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OPERATION CRUEL SUMMER PART 2
The Agents discover a clear indication of unnatural involvement and potential ongoing influence.
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I guess now we go to sorority. Anybody have idea? We have. We have.
Speaker B:Well, we have the head of the Greek Life. Feel like if a bunch of young too old people walk into sorority, it's going to raise some eyebrows.
Speaker C:Yeah, we do have these. The anti hazing cover. We could. Let's leverage that with the. Yeah, with the Head of Greek Life.
Speaker B:Perhaps we can get a tour. He winks.
Speaker A:Why are you always laughing and winking?
Speaker B:That makes people.
Speaker A:These are very serious matters.
Speaker B:That makes people comfortable.
Speaker C:No, doesn't make me comfortable.
Speaker D:So remember, there are two potential contacts that were suggested by the group. Brian Michaelis, who is the Dean for Greek Life, and Alexandra Curtis, who is the title 12 coordinator.
Speaker B:Oh, there's two. Okay.
Speaker E:McWhat? MCAELIS Ryan Michaelis.
Speaker B:I say we head to the Alexandra Curtis Dean Life. Dean of Greek Life.
Speaker E:Actually, if you guys could just give me a moment before we hit the road. Need to use the loo.
Speaker A:Is that in character or out of character?
Speaker E:Yep, that's in character. Chris, I want to make a call.
Speaker D:Sure. Who are you calling?
Speaker E:I'd like to call my brother, Nico. I just want to kind of see if he has any information for me in regards to some drugs around this area.
Speaker D:Sophie, you missed dinner this Sunday, brother.
Speaker E:Brother. I'm so sorry. You know how it is. Hey, do you have a moment?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker D:You don't miss dinner. I don't know how it is.
Speaker E:I'll make it up. It'll be a bigger dinner. There'll be meatballs.
Speaker D:Meatballs? Okay. Now we're talking.
Speaker E:Olives.
Speaker D:Well, just a plate of olives is great. No, I love olives. So that works. I'm excited.
Speaker E:I grow my own olives, brother.
Speaker D:Homegrown olives. Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:What do you need? Sophie?
Speaker E:Hey, so I just. I was kind of wondering, word on the street, have you heard anything about any new sort of opioids or psychedelics running around?
Speaker D:That's two very different things. What are you looking for exactly?
Speaker E:Gosh. Well, let's. Let's focus more on the psychedelic side.
Speaker D:I mean, honestly, because of that Joe Rogan guy, everybody's looking for dmt, like all the time. I haven't done any of that. Are you getting high, Sylvie?
Speaker E:No, no, no. You know me. It's work. It's the grind. Gotta keep grinding.
Speaker D:Yeah, well, a lot of folks are throwing that around. Honestly, it's nothing we're getting into.
Speaker E:Why not? By the way, there's no money in it, so. Where do people get stuff like that? What's the point if there's no money.
Speaker D:I guess, to get high as fuck. HE laughs.
Speaker E:You've tried it, haven't you? Tell me you've tried it.
Speaker D:Nah, nah, that's not my jam. I like the things that slow life down, not speed it up, I hear.
Speaker E:Okay, okay, let's talk opiates. Anything new? Anything. Anything causing any problems out there?
Speaker D:I mean, there's about 16 ways to Sunday that are cutting fentanyl now. Honestly, just finding something clean without it is getting harder and harder. It's.
Speaker E:Any leads on where?
Speaker D:It's serious shit. I know the stuff that's been coming from down south, far down south. It could go either way on you.
Speaker E:We talking outside of Chicago?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker E:All right, well, if you don't mind, I might call you back, but I just appreciate that.
Speaker D:I don't mind, as long as you hold up your end of the bargain with those meatballs and that plate of olives. Homegrown olives.
Speaker E:Cover me for the fam. Just cover me for the fam. And I got you, bro. Green, black, olives, just how you like it.
Speaker D:I want green, I want black, I want kalamata, I want the trifecta.
