Episode 2
Episode 2 - Too Many Legs
The Agents have arrived in the small Ohio village of Mechanicsburg, hoping to pick up the trail of their dangerous and unnatural quarry. After field investigations and interviews with locals only create more questions, the Agents find themselves pursuing a wild lead.
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Transcript
Hello?
Speaker A:What time is it?
Speaker B:Who is it?
Speaker A:I don't know, I.
Speaker A:Situation Green unripened fruit Sorry honey, I have to take this.
Speaker A:So Mechanicsburg is that quintessential old fashioned small town anachronistic gem.
Speaker A:Right outside the towering dirty steel skyscrapers of horrible Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker A:The trash town from which Michael Hills the roads are mostly cobbled.
Speaker A:You can see that most of the shops along the main street, well, they used to be tinsmiths, harness makers, millinery shops.
Speaker A:You can see where folks have preserved the old street signs for these shops of old.
Speaker A:But now of course, they're occupied by small coffee boutiques and clothing stores.
Speaker A:You can see a large fairly old building at the end of Main Street.
Speaker A:It says Mechanicsburg United Methodist.
Speaker A:It's got a towering brick steeple, white cross visible from all points of the small village.
Speaker A:As you drive through, folks walking down the street wave at you.
Speaker A:You pass a outdoor flower shop.
Speaker A:Man is setting out his wares for the day.
Speaker A:There's also a busy looking diner.
Speaker A:You see a couple of patrol cars as well as a sheriff's truck parked in front of it.
Speaker A:It's called the Blue Plate Diner.
Speaker A:Otherwise it's just a idyllic setting.
Speaker A:Feels absolutely gorgeous here to those used to the busy life of a dreary city.
Speaker A:Agents, where would you like to go?
Speaker B:I think we're gonna wait to meet the sheriff.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:If I could have each one of you, please rule your alertness.
Speaker B:So we got Romeo success, Royston failure, Relic, failure, Ryan, success.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker C:Something about that second suv.
Speaker A:That second SUV is turned on.
Speaker D:I burned all my luck on that one, apparently.
Speaker A:Well, Relic and Roisin are enjoying this, you know, Pleasantville esque town.
Speaker A:Ryan and Romeo, both of you notice kind of a.
Speaker A:An odd haze above one of the.
Speaker A:One of the buildings looks like it has a bookstore.
Speaker A:Used to be some sort of leather working shop according to some of the faded paint on the side of the brick building.
Speaker A:But above the second story again, there's this faint kind of heat line just lifting up as if somebody's maybe cooking something up there.
Speaker A:As you get closer, it just dissipates or no longer visible from your perspective or angle.
Speaker A:You don't think much of it.
Speaker B:You notice that, right?
Speaker B:The weird haze coming off that building.
Speaker B:You see it, right?
Speaker C:Sure do.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Think it's worth taking a closer look at?
Speaker C:Or maybe we just.
Speaker C:So let's store that one away and see if.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, I'll tuck that in my back pocket.
Speaker C:Sounds good.
Speaker A:Both drivers park near what is obviously the Main square next to a small courthouse.
Speaker A:There's a gazebo in the center of it, covered with beautiful foliage and well manicured set of flowering bushes.
Speaker A:You four slam your door shut, begin to kind of mosey your way over.
Speaker A:You see a couple of uniformed officers standing there with styrofoam coffee cups.
Speaker A:They look up as you approach, but then they continue their conversation.
Speaker B:You four, I'm sorry, what was the name of that bookstore again?
Speaker A:It's called the Blank Page.
Speaker C:Would you describe this as a bookstore full of possibility?
Speaker A:Chris, you know I'm going to have to have you roll an alertness inside the building first, and then we can determine how much possibility it's stocked up on.
Speaker C:Then Ryan just runs right in there.
Speaker A:Okay, roll.
Speaker E:Roll now, quick.
Speaker E:That never ends well.
Speaker B:Suddenly you grow too many eyes.
Speaker A:Yeah, you got.
Speaker A:You have too many eyes.
Speaker C:Now all of that's a joke by the.
Speaker C:I just wanted the.
Speaker A:But what's sad is you're.
Speaker A:You're wasting your.
Speaker A:Yeah, I know.
Speaker A:You're wasting your successes on the jokes.
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker A:Q4 loiter there in.
Speaker A:In the main square.
Speaker A:Before long, you see some other officers emerge from the Blue Plate Diner and slowly laughing to each other.
Speaker A:One obviously in a sheriff's uniform, another in a deputy sheriff's uniform.
Speaker A:About four or five officers make their way.
Speaker B:Hello, Sheriff.
Speaker A:As you say that, one of the men, really, really, the largest man in height and in width looks up.
Speaker A:He's round in the face as well.
Speaker A:He's got a small mustache.
Speaker A:He screws his brow when you say that, as if he's looking at you from many miles away.
Speaker A:And then bobs his head in recognition.
Speaker A:And you see him look over at the deputy next to him and the deputy laughs.
Speaker A:Sheriff's obviously said something that you're unable to pick up at this distance, but he starts to stride over in the direction of where you four are standing near the gazebo.
Speaker A:The deputies follow.
Speaker A:I guess these are my park rangers, he says as he approaches.
Speaker D:Sheriff, that'll be federal police, but yes, it's good to meet you.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:He doesn't put out his hand.
Speaker A:Well, I guess you're Roizen.
Speaker A:He turns to you, Agent Roizen.
Speaker E:Yes, sir.
Speaker A:Who else we got here?
Speaker B:My name is Romeo.
Speaker B:John Romeo.
Speaker C:Okay, Agent Ryan, great to meet you and thank you for your help.
Speaker C:He steps forward and shakes his hand.
Speaker A:The sheriff is a little bit thrown off kilter, but he does awkwardly shake your hand when it's offered.
Speaker A:Your power is over 14, correct?
Speaker B:No, it's over 9,000.
Speaker A:Oh, okay then.
Speaker C:My power level.
Speaker A:Your power level?
Speaker C:Yeah, it is.
Speaker C:By the way.
Speaker B:So did you airplane land that shaken.
Speaker A:Just watching it the overarm swoop down.
Speaker A:So yeah.
Speaker A:He shakes your hand.
Speaker A:All right, well look, let me just make this real, real quick for y'all.
Speaker A:We've.
Speaker A:We've got a pretty tight schedule.
Speaker A:I can't spare any deputies to take you out to any of the old sites where the.
Speaker A:Any of the old sites.
Speaker A:And honestly, probably not a good idea for y'all to be traipsing out there on your own.
Speaker A:Now I said it once, I'll say it again to all, all for you.
Speaker A:Now elements pretty much gone over those sites within the first couple of days.
Speaker A:Ain't much to see there.
Speaker A:But if you want to go out there, you know, be careful, there's some treacherous ground and obviously you'll be on your own.
Speaker A:Need to bring your own rifles.
Speaker B:Quick question and, and this wasn't covered in our information was the hunting rifle that was found by Guy.
Speaker B:By Guy Mayer.
Speaker B:Was that discharged at all?
Speaker A:It had not been discharged, sir.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker D:Do you all have the evidence from the sites down at the station?
Speaker A:I think some of the evidence is being held in Columbus at the medical examiner's office.
Speaker A:We did get a firearm as you mentioned, turned over to us.
Speaker D:Sure.
Speaker D:But just wonder if we could review the on site forensic reports, you know, first officer on scene, that kind of thing.
Speaker D:Just get a little debrief of the situation.
Speaker A:Sheriff's.
Speaker A:Sheriff's office wouldn't have that.
Speaker A:Maybe you can talk to one of the locals here.
Speaker A:They have probably have a simple police report for it.
Speaker A:I'll tell you what, I looked through those.
Speaker A:They didn't have much on them.
Speaker A:Did have some pictures from the site I think that was.
Speaker A:Was sent to.
Speaker A:To you, if I recall.
Speaker A:Cuz I had had one of my deputies do it.
Speaker A:Pictures from the scene but.
Speaker A:But yeah, the reports themselves.
Speaker A:He shrugs, trails off.
Speaker B:Not a lot to go on then.
Speaker E:Okay, well, we didn't get the pictures from the scene.
Speaker E:I think they got tied up in red tape back at the office.
Speaker E:Would it be possible for someone to show us those?
Speaker A:He rolls his eyes exaggeratedly.
Speaker E:I know it's such a hassle.
Speaker E:We hate making newest sense of ourselves.
Speaker E:We just want to help as much.
Speaker B:As we can and float underneath your notice because we're here to help, not get in the way.
Speaker E:You know how those higher up desk people are.
Speaker E:They always take longer than they need to.
Speaker A:Look, I'm busy putting together another sortie to go out tonight at dusk.
Speaker A:And again I will be frank.
Speaker A:You are not needed.
Speaker A:Honestly, I can't have a bunch of folks from out of town falling in a ravine or a sinkhole because they don't know the land.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:When it comes to pictures of these scenes, we got bear paw prints and we got blood, and we got lots of.
Speaker E:Lots of what?
Speaker A:These are people I knew, Miss.
Speaker A:Okay, it's just a bunch.
Speaker A:It's a lot of gore, but if you want.
Speaker A:If you want to see that.
Speaker A:He turns to one of the uniformed cops who's been drinking coffee by the gazebo this entire time.
