Episode 4
Episode 4 - That's a Wrap
The Agents, with dubious guidance from an unexpected ally, commit to interfacing with the dangerous anomaly at Wild Out There Stuff.
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Hello?
Speaker B:What time is it?
Speaker C:Who is it?
Speaker A:I don't know, I.
Speaker C:Situation, dream coverage or disruption.
Speaker A:Sorry, honey, I have to take this.
Speaker D:Kind of a general shot in the dark type of check.
Speaker D:Some kind of insight or.
Speaker D:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Insight.
Speaker D:Insight or, or what is it when you're looking around?
Speaker D:Not, I guess, kind of search, but.
Speaker C:Well, there's awareness, there's.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, you're thinking alertness.
Speaker C:Alertness, yes.
Speaker A:Alertness is not appropriate here.
Speaker A:Unfortunately, if you're looking for some flash of insight.
Speaker A:I get it.
Speaker A:You want a clue.
Speaker A:You want a clue from the gm.
Speaker A:I get it.
Speaker A:I totally get.
Speaker D:Correct.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:So there's not.
Speaker A:There are roles like that.
Speaker A:There are.
Speaker A:In this particular situation, there's not something that I can give you, but there are, there are certain places where, where you can be given insights.
Speaker D:Okay, okay.
Speaker A:This is not one of them.
Speaker A:This is a high octane, high stress situation.
Speaker A:And what you've got in front of you right now is an ass ended side of how this scene could have gone, right?
Speaker A:So we have one of our agents now immobile in the middle of a very difficult to navigate debris field.
Speaker A:We have maybe somebody who could have answered questions, who's been shot.
Speaker A:And we have you guys having a hard time getting through that field.
Speaker A:So we've tried, we tried a couple things now.
Speaker A:We've tried to get through it.
Speaker A:We've tried throwing things at the orbs, we've tried shooting people.
Speaker A:Nothing has worked yet.
Speaker B:I got it.
Speaker A:So what's next?
Speaker B:I got it.
Speaker B:I got it.
Speaker B:I cast magic missile at the orbs.
Speaker A:You don't have that ritual.
Speaker A:Not yet.
Speaker A:It could be on that laptop though.
Speaker A:Maybe you should figure that out.
Speaker C:Magic missile in this world would cost you too much.
Speaker B:That's true.
Speaker D:To be clear, Royston was on the way to the laptop.
Speaker D:Like, there is not an visible alternative route or, you know.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, it's hard to.
Speaker A:It's hard to like even glean a route from this crazy, impossible debris field, but she was getting damn close.
Speaker B:Yeah, I as the only one who has not.
Speaker B:Has not gone to go try and rescue Ron.
Speaker B:Relic tries to rescue Ron.
Speaker B:All right, let's do this.
Speaker D:Is is Ryan's not passed out, right?
Speaker A:No, you're just gasping for air.
Speaker D:Is there any rope or anything that we can find?
Speaker D:Nice.
Speaker D:Dude.
Speaker B:Chris, look at that.
Speaker D:Say like, should we tie a rope to him so we can pull him back if we need to?
Speaker B:I love that idea.
Speaker B:Hey, grab a rope, throw it to me.
Speaker A:There's no, there's no rope.
Speaker A:But Even if you had one and you tried to pull him back, he would, like, he would catch against immobile objects, you know.
Speaker B:You know, hit like a nail and, you know, rip my shirt or something.
Speaker A:Yeah, he'd probably die.
Speaker A:You probably stick him with a nail or something sharp and he'd be dead.
Speaker D:But what if he succeeded on a luckroll?
Speaker B:Well, I did.
Speaker B:I did just succeed on my luck rolls.
Speaker A:I'm glad to see it.
Speaker A:I'm glad to see it.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll your Athletics, please.
Speaker B:Okay, here we go.
Speaker B:God damn.
Speaker B:Oh, piece of shit.
Speaker A:And roll your intelligence, please.
Speaker B:It's not what he's known for, but let's.
Speaker B:Let's give it a shot.
Speaker B:50.
Speaker B:50.
Speaker B:Here we go.
Speaker C:Hey, Relic is not a thinker.
Speaker D:A.
Speaker B:He's a.
Speaker B:He's a shooter.
Speaker B:Don't ask any questions.
Speaker A:So having.
Speaker A:Having watched two of your agents try to grapple with this.
Speaker A:With this very difficult to manage field, you begin to.
Speaker A:In this high stress situation, cortisol levels spiked.
Speaker A:You begin to make your way through this field as best as you can.
Speaker A:You twist your body and you feel something kind of split, creak in your lower back.
Speaker A:But you.
Speaker A:You force yourself forwards, and before you know it, you are there.
Speaker A:You're right there within reach of Royzen's pant leg.
Speaker A:If you want to grab her, you think you might be able to drag her, but it's gonna be tough to get her back through this field.
Speaker B:I mean, that's why I'm here.
Speaker B:I grab her and start trying to pull her up.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:Roll your strength, please.
Speaker B:All right, I'm nailing him.
Speaker B:Finally, guys.
Speaker B:Fine.
Speaker B:It's happening.
Speaker A:You have.
Speaker A:You have to basically strain your.
Speaker A:Yourself, your.
Speaker A:Your sinews creak.
Speaker A:And you.
Speaker A:You have to really position yourself at odd angles to get her through this field as well as yourself.
Speaker A:Your vision begins to tunnel.
Speaker A:The blood in your temples beats hard, but after what seems like hours, you and Roizen are on the other side, next to the door.
Speaker A:The entry to this garage.
Speaker A:Clear of the field.
Speaker A:You see the color begin to creep back in her face.
Speaker A:Her eyes flutter open.
Speaker D:They went on the far side.
Speaker A:No, no, they're on your side.
Speaker D:Oh.
Speaker A:Okay, Roysen.
Speaker A:You come to consciousness and you look from side to side and you see the beleaguered agents who have been working with you on this ill fated op looking down at you, worried, sweating, bedraggled.
Speaker E:I don't suppose anyone got the license plate of that truck?
Speaker B:What truck?
Speaker E:The one that hit me.
Speaker C:Royston, glad you're alive, but I think we should all just burn this building down and be done with it.
Speaker C:I don't think this has anything to do with her.
Speaker B:I look over at romance and you took the words right out of my mouth.
Speaker D:Yeah, I think we definitely need to get out of here.
Speaker D:But I don't think that we need a.
Speaker D:We should fully give up on.
Speaker C:Get answers out of this other than just.
Speaker D:Well, we should still try to get that computer.
Speaker D:I mean somehow.
Speaker C:Do you want to go back in there?
Speaker D:Not that way.
Speaker C:What way do you want to go?
Speaker C:I'll support you.
Speaker D:This is talking to relic.
Speaker D:Were there any cars or anything outside?
Speaker D:I guess we might be able to use one of ours.
Speaker D:Is it insane if we drive a car into the side of this building?
Speaker D:Maybe that is.
Speaker C:Why would we do that?
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I said just one moment ago that I would support you, but I didn't think you'd say that.
Speaker A:Given.
Speaker D:Do you see the floating orbs and the immovable.
Speaker C:Yeah, sure.
Speaker D:Objects.
Speaker D:I think we're kind of beyond.
Speaker C:The building isn't going to do anything.
Speaker C:We should burn the building down.
Speaker B:We're going to burn the building down.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:Given.
Speaker E:Given how many bruises I have from the tiny objects in there, I don't think a car would survive.
Speaker D:Fair enough.
Speaker C:Romeo begins looking for a gas can.
Speaker C:Anywhere in this garage like space and if it's floating, so help me God.
Speaker A:None found.
Speaker A:You don't see any gasoline cans?
Speaker A:Obvious.
Speaker A:Gasoline cans.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:I don't have like I'm checking my gear.
Speaker B:I'm like.
Speaker B:I don't have flares or anything that would.
Speaker E:Roisin pulls out her cell phone, pulls up Google maps and looks for the closest gas station.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're on a very well trafficked highway.
Speaker A:There's gas stations everywhere.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker C:I do have a thermos filled with gasoline in my bug out bag.
Speaker B:Oh for real?
Speaker B:That's enough to start.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:It's not gonna.
Speaker A:What's that for those midnight sips?
Speaker C:Yeah, some midnight sniffs.
Speaker C:You mean?
Speaker E:That explains several things.
Speaker B:Good for the sinuses.
Speaker B:It clears them right out.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Oh, that's gasoline.
Speaker D:I still don't know if we should burn this place down.
Speaker C:Maybe enough to catch this place good.
Speaker B:You know, I.
Speaker D:We're looking for answers on what's going on in this town and clearly we found something here.
Speaker D:I.
Speaker D:I agree it's scary and fucked up, but I don't know if we should just burn it down and there's.
Speaker D:There could be answers in here somewhere.
Speaker C:Romeo turns to Ryan and gives him a thousand yard stare and says in every Small town in America.
Speaker C:There's something fucked up lurking just around the corner.
Speaker C:We can't burn every small town down.
Speaker C:But when we find this stuff, we gotta get rid of it, man.
Speaker D:That's not what we're here to do.
Speaker C:Yeah, it is.
Speaker D:We're not here to.
Speaker B:Actually, it is.
Speaker B:We can't leave this behind.
Speaker B:Unless you plan on hanging out here all night long.
Speaker C:Sometimes there are puzzles that aren't meant to be solved.
Speaker C:They're just meant to be thrown away.
Speaker E:Yeah, we really don't want a civilian walking into this.
Speaker B:Worst case, burn the building down and the orbs keep floating.
Speaker B:God, that'd be awful.
Speaker B:I was thinking about that.
Speaker B:What to do.
