Episode 10
Episode 10 - Schoolhouse Shock
Cell R explores the abandoned site of Hall Middle School, discovering a madman's lonely vigil against the very Dark itself.
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Transcript
Hello?
Speaker A:What time is it?
Speaker A:Who is it?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker A:Situation Dream buddy.
Speaker A:Chick.
Speaker A:Sorry, honey, I have to take this.
Speaker A:Well, we are back here with Cel R and our contingent.
Speaker A:Friendly Lenny Hargrave.
Speaker A:And I believe we left off standing in front of the Hull Middle School, which is a location that we got from Danny Corso, the editor of beyond the Dark.
Speaker A:He told us directly this was where our vic, Darren Henn had said set up a field investigation headquarters to look into the Detroit Jabberwock.
Speaker A:And you've been sitting outside this obviously abandoned structure surrounded by a ramshackle chain link fence that was never really posted properly, staring at this graffiti covered window, smashed edifice from your parking spot nearly a block away, but within view.
Speaker A:I believe we were deciding to leave and return at nightfall.
Speaker B:Look, everybody, I.
Speaker B:I understand the desire to be as discreet as possible, but look around.
Speaker B:Gestures to the shitty neighborhood.
Speaker B:I don't think that Detroit PD is gonna be canvassing the neighborhood.
Speaker B:And honestly, I would doubt they'd even get out of their cars if they saw anybody in here.
Speaker B:I don't want to waste any time.
Speaker B:I think that this is really important.
Speaker B:And why.
Speaker B:Why wait till tonight when we can just check it out today?
Speaker C:Because none of us are here officially.
Speaker D:Caution is.
Speaker C:And if we get arrested, what would.
Speaker B:We get arrested for?
Speaker D:Trespassing.
Speaker C:Oh, I don't know.
Speaker C:Breaking and entering public government property.
Speaker B:And who would arrest us?
Speaker C:I can think of several people.
Speaker B:All right, well, Romeo.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker B:I'm gonna.
Speaker B:Ryan's gonna turn to Romeo and say, I fucking dare you, nerd.
Speaker D:No, no, I'm not.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker D:No, look, we all know who the real nerd is here.
Speaker D:Turns to Lenny and he looks into the rear view mirror at Lenny.
Speaker E:You guys want to see a card trick?
Speaker D:Lenny, I thought we told you no more card.
Speaker C:Done.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:All right, so guys, give me.
Speaker E:Dove, like just immediately flies out of his.
Speaker B:Give me 30 minutes.
Speaker B:Let me.
Speaker B:Let me go in minutes.
Speaker D:What?
Speaker B:Take a look around, see if there's anything that we can find that looks out of place and then we can get out of here.
Speaker D:Let's.
Speaker D:Let's take a quick OC here.
Speaker D:That's splitting the party.
Speaker B:No, it's not.
Speaker B:You guys can come in.
Speaker D:That's.
Speaker D:Oh, you're saying you want 30.
Speaker A:Okay, okay.
Speaker D:Back.
Speaker D:Back into character.
Speaker E:Hey, there are.
Speaker E:There are parts.
Speaker E:And this is anything like some of the spots in la.
Speaker E:I don't.
Speaker E:Based on what I'm seeing here, I don't think the cops are gonna come, even if they were called much Less care if anyone's in here.
Speaker E:I mean, look at the graffiti.
Speaker E:Look at the neighborhood.
Speaker E:It's probably fine.
Speaker D:It's those kinds of assumptions.
Speaker B:What a.
Speaker B:What a smart guy.
Speaker B:Ryan Claps Lenny on his back, bite.
Speaker D:Us in the ass.
Speaker E:Thanks, buddy.
Speaker C:You've never been arrested, have you, kid?
Speaker E:No.
Speaker B:How old is Lenny?
Speaker C:As far as Roizen's can, he's 12 years old.
Speaker E:He's a good, solid 12 years old.
Speaker B:You'll fit right in in the high school.
Speaker C:Yeah, at this point, Roizen's just like.
Speaker C:He's the new guy, therefore he's a kid.
Speaker B:I just want to make sure I wasn't missing a detail that we explained at one point.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:By the way, lady Hargrave is eight years old.
Speaker C:He.
Speaker A:He shouldn't be here at all.
Speaker E:Agent, can we take a bathroom break, please?
Speaker B:Look, I'm with Lenny.
Speaker B:I think that we should go in and check it out.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:There's no way that cops are going to come by here, let alone care if they actually see anything.
Speaker D:Again, your assumptions will be the death of you and us.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's more the us I'm worried about.
Speaker B:Do you guys want to be lookouts?
Speaker D:There's some axioms I have to get you to read here soon.
Speaker B:Do you guys want to be lookouts?
Speaker D:I think it's time.
Speaker D:No, no, we're going in together, but I think nighttime is probably the right time.
Speaker C:Tell you what.
Speaker C:I've a bit of a compromise can recommend.
Speaker C:I need to do a little bit of research and a few Google searches.
Speaker C:But before we go in, regardless, how about we sit here for 20 minutes, scope out, see if anybody drives past or if anybody calls the cops on the weird group of strangers sitting in the SUV outside of the abandoned school.
Speaker C:And if we don't see anybody in the next 20 minutes, half an hour, we'll go in.
Speaker B:Fine.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker B:Brian gets out the car, though, and starts walking around.
Speaker B:He doesn't go into school, but.
Speaker B:How big is this school, Chris?
Speaker B:Is there.
Speaker B:Is it, like, relatively small, or is it like a giant, like, high school?
Speaker A:It was once a fairly large middle school.
Speaker A:It looks like it was.
Speaker A:It was servicing a good, good part of this area.
Speaker A:So what you're.
Speaker A:What you're seeing is again, this.
Speaker A:This ramshackle, hastily posted fence that is now partially collapsed in many spots that is around most of the campus.
Speaker A:It's overgrown.
Speaker A:The asphalt itself on the blacktop is cracked and unkempt.
Speaker A:And it does bear resemblance, as, unfortunately, many American schools do, to a.
Speaker A:To a One story prison stretches out in a Y pattern over a fairly decent acreage.
Speaker A:It is a faded red and orange brick, now decorated with about every gang sign you can imagine.
Speaker D:I can't imagine any sort.
Speaker A:Then it's blank.
Speaker C:I can imagine several.
Speaker C:Are we just talking American gangs here or Detroit?
Speaker A:Detroit gangs, for sure.
Speaker C:Okay, North American.
Speaker C:Got it.
Speaker B:Ryan's gonna get out of the car and just do or say to the group.
Speaker B:All right, I'm just gonna do a quick round of the perimeter of the building.
Speaker B:I'll let you know if I see anything weird.
Speaker B:And then when I get back, you guys let me know if you see anybody drive by that looks interested in folks being here.
Speaker B:And if not, then we can go ahead and head in.
Speaker B:Does that sound fair?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Lenny, go with him.
Speaker E:Yeah, all right, I'll tag along.
Speaker B:Ryan turns to Lenny.
Speaker B:Hey.
Speaker B:Take off your pants.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:Anything.
Speaker B:Can we cut that?
Speaker A:Yeah, well, we're not going to, but yes, we could.
Speaker A:We can cut anything.
Speaker B:That'll be my note.
Speaker A:Whether I will or not, that's the question.
Speaker A:Agent.
Speaker A:Agent.
Speaker A:Ryan and Lenny both start walking due east down the uneven sidewalk on the outside of this partially collapsed chain link fence, leaving Romeo and Roizen in the large black rented suv.
Speaker A:Roizen, you did mention you wanted to maybe jump onto your pocket computer and do some research.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:What are you looking for?
Speaker C:So there are two searches that Roizen's going to do.
Speaker C:Number one, she's going to pull up a floor plan of Hall Middle School, which should be readily available on any Google search.
Speaker A:No, actually, it's gonna be really hard to find because of school shooting protocol, but we can give it a try.
Speaker C:Okay, I'll take that.
Speaker C:And then the other one is to see if we can find a sewer map of this area.
Speaker A:Yeah, like sewer entrances or like a.
Speaker D:Like a municipal map.
Speaker C:The sewer entrances would be a good place to start, although a municipal map would be ideal.
Speaker A:Okay, so as far as what is available publicly, definitely manhole and sewer entrances, culvert entrances are mapped.
Speaker A:When it comes to anything, that's more like mapping the actual utilitarian structures.
Speaker A:That's going to be a little bit more difficult to find.
Speaker A:What kind of networks do you have access to?
Speaker A:I'm assuming they're mostly intelligence related.
Speaker C:This point, she would have made some connections inside the CIA as well as her connections in groups across the world.
Speaker C:Most of those won't be of any assistance right now, though.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, you're really needing some sort of local connection here to dig up what you want quickly.
Speaker A:I think the Best way to find what you're looking for would probably be actually going down to a building, a municipal building, and speaking with some city representatives about procuring this.
Speaker A:I'm in a roll here, so it looks like for any greater detail when it comes to the municipal planning of the area, you would probably need to actually go to a permitting office or some such in order to request blueprints, designs of.
Speaker A:Of those areas.
Speaker A:There are likely digital copies, but if they are online, they're going to be behind some sort of government website.
Speaker A:Local government website.
Speaker C:Makes sense.
Speaker A:And I believe you also were looking for school plans.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So we're not just bumbling around in the dark.
Speaker B:Gotcha light.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So I know you.
Speaker A:I know you mentioned that you.
Speaker A:You recently saw this for older schools.
Speaker A:Remember, Hall Middle School has only been closed for two years because of the COVID conditions.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You're not finding anything online that looks like it's going to even approximate the school's floor plan.