Speaker A:Is this code or are we talking really a plate of olives? Because I just imagine them rolling off the plate.
Speaker D:I think it's just a plate of olives. Yeah, Nico likes them homegrown olives.
Speaker A:Growls yeah, the whole homegrown part had me thinking y'all were talking in some kind of code.
Speaker B:Is that a new slang for weed? Is olives.
Speaker A:Homegrown, baby?
Speaker D:The call has now ended.
Speaker B:Yes, we're all sitting outside of the bathroom just waiting, just, just staring at. Staring at the door. Blank stares in our faces.
Speaker A:Slack jawed. Anyway.
Speaker B:Jk, jk.
Speaker A:We patiently wait for you to show.
Speaker E:Sophie walks out smelling like roses.
Speaker A:She did not do a doozy.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker D:The nose knows. You all filter back to your vehicle. Close the doors behind you. What's next on the list, team?
Speaker B:I want to go on the Internet while we're driving to the next place and look for any kind of local forums on Reddit or whatever teens are using to see if there's anything new on the drug front. Do a little research.
Speaker D:I'll let you know that there is always new stuff on the drug front, but you're not finding anything that tells you and screams to you. This is what I'm looking for. Yes, there are a bunch of new psychedelics. Yes, people are huffing their own shit out of jars.
Yes, there are a bunch of new opioids at any given time.
But it is such a huge amount of conversation, especially when you go onto the ARROWID forums that you have discovered you have so little information about this substance that you have testing kits for that there's no way you're going to be able to sort out this cavocative information to say that's the drug.
Speaker B:Fair enough. Yeah. Just wanted to see if there's anything that stuck out immediately.
Speaker D:I will tell you right now. If this was an easily identifiable drug Snedger would have told you.
Speaker B:Well, I didn't mean identifiable. I just meant like people talking about like oh man, there's this new thing and I got fucked up last night. It was crazy. I could see aliens. You know.
Speaker D:Well, there's tons of that. There's tons of that.
Speaker B:God damn it. Never mind.
Speaker D:For everything. So yes, those. That is the Arrowhead forum. Like oh, drugs.
Speaker B:They're on drugs. Yeah.
Speaker D:Okay. Got it. You guys saw a slide that was heavily redacted and Snediger was like I could barely.
I twisted arms to get you as much information about this weird classified substance that twigged our group's attention to this suicide to begin with. And it's not that much. So you guys have everything possible about the drug right now.
The only thing you don't have is any positive tests so far to have seen if you are on the trail so to speak. No one's tried to test anything.
Speaker B:Well one I do want to search with the. I'm sure you get nothing but Archangel Tempest. Search specifically on those key terms.
Speaker D:So that is a. That is like Cruel Summer. That is like a code name.
That is something that only you and those for the security studies group or the program would know. It's a top secret classified code name. So no you get 000 on gotcha.
Speaker B:Second I'm just going to mention to the group perhaps she still has the stuff in her room. We can test it and find out.
Speaker A:Is why I wanted to go.
Speaker B:Well then let's go buddy.
Speaker A:But first you wanted to go see Dean of Greek Life.
Speaker C:She may not be living at the sorority house. She's only a freshman. I don't think they move in.
Speaker A:We find out from Dean.
Speaker E:I guess it depends too if this is hazing. You're right. She could not have been read in yet.
Speaker C:Yeah. I don't know if she's.
Speaker B:Let's find out.
Speaker C:Let's find out.
Speaker D:So you're going to Alexandra Curtis. Is that correct? The Dean for Greek Life. Yeah.
Speaker C:Let's do it. Double secret innovation.
Speaker E:Here we go. Under the Guise of this hazing authority group this time.
Speaker B:Yeet.
Speaker E:A couple of us maybe.
Speaker D:The Higher Learning Commission is the accreditor for the university. And so, as Snediger mentioned, heavy scrutiny with your credentials would probably blast you out of the water.
But at first glance, you do carry some weight working for the university's accreditor. Any prep work we want to do, or are we just going to roll up to the Greek Life office?