Speaker C:You're right.
Speaker C:Romeo says and begins border running at the.
Speaker E:Did anybody attempt to shoot the orbs?
Speaker C:Well, I.
Speaker C:I tried to spear it while you were passed out with that broom you see across the room.
Speaker B:I'll take a shot.
Speaker B:It's like I'll take a shot at him.
Speaker B:I don't think it'll work, but.
Speaker C:Oh, God.
Speaker C:Romeo covers his ears.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:The report is again, deafening.
Speaker A:If you did hit the orb, there's no indication that it noticed the bullet passing through.
Speaker C:Now, he said noticed, and I noticed that.
Speaker A:How many.
Speaker A:How many donkeys are there in this room, exactly?
Speaker B:It took him three seconds to say that.
Speaker B:And there are three orbs.
Speaker B:I'm just saying I've only taken two shots I could take.
Speaker D:There were 30 ribs.
Speaker E:Dinosaur Brazen's gonna pull out her earplugs and stick them in before they do anything else.
Speaker A:Smart.
Speaker C:I guess we do have to get that laptop and figure out if we can stop this field.
Speaker D:Ryan leaves the room and starts walking back through the supply closet.
Speaker D:And he's looking for rope.
Speaker D:Anything that he could kind of makeshift into a fishing rod.
Speaker D:Anything that might be able to range, try to pull the laptop out of the chaos.
Speaker A:There's no rope in the supply closet.
Speaker A:You're not seeing anything that could really function as a last sewing device in this building.
Speaker A:That doesn't mean you can't just drive down to Home Depot and grab something else.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But yeah, in the building itself, you're not seeing anything that fits that description.
Speaker B:Is there a way we could.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I have a camping gear extended kit.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:I think that's.
Speaker B:Would that be in the car?
Speaker A:I'll just.
Speaker A:I'll just drop a little hint for y'all.
Speaker A:The laptop is also suspended in air.
Speaker B:Wait, are you serious?
Speaker C:Damn it.
Speaker B:Oh, I thought it was.
Speaker B:I thought it was on the ground this whole time.
Speaker D:I Didn't realize that.
Speaker E:Yeah, that was gonna be my next question.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Suspended in air with its screen pointed away from you infuriatingly.
Speaker C:Can we tell what kind of laptop it is?
Speaker A:Oh, it's a Dell.
Speaker C:It's a Dell, So it's probably running Microsoft.
Speaker C:And this is all a Windows button.
Speaker C:I think.
Speaker C:I think we solved the.
Speaker C:That's pretty.
Speaker B:That's pretty.
Speaker D:Are there any reflective surfaces?
Speaker A:There are lots of varying types of mirrored surfaces on the store floor.
Speaker A:These are not like security discs that you would see set up in a mall.
Speaker A:They're like kind of funky, wavy mirrors to.
Speaker A:To for effect.
Speaker A:Yes, those do exist.
Speaker D:I guess Ryan's gonna walk around in the safe part of the room to see if he can catch a reflection of the computer screen on something else floating.
Speaker D:If that exists, does what I'm trying to do make sense?
Speaker A:So you're trying to get yourself a reflected surface, kind of telescopic through.
Speaker A:See, and.
Speaker A:Yeah, See if you can.
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah, get.
Speaker D:Get an angle on the other side of the screen.
Speaker D:That would be able to show me the side of the screen I can't see.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You let the other agents know what you're up to.
Speaker A:Agents.
Speaker A:Are you guys down with giving this a go?
Speaker A:He's going to need some help rigging something up.
Speaker B:Yeah, I go look for, like, a mirror somewhere else in the building.
Speaker B:Like maybe something larger that we could use.
Speaker A:You're actually feeling really tapped out.
Speaker A:Like your energy is incredibly low.
Speaker A:When you stand up, your head swims a bit and you need to kind of lean against the wall, but otherwise you're okay.
Speaker A:You think?
Speaker A:You just need a moment, a breather.
Speaker A:I just want to let you know how you're feeling.
Speaker A:Didn't mean to interrupt.
Speaker A:What was your plan?
Speaker E:Yeah, I'm.
Speaker E:I'm gonna sit back down and do something non physical.
Speaker E:Well, they're attempting to do that.
Speaker E:I want to do something a little crazy.
Speaker E:I want to pull out my pocket computer, see if I can get onto the WI fi and maybe remote desktop into that computer.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:All right, cool.
Speaker A:So the WI fi is unprotected, unsecured, no password.
Speaker A:It's just wild out there stuff.
Speaker A:And you jump on, you do some basic sniffing around.
Speaker A:What other nodes are connected to this, to this network.
Speaker A:You find a couple of IP addresses.
Speaker A:You're not sure which one might be the laptop, if it's connected at all.
Speaker A:But you've got some good contenders here.
Speaker A:Let's see if you get lucky.
Speaker A:Let's see if there's any traffic passing Right now to hopefully that laptop.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll your computer science.
Speaker A:Let's start sniffing.
Speaker E:Oh, so close.
Speaker A:So there's just a little.
Speaker A:There's no traffic right now on any of the ips.
Speaker A:It's really hard for you to figure out any way to.
Speaker A:To do any work without some sort of activity.
Speaker C:And none of the computers are named the floating one.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So you kind of sigh and you.
Speaker A:You wait and you kind of watch your sniffer log and.
Speaker A:And hope for some additional information, but this is not working the way you thought working out the way you thought it would.
Speaker A:While.
Speaker A:While Roisin's doing that, you three are able to bring in some junk and some mirrors from not just inside the store itself, but from the junkyard as well outside.
Speaker A:And am I understanding this right?
Speaker A:You guys are going to kind of rig up a telescoping apparatus, I think.
Speaker B:A way to reflect the screen in a way that we can see.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:While Royzen's kind of typing away, y'all are duct taping and bungeeing this kind of long bit of cobbled together junk which has a good bit of mirror on the end of it.
Speaker A:And after about 40 minutes of hard work rigging this thing up, you have an angle where you can see what's on that laptop from afar with some sort of visual enhancement maybe on your phones or if you brought some binoculars with you.
Speaker A:But there's now an angle.
Speaker B:I do have my binoculars.
Speaker C:It's WebMD.
Speaker C:What to do when you have a dagger in your stomach?
Speaker A:Call ems.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker A:No, actually there's something else on the screen.
Speaker A:It looks like pictures of a book.
Speaker A:So you've got a program open that displays images.
Speaker A:You can see here that it's some sort of handwritten book pages.
Speaker A:They look poorly photocopied.
Speaker A:They're a bit marred.
Speaker A:There's some damage to them.
Speaker A:So somebody is photocopied some damaged pages of a book.
Speaker A:Now the book is in English.
Speaker A:Looks like a older dialect, maybe 16, 17th century.
Speaker A:It's gibberish.
Speaker A:It's talking about a great void that will crack open the clouds of God's rage and bring down the three creative demiurge.
Speaker D:Can I get the spelling on that?
Speaker A:D E M I U R G.
Speaker B:E.
Speaker B:Opportunity to roll.
Speaker B:If any of that's familiar, it's not familiar to you.
Speaker B:Just had to ask.
Speaker A:I would like.
Speaker A:I would.
Speaker A:That's like not a role.
Speaker A:That's like straight up.
Speaker A:You would remember that from something.
Speaker E:I would judge if somebody wants to tell or isn't about it.
Speaker E:You can Google it.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Is there a.
Speaker D:Is this.
Speaker D:Is this like a browser page, or is this like, a file?
Speaker D:Can we tell if there's.
Speaker D:Is there a URL bar or something?
Speaker A:Yeah, it looks like it's called 118 monsters and their Kind.
Speaker A:Kind is spelled with a Y and ends with a D.
Speaker A:Monsters is spelled with a T, R, E, S.
Speaker A:So Monsters and their Kind is the name of the file, and he does have it open in, like, an image browser program.
Speaker A:It looks like it's.
Speaker A:Pages 58 and 59, 411.
Speaker D:I relay that information to Royson.
Speaker D:Are we able to search for this book?
Speaker D:Do we want to call.
Speaker D:Shit.
Speaker D:I forget his name.
Speaker D:Do we want to call the Handler just.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker D:See if we can get some other.
Speaker C:Yeah, I think it's a good idea to relay this into Snediger.
Speaker C:It certainly would be something of interest to Delta Green.
Speaker C:Books about monsters would definitely pull up a book.
Speaker C:Big stink on their smell O meter, so.
Speaker B:Especially the floating kind.
Speaker C:Whether it's trash or not is up to them to decide, but judging by all this floating shit, seems like a likely candidate.
Speaker C:Three orbs and three demiurges.
Speaker C:Whatever.
Speaker C:That doesn't feel too much like a coincidence to me.
Speaker A:The orbs, in response, continue to lazily float.
Speaker D:God, just taunting us.
Speaker C:Yeah, we all.
Speaker C:We all flip them the bird.
Speaker C:See what they say about that?
Speaker A:They float even.
Speaker A:Even more lazily, actually.
Speaker C:Flip the bird even harder.
Speaker A:The laziness seems to increase exponentially with the intensity of bird flip.
Speaker D:Ryan physically holds Romeo back.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker D:Let it go, man.
Speaker C:I hope you can see me doing this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can.
Speaker E:Well, now that we know what the file is, would that give me a little easier way to find it?
Speaker A:Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker A:In fact, with that information, there's.
Speaker A:There's no real skill involved here in doing some basic searches on.
Speaker A:On public databases.
Speaker A:It looks like a apocryphal folio.
Speaker A:It's something that collectors highly prize.
Speaker A:It's rumored that the Black Library of the Vatican had one of the original copies.