Speaker A:You definitely can easily see satellite images via something awesome like Google Maps.
Speaker A:But a floor plan itself, again, you're going to need to dig a little deeper.
Speaker A:Look at maybe a contractor who's worked on the school in the past and get a copy of their plans.
Speaker A:Or perhaps again, meet with the city, use some of your law enforcement leverage or something a little bit more tradecrafty.
Speaker C:Oh, it was worth a try.
Speaker C:Guess it's gonna.
Speaker C:Guess we're bumbling around in the dark.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker D:It is what it is.
Speaker A:Ryan, Lenny.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What are you two up to?
Speaker B:So you said this is kind of like a Y shape?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, it's kind of an asymmetrical Y, though.
Speaker B:Well, we start off, say, towards the east side of the building.
Speaker B:Walking around the building, Ryan keeps his eyes out for a couple things.
Speaker B:Broken windows or doors that look like they could be a discreet entrance in, as well as to see if there happens to be any movement inside that he can see through the windows or anything like that.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker A:So keeping a close eye on the building itself, trying to spy anything?
Speaker B:Yeah, it's kind of doing a canvas.
Speaker A:Anything that might be out of place, you go ahead and roll your search.
Speaker B:Oh, Jesus.
Speaker B:My search is trash.
Speaker B:Yeah, I felt that.
Speaker A:Well, hey, you at least get to throw a check on it.
Speaker B:Well, that's just too exciting to even handle.
Speaker A:It's very exciting.
Speaker A:I'm excited for you.
Speaker B:Thanks, man.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You peer from across the split blacktop.
Speaker A:Actually, there's some fairly high weeds from this angle that obfuscate your vision a bit, but you're not seeing anything inside.
Speaker A:You see jagged glass where obviously the windows have been shattered.
Speaker A:They gleam in the sunlight, but no, nothing.
Speaker A:Nothing like movement.
Speaker E:Lenny, on the other hand, is going to be, while trying to look inconspicuous, is also, you know, kind of looking around the neighborhood, seeing if there's anyone who might be looking at them, keeping an eye on them, Anything that we should be concerned about.
Speaker A:Actually, it's fairly dead.
Speaker A:Most of the houses as previously described are in various stages of decrepitude.
Speaker A:In fact, the one nearest to you right now, to your left, looks like it suffered a horrific flash fire.
Speaker A:Only.
Speaker A:Only part of the structure is.
Speaker A:Is standing.
Speaker A:Most of it is charred, burnt to a crisp, unrecognizable as a habitable domicile.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll your stealth anyway you can.
Speaker A:You can go ahead and check it.
Speaker E:Yay.
Speaker D:You'll do better next time.
Speaker D:That's what that means.
Speaker A:Is there anything else that blue team would like to do?
Speaker E:Blue team?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I just picked a color.
Speaker A:It sounded like a good one.
Speaker D:It's a pretty good color.
Speaker E:Well, I also have a disguise skill, so I'm gonna pull up my Groucho Marks mustache and attach it to my face.
Speaker A:That's your.
Speaker A:That's how you use your disguise skill?
Speaker A:That's okay.
Speaker A:Minus 40.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll.
Speaker E:Automatic fail.
Speaker E:I could do critical success.
Speaker E:Hold on.
Speaker E:Let's find out.
Speaker E:No, that's a fail.
Speaker E:There we go.
Speaker A:You do not get to check that.
Speaker E:Oh, man.
Speaker B:So, no, I mean, I just doing a lap of the school and then meeting back up with everybody.
Speaker B:So if we don't see anything.
Speaker A:Yeah, you make your way around with Lenny.
Speaker A:It's quite the trek again.
Speaker A:It's a large campus.
Speaker A:You see in the back that they're a small track.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's not like an Olympic size.
Speaker A:This was a middle school after all.
Speaker A:There's a small track and looks like a small football and soccer field.
Speaker A:Some bleachers that have definitely not had any TLC rusted over.
Speaker A:Looks like a little bit of a death trap potentially.
Speaker A:And yeah, you make your way back around.
Speaker A:You see your vehicle in the distance.
Speaker A:You walk towards it and soon approach it.
Speaker A:Romeo has started to sweat behind the wheel.
Speaker A:The sun is creeping up in the sky.
Speaker A:It is past noon.
Speaker A:Roysen does not look pleased with the work that she's been performing on her computer.
Speaker A:Her brow is furrowed.
Speaker D:No luck, huh?
Speaker C:None.
Speaker B:Did you guys see anybody drive by?
Speaker D:Oh, hey, you know, been pretty quiet, so I guess you're right.
Speaker B:All right, let's let's head on in.
Speaker D:You ready, Royston?
Speaker B:Is there like a front door, Chris?
Speaker A:There is, there is.
Speaker A:And you're parked on that side of the school.
Speaker A:And so you four go ahead and gather yourselves, make your way through a gap, large gap in the fence, across the bare and cracked blacktop to the front of the school building.
Speaker A:It's easy once you get to the front door because the chain that has been set here is quite loose and it's missing a lock.
Speaker A:So all it takes is Agent Ryan to pull it indelicately through the handles, clatters against the ground.
Speaker A:And he holds open the door into the shadowed entryway into the school itself.
Speaker B:As Romeo walks by, I go poo.
Speaker A:Romeo, I guess, roll your sanity.
Speaker D:No, not there.
Speaker A:So Romeo, do you have a physical reaction, emotional reaction, or just none at all?
Speaker D:There was no reaction because I was trying to think of how to properly respond as Romeo.
Speaker D:And I think the response from Romeo would be to unholster his gun and put it under his chin and pull the trigger.
Speaker D:No, I'm kidding.
Speaker A:Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:So you failed your sanity under Ryan's.
Speaker D:Chin, not his own, but.
Speaker A:Oh, damn.
Speaker A:Oh, holy shit.
Speaker D:That's a joke.
Speaker A:Okay, so you are getting arrested.
Speaker A:Okay, I see you're getting arrested.
Speaker A:One way or another, God damn it, you will be right.
Speaker D:Shit's happening.
Speaker D:No, no.
Speaker D:Romeo's response is probably he just furrows his brow like extremely quizzically at Ryan and like cocks his head back like he's just like.
Speaker D:I don't get you.
Speaker A:It does.
Speaker A:It does not compute.
Speaker A:I get it.
Speaker A:I get it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Well, the agents otherwise soundlessly file into the school.
Speaker A:You're greeted immediately by the musty stench of rotting paper.
Speaker A:Now, from this dark and cluttered entryway you've stepped into, you see loose assignments scattered across the dirty floors.
Speaker A:As if the teachers and the children had hastily fled the school while pursued by some unknown disaster.
Speaker A:From here you can see the windows on the outside of the building.
Speaker A:All of them are shattered again.
Speaker A:They're shining like bare teeth in the light of the sky.
Speaker A:All four of you immediately notice, in fact, it's impossible not to.
Speaker A:A fresh set of boot prints.
Speaker A:These leave distinct impressions on the dusty, dirty linoleum floors.
Speaker A:They trail away from the largest of one of the street facing windows.
Speaker A:To your left they go deep into the interior of this garbage strewn building.
Speaker D:Looks like we've got our trail.
Speaker C:I really hope those are Darren's because if those aren't the dead guys boot prints, we may have another Dead guy on our hands.
Speaker A:At this point, I will need to really understand who's leading the team and who's taking the old.
Speaker D:I'm feeling Ryan.
Speaker D:Well, no, because he held the door open.
Speaker C:Roisin would actually step in front.
Speaker C:Keep in mind, she's short enough that if need be, one of you can.
Speaker D:Shoot over her shoulder and deafen her.
Speaker C:As she pulls out her earplugs and puts them in.
Speaker D:Smart.
Speaker D:All of.
Speaker A:All of y'all have figured out my.
Speaker D:Put our earplugs in the comment the.
Speaker A:Common Chris Hamjay game, which is anytime someone pulls the trigger, it deafens the entire room.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker A:Just how it goes, y'all.
Speaker D:Okay, so guns work.
Speaker A:Royson, you're.
Speaker A:You're gonna go point.
Speaker A:Who's.
Speaker A:Who's caboose?
Speaker B:Ryan?
Speaker D:Oh, you want caboose?
Speaker B:You want to be the caboose?
Speaker B:You've been an ass all day.
Speaker B:Oh, got him.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker D:Love it.
Speaker D:You could be caboose.
Speaker D:Romeo's like, I've got a gun.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm happy for you to be caboose.
Speaker A:All right, so Lenny, Roisin's taking point.
Speaker A:You're following a trail that's going deeper into the garbage strewn school.
Speaker A:Romeo's taking up the back of the group.
Speaker D:Caboose.
Speaker A:The caboose of the group, the rear.
Speaker A:And keeping an eye out from there, you four agents follow these overt tracks.
Speaker A:And before long, you're climbing a set of stairs.
Speaker A:There's crushed glass underfoot.
Speaker A:You actually spot a couple of used syringes.
Speaker A:Before long, you find yourselves in front of a counselor's office.
Speaker A:Now, the windows here have been boarded up from the inside.
Speaker A:There are some gaps there, but somebody has obviously made an attempt to reinforce the inside of this office.
Speaker A:Door's closed.
Speaker A:Looks secure.
Speaker A:Roysen team, what would you like to do?
Speaker B:Ryan looks around and says, did someone pull down the lines?
Speaker B:Because this is some shady business.
Speaker E:Oh, man.
Speaker D:Oh boy.
Speaker B:There we go.
Speaker B:Oh, my recording just cut out again.
Speaker A:Did it?
Speaker A:Did it?
Speaker A:Seriously?
Speaker B:No, no, no.