Speaker B:Yeah, let's chat a little bit. So, what's our approach?
Are we going to come in and say that we're investigating or general looky loo or there was a complaint filed by their parents?
Speaker E:Ooh. On that note. Sorry, you made me think. Actually, Zechariah, you said you found a friend. Maybe we could also pose it as a complaint from a friend.
Speaker B:That's a possibility, yes.
Speaker A:What is most. What. What is. What is best method for America? Like, I don't know how to put this off, you know?
Speaker B:No, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker E:No, what.
Speaker A:What is way to make this most tasty for American ear?
Speaker B:I mean, that's what we're talking about right now.
Speaker A:I was ignoring you most of the time.
Speaker C:We definitely don't want to say, you know, that her parents gave a tip. We could definitely say we received multiple anonymous tips about hazing.
And with the student death, we've come to look into things, and I'm sure it's not a serious problem, but we have to cross the T's and dot the I's, maybe to put him at ease. Then what do we do? We want to see if we can get access to her room. Maybe he can do that. Or.
Speaker B:Yes, of course, if that's how that would work.
Speaker C:Or what else we could get him to give us or do for us.
Speaker E:On that note, I'm gonna go back to what I was just asking Kazbe. I feel very curious about her friend, the Noel D'Ambrosio.
Speaker B:Well, perhaps we could ask this dean to introduce us to her.
Speaker C:Yeah, arrange a meeting.
Speaker D:It's very easy to find out that Noelle and in fact, Zachariah already kind of went through this thread. She's the treasurer of the sorority.
Speaker E:Okay, excellent. So she's in. I'm just seeing her as a lead as well, you guys.
Speaker C:But what do we want to get from the dean, you know, beyond. Just can't just go in and say, hey, we think someone's taking crazy drugs.
Speaker B:No one said that.
Speaker E:No, no. Work on this hazing thing. Like, how did this get out of control?
I mean it's, it's a, it's not a new thing on college campuses and with sororities and fraternities, you know, so we just take an angle and we don't have to come in too harsh at all.
We give him the respect he's due as the dean of the college, but he's certainly in charge and power position, so he should understand what's going on on his campus.
Speaker B:And we just want to talk, see.
Speaker E:How much information he gives us.
Speaker B:We just want to talk to these young women and perhaps make sure they're safe.
Speaker C:So we want to get him to give us an introduction to the friend, the treasurer. Is that the plan?
Speaker E:Maybe the whole, you know, president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, whatever. The whole club. The officers of the sorority sounds about right, but you know, they. Those are tight lipped, tight lipped girls. So.
But we gotta start somewhere. And I feel like we start with a dean, we get a meeting with the girls.
Maybe that's where we lay it on thick, you know, hazing bad and scare them into something. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I think we roll with the hazing though. Who wants to do that?
Speaker B:I mean, Sophie, sounds like you have a great plan.
Speaker D:Mm, yeah.
Speaker A:Why don't you use a good plan?
Speaker E:Sure.
Speaker B:Wonderful.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker A:Everybody dies.
Speaker D:Just a little bit. Okay. So, Sophie, are you going by yourself to the office to try to get a sit down with the dean?
Speaker A:Alexander Curtis.
Speaker E:It sounds like everyone just said that no one was going but me, so.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think we agreed. You're leading the way. If you want other people to come, we're happy to, I think.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker E:Yeah. I don't know how many people would be in this hazing group, but.
Speaker D:Yeah, four people. You Four?
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker D:It's.
Speaker E:I like a group that's all together. What's the dean's name again? Sorry.
Speaker D:So the dean's name.
Speaker B:Alexandra Curtis.
Speaker D:Now is Alexandra Curtis. Brian Michaelis was the Title 12 office.
Those were the two potential connections that Snediger or the group or both identified as possible ins if you needed information about social connections, friendships perhaps, where people's dorms are, et cetera.
Speaker B:See, my thought is we go high, get that sign off, and then whoever, we go underneath, like the title 12 person or the sorority heads, like they'll have to respect our authorita if we get the go ahead from the dean. Right, so we're not trying to drill the dean, just get exactly.