Speaker A:And since then, there's been a few folks who have gotten their hands on it through strange and corrupt back channels and created their own versions of it, hastily scribbled down.
Speaker A:But it's.
Speaker A:It's got kind of a storied history of one of those forbidden tomes that's sent from place to place and has terrible secrets in it that those.
Speaker A:Those in power wish.
Speaker A:Wish.
Speaker A:Never, never read or disseminated.
Speaker A:It's A fairly large folio.
Speaker A: have been written in the late: Speaker A: en from the British Museum in: Speaker A:There are rumors of copies again that just persists to this day.
Speaker A:Looks like it is rumored to have topics from the Necronomicon, the Book of Ibon, other other forbidden tomes discussing, you know, terrible realities and truths that, again, the powers that be would never want the common man to know.
Speaker C:We need to burn this place.
Speaker E:Yeah, once Rosen has that information, she's calling Snediger.
Speaker E:Because anything Necronomicon is.
Speaker C:That's a spooky.
Speaker C:No, no book.
Speaker E:Yeah, this is over my head.
Speaker A:Yeah, go ahead and roll your.
Speaker A:Roll your luck.
Speaker A:You notice that Snediger still hasn't responded to your text message?
Speaker A:You call him anyway.
Speaker A:It does not get picked up.
Speaker A:It just rings and rings and rings.
Speaker D:Can Ryan try calling him?
Speaker A:Same.
Speaker A:It just rings.
Speaker D:Damn it.
Speaker E:Oh, he said I'll leave a message, try again later.
Speaker A:There's no message possibility, but.
Speaker A:But, yeah, try again later.
Speaker E:Of course there's no voicemail.
Speaker B:Has there been any change over this entire time to the situation, to the floating orbs and floating debris?
Speaker A:None at all that you can tell.
Speaker A:It does appear that Jeff Jenkins is dead, though.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, but otherwise, literally nothing is just stable.
Speaker B:Is.
Speaker B:Is what I'm seeing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You don't see any.
Speaker A:Any changes at all?
Speaker D:The phone call.
Speaker D:Ryan asked Roy, or I guess he called as well.
Speaker D:It.
Speaker D:It rang, though.
Speaker D:It.
Speaker D:It wasn't like a.
Speaker D:A drop.
Speaker D:Basically, I'm trying to see if there could be interference.
Speaker A:It just rang and rang.
Speaker A:You have no suspicion of interference?
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Agent Ro, Any luck getting into that computer?
Speaker E:Well, there's.
Speaker E:There's a few different machines on this network.
Speaker E:I don't know which one's this one.
Speaker B:So I don't know what else to do, but at this point, if we could shut that down, maybe I kind of just throw my hands in the air.
Speaker A:Roysin, I'll let you do one more.
Speaker A:Computer Science at a -20%, please.
Speaker D:I have another idea as well.
Speaker D:When we get there.
Speaker A:Oof.
Speaker B:There's definitely a computer over there.
Speaker B:I can see it.
Speaker A:No, actually, she.
Speaker A:She can't tell you.
Speaker A:You were kind of looking for any indication of, you know, logs for this router, anything that could.
Speaker A:Could help you start to identify any of these individual nodes and maybe give you an in, but you just can't find anything that's going to give you an end to any of these nodes.
Speaker E:Nothing Honestly, at this point, boys, I say you shoot the machine and shut it down that way.
Speaker D:Do we think that the machine is doing this?
Speaker E:It's worth a try.
Speaker D:I mean, we shot the guy.
Speaker D:Might as well shoot the machine.
Speaker E:Even better if you can miss the hard drive, because I can clone that.
Speaker C:Later if you, if, if you go ahead.
Speaker D:I mean, my idea was thinking about rigging up a way to spill water on it, so it's not much better.
Speaker D:But the reason I rescinded or don't think that's a good idea is I don't know if the machines.
Speaker D:The.
Speaker D:Doesn't seem like the machine's causing this.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker D:It's a source of information that Jeff used, but not actually, I don't think it's.
Speaker C:You know, but maybe on that machine is the way to stop all this.
Speaker C:Romeo shrugs and says, I guess I'll give it another try, and makes his way again towards the machine.
Speaker A:Okay, so you're trying to wind your way through the.
Speaker A:The debris field again.
Speaker A:Okay, so you start luck.
Speaker A:I didn't ask you for a look.
Speaker A:What are you doing?
Speaker C:Oh, God damn it.
Speaker C:I just assumed.
Speaker B:Is there.
Speaker B:Is there a way we could.
Speaker B:Hey, Chris, is there a way, like, we could support him in that?
Speaker B:Like, hey, we're going to help you.
Speaker C:You're doing great.
Speaker A:Yes, you can.
Speaker A:You can, you know, you can cheer him from the sidelines.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker B:Good job, bud.
Speaker A:Kind of an individual task.
Speaker A:Unfortunately, there's no real team effort.
Speaker C:Well, what they can do as a team is on my.
Speaker C:On my chart of things that I did good this week, they can put a little banana sticker next to.
Speaker A:Yeah, if you guys want to get those banana stickers ready, that would probably keep him going strong.
Speaker A:So let's give that a check.
Speaker E:My gear, maybe.
Speaker E:Maybe.
Speaker B:Yeah, I've got three packs of banana stickers.
Speaker C:Lucky day.
Speaker E:Maybe we can tie something to him so we can drag him out because.
Speaker A:Hope he doesn't get caught on something on the way out.
Speaker E:Yeah, but better than us having to go in and get him, because there's no way I'm going to be able to.
Speaker A:That's for sure.
Speaker B:I'm not going to pass those rules again.
Speaker A:If.
Speaker A:If your GM asks for those roles again.
Speaker A:Romeo starts to wind his way through the debris field.
Speaker A:He gulps visibly.
Speaker A:You can see him buttressing up against something small and having to contort his body in a way where he can continue through Romeo.
Speaker A:Before long, you start gasping for air.
Speaker A:Your vision starts to go dim, starts becoming tunneled.
Speaker A:What would you like to do.
Speaker A:You're not even halfway there.
Speaker C:I give up.
Speaker C:And turn around.
Speaker A:By the time you extract yourself from the debris field, you are gasping, your hands on your knees, your vision barely returning to normality.
Speaker C:Just burn it down.
Speaker D:Let's not.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker D:Let's not.
Speaker D:I don't think we should burn this place down.
Speaker D:But I agree that we need to protect the town from whatever's going on here.
Speaker D:I think that we can close up the shop.
Speaker D:I know that we've got a drone on the way, so maybe we close up the shop and hope that folks will respect that for the night, Come back first thing in the morning and see if we can use that drone to navigate through this crazy minefield.
Speaker C:That's not a bad idea.
Speaker C:That's probably the best option we have right now.
Speaker B:Just stay here in the parking lot.
Speaker D:Overnight?
Speaker C:Why?
Speaker B:Nobody's all.
Speaker B:We can't let the public come into this place.
Speaker C:Lock the door.
Speaker C:We'll find a key to the place.
Speaker C:Lock the door behind us.
Speaker B:Gonna find a key.
Speaker C:Well, I'm good.
Speaker C:I'm gonna start looking now.
Speaker C:And I hope it's not on that guy you shot, because that would suck.
Speaker B:It's not like you get to it anyway.
Speaker C:Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker C:That would suck.
Speaker B:Look, we could.
Speaker D:We could put a clothes.
Speaker D:Just turn the sign to closed.
Speaker D:This place is weird enough.
Speaker A:I don't think it was already closed.
Speaker A:You guys walked in.
Speaker E:Didn't stop us from coming in.
Speaker D:Yeah, but how many other folks are like us?
Speaker A:The door was also unlocked.
Speaker A:You could just lock it soon.
Speaker B:Okay, It's.
Speaker B:It's fine.
Speaker B:I'll.
Speaker B:I'll stay here for the night, out in the parking lot.
Speaker B:Y'all head back, get some rest.
Speaker D:Ryan's fine with that.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker D:All right.
Speaker A:So I have three agents who are going to leave.
Speaker D:Maybe someone should stay here with him.
Speaker A:You don't have to read into the my tone of voice.
Speaker D:I wasn't.
Speaker D:I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker B:Chris, you.
Speaker D:You spoke before I had a chance to recommend that.
Speaker A:Yeah, right, but.
Speaker A:Yeah, I have three agents.
Speaker A:You're gonna leave and y'all are gonna go to the Western and see if Sneddergate came through with the surveillance equipment.
Speaker A:Is that correct?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Relic insists on splitting the party.
Speaker B:So we can't let the public come across this.
Speaker B:That is an absolute non negotiable.
Speaker B:It has to be protected.
Speaker C:You are not wrong.
Speaker C:But also, we're not sleeping in a car.
Speaker C:So you have split the party.
Speaker B:No, no, you have split the party for not willing to like suck it up and sleep in a car.
Speaker C:Alright.
Speaker C:That government vehicle just parked outside of a place.
Speaker B:It's cool, man.
Speaker B:I got a badge.
Speaker E:We'll send someone back with coffee in a few hours.
Speaker A:Oh, that's nice.
Speaker B:I'd appreciate.
Speaker B:I'd appreciate that.
Speaker C:Relic.
Speaker A:You watched the other vehicle disappear down the highway.
Speaker A:There's actually quite a bit of traffic on the highway.
Speaker A:You see lights kind of streaming by and you've.
Speaker A:Sit yourself in the passenger seat, lean the chair back a bit.
Speaker A:But you don't sleep.
Speaker A:You're.
Speaker A:You're here to watch.
Speaker A:This is actually your comfort zone.
Speaker A:Watching carefully.