Speaker B:It's cuz of the bad joke.
Speaker A:Got it really bad.
Speaker A:Sorry everybody.
Speaker A:Let's take that again.
Speaker B:Ryan, Ryan.
Speaker B:Ryan doesn't do that.
Speaker D:No, no, Ryan does that.
Speaker D:And then he puts a pair of shades over his shades.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, you definitely put on some shades after that sentence, dude.
Speaker A:And just so you're wearing two pairs of shades now.
Speaker C:Ryan's opening the door.
Speaker B:Ryan will open the door.
Speaker B:That's okay.
Speaker B:Fair.
Speaker B:Ryan opens the door.
Speaker A:The door's locked.
Speaker B:Is it rammable?
Speaker B:Like, I assume it's a kind of Flimsy door.
Speaker A:It doesn't seem like it's, you know, incredibly secure.
Speaker A:Does have a lock there, so it's not just opening at a simple turn of the knob.
Speaker A:Now, if you want to give it a good old ram, you're welcome to do so.
Speaker B:I'm not gonna do this, but it would be very hilarious if I pulled out my gun and shot the lock just so unnecessarily.
Speaker B:I am going to ram the door.
Speaker A:Okay, go ahead and roll your strength for me, please.
Speaker B:Yes, sir.
Speaker B:That is a successful ram.
Speaker A:You slam your weight into the door.
Speaker A:You feel it creek.
Speaker A:I ram under your.
Speaker A:Under your.
Speaker A:Your momentum.
Speaker A:It does.
Speaker A:It does not fly forward spectacularly, but you definitely heard a crack and a creak.
Speaker A:You feel like part of the frame has.
Speaker A:Has dislodged.
Speaker B:Nice.
Speaker B:Do I do it again?
Speaker A:If you'd like to.
Speaker A:You don't have to.
Speaker A:You don't have to roll again.
Speaker A:Just let me know what you're up to.
Speaker A:If you just want to keep smashing it, smashing it over and over again until it hopefully crumbles or your.
Speaker A:Your shoulder breaks.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm down.
Speaker B:Feel like we're trying to get in, right?
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:How about this?
Speaker B:Is there because of.
Speaker B:I don't know, some high schools are structured this way.
Speaker B:Is it kind of.
Speaker B:Are we able to tell it all from the layout?
Speaker B:Like, is this a room that probably has other doors?
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:It might.
Speaker A:Does not appear so based off of this hallway in the adjoining rooms, but there might be a way.
Speaker D:It.
Speaker A:It might have, like, an adjoining face to, like, an outdoor courtyard, and you might be able to climb up from that side if you were to go all the way back out and around.
Speaker B:I'll just ram it again to see if it pops open.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:You slam your body into this door again, and it again creaks, and you can feel it give a bit more.
Speaker A:You actually hear a loud kind of crack from the other side in the.
Speaker A:In the closed and locked room.
Speaker A:Sounds like you're making some progress.
Speaker B:I'm not stopping until my shoulder breaks or the door open.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:That's all I needed to hear.
Speaker A:You continue.
Speaker A:You continue to batter your body against this door as the other agents watch on and cringe and wince until finally, after about these actually.
Speaker B:Hold on, kid.
Speaker B:Is the lock still in place at this time?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:Okay, so how about after the fifth ram?
Speaker B:If it doesn't open, Ryan's going to take his gun out and shoot the lock out of this.
Speaker B:Out of anger.
Speaker A:Yeah, I've seen this.
Speaker A:I'VE seen this episode of Mythbusters.
Speaker D:Yeah, we all have.
Speaker D:Also read the box of truth.
Speaker A:All three of you watch Ryan take out his gun, kind of shield his eyes and point it at the lock.
Speaker A:Is there anything, anybody?
Speaker D:And before he pulls the trigger, Romeo says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker D:We don't need gunshots going off in this building before we've had a chance to investigate.
Speaker B:The damn door won't budge.
Speaker E:It looks like it's budging.
Speaker D:Shooting it won't do anything.
Speaker E:I think you almost got it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:At this point, Royson's gonna reach in her bag, pull out this mini crowbar looking thing and hand it to him.
Speaker A:So he's been.
Speaker A:He's been slamming his body in towards the entrance of the room, and it definitely.
Speaker A:You've heard some sounds, some snaps and cracks.
Speaker A:If you want to use the crowbar, you'll be pulling it back out towards you, which is totally fine.
Speaker A:I just want to make it very clear.
Speaker B:Romeo, Royson, why don't you give this thing a kick, please?
Speaker D:Romeo looks at Royson and says, buddy kick.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker D:So cute.
Speaker A:Roll your strengths, you.
Speaker A:This is a super buddy kick.
Speaker B:I love it.
Speaker C:Ryzen got a success and Romeo failed.
Speaker A:You both wind up, look to each other, clasp hands, and kick all at once.
Speaker A:Fortunately, Romeo kind of stumbles forward, and it seems like not all of his weight really struck purchase.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But Roizen.
Speaker A:Roizen really, really gets there.
Speaker A:And immediately the door just swings forward.
Speaker A:There's a loud creak and a crack as you watch a giant piece of molding from inside the room fly off the door frame and scatter across the floor.
Speaker A:Immediately, all four of you hear a very loud cacophony as it sounds like dozens of aluminum cans are dragged across the floor inside the.
Speaker A:The room itself.
Speaker A:You're looking around to see what.
Speaker A:What caused such.
Speaker A:Such a clamor, but you don't see anything.
Speaker A:You can only imagine that whatever that was, it's on the other side of the door, which is now open.
Speaker B:Okay, hold on, Chris.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker B:That doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker B:The door just burst open, and then we hear a noise.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's as if the door is swinging.
Speaker B:We not see it immediately.
Speaker A:It's as if the door swinging inside has hit a giant pile of aluminum cans that's on the other side of it.
Speaker B:Oh, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker A:That's what it sounded like.
Speaker B:Are there windows in this room?
Speaker B:Like, is it lit naturally or is it an interior room?
Speaker A:It is actually lit fairly naturally.
Speaker A:There are boards on the windows on the other side of this room.
Speaker A:So it is, it is fairly dim still.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But yeah, it's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:Since it's the middle of the day, it's not completely pitch black in here.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:You can still see in the low light fairly easily.
Speaker B:Got it.
Speaker B:Man, that was a good idea to come in when it was during the day.
Speaker A:As you little toot toot there on your.
Speaker A:As you, as you stand back, you watch as a bowling ball falls out of the drop ceiling in the room, swings forward on what looks like a cloth hammock that was attached to the top of the door and slams into the floor with a loud thud.
Speaker B:Did we get Rube Goldberg?
Speaker D:That's what I was about to say.
Speaker E:Home Alone.
Speaker E:Shit.
Speaker E:Right here, guys.
Speaker D:Any second now, Any second now, we got.
Speaker D:Kevin is gonna come running around.
Speaker B:This is some Chris.
Speaker C:So what do you think?
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker B:What happened?
Speaker B:I was so excited about the Rube joke.
Speaker A:It rolls away to the right and out of view.
Speaker C:I swear, if there's marbles on the floor.
Speaker B:Is there any debris or anything in the hall?
Speaker B:And my general.
Speaker B:I turned the the group and say, as exciting as that was, maybe we throw something in in case there's any other traps or anything.
Speaker D:Yeah, not a bad idea.
Speaker A:There is.
Speaker A:There are several intact glass bottles of Michelob Ultra nearby.
Speaker B:I go pick one up, no problem.
Speaker B:Do you just hand it to Lenny and say, hey man, toss this inside there?
Speaker B:That's not a joke.
Speaker B:I do that.
Speaker B:Ryan does that.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker E:Levy throws it in.
Speaker A:It's a cautious, underhanded throw.
Speaker A:You throw the bottle into the dimly lit room, it kind of clinks against the floor, rolls for a bit, and then another clink as it hits the leg of a large desk.
Speaker D:I don't know what I was expecting, but that was.
Speaker D:I guess I should have expected that.
Speaker C:Rather anticlimactic.
Speaker D:Well, let's just pop on in.
Speaker D:Romeo turns on his tactical light and shines it in.
Speaker A:Yeah, no worries.
Speaker D:Catch the corners, check for wires.
Speaker A:Well, very visibly across from the door, you see an old and yellowed road map that's been tacked to the wall.
Speaker A:Again, the windows have all been boarded here hastily with very cheap 2x4s.
Speaker A:That's both the windows facing the outside courtyard and the the ones as previously described that are facing the interior hallway.
Speaker A:Now, as you for walk in, I say with a question mark, but I'm just going to assume that's what's going to happen.
Speaker E:Says otherwise very cautiously.
Speaker E:Very cautiously.
Speaker A:Does that mean you're Rolling a search or you're just being cautious?
Speaker E:Yeah, whatever I need to roll to make sure it's a cautious entrance search.
Speaker E:Oh really?
Speaker E:Failed out of 62.
Speaker A:Romeo.
Speaker A:It looks fine.
Speaker A:And so.
Speaker A:So as the agents walk in and Romeo, you're supposed to roll mine too.
Speaker A:Only if you want to.
Speaker A:And Romeo is shining at the the this map.
Speaker A:You do see that there are what look like drawings on it and scribblings.
Speaker A:There's also what looks like quite a few post its and notes that have been tacked up nearby.
Speaker A:Lots of scribblings.
Speaker A:There's also a mannequin off to the side that you can now see as you've entered the room.
Speaker A:It's got a partially melted face.
Speaker A:Can't really tell what gender it was supposed to be but it's adorned with a very very expensive looking suit.
Speaker A:There's a desk here against which a glass bottle has rolled and stopped.
