Episode 26
Episode 26 - Don't Touch That Dial
The team turns their sleuthing toward the colonial history of New England's Pioneer Valley, as the reverberations of a defunct "witches' coven" seem to be entwined with the paranatural radio signal they have been assigned to track down and eliminate.
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Transcript
Hello?
Speaker B:What time is it?
Speaker B:Who is it?
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker C:Situation Green.
Speaker A:Preacher aflame.
Speaker C:Sorry, honey, I have to take this.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker C:All right, why don't we go ahead and get started?
Speaker C:We have Ryan and our new agent.
Speaker C:Agent Kane.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker C:Still in Clemson.
Speaker C:Mallory's hotel room.
Speaker C:Now, Paris and Prentiss have left to deal with what looks like maybe a break with reality that Prentiss suffered.
Speaker C:So they're out of the scene at this exact moment.
Speaker C:But Kane, Ryan, you just listen back to this voicemail from the much vaunted librarian we had been looking for since Sneder's briefing.
Speaker D:What time of day is it?
Speaker D:Morning, right?
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker C:Early morning.
Speaker A:I don't know why that's funny.
Speaker A:It's funny.
Speaker D:Now that was even a joke.
Speaker D:That was just me trying to set the scene.
Speaker D:If we could, like, get to this chick today.
Speaker D:So did I listen to it, or did we do it on speaker?
Speaker C:It was actually just on speaker.
Speaker C:Just because of the way the hotel phone set up.
Speaker D:Ryan is going to turn to Kane and say, okay, well, that seems like a phone number we're going to want to call.
Speaker B:Yeah, we should probably check in with her.
Speaker D:What I can't figure out is why.
Speaker D:Why is he so interested in the history of the town?
Speaker D:That seems weird to me.
Speaker B:Well, I'll just have to ask.
Speaker D:Should we go see how Apprentice is holding up?
Speaker B:Let's get this stuff back to my room first, please.
Speaker D:Yes, definitely.
Speaker D:Let's do that.
Speaker C:So the stuff you're talking about happens to be RDF equipment that you found in Mallory's closet, right?
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:So y'all move it out of Mallory's hotel room, place it in Agent Kane's, and make your way into Agent Prentice's room, where Paris is trying to get him to lie back in what looks like a very comfy bed.
Speaker A:What's funny?
Speaker B:Just the way that was phrased.
Speaker A:There's some soothing, some smooth jazz on the radio, and, you know, Paris has pulled out two glasses.
Speaker C:Are you trying to soothe the guy who is just, like, having a mental breakdown?
Speaker C:Is that what's happening?
Speaker A:Okay, somewhere in there, he found time to change into a robe.
Speaker A:The hotel robe.
Speaker A:Very nice.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker E:Smoking jacket.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker C:Roll your, I don't know, charisma.
Speaker D:So when Ryan walks in and sees Prentiss on the bed.
Speaker D:So Prentiss is, like, resisting laying back on the bed.
Speaker D:Is he still kind of, like, in a fit, or is he insisting he's okay?
Speaker C:So Prentiss is no longer in any sort of fit, but he was very disturbed by Ryan looking at the notes after he entered some sort of internal adventure, and continues to be preoccupied with the possibility of Ryan engaging with those same notes, even though he's here in this room and Paris is trying to calm him down.
Speaker D:Ryan's going to go in front of Prentiss, recalling Prentiss's conversation, short conversation with him the night before, asking if Ryan was okay.
Speaker D:Ryan's going to just look at him dead in the eyes and say, you know, I'm not the same anymore.
Speaker D:And I was able to read the notes just fine.
Speaker D:Don't dwell on that.
Speaker D:It's a thing best ignored, like so much else that we encounter.
Speaker D:Let's get it together.
Speaker D:We've got a new lead, and we've got to go talk to a librarian.
Speaker D:And thankfully, she wants to meet in the woods.
Speaker D:We'll get a little fresh air.
Speaker D:Get up.
Speaker D:And then he taps him on the shoulder.
Speaker E:Prentiss will kind of recoil after being tapped on the shoulder and twitch a moment and see his face kind of go through a series of emotions of, like, anger and excitement and.
Speaker E:And then just flatten.
Speaker E:And then he straightens his jacket and.
Speaker E:And gets up.
Speaker C:Paris, you back up and.
Speaker C:And let this play out.
Speaker C:You're watching Prentice.
Speaker C:He seems steady on his feet.
Speaker C:He seems determined in demeanor.
Speaker A:Prentice, you.
Speaker A:Are you good?
Speaker E:No, I'm not good, but I'll manage.
Speaker A:Hey.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:I look over at Paris, looks over at Ryan.
Speaker A:So what's the deal with this librarian we're supposed to be meeting?
Speaker D:There was a voicemail on Mallory's hotel phone.
Speaker D:Kane and I listened back to it.
Speaker D:Apparently, he had asked where or was inquiring about the history of the town.
Speaker D:He had reached out to the local library to learn some more information, and the head librarian there, who is on sabbatical, got back to him and said that she had some information to share with him, but that she wanted to meet in person, but she left her number, so I figured we could call that number and see if she would meet with us.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, that sounds like the best lead we've got.
Speaker D:She seemed also super flirtatious.
Speaker D:So, Paris, I think maybe you should reach out.
Speaker A:And the way she said, like.
Speaker A:She said something about, like, specific histories that you're interested in or something.
Speaker A:My.
Speaker A:Although Paris doesn't know about the names yet because he hasn't read these pages at all, but I'm guessing that he gave the names to her and said, hey, can you find me information on these people?
Speaker D:I think it's worth us asking her.
Speaker D:When we meet her.
Speaker D:Yeah, like, hey, do these names.
Speaker C:Yeah, she did talk about.
Speaker C:Hey, if you want more information on the Northampton coven, this is Anne Gayer in the Northampton coven.
Speaker C:And Benjamin Stockton.
Speaker C:Yeah, you know, you'll have to come out to see me because I'm not.
Speaker C:I'm not going to go into work.
Speaker C:I'm off.
Speaker D:Okay, so that's.
Speaker A:And she.
Speaker A:She might know something about Mallory's whereabouts.
Speaker A:Not that we give a shit about that guy, because fuck him.
Speaker A:We just need to find this radio station, right?
Speaker D:Dude, he's a fucking wolf.
Speaker D:It's the operation fair liminal.
Speaker E:What?
Speaker C:Could be a werewolf.
Speaker B:Well, maybe we should call that librarian and find out.
Speaker D:By the way, Chris, I am waiting for the moment where I could say, does the term fair illiminal mean anything to you?
Speaker C:Mean anything to you?
Speaker D:To an npc.
Speaker D:And I'm really excited about it.
Speaker C:No, no, it just sounds like the name of maybe an operation that a government agency would, you know, stamp on.
Speaker D:Seems like a really great comfort.
Speaker D:Operations.
Speaker B:So who wants to make this call?
Speaker D:Yeah, we gotta talk about our approach, Chris.
Speaker D:Is there anything else?
Speaker C:There is a lot.
Speaker C:But as far as clues.
Speaker C:So the big batch of clues are sitting in that shorthand.
Speaker C:We have the RDF equipment and we have the voicemail.
Speaker C:That should be everything that was delivered as of last time.
Speaker D:And this is a Michael Zano confused question with RDF equipment.
Speaker D:That's like a signal receiver, basically.
Speaker C:This is pretty sophisticated equipment.
Speaker C:You assume as, Ryan, that this is what the FCC issued to Agent Mallory to try to form lines of bearing, to triangulate.
Speaker C:Well, not to triangulate, but to find the pirate radio station, which he could not do, according to his reports back to the FCC that y'all were privy to during the Snedeker briefing.