Speaker A:In fact, you're wondering how your protege is doing back at the park.
Speaker B:Oh, no, don't bring him up, man.
Speaker A:Maybe because of the stress of what you've been through, you do find yourself a bit less alert than you typically are.
Speaker A:But you can feel it.
Speaker A:You can feel that there's this kind of intent in your body to just go to sleep.
Speaker A:You know that's not gonna work.
Speaker A:So you go ahead and you turn on the radio.
Speaker A:You search for a while until you find a decent station of something that.
Speaker A:Well, Relic.
Speaker A:Relic could.
Speaker A:Could bear for next few hours.
Speaker A:Maybe help keep awake.
Speaker A:What.
Speaker A:What is Relic's personal taste?
Speaker B:Slovak folk songs.
Speaker A:Okay, well, he doesn't.
Speaker A:He doesn't find that.
Speaker A:So what.
Speaker A:What's his second?
Speaker D:Lady Gaga?
Speaker B:That's a good question, man.
Speaker B:What would Relic do?
Speaker B:I hadn't thought that deep into my character.
Speaker A:You're gonna go Hank Williams Jr.
Speaker A:So you're gonna go on old, old country.
Speaker B:That keeps you not that new Nashville bullshit.
Speaker A:That Nashville shit is not for you.
Speaker A:So yeah, you kind of settle on an old country station and that keeps you fairly alert.
Speaker A:I'm gonna get right back to you in a moment, Relic.
Speaker A:The other three agents show back up at their western in Columbus.
Speaker A:What's nice is that there is a package waiting for you, Agent Ryan, at the front desk.
Speaker A:The clerk who is attending the western at this time of night requires your ID and its signature, which you provide.
Speaker A:And a large case is removed from a brown cardboard box in your room.
Speaker A:Inside is a recon drone, something that you have used before, Agent Ryan.
Speaker A:However, this one is.
Speaker A:Seems to be quite cutting edge.
Speaker A:You've not seen this particular model before, but it looks like it can carry a payload.
Speaker A:It's set up to do so.
Speaker A:And in the case as well is a tablet that boots up and shows a complicated specification and control for this surveillance drone.
Speaker A:Do you have signals intelligence at all no.
Speaker A:Sigint?
Speaker D:Nope.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Do you have Computer Science?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Roll that at minus 20% for me please, Phil.
Speaker A:The operating system is quite sophisticated.
Speaker A:In fact, it seems like it's designed for federal law enforcement use.
Speaker A:It's not something that you're.
Speaker A:You've typically seen before.
Speaker A:It's gonna take you a few hours to kind of get familiar with it, understand how it works.
Speaker A:Roisin.
Speaker A:You kind of peek over.
Speaker A:Do you have signals intelligence?
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll your signals intelligence plus 20% please.
Speaker D:Why'd you get plus?
Speaker A:Yikes.
Speaker A:Arunos.
Speaker D:Not that I got minus.
Speaker A:So you recognize the OS as one specifically set up to to be very, very different from any prior platforms.
Speaker A:You can see the design choices there.
Speaker A:It's there to confuse.
Speaker A:You are absolutely sure you could master this thing, but it's gonna take you a few hours.
Speaker D:Much like Agent Ryan can Agent Ryan call Skedag.
Speaker D:Sorry, I need to work on this dude's name.
Speaker A:Snedeker.
Speaker D:Can I call?
Speaker D:Yeah, Snedegar.
Speaker A:Yeah, you can absolutely make the call again.
Speaker A:It rings continuously.
Speaker A:Once more.
Speaker D:Really?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Does he pick up?
Speaker D:If he thinks I'm calling about something else.
Speaker A:So you're saying there's some sort of quantum relationship here?
Speaker A:If you're thinking or perceiving slightly differently, that some there will be a different outcome?
Speaker A:No, that's not what happens.
Speaker A:So it just rings.
Speaker D:Okay, fair enough.
Speaker E:I.
Speaker E:I don't suppose you sent us the user manual?
Speaker A:With this thing there's no user manual.
Speaker A:But again, Royzen, you figure if you stay up till midnight or so, you can probably master this little.
Speaker E:Ah, that's not bad.
Speaker F:Nah, nah, nah.
Speaker E:I've done worse.
Speaker A:Same with Ryan.
Speaker A:Ryan?
Speaker A:You feel that way too?
Speaker A:It's just not something you're familiar with.
Speaker A:Out of the box.
Speaker D:Ryan turns to Roizen.
Speaker D:You think that we can.
Speaker D:I think we can figure this out.
Speaker D:It's probably just gonna take us a few hours.
Speaker D:You up for it?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker C:Romeo over all yalls shoulders, just watching the whole time and nodding.
Speaker A:Kind of.
Speaker A:Forget about poor agent relic and his caffeine intake and get to work.
Speaker A:Romeo is nodding vigorously as you pour over the operating system platform and the device itself.
Speaker A:But it is FLIR capable.
Speaker A:It also is indeed capable of carrying a 70 pound payload.
Speaker A:It can be rigged with a weaponry system which was not included.
Speaker A:It's got incredible zoom and counter swivel motion adjustment.
Speaker A:It's top of the line.
Speaker D:Oh, I have one of these.
Speaker A:Oh, cool.
Speaker D:I'm just kidding.
Speaker A:Yeah, for a federal law enforcement, it's pretty cool.
Speaker A:It's a nice.
Speaker A:It's a nice.
Speaker A:He sent you, actually, as you to get very familiar with this.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:This is like, next gen.
Speaker A:You're getting something that's not available to anyone, but perhaps, you know, hrt, and in the FBI agent relic, you're listening to the dulcet tones of some of your favorite old country singers.
Speaker B:I did actually want to interject, if that's all right.
Speaker B:There's one thing I wanted to.
Speaker B:To work on, and if it's.
Speaker B:If it's okay, if I'm jumping too far ahead, let me know.
Speaker B:You had mentioned at the last game that, like, something seemed familiar, but I failed my role, and I wanted to dedicate some of his time to.
Speaker B:If it's.
Speaker B:If it's not something I can do, that's fine, but if it's like, if there's an itch in the back of his head, it's like, man, this does seem familiar.
Speaker B:I just, like, maybe spend some time going through his old notes to see if there's something that pops up.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:So he's going through his notes right now as he listens to, again, the dulcet tones of some of his favorite country singers, when suddenly there's a spike on the radio of loud static, and this jolts you out of your research reverie, and you reach toward the dial to try to get back to that station.
Speaker A:It only takes you a few, but you get back to it.
Speaker A:About 10 minutes later, it happens again.
Speaker A:Loud static.
Speaker A:This time, though, you hear a voice.
Speaker A:Unmistakable.
Speaker D:Hello?
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker A:I, I, no, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker A:I'm gonna say.
Speaker A:I'm gonna say hello, and then I'm gonna fuck it up hardcore in post.
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker B:Go for it, man.
Speaker B:I believe in you.
Speaker A:Just imagine.
Speaker A:Imagine a crazy static echo, okay?
Speaker A:A creepy ghost voice.
Speaker A:That's what I'll do.
Speaker D:Chris, I, I really.
Speaker D:I can't imagine it.
Speaker A:Yeah, you need me to?
Speaker A:Okay, yeah.
Speaker B:Really taking me out of the experience here, dude.
Speaker A:You heard the idea, but you hear.
Speaker A:You hear the word coverage.
Speaker F:Distraction, disruption.
Speaker A:Unmistakable.
Speaker A:Then it goes back to static.
Speaker B:Oh, God damn it.
Speaker B:You hear again, I spin the dial.
Speaker B:Is it on every.
Speaker B:Every frequency?
Speaker A:You spin the dial and it.
Speaker A:It plays through frequencies and goes to different stations.
Speaker A:And you don't hear the voice again.
Speaker B:But I go back to my original.
Speaker B:So I spin back to my original.
Speaker A:Station, and you Hear Hank Williams Jr.
Speaker A:Playing away, playing his heart out.
Speaker B:Oh, man, I thought you were about to sing some Hank Williams for us.
Speaker A:Post.
Speaker A:All post.
Speaker B:I grab you Know my flashlight, my gun, and get out of the car.
Speaker A:As you do, the static spikes again, almost in response to your movement.
Speaker A:And you hear again unmistakable familiar words coming out of your radio set.
Speaker A:Or I suppose the SUV's radio set.
Speaker F:1S2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p1 Keys.
Speaker F:Get the keys.
Speaker B:While this is happening, I grab.
Speaker B:I grab my phone and start.
Speaker B:Or yeah, I guess it's the only recording device.
Speaker B:I start recording what I'm hearing.
Speaker F:S22 S22 P63 S23 P1 coverage.
Speaker F:Blood disruption.
Speaker F:But then you must start again.
Speaker F:And I am now too weak.
Speaker F:1s2 2s2 two pieces.
Speaker F:3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p6 4d10 5s2 5p6 4f14 5d10 6s2 6p6 5f660.
Speaker A:07S2 this repeats over and over again.
Speaker A:Agent Relic.
Speaker A:Furiously.
Speaker B:I say, hello?
Speaker B:Can you hear me?
Speaker B:Feeling like an idiot as he says it.
Speaker B:But that's how he.
Speaker B:That's what he does.
Speaker F:The fracture will take from you two quickly, without coverage or disruption.
Speaker A:You look up at the building.
Speaker A:There's no movement from behind the blackened windows.
Speaker A:Of course, there's no one near you.
Speaker A:Just this loud static voice coming from your radio set.
Speaker B:I carefully get out of the.
Speaker B:I still get back out of the car.
Speaker B:It's the radio.
Speaker B:Say what's up to me again on the way out.