Speaker A:There's not much on it but it looks like it was used.
Speaker A:There's a clearing there.
Speaker A:Enough for perhaps somebody to sit and set their laptop down or perhaps to write voluminous notes but nothing there.
Speaker A:Now agents, what would you like to.
Speaker D:Look into if anything got post it notes.
Speaker D:We've got a map.
Speaker D:We've got a suspicious mannequin and we've got a desk.
Speaker C:I'll take the desk.
Speaker A:All right, tell me what you do.
Speaker D:Romeo calls for the map.
Speaker B:Like a Akio map.
Speaker D:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker E:Lenny's.
Speaker D:He waves his tactical light like a wand.
Speaker E:Lenny's just gonna kind of move between the agents and see if what they're searching.
Speaker E:If there's anything he recognizes or anything he can help with.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker B:So Ryan will investigate the mannequin.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay Roysen, you walk up to this desk and there aren't any drawers.
Speaker A:Looks like it was just there for writing perhaps or at least being a prop for something else.
Speaker A:But there's nothing on top of it.
Speaker A:No scribblings or etchings that you can see.
Speaker A:Looks old, worn rather cheap.
Speaker A:You take a peek underneath.
Speaker A:Nothing but what looks like some, some dirt, some smudges, a couple wads of old gum.
Speaker A:Not seeing anything obvious externally.
Speaker A:Is there anything that I need to know about your tactics and in investigating.
Speaker C:This I, I mean she's going to knock on the corner, see if anything comes loose.
Speaker C:But she's really not expecting anything at this point.
Speaker A:Oh sure, sure.
Speaker A:So you're literally looking for secret compartments.
Speaker A:Roll a search.
Speaker C:Yeah, no chance.
Speaker C:She completely misses the desk apparently.
Speaker C:Just ends up sitting on the ground.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's A critical failure.
Speaker A:So, yeah, you start knocking on various parts of this particle board desk and you do think you're hearing hollow areas.
Speaker A:At least they seem hollow.
Speaker A:And so the backdrop to what the other agents are doing for the next 20 minutes or so will be this, this constant knocking.
Speaker A:As Roizen puts her ear against various parts of this desk, she seems wholly absorbed in her task.
Speaker A:Ryan, you're standing in front of this mannequin.
Speaker A:Again, part of its face is, is melted off.
Speaker A:It's rather disturbing.
Speaker A:But you recognize the suit and you recognize it as a custom tailored suit.
Speaker A:It looks quite expensive.
Speaker A:It is a classic cut.
Speaker A:Armani.
Speaker A:You're very surprised to see it here.
Speaker B:I look at the suit in surprise.
Speaker A:Yes, yes.
Speaker B:I don't know what to.
Speaker B:I don't know what to do with that information.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker B:Much like, much like surprising.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker A:You can do whatever you want with the information.
Speaker A:You can file it away, you can make a comment or you can let me know how or what else you would like to do when it comes to interacting with this statue.
Speaker B:I, I'll say.
Speaker B:Ryan says out loud this is an extremely expensive suit and goes to open the jacket and see actually he'll, you know, back of his hand, pat the TSA style, the outside of the, the jacket to see if there's anything in the pockets.
Speaker A:Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker A:Roll a search plus 20% for me, please.
Speaker B:That's so much success.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:So using the back of your hands, you find a spot.
Speaker A:And again, you're familiar with honestly, this cut, but you find a spot for an interior breast pocket, which is really not part of how somebody would typically have this custom tailored.
Speaker A:It's obviously an additional.
Speaker A:You open the front jacket and you find that there is actually a sewn pocket there that has been set up to maybe hide something.
Speaker A:If you have a knife, you could very quickly cut the sew job and remove whatever's been hidden there.
Speaker A:But it's about the size of a small passport.
Speaker A:Whatever it is, I do have a.
Speaker B:Knife and I do cut it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:It takes you but a moment and a small book falls into your hand.
Speaker A:The front of it is a faded brown leather and etched into it are the words Azathoth and others.
Speaker A:It's not a name you recognize.
Speaker A:And when you open it up and flip through it, you can see that seems to be a book of poetry.
Speaker A:It's in English.
Speaker B:How do you spell that, Chris?
Speaker A:A Z, A T, H, O th.
Speaker A:Azathoth and others.
Speaker D:Great.
Speaker A:You notice the front of the COVID On the inside, you See a stamp?
Speaker A:It's a bit faded, but it says, property of Muskoka Regional Center Library.
Speaker B:Do I recognize that as a local geography or anything?
Speaker B:I recognize that name.
Speaker A:No, but that.
Speaker A:That name does ring a bell.
Speaker A:You think you might have heard that name when you were, like, sort of glazed over, half listening to some of the YouTube videos the team was, like, reviewing before you went to find Danny Corso, but you're having a hard time really piecing it together.
Speaker B:Does anybody remember.
Speaker B:Where's Muskoka?
Speaker E:Sorry, what's that?
Speaker B:Muskoka.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:This book.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker B:This book was sewn into this jacket, which is, I guess, weird enough on its own, but it says, property of the Muskoka Library System.
Speaker E:Lenny walks over and says, could I take a look at that?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Ryan hands it to Lenny.
Speaker E:Start looking through this and see if anything stands out to me that I recognize.
Speaker A:The name.
Speaker A:The name, the title of the book sounds familiar to you, but you can't quite place it.
Speaker A:It looks like Lenny.
Speaker A:And this is your expertise shining here.
Speaker A:It looks like an older text, maybe around the turn of the 20th century.
Speaker A:Honestly, the binding really speaks of an older, again, turn of the century technique.
Speaker A:That's pretty impressive on its own.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You see that the supposed author is Edward Pickman Derby, not somebody you've heard about.
Speaker A:But again, sounds vaguely familiar.
Speaker A:Kind of tickles the back of your scalp.
Speaker A:It's something you should be able to place.
Speaker A:It's been rebound in unmarked boards.
Speaker A: ng that maybe Sometime in the: Speaker A:You do see the pages bear marks of water damage, in some places, fire damage.
Speaker A:It's a bit interesting.
Speaker A:You wonder what this book has been through and who it used to belong to, how many hands it's passed through to get to yours.
Speaker E:Yeah, this is.
Speaker B:Especially since the turn of the century.
Speaker E:I kind of really like.
Speaker E:This is.
Speaker E:This is a.
Speaker E:It's an old book for sure.
Speaker E:I mean, some of this seems familiar, but I'm not.
Speaker E:I'm not 100% sure on what I'm seeing here.
Speaker E:I can just say that this is, you know, this is definitely turn of the century.
Speaker E:It's been fixed up at some point.
Speaker E:I mean, I'm seeing various kinds of damage to it.
Speaker E:It's been through the wringer.
Speaker E:You found this in the suit?
Speaker B:Yeah, right here.
Speaker B:And I show him where I carved it out of.
Speaker E:Is that an old suit or is that a.
Speaker B:No, this, this is a, almost by the cut of it, bespoke suit.
Speaker B:This is a very, very nice suit that I have no idea why it's in a, a middle school.
Speaker B:But chalk it up to the other weirdness that we've seen.
Speaker D:Strange.
Speaker A:This whole time, Royston continues like it's a clue.
Speaker A:This whole time Royston is knocking on the desk, very, very, very concerned, brow furrowed.
Speaker A:Romeo, you're standing in front of this map and shining the light across it.
Speaker A:These drawings that I mentioned previously, they're actually, they appear to be caricatures or at least homages to old seafaring maps.
Speaker A:Like in that kind of woodcut style.
Speaker A:Someone's done their best with pencil and charcoal to approximate these on this Detroit, as you now see, Detroit road map.
Speaker A:It's actually kind of endearing.
Speaker A:They're rather cute, cute characters.
Speaker A:They're, they're not that threatening, honestly.
Speaker A:But you do see lots and lots of post its stapled messages, drawings that appear to be converging lines in circles on portions of Detroit as well as again, annotations directly on the map itself.
Speaker A:There's a lot here.
Speaker D:I read it all.
Speaker A:What you can start to do is, is you know, take some snippets and start scanning through some.
Speaker A:To really read it all.
Speaker A:You'll have to start taking things down off the wall and start to collate them together.
Speaker A:It looks like you're, you're dealing with maybe 100, 200 pages that would need to be collated and read through.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Some of these are in a very cramped penmanship as well, very hard to read.
Speaker A:So you're not going to be able to scan it all right now unless you stay here for a few hours and get everything kind of situated.
Speaker A:If that's what you want to do, no problem.
Speaker A:But I just want you to understand how much, how much of a corpus there is here.
Speaker D:First starters, Romeo would take a picture of the entire body of work here and kind of grid it off in photos before doing any taking apart of the situation.
Speaker A:So gotcha.
Speaker D:Kind of wanna.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:So you kind of stand back, you take, you take a picture or, or three or four of this menagerie and it, you know, now that you're in front of it, it is fairly staggering.
Speaker A:I'm sure everyone's familiar with the Charlie Day Pepe Silvio meme.
Speaker A:Oh yeah, that's, that's what we're getting close to here.
Speaker A:Someone's really used this wall as their method to their Madness approach.
Speaker A:Beautiful.
Speaker B:Rock flagging.
Speaker B:Eagle, baby.
Speaker D:Rock, flag and eagle.
Speaker B:I'm glad you got that reference.
Speaker B:I was nervous for a second.
Speaker A:You almost had to hit that stop button again.
Speaker B:Gosh, this audio is going crazy.
Speaker A:Sorry, buddy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Are you going to start taking these down and maybe ask for help from others or.
Speaker A:Tell me what you're going to do, Romeo, I need to know.