Speaker A:He waves.
Speaker A:The cop walks over and she says, yes, Sheriff, can you scrounge up the scene photos for Boone, Mayor and Kemp for these.
Speaker A:These agents here?
Speaker A:She kind of looks each one of you up and down quickly.
Speaker A:She nods.
Speaker A:Sure, Sheriff.
Speaker A:I could do that.
Speaker A:She turns, she walks away.
Speaker A:So Officer Kohler there will get.
Speaker A:Get you covered.
Speaker D:So, Sheriff, your plan here is to just keep going out each night and looking for a bear?
Speaker A:Before he answers, he kind of pauses, stares at you.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's not a pleasant stare.
Speaker D:Oh, I can stare right back.
Speaker A:Roll your thousand mile stare.
Speaker D:It's like, who can squint their eyes harder?
Speaker A:Agent, we are gonna find this bear, and we're gonna put a bullet in its skull, and we're gonna make sure it doesn't take another child from this town.
Speaker D:Mm.
Speaker D:Well, good luck with that.
Speaker A:We don't need luck.
Speaker A:We just need damn good planning.
Speaker A:Damn good folks to help.
Speaker A:You notice he's looking past you and you see that a couple of trucks have arrived and you watching look like locals take hunting rifles off the backs of their trucks and make their way over to where the sheriff is standing with you.
Speaker C:Adrian is going to smile wide at the sheriff and say, thank you again so much for your guidance here and having one of your fellow officers help us out.
Speaker C:We really do appreciate it.
Speaker C:It seems like you've got a really great, great plan here and a lot of people showing up.
Speaker C:Have you guys figured out a pattern to sweep or are you going by zones or sectors or.
Speaker C:I'm sure you've got a great plan in place here and we don't want to get in your way, so if you could let us know where you'll be, we'll make sure that we aren't anywhere near those areas.
Speaker A:You got two roles.
Speaker A:One is going to be survival minus 20.
Speaker A:The other's a persuade role.
Speaker C:Which one's first?
Speaker A:Survival, please.
Speaker C:Still a failure in terms of the survival thing.
Speaker C:Does it at all matter if I was lying about the us staying out of their way and we're just using it as a means to get an answer.
Speaker A:I don't care about your motivation.
Speaker A:Go to roll your persuade.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:Persuade is just regular flat.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Don't be kidding me.
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker A:Oh, can I take it by your expletives that that's a failure?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:With my 80 persuade.
Speaker C:Yes, that's a failure.
Speaker C:Which is given my power level.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Gone.
Speaker A:The sheriff looks at you.
Speaker A:Can tell this might be your first time doing something like this.
Speaker A:That's okay.
Speaker A:You don't have to help us on the ground again.
Speaker A:We don't need your help on the ground.
Speaker A:What you can do maybe is get all that paperwork ready that I bet you have waiting to put on my desk when we find that bear and get it taken out.
Speaker A:Why don't you go ahead and file that up, Put some paper clips where the paper clips go and bundle it up all nice for me for.
Speaker A:For when we're done here.
Speaker A:Agents.
Speaker A:He turns around and doesn't walk away.
Speaker A:He just turns back to his deputies who are chuckling, kind of looking up at Euphor.
Speaker A:Begins speaking in measured tones to them actually sounds like he's completely switched gears and is talking about what the sortie plans are going to be like tonight.
Speaker B:Yeah, we don't exist to him anymore.
Speaker B:Okay, I guess we're on our own there.
Speaker D:Look over the guys.
Speaker D:Well, since the sheriff's useless, I say we get to work on our own.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Black SUV is out.
Speaker B:And Romeo twirls his finger like a helicopter.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker A:You four begin walking back to your vehicle and.
Speaker A:Or vehicles.
Speaker A:And everybody rolls their alertness, please.
Speaker B:So we've got.
Speaker A:I've got a Roisin and a Romeo success situation and a Ryan Success.
Speaker A:As you are walking back to your vehicles, relic, you're kind of looking back at the sheriff and he's kind of side glancing you because he heard what you said.
Speaker D:Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker D:I'm sort of caught up laughing to myself right now.
Speaker D:Yeah, and failing all of my roles.
Speaker A:That's get him out of the way when it doesn't matter or it doesn't matter.
Speaker A:Who.
Speaker A:Who knows.
Speaker A:You three, as you're walking back by you, you notice there's a little bit of commotion around the.
Speaker A:The flower stand that you passed on the way here.
Speaker A:It's only about a block down.
Speaker A:Looks like a few people have kind of crowded around.
Speaker A:But it's obvious to you even from this distance that what was what you thought was A vibrant stand looks withered and dead.
Speaker A:The entire arrangement, which was quite large, several racks of beautiful flowers he was putting on display.
Speaker B:And that commotion is how many people?
Speaker A:It's about three people, okay?
Speaker B:And they're probably freaking out over how many.
Speaker B:Looks like their flowers went dead.
Speaker A:Looks like they're yelling to each other or saying something loudly.
Speaker B:Romeo holds up his hand and walks over there, holds up his hand to.
Speaker B:To his group of people like, hold on a second.
Speaker B:And walks over to get a listen on what's going on.
Speaker A:Do the other agents follow?
Speaker E:Yeah, Roizen's right on his tail.
Speaker C:Yeah, Ryan follows.
Speaker A:As you four get closer, you see the flower shopkeeper.
Speaker A:You imagine he's wearing an apron.
Speaker A:He's actually yelling at one of the passersby, an older woman.
Speaker A:He says, it's your no good kid who does stuff like this.
Speaker A:And this is the second time in a week that the whole stand has gone dead like this in an hour.
Speaker A:You hear the woman respond, now you're getting fairly close.
Speaker A:Carl is at school, Bill.
Speaker A:He didn't do anything to your flowers.
Speaker A:You're now fairly close and it's unmistakable that row after row of what you thought were gorgeous arrangements are just withered on the vine.
Speaker B:When was the last time your flowers went dead, if you don't mind asking as a random passerby.
Speaker A:The man turns, snapping his head towards you.
Speaker A:Taking advantage of the distraction, the woman spins on her heels, continues in the other direction down the street.
Speaker A:His eyes soften when he sees you.
Speaker A:Oh, sorry.
Speaker A:This is the second time it's happened in a week.
Speaker A:Last time must have been, I guess, I guess four, four or five days ago.
Speaker A:Somebody's must be putting something and they.
Speaker B:Just in a manner of moments, went dead on you.
Speaker A:Like I go outside, I'm fixing up my arrangements for the day and I go inside to get more and I come out and everything's just like this.
Speaker A:He holds his four or five days ago helplessly.
Speaker A:Yeah, it must have been a Monday.
Speaker A:Must have been Monday.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was, cuz I know I had to put in an extra big order Tuesday morning.
Speaker B:That's a real shame, sir.
Speaker B:I don't know of any way to make flowers die like that, but it certainly is.
Speaker A:Well, it's some sort of kids prank it, ain't it?
Speaker A:It's got to be some sort of kids prank.
Speaker B:I would.
Speaker B:I personally, I don't know any kids that would know a prank like that to pull or had the facilities to do so, sir, but.
Speaker B:But I assume you're insured and, and you could definitely claim that, so.
Speaker A:I don't think so.
Speaker B:I feel for you, you know.
Speaker B:I feel for you.
Speaker A:I don't think insurance is gonna cover this.
Speaker A:He runs his fingers through his hair.
Speaker B:Nonetheless, I think you should report it to the police and get that reported to your insurance.
Speaker B:It certainly is terrible that that happened to you.
Speaker B:That's your livelihood, after all.
Speaker A:He kind of turns from you and stares.
Speaker B:Tell you what.
Speaker B:I'd like to buy some of these dead flowers from you.
Speaker B:I'll take a bouquet.
Speaker A:Feels he turns.
Speaker B:Feel awful for you.
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker B:Yeah, let me just.
Speaker B:He hands him a ten dollar bill and.
Speaker B:And says, I'll take that bouquet of flowers right there.
Speaker B:And he gestures at what used to be roses.
Speaker A:He nods weakly and says, well, take your.
Speaker A:Take your pick, sir.
Speaker A:You got a good heart.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:Do.
Speaker B:Do report it.
Speaker B:I know these police are.
Speaker B:Got their hands full right now, but it, you know, at least make a record of it and file that with your insurance, if possible.
Speaker B:Do what you can to mitigate your losses, you know?
Speaker A:Are you like some sort of lawful good paladin in this game?
Speaker C:No, he's just really taking that.
Speaker C:FBI?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You're going all the way.
Speaker C:Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:He not.
Speaker A:He nods weekly and he says, yeah, yeah, I might just do that.
Speaker B:He's just staying in his cover.
Speaker A:I mean, anything the other agents want to mention or say.
Speaker C:Ryan sidles up next to Romeo and sort of under his breath, did.
Speaker C:Did you work in insurance?
Speaker B:God, no.
Speaker B:I'd kill myself before I did that.
Speaker B:He chuckles and he says, but with the strangeness in this town, I think it's worthy of note.
Speaker C:Fair enough.
Speaker B:Romeo's gonna take the dead flowers back to the vehicle and put them in the back wrapped in a evidence bag.
Speaker A:Ah, okay.
Speaker A:Nice, Royzen.
Speaker E:So this is definitely an unusual.