Speaker E:Yeah, that's what I was saying. Go in with respect. The dean's not gonna be surprised I don't think it's seeing us there, considering what's occurred.
Speaker C:So, yeah, that's what I was saying. We take the. You know, hey, we're just here to. We just gotta fill the forms out. We gotta. Like I said, the T's gotta be crossed.
We gotta follow the letter of the.
Speaker E:You know, what it is when one bad thing happens with somebody or someone causes something bad to happen. Everyone pays the price. So everyone has to sit down and we gotta cross all the T's and dot all the I's. They all have to hear the song and dance.
Speaker C:Yeah, and then we want to get.
We want to get him to give us, like, location, potentially access to her dorm room so we can look at it, and we want to get him to help us get introduced to the sorority treasurer and potentially, potentially more from there.
Speaker B:So, Chris, give those. Give us those things.
Speaker C:Hey, Chris, Hand it over.
Speaker D:Y'all are now at the dean's office.
Speaker C:Hand it over.
Speaker D:You've.
You've gone ahead and made it clear that you are dropping in from the Higher Learning Commission and that you are requesting an urgent sit down with Alexandra Curtis. You are told by the office and her assistant that she's busy, but she's more than happy to clear her schedule for you.
And before long, you are sitting in her office. Several chairs have been brought in so that you can each be comfortable as you speak with this woman. She has short brown hair, sharp features.
She looks like she's in her early 60s, perhaps. Her clothing is more casual than expected. She's wearing a T shirt and jeans. She looks serious as you take your seats and the door closes behind you.
This is a bit of a surprise. I didn't expect your visit today. To what do I owe this pleasure?
Speaker E:Respectful, Dean Curtis. Thank you for seeing us. I'm actually surprised that you're surprised. Is there something about today that you.
Speaker D:Typically, you know, meetings like this are said in advance. This is a drop in, I suppose.
Speaker E:Yes, yes, absolutely. You understand just the urgency with the latest happenstance with the death of that poor girl.
So we have to check in on the hazing of these sororities and these fraternities in your.
Speaker D:Well, my. My understanding is that was already ruled by the coroner as an unfortunate suicide.
Speaker C:Overdose. Right. And they did. The problem is we, you know, we received some anonymous tips or complaints and we are now bound to follow up on them.
So we'd like to just get this resolved as quickly as possible.
Speaker E:I'm sure you wouldn't find yourself surprised. You would not find Yourself so surprised that hazing could lead to someone taking their life? It's the last thing anybody wants.
But it's not the first time or the last time, unfortunately, that that would happen.
Speaker D:Okay, so you've received credible information that this tragedy was due to sorority hazy?
Speaker C:It's not really like I didn't receive it personally. Look, I'm just here to, you know, do the work and I'd rather not be here, but here we are.
So, yeah, if you could just help us out, we can get taken care of and get out of the way, get out of your hair, and everybody can kind of get back to normal.
Speaker D:Sorry. What help are you looking for? It sounds like we need to get the attorneys in here.
Speaker E:No, no, no, no. We're crossing T's. We're dotting I's. Actually, we're on the same page, Dean Curtis. We just want to page. Is that.
Speaker C:Well, there's complaints of hazing at your school.
Speaker E:Right. It's a matter of training and understanding and learning and a time for everyone to understand that we take this seriously on campus.
And no one should be doing these things that puts anyone in a position of vulnerability. We're just here to cross.
Speaker D:What are you looking. What are you looking for? What T's are you trying to cross? What I's are you trying to dot?
Speaker C:Ma'am, is there a problem? You seem defensive.
Speaker D:Well, I'm a little bit taken aback that you have dropped in here today with anonymous tips that a tragedy that I just recently heard about is tied up with another hazing situation. This is news to me.
If you feel like I'm upset at you or I'm defensive towards you, understand that my defensiveness is towards the school and the students here that we serve.