Speaker F:You will heal it, it says, and it will fight again.
Speaker B:How do I heal it?
Speaker B:I assuming that this time we did trade contact information.
Speaker A:I didn't hear anybody trade contact information.
Speaker B:No, we didn't feel like in this time we would have, but I guess we didn't.
Speaker D:Yeah, we didn't think about it.
Speaker E:We're at the hotel.
Speaker A:The static voice rises again.
Speaker B:Oh, good point.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I start pulling up the phone into the hotel.
Speaker A:It says as you dial the Western in Columbus.
Speaker D:The Western.
Speaker A:You reach the front desk and ask for the room of John.
Speaker A:John Romeo.
Speaker A:Romeo.
Speaker A:You're kind of tired, vigorously nodding.
Speaker A:And you go back to your room to ensure that no one has set up surveillance equipment in your room.
Speaker A:You're unscrewing your outlets again and checking the light bulbs and the fixtures when.
Speaker A:When the room phone.
Speaker A:When the room phone does ring and you're soon connected to Agent Relic.
Speaker C:Yeah, what's up?
Speaker B:We've got activity here at the place.
Speaker B:I've got some audio recordings I need to send your way.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:How would I do this?
Speaker D:Ah, we did it.
Speaker C:Needs that Is number.
Speaker A:Yeah, that is like.
Speaker A:That is.
Speaker A:That is it.
Speaker A:That is an achievement like you guys.
Speaker A:You see it pop up on the top left of your screens.
Speaker A:Well done.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:We have each other's contact info.
Speaker C:Teamwork achieved.
Speaker B:I immediately start texting or.
Speaker B:I guess, yeah, texting.
Speaker B:Or sending the audio recordings I've taken from the.
Speaker B:From the radio over to Agent Romeo and explain to him what's happened.
Speaker A:Yeah, it sounds like a ghostly static voice.
Speaker A:It's tough to really understand it, but.
Speaker A:But yeah, it's.
Speaker A:It's a voice.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Give me a few minutes.
Speaker C:I'm gonna call you right back.
Speaker C:Romeo exits his room and opens or knocks on the door to Ryan and Royce and whoever's room that is that they're in.
Speaker C:I believe it's Ryan's.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think that was delivered.
Speaker D:Yeah, I brought it back to my room.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:He knocks on.
Speaker C:He knocks on Ryan's door.
Speaker C:Feverishly.
Speaker D:Ryan opens the door.
Speaker C:Hold on to your fucking hats and listen to this, he says as he walks in past Ryan and turns up the volume on his phone and plays.
Speaker C:This is coming through his speakers on his radio.
Speaker C:Relic Relic speakers on his radio.
Speaker C:He's.
Speaker D:That's the cut.
Speaker D:That's the same thing that Jeff was.
Speaker D:Was speaking.
Speaker D:I.
Speaker D:I had him record it or I recorded it on my phone.
Speaker D:It's got to be the same code.
Speaker C:It's his voice, so it sounds like a code.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:Do you all know codes?
Speaker D:Does anyone have any idea what these.
Speaker D:These numbers could mean?
Speaker D:I don't think.
Speaker D:I don't think Ryan.
Speaker C:He's either got a recording or he's somehow ethereally connected to radio waves.
Speaker C:So that's fun.
Speaker D:Yeah, fun.
Speaker C:Look, I told.
Speaker C:I told Relic I'd call him back.
Speaker C:I'll leave my phone with y'all.
Speaker D:Just give me your number.
Speaker C:Yeah, I'll send it to you.
Speaker E:Royce.
Speaker E:And throws hers out there too.
Speaker A:There we go.
Speaker B:Can we start a group?
Speaker D:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker C:Guys, can we just do a group chat?
Speaker A:Love it.
Speaker B:Our phones do.
Speaker A:Yeah, sure, sure.
Speaker B:Everybody.
Speaker B:Everybody get Discord.
Speaker B:We'll start a channel.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, let's start a comms channel on Discord.
Speaker C:Discord Agent Chat.
Speaker C:So numbers are.
Speaker C:Are exchanged.
Speaker C:The file is transferred.
Speaker C:Romeo leaves the room and calls Relic back.
Speaker C:So I've let the rest of them know what you've sent me.
Speaker C:I got them working on it.
Speaker C:Do you feel safe there?
Speaker B:Yeah, no, I'm fine outside this conversation.
Speaker B:Chris.
Speaker B:I'm gonna go ahead and just type these things into Google and see what Happens.
Speaker A:Yeah, you.
Speaker A:You go ahead and you type in the first shorter string of numbers and letters and you go to a website called topper.com that has a question somebody asked.
Speaker A:Hey, what has an electron configuration?
Speaker A:And it has that string of numbers and letters.
Speaker A:The solution listed is aluminum.
Speaker B:It's gonna sound silly.
Speaker B:I just googled this and can't believe I don't remember this from my own college days way back, but.
Speaker B:Those are electron orbitals.
Speaker B:It's a.
Speaker B:The first string stands for aluminum.
Speaker B:Try checking that second string that I sent you.
Speaker B:Seeing what that.
Speaker C:See what that brings back in the group discord Agent Chat Romaine sends along.
Speaker C:Hey, they're electron orbitals or something.
Speaker C:So it's electrons.
Speaker C:Look up the rest of the numbers.
Speaker A:It takes some time, but not too much.
Speaker A:The second one appears after checking it a couple times.
Speaker A:Second one appears to be uranium.
Speaker C:It's uranium.
Speaker B:Aluminum and uranium.
Speaker B:Okay, I got nothing.
Speaker C:Same.
Speaker D:To be clear, there were only the two, right?
Speaker D:Chris?
Speaker D:I know you.
Speaker A:Yes, and there was a word associated with each line coverage.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker D:Oh, oh.
Speaker C:So Romeo says.
Speaker C:Well, if.
Speaker C:If you put uranium and aluminum together, it spells Ural.
Speaker C:Ural Mountains.
Speaker C:I think we have a Russian conspiracy on our hands.
Speaker A:It's Russian bots.
Speaker B:Feels case closed.
Speaker D:A little more likely that the Ryan's.
Speaker D:Ryan is ever the, I don't know, stone face.
Speaker D:Does that mean that aluminum is the protective material?
Speaker C:Could be.
Speaker C:So if we got some uranium in there, it might throw everything down.
Speaker C:No, that doesn't sound right.
Speaker D:Maybe aluminum is what would cause some interference.
Speaker D:Aluminum coverage.
Speaker D:What.
Speaker D:What needs to be covered?
Speaker D:If we cover an object with aluminum.
Speaker A:Are.
Speaker D:Are we.
Speaker D:Sorry, are we hunt aluminum hats?
Speaker C:Oh my God, no.
Speaker D:I was saying like, I wonder if.
Speaker B:Like we made it.
Speaker D:If we wrap an object in aluminum, it kind of kills the like suspension immobility of it.
Speaker D:Yeah, it's worth a shot, but I don't know if.
Speaker D:Are we still on the phone with.
Speaker A:Relic or if you want to be.
Speaker D:Yeah, let's say that Ryan was still on the phone with him.
Speaker D:So we're all just kind of brainstorming out loud.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Conference 10 here.
Speaker B:Conference in.
Speaker D:Yeah, Relic, we've got a drone here and Royston and I are working on figuring it out.
Speaker D:I think it's going to take us a couple more hours, but.
Speaker D:But we could do that in the car and Romeo can drive us back out to you.
Speaker D:We'll get some aluminum foil on the way.
Speaker D:I don't have any uranium lying around.
Speaker C:Oh, you don't have any uranium lying around?
Speaker D:Weird.
Speaker D:I would need at least four hours.
Speaker B:I just want to check.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:But four hours, that's good turnaround out of character.
Speaker B:I just want to double check.
Speaker B:Are we talking about picking up some, like, rolls of aluminum foil from the grocery store and wrapping these floating objects.
Speaker C:With suits of armor out of it?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker D:I don't know what else.
Speaker C:This is going to be fun.
Speaker B:It's going to be real dumb.
Speaker B:But let's see.
Speaker C:We all pack into the SUV again.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Roysen, how are you feeling about all this?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Where's Royn in all this?
Speaker E:Yeah, I.
Speaker E:I don't suppose a computer science role or something of the sort would.
Speaker E:Let me explain Ferret AK just to these guys.
Speaker A:Sure you don't.
Speaker A:Your computer science is high enough where you have complete understanding of that concept.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:No roll needed.
Speaker B:Please dissuade us from this.
Speaker B:This path.
Speaker E:Actually, the problem there.
Speaker E:If you were to, say, wrap a cell phone in aluminum foil and stick it in a pot, it would act as a Faraday cage, completely disrupting any signal.
Speaker D:So wrapping the.
Speaker D:If the orbs are sending out some signal, which I would assume is what's causing the objects to behave as they are, potentially wrapping them in foil would block that signal.
Speaker D:Is that what you're saying?
Speaker E:Potentially.
Speaker E:We're gonna need a lot of aluminum foil.
Speaker C:This is.
Speaker C:This is awesome.
Speaker C:Okay, let's do it.
Speaker C:So we're gonna go to a Kroger, which I did make sure exists in Ohio.
Speaker A:Nicely done.
Speaker A:Well done.
Speaker E:We'll just get, like, five or six different grocery stores and clean them out.
Speaker C:Five or six?
Speaker C:Yeah, Kroger's.
Speaker A:Let's get the heavy D.
Speaker A:Not a problem.
Speaker D:They don't have Piggly Wiggly.
Speaker A:You guys are gonna take the next hour hitting a few grocery stores and grabbing as much aluminum foil as you can.