Speaker E:Sir, does weird stuff like this happen around here?
Speaker E:All the time?
Speaker A:He kind of morosely turns back towards you.
Speaker A:The second time somebody's done this to me.
Speaker A:Oh, damn.
Speaker A:Oh, damn.
Speaker A:So, Roisin, he.
Speaker A:He just kind of trails off.
Speaker A:He doesn't really register what you're asking beyond, you know, what's right in front of him.
Speaker E:I mean, sir, if.
Speaker E:If other people are playing pranks around here, maybe we can figure out who did this to you.
Speaker A:It's got to be that Williams kid.
Speaker A:He's no good.
Speaker A:At least smoking behind the church with those other, you know, black clothing types.
Speaker E:Black clothing types?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Used to be emos or goths.
Speaker A:I don't know what they're called now.
Speaker E:The rebellious ones.
Speaker A:He Nods weakly.
Speaker A:Continues to stare at his stands.
Speaker E:Maybe if you name some of the other kids I can talk to them, try to figure out what's going on.
Speaker A:I think they live in some of the outlying farms.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's that girl Chelsea.
Speaker A:Dad is used to be working on the.
Speaker A:On the big Williams.
Speaker A:He seems to trail off.
Speaker A:He seems confused.
Speaker A:He's rubbing his forehead.
Speaker D:Can I roll a human here to see if I can see anything?
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker D:Nope, not a thing.
Speaker D:Super failed.
Speaker A:He seems very confused and upset.
Speaker A:He trails off.
Speaker A:And when you ask if he's okay, Roy's in.
Speaker A:He looks up and goes just this is the damnedest thing, miss.
Speaker A:This is the damnedest thing.
Speaker A:If you don't mind, I'm just gonna.
Speaker A:Just gonna go inside and figure out the hell I'm gonna do.
Speaker A:He turns, he walks, drink some water.
Speaker E:Take some aspirin, maybe take a nap.
Speaker A:He nods weakly as the door closes to a shop and he stumbles inside.
Speaker B:Romeo returns and says we should probably get a move on if we're gonna check out these sites.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:Which site would you like to check out first?
Speaker B:Let's go in order where they were found, the oldest.
Speaker C:Should we maybe go in reverse order?
Speaker C:Just because given the erosion of storms or the sites investigative perspective.
Speaker B:That's a great idea.
Speaker A:So that means where Guy Mayer was found, that's going to be south of the town in some wooded areas.
Speaker A:Just looking at it from above, you can see there's no roads out in that direction.
Speaker A:You would need to park on what looks like a small ranch road next to a.
Speaker A:Maybe a private drive that looks like it winds in the wrong direction and then trek over looks like farm fields and through some woods.
Speaker B:And we're not trespassing though, right?
Speaker B:To get there?
Speaker A:You have no idea.
Speaker B:Oh, I love that.
Speaker B:Well, packing and bringing my forensic kit.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Anything else I need to be aware of that's coming with the crew.
Speaker D:Well, I mean I put on.
Speaker D:I mean I was already wearing it, but I am wearing my, you know, says police federal agent on the back of my.
Speaker D:My blazer.
Speaker D:It's, you know, so I look like a cop.
Speaker B:Delta green windbreaker.
Speaker D:No, no, my guy.
Speaker D:I mean I've got the utility belt with like cuffs and a gun and all that stuff.
Speaker D:So it's like I look like police officer.
Speaker A:Yeah, you look like an officer.
Speaker A:Okay, cool, cool.
Speaker A:You guys begin trekking through, well, somebody's field.
Speaker A:There's no signs.
Speaker A:The fence was hardly a fence.
Speaker B:And for us Leo types, you're making.
Speaker A:Your way to a tree Line.
Speaker A:Before long, you're moving through thick wooded area.
Speaker B:Is it with two Cs?
Speaker A:Yeah, it is.
Speaker A:It's got two Cs.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Just.
Speaker A:I just check my notes on that one.
Speaker B:So naturally.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:You don't want to be wrong.
Speaker A:I don't want to.
Speaker A:Something like that up.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You're in a very thick forest and.
Speaker A:And hopefully my enunciation made it clear that time.
Speaker B:Yeah, very clear.
Speaker A:You are having a very hard time.
Speaker A:Even though you're close to what looked like the given coordinates by Snediger.
Speaker A:Having a hard time locating anything on the wooded floor that would indicate a crime scene.
Speaker A:But if everybody wants to who can roll a survival -20 might be able to help you out.
Speaker B:That's not even.
Speaker B:But that's worth a shot, I guess.
Speaker C:I don't think that's worth it for me.
Speaker C:I've got the 10 survival.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, same.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:John, if you fail this one.
Speaker D:Oh, I failed.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You're still chuckling to yourself about pissing off the sheriff.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker D:I'm just daydreaming about.
Speaker D:Man.
Speaker D:I got two cars for us.
Speaker D:I showed that guy.
Speaker A:You four are just unable to really see anything.
Speaker A:No prints, no traces of blood or clothing.
Speaker A:It's just woods, leaf covered ground, twigs, a few fallen trees.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker D:How long have we been out here looking?
Speaker D:Just a few minutes or has it been a While?
Speaker A:You spent 90 minutes so far looking for any indication at this coordinate.
Speaker D:I mean, I'd like to keep looking for another hour maybe see if that.
Speaker D:Would that help if I forget what the exact rule is in terms of like additional time.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Reroll.
Speaker D:Or how that works.
Speaker A:If you can convince the team to help you for another hour, I'll give you a survival minus 40.
Speaker D:I looked at the goes.
Speaker D:Y'all found anything yet?
Speaker C:No.
Speaker B:To be quite honest, I'm pretty helpless in the woods.
Speaker B:I mean, I like going camping, but I don't.
Speaker B:I have no idea what I'm doing as far as searching for a former crime scene in the woods.
Speaker B:Without police red tape, I'm useless.
Speaker E:I found a rock.
Speaker B:And what a beautiful rock that is.
Speaker D:I'll be honest, I'm a.
Speaker D:A little frustrated I'm not finding anything here.
Speaker D:This would be.
Speaker B:Well, you're the guy to find it.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker D:I just.
Speaker B:According to yourself.
Speaker C:So would it help?
Speaker B:Just tell us what we should be looking for.
Speaker C:Would it help perhaps if you looked again.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Tell you what.
Speaker D:If some of y'all want to move on to the next.
Speaker D:The next side, I could I'll stay here and keep looking for.
Speaker D:For a little bit longer and then.
Speaker B:Oh, I don't like the idea of that at all.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:To be quite.
Speaker A:Please split the party.
Speaker A:Please split the party first thing.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker B:If you stick around and search.
Speaker B:I don't want to leave you out here on your.
Speaker B:On your own being.
Speaker B:That's how people disappear forever, so.
Speaker C:Well, Relic, it sounds like you've got some experience in the wilderness.
Speaker D:Well, you know, I thought I did.
Speaker C:What.
Speaker C:What.
Speaker C:What are you typically looking for?
Speaker C:Maybe we can.
Speaker C:We can help you out.
Speaker B:Is there a particular moss or relicree with that.
Speaker A:With that particular role, you feel like there's going to be no trace.
Speaker A:The elements have scrubbed away anything.
Speaker A:And to dig deeper, you know, you would really need to put some time to it.
Speaker A:You'd start to really have to start turning some of these leaves and looking for things on the actual forest bed in.
Speaker A:You know, you don't feel like that's going to be super fruitful based off the roll.
Speaker A:But you're welcome.
Speaker A:You're welcome to.
Speaker A:To go again.
Speaker A:It's just going to take some time.
Speaker A:You're going to have to convince the team and you'll have to roll with a minus 40.
Speaker D:I can roll.
Speaker D:I can roll.
Speaker D:Play that.
Speaker D:I'll just say.
Speaker D:Just.
Speaker D:I hear him say like, God damn it.
Speaker D:I.
Speaker D:That sheriff was right.
Speaker D:Yeah, no, he's right.
Speaker D:There's just.
Speaker D:The elements are just taking everything here.
Speaker D:This is just.
Speaker D:We're probably not going to find anything else with the other sites, but for the diligence, we should at least check.
Speaker B:Look, if we get lost out here, I am not drinking my own piss.
Speaker B:That is not happening.
Speaker A:Flash forward 20 minutes later.
Speaker A:20 minutes and he is.
Speaker B:You guys.
Speaker B:It's a matter of survival.
Speaker E:Roizen just pulls an enormous water bottle out of her backpack and chucks it at him.
Speaker A:Can he catch it?
Speaker A:Or is it gonna bounce off his forehead in a comical slapstick manner?
Speaker B:Well, of course it's gonna be comical.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, we want.
Speaker E:Oh, no.
Speaker E:It's gonna hit him in the.
Speaker A:There we go.
Speaker B:His suit is completely untattered.
Speaker B:He's caught it on every bush, every tree.
Speaker C:Do we hear the monsters laugh?
Speaker A:Yeah, it was going full stealth until it saw that and it gave away its position.
Speaker A:So I'd fire north, northwest.
Speaker D:Like, was it the predator?
Speaker D:Right when they open up on the.
Speaker D:Yeah, just guns at play.
Speaker A:You Ford trek back north towards where you parked your car and yeah, it's already noon.