Speaker E:Perhaps you could be open minded then for that life that was my.
Speaker D:I have yet to hear what you need from me. What can I do for you?
Speaker E:I would like a sit down with the sorority, particularly the officers. Your president, your vice president, your secretary, your treasurer.
Speaker D:Well, that. That would be highly inappropriate. You're saying people from your office would sit down with. With our students?
Speaker E:Just the Triatheta officers.
Speaker D:No, no, no, no. That's. Certainly. You understand the inappropriateness of such an ask.
Now, I think it sounds like if there are credible threats, we have to go ahead and get legal involved immediately. We shouldn't say anything else here.
Speaker E:Dean Curtis, if you would just hear me out. We don't want this to be about hazing any more than you do. We don't want another hazing incident that's why we're here.
I would like for us to sit down.
Speaker D:I have to get legal involved no matter what. Okay, so maybe.
Speaker A:Maybe we keep this less than formal. Okay? Maybe we stay off your back.
Speaker D:Look, the university has no appetite for another investigation like this.
Speaker A:We don't want to have to go into another investigation.
Speaker D:Maybe we can. Maybe we can go get a cup of coffee at the Roastery around the corner. Maybe we can.
Maybe we can chat about this particular circumstance a little bit more openly informal and open.
Speaker C:Yeah, I know.
Speaker B:Chris. I'd like to roll a bureaucracy. I want to come up with the correct statements of.
Because the document I'm sure has step by step what has to be done with what has to be done. If we meet off campus, then we don't have to implement section, you know, whatever. Whatever.
Speaker D:Yes. Roll it. Roll it. That's great.
Speaker B:98 out of 50 failure.
Speaker D:You realize that the temperature of the room is starting to cool. Alexandra Curtis. She just wants to get out of her office.
She seems to be side glancing basically everything as if the walls have ears and she wants to discuss this in another location. So you just keep your mouth shut as you realize you have no idea what the charters are around this for school.
Speaker B:Yeah, I will.
Speaker D:I'll. Starting now down there in about an hour. I just have one more meeting and I'll meet you down there.
Speaker C:Meet you there.
Speaker D:All four of you are sitting in this tightly packed coffee house. Looks like it's a very popular joint for the students of uw. And it doesn't even take an hour. About half an hour. The dean does come through the doors.
She waves to a few folks who seem to recognize her. She makes her way over to your large table and sits down. Before long, a small cappuccino is brought to her by a barista and she sips upon it.
It's a little bit less stuffy down here. I know it's busy, but this is what I'd prefer.
So look, like I told you upstairs, we really don't have the appetite for another one of these investigations right now.
If there's any way that I can support you and the HLC in dismissing these anonymous hazing accusations through a subtle and hopefully minor inquiry, she says I'd be willing to assist. Look, I just want to make sure our students are okay.
I'm not as interested in necessarily protecting the sanctity of Greek life like Perhaps my colleague Mr. Michaelis is. I want to make sure that the girls and the boys are okay. That's my aim.
So if there truly is something here, obviously I want to know about it.
Speaker A:We will give you all the time in the world you need. If there is something, and we genuinely don't suspect that there is, we are just, as she said, crossing T's and dotting.
Speaker C:I's dotting.
Speaker D:What can I. What can I do? What can I do to help?
Speaker A:What do we want?
Speaker E:I mean, I think if you can arrange a meeting, just like a training, if you will, almost, with, like, an annual thing for us to get together with the officers of the sorority or.
Speaker C:Maybe.
Speaker D:But see, that's the kind of highly conspicuous thing I'm trying to avoid. Miss, that's not really falling into the subtle inquiry box that I'm trying to define here. Can we all get on the same page, please?
Speaker C:We were hoping to at least speak with one of her friends. I believe she is the treasurer.
Speaker E:Them boys.
Speaker C:Just informally, yeah. Nothing formal.
Speaker D:You just need the address to the Trizeta house.
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker D:Okay. Well, was she still fairly certain? You can just Google it, but it is. She gives you attractions to it.