Speaker D:Yeah, well, Romeo announces, I've got a preliminary photograph of the setup here, but this is going to take more than me to go through all this.
Speaker D:There's quite a lot.
Speaker E:I'd like some time to go through this book as well.
Speaker E:Why don't we take this stuff back to the hotel?
Speaker D:I mean, sure, I've got a backpack here.
Speaker D:We can load it all up, but maybe we should also check more of the school out, make sure we're not missing anything here before we go back to the hotel.
Speaker B:I don't think we need to leave yet.
Speaker B:It's just.
Speaker B:It's probably a good idea to bring that with us.
Speaker C:Makes sense.
Speaker D:So Romeo begins decompiling all that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Decompiling all that into.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker A:Well, on the map itself, just to bring your attention back there, there are several markings on it, lines crisscrossing, crisscrossing over one building near the south end of Detroit.
Speaker A:Looks like whoever the author was, you're assuming Darren Han, if this was indeed his field investigative headquarters.
Speaker A:But the author was very concerned with a large building near Lorraine and Grand River Avenue there.
Speaker A:There's also a large circle around another location.
Speaker A:And directly on the map itself you see written in Sharpie St.
Speaker A:Barts, there's a post it barely clinging to the surface of the map nearby and it's crowded with more harsh scribbling.
Speaker A:It says how to get in to talk to the other kids.
Speaker A:Uptight pricks with three exclamation points.
Speaker A:Otherwise it's just cute pictures of ancient sea monsters.
Speaker A:You start taking down some of the scraps fewer parts of notebooks that have been stapled to the wall like they're just full chock full of writings.
Speaker A:Others are single scraps of paper and post.
Speaker A:Its much like the aforementioned described.
Speaker A:And I'm going to give you, as you start putting this together, I'm going to give you a couple of scraps that stick out at you that you scan over that are fairly short.
Speaker A:And Romeo, if you would do me the favor and the honor, sir, of reading this first one for our wonderful not fair.
Speaker D:I am cherishing this honor first and foremost.
Speaker D:I feel the warmth of your choice.
Speaker B:Ryan in character leers at Romeo Jealous.
Speaker D:I've seen it.
Speaker D:Azuriel's truth.
Speaker D:Huge walking pyramids with crustaceous claws.
Speaker D:Lightning extending from their very being.
Speaker D:The hooting that never ended.
Speaker D:The hooting that shattered what courage I had left.
Speaker D:The hooting that brought forth a blood curdling scream from my lips.
Speaker E:The hooting indeed lets me snapping for you.
Speaker E:Hope that gets picked up on the microphone.
Speaker D:I'll be at the open mic night.
Speaker A:Roysen takes a brief break from tapping on parts of this aged desk and reads another scrap that catches your attention.
Speaker C:As I was making my rounds I caught a glimpse of a group of policemen beating a man.
Speaker C:His blood soaked the stone.
Speaker C:Their nightsticks made an awful sound.
Speaker C:Schlick, schlick schlick.
Speaker C:It took every ounce of bean to hold my voice.
Speaker C:And still as I looked up, I caught another glimpse of him.
Speaker C:The man with the long goatee and Middle Eastern features.
Speaker C:Why does he haunt me?
Speaker A:Lenny looks up from the poems that he is starting to scan through and absorb.
Speaker E:He reads another scrap Bug Men have such strange hobbies.
Speaker E:I can't help the dream.
Speaker E:Again.
Speaker E:They're in the school, pouring through my things and judging me.
Speaker E:And they are probably right just a bit.
Speaker E:The last few months have been really hard.
Speaker E:I'm watching.
Speaker E:They can't hear me.
Speaker E:I can't warn them.
Speaker A:Ryan, you are suitably impressed with the aforementioned Armani, but you still have time to read this fourth scrap.
Speaker B:They are definitely following me.
Speaker B:Names all start with F.
Speaker B:What is going on?
Speaker A:Romeo, I've got another one for you.
Speaker D:Had I paid more attention in church, my condition would undoubtedly be better.
Speaker D:Eve's sin was knowledge and look what it has brought me.
Speaker D:I too have committed that sin.
Speaker A:And finally, Roisin, the last scrap that really catches your eyes as you're pulling all of this down from the walls.
Speaker C:Sent Jeff a couple of the photos and destroyed the others.
Speaker C:He's still avoiding my texts, but at least if they get Danny too, someone else will be equipped to follow the threads.
Speaker C:Another one has to be at the school.
Speaker C:That's where most of the missing girls are from.
Speaker C:I wish I wasn't alone.
Speaker A:Before long you have a large stack of crumpled and misshapen paper.
Speaker A:The last thing you take down from the wall is the Detroit city map.
Speaker A:You scan over again at the southern point that he seemed so concerned with Lorraine and Grand river Avenue and St.
Speaker A:Bart's fold up the map, place it with the other things.
Speaker A:Roizen stands up and dusts off her slacks and seems content that she's not gonna find any Secret compartments in this desk at this time.
Speaker A:Lenny, you're lost in thought over this, this book you've made through a few of the poems.
Speaker A:They're, they're quite evocative.
Speaker A:The prose is, is sometimes middling, but other times very, very interesting.
Speaker A:To you agents, what else would you like to do in this counselor's?
Speaker D:Might as well do a thorough search of the room before we leave it for elsewhere in the school.
Speaker C:While the guys are doing that, Royson's actually going to sit down at the desk and pull out a laptop and see if those photos that were sent to Jeff happen to be on said laptop.
Speaker A:So yeah, you're looking specifically for photos.
Speaker A:This laptop is just chock full of photos.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So we've got lots of photographs of books, pages and pages of books.
Speaker A:There's one that you've been particularly interested in that you've spent most of your time researching and rereading over and over again.
Speaker A:A lot of the books seem to be mundane in nature.
Speaker A:Others seem to really, they seem to be spectacular treaties of, you know, cryptozoological phenomenon.
Speaker A:They really, really widely range.
Speaker A:There's actually sociopolitical stuff, there's homesteading books.
Speaker A:He's got just a lot, a lot of books that he has scanned in this difficult to parse single photocopy PNG file approach.
Speaker A:Tell me how you're trying to track down these photos on this mess of a laptop and we can figure out a role grip.
Speaker C:I mean she's, yeah, she's muttering under her breath at this point about really needing to take some time to sort all this crap out.
Speaker C:But by now she's probably got an idea of where some of the cryptozoological photos are on this absolutely disgusting machine.
Speaker C:So that's where she's gonna start.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker A:Well, finding that right now is quite the task.
Speaker A:We're looking at tens of thousands of scanned pages in just this kind of area of this laptop.
Speaker A:As far as like photographs of phenomenon, most of these are blurry, low light photographs that as you scan through in the preview window, don't look like really anything at first glance.
Speaker A:Sometimes you can see kind of lens flares or strange light effects on some of these darkened photos of different rooms, different locales.
Speaker A:But as far as contextualizing any of these random photos to this scrap of paper, how are we doing that?
Speaker A:I think that's my question.
Speaker A:Is there a way that we can link these photos together with what we just found and if so, let's find that role?
Speaker C:Actually she's going to pull open the search window and look for any file that might have Jabberwock in the title.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:One second time for my.
Speaker A:My role.
Speaker B:Show off.
Speaker A:There is.
Speaker A:There is nothing that matches that search phrase.
Speaker B:Nothing matches your search phrase.
Speaker B:Sorry, guys.
Speaker D:Got him.
Speaker A:Got him.
Speaker C:It was salty tonight.
Speaker B:All sorts of energy.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was.
Speaker C:It was worth a try.
Speaker C:She knows her best bet is probably his email, but she doesn't even want to consider diving into that right now.
Speaker C:So the laptop's getting closed and thrown back in the backpack for the moment.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:Romeo, you definitely noted the location of the laptop now.
Speaker D:Oh, I got that.
Speaker C:I mean, you watched me pick it up.
Speaker D:See, you hung on to that, huh?
Speaker D:Yeah, I suppose it's kind of a good thing since he's been in contact with Jeff, but in the future, I want to green box that.
Speaker D:Or destroy it.
Speaker C:There is a lot of information on here.
Speaker C:Once I've sorted through it and made sure there's nothing, well, important, we'll get rid of it.
Speaker A:Okay, Agent, you feel like you've cataloged, collated and torn down anything that has ostensibly Darren Hinn's handwriting scribblings upon it.
Speaker A:What's left and untouched is the beautiful custom tailored suit, the melted faced mannequin, and the large amount of trash dust in the room.
Speaker A:You did, as you were looking through it, discover that there was a large chain of Goya garbanzo bean cans attached to the door so that it would make a loud clattering sound, which it did when it was opened.
Speaker A:Now, the door was designed to be opened outwardly, so perhaps it only partially worked to its full efficacy.
Speaker A:But yeah, looks like he had an early warning system, or maybe a late warning system, depending on how you would look at it, attached to the door itself.
Speaker B:Sounds like a real nerd.
Speaker A:Agreed.
Speaker B:Agreed.
Speaker D:You found that book in the jacket pocket.
Speaker D:Might as well take that suit and just give it a full look over back at the hotel.
Speaker B:A full pat down.
Speaker D:Mm.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, we'll take the suit with us.
Speaker D:Let's check out that mannequin.
Speaker D:Just sometimes they're hollow.
Speaker A:The mannequin is hollow.
Speaker D:Oo wee.
Speaker D:Is.
Speaker D:Is there any kind of opening on it?
Speaker A:Not yet.
Speaker C:Roisin pulls out the crowbar again.
Speaker C:We can change that.
Speaker D:So, no.
Speaker D:No reason to roll search.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I mean, if you want to break open the mannequin.