Speaker D:And you said.
Speaker D:I know, I remember this from last episode.
Speaker D:Kane's got sigint.
Speaker D:So she's able.
Speaker D:She's familiar with.
Speaker C:She was able to identify the equipment.
Speaker C:She's never used it before.
Speaker D:Got it.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker E:Okay, cool.
Speaker E:Prentiss, having just traumatized himself with those notes, probably isn't going to be interested in going back to the notes.
Speaker E:And you just kind of got him up out of that bed by telling him that we're gonna go somewhere.
Speaker E:So that's where we've left off.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So he's standing up.
Speaker C:Paris kind of checked on him one last time.
Speaker C:Prentiss seems grim, set and ready to get the hell out of here.
Speaker C:It sounded like we were going to try to make a call to Janet Pound if that's what we want to do next.
Speaker C:Or we can leave and do anything we want.
Speaker D:Yeah, I think narratively, it probably makes sense for someone to be the voice of reason over Ryan of, like, cool.
Speaker D:If we call this chick, what are we actually going to say to her and not freak her out?
Speaker D:So I don't know if Paris or Kane, one of you guys want to.
Speaker A:So, what's the.
Speaker A:What's the story on this librarian?
Speaker D:Yeah, she left a voicemail on Mallory's room phone.
Speaker D:Apparently, he had been inquiring about some local histories about a coven, and it seems, like, related to some of the names that were recurring in.
Speaker D:In the notes.
Speaker D:But actually, I probably shouldn't say that because, I mean that.
Speaker C:No, that was right.
Speaker C:That was correct.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker C:That was a really good connection that you just made, and I was, like, going to give you 10.
Speaker C:10 experience points.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Coven, and it seems related to some of the names that cropped up in the notes, so probably somebody that we want to get in touch with.
Speaker D:She left the phone number there.
Speaker A:Okay, yeah, just give her a call.
Speaker A:We'll give her a call right now and see what we got going on.
Speaker E:Hold on.
Speaker D:What's up?
Speaker E:Did she say.
Speaker E:So she called and she didn't.
Speaker E:She might be the person behind why this guy disappeared.
Speaker E:We can't just, like, call.
Speaker E:Be like, hey, tell us about this without raising her hackles.
Speaker D:I mean, yeah, maybe, but in the message, she said that she offered to meet him out in the woods.
Speaker D:I mean, I guess she said she was on vacation, on sabbatical, and so she didn't want to go into the library to give him information, and she would meet him out on.
Speaker D:On this trail out outside.
Speaker D:And I guess maybe he.
Speaker D:Maybe he listened to the voicemail, but the light was blinking.
Speaker D:It seemed like it was new, so I don't know if he necessarily heard that.
Speaker D:But you're not wrong, Prentiss.
Speaker D:We can't exactly just call her up and, I mean, what do we say?
Speaker A:I mean, I can just call her and pretend to be a friend of Mallory's and just say, I've been looking for him, and I came up to this hotel room and heard this message.
Speaker A:I could say he left me a key to the hotel room and said, hey, come meet me here.
Speaker A:And I got here, hadn't heard from him, got your message, and I was curious what he had called you about, what he had reached out about.
Speaker A:Something along those lines, basically.
Speaker D:That makes sense.
Speaker D:I think that's a good idea.
Speaker A:See if I can't Lay the old Paris charm on her.
Speaker A:I don't know why.
Speaker C:Let me go ahead and make a quick roll here.
Speaker C:Yeah, it was a little weird.
Speaker C:You know, I'll take it.
Speaker D:I mean, isn't Paris, like, a former military guy?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:So Paris current.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker D:Paris fucks.
Speaker E:Yeah, he fucks.
Speaker A:I just got off the parish.
Speaker A:Off the beach in South America.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker C:I think you were doing just fine down there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:You're not.
Speaker C:You're not thirsty right now for.
Speaker C:You know.
Speaker D:His confidence has peaked.
Speaker D:He's like, I got this.
Speaker D:I'll charm the shit out of her librarians.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker D:My charisma is like, what, four out of 20?
Speaker D:Just kidding.
Speaker C:Let's look at that.
Speaker C:Actually.
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker C:Harris's charisma.
Speaker C:Huh?
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's 10.
Speaker C:He's very average.
Speaker D:I also can't believe Riot has not had a hit to his charisma after looking like a seal.
Speaker A:I mean.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:Charisma is so much more than just, I guess, charisma.
Speaker D:Right, too.
Speaker D:So it's kind of like it's transition from.
Speaker C:For you, it's absolute charm.
Speaker C:You probably will take some permanent damage if things continue down the path that they are.
Speaker C:But you're still.
Speaker C:You can still talk through your current physical appearance despite its insanity.
Speaker C:Seriousness.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I mean, you're just missing your.
Speaker C:If you're.
Speaker C:You're just missing your eyebrows.
Speaker C:You're pale and you're skinny.
Speaker C:The people who know you best are more disturbed than a stranger, don't forget.
Speaker C:That's for sure.
Speaker E:Now, when your eyelids fall off, that's when the weirdness happens.
Speaker C:That's true.
Speaker B:You start growing gills.
Speaker C:That's true.
Speaker C:That's when we start knocking down charisma.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:You start growing gills, I'm putting a bullet in you myself.
Speaker D:I think that that's reasonable.
Speaker C:Parrish.
Speaker C:You dial the number and after a few rings, picks up.
Speaker F:Hello?
Speaker A:Hi.
Speaker A:Is this Janet?
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:Yeah, this is Janet.
Speaker A:Janet?
Speaker A:Hey.
Speaker A:Sorry to call you out of the blue.
Speaker A:I'm a friend of Mallory's.
Speaker A:I know he'd reached out to you, and my name's Dave, and he asked me to come into town and meet up with him, but I've been having a hard time finding him.
Speaker A:He left a key for me for his hotel room to meet him here, but he's not here.
Speaker A:But I heard your message that you left for him, and I was wondering if you had seen him in a while or talked to him recently or is that the last time he got.
Speaker F:In touch with You Mallory, the journalist guy?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, journalist guy.
Speaker A:He's a pretty good writer.
Speaker F:Yeah, I left him a message a while ago, a few days ago, actually, but I haven't heard back from him.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Sorry to bug you.
Speaker A:I heard your message.
Speaker A:You're on vacation.
Speaker A:Sort of calling out of the blue like this, but I know he's been working on a project, and that's partially why I came up here, and I was curious what it was he had you looking into.
Speaker A:Anything might help me try to track him down?
Speaker A:Anything you could tell me, really, I'd appreciate it.
Speaker F:He called the library.
Speaker F:I work at the library.
Speaker F:He called over and was looking for, like, a local expert, I guess, in the history of Pioneer Valley.
Speaker F:And my assistant there called me, and even though he's not supposed to, and he told me about his project and, you know, I went ahead and I called back and I guess you've heard my message.
Speaker F:He's interested in some of the ghost stories of this region during the colonial period.
Speaker F:A lot of folks are.
Speaker F:I've been doing a lot of my own research lately, so I thought I might be able to help him.
Speaker F:My assistant is just not.
Speaker F:Well, he would not be a great resource, I guess.
Speaker F:So I thought he could maybe come out and meet me, and I could maybe help him out with whatever he's got going on.
Speaker F:But, yeah, he never called me back.
Speaker A:Never called you back?
Speaker A:Ah, it's so weird.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:It's not like him either.
Speaker A:Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker A:When are you.
Speaker A:I don't want to bug you while you're on vacation, but when are you coming back from vacation?
Speaker A:I'd love to follow up with you at the library itself, if that's okay.
Speaker F:Um, I'm not sure.
Speaker F:I'm kind of on a sabbatical, if that makes sense.