Speaker C:Was. Was the girl. Was she staying at the house, or was she in one of the dorms on campus?
Speaker D:No, no, no. Molly Clark was a freshman. She was in the middle of rush. I thought that's. She looks a little confused.
No, no, she was in one of the freshman dorms with a roommate.
Speaker C:Gotcha. And which dorm was that?
Speaker D:Sure, sure, sure. She pulls out her phone. Here's the dormitory address and where she was staying. You said you wanted to interview one of the Tri Zeta officers.
Did you maybe want to talk to her roommate?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:Is that the same person? No. Okay.
Speaker D:No, the Trizata officers do stay at the Trizata house. They typically are upperclassmen.
Speaker C:That would help, I think, ultimately, if we could just talk to a few people just to confirm that, as we suspect there was no hazing happening here. I think that might help us settle this very quickly, which I know you want to do as well.
Speaker D:I would imagine her roommate would be very helpful to determine if there was something like that happening. Her name is Madison Delvey, and here is her contact information.
Understand that these details are not available to the public or honestly haven't even been put in a police report. So if we can keep this very, very much close to the vest, that would be great.
Speaker C:I think. I think it's in.
Speaker D:Safety of my students is paramount.
Speaker C:I think it's in all of our best interests to keep this quiet. Yours as well as ours. Wink, wink.
Speaker D:Know what I mean?
Speaker C:Know what I mean? Say no more. Say no sometime. I don't know where. I don't know where Lenny's awkwardness ends and mine begins.
Speaker D:Honestly, I just don't know.
Speaker C:I don't know where it is anymore.
Speaker D:One. One growing amalgam. I think that's the most I can do.
If you do want to interview any of the Trizata officers, obviously you can reach out directly to the sorority and request something like that. If you need a letter of support from me, I don't think I'd be willing to provide that just yet. At that point, we're talking about legal again.
We have to go back up to my office and. And continue that conversation.
Speaker E:Is there any reason you think that we should or shouldn't speak with Brian Michalis?
Speaker D:Brian and I don't see eye to eye. Brian will get legal involved before your seats hit your chairs.
Speaker E:All right. Thank you.
Speaker C:Then maybe we'll just keep this between all of us.
Speaker D:I think that's for the best. I think it's the best for the students and for the university systems.
Speaker B:One more thing. May I have access to her emails?
Speaker D:I don't have the ability to give you email access to any of the students. I don't think that's possible.
Speaker B:I mean, perhaps you can shoot an email to your school's administrator and just tell them that we're working with you and we'll take it from there.
Speaker D:Again, we're talking about getting legal involved at that point. That is it. Paper trail that I'm hoping we are not going to begin just yet unless absolutely necessary.
Speaker E:Chris, can I just roll up persuade to help? Like, to convince the dean to figure it out and get that information from it.
Speaker D:You can always roll up persuade.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker E:Dean, if you could just get that information over to Zachariah, I have full confidence that you can make that happen. Under the cuff. No legal involved.
Speaker B:Critical success. Granted.
Speaker D:I can try. I. I've never done anything like that, but I'll try.
Speaker E:Thank you. We believe in you.
Speaker B:America believes in you.
Speaker D:F says no, it doesn' you have now left the roastery. You've left behind the dean who finishes her cappuccino. Cappuccino. Actually, apologies. Said that wrong the first time.
You're now sitting back in one of the vehicles that Seneca requisitioned to you. You have the name of Madison Delvey as well as her contact information. You know where Molly Clark's dorm room is. What would you like to do?
Speaker B:I think we should call the roommate, get her to come to a coffee house or wherever Library. Somewhere where we can make her feel safe and talk about her roommate.
While one of us, possibly a sneaky one, goes in and like, takes the laptop and looks around and looks for the drug.
Speaker E:That's me. I'm the sneaky one. I'll do it.
Speaker A:Vadim would probably want to assist as well.
Speaker E:Oh, no.
Speaker B:You're gonna need a shirt that says college.
Speaker A:Olivia.