Speaker A:That is not a search roll.
Speaker D:Yeah, it's not.
Speaker A:That's a.
Speaker A:That's a.
Speaker A:I decide to break open the mannequin.
Speaker A:No roll.
Speaker D:Might as well just break it open.
Speaker D:Fuck It.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker A:Crowbar or isn't he?
Speaker A:Is that it?
Speaker A:Is that it?
Speaker A:Okay, Roisin hands it over to Romeo.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:You delicately, with the assistance of Ryan, remove the suit from the melted faced mannequin.
Speaker A:And then you lie it down, or, sorry, lay it down on its side on the ground.
Speaker A:And how are you going at this thing?
Speaker A:Head first, face first.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What's your.
Speaker A:What's your poison?
Speaker A:Pick it.
Speaker D:I'm thinking head first.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:See if I can pop that head off and then reach inside.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:So you go ahead and stick the wrecking bar where the seam between the neck and the chest exists.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Yeah, it pops right off.
Speaker A:There is a metal bar that the head was fastened to, but that comes right out as well, so that you can look inside the chest cavity from the neck hole, which you do.
Speaker A:There's nothing there.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:It was worth worth a look.
Speaker D:I suppose we should continue our search throughout the school, or.
Speaker D:There were no other footprints that we saw, is that correct?
Speaker A:Just traffic back and forth, it looked like, directly to this.
Speaker A:This particular counselor's office.
Speaker D:Well, I feel like we hit the jackpot here, but we could always, I suppose, return if we feel like there's something else we need to check out.
Speaker D:Anybody disagree?
Speaker B:Yeah, there's only a couple hallways left.
Speaker B:Might be worth just doing an up and down on our.
Speaker B:On our way out.
Speaker B:Give it a poke.
Speaker B:Say again?
Speaker D:Give it a pig and a poke.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:Is that an actual colloquialism?
Speaker A:Give it a pick and a poke.
Speaker B:Nope, sure isn't.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay, it is.
Speaker A:Just making sure.
Speaker A:I'm trying to figure out if Romeo is an alien or not.
Speaker A:Like, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm now getting a little.
Speaker C:I've never heard that before.
Speaker E:Pig in a poke is a thing?
Speaker E:Yep.
Speaker E:That's.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:I think it's so, like, sell somebody a pig in a poke.
Speaker A:Like, if you're trying to sell them snake oil.
Speaker A:I think that's the phrase.
Speaker E: This idiom is attested in: Speaker A:Whoa.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You are an ancient immortal Romeo.
Speaker A:You're no longer a human being.
Speaker D:I've been told that I live outside of time.
Speaker A:Before the team gathers up your collected papers, suits, etc.
Speaker A:And you begin to cautiously make your way through the unexplored halls of Hall Middle School.
Speaker A:They are uniformly trashed.
Speaker A:It's obvious that ne'er do wells have been making it their place to hang out when they're very bored.
Speaker A:Again.
Speaker A:Shattered glass, fast food wrappers, rotten food, obvious spore of vermin, and every single window broken.
Speaker A:After about 30, 40 more minutes of traipsing about in this filth, you four emerge into the disinfecting sunlight and begin to walk back towards your vehicle.
Speaker A:Before long, you pile into the suv, putting away your spoils for later.
Speaker A:And Romeo turns on the engine.
Speaker A:Where are you heading?
Speaker D:Back to the hotel.
Speaker A:You're back at the Four Seasons before in the adjoining room of the suite again, the common room.
Speaker A:One of the drawing tables there is now covered with the scribblings of Darren Henn, as well as the map that is splayed out in prominent view.
Speaker B:I agree.
Speaker E:I guess.
Speaker E:Let's get to work.
Speaker E:Lenny starts.
Speaker A:He's still rocking through that book, right?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:Lenny goes and sits down in a chair and starts just reading through the book.
Speaker E:So if y'all see anything really odd, let me know.
Speaker E:I'll come take a look.
Speaker B:Are we still in touch with Schledinger?
Speaker A:Snedeker?
Speaker A:You still have the.
Speaker A:The phone number for that set of phones that he.
Speaker A:He gave you?
Speaker B:Does he need, like, I.
Speaker B:This is actually almost like a, I guess in game slash out of game question.
Speaker B:Like, would he be aware of us being on this mission or.
Speaker D:Well, he's not our handler, so it's probably not likely.
Speaker B:Do we have a handler on this?
Speaker A:But a fair.
Speaker A:A fairer question or a fair answer would be you're not sure.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:You're not sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You're not sure who your handler is.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You did have a sign.
Speaker A:There was a signature on the.
Speaker A:On the initial contact email.
Speaker A:But these.
Speaker A:These use code names all the time, so who knows?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Let me take this approach and see if it pays off.
Speaker B:So Ryan's gonna try to call him.
Speaker A:The phone rings six or seven times and there is a click.
Speaker A:The sound of a pickup.
Speaker A:You think There's a long, staticky pause.
Speaker A:But you do hear a voice after a time.
Speaker B:Agent, is there an F cell?
Speaker A:It's a very long pause.
Speaker A:Agent, is this important?
Speaker A:Are you in trouble?
Speaker B:They might be.
Speaker A:Typically, these numbers are used for operational purposes only.
Speaker B:Is there an F cell?
Speaker A:The structure of our organization, designed for maximum deniability and compartmentalization.
Speaker A:There are multiple cells in order to ensure this.
Speaker B:This is important.
Speaker A:There.
Speaker A:There is very likely a number of cells that have the designation F.
Speaker A:None of them are under my purview, though.
Speaker B:Agent, are you able to put me in touch with someone who is.
Speaker A:There's a long pause.
Speaker A:What is this about?
Speaker A:Agent?
Speaker B:Like you said, maximum amount of deniability.
Speaker B:I think the less I tell you, the Better for both of us.
Speaker B:But I've.
Speaker A:There is a certain order to things, Agent, and this is one of them where you'll have to be a bit more forthcoming with me.
Speaker A:We have a very strict protocol when it comes to intercell interactions and even.
Speaker B:I'm on an assignment.
Speaker B:I'm on an assignment in Detroit.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Part of.
Speaker B:Part of our findings has alluded to a set of people, all with a name starting with F.
Speaker B:There's some very strange goings on in the area as well.
Speaker B:So it's, let's say on brand for our department here.
Speaker A:I understand.
Speaker A:So you think there might have been a prior op in the area that you need context on?
Speaker A:Am I.
Speaker A:Am I reading that correctly?
Speaker B:That's what I'm trying to go for.
Speaker A:You actually hear the sound of a chair creaking in the background?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'll run that up to run that up the chain for you.
Speaker B:Great.
Speaker B:How are the get in touch on this number.
Speaker A:How are the others doing?
Speaker A:Well, so they're with you.
Speaker B:I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker D:Nice.
Speaker A:All right, Agent, I'll see what I can find out for you.
Speaker A:Shit.
Speaker B:I should have said what others?
Speaker B:Damn it.
Speaker B:Oh, well, I got there.
Speaker B:It would have been so much cooler to say what others?
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He hangs up.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:And now we wait.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Well, we know what Lenny's up to.
Speaker A:Lenny's reading.
Speaker A:I'm going to get to him fairly shortly.
Speaker A:Royston Romeo, you are in the common room of a suite.
Speaker A:We have some leads, we have some avenues of investigation.
Speaker A:Ryan's on the phone right now, speaking in hushed tones, pacing a bit across the room.
Speaker A:What are you two up to?
Speaker D:Romeo is going to now go about the task of following his photos, to reconstruct the setup and then go through it grid by grid.
Speaker A:That's awesome.
Speaker A:Okay, cool.
Speaker C:Roy is going to help with that.
Speaker A:Very, very, very helpful.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker A:So with both of you doing this, the burden is.
Speaker A:Is absolutely shared.
Speaker A:It's going to be a little speedier while you're doing this.
Speaker A:Lenny's reading.
Speaker A:Ryan, you go ahead and hang up with Snediger.
Speaker A:You see that the agents have busied themselves.
Speaker A:What else would you like to do?
Speaker B:To call up some food to the room.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker B:Some coffee and sandwiches or something?
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:There's a.
Speaker A:There's a Bennegans nearby, which you decide to order from.
Speaker A:Everybody gets club sandwiches.
Speaker B:The Four Seasons doesn't have room service?
Speaker A:I guess not.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker A:Just like Detroit.
Speaker A:Yeah, Detroit.
Speaker B:Uncommonly shitty.
Speaker A:I thought I Thought I told you this was the Three Seasons.
Speaker A:This is a different.
Speaker D:Oh, right, right, yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, you mean just.
Speaker B:I think this one's just called Winter.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Oh, with the frowny face.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Which is ironic because they don't have.
Speaker E:Heating, but it looks up like if you're ordering from Bennigan's.
Speaker E:I'll take a.
Speaker E:I'll take a Monte Cristo, please.
Speaker B:Anybody else?
Speaker A:All they.
Speaker D:All they have is clubs.
Speaker E:I gotta have that.
Speaker E:I gotta have that deep fried sandwich.
Speaker D:Fried Sandos.
Speaker A:Yeah, they'll deep fry it for you.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, I.
Speaker B:I would say Sniger is my.
Speaker B:My contribution to this arc.
Speaker A:Okay, cool.
Speaker A:Well, you're gonna enjoy some coffee and some fresh bennies and.
Speaker A:Yeah, let's play sponsored by Ben's now.
Speaker E:So what's going on here?
Speaker A:Hey, if.
Speaker A:If we're gonna.
Speaker A:If we're gonna pay for this shit, we've gotta take some spots, man.