Speaker F:Indefinitely.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker F:So, yeah, I don't know when I'm going to come back, if I even do.
Speaker F:I mean, I imagine I will, but I'm kind of trying to get close to my roots.
Speaker F:This is where my family comes from.
Speaker F:This is really important to me.
Speaker F:So I've taken a lot of time off, and I plan to take a lot more time off, at least until I can disentangle the mysteries of my family.
Speaker F:And I think I'm gonna write a book.
Speaker C:You can even hear her smiling when she says that.
Speaker A:Oh, that's.
Speaker A:That's exciting.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So you said you're from that.
Speaker A:From the valley, that you're.
Speaker A:The Pioneer Valley.
Speaker A:That's your.
Speaker F:Yeah, my family were some of the Original settlers here, actually.
Speaker A:Well, hey, I don't want to put you out.
Speaker A:I mean, I still need to track down Mallory.
Speaker A:He's probably fine.
Speaker A:I just need to find out where he is.
Speaker A:But like I said, I am helping him on the project.
Speaker A:I don't want to bug you about a meeting or anything, but is there maybe an email I could get?
Speaker A:I mean, I'd love to keep the line of questioning that he was working on.
Speaker A:Would that be all right?
Speaker F:Yeah, I guess.
Speaker F:If you're worried about him, you should probably call the police, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Probably gonna do that shortly.
Speaker A:There's a few other spots he might be at.
Speaker A:He can get into some trouble sometime, but that's my problem.
Speaker A:That's not your problem.
Speaker F:Yeah, if there's anything I can help with, just let me know.
Speaker F:You have my number.
Speaker A:Yeah, and if there's a.
Speaker A:I've got.
Speaker A:Just follow up on some of the research that he had asked you.
Speaker A:If you got an email I could reach out to just to, you know, send you over a list of names and everything.
Speaker F:You can call me.
Speaker A:I can call you.
Speaker A:Okay, well, tell you what.
Speaker A:Let me look around a bit and I'll give you a call.
Speaker A:Maybe later today or tomorrow, if that works.
Speaker F:Sure.
Speaker A:Awesome.
Speaker D:Well, can Ryan be mouthing while he's on, like, the phone and feels like it's starting to wrap up?
Speaker D:Tell her you're hot.
Speaker D:Tell her you're jacked.
Speaker B:Tell her you want to learn more.
Speaker A:So I'm gonna go.
Speaker A:Well, I'm gonna go hit the gym and.
Speaker C:Yeah, I knew it.
Speaker C:I knew it.
Speaker A:And, yeah, I'll look back into the notes and.
Speaker A:It was great speaking with you.
Speaker A:It was great speaking with you.
Speaker E:I spent about two hours on my.
Speaker A:Enjoy your sabbatical.
Speaker A:I'm gonna go knock some crunches out, you know, bench a bit, pushing, work on my new PR.
Speaker A:About 150.
Speaker A:Getting there.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker F:Real cool.
Speaker F:Hope you find your friend.
Speaker F:Bye.
Speaker A:Trying to establish rapport.
Speaker E:Perfect.
Speaker E:That was.
Speaker E:I think that's what romance is.
Speaker C:Did you feel the sparks?
Speaker D:Awkward.
Speaker A:I did.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It was pretty.
Speaker C:Pretty good.
Speaker B:As the token.
Speaker C:Totally.
Speaker B:Go for it.
Speaker C:Saxophone solo.
Speaker C:For that part.
Speaker A:Can we just pretend that he didn't say all the.
Speaker A:About the working out?
Speaker D:We'll see.
Speaker C:I think it's actually on.
Speaker C:On the tape, so, yeah.
Speaker A:At least the gym part.
Speaker A:Leaving the part where he's like, I'm gonna go hit the gym after this.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker C:But the rest, I'm pretty sure that's all on tape.
Speaker C:And I don't edit anymore, so it's done.
Speaker A:All right, There you go.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So I hang up and I say, all right, well, hopefully I've got a little bit of rapport established with her.
Speaker A:She seemed okay with me calling back later once we get our kind of head straight here in the situation.
Speaker A:But she's actually from this pioneer valleys that are her family, some of the original colonists.
Speaker A:And apparently Mallory was reaching out to her about some.
Speaker A:What she called ghost stories.
Speaker A:I don't know, it's kind of weird.
Speaker A:I got a little bit of weird vibe, this whole indefinite sabbatical thing.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:It might still be worth stopping by the library she worked at and just doing a bit of our own research.
Speaker A:Maybe ask around.
Speaker E:Well, maybe we can look into her, seeing as she's on an indefinite sabbatical.
Speaker E:Maybe there's a more to that story, some kind of.
Speaker E:Yeah, some kind of story behind that.
Speaker A:Yeah, that makes sense to me.
Speaker E:Maybe she spent too much time just shouting at a radio.
Speaker C:Got fired.
Speaker E:Got fired.
Speaker E:She knows where the radio is and it's on somebody's head.
Speaker E:And that man's name is Radiohead.
Speaker B:That was just painful.
Speaker C:Don't give away the secrets of this scenario before it's time, Eric, please.
Speaker A:Paris pulls his phone out and just throws into Google Maps Pioneer Valley.
Speaker A:Just curious how far away this place is.
Speaker C:You are actually in the large region called Pioneer Valley.
Speaker C:Includes Northampton, several other small towns in the area, as well as a large preserve.
Speaker E:So is it a fruit preserve?
Speaker C:Nope.
Speaker E:Animal damn.
Speaker D:Witches covens.
Speaker D:Or has it been established that's a witches covens?
Speaker D:Or is coven Is witches coven redundant?
Speaker D:Yes, I feel like.
Speaker D:Right coven.
Speaker C:Yeah, I don't think there's another type of coven.
Speaker D:Oh, like there could.
Speaker C:There could be flourishy.
Speaker B:No, that's fair.
Speaker D:Liminal covens.
Speaker A:But this is the high quality content for our listeners.
Speaker C:I'll say this, we gotta get the cinematics.
Speaker B:Coven is the term for a group of witches.
Speaker C:It's actually an assembly of 13 witches according to Google.
Speaker C:I did not know that.
Speaker D:Oh my God.
Speaker D:Is it really?
Speaker C:That's these days.
Speaker D:It's hilarious.
Speaker B:More flavor fluid.
Speaker A:It's super specific, solid Baker's dozen.
Speaker A:So there we go.
Speaker D:Holy shit.
Speaker E:That's funny as hell.
Speaker E:Actually, that checks out with Hansel and Gretel.
Speaker C:So there we go.
Speaker D:Boom.
Speaker E:Baker.
Speaker D:So coven.
Speaker D:Na.
Speaker C:So on the voicemail she said Northampton coven.
Speaker C:I can tell you more about it.
Speaker C:Mr.
Speaker C:Mallory and Benjamin Stockton and Anne Gare.
Speaker C:But yes, that was the cliffhanger of her message mentioning that he was Asking about a coven in Northampton.
Speaker D:Okay, so witches, covens, and the crazy shit that we see in Delta Green lines up, you know, weirdness.
Speaker D:Even if it's just radio waves, I think that's not out of the blue to make some kind of connection, that maybe this is something worth learning more about Paris.
Speaker D:We got some information there, but it seems like maybe either we do some research on our own or we find another way to.
Speaker D:To cozy up and get a little bit more info out of Janet Pound the librarian.
Speaker D:So do you guys think that we should actually go to the library?
Speaker D:Or is enough of this information accessible online?
Speaker D:Why am I asking this?
Speaker D:This is.
Speaker D:This is so fucking weird.
Speaker E:You are Ryan.
Speaker D:Just fucking me, Michael.
Speaker D:Like this is the dumbest fucking thing.
Speaker D:Look it up.