Speaker A:Sweaty pile into the vehicles and yeah, you can definitely Drive back north to where the Kemp boy was found.
Speaker A:Unfortunately, it's not gonna be right on a road again, but it's definitely not in the middle of the woods.
Speaker A:It looks like it's in the middle of a field.
Speaker B:Well, if.
Speaker B:If the second location is correct, it should probably be easier to find than in the middle of the woods.
Speaker B:So here's.
Speaker B:Here's hoping that number two is our lucky one.
Speaker A:It doesn't take long to trek out there, and the field itself is fairly unremarkable.
Speaker A:None of you can see any indication that there was a gruesome crime scene here, if there was one at all.
Speaker A:You've been assured there has been, but certainly no evidence of such exists at this juncture.
Speaker B:Okay, I'm kind of reading between the lines here, and we're wasting our time.
Speaker B:All right, then we have other avenues to look at.
Speaker B:What do you.
Speaker B:What do you guys think?
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:I feel like we're not getting anywhere and we're going back to further in time with these other ones.
Speaker B:I don't feel like we're going to find anything of value, I think, given.
Speaker C:As far apart as these are, even though, you know, this is still one area.
Speaker C:But I don't know how we're gonna piece things together, given that days have passed and just by looking at these sites.
Speaker C:Plus, if there is something worse than a bear out here, my guess is that.
Speaker C:Do we think it would go back to the same place twice?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:I mean, it's been all over the town.
Speaker B:First one was east of the town.
Speaker B:The second one was southwest.
Speaker B:Third was south.
Speaker B:Sorry, north.
Speaker B:And the fourth was south.
Speaker B:So it's not the same places in all over.
Speaker B:I just can't imagine it would hit the same place twice is what I'm trying to say.
Speaker C:Can I.
Speaker C:Chris, can I ask a question outside of the.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, please.
Speaker C:Because I.
Speaker C:I don't know the.
Speaker C:The span of how this works, and I could also ask this in character as well, but, I mean, is the concept of us getting a drone from the government possible?
Speaker A:Oh, absolutely.
Speaker A:Definitely.
Speaker A:You could give Snediger a call and ask for him to.
Speaker A:To get you an aerial surveillance setup, if that's what you want.
Speaker A:He may say no, but doesn't hurt to ask.
Speaker A:If that's what you think will help you out here.
Speaker C:Ryan will bring up the idea.
Speaker C:A useful tool if we're trying to canvass a large area.
Speaker C:Might be a drone.
Speaker C:Could be worth calling big boss man and see if you'll get one out here to us.
Speaker E:Worth a try.
Speaker E:I mean, the worst still do it, say no.
Speaker B:I mean, what would we do with it?
Speaker B:I've heard of surveillance programs that track moving cars and whatnot, but wild animals, a little harder to track.
Speaker E:All we have to do is get eyes on it.
Speaker B:Yeah, you're right, but someone's got a man, the drone, and nowhere to fly it.
Speaker C:I'm definitely better with drone handling than I'd be walking around here in the woods looking for tracks.
Speaker B:Well, for sure, that's.
Speaker B:That's fair.
Speaker B:We've got other avenues.
Speaker C:I mean, what are you thinking?
Speaker B:Well, we've got numbers we can call here that Snedeker gave us.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:We've got a couple people in town.
Speaker B:We've got that.
Speaker B:We can check out their homes.
Speaker D:The deputy's supposed to be getting us pictures of the crime scenes from when they found him out.
Speaker D:And we could speak and I'd like to.
Speaker D:I'd like to see.
Speaker B:To speak to the family of the deceased victims, see if we can draw any.
Speaker B:Any parallels here or any kind of.
Speaker C:You think there's some intentionality behind these attacks, some through line?
Speaker B:I am not able to make any heads or tails thus far.
Speaker B:Other than the weird organ thing, there's no.
Speaker B:I don't see any link other than they were all outside of town.
Speaker B:Other than that we.
Speaker B:I think we'd have.
Speaker B:We really have to get to digging into these people's lives and seeing what's up.
Speaker C:I think that that's a great idea.
Speaker C:I'd also argue that why limit ourselves, given that we're really trying to figure this out and from, you know, whatever angle we can.
Speaker C:I think I'm gonna go ahead and make that call.
Speaker C:But definitely agree.
Speaker C:If it's no, go right ahead.
Speaker B:I'm not saying no.
Speaker B:I'm just saying what are we gonna get from that?
Speaker B:The next best option, I think is.
Speaker B:Is starting to talk to next of kin.
Speaker C:I think that's a really good next option.
Speaker B:And personal favorite is Amanda Boone.
Speaker B:She has no next of kin, but she certainly lived somewhere.
Speaker B:And we could.
Speaker B:We've got that, We've got that we can use.
Speaker B:We can check out her place without bothering anyone, for starters.
Speaker C:All right, are we.
Speaker C:I assume we're.
Speaker C:We're still out at the last site, right?
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:You're just kind of hanging out in your air conditioned.
Speaker A:One of the air conditioned vehicles so that you can kind of dry off this.
Speaker A:This Ohio sweat as you speak and try to plan your next moves.
Speaker A:So it sounds like we're going to make a phone call back to Agent Snedeker first.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:On.
Speaker C:On the, on the drive back in.
Speaker A:Got it, got it.
Speaker A:Where are we going to head as we drive back into town?
Speaker A:Are we going to one of the houses or.
Speaker B:Yeah, the address of Amanda Boone is according to this sheet.
Speaker B: It's: Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's actually on your way back into town.
Speaker A:It's a good choice.
Speaker B:Cool, cool, cool.
Speaker A:So as you're driving in, you make a phone call.
Speaker A:Snedger does pick up fairly quickly.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll your bureaucracy plus 20% PL.
Speaker C:Oh, hold on.
Speaker A:Looks like you succeed with flying colors.
Speaker C:Or succeeded regardless.
Speaker B:See, John, you're supposed to succeed at what you're good at.
Speaker A:Yeah, John, take notes.
Speaker A:That's how you play relic.
Speaker D:Pops out a little note pad, starts scribbling.
Speaker D:That's really good.
Speaker D:How do I do that?
Speaker A:Agent?
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Go ahead and have a courier bring that in.
Speaker A:And well before.
Speaker A:Before the end of the day.
Speaker A:Where are you staying?
Speaker B:The Western.
Speaker C:One of us decided that the best Western was the best option for us to.
Speaker C:To stay.
Speaker C:I'm not aware any Best Westerns.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:There's just a Western now in Columbus.
Speaker A:Is that what you're referring to?
Speaker C:Yes, yes, that is.
Speaker C:That is the one.
Speaker C:But hey, we found out that there aren't any bugs in it.
Speaker C:Which one might argue is worth that time spent.
Speaker B:Agent Romeo's face kind of screws up into an annoyed look.
Speaker C:Yeah, because I'm in his passenger seat making this phone call.
Speaker C:So I'm definitely hamming it up on my end.
Speaker A:Good, good.
Speaker A:Snaker replies noted.
Speaker A:Is that all Asian?
Speaker C:Yeah, if you could have that there tonight, that would be great.
Speaker A:It will be.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker A:He hangs.
Speaker A:You four pull into a residential neighborhood.
Speaker A:Close closely spaced homes, all single story with small shortened front lawns.
Speaker A:Some well manicured, others need a trim.
Speaker A:If you were to gauge this particular neighborhood, probably middle, lower middle class.
Speaker A:Do you go ahead and park near the address I ask with a question mark?
Speaker B:Yeah, across the street.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:You four leave your vehicles and walk up to the home.
Speaker A:Ms.
Speaker A:Boone's home is the only multi story home on the block.
Speaker A:However, it's oddly shaped in that it has what it.
Speaker A:What it loses in its width, it makes up for in verticality.
Speaker A:In fact, on the outside, she has a impressive set of stairs running the side.
Speaker A:It's not a fire escape.
Speaker A:This appears to be part of the way to enter the home.
Speaker A:The door is unlocked.
Speaker B:Dope.
Speaker A:You walk straight in.
Speaker A:Agent's cool with this.
Speaker B:I'm cool with it.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker D:Everybody Else very, very cool.
Speaker E:I'm in the back.
Speaker C:I'm stuck in the back.
Speaker A:You four file in.
Speaker A:Closing the door behind you.
Speaker A:I assume Agent Ryzen.
Speaker C:I don't know if that's true.
Speaker C:Okay, you.
Speaker B:Born in a barn.
Speaker A:Her home is striking.
Speaker A:Upon entry.
Speaker A:It's a rather impressive museum of trinkets and gewgaws.
Speaker A:In fact, it appears she had a penchant for old Coca Cola toys and ornaments from the early, early 20th century.
Speaker A:And as you kind of step through this menagerie, you get to what was once a living room but is now a display area for the most notable section of her home.
Speaker A:She has a wide array here of fossils.
Speaker A:See trilobites and corals, bivalves, crinoids, cephalopods.
Speaker A:She has them all.
Speaker A:And as you step through, kind of scanning over this, looking for where this woman might actually live in the home, you see that a few are of truly monstrous size.
Speaker A:These are amazing recoveries for an amateur.
Speaker A:You see, her largest is a tabulate coral that's sitting on the floor.
Speaker A:It looks incredibly heavy and it eerily resembles a massive human brain.