Speaker C:Old Russian man walking through. Hello, fellow students.
Speaker E:He could be my father.
Speaker A:Dorm room is your dorm room, honey. Sugar pie.
Speaker D:You are now Russian Steve Buscemi.
Speaker A:Hello, fellow kids. I love TikTok.
Speaker D:Well, I want to know how we're going to get this girl to feel safe enough to come meet with y'all at a public place. So who's gonna make that call?
Speaker B:Not Zachariah.
Speaker A:Jesus. Yeah. Oof. Definitely not a Russian dude.
Speaker C:Yeah, Lenny can do it. I think that'll work. He's disarming and non threatening, I think.
Speaker B:And he has those precious fingers so.
Speaker C:He can dial the numbers really well. Yeah, he's got that cover.
Speaker D:Well, Lenny, you go ahead and dial. And it goes to voicemail. Shit.
Speaker A:Fucking nailed it right there. We are screwed. We've been made, guys.
Speaker C:That's it.
Speaker B:So good at this.
Speaker C:I give up. Hi. My name, my. Fuck. Hold on.
Speaker B:He just hangs up.
Speaker C:Obstacle. I like that one.
Speaker B:All right, press 3 to rerecord your.
Speaker D:Message before you tie yourself into not trying to leave a message. How do kids normally communicate through SMS text message. Call each other.
Speaker A:They'd probably DM each other over their web forums.
Speaker D:Yeah, the Usenet.
Speaker E:Yeah. Her phone can be set on silent, so she doesn't get calls. But she could probably troll.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:See how active she is in the bbs.
Speaker C:Lenny proceeds to draft a text message.
Speaker D:Oof.
Speaker C:Okay, stating. Hi, you up? Hold on. Let's get into character for this. Let me get back here.
Speaker B:I thought this is what Lenny would do.
Speaker C:Let's have the conversation in character. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Hi. Madison, right? What's her name?
Speaker D:Madison Delvey.
Speaker C:Yeah. Hi, Madison Delvey. My name is Agent Hargrave. I'm with the FBI. We're doing an investigation into your roommate's passing emoji.
Speaker B:Sad face emoji. Sad face emoji.
Speaker C:Sad face. We would like to meet you on campus at the. I don't wanna say the student union near your dorm, do we? Just have a few questions for you.
Just trying to understand her mental state.
Speaker E:It's already too many words in a text message. She's not even gonna Reply.
Speaker C:Yeah. It's like, yo, girl, you up? Let's chill.
Speaker E:She'd be like, call immediately. Too much information in a text message.
Speaker D:So you put seven to eight pages of text into your phone.
Speaker B:We're all watching, right? We're all over his shoulder, laughing.
Speaker D:So quickly, blood begins flying and spilling forth from his thumbs as he can't stop. He looks up at all three of you, his eyes completely helpless, sweat dripping from his brow. He mouths the words, please help me stop. I can't stop.
The blood flows faster and faster. And then he finally gets a call. This stops him. And he puts the phone to his ear. Hello? Is this Agent Hargrave?
Speaker C:Yeah. Hi. Madison, correct?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker D:You need to talk about Molly?
Speaker C:Yes. Yeah. So sorry to bother you. We do. I'm with the FBI and we are just looking into doing some background on the passing of your roommate.
And if it would be okay, we would like to meet you at the student union here on campus, just to ask a few questions.
Speaker D:Yeah, yeah, that's fine. I have a couple of hours between classes right now. Sure, sure. I can meet with you.
Speaker C:Okay, great. Yeah, we will be there in, let's say, 10 minutes. Would that work for you?
Speaker D:Oh, yeah, I can do that. How will I know who you are?
Speaker C:Lenny describes himself like, I'm, you know, this height. I've got green eyes. But, you know, if you'd like, you can just text me when you get to the union.
I'll kind of stand up from a table and look around for you.
Speaker D:Oh, sure. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I'll head over there right now.
Speaker C:Great. Thank you so much.
Speaker D:She hangs up.