Speaker D:Find out.
Speaker C:Pick it up.
Speaker D:Jesus Christ.
Speaker D:Ryan takes out his phone and searches.
Speaker D:Fucking Anne Gare.
Speaker D:And then the year.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:It's not difficult to pull with some quick Internet sleuthing.
Speaker C:It just isn't with the context of your local geography.
Speaker C:The Mallory scribbled time frame.
Speaker C:You have over 12 intelligence.
Speaker C:I can see on your character sheet.
Speaker C:This is not an issue for you.
Speaker C:So it actually appears that Angir's story is a slightly notorious one for Northampton.
Speaker C:Again, this is not difficult information to uncover with a couple quick clicks of the thumbs on your smartphone.
Speaker C:So you pull up a site called Legends of America.
Speaker C:I'm going to give you a handout only to me.
Speaker A:It certainly was ready for our googling.
Speaker C:I was hoping.
Speaker C:I was hoping for it.
Speaker D:I'll take things I'm not going to read in full for 500.
Speaker D:Alex.
Speaker C:I can.
Speaker C:I could read it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So this search index site, it has a short write up.
Speaker C: and: Speaker D:Did you make this, Chris?
Speaker C:Of course, dude.
Speaker D:Well done.
Speaker D:This is sick.
Speaker C:So I'll go ahead and read this short summary.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's actually not a lot of information, but it certainly is relevant to the name.
Speaker C:And it seems to correspond again with what Mallory had scribbled in his margin.
Speaker D:Do you want me to read a.
Speaker D:Chris Ryan looked it up.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:If.
Speaker C:If you'd like.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:Huh.
Speaker D:This is interesting.
Speaker D:This article came up says and Gare, one of many Northampton individuals to be accused of witchcraft during the Massachusetts witchcraft area.
Speaker D:Little know little is known of Anne's life.
Speaker D:It's the account of her notorious and cruel murder at the hands of a mob of her neighbors, which remains her unfortunate legacy.
Speaker D:A recluse with little social contact, Anne inherited a vast library from a friend of her family.
Speaker D:The circumstances regarding this exchange were regarded as suspicious and rumors abounded.
Speaker D:It was also rumored that Anne was part of a greater Northampton covenant.
Speaker D:Her accusers names because you know any.
Speaker E:Woman that reads is a witch.
Speaker C:That's about right.
Speaker D:Apparently.
Speaker D:Apparently there were.
Speaker D:There had to be 13 though.
Speaker D:Otherwise it's a group.
Speaker D:Just a group.
Speaker D:Her accusers names are unknown.
Speaker D:But according to the accounts in of evil sorceries done in New England, she was attacked by a mob while fetching water and was drowned.
Speaker D:Her home in her vast library was also burnt to the foundation to removeth the foul hearth of evil intent and all its heaven.
Speaker D:Damned manuscripts.
Speaker C:Nicely done with the Appalachian accent there.
Speaker D:Shit.
Speaker E:That was lovely.
Speaker C:So this seemed to be a person that Clemson Mallory was highly interested in and one that he directly mentioned to Janet Pound.
Speaker C:And yeah, you've just found one of what seem like many reproductions of this same summary.
Speaker B:I wonder what happens if we search Northampton Calvin.
Speaker B:I'll go ahead and give that a try.
Speaker C:Yeah, you do.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:And many of the same sort of little snippet sites come up.
Speaker C:You don't find anything more interesting or any other names of those in the Northampton coven.
Speaker C:However you do see many references to the of evil sorceries done in New England text that was mentioned in the prior readout of evil sorceries.
Speaker E:And that evil sorceries mentioned is just knowing how to read I believe due.
Speaker C:To the fact that it is.
Speaker C:Well you know what?
Speaker C:You're gonna have to read the book to find out.
Speaker B:I don't suppose a quick search on Amazon turns up when I can have delivered the next day, Same day delivered.
Speaker C:Well you do.
Speaker C:You do search for it.
Speaker C:It's not on Amazon but it is being held at the Boston Public Library in the restricted stocks.
Speaker E:Oh, one of those.
Speaker E:That's always a problem crime.
Speaker A:Let's go commit one.
Speaker A:Smiling.
Speaker A:I'm smiling right now for our listeners.
Speaker A:The big smile on my face.
Speaker E:We do love a good crime.
Speaker D:There were other names in the notes.
Speaker D:You know.
Speaker D:Janet Pound is.
Speaker E:There was Abakan Geist.
Speaker C:Abra King Geist, Virginia Willoughby, Benjamin Stockton, Jebediah Blacksty and Ezekiel Father Shine Face Red Father Shine Face.
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker D:There was no Ezekiel.
Speaker A:I think it's fair to say we all start doing our digital library search.
Speaker E:We all just Google circle.
Speaker B:Assuming that Prentice and Ryan have told us those names.
Speaker A:Good point.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker E:Prentice did as he.
Speaker E:As he was being pulled out by Paris say he did say several of the names because he was trying to get him to not read it.
Speaker E:And he was also.
Speaker A:Hey, Prentice, what were those.
Speaker A:What was other names you were saying, Ryan?
Speaker A:Do you remember what they were?
Speaker E:Yeah, they're, like, seared into my brain.
Speaker E:Aberken Geist, Jenny Willoughby, Jebediah Blacksty.
Speaker A:Paris starts sitting down, it's like, let's just divvy him up.
Speaker A:Start searching.
Speaker D:Yeah, let's start seeing what we can find.
Speaker D:If there's any connections here.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker C:We'll start with you, Agent Kane.
Speaker C:Go ahead and roll your history, please.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker D:This is like a circle jerk of Googling names.
Speaker A:Oh, it's very fine.
Speaker B:51 over 30.
Speaker B:I get to check.
Speaker B:Mark it.
Speaker C:Yes, you do.
Speaker C:Yes, you do.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You're doing your best to try to cross reference everything you have with these additional names.
Speaker C:Nothing is as well written about as anger from what you're going through.
Speaker C:And you're starting to realize maybe why Clemson Mallory, who was also, for whatever reason, interested in his folklore, was starting to look at local sources of information because there really isn't that much out there on the world wide web, at least not with the context that you currently have.
Speaker C:Paris, go ahead and roll your history, please.
Speaker A:Okay, five out of ten.
Speaker A:Holy shit.
Speaker A:Beautiful.
Speaker D:Well done.
Speaker A:I'm the psychologist, historian, y'all.
Speaker C:Clearly you focused on write ups and summaries about this old book, this.
Speaker C: apparently was written circa: Speaker C:There are some references to the content of the book.
Speaker C:Nothing's very complete.
Speaker C:In fact, maddeningly incomplete in most places that you are able to look up.
Speaker C: g in Northampton in the early: Speaker A:So I refer.
Speaker A:Hey, guys.
Speaker A:Or hey, everybody.
Speaker A:I'm finding out that this.
Speaker A:Following up on this one, this Benjamin Stockton feller.
Speaker A:Feller.
Speaker A:Did I just say feller?
Speaker C:You did.
Speaker E:You did say feller.
Speaker A:Let's pull that back.
Speaker A:Let's just start that one from the top.
Speaker A:Hey, everybody.
Speaker A:Good afternoon.
Speaker C:Good afternoon.
Speaker A:This is your host, Paris.
Speaker D:Hello.
Speaker A:Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker C:Hello.
Speaker D:Maybe just start with hey and then good.
Speaker A:Michael, you fucked me up, man.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I'm all weird, too.
Speaker A:All right, here we go, everybody.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I just found Benjamin Stockton.
Speaker A:Looks like he was referred to as the Old Buck.
Speaker A:And some of the notes I'm finding here saying he led this covenant back in.
Speaker A:Back in this time.