Speaker A:As you four kind of pair through this, walk up and down the stairs, you finally find a bathroom and a bedroom.
Speaker A:But it seems like she must have spent most of her time doting over her collection.
Speaker A:Doesn't have a television set, but she does have a landline.
Speaker A:And you do see she has an old style tape recorder, answering machine attached.
Speaker A:You don't see any pending messages, but there's definitely a lot of notes scribbled on a pad nearby.
Speaker A:First glance, they seem utility related.
Speaker A:Yeah, otherwise you're not super surprised with what you're finding here.
Speaker A:She had a couple of prescriptions, a statin that you find in her in her bathroom cabinet.
Speaker A:Otherwise it's just cold medicine.
Speaker B:Romeo reaches into his blazer and pulls out a handful of nitrile gloves and hands them around.
Speaker B:If you're gonna touch anything, have these gloves on.
Speaker B:He walks his way over to that notepad and looks for anything that isn't a utility note.
Speaker B:Anything spring to spring up there.
Speaker A:Yeah, there's.
Speaker A:There's one that springs out at you.
Speaker A:It reads, Jeff from Watts wots about the coral again.
Speaker B:Okay, well, there's a lot here.
Speaker B:He pulls out that smartphone and searches that Snediger gave him and searches Watts on that.
Speaker A:Other agents.
Speaker A:What are you doing?
Speaker E:Bryson's gonna reach over and just hit play on the answering machine.
Speaker E:Because even if there's no pending messages, there may be some she hasn't erased yet.
Speaker B:Did she do that with gloves on.
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Cuz I was gonna have a special comment if you didn't.
Speaker A:You just keep that special comment for another scene.
Speaker A:Sir.
Speaker C:Ryan just slams his hand on the nearest table.
Speaker C:He licks it.
Speaker A:He's got the.
Speaker A:He's got the bathroom door open.
Speaker A:He's wildly missing the toilet bowl.
Speaker B:You're sound not unlike a teapot boiling coming from Romeo.
Speaker A:Hey, it's Jeff again.
Speaker A:Listen, listen.
Speaker A:Everybody hears this from the answering machine.
Speaker A:I'm not much of a negotiator, but I gotta tell ya, you got something real special over there.
Speaker A:Now let me paint you a picture.
Speaker A:Special backroom exhibition.
Speaker A:Classy.
Speaker A:Glass cases, all felt lines.
Speaker A:I'm thinking Secrets of mew.
Speaker A:A true record of our world.
Speaker A:Can you just see it?
Speaker A:They'll be lining up around the block.
Speaker A:Amanda.
Speaker A:Now you know I ain't got much, but we'll call it a donation for the taxman.
Speaker A:And I'll give you 25% of the entry fee for each truth seeker through the door.
Speaker A:Just let me know.
Speaker A:I got the space all set up.
Speaker A:Click.
Speaker E:Someone was anxious to get his hands on this thing.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:Did you say secrets of.
Speaker D:Of.
Speaker D:What was it again?
Speaker A:Mew.
Speaker B:Mew.
Speaker D:Mew.
Speaker D:Is that something I should know or is that a weird thing?
Speaker B:Well, most people know about MEW too, but the original mew.
Speaker A:Uh, yeah.
Speaker A:Roll your occult.
Speaker D:Man, oh man.
Speaker D:Should I even bother just.
Speaker D:Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker D:I failed.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's not something you've really come across.
Speaker A:You're not sure what the guy's talking about on the recording.
Speaker B:Do I come up with the page on my phone or anything?
Speaker A:Wots?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:Yeah, nothing that seems relevant to Mechanicsburg or Columbus or Bears.
Speaker B:This guy doesn't even have a website.
Speaker B:That seems like a dead end.
Speaker D:Well, that's going on.
Speaker D:My relic is just spending more time looking.
Speaker D:It's just doing a deeper, deeper search through the.
Speaker D:Through the place.
Speaker A:And I should mention, because I didn't, that it was Jeff from Watts about the coral sample.
Speaker A:Wots.
Speaker A:WOTS is capitalized all four of those letters.
Speaker C:Was there a callback number?
Speaker A:Nope.
Speaker C:Is there a number on the Jeeta paver?
Speaker A:Unfortunately not.
Speaker C:Does the answering machine log a number?
Speaker A:It appears to be a very old answering machine and it unfortunately has no digital capabilities.
Speaker B:It appears Amanda Boone.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker D:Could we pull the phone records for the.
Speaker D:For this place?
Speaker E:Actually, before we do that, Frozen's gonna pick up the handset and just hit star 69.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What you end up getting unfortunately.
Speaker A:And I won't role play this appears to be one of Amanda Boone's relatives homes.
Speaker A:Who didn't leave a message.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker E:Well, it was worth a try.
Speaker B:Yeah, I tried searching Watts.
Speaker B:All capital wots.
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker A:Yeah, separate.
Speaker A:You can straight up type that in into Google right now.
Speaker A:And those are the.
Speaker A:Those are the results you get.
Speaker B:Still nothing.
Speaker B:Okay, well.
Speaker B:Guy's a weirdo.
Speaker B:Doesn't have a webpage.
Speaker A:Well, you need to get some more context in order to find something.
Speaker A:If you just type in W E T S, you're gonna hear random shit.
Speaker B:I hear you.
Speaker B:Wait, like, doesn't exist online.
Speaker B:So does he exist?
Speaker B:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker B:If I can't find him by doing a simple search, then he doesn't.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:He's not real.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm gonna have to find.
Speaker A:Case closed.
Speaker A:Case closed.
Speaker B:This isn't.
Speaker B:I think this is a red herring.
Speaker B:At the current moment.
Speaker B:There's nothing tying this to what she's doing.
Speaker B:Other than the fact she was looking for fossils.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:I mean, that's a mild coincidence.
Speaker B:Worth note, but not.
Speaker B:I don't see any reason to stick around in this place.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Relic agrees.
Speaker E:Fine with me.
Speaker A:You four leave the home.
Speaker A:And you notice that there was definitely somebody across the street staring at you as you all left.
Speaker A:Who shut his curtains very quickly when you met his eyes.
Speaker C:All four of us noticed this.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It wasn't a difficult one.
Speaker D:Even Relic notices this.
Speaker A:He's still chuckling about his.
Speaker A:His slams earlier against the sheriff, but he did notice.
Speaker B:It's been hours.
Speaker D:Finally getting over it.
Speaker D:Sort of getting.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I'm gonna have to find like a chuckle.
Speaker A:Like a long chuckle.
Speaker A:Audio file to play during the last.
Speaker B:And just have that scene.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Perfect.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Just for the audio comedy, you know, it's just so good to have that playing in the background.
Speaker B:So we've all clocked that.
Speaker B:But I mean, small town.
Speaker B:We are obviously federal.
Speaker C:Something Ryan's inclined.
Speaker C:See if he can charm an answer out of the gentleman.
Speaker C:Or more.
Speaker C:More information.
Speaker A:Walk across the street and knock on the door.
Speaker C:I'll turn to the group and say.
Speaker C:And kind of give a.
Speaker C:A shrug and say.
Speaker C:Might be worth asking what kind of company she kept.
Speaker C:Especially if he's used to looking out the front window.
Speaker B:Couldn't hurt.
Speaker D:We don't have much else.
Speaker A:All four of us know Agent Ryan.
Speaker C:Ryan.
Speaker A:Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker C:Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker C:Now that he walks across the street.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Hey, we're on the same page there.
Speaker A:Knock on the door.
Speaker B:This is good.
Speaker A:And a few moments pass and the Door opens and you see this gentleman.
Speaker A:He looks like he's in maybe his.
Speaker A:His mid-60s.
Speaker A:He's got a towel around his shoulders, although he is fully dressed, and he's using the towel to ostensibly dry the interior of his ears.
Speaker A:When he opens the door, he is looking very, very casual at you.
Speaker A:He says, oh, hi there.
Speaker A:How can I help you?
Speaker C:Hi, sir.
Speaker C:My name is Ryan and we were asked by the sheriff to help with the recent animal attacks.
Speaker C:If you've.
Speaker C:If you've heard about that terrible, terrible tragedy going on lately.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, of course.
Speaker A:I mean, it's all anybody's talking about.
Speaker A:No one's going out after five because of the man eater out there.
Speaker C:That seems like a pretty smart idea.
Speaker C:We were just across the street at Ms.
Speaker C:Boone's place, and since you guys are close neighbors, we thought we might come over here and ask if you know what kind of company she kept.
Speaker C:We saw some really incredible fossils in her.
Speaker C:Her home.
Speaker C:Were you guys friendly?
Speaker A:He looks up and to the left before he answers and they meet your eyes and he says, yeah, me and Mandy.
Speaker A:Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker A:We were great friends and neighbors.
Speaker A:And her fossils.
Speaker A:Very cool.
Speaker A:Very cool fossils.
Speaker C:He says, Amazing.
Speaker C:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker C:What.
Speaker C:Which one of them were you most interested in?
Speaker A:Oh, well, I couldn't really tell you.
Speaker A:There's the curlicues and in the big.
Speaker A:The big round ones, those are pretty good.
Speaker A:She used to go out all the time and would bring all that crap back and it would sit on her doorstep until she was ready to get a display case for him.