Speaker A:In the meantime, back of the bad boy there.
Speaker D:Also, this feels like a troll.
Speaker D:It feels like.
Speaker A:Like in the meantime.
Speaker C:So hard.
Speaker A:In the meantime, Relic, you're still getting some sort of communications out of your radio set.
Speaker A:You're noticing that if you speak toward an outside of your vehicle, toward the converted garage where the dead body of Jeff lies, you're actually getting some very direct interactions.
Speaker B:That's so much pressure.
Speaker A:All right, you can just turn off your radio, man.
Speaker A:It's all good.
Speaker B:No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker B:Just pressure on me as a player.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Be like, he turns it off.
Speaker A:That's no problem.
Speaker A:No pressure.
Speaker B:Turn it off.
Speaker B:Have a vape.
Speaker B:Go back to sleep.
Speaker C:Relaxing.
Speaker C:Vape.
Speaker B:Yeah, Easy peasy.
Speaker B:I saw.
Speaker B:I look in the Direction of the.
Speaker B:The garage and say.
Speaker B:Is this.
Speaker B:This is related to the.
Speaker B:Related to the Vicks that we found over.
Speaker B:That have been found over the last few days.
Speaker B:It's for you, Chris.
Speaker A:Thank you very much.
Speaker F:Again.
Speaker F:All connected.
Speaker F:It's the webworm below.
Speaker F:Writhing antennas, listening to prayers, eating the dreams.
Speaker B:How do we stop it?
Speaker F:Focus point is cracked.
Speaker F:Break it further in flame and powder.
Speaker F:Bury the remains behind stone and forget.
Speaker F:The hardest is to forget.
Speaker F:Remove the memories or it may vibrate again.
Speaker B:Where is the focus point?
Speaker A:Below.
Speaker F:Below and forgotten.
Speaker F:Behind stone, behind dirt, behind more stone.
Speaker B:Behind old developments, old.
Speaker B:Old towns that used to be here.
Speaker F:Beneath the beginnings and at the beginning.
Speaker B:And Barry.
Speaker B:Destroy the memories, and that will remove the threat.
Speaker F:The hardest is to forget.
Speaker B:God damn.
Speaker A:You keep trying to wrestle more and more information out of the enigmatic, staticky voice that's barely understandable.
Speaker A:When an SUV rolls into the parking lot, the engine shuts off and the three agents emerge.
Speaker A:Looks like the vehicle is stocked up with rolls after roll of heavy duty aluminum foil.
Speaker A:Good old Reynolds wrap.
Speaker C:You gotta get the good stuff, you know, when you want quality.
Speaker D:When you're disrupting alien orbs.
Speaker C:When you've got to disrupt alien orbs, only choose the best.
Speaker C:Choose Reynolds Rap.
Speaker B:Reynolds Rap.
Speaker D:They're sponsored, right?
Speaker C:Yeah, they are now.
Speaker A:They are now.
Speaker B:We're good.
Speaker A:I'll reach out after this session's over.
Speaker C:We don't have to be hungry anymore.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:So, agents, you're together again.
Speaker A:The party is no longer separated.
Speaker B:Nobody slept, which is good.
Speaker D:Confirm that we all have each other's phone numbers.
Speaker A:Confirmed.
Speaker C:We all start texting back and forth.
Speaker C:Just confirmations.
Speaker C:Thumbs up.
Speaker B:These are all.
Speaker B:You said agency like burner phones, right?
Speaker A:They're not burners, actually.
Speaker A:They're Samsung smartphones or.
Speaker B:Sorry, phones that were given to us by.
Speaker B:Okay, that's fine.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's like.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:That they're definitely not monitoring ever, Correct?
Speaker B:Definitely.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Anywho.
Speaker C:So let's.
Speaker C:Let's wrap ourselves in this beautiful armor we've created.
Speaker B:And so just as a reminder, the heat waves we saw coming off another building in the town.
Speaker B:Can you remind me what that was?
Speaker B:I might have missed part of it.
Speaker C:It was off the bookstore.
Speaker C:Blank Page Bookstore.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker B:And how did we.
Speaker B:How did we see them?
Speaker B:Was it just like.
Speaker A:It looked like somebody was maybe cooking something on the roof.
Speaker A:And then that kind of haziness, that Mirage disappeared.
Speaker B:Gotcha.
Speaker B:Gotcha.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Gotcha.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Something else to check out for sure, because also, those flowers died in view of that place.
Speaker C:So Romeo begins gathering up as much aluminum foil as he can carry and makes his way towards the door.
Speaker B:Look, hold on.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker C:What's up, bro?
Speaker B:I had a conversation with the radio.
Speaker A:There's still static pouring loudly out of your open door.
Speaker A:I mean, the set's still.
Speaker A:Still going.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Is there still a voice?
Speaker B:There's no voice.
Speaker C:How's the voice feeling?
Speaker A:You haven't heard a voice since the agents have arrived?
Speaker B:Look, the recording I sent you, that was coming through the radio off the static.
Speaker B:You heard that, right?
Speaker C:That wasn't absolutely.
Speaker C:No, I'm just fucking with you.
Speaker B:Okay, so it wasn't just me.
Speaker B:Good.
Speaker B:Look, so I tried to get some information out of the voice from my radio.
Speaker B:You did hear it, right?
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:You heard that too?
Speaker C:Well, I heard the recording.
Speaker B:Okay, cool.
Speaker B:No, no, that's.
Speaker B:That's great.
Speaker B:That's good.
Speaker B:Oh, that's all solid.
Speaker C:Okay, grab some foil and let's get it.
Speaker C:Get to it.
Speaker C:Let's.
Speaker C:Experimenting here.
Speaker B:Well, look, the voice itself said.
Speaker B:Which sounded like the deceased inside.
Speaker C:No, yeah, we got that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So I think this is definitely related to the murders.
Speaker B:Shot in the dark here.
Speaker B:Feels like something may have been here.
Speaker B:This monster of yours might be a.
Speaker B:Might be what we're dealing with in some capacity.
Speaker B:And something about a prison.
Speaker C:This is all great information.
Speaker C:I'm still holding this aluminum, so if you want to go grab some aluminum and walk with me, that'd be great.
Speaker B:I don't think this is where the issue is.
Speaker B:I think the.
Speaker B:The central point.
Speaker C:Still need to resolve what's going on in there before it becomes a problem.
Speaker B:And we'll burn all that to the ground.
Speaker B:Don't get me wrong.
Speaker B:Basically, I relay.
Speaker B:You know, to save time, I relay the.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:You know, the key points from the messages that I.
Speaker B:That I received.
Speaker C:Yeah, and the whole time.
Speaker C:The whole time you do that, Romeo is constantly quipping about picking up some aluminum and helping.
Speaker A:And I must say in.
Speaker A:You do hear a spike in the static when you mention burning everything down every.
Speaker A:All four agents kind of.
Speaker A:You turn your heads because the static gets very loud from the inside of the vehicle and then goes back down again.
Speaker B:You all heard that, right?
Speaker B:That wasn't just me.
Speaker E:Yep.
Speaker B:Okay, good.
Speaker B:Still here.
Speaker B:That's great.
Speaker D:So did it tell you where the center might be if it's not here at the beginning?
Speaker B:If I had to guess, I would say wherever the.
Speaker B:Maybe wherever the original settlements were for this.
Speaker C:This town or maybe where the first body was found.
Speaker C:Who knows?
Speaker B:But I don't know about the first body?
Speaker B:I was thinking more like the first.
Speaker B:Maybe the first buildings.
Speaker B:The original maybe.
Speaker B:Maybe, yeah, because you mentioned.
Speaker B:Kept mentioning stone.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:Buried beneath the stone at the beginning.
Speaker C:Let's do some tests with this aluminum that I'm still holding.
Speaker C:And he got that aluminum, don't you?
Speaker A:He is into that aluminum test.
Speaker A:So you watch Romeo walk inside, agents.
Speaker A:Do we follow him in with some aluminum of our own?
Speaker A:Is that the plan?
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker D:And the drone?
Speaker A:Oh, cool.
Speaker A:You brought the.
Speaker A:The drone with you.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker A:All right, you still haven't really had enough time to fully figure it out, but you might be able to give it a good swing.
Speaker C:Did you charge the battery relic?
Speaker A:Do you close the door and turn off the radio?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Before long, all four of you are back inside the well lit converted garage, still peppered with this impossible debris field.
Speaker A:Nothing has changed.
Speaker A:Except now you have about eight dozen rolls of heavy duty aluminum foil.
Speaker C:Romeo's gonna take out a good sized bit and tear it off and cover a floating piece of debris in aluminum.
Speaker C:Like Rabbit.
Speaker A:It's easy to do because the debris is again, completely immoving.
Speaker A:Before long, it's covered.
Speaker C:Well, this is bullshit.
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker E:Prism's gonna wad some up and throw it at one of the orbs.
Speaker D:That's what I was gonna do.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Nice.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You make a good toss at one of the orbs and it passes through, but you do see kind of a strange flicker.
Speaker A:Then it resumes its course.
Speaker D:How far?
Speaker D:If I think about the.
Speaker D:I know that it's not a straight line, but if I think about the path to the orbs as a straight line, how far along that path were we suffocating?
Speaker D:Like, were we within reasonable distance from it or.
Speaker A:You were about halfway.
Speaker A:Halfway there.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:And you.
Speaker A:You started feeling pretty ill early on, before you got to the point where you needed to turn back around.
Speaker D:Ryan doesn't have the sacrifice of dignity in him to wrap himself in aluminum foil.
Speaker A:What does he say to the other agents to that effect?