Speaker A:So another connection here.
Speaker A:How did he come up in those notes that y'all read, he popped in.
Speaker E:And out of the stories that.
Speaker E:That Zeke talked about.
Speaker E:Zeke talked like he knew him.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's weird because.
Speaker B:Yeah, a little crazy about the sounds of it.
Speaker D:Sounds fairly liminal.
Speaker C:10 experience points gained a level.
Speaker C:Do I get it to roll your history.
Speaker D:What a fail mind.
Speaker E:Prentice is going to run his history excluding the search term dick pills.
Speaker E:What's my bonus?
Speaker C:Did you say excluding the term dick pills?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:That's plus 40% to your role.
Speaker D:Is that Father Shine face.
Speaker E:Beautiful.
Speaker E:And I got a 46 of 10, so that's a.
Speaker E:That's a big old.
Speaker C:Indeed it is.
Speaker C:So much like Agent Kane, there's a reason in Prentiss mind that Mallory began to focus on local sources rather than trying to look up such niche knowledge on the World Wide Web.
Speaker C:Ryan, it's your turn.
Speaker C:History, please.
Speaker D:Ryan also failed the 81 over 10.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So all three of you have the same inkling that you're not going to find detailed information with this white cast net.
Speaker C:You're going to need to get on the microfiche machines.
Speaker C:You're going to need to talk to locals.
Speaker C:You're going to need to get a little, you know, dirty when it comes to actual research if this is what you want to look into.
Speaker C:Because these are going to be difficult nuggets of information to uncover without very specific texts, which we do have the name of one or very specific sources.
Speaker D:Ryan is going to look up from his phone and say to everybody else, I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting an inkling that we're not going to be able to find this information online.
Speaker D:I think we're going to have to go to local sources and look at microfiche or talk to local people.
Speaker D:This is going to be probably a difficult search without specific texts.
Speaker C:Or your eyelids fall off as you're speaking into your cereal and you accidentally eat them.
Speaker D:Oh, I took notes on what your cereal is.
Speaker D:Specific words.
Speaker D:Do you guys agree?
Speaker E:Absolutely.
Speaker E:That's the smartest thing you've said all day.
Speaker E:CIS princess.
Speaker D:Chris, I love the moment when I realized that you.
Speaker D:Or when you realized what I was doing.
Speaker C:So angry.
Speaker C:So good.
Speaker C:So furious.
Speaker D:I'm so sor.
Speaker B:Maybe someone should try to go track down that book.
Speaker D:I think we need to go to the library.
Speaker D:For sure.
Speaker C:Boston's two hours back.
Speaker C:Boston's the way you came last night.
Speaker C:Oh, wait, it's not the welcome to do that.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:But, like, the local library isn't gonna have every single thing Online.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:It could have stuff that's unlisted.
Speaker C:No, the book that we're talking about is in the restricted stacks at Boston Public Library, which means you would have to actually travel there and talk to somebody to check it out.
Speaker C:Probably there on site because it's restricted.
Speaker C:If you want to look up other stuff here in town, microfiche, that's perfectly fine.
Speaker C:I thought you were specifically talking about that old tone.
Speaker D:No, I meant go to the local library for perfect records.
Speaker D:And that definitely.
Speaker E:Probably a good place for local book.
Speaker C:Sure, sure.
Speaker D:Oh, can we fuck.
Speaker D:Rhino said this to the group.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker D:Is there some way of seeing if anybody in town is potentially the descendant of.
Speaker D:Of somebody listed and on this that, you know, maybe there's genealogies or something?
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Massachusetts genealogy records you would want to comb through.
Speaker C:And that's a heavy research task, but that would be the way to figure that out.
Speaker D:Is that local library stuff or is that online stuff?
Speaker C:Well, there are some genealogy records online.
Speaker C:You can pay to access certain archives.
Speaker C:I will let you know that this task is something you're going to want to commit a good chunk of time to if this is what you want to do.
Speaker C:We're talking hours and looking up current census data of people who live here, potentially maybe even working with the Massachusetts Historical Society, maybe looking at the Massachusetts Archives of digital repository.
Speaker C:There's just a lot of things you'll have to start collating.
Speaker C:Putting together.
Speaker C:Genealogy projects, even with digital records, are still fairly painstaking.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:If you think that's going to yield something to help you find this radio station, though, go for it.
Speaker B:We would be better off reaching out to the genealogical society if we went that route.
Speaker B:Yeah, and that would be a set it and walk away thing.
Speaker A:Also, I don't think we need to.
Speaker A:We shouldn't lose a thread here about tracking down this radio station.
Speaker E:Right?
Speaker E:We do have.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:If this is, you know, Kane, is this something you're familiar with?
Speaker A:Are you able to utilize this stuff to track down a station?
Speaker A:Is that something in your background?
Speaker B:I'm gonna have to do some reading first.
Speaker B:This can take a few hours at least, and at best it'll get me a rudimentary understanding.
Speaker A:Well, maybe we can find a local expert, or maybe we can call Snedegar and see if they've got anyone in the area with that kind of expertise that we could pull on.
Speaker E:I can already tell you what Snedeker's gonna tell us.
Speaker E:Yeah, well, based off of every aid handler, we're on our own, boys.
Speaker B:He's already said that.
Speaker A:Well, in that case, maybe if we can find someone in the area with some expertise, might be able to help us at least, if not, track down the radio station.
Speaker A:But explain the weirdness that Mallory was talking about.
Speaker E:I feel like we're largely on our own on this.
Speaker E:We can't trust somebody here because they might be the source of the problem.
Speaker E:Until we narrow in on who or what's doing this, everybody's a suspect.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker D:We could come at.
Speaker D:That's.
Speaker D:That's.
Speaker D:That's true, but I think that potentially the way that we approach people could be from a more innocent angle.
Speaker D:Clemson Mallory had said he was a journalist.
Speaker D:Maybe one or two of us are also journalists and chasing a similar lead to understand.
Speaker D:Or fanatics who listen to this news.
Speaker D:Who.
Speaker D:Fanatics who listen to this station and.
Speaker D:And want to hear more.
Speaker A:No, I.
Speaker A:I just don't want to lose a threat on tracking the station down through traditional means is all.
Speaker B:We're missing the obvious, boys.
Speaker B:Ain't nobody listened to it yet.
Speaker C:Very true.
Speaker A:Well, be perfectly honest, after watching what happened to my friend Prentice here, just from reading the notes, I'm not too interested in hearing it for myself.
Speaker E:Furthermore, it might make your teeth fall out.
Speaker A:There is that.
Speaker B:Well, maybe the two of you go to the library, try to jig stuff up.
Speaker B:Ryan and I can.
Speaker D:I'm with Kane on that.
Speaker D:I'm feeling okay to listen to this station.
Speaker D:My curiosity is getting the better of me on this one.
Speaker B:Why don't the two of you pranus.
Speaker B:Paris, go to the library, see what you can dig up there to see if you can't maybe get your hands on some of the information from that book.
Speaker B:Maybe somebody photocopied it or something.
Speaker B:Rod and I'll stay here.
Speaker B:We'll listen for the radio station, and I can start digging up the information I'll need to operate that equipment.
Speaker B:If it comes down to it, sounds great.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:So are we gonna listen in, like, on a car radio?
Speaker C:Like, what are we.
Speaker C:What are we doing here?
Speaker C:To try to tune into wxxt.
Speaker D:How about Ryan?
Speaker D:I mean, maybe this is dumb, but, like, while there's time.
Speaker D:Kane learns.
Speaker D:Educates herself on.
Speaker D:On some of this equipment stuff.
Speaker D:Ryan can run and grab a.
Speaker D:You know, run to the store or something.
Speaker D:Grab a little transistor radio.