Speaker A:So just.
Speaker A:Just fucking deal with it and say you fucking love that shit, because that's what I need you to say.
Speaker E:This is the.
Speaker D:Are you trying to make a website?
Speaker A:Squarespace Sheath boxers are so comfortable.
Speaker A:All right, Lenny.
Speaker A:When age fell upon the world and wonder went out of the minds of men, when gray cities reared to smoky skies, tall towers, grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring's flowering meads.
Speaker A:You close the book and you feel a lump in your chest, as if a great pang of nostalgia has washed over you.
Speaker A:You think back to the titular poem.
Speaker A:Azathoth described a dreaming encounter with something called the Demon Sultan, something with mindless pulsings that give shape and action to the universe.
Speaker A:And the poetry was astoundingly mathematical in description.
Speaker A:Spoke of this.
Speaker A:Creatures, this forces, this whatever, this thing's messenger, a nyarleth Hotep, an Egyptian sounding name that again sounded very familiar to you as you read over it over and over again.
Speaker A:But this messenger mockingly facilitates humanity, in fact, the human impulse to find meaning in the world.
Speaker A:You remember now what Muskoka is, and you realize that this particular copy of this book, well, it must have been part of the sanatorium library of that now defunct Muskoka Regional center that Darren Henn got some notoriety for touring and recording, uploading to beyond the Dark.
Speaker A:You do gain plus two to your occult.
Speaker A:If you would, please add that in for me, please.
Speaker E:Sweet.
Speaker A:You also gain plus 3 to your unnatural ooh.
Speaker A:And I need you to roll your sanity.
Speaker E:So there it is.
Speaker E:So it's a cult.
Speaker E:63.
Speaker E:So my natural is.
Speaker E:You said plus three to unnatural.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker E:All right, I got 13.
Speaker E:I'll take.
Speaker E:That's a 13% chance.
Speaker A:Oh, boy.
Speaker E:I'll take it.
Speaker E:All right, so rolling sanity, here we go.
Speaker A:Yes, please.
Speaker E:Is this the first sanity roll of the.
Speaker E:Of this mission?
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:I think actually Agent Ryan scared Agent Romeo with a boo.
Speaker A:So that was the first one.
Speaker D:Scared him.
Speaker A:Yeah, you got it.
Speaker A:Remember that?
Speaker A:Yeah, it was a bad fail.
Speaker E:Yeah, it was a bad one.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:Trauma.
Speaker E:All right, here we go.
Speaker E:Oh, that's right.
Speaker E:I have no idea what I rolled.
Speaker E:That's.
Speaker A:I do, though.
Speaker E:Oh, fun, fun, fun.
Speaker A:You are.
Speaker E:I really like that mechanic.
Speaker A:I wouldn't say you're disturbed by this text.
Speaker A:You are intrigued by it, but the.
Speaker A:The fact that this poetry seems to signify some sort of maybe more interesting, profound, and again, mathematical aspect.
Speaker A:This is what really keeps your attention.
Speaker A:And do you think there's additional hidden meaning here besides this strange parable that smacks of again, to you?
Speaker A:Nostalgia.
Speaker A:There might be more here.
Speaker A:There's some allegory that you're missing, some secret that's waiting for you to unwrap.
Speaker E:I'll go pour a cup of coffee and start reading through it again.
Speaker A:And as you read through it again, I'll add this additional description.
Speaker A:Overall, you would say the tone is fairly macabre.
Speaker A:There's a lot of dwelling in inns and transformations into grotesqueries.
Speaker A:You would liken it to death, but the author is very careful to say it's not death.
Speaker A:What he's referring to.
Speaker A:These transitions, all in all, again, macabre.
Speaker A:As you two finish Roisin and Romeo, you've really gone through the now very obviously maniacal ramblings of the author, Darren Henn.
Speaker A:He was obviously in states of heightened paranoia when he wrote these.
Speaker A:It's very clear to you, no roles necessary.
Speaker A:The fact was he was fixated on this particular Cryptid, this Detroit jabberwock.
Speaker A:He was convinced it was stealing away girls, especially from a local prep school called St.
Speaker A:Bartholomew's he even has reproductions of several newspaper articles in addition to those provided to you by Danny Corso.
Speaker A:They don't give you additional information.
Speaker A:Just looks like additional reports that went out that he clipped.
Speaker A:Darren was beyond eccentric.
Speaker A:It's clear to you that he had a tenuous grasp on what was real and what wasn't.
Speaker A:He seemed to be haunted by his dreams.
Speaker A:Both of you gain unnatural one.
Speaker A:I think you're able to adjust that yourself.
Speaker B:Hey, Chris, quick question.
Speaker B:Kind of like outside the game, what is unnatural used for?
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's a Great question.
Speaker A:So the more unnatural you gain, the more you understand what really moves this world, this existence, what really makes up the fundament of reality.
Speaker A:The more you really understand how the cosmos functions and your role in it, the less sane you can ever be.
Speaker A:So it ebbs away.
Speaker A:At your maximum sanity, you can only get up to a certain amount minus your unnatural.
Speaker A:So if you have 50% unnatural, it's 99 minus 50%, which is your new maximum sanity.
Speaker A:You can never be above that amount because you know too much about how the world works.
Speaker A:Does that make sense?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:No, that makes sense.
Speaker B:Thanks, man.
Speaker A:Awesome.
Speaker A:It's about 5pm when all of the materials have been really exacted by Romeo, Roizen and Lyney.
Speaker A:You feel like the third read through of Azathoth and others has sated your appetite.
Speaker A:You're actually feeling a little queasy, lightheaded and sick.
Speaker A:You've been eating.
Speaker A:In fact, that Monte Cristo is on point.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But yeah, you want to put this book down for now?
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker D:So we did look at.
Speaker D:We did see the crisscrossing of lines over Lorraine and Grand River Avenue.
Speaker D:Is that correct?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:On the south side of Detroit.
Speaker D:Saint Barts.
Speaker D:Can I look into those on.
Speaker D:On my computer?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:St.
Speaker A:Bartholomew is a.
Speaker A:Is a prep school.
Speaker A:It was first pointed out by Danny Corso.
Speaker A:But it's a prep school in.
Speaker A:In Detroit.
Speaker A:Looks like it's fairly fancy.
Speaker A:You don't see any tuition details on their website, but the pictures the curriculum offered assures you that it is probably quite pricey.
Speaker D:And Lorraine and Grand river, was that where it's at or did I.
Speaker D:Lorraine.
Speaker A:And grand river is on.
Speaker A:On the south side of Detroit.
Speaker A:Looks like in the middle of maybe an industrial district.
Speaker A:Saint Barts was a different circle on the same map.
Speaker D:That's what I thought.
Speaker A:With.
Speaker A:With a separate note.
Speaker A:It was with a little post it that was barely clinging to the surface of the page.
Speaker D:And that's the post it that said how to get in to talk to the other kids.
Speaker D:Uptight pricks.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Three exclamation points if I recall.
Speaker D:I did take note of that.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker D:It's important.
Speaker D:You got to get those numbers right.
Speaker A:Punctuation.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:You know all my secrets.
Speaker C:Hey, Chris.
Speaker C:What day of the week is it?
Speaker A:We'll go ahead and throw down a Wednesday.
Speaker C:Okay?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So which one of you is going to pose as my husband to go talk to to St.
Speaker C:Bart's tomorrow?
Speaker D:Oh, smart.
Speaker D:Ryan does look like Frankenstein's monster sewed back together.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:So Romeo.
Speaker D:I was gonna say Lenny is pretty unassuming and kind of has that possibly aloof money man kind of situation going on.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:But Lenny wouldn't take off his pants to get us in to the crazy person's house.
Speaker C:So what is he gonna do?
Speaker C:If I get in trouble?
Speaker A:What use is Lenny?
Speaker B:None.
Speaker B:No use at all.
Speaker E:I'm gonna.
Speaker E:I'm gonna go to the bathroom.
Speaker E:Not feeling so hot.
Speaker D:Ryan, always take your pants off.
Speaker A:Ryan did not take a hit to charisma or appearance or anything.
Speaker A:He just has a.
Speaker A:A scar now.
Speaker A:It is fairly wicked.
Speaker A:But he doesn't look like a monster.
Speaker A:Unless you were just trying to, you know, really jab at his.
Speaker A:His new appearance.
Speaker D:Yeah, he was giving a little, but yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, he's.
Speaker A:He's not like a.
Speaker A:He hasn't turned into Quasimodo yet.
Speaker A:Yet, guys.
Speaker A:Correct?
Speaker A:Actually, yes.
Speaker D:Okay, cool.
Speaker D:Well, that's fine.
Speaker D:I'll be happy to.
Speaker D:I'll.
Speaker D:I'll even wear that nice Armani if it fits.
Speaker B:It doesn't fit.
Speaker B:It doesn't fit.
Speaker D:Oh, classic.
Speaker D:I'll get you Ryan.
Speaker D:We'll buddy kick something.
Speaker B:Oh, it's all sexual tension, obviously.
Speaker A:Yeah, the tension is thick in these scenes.
Speaker C:Meanwhile, Roizen just rolls her eyes at him, making the puppy dog eyes.
Speaker A:So, St.
Speaker A:Bart's tomorrow.
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker A:Anything else we want to plan?
Speaker B:Ryan's waiting for his phone to ring.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker A:You're ready for that?
Speaker A:Your fingers hovering over the pickup button.
Speaker A:I hear ya.
Speaker E:Lenny's gonna probably just browse back.
Speaker B:Ryan says hello.
Speaker A:Yeah, there was nobody there.
Speaker A:You were too quick on the.