Speaker D:Interesting that the haze was disrupted there.
Speaker D:Royson, what do you think about us making an aluminum body suit?
Speaker D:Maybe that'll protect you from what was messing with you last time.
Speaker E:How about we try an aluminum basketball first?
Speaker D:Works for me.
Speaker B:Is that the telescopic.
Speaker B:Telescopic thing we attached the mirror to?
Speaker B:Still lying.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, it's still there.
Speaker A:And you can still see the laptop, which.
Speaker D:We have a fucking drone.
Speaker D:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Sorry, I just remembered that you did bring the drone case with you.
Speaker D:We brought the drone.
Speaker B:I have the drone.
Speaker B:Or the.
Speaker B:Maybe we Wrap that mirror that we use to read the laptop, wrap that in aluminum foil and stick in the path of the orbs.
Speaker B:I noticed them getting a little funky when we, when you hit him with that foil.
Speaker B:Good shot, by the way.
Speaker B:That was a good.
Speaker B:That was a good throw.
Speaker B:Impressive.
Speaker E:Thank you.
Speaker E:Mirror sounds good.
Speaker E:I don't want to risk losing the drone in that because I'm not going back in there.
Speaker D:Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker C:So that's what we'll do.
Speaker A:It doesn't take long to wrap the telescoping, jerry rigged arm of junk with foil.
Speaker A:And when you're finished, you're quite proud of your handiwork.
Speaker A:What do you want to do with this?
Speaker B:Shove it into the fucking rotating purple balls, man.
Speaker B:That's what we want to do.
Speaker A:So it, it's hard to really hold this thing diagonally because it's quite heavy due to the length.
Speaker A:With all four of you kind of thrusting this into the, the purple orbs, you are able to make it and keep it in, in kind of the right position.
Speaker A:The orbs do flicker and bounce to side to side, but return to their lazy orbit no matter how many times you bat them away.
Speaker C:Well, this is bullshit.
Speaker A:If only the GM could give you some insight.
Speaker A:If only there was a way for him to give you messages.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker C:Is there a radio in here?
Speaker B:Let me go back and check the.
Speaker B:The radio.
Speaker B:I head back out to the car.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You turn the car's engine back on.
Speaker A:The radio flashes to life.
Speaker A:It's at a steady static.
Speaker D:I have the same annoyed feeling that I have when I asked for a clue in an escape room.
Speaker D:It's like, God damn it, fine.
Speaker B:I call one of the phones on, put them on speaker to get connected with the people in the agency.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:It's a clean signal.
Speaker B:All right, I've got the, got the static station back on.
Speaker C:All right, so ask him what we're supposed to do with aluminum and why he was being a twat about the top spin on it.
Speaker B:I wave my hand, say, yeah, what are we supposed to do with the aluminum?
Speaker B:That's the second part and something about a twat.
Speaker A:There's a brief moment, but the static and it.
Speaker A:This doesn't get old.
Speaker A:It is eerie.
Speaker A:The static swells and a voice emerges.
Speaker F:The fracture will take from you too quickly without coverage.
Speaker E:I have to go back in, don't I?
Speaker B:Do we need to cover ourselves with aluminum foil?
Speaker C:I think that's what he's saying is we need to be covered in aluminum foil.
Speaker C:I think this was Chris's plan the whole time to get us all covered in aluminum foil, walking around the town looking like fucking idiots.
Speaker E:Somebody needs to draw this.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker B:Not it.
Speaker C:We are agents in a serious government conspiracy.
Speaker C:Okay, I.
Speaker C:I know that we look silly, but this.
Speaker C:This is important.
Speaker C:We're doing important work.
Speaker B:This is real life.
Speaker D:Maybe we.
Speaker D:Maybe we start with just trying our heads.
Speaker C:I'm gonna go on with.
Speaker C:I'm gonna make a nice suit out of.
Speaker C:Out of aluminum foil and I'm gonna just put.
Speaker D:How are you gonna.
Speaker C:See, I'm gonna make a visor.
Speaker D:Oh yes.
Speaker D:We'll use the transparent aluminum foil for the visor.
Speaker C:No, like a fight.
Speaker C:Like a.
Speaker C:Like a visor slit.
Speaker C:Like a.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker D:I mean, I imagine it would.
Speaker D:This is imaginary.
Speaker D:I.
Speaker D:I'm giving this way too much time.
Speaker D:So sorry.
Speaker D:Ryan helps Romeo wrap himself in foil.
Speaker C:And poke little holes for my eyes, nose and mouth.
Speaker A:You three look over your meticulous handiwork with aluminum foil and you're not sure if it's pride this time.
Speaker A:Swelling in your chests, but it's something.
Speaker C:It's probably tumors from this goddamn creature.
Speaker A:It's probably tumors.
Speaker A:But you see, he's fairly covered.
Speaker A:If that was your goal.
Speaker A:You seem to have reached it.
Speaker A:He does have a small slit for his eyes and a couple of holes for breathing through his mouth and nose.
Speaker A:Otherwise he seems good.
Speaker A:Pretty covered.
Speaker C:Romeo Krinkle nods and says alright, let's do this.
Speaker C:And begins making his way inside the field.
Speaker A:You watch the aluminum foil covered form of Romeo contort itself again through this debris field.
Speaker A:You start to sweat heavily.
Speaker A:Romeo.
Speaker A:It's not a comfort comfortable suit.
Speaker C:Well, I'm wrapped up like.
Speaker C:Like a brisket.
Speaker A:You're not feeling that same fatigue at all that you had before?
Speaker C:You guys, I think it's working.
Speaker A:A muffled voice.
Speaker D:It's working.
Speaker E:He said it.
Speaker E:Now it's gonna go wrong.
Speaker A:And you find yourself before long standing underneath those three damned orbs next to this turned around laptop and the completely pale form of presumably Jeff Jenkins of wild out there stuff.
Speaker C:He's going to bat at the balls with his aluminum gloved hand.
Speaker A:Much like how they responded before to any molestation.
Speaker A:They kind of bob and flicker, but then return to their.
Speaker A:Their elliptical orbit.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:And as a final gesture inside his aluminum glove, he's just gonna give it the finger and then.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker C:Go to the laptop.
Speaker A:As we know, that does increase the laziness quotient.
Speaker A:And that is what happens.
Speaker C:The laziness.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Through the roof.
Speaker C:Okay, so checking the laptop out.
Speaker C:So I'm at the laptop, check control, alt, delete, close all the programs.
Speaker E:Or just put it to sleep and bring it back.
Speaker C:I'll see what I can do.
Speaker C:Romeo's gonna power the computer off and the button doesn't.
Speaker A:The button doesn't move.
Speaker A:The lid will not close.
Speaker A:It's immovable.
Speaker C:Okay, so Romeo's going to read the screen.
Speaker C:How much battery life do we have here?
Speaker A:It's at 12% right now.
Speaker C:12% battery.
Speaker D:Ryan tosses him a roll of foil and say.
Speaker D:I know we tried it already, but maybe try wrapping the computer in foil as well.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:Romeo grabs for the roll.
Speaker A:You and wrap the laptop in foil.
Speaker A:It hangs immovably in the air.
Speaker A:Now, fully wrapped.
Speaker C:Well, now I won't be getting any Internet signal.
Speaker E:To be fair, I wasn't so.
Speaker E:I wasn't entirely certain it was getting Internet in the first place.
Speaker C:Fair enough.
Speaker C:But maybe now you could check the difference on IPs that show up.
Speaker D:Oh, to find the computer.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:There was no.
Speaker A:There was no activity or logging before.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There remains no activity or logging now.
Speaker C:Understood.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Well, this is a dumb puzzle and whoever made this puzzle is a terrible person.
Speaker C:I would say that out loud.
Speaker C:Romeo says out loud.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:You say that out loud.
Speaker D:Is this all a game to you.
Speaker A:Relic?
Speaker A:You still have your phone held up to the static of your.
Speaker A:Of your radio?
Speaker B:Well, did it work?
Speaker C:Yeah, it worked.
Speaker C:I'm sorry, Relic.
Speaker C:It's totally working.
Speaker C:The problem is, is things still won't move and we got next to a dead guy in a laptop and nothing's moving.
Speaker C:So maybe if we got some uranium in here, we could really fuck this show up.
Speaker D:I'm starting to wonder if Relic mentioned it earlier that he's ensure this is the right spot for us to be.
Speaker A:Well, if only you could ask somebody.
Speaker E:So, crazy idea.
Speaker E:What if we try to disrupt all three balls at the same time?
Speaker C:I tried that with my furious waving.
Speaker A:He did give it a good college try.
Speaker A:Did not seem to help.
Speaker D:I'm not going to do this.
Speaker D:But I am inclined to just continue to now like Reverse Troll Chris and come up with, instead of asking for help, just do a bunch of different random shit.
Speaker D:Ryan says, hey Relic, see if the static speaks to you and ask if.
Speaker D:If we're even in the.
Speaker D:The center or whatever it called it.
Speaker B:I'm pretty sure we're not, but I'll.
Speaker B:I'll try.
Speaker B:I'm also gonna ask.
Speaker B:I look in the direction of the garage, but you know, listen to the radio and say, are we in the Right spot.
Speaker B:To stop this, you will need coverage.
Speaker F:So that the fracture does not take from you too quickly.
Speaker B:Is there a way to stop whatever's happening here with coverage?
Speaker F:Yes.
Speaker F:Once you reach the vessel.
Speaker B:What is the vessel?
Speaker F:Then we can get the keys and finish.
Speaker A:And send me back the body.
Speaker B:Can everybody else hear this coming across the.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:So I'm gonna wrap his body in foil.