Speaker E:Yeah, some sort of Shack that sells radios.
Speaker C:You also there.
Speaker C:Yeah, you can grab, like, a Radio Shack portable radio from a Radio Shack or listen in your vehicle or yeah, even pick it up on the scanner that you brought to Keen's room, potentially, so whichever way you want to go.
Speaker C:I didn't know there was down with that.
Speaker D:See, Sorry.
Speaker D:This is just stuff I don't know.
Speaker D:I didn't know there was a scanner.
Speaker D:Of course there is, because he was listening.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's just RDF equipment, you know, it's extremely sophisticated to help in fairness.
Speaker D:Chrissy said.
Speaker D:How are you listening to this?
Speaker D:I didn't know that there was that.
Speaker D:Felt like I need to go find something.
Speaker C:I'm just giving you.
Speaker C:I'm just giving you all your options.
Speaker C:Giving you all your.
Speaker A:Well, I did say RDF equipment.
Speaker A:Like we all know what the fuck that is.
Speaker A:I don't know what that is.
Speaker A:Radio ship equipment.
Speaker C:It'll pick up any frequency you want to listen to.
Speaker C:You just got to put on some headphones.
Speaker C:But you grab a transistor radio from a nearby whatever.
Speaker D:Sure.
Speaker D:Because that way, both Kane and I can listen to it the same time.
Speaker C:While the other two agents make their way to the Northampton Public Library to.
Speaker C:To hopefully dive into some local folklore.
Speaker D:And.
Speaker C:And what.
Speaker C:What is your aim, you guys?
Speaker C:Just to.
Speaker C:So I understand what we're researching, Princess of Paris.
Speaker A:Just looking for more information on the list of names and the coven, probably.
Speaker A:Coven.
Speaker E:See where they come up in historical record.
Speaker A:Yeah, okay.
Speaker A:Like, more detailed information, like specifically where they were located, that kind of thing.
Speaker A:I know they're in the area, but, you know, whatever we can find on them, essentially, more details.
Speaker C:Okay, cool.
Speaker C: at there are records from the: Speaker C:Is that correct?
Speaker E:Books and stories about the.
Speaker E:The folks in the area.
Speaker E:I know some public libraries have that.
Speaker C:So you all head on over.
Speaker C:In the meantime, Agent Kane and Agent Ryan go ahead and obtain a small portable radio.
Speaker C:And in Agent Kane's room, they have a gander at trying to find this frequency.
Speaker C:Now, the frequency does tend to hop a bit.
Speaker C:Thankfully, Mallory's notes, he always went ahead and recorded the frequency that he listened in to before he wrote down what he heard.
Speaker C:So you have a few spots to kind of experiment with.
Speaker C:And before long, you are tuned in to what sounds like some staticky bluegrass music.
Speaker C:The tune ends.
Speaker C:A voice again sounding distant.
Speaker C:Static Y comes on the air.
Speaker A:Well.
Speaker G:Well, now, that was a nice little tune.
Speaker G:Now, I wouldn't put it past the big man upstairs to test us again, his poor, sick, and misbegotten children.
Speaker G:But for now, we seem to be getting through his trials.
Speaker G:One after the other.
Speaker G:Reigning in the wild will of Brother Clemson has been a big part of it.
Speaker G:A delicate thing when you consider the desired conclusion in our grand story.
Speaker G:How do you balance the need for control so that you can just arrange to do away with it all in the end?
Speaker G:Well, placing him back under the yoke of the HYO1's guidance yet again will speed us up to that end.
Speaker G:I do have faith in that at least.
Speaker G:And Dame Gare, Dear Ann, we have her to thank for it.
Speaker G:Her methods might be crude, but perhaps that aspect is to be celebrated in the new world.
Speaker A:Coming.
Speaker G:That's enough out of me.
Speaker G:Let's have a little listen now to Jimmie Rogers.
Speaker G:Old Skinner's Blues.
Speaker D:More old.
Speaker C:Old timey music swells takes over the airwaves as the host's voice fades.
Speaker B:Rhyn, Did I just hear what I think I heard?
Speaker D:I heard a lot.
Speaker B:He said Clemson.
Speaker D:Brother Clemson joined them under Dame Ger's method.
Speaker D:So sounds to me like Clemson Mallory.
Speaker B:Is gone to the other side.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Lost to whatever this is.
Speaker D:I can't think of any other word for it other than what sounds like a cult of some kind.
Speaker B:Calvin?
Speaker D:It's a lot.
Speaker D:Ryan's just kind of almost speechless trying to process it all.
Speaker D:Mostly because Michael is speechless trying to process it all.
Speaker D:I feel like there was a lot there.
Speaker D:Did we miss anything else, Chris?
Speaker C:I don't think so.
Speaker D:I don't know, it just.
Speaker D:It felt very significant.
Speaker B:Oh, it was.
Speaker D:But like, how do you even react to that?
Speaker C:How did he get in the radio?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:By sending a text to the other boys so they know something's going on.
Speaker D:I think that that's a good call.
Speaker D:We'll send a text.
Speaker C:What do you send?
Speaker C:What do you send them?
Speaker C:Hey, there's something going on.
Speaker D:Let's, let's, let's, let's give, give me.
Speaker B:Fans station and you know what?
Speaker B:Yeah, let's give them a call.
Speaker D:Put them on speaker and do you want me to play out the update or do you want to?
Speaker C:I mean, I'm curious what you tell them.
Speaker D:Sure.
Speaker D:So, yeah, so we were playing with the radio and Mallory had written down some frequencies to play.
Speaker B:We found the station box.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:We found the station and we heard a man standing make reference to Brother Mallory joining them and brother Clemson, he said.
Speaker D:Sorry.
Speaker D:Thank you.
Speaker B:Not exactly a common name.
Speaker E:No.
Speaker D:And methodology or spirit of Dame Gare that her methods may be cruel but worthwhile.
Speaker D:On the other side said Dane.
Speaker A:Dane Gareth.
Speaker D:Dame Gare sounds like, like.
Speaker C:Correct.
Speaker C:Correct.
Speaker C:Michael, you got It.
Speaker B:Yeah, he's talking about Anne.
Speaker A:And that wasn't.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:That was on.
Speaker A:That name was on the list, right?
Speaker D:Yeah, that's the.
Speaker D:The woman we first found.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:She's the one that was drained.
Speaker D:Remember the handout on the foundry website?
Speaker D:Ryan says that in.
Speaker D:Sounds like this coven is still alive and well today.
Speaker D:Somewhere.
Speaker B:Somewhere nearby.
Speaker E:Cool.
Speaker A:Great cult of witches.
Speaker A:Just what we need.
Speaker D:Maybe worth.
Speaker D:If you guys are almost there, feel free to do some research.
Speaker D:But it also might be worth asking someone local if they could reference us to anybody in the town who is familiar with the histories that maybe we can then go.
Speaker D:Go talk to.
Speaker E:I mean, we.
Speaker E:We know somebody who's familiar with the history.
Speaker E:She's on sabbatical right now.
Speaker B:All right, well, I have an instruction book to get back to you.
Speaker B:Let us know what you find, boys.
Speaker E:Yeah, we'll.
Speaker E:We'll keep our research up and we might end up Reaching out to Ms.
Speaker E:Pound.
Speaker D:Sounds good.
Speaker A:Click.
Speaker C:You two end up at the Northampton Public Library.
Speaker C:It's small, it's a humble affair, but it's easy to find the areas that have local history.
Speaker C:And you start perusing through the books, the well preserved newspapers that are basically hung up in protective covers, and start checking basically everything that's available to you.
Speaker C:It becomes quickly obvious, however, that there's very little from the time period that Clemson Mallory was so preoccupied with just too long ago for what's being held here at the Northampton Public Library.