Speaker A:You're too quick on the button.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker A:He was fucking funny.
Speaker E:Yeah, no, Letty's just gonna.
Speaker E:But once he's.
Speaker E:Once he's feeling a little better and off the toilet, gonna spend some time kind of just looking through the stuff Roy's and Romeo were digging through.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You make your way over to where they've laid out all of these scribblings.
Speaker A:This is a whole different shade of crazy than what you had just immersed yourself into for.
Speaker A:For the last few hours.
Speaker A:It's almost offensive to your senses.
Speaker A:You kind of just tear away your eyes from it.
Speaker A:It's just these nonsensical almost screams compared to the dulcet song.
Speaker A:Like poetry, as haunting as it has been, seems again comforting somehow.
Speaker A:And you shake your head.
Speaker A:You're just not.
Speaker A:Not in the mood to try to figure out what the heck this crazy guy was getting into.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You're not even convinced it's worth your time.
Speaker B:Hello.
Speaker A:Again.
Speaker A:You're too.
Speaker A:You're too, too quick on it.
Speaker A:Yeah, it sounds like we're going to turn in after a long day of research a little early.
Speaker A:Ryan's gonna be staring at his phone and the rest of you are gonna kinda, you know, take it easy.
Speaker D:Maybe trying to nurse those stomachs filled with Monte Cristo.
Speaker A:I think, I think only Kristen.
Speaker A:Oh, I think that's a real rough, rough sandwich.
Speaker A:I think only Lenny got that though.
Speaker A:So you got a standard club sandwich?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:We got turkey, we got ham, we got bacon, that's lettuce, that's tomato, that's mayo on a.
Speaker D:Keep going.
Speaker A:Decent sourdough cut into triangles.
Speaker A:So that's what you got in your bell.
Speaker D:Perfect for a fed.
Speaker A:That's, that's, that's basically it for today.
Speaker A:Unless.
Speaker A:Unless you have anything else you want to do.
Speaker A:I'm going to get to you in a second.
Speaker A:Ryan.
Speaker A:You don't have to say hello.
Speaker B:Hello.
Speaker D:What's.
Speaker D:I do want to look into that Lorraine and Grand river.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Yeah, you said.
Speaker A:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker A:Area.
Speaker D:Is there any.
Speaker A:Do you want to drive down there?
Speaker A:Like history.
Speaker D:I can glean on that.
Speaker A:Yeah, you, you, you can, you can basically by doing some basic research.
Speaker A:That whole area is spotty when it comes to actual activity.
Speaker A:It's, it's, it's a fairly crime ridden area.
Speaker A:A lot of abandoned structures.
Speaker A:Surprise, surprise.
Speaker A:It was particularly industrial.
Speaker A:So we're talking about warehouses, supply in storage areas.
Speaker A:There's old mills, et cetera in that area.
Speaker A:But most of that's been shut down for a very long time.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker A:Relatively so for the last maybe two or three years.
Speaker A:It's really gone to shit.
Speaker D:That's good for a mayo for tonight.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker C:Arisin's gonna take a couple minutes to invent a fake daughter.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker D:Yeah, we're gonna have to.
Speaker A:Now we're, now we're talking.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So this, this is where.
Speaker A:This is when it's time to roll some computer science.
Speaker A:So one second here it is time to jump into some databases that Romeo pulls up.
Speaker D:This person does not exist.
Speaker D:To get a nice picture to give them.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's a really creepy demon eye that keeps appearing in, in the AI generated photo that keeps it up.
Speaker A:But you finally get a good one.
Speaker A:But yeah.
Speaker A:Royson, you have access to some intelligence linked databases that are going to facilitate this.
Speaker A:Assuming that I roll.
Speaker A:Oh darn.
Speaker A:That's how that worked.
Speaker A:Okay, well you can see the success.
Speaker A:I meant that to be a hidden roll.
Speaker C:It was a hidden roll.
Speaker A:Oh, really?
Speaker A:Okay, well, I mean, it could have been a success.
Speaker A:Who knows?
Speaker C:I failed again.
Speaker D:Dang.
Speaker D:What was it?
Speaker A:So you are able to make a quick couple of phone calls and create this daughter out of whole cloth.
Speaker A:You understand that after about a week, it's not going to hold up very well.
Speaker A:But you don't need it to last that long.
Speaker A:You think it will be unimpeachable?
Speaker A:Based off of your connections, your expertise, and how you've built this online Persona.
Speaker A:This takes you about four hours.
Speaker A:That's pretty quick.
Speaker C:Not bad for a fake person.
Speaker A:It's as if you've done this before.
Speaker A:Ryan.
Speaker A:Your phone rings from unknown caller.
Speaker A:All right, Agent.
Speaker A:So, little tit for tat, what are you doing in Detroit?
Speaker B:Working a case.
Speaker D:Hang up.
Speaker A:Right, right.
Speaker B:Investigating.
Speaker B:We're Delta Green.
Speaker B:We investigate.
Speaker A:He seems to be waiting.
Speaker B:Yeah, Ryan's also gonna wait.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So what are you investigating, Agent?
Speaker B:Two girls seem to have gone missing in Detroit, and there was a strange body found.
Speaker B:I think you can agree that Delta Green, say, has a.
Speaker B:A signature case type.
Speaker A:Well, I'll.
Speaker A:I'll tell you.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I went ahead and sent your request up the chain as you.
Speaker A:As you asked me to do, and I got a response back very quickly.
Speaker A:I didn't.
Speaker A:Be honest.
Speaker A:I didn't expect to get one back so fast.
Speaker A:Guess I'm gonna stand in as your handler, because Director of Operations has asked that you look into any indication of a group identifying themselves as part of RSAP and using code names or any codenames resembling that of an F cell.
Speaker A:You are to, in addition to your current op, track down these people, if they are still in the area, and report back to me.
Speaker B:Why is there an F cell in this area?
Speaker B:What was their investigation?
Speaker A:Are you talking about this.
Speaker A:This group?
Speaker B:Well, what was the last communication received from this group?
Speaker A:No, I don't have any communications from them.
Speaker A:I just told you exactly what I've been asked to tell you.
Speaker A:Didn't really sign up to be working with you on this particular operation.
Speaker A:But I guess we're in it now.
Speaker B:Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker B:Well, you just talked to somebody about missing agents that got you put on this case.
Speaker B:Are you telling me that there's no communication from that cell?
Speaker A:The impression.
Speaker A:The impression I got, Ryan, was that there aren't any missing agents with that designation.
Speaker A:The program is very interested in knowing who is using that designation, and you are to report back with that information if it is forthcoming in your endeavors.
Speaker B:All right, we'll report back.
Speaker B:It's good to be working with you again.
Speaker A:Likewise, Agent.
Speaker A:He hangs up.
Speaker B:Ryan hangs up the phone and informs the rest of the team on the conversation.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker D:So we're to look out for anybody using the F designation, though there isn't anybody currently in the area who's supposed to be using the F designation.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker D:Am I understanding that correctly?
Speaker B:As good as I do.
Speaker C:We know that note was written months ago.
Speaker D:Totally agree.
Speaker D:I don't like the sound of it.
Speaker D:It's weird.
Speaker D:But I.
Speaker D:I'm with you.
Speaker A:This conversation happens Thursday morning actually over a continental breakfast delivered from nearby Ben Agains to the.
Speaker A:To the winter.
Speaker A:And you guys enjoy this.
Speaker A:This additional fine grub from America's favorite deli Bennegance.
Speaker D:You'll eat it.
Speaker A:You'll eat it.
Speaker A:Romeo is wearing a tight fitting Armani suit.
Speaker A:It just barely fits over his frame, but it seems to work.
Speaker A:Roizen, what are you wearing for the next scene?
Speaker C:Roizen would have pulled out just slacks and a nice blouse.
Speaker C:And actually, before we even leave the hotel, I'm going to call St.
Speaker C:Barts and ask if it's a good time for us to drop in.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:So you call the main switchboard.
Speaker A:There's a wonderful musical intro talking about the school.
Speaker A:The hours has a long list of possible places to be routed to, but you go towards the admissions entry.
Speaker A:You speak to a clerk who would be happy to go ahead and set up an appointment with you for next next consideration, which will be in four years.
Speaker A:They ask if your little tyke will.
Speaker A:If that will work for them or if they don't fall in the age range that is handled by St.
Speaker A:Bartholomew's at that time.
Speaker C:So that would absolutely be perfect for what we're looking for in the time frame we're looking at.
Speaker C:However, I'd really like to stop by and take a look at the school myself.
Speaker C:You know, just.
Speaker C:We're checking a few different places and we want to make sure we find the absolute perfect fit for our little Patricia.
Speaker A:Of course.
Speaker A:Well, if that time frame is going to work for little Patricia, then we'd be happy to show you around and let you understand exactly what St.
Speaker A:Bartholomew Academy can bring to your young charge.
Speaker C:That would be absolutely wonderful.
Speaker C:We're actually.
Speaker C:We're looking at moving to the area and we're only in town for the day.
Speaker C:Would it be possible for us to drop by just for 20 minutes and talk to someone?
Speaker A:Oh, that's highly irregular.
Speaker D:Let.
Speaker A:Let me.
Speaker A:Let me see what I can do for you.
Speaker A:After a brief pause, the clerk comes back on and an assistant dean of St.
Speaker A:Bartholomew Academy has made herself available to take you around at 1:30pm today.
Speaker C:That is absolutely perfect.
Speaker A:Roizen, you and Romeo prepare for your appointment to get little Patricia the proper education she deserves.
Speaker A:Next stop, St.
Speaker A:Bartholomew's Academy and the wonders of Delta Green parenting.