Speaker A:And it looked like, you know, she didn't bring him in very quickly.
Speaker A:They would stay out there for a while and, you know, that wasn't the greatest, but I would get a good look at them, I guess, when they were sitting out there for days.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:You're an incredibly understanding neighbor.
Speaker C:I'm.
Speaker C:I'm a city guy myself.
Speaker C:And to be honest, there's something about an eyesore out on the street that just really doesn't.
Speaker C:Doesn't appeal to me.
Speaker C:But you're.
Speaker C:You must be a better man than I.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Look, we don't have an HOA here.
Speaker A:We don't.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But you would have some common decency to not leave a bunch of stupid looking rocks all over your yard, stacked up sometimes waist high.
Speaker A:Some sort of weird.
Speaker A:Listen, Mandy's fine.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:It's a tragedy what happened to her, but she would bring any and everything out of that damn creek and just leave it in her yard.
Speaker A:And honestly.
Speaker A:He trails off.
Speaker B:Honestly, you're Kind of.
Speaker B:You're happy to see that that won't be happening again.
Speaker A:Oh, I thought this was just an Agent Ryan spotlight moment.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker A:I didn't realize y'all had snuck up behind him to chime in.
Speaker B:Oh, that'd be so creepy.
Speaker D:Like, pop over shoulder.
Speaker D:Oh, what was that?
Speaker B:No, we're all ominously sitting in S.
Speaker D:As proper feds do, aviators glinting in the sun.
Speaker A:As he's, as he's kind of going off like this.
Speaker A:Agent Ryan, you notice movement behind him in his house.
Speaker A:And you see.
Speaker B:It's a bear.
Speaker B:Sorry, Case.
Speaker C:Look over there.
Speaker A:You see a small black cat scratching up what looks like a leather chair in the living room as he continues his rant.
Speaker A:The cat really digs in there, really rips it.
Speaker A:Rips some shreds off, takes its time and skulks away.
Speaker A:But what causes your brow to just involuntarily furrow is the cat has five legs.
Speaker A:Two, four legs, three hind legs.
Speaker A:It scampers off out of you.
Speaker A:He finishes his rant.
Speaker A:He's panting a bit.
Speaker A:Apologies.
Speaker A:It's just like.
Speaker A:It was really kind of, I guess a sorer point between myself and Mandy than I thought.
Speaker C:No worries.
Speaker C:I, I completely understand.
Speaker C:I honestly, I think might be in a similar state of mind myself.
Speaker C:Did you ever talk to her about it?
Speaker C:Ask her to, to clean it up?
Speaker C:Did you, did you spend much time over there at all?
Speaker A:I mean, I left a lot of notes.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Didn't really, Our schedules didn't really line up, but I left her lots of notes.
Speaker C:I understand, I understand.
Speaker C:If I might ask her, and this is just so we're getting to know the community a little better.
Speaker C:Do you have a spouse or you live here by yourself?
Speaker A:Oh, it's just, well, me and the cats, I've got, I've got seven of the little beauties.
Speaker A:He smiles widely.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:Seven cats.
Speaker C:How do you even keep track of that many?
Speaker A:Well, some come and go, actually.
Speaker A:Kind of a, I like to call it kind of an open house for the feline friends.
Speaker A:And, you know, they, they come and they go and Big, big G, that's short for Garfield.
Speaker A:He's really kind of, he's an older cat and he's, he starts really going into the cats.
Speaker C:Got it.
Speaker C:They, they sound incredible.
Speaker C:Sir, if, if I may, if I may stop you, though, I, I, I wouldn't want to spoil the, the surprise of seeing the cats around the neighborhood for myself.
Speaker C:So I think I might, I might, might just leave the, leave the rest to, to Find out for me.
Speaker C:But it really sounds like a really sweet operation that you've got.
Speaker A:Well, I've got to keep going.
Speaker A:I've got to keep them safe.
Speaker A:I've got to try to keep them all in while this thing's on the loose.
Speaker C:You want to be careful.
Speaker C:I was going to mention that, that if you're just letting any cat into your.
Speaker C:Your home, you want to be careful to make sure that, you know, you're not letting in any creatures that would do you any harm.
Speaker A:Well, he seems flustered.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I didn't think about that.
Speaker C:Are all your cats around right now?
Speaker C:I've got.
Speaker C:But some of my colleagues here are very familiar with the nature far, far more than I am, and they might be able to help look at some of your animals and make sure that everything's going to be safe.
Speaker C:For your own good, of course.
Speaker A:Well, do you think the bear can get through a cat door?
Speaker C:We hope not.
Speaker C:We certainly hope not, sir.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:You have a veterinarian with you to look at my cats?
Speaker A:He seems confused now.
Speaker C:I mean, I might as well lie, right?
Speaker A:I mean, have.
Speaker A:Have fun with it, man.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:This world is yours.
Speaker A:The only consequences are the consequences.
Speaker C:Fuck, you're right.
Speaker C:Let's go with it.
Speaker C:Not.
Speaker C:Not a veterinarian, but somebody very, very familiar with.
Speaker C:With animals due to their line of work in nature.
Speaker D:So don't do this.
Speaker B:Look, he's real distracted today, though.
Speaker B:He's did some sweet riffs earlier and.
Speaker A:He just laughing over there.
Speaker D:You're making a mistake.
Speaker D:Don't do it.
Speaker A:He seems confused.
Speaker A:He's like, I think my cats, you know, they'll be okay, but thank you for the.
Speaker A:Thank you for the offer.
Speaker A:It's nice to meet another fellow animal lover.
Speaker A:That's wonderful, but, you know, I've got to get back to it.
Speaker A:He smiles.
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker C:And thank you.
Speaker C:Sir, if I may ask that you.
Speaker C:If you do see any suspicious activity or strange behavior in the neighborhood, please, please let us know.
Speaker C:We're here to keep you safe.
Speaker A:I'll call.
Speaker A:I'll call 911 immediately.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C:Have a great rest of your evening.
Speaker A:He closes the door.
Speaker C:I turn back to the team and say, well, did it go so well?
Speaker C:Overall, not a huge fan of our vic over there, but our victim, my guy's not a scop, so that.
Speaker C:That's ridiculous.
Speaker B:No, no, just go with it.
Speaker B:Say it again.
Speaker C:Setting yourself up for a joke.
Speaker A:He needs it, Michael.
Speaker A:He needs you to say it.
Speaker C:I'll say it again.
Speaker C:Well, that.
Speaker C:That Gentleman wasn't a big fan of our vic over there, Ms.
Speaker C:Boone.
Speaker B:Our vic.
Speaker A:That's what.
Speaker C:Our victim.
Speaker C:That was the.
Speaker C:Jesus.
Speaker B:I didn't have a.
Speaker B:I was so built up.
Speaker A:He had nothing.
Speaker A:We'll never.
Speaker A:We'll never backtrack for you again, sir.
Speaker C:That was so funny.
Speaker C:Our.
Speaker C:Our.
Speaker C:Our victim over there.
Speaker C:But I could have sworn one of his cats that walked by behind him had five legs.
Speaker D:Well, as a resident expert on animals, I can tell you with certain things.
Speaker D:Weird.
Speaker A:Hold on.
Speaker A:Roll for that.
Speaker D:Should I roll for that?
Speaker D:Do I need to roll for that first?
Speaker A:I roll for him.
Speaker D:Tight.
Speaker C:The cat, you're just like.
Speaker A:No, that's fine.
Speaker D:At least pass that one.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're good, man.
Speaker C:So I'm.
Speaker C:I'm.
Speaker C:I'm.
Speaker C:It makes me wonder if there's something bigger going on throughout this whole town rather than just some of the outlying areas.
Speaker B:So the only other mutants we've seen up till now were the dead, and you've seen a cat with five legs?
Speaker C:That's correct.
Speaker C:Seems to be the case.
Speaker B:Did you ask where you got that cat?
Speaker C:He lets the cats come in and out.
Speaker C:He does.
Speaker C:I didn't ask particularly about that cat, but they're not his cats.
Speaker C:He just.
Speaker B:If he's our next victim, that's going to.
Speaker B:Sorry, Vic.
Speaker B:That's going to be real fucked up.
Speaker C:Ryan winks star wipe.
Speaker B:Star to the next victim scene.
Speaker C:Well, now he's got to keep the vic bit in.
Speaker B:Well, we did our best.
Speaker B:Sorry, Delta Green.
Speaker B:This one's out of our league.
Speaker C:I'd say Ryan's spotlight fades and we pass it back to our gm.
Speaker A:Chris, before you four decide that you're going to head to another victim's home, perhaps, where would you like to go next?
Speaker B:Yep, I think unfortunately, or fortunately, I guess the only other victim that has no next of kin is Guy Mayer.
Speaker B:And so we may want to check him out before we go bothering people that have families and who probably will be crying and grieving and therefore making our investigation, I hate to say, difficult.
Speaker B:So my vote is for Guy Mayer, who also had no next of kin and I am hoping lived alone.
Speaker A:How does the team feel about that?
Speaker B:That's a good looking farm.
Speaker B:It's a lot going on there, honestly.
Speaker C:That is a chaotic as hell farm, but like, very well contained.
Speaker B:A lot of donkeys.
Speaker B:I'm gonna have to.
Speaker B:Listener.
Speaker C:Listener.