Speaker C:But you do find that there is a spot in town called the Anne Ger House.
Speaker C:In fact, it's the spot where she supposedly had her library.
Speaker C:And it was burnt down to its foundation during the witch hysteria in this area.
Speaker C:And it looks like it's located in downtown Northampton.
Speaker C:And when you take a look at the address online, you can see that there is now a bookstore there.
Speaker C:Basically part of a large strip of commercial businesses.
Speaker E:Well, that's interesting.
Speaker A:Yeah, Princeton tickets might be worth.
Speaker A:We're checking out next.
Speaker A:There wasn't much else here, it seems.
Speaker E:Should we get the other two or do you want to just go, you and me?
Speaker D:Ryan sent a text message that said.
Speaker D:So she's just reading and I'm sitting here.
Speaker D:So if you guys find anything, can you.
Speaker D:Can you pick me up?
Speaker A:It's like, yeah, let's.
Speaker A:Let's grab Ryan.
Speaker A:At least bring him along with us.
Speaker A:Yeah, princess.
Speaker A:Something I want to talk to you about though, before I'll tell you about it on the road.
Speaker A:So that's when we go out and get in the car and start driving.
Speaker A:Back.
Speaker E:What's up?
Speaker A:Look over Princeton like, hey, man, have you been.
Speaker A:Remember the conversation we had at the hotel the other morning?
Speaker A:Before the whole thing with the manager and getting into his room?
Speaker C:That was like an hour ago.
Speaker A:That was an hour ago.
Speaker A:Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:What time is it right now?
Speaker A:Is it 2:45 the morning?
Speaker B:Feels like it.
Speaker A:Damn.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So earlier this morning, we're talking about this.
Speaker A:Has anyone else approached you about.
Speaker A:About the operation or.
Speaker A:Look, man, I'll just.
Speaker A:Look, you and I go back.
Speaker A:You and I've been through some.
Speaker A:And we go back, right?
Speaker A:And after what almost happened to you earlier.
Speaker A:Look, man, I don't have many other people here around that I.
Speaker A:I can.
Speaker A:I can lean on.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:So I got.
Speaker A:I had somebody approach me just before I flew up here, trying to recruit me for another group.
Speaker A:Gave me a card with a number on it, said to reach out to someone.
Speaker A:Anyone reached out to you?
Speaker A:Anything like that?
Speaker E:Not at all.
Speaker A:What the fuck?
Speaker C:You didn't just get a card with a number on it, Paris.
Speaker C:You received an address and were told to go to an office at the address and speak to a lovely young woman.
Speaker C:And please don't kill her, I believe is what you were asked to do.
Speaker A:Remind me what city that was, that address.
Speaker C:Addresses in New York City.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, I got a number.
Speaker A:I got an address in New York that I'm supposed to go visit, talk to someone.
Speaker A:I don't know, man.
Speaker A:It's weird.
Speaker A:You haven't got it.
Speaker E:Are you considering moonlighting with another group?
Speaker E:Look, is that.
Speaker A:I mean, you know how this.
Speaker A:This line of business is.
Speaker A:It's mostly off the books as it is.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I don't know, man.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:I'm just trying to do my.
Speaker A:My diligence here and see.
Speaker A:See, I mean, I.
Speaker A:I don't trust Delta Green as far as I can throw him.
Speaker A:I especially don't trust another organization that's approaching me.
Speaker A:You're about the only one I do trust at this point, which is kind of why I'm talking to you about it.
Speaker A:It's weird.
Speaker A:I just wanted to see if you'd had anybody reach out, but I guess not.
Speaker E:No, it's not.
Speaker E:No shit.
Speaker E:None of that.
Speaker A:I mean, I haven't talked to Senegar about it.
Speaker A:I don't intend to right now.
Speaker A:I just.
Speaker A:I don't know what to do about it.
Speaker A:Maybe I should.
Speaker A:Maybe I should chase it down.
Speaker A:Just see.
Speaker A:See what it's about.
Speaker E:Look, Paris, what we do for the program is.
Speaker E:It asks a lot of us if you go and join another one, I'm sure they'll ask a lot of you on top of what you already do.
Speaker A:Yeah, but they seem to have.
Speaker A:I mean, how many organizations can there be?
Speaker A:I thought.
Speaker A:It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker A:We got competing, just like pawns, and these competing organizations that are working against each other, trying to.
Speaker A:I mean, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker A:Just doesn't make sense.
Speaker A:They had access to me.
Speaker A:Look.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker A:I think if.
Speaker A:I think if I ignore, they're just gonna keep.
Speaker A:They're gonna keep coming at me.
Speaker E:Just be careful, man.
Speaker E:It's sounds shady.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, you say that again, er.
Speaker E:Than what we already deal with.
Speaker A:You can say that again as well.
Speaker A:Well, tell you what, man, if I.
Speaker A:If I end up heading that way, I'll.
Speaker A:I'll let you know.
Speaker A:So at least someone on the other side has a.
Speaker A:Has an idea where I'm at.
Speaker E:Okay, do that.
Speaker C:You four are now back up in Agent Kane's hotel room, where Agent Kane is furiously going through several sets of online manuals regarding RDF equipment, this set of equipment, and others, and doing her best to try to make some sense of how to properly use this to potentially track down your quarry being the pirate radio station.
Speaker C:You see, Ryan's finishing up a Sudoku.
Speaker C:He seems disappointed.
Speaker C:He realizes there are no Sudoku's left in the small travel Sudoku companion he brought with him as you just enter the room.
Speaker E:So how's the progress going?
Speaker B:Slow.
Speaker B:Real slow.
Speaker C:Roll your intelligence.
Speaker B:That is a failure at 76 over 50.
Speaker C:Yeah, you're really not getting anywhere with these manuals.
Speaker C:And really, it just comes down to the fact that this is highly sophisticated usage of this equipment.
Speaker C:You've turned it on.
Speaker C:You've started kind of fiddling with some of the setups that are being described in these manuals.
Speaker C:But there's a whole level of skill here that aren't in these technical user manuals.
Speaker C:There's a.
Speaker C:There's a whole inference from the way these are written that you already know what these are supposed to do.
Speaker C:They just kind of give you the rundown on what these knobs, these dials, these buttons, these capacitors do.
Speaker C:Assuming you already know what you're trying to do, that last part you only vaguely have a grasp on.
Speaker C:You're really not making any headway on using this extremely sophisticated equipment in this extremely sophisticated way.
Speaker E:Well, we found the Anne Ger house.
Speaker E:So, Ryan, if you'd like to come with us.
Speaker E:While Kane continues puzzling out this machine.
Speaker D:Ryan's gonna look over sympathetically at Kane and say, hey, it's.
Speaker D:It's complicated stuff.
Speaker D:You.
Speaker D:You want a break?
Speaker B:Yeah, I think getting away from this for a few minutes might help.
Speaker D:And then Ryan's gonna turn back to Apprentice and say, what's the Anne Ger house?
Speaker E:It's the house that Ann Gear owned that was burned down to its foundations.
Speaker E:It is now a bookstore.
Speaker E:That's what we found.
Speaker D:Let's check it out.
Speaker C:All right, so y'all load up in your GMC that was provided to you by Snedger and make your way to downtown Northampton.
Speaker C:Go ahead and park on the street in front of this commercial strip on this rainy Saturday morning.
Speaker C:It is currently raining outside.
Speaker C:You see that there are still lots of folks doing some shopping in the area, huddled under umbrellas, skirting from coffee shops and vintage clothing outlets as fast as they can in order to try to remain dry.
Speaker D:Chris, do we see Anne G.
Speaker D:No, you do not.
Speaker C:Okay, actually, go ahead and roll.
Speaker C:Your alertness minus 90%.
