'll say it, and then if I explode it
is not to say it right, then you'll know.
Speaker 2: Harry exactly. Thank you. You'll be in the first one.
Speaker 5: Sure, I mean I suppose second, including you, it.
Speaker 2: Would be implied that I did say it. Yes, based
on what.
Speaker 3: You know, and I'm assuming there's no like terms to
negotiate older. I assume it is what it is.
Speaker 2: It is what it is, that's right. I mean, unless
you want to try to negotiate like Jim just did.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'll say the words. I'm want to take
that light bulb out of my pocket then I took
from my tu doesn't explode from my kitchen.
Speaker 4: Maybe a little light up if you say, I'm actually
holding right at the.
Speaker 3: End, I I hold this this light bulb up like
kind of like casually as I'm glancing around, and I say,
this is a symbolic gesture as much as any other.
You know that I've taken a piece of my life
with me into this, with the I suppose idealized version
that one day I get to screw this back into
my kitchen. Maybe maybe all right, I'm going to commit
to my wentz from morning, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
say the words. Is there like a ceremony older or
do I just say it? Do I just gun it?
Speaker 2: Just gun it? I mean, I take your time, say
what you want. It's from the heart, Like you know,
it's like joining the police force or you know, becoming
a citizen or whatever. You know, you can just say
the words, but it probably means something to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know exactly what it means. I am bound
to walk the way askew by river and root ash
and ember, seekers of the clouded and cloven bound foremost
to measure in theirs or other worlds.
Speaker 2: In the moment you say that the clock stops. Office
goes silent, and you'll see like the words kind of
light up in what you know is your blood. You're
not bleeding from nowhere, but it's going to kind of
itch burn itself into this baffold. The whole baffle will
light up, most likely in red. It's magical. Ah. And
I don't know if you, if Gus, you have felt
like a moment where you've been really, really really frightened
and then you kind of just felt the calmness come
over you. We're going to have a moment real quick
where you think of that from your past, a moment
that you Gus, whether you were small or whether it
was yesterday, a moment where you were terrified. You're going
to kind of sort of relive that, but you are
going to be there to comfort little you. What would
we as an audience say, The office doesn't say this,
but we would see this moment that Gus has with himself.
Speaker 3: I think the most obvious want is the story that
I told older yeah, when I first got here, because
the moment before I walked into this off us and
it's strangely fitting because that's exactly what it was. It
was splashing the pan pure object para and then it
was meeting everybody here and sort of knowing nothing, but
accepting that I didn't know anything.
Speaker 6: Was the calming thing.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's fair to say that maybe we
would see gust Of now opening the door for the
Gus that was afraid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that did that.
Speaker 3: The eye opened the door for myself to escape into
this office in that moment. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you think that Gusts of the past sees that
or knows that in some way that it was you
and they think, or do you think he remembers now
in this moment? Holy shit?
Speaker 3: I think because because when Gus told the story, it
was with a sort of cavalier like, yeah, this crazy
shit happened to me. It was a bit weird. I
think if we're seeing this, you know, even if it
is from Gus's perspective a second time, but you know
that this was not a flippant moment. This was someone
who genuinely thought that his life was coming to an end.
As you know, he staggered backwards, broken glass and chemicals
spilling everywhere, and an acrid smell hitting the air, and
this awful sound of searing and scorching of something burning
and being unmade but refusing to be destroyed. I think
as he's trying to climb his way back to his feet,
you know, amongst all the shattered glass and scattered bits
of you know, negatives and films as they're being corn
apart from the air above him, that, yeah, the only
light he sees is the light of this door swinging open. Basically,
I wouldn't have imagined that I was the one that
opened the door. So yeah, circuit complete, I suppose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And how does Gus feel in this moment, knowing
that he opened the door for himself? Does it change
anything for you?
Speaker 3: I think it affirms that I just made the right choice,
that it wasn't fluke, that I was meant to be here,
and I think for someone like me, that's actually immensely comforting.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think there being a way that things are supposed
to be, which is all my character is fighting for. Really,
it's for some kind of order or observable logic in
the universe, and I think that brings it full circle
for him for me in this moment.
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