Speaker B:10.
Speaker B:10 donkeys.
Speaker B:10 donkeys.
Speaker A:Did you just count the donkeys in my stock photo of a hobbit?
Speaker A:I did.
Speaker B:There's 10.
Speaker C:10 donkeys.
Speaker B:One goose one's.
Speaker B:One might be a llama.
Speaker B:I might have miscarried.
Speaker B:This is hard.
Speaker A:This, this was not meant to be a puzzle in the game.
Speaker B:There's too many.
Speaker A:I have a puzzle for you.
Speaker C:There's something here.
Speaker E:There's also turkeys, chickens and geese.
Speaker B:They're all facing certain directions.
Speaker B:Now if you line those directions up.
Speaker A:Do you see that one of the chickens is flashing a freemason sign?
Speaker B:I do see that.
Speaker A:Now follow that down the rabbit hole.
Speaker A:Sir.
Speaker C:Quick, everybody count the legs.
Speaker B:Well, what we have here obviously is a conspiracy to mutate animals.
Speaker B:I think these animals are all just one animal and they have divided.
Speaker C:So Ryan walks around and gets into the passenger seat as they head over to the Myers home.
Speaker B:The fun house is closed.
Speaker A:Derek, as you, as you yes fuckers drive away.
Speaker D:I would like to point out this is not an Ohio farm.
Speaker D:This is an Idaho farm.
Speaker D:But you know who's counting?
Speaker B:Got him.
Speaker A:How dare you.
Speaker D:I was, I wasn't gonna say it.
Speaker D:We got next motherfuckers.
Speaker D:And I was like, all right, fine.
Speaker D:You know, I'll fail some more roles.
Speaker D:Don't worry, you'll get yours.
Speaker A:Good, good.
Speaker A:As you leave this residential area to make your way west towards the mayor homestead, Agent Ryan, you do notice there's a five legged black cat licking its forepaw in the window of the man's small home.
Speaker A:It fades out of view as the car turns and continues west.
Speaker A:The homestead as you drive up to it, it's kind of all by itself, an enormous, nearly fallow field that you drive a gravel path through toward the.
Speaker A:The edifice itself is scattered with various fowl, a few donkeys.
Speaker A:You don't see any fences.
Speaker A:And these ranch animals seem to have free reign of the small homestead.
Speaker A:There's a large chicken coop next to what looks like the quarters themselves, as well as a barn set aside a few paces away.
Speaker A:It's a small barn.
Speaker A:You see a woman in the large cooperation.
Speaker A:She's wearing gloves and overalls.
Speaker A:She looks older and looks up as your vehicles come up for the drive.
Speaker A:But she continues working.
Speaker A:Looks like she's dealing with quite a few of those chickens, feeding them as they kind of swarm around their trough.
Speaker A:She's shooing some others off of their watering trough where it seems like they are both eating and shitting into it, which is what chickens do apparently.
Speaker A:Something that I recently learned, and now you guys get to learn too.
Speaker C:That's some foul.
Speaker C:Foul.
Speaker A:They're be fouling their own water trough.
Speaker B:Anyways, that's.
Speaker C:I Stand by it.
Speaker C:I'm dying on that hill.
Speaker A:As you four walk up to the coop, you can hear this woman cursing.
Speaker A:Have no idea why Guy didn't out for an automatic waterer like everyone else.
Speaker A:See her wiper, gloved, hands on her overalls.
Speaker A:She turns and faces you through the chicken wire.
Speaker A:Not leaving the large coop, she smiles.
Speaker A:Hi there.
Speaker B:Hi, ma'am.
Speaker A:Are you friends of.
Speaker A:Of Guy?
Speaker A:She scans over Agent Relic.
Speaker A:Or maybe.
Speaker A:Maybe you're more police.
Speaker B:Well, we're with the Department of Interior, ma'am.
Speaker B:We're here to investigate the.
Speaker B:All the recent business, you know.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Well, I'm Judith.
Speaker A:I live down the road with my husband.
Speaker A:We just been pulling double duty here, trying to keep these good animals at least somewhat healthy until one of Guy's family members can get down here.
Speaker B:We were under the impression he had no next of kin.
Speaker B:Is that incorrect?
Speaker B:Is it only in the area that he doesn't?
Speaker A:Hell, I don't.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I'm hoping somebody.
Speaker A:Somebody gets claim to this.
Speaker A:I don't know how much more double, double duty we can.
Speaker A:We can pull.
Speaker A:Probably need to figure out a way to get these animals to somebody else until.
Speaker A:She shakes her head, trails off.
Speaker B:Yeah, ma'am, that may be best.
Speaker A:Judith walks, doing her best not to step on any of the swarming chickens.
Speaker A:But she walks out of the coop, comes around to meet you face to face.
Speaker A:She's fairly short, slight, but she smiles and says, well, if there's any questions I can answer, I guess I'm your woman.
Speaker B:Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker B:You don't happen to have key to the inside of the house?
Speaker B:We just need to take a quick precursory look around.
Speaker B:Oh, it's being as it seems to be an animal attack, we absolutely don't suspect any foul play, but just want to check all the boxes here.
Speaker B:Cross the t's, dot the I's, you know.
Speaker A:Oh, it's open.
Speaker A:It's open.
Speaker A:Yeah, you can have.
Speaker A:You can.
Speaker A:You can go on in there.
Speaker A:Anything to help the bear task force.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:Is.
Speaker B:Is there anything that stands out in your mind about the day that.
Speaker B:That it happened?
Speaker A:Well, I.
Speaker A:I don't know exactly what happened.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I can tell you Guy was a stubborn man like most of them, but, you know, he loved the kids.
Speaker A:He loved the kids of the village.
Speaker A:He worked at the area senior high school's gun club.
Speaker A:He taught most of the kids gun safety and survival basics.
Speaker A:He definitely went a bit off the bend.
Speaker A:Started drinking a bunch with the news of.
Speaker A:Of Archie.
Speaker A:I know he was hunting and ranging around the area at all hours.
Speaker A:And I know he was hoping to be the one to put a bullet into that damn bear skull.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker B:So it's safe to say he was maybe on a mission.
Speaker B:And what do you think he was drinking the day that.
Speaker B:That he died?
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Probably.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Just want an idea of his mindset at the time.
Speaker A:Good man, she says.
Speaker A:Kind of straightening up a bit.
Speaker A:Real good man.
Speaker A:Just took it hard.
Speaker A:We all took it hard.
Speaker A:Camp boy was a.
Speaker A:He was a good boy.
Speaker A:He was a good boy.
Speaker A:She smiles.
Speaker B:Well, ma'am, we're gonna have a look around and.
Speaker B:And point me to your house and I'll come ask you if we have any questions.
Speaker A:Oh, I'll be up out here.
Speaker A:I gotta get some of those.
Speaker A:Those jackasses out there.
Speaker A:She motions in the general direction of the several donkeys that are grazing in the nearly fallow field, not at the other agents.
Speaker B:I counted too many donkeys.
Speaker A:I got to try to round them up and get them back in the barn.
Speaker A:So I'll be out here for a while.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:Anybody else want to ask her any questions or you guys want to enter the house or the homestead of Guy Mayor?
Speaker C:Are the animals pretty widespread?
Speaker C:Really what I'm looking for is, as we survey, do we see any other physical abnormalities across any of the farm animals?
Speaker A:Yeah, go ahead and roll your search, please.
Speaker C:That was a failure.
Speaker A:You know, Agent Ryan is.
Speaker A:He has a really rich background, but the rural life, not necessarily one of the largest slices of that background.
Speaker A:They all look like farm animals.
Speaker C:What are you trying to say, Chris?
Speaker A:They all look like farm animals.
Speaker A:Farm animals.
Speaker A:You don't see any.
Speaker A:You don't see any extra appendages from here.
Speaker C:Fair enough.
Speaker A:You four wind into the small shack like homestead, and inside, it's a testament to the life of a proud hunter.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker A:There are trophies decorating his walls as you kind of peruse through.
Speaker A:You can see he lived a fairly spartan life, but took great care in utilizing looks like nearly all parts of the animals he hunted.
Speaker A:He's also got several chest freezers full of plastic wrap.
Speaker A:Elk, deer meat, you assume at least that's how it's labeled.
Speaker A:Definitely has a rifle collection that would rival perhaps the nearby National Guard armory.
Speaker A:I mean, he has an extensive, extensive collection.
Speaker A:But it's when.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's.
Speaker A:It's called a secret GM roll, but it's.
Speaker A:It's when agent Relic opens the door to the garage that all of you stop.
Speaker A:What you're going through and answer his call, asking for all the agents to join him.
Speaker A:There.
Speaker A:You can see.
Speaker A:And now smell that guy.
Speaker A:Mayer was very busy in this garage.
Speaker A:It's a converted workshop of some sort.
Speaker A:It reeks of chemicals, different than those that you smelled at the hospital morgue, but reminiscent.
Speaker A:You see that there are several animals here that are in the process of being, well, stuffed.
Speaker A:And as you kind of walk through this interesting setup.
Speaker A:Stands and frames what looks like bags of.
Speaker A:Is it sawdust or stuffing?
Speaker A:You're not sure?
Speaker A:Partial taxiderm deer.
Speaker A:There's a bear.
Speaker A:Small black bear.