Speaker D:Get.
Speaker D:Do I get hit by a car?
Speaker C:You rolled pretty good.
Speaker C:If you had.
Speaker C:If you had passed, I would have been so angry.
Speaker D:I have 40% alertness.
Speaker D:I.
Speaker D:The fact that I rolled it all was a mockery of the whole system.
Speaker C:Yeah, of course it was.
Speaker C:No, you can always roll a one.
Speaker C:But you do see this bookstore.
Speaker E:It's fucking crazy.
Speaker C:If you had rolled a wine, I would have had to pull something out.
Speaker C:But I'm so thankful you didn't.
Speaker C:The bookstore is called Depths D E P T H S.
Speaker C:It's got kind of a handmade cursive sign above its glass store front door.
Speaker C:You can see from the outside as rain patters against the windows of your vehicle, that books are stacked almost haphazardly inside.
Speaker C:It looks more like a used bookstore than anything else.
Speaker C:It's not well organized, at least from what you can see from the street.
Speaker C:I assume all four of us go inside.
Speaker B:Might as well.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker C:You four quickly move under the eaves that are in front of depths and enter the storefront.
Speaker C:Books and shadows fill up every inch of the store shelves here, dusty and drooping with the weight of all of the books again, that are haphazardly stacked.
Speaker C:As you look around, you can see that the store deals in new age manifestos, quasi mystical self help books, vintage horror fantasy novels.
Speaker C:A lot of schlock as you begin to take in what this store has to offer.
Speaker C:The aisles are claustrophobic and seem to wind through to the very back of this lengthy store floor.
Speaker C:There's a Clerk who looks up as you enter.
Speaker C:So you see a young woman.
Speaker C:She has thick braided dark hair, very pale skin, severe eyes, and kind of a glare as all four of you file into the store.
Speaker C:She's wearing a leather jacket over what looks like a loose corset.
Speaker C:She's dressed like a goth kid.
Speaker C:She's also wearing velvet black gloves over her hands.
Speaker C:She's fiddling with a small transistor radio on the clerk's desk that she is currently behind.
Speaker C:Besides the glare, the brief glare, there's really no interaction between her and you.
Speaker C:As the door closes behind your group.
Speaker E:Oh, I'm sorry, are you not open?
Speaker C:She looks up at you.
Speaker C:Yeah, we're open.
Speaker C:She continues to fiddle with the knobs.
Speaker C:You hear static coming from the radio.
Speaker D:She does so real quick, out of character.
Speaker D:Is it a good idea or a bad idea?
Speaker D:And this is more of a question of the group for anybody.
Speaker D:I guess Ryan could mostly leaning into his weird face situation, like, stay back from the group or whatever, and then go in the store and play it as, like, a believer kind of a thing and, you know, say, like, did you hear about.
Speaker C:Did you say Belieber?
Speaker C:Like a Justin Bieber fan?
Speaker D:I didn't.
Speaker D:I didn't.
Speaker D:If you could.
Speaker B:Yes, you did.
Speaker E:Oh, you didn't.
Speaker C:Okay, well, I'll go ahead and hold off on that segment of my manuscript then, if that's not what you said.
Speaker D:But more of like.
Speaker D:Like, did you hear about Brother Clemson and stuff?
Speaker D:Just to see if this girl has any sort of play, you know, if she responds in any kind of significant way.
Speaker C:I think you can do that right now.
Speaker C:I don't think we need to retro any actions where you're trying to pretend you're not part of the group.
Speaker D:The question is a little bit more of, like, is that a terrible idea?
Speaker D:And is that going to basically fuck the entire group from, like, trying to take another approach?
Speaker B:I say we do it.
Speaker B:Kane's gonna automatically split off into the stacks when we walk in.
Speaker B:So worst case, I can pretend that.
Speaker D:I wasn't with you guys at the same time.
Speaker D:I think that's a good call.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:All four of you parked basically in front of the storefront and came out of the same car.
Speaker C:So if she was paying any attention, that's going to be a tough one.
Speaker C:I'm just.
Speaker C:Just let you know she was paying attention.
Speaker D:She was fucking with the radio.
Speaker C:Yeah, maybe she didn't see anything at all.
Speaker C:Maybe she.
Speaker C:She didn't notice at all.
Speaker C:But I'm.
Speaker C:I'm Just.
Speaker C:Just letting you know that's.
Speaker C:That's the reality of the situation.
Speaker C:All came out of the same vehicle.
Speaker C:Kane, you go ahead and split off from the group and start kind of shimming your way through these.
Speaker C:These very narrow aisles.
Speaker C:Looking around these dusty shelves.
Speaker C:You three begin to speak, at least Prentiss does, to the young girl behind the counter who is fiddling with a radio.
Speaker E:What you looking for?
Speaker C:Huh?
Speaker E:She looks up at you on the radio.
Speaker E:What you looking for?
Speaker C:I'm trying to find wxxt, she says.
Speaker C:She looks back down at the radio.
Speaker E:Oh, cool.
Speaker C:He keeps skipping around.
Speaker C:She says, kind of angrily.
Speaker E:That's a shame.
Speaker E:I'm sorry.
Speaker D:Try.
Speaker D:And then Ryan will list the frequency from that just worked in the hotel.
Speaker C:She nods.
Speaker C:You actually hear the static fade out.
Speaker C:And you can hear that voice, the voice of that man.
Speaker C:The host looks like he's.
Speaker C:Or it sounds like he's mid sentence.
Speaker C:I'm gonna go ahead and roll.
Speaker E:Prentice gets noticeably nervous.
Speaker C:A1D4.
Speaker D:Yeah, I get that for sure.
Speaker D:Pre just puts his hands over his ears and runs away from screaming.
Speaker C:All right, let me go ahead and let you know what.
Speaker C:What this host says, but I can't.
Speaker G:Imagine that was the first time.
Speaker C:No, no, I.
Speaker C:I suppose not, but sure felt like it.
Speaker C:The voices are clear, clearer than before.
Speaker C:Paris.
Speaker C:Your ears perk up at that second voice sounds really, really familiar to you.
Speaker C:Your eyes lock on the transistor radio, which the young girl kind of sets up right now, sets to the side.
Speaker C:And she picks up her smartphone and starts piddling about, ignoring you and just letting the radio fade into the background.
Speaker G:Well, God willing, we can put that subject to rest.
Speaker G:Now, Connor, how would you care.
Speaker G:Characterize your relationship with Jesus?
Speaker G:Don't be shy now.
Speaker G:Just the whole of Pioneer Valley listening in.
Speaker C:Well, I.
Speaker C:I thought about it a lot.
Speaker C:I mean, especially when I was, you know, in the.
Speaker C:But I don't know.
Speaker C:I know there's something there.
Speaker G:But now, that's God, Connor, and he's certainly there.
Speaker G:We're talking Jesus.
Speaker C:Well, yeah, I.
Speaker C:I mean, I say I have, I guess, a relationship.
Speaker C:I may have strayed recently, but I know.
Speaker C:I know in my.
Speaker G:My heart, Connor, we all stray every now and then.
Speaker G:Jesus usually forgives us.
Speaker G:He loves us almost all of the time.
Speaker G:When he doesn't, that's when we fill ourselves.
Speaker G:Ourselves with the righteous might we are born with.
Speaker G:And we work to set things right.
Speaker G:Thank you for calling in, Connor.
Speaker G:Now, let's hear a little ditty from the Carter Family.
Speaker C:Old country music starts to swell and take over the broadcast.
Speaker A:Paris reaches over and grabs Prentiss by the arms.
Speaker A:Were you listening to that?
Speaker A:Did you hear that?
Speaker C:Paris first rolls his sanity for helplessness.
Speaker D:Sa.