Speaker A:Is that what you say over the phone?
Speaker A:Like yelling it from your position in the.
Speaker A:In the room.
Speaker C:Romeo says that.
Speaker A:So you start wrapping Jeff's corpse with aluminum foil as best you can.
Speaker A:It's quite heavy relic.
Speaker A:Any other questions while he's working?
Speaker A:It's gonna take him some time.
Speaker B:What's the special at the diner down the road?
Speaker B:Any recommendations?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker F:Egg spinny.
Speaker B:Sweet.
Speaker B:I like a good egg spinny.
Speaker B:Thanks, Jeff.
Speaker B:No, I'm gonna ask.
Speaker B:Are the.
Speaker B:That feels silly.
Speaker B:Are the purple orbs good or bad?
Speaker B:Do we need to stop them or help them?
Speaker F:The fraction.
Speaker F:My mistake.
Speaker B:Stop them.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker D:Sounds like the orbs might be the fracture.
Speaker B:How much aluminum foil do we have?
Speaker C:Enough.
Speaker A:Yeah, you have enough.
Speaker B:Maybe we start.
Speaker B:Just feel silly saying this.
Speaker B:Just start unrolling a whole lot of aluminum foil in that area so they can't even bob or flicker around.
Speaker C:Cover the whole zone in foil.
Speaker B:I don't know, man.
Speaker D:Can we use the floating debris as the anchors get to the keys?
Speaker C:What are the keys?
Speaker D:Where are the keys?
Speaker B:Say, where are the keys?
Speaker F:I can no longer move my vessel to show you.
Speaker B:Yeah, all right.
Speaker B:I shot.
Speaker D:Describe where they are.
Speaker F:The light.
Speaker D:Can you ask him to describe the.
Speaker A:Light filtered through crystals.
Speaker A:Words of the old tongue.
Speaker A:Through many different.
Speaker B:The laptop.
Speaker A:Many different lenses.
Speaker C:Okay, so there's a bunch of lenses and probably has something to do with that heat on that book building.
Speaker C:I think we're putting it together.
Speaker C:I think we know the keys gotta be.
Speaker B:Or.
Speaker B:Agent Romero.
Speaker B:Have you.
Speaker B:Have you read the.
Speaker B:The text on the screen?
Speaker C:Well, I can't now because I've covered it in tin foil.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:Or aluminum foil.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker D:But.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You remember many times when the man was still alive and talking about keys.
Speaker A:He kept motioning towards something with his hand.
Speaker D:Yeah, I remember him motioning to the side of the room.
Speaker D:I recount this to the team and I look to the area of the room.
Speaker A:He was motioning towards the laptop.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Unwrap the laptop and read what's on it.
Speaker D:I remember Jeff motioning towards it when he was talking about the keys.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker D:There must be something within the machine.
Speaker C:When Romeo finishes wrapping his dead body.
Speaker C:With aluminum foil.
Speaker C:As grim as that is to say, that's what he does.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:You unwrap the laptop and you.
Speaker C:And take a.
Speaker C:Take a quick camera shot of the screen with his phone, making sure that it's legible.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker C:In case the laptop dies on him.
Speaker D:I mean, does the trackpad work?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Nothing works.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I'm gonna go ahead and read the screen out loud to everybody.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You start reading this old English dialect.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's quite cumbersome.
Speaker A:Relic.
Speaker A:You can hear it coming over speakerphone.
Speaker A:The static starts rising though.
Speaker A:Relic.
Speaker A:And it says, speak the words at once.
Speaker F:Drink the south.
Speaker B:I relay this back to Agent Romeo.
Speaker C:Speak the words at once.
Speaker B:Drink the salve, Romeo.
Speaker A:You look from side to side, trying to figure out what this might be, and you do see a.
Speaker A:What looks like a.
Speaker A:Is it a vial or a beaker?
Speaker A:But it's.
Speaker A:It's full of some sort of liquid.
Speaker A:Didn't notice it before because of all the junk, but it's there on the ground.
Speaker A:It's next to the body.
Speaker C:Oh, great.
Speaker C:What color is it?
Speaker A:It's silver.
Speaker C:Oh, cool.
Speaker C:It's probably mercury.
Speaker C:It's gonna be great for me.
Speaker C:Romeo picks up the vibe.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's not stuck.
Speaker A:It's not stuck anywhere.
Speaker A:It comes right off the ground.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker C:Romeo says, I think I have the salve.
Speaker C:It's a silvery fluid.
Speaker C:Is that correct, Jeff?
Speaker D:You're so pissed.
Speaker A:There's no.
Speaker A:There's no response.
Speaker A:You just hear a direct response.
Speaker A:You just hear the repetition.
Speaker F:Speak the words in tandem.
Speaker F:Drink the salve.
Speaker F:And then reorient the entry.
Speaker C:Ah, Jesus Christ.
Speaker C:Could you just say what you mean?
Speaker A:Remember, you're relaying this like the longest game of telephone.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's a tough one.
Speaker A:Relics got to be the one to kind of say it's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:This is hard because, yeah, relics got to say some very specific things, and y'all have to glean very specific things, I think.
Speaker A:Or you can burn it all down if you get frustrated.
Speaker A:That's always an option.
Speaker B:I think by in tandem, he means we all have to say it together while you're drinking.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So what are the words, though?
Speaker C:Is it just the words that are in this page?
Speaker D:Hold on, guys.
Speaker D:I.
Speaker D:I just kind of had a thought based on what I think Jeff was saying is he couldn't do it by himself, and it seemed like part of.
Speaker D:Potentially part of all of us participating with the coverage aspect of this.
Speaker D:Do we all need to be wrapped in foil?
Speaker D:As well before we go any further.
Speaker C:Seems like a safe option.
Speaker D:Relic, you want to come back inside?
Speaker C:Well, just break.
Speaker C:There's more aluminum foil in that trunk.
Speaker C:We.
Speaker C:You can just get with out there and stay in contact with Ghost Jeff.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Ryan goes back out to get more foil and wraps himself.
Speaker A:Royston, are you.
Speaker A:Are you joining the.
Speaker A:The knights of the aluminum table situation here in wrapping up?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:Nothing else is working.
Speaker A:Before long, you three are in the center of this room, apparently unmolested from whatever strange energies sapped your strength before.
Speaker A:You're standing in the eye of this immovable storm over the corpse of Jeff next to this laptop.
Speaker A:Relic still on the phone signals clear.
Speaker A:You can hear static on the other end as he's got it close to the radio outside.
Speaker C:And Relic, you're wrapped too.
Speaker B:Don't worry about me.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:We ready?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Okay, we all begin reading the words and gulping the salve.
Speaker A:You all begin reading these words together.
Speaker A:And each one of you takes a sip from this beaker.
Speaker A:It tastes incredibly metallic and quite foul.
Speaker C:So it's like Red Bull.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's the same.
Speaker A:It doesn't burn, but you can feel.
Speaker A:Feel it coating your esophagus and stomach.
Speaker A:You can feel it pooling in your bellies.
Speaker A:When you finish reading the static swell so you can all hear it.
Speaker A:Reorient the entry point.
Speaker A:Above.
Speaker A:Above.
Speaker C:All right, so we reorient the entry point.
Speaker A:What does that mean?
Speaker C:Yeah, well, you tell me, buddy.
Speaker C:You're the one who said it.
Speaker A:Do you.
Speaker A:Do you want.
Speaker A:Do you want relic to ask the voice?
Speaker C:Ask the voice?
Speaker C:Please, Relic, please ask the voice what that means.
Speaker B:What do you mean by reorient the entry point, the opening.
Speaker B:Is that.
Speaker F:Is that here Is too low on the vessel.
Speaker C:Oh, God.
Speaker C:We have to put the fucking dagger.
Speaker D:Yeah, the dagger needs to be in his heart or something further up.
Speaker D:Where.
Speaker D:Where on his body is the dagger?
Speaker A:It's in his belly right now.
Speaker C:It's in his guy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Stomach.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker C:Does it need to be in the head of the vessel?
Speaker B:Relic, does it need to be the head or the heart?
Speaker F:Only.
Speaker F:Only a little higher.
Speaker F:I made a mistake.
Speaker B:He's just saying it needs to be a little higher.
Speaker B:One of you is gonna have to pick out that knife and put it back in.
Speaker C:Okay, so Romeo using his.
Speaker C:It's a steak.
Speaker C:I thought it was a dagger.
Speaker B:Oh, I thought it was a dagger too.
Speaker A:You said I made a mistake.
Speaker C:Oh, it's a mistake.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:Oh, he missed.
Speaker C:So he.
Speaker C:He missed what he was supposed to hit.
Speaker C:Okay, well, Romeo, I mean, his hands covered in aluminum gauntlet.
Speaker C:So he just wraps that around the.
Speaker C:The knife or dagger, whatever it is, pulls it out and then plunges it in a little higher.
Speaker A:Yeah, it comes up, comes out with a sick.
Speaker A:A sick slurch.
Speaker A:And you slam it down angrily and frustratedly.
Speaker A:A little bit higher.
Speaker A:Under.
Speaker A:Under his sternum.
Speaker C:Sternum.
Speaker A:With a loud cacophony, everything in this room falls to the ground.
Speaker A:A massive clatter.
Speaker A:Deafening.
Speaker A:You see the three lights above you kind of shake, sputter, just disappear all at once.
Speaker C:Well, is he still there?
Speaker C:Relic.
Speaker A:You just hear Relic.
Speaker F:Thank you.
Speaker A:And it returns to Hank Williams.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:That's it for tonight.
Speaker C:Oh, Jesus Christ.
Speaker C:That was ridiculous.