Speaker A:There is a bobcat.
Speaker A:Looks like he was working on quite a few things.
Speaker A:The sinner.
Speaker A:What it looks like he was actively working on.
Speaker A:There's lots of tools around it.
Speaker A:In fact, see a bizarre fusion of several deer necks affixed onto one body.
Speaker A:Three, in fact.
Speaker E:Well, that's creepy.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's not your typical taxidermy.
Speaker C:Are there any books or anything around that might indicate that there's some, I don't know, Pagan protocol he's trying to follow?
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll.
Speaker A:Your search also failed.
Speaker A:You don't.
Speaker A:You don't see any materials, notes, any indication that he was writing anything or.
Speaker A:This must all just be a skill that he was attempting to develop on his own.
Speaker A:And you're not a taxidermist yourself.
Speaker A:I don't know if Agent Ryan has dabbled in.
Speaker A:In the purchase of such things, but you can't tell the quality or if he was particularly skilled.
Speaker B:Does it look real?
Speaker A:Look okay.
Speaker A:That eyes look weird.
Speaker C:Agent Ryan, comments to the group.
Speaker C:Seems like an odd hobby for a guy that Ms.
Speaker C:Green out there was insisting was such a.
Speaker C:A sweet gentleman.
Speaker B:Well, I mean, you know, hunters, man.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker B:Oh, well, I mean, yeah, hunter's man.
Speaker D:I think it might be worth our time to do a pretty deep search of this place.
Speaker D:I'd like to roll my search, too.
Speaker A:Yeah, go for it.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:In light of.
Speaker D:Normally, I wouldn't look twice as some weird taxidermy, but in light of what we've been seeing around town, it might be worth tearing this place apart.
Speaker D:Metaphorically speaking, the deep search.
Speaker D:I'm saying we search place.
Speaker D:I'm saying let's look at.
Speaker D:Look like, you know what I'm trying to say?
Speaker D:All right.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So let me.
Speaker A:Let me understand your search tactic before we dive into perhaps multiple roles here.
Speaker A:Are you breaking open these partially taxiderm animals?
Speaker D:I'm not saying, like, kind of like a forensic search, like, I want to, you know, just okay.
Speaker D:Not like dusting for prints, but just, like, methodically moving through, you know, the garage, any other rooms of interest.
Speaker D:Just like, really spending the time.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You're trying to do a search where you leave.
Speaker A:You basically leave it as you found it.
Speaker A:Yeah, got it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:That's what I needed to know.
Speaker A:Go ahead.
Speaker A:And anybody who wants to partake in this search, everybody go ahead and roll.
Speaker A:But really only one is going to account because we're.
Speaker A:We're doing something where you guys are kind of stepping on each other's toes.
Speaker A:So we're just going to use the book rules for this.
Speaker C:Ryan is not going to roll because he just wants to stay out of everybody's way.
Speaker A:Oof.
Speaker A:I believe I heard an oof from Roizen.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:She just starts flailing her hands.
Speaker A:Nope.
Speaker E:I bend over something, face planted right into the wall.
Speaker A:You're now comically, accidentally wearing one of the deer heads on your own and wandering around blindly.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:Ew.
Speaker B:You drop your glasses and you're searching around, and then one of us steps on them.
Speaker B:And now you don't have glasses.
Speaker A:You'll start kind of looking through this.
Speaker A:And, you know, you find bottles of chemicals, some actually quite dangerous.
Speaker A:There's definitely some formal in here.
Speaker A:You're not sure if that's normal or not, but you know, it's dangerous.
Speaker A:And as you start kind of moving through what is a workshop, door opens.
Speaker A:And Judith standing there, she says, oh, I was wondering where y'all got off to.
Speaker A:Been in here for almost an hour.
Speaker B:She says, we're just trying to be thorough, ma'am.
Speaker A:What do you think of guys work here?
Speaker A:She nods towards the strange deer.
Speaker B:You know, not for me.
Speaker A:She laughs.
Speaker A:Guy and old Jeff from the weirdo store on the 36.
Speaker A:They used to make little novelties for the shop.
Speaker A:And Jeff still.
Speaker B:Romeo turns his head and looks at her.
Speaker A:Jeff still has.
Speaker B:From what he was searching, Jeff still.
Speaker A:Has Guy's first jackalope under glass up there.
Speaker A:Now, see this?
Speaker A:This was going to be Guy's masterpiece.
Speaker A:The great.
Speaker A:The great Cervite Cerberus, he said it was called.
Speaker A:She.
Speaker A:She shakes her head.
Speaker E:I'd love to see that jackalope.
Speaker E:Can you tell me where this store is?
Speaker A:Oh, course.
Speaker A:I guess y'all didn't come in from the north, huh?
Speaker A:Probably came in from the big city.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:That's where up on the 36.
Speaker A:You know Jeff Jenkins?
Speaker A:He's got a great shop up there.
Speaker A:Oh, man.
Speaker A:He's been a fixture of the area for years.
Speaker A:Guess he'd call it a roadside attraction, but.
Speaker A:But yeah, it's called Wild out There stuff.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The big old Crosswick Monster statue he's got up there alone is worth the trip, but he's got a lot of fun stuff in there.
Speaker E:I will definitely have to stop and take a look.
Speaker A:She nods.
Speaker A:You should.
Speaker A:You should.
Speaker A:He's got a sort of showman's energy to him.
Speaker A:He brings in passersby by the dozens.
Speaker A:Some.
Speaker A:Some say he's maybe the.
Speaker A:The biggest tourist magnet in the area, but that may be giving him too much credit.
Speaker A:SHE LAUGHS.
Speaker B:While we're in town, there's no harm in checking it out.
Speaker A:Oh, absolutely, you should.
Speaker D:Oh, I want to roll.
Speaker D:Hu.
Speaker D:Mint on that one.
Speaker D:That was weird you said that.
Speaker A:I mean, you can roll human whenever you want.
Speaker D:Oh, shit.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Yeah, I actually wasn't entirely clear on how that.
Speaker D:How that's supposed to be appropriate.
Speaker A:If you're gathering human intelligence on somebody by taking note of their behavior and the patterns of their behavior, you can roll.
Speaker D:Oh, well, look at that.
Speaker D:Man, I bet it was for nothing.
Speaker B:Finally.
Speaker D:Yeah, she's an old lady.
Speaker A:She seems really excited about y'all checking out Wild Out There stuff and seeing the Crosswick Monster statue.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker B:Crosswick Monster, huh?
Speaker B:That sounds delightful.
Speaker E:What is this Crosswick Monster?
Speaker E:I've never heard of it before.
Speaker A:Oh, you've never.
Speaker A:Well, if you're not from the area, I'm not too surprised.
Speaker A:Old legend, big, big lizard that folks saw back in the day and supposedly, you know, attacked a few people, but townsfolk banded together, drove it out of town and never came back.
Speaker A:Kind of a local legend.
Speaker B:That's interesting.
Speaker B:Do you know where we could.
Speaker C:Is.
Speaker B:Is this Wild Out There stuff?
Speaker B:Is that about the only place we'll learn about that, or do you have any further information in the library about it?
Speaker B:Oh, like from newspaper clips?
Speaker A:I mean, it's kind of all over.
Speaker A:I think even there was a.
Speaker A:There was a camera crew about 12 years back from unexplained mysterium or something that did a show on it.
Speaker A:It's pretty.
Speaker A:Pretty well known.
Speaker A:I don't think you'll have any issues bringing up information about it.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:Well, this has been.
Speaker B:There's nothing here sticking out to me as a clue as to what got him.
Speaker B:So I think we're.
Speaker B:We'll.
Speaker B:We'll put things back the way we found them and head on out when we're done.
Speaker B:But thank you for checking in on us.
Speaker A:All right, if you'll just keep that door closed.
Speaker A:Make sure that old Peter don't move the latch on the barn again and let all the.
Speaker A:All the jackasses out.
Speaker B:Who's old Peter?
Speaker A:Oh, that's the nag.
Speaker B:Okay, we'll.
Speaker B:We'll make sure the nag doesn't do that.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:She leaves.
Speaker B:As soon as she leaves us, Romeo turns to the group and says, that's two people.
Speaker B:Three people if you count the note in the file that had some strange connection to possible cryptozoology going on in the area.
Speaker B:And two of them connected to this Jeff guy.
Speaker E:Not to mention, what teenage boy isn't.
Speaker B:Fascinated with cryptozoology 100% with you there.
Speaker C:What's a nag?
Speaker B:Well, some would call it my wife, but.
Speaker A:Did you do it?
Speaker A:Did you just do it?
Speaker A:My wife.
Speaker B:My wife.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Agent Ryan's asked in the group.
Speaker C:He doesn't know.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:No Romeo.
Speaker B:But in all honesty, Romeo is like a lady horse.
Speaker C:Ah.
Speaker A:Old Peter, the nag.
Speaker B:I think.
Speaker B:I think we've got a deepening connection here.
Speaker C:We got at least somebody in town that we can ask some more stuff.
Speaker B:Of somebody else we can talk to and dig into this Crosswick lizard monster, see if that has any feet.
Speaker B:And if it does, where would it.
Speaker C:Be and how many it has?
Speaker A:Yeah, probably an odd number if pattern solved.
Speaker B:Oh, boy.
Speaker B:Sa.