Speaker C:I'm the least worst FBI agent of our group, just to be honest. That's true, Ms. Lenny, we're talking about.
Speaker D:You get one FBI point.
Speaker C:This is not Paris. This is Leti.
Speaker D:Now that you've arranged to meet with Madison, it sounds like Sophie and Vadim are going to make their way to the Cutler Residential building where Madison Amali's dorm room is. Is that correct?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker D:Jinx, you got 10 minutes here to scramble, but you barely make it by the skin of your teeth. You split cars, you go ahead and go your separate ways. Lenny and Zachariah go to the student union. It is frogurt day. Oh, in Newport.
Speaker B:Hell, yeah. That's good.
Speaker D:Protein toppings are free. What are free toppings to the frogurt.
Speaker A:Oh, toppings sounded like you said poppings, and I was like, popping what?
Speaker B:Like poppers. Poppers are free.
Speaker D:What's happening to you right now, Eric? Is the hat man, the hat man is whispering in my ear each time I speak. And he's trying, so he starts small.
And then he's gonna start whispering things that are very important to the game. I'm so excited you're gonna end up shooting a sorority girl in the face when you shouldn't. Yeah, so be careful.
Speaker B:I'm stoked.
Speaker A:Cause I'm gonna be in my own world here, and y'all are just. You're along for the ride.
Speaker B:Nah, dude, the poppers are free. I'm with you, man.
Speaker A:So we're doing poppers and frozen yogurts. Well, y'all are. Vadim will be breaking into a young girl's dorm and stealing her things.
Speaker B:Don't have to say it that way.
Speaker A:That's exactly how it will be.
Speaker D:As Agent Hargrave and Agent Mason sit at a small two seater and lap up their frozen yogurt. Sounds of wet smacking fill the air. As well as.
Speaker B:I hate you. I hate you so much.
Speaker D:As well as that laughing and joyful exuberance of young men and women, presumably of college age here enjoying everything this food court has to offer.
Speaker A:What else does it have to offer?
Speaker D:Lynnie? You get a buzz from Madison Delvey letting you know that she is arrived. You look up and you see a short girl, not really sure what ethnicity.
She's wearing a hoodie, round spectacles, a purple sweater and a skirt and leggings. She's clutching a book bag under her right elbow and she's biting her bottom lip as she looks out over the food court, her phone in hand.
Speaker C:Lenny stands up, puts his phone in his hand in the air, kind of waves in her direction.
Speaker D:What are you two wearing again?
Speaker B:I'm wearing it tight. Polo and.
Speaker D:Yep.
Speaker B:New Balances and some hiking pants.
Speaker D:And to Lenny.
Speaker B:And my watch. And my watch.
Speaker D:Oh, that's not going anywhere. Not yet.
Speaker C:Lenny is wearing a hoodie and some khaki cargo pants, almost some beat up tennis shoes.
Speaker A:So the exact opposite of what an FBI agent would wear.
Speaker C:I never claim.
Speaker D:Lenny.
Speaker C:FBI agent called undercover.
Speaker D:Winds her way. She winds her way through the many bodies here in the food court towards you. And she seems reluctant as she approaches close Agent Hargrave.
Speaker C:Lenny pulls out his badge and shows the badge and shows. Yep. Hi, Madison. My name is Agent Lenny. Hargrave shows her the badge or flashes the badge to her and looks over. This is my partner.
Speaker D:She looks over at Zachariah.
Speaker B:You forgot my name. No, I'm Agent Mason. Good to meet you. And I throw her a fist bump.
Speaker D:She Very slowly and with much trepidation, fist bumps you back.
Speaker B:I exploded. I exploded back. Like, you know, like your roommate, she.
Speaker D:Flinches a bit and sits down. Okay, so I didn't know there were going to be two. Sorry, I'm a little nervous.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's perfectly understandable. You've had a lot happen to you here in the last couple days.
Speaker B:If it makes you feel any better, I can watch from across the room.
Speaker C:Oh, boy.
Speaker D:No, no, that's okay. You know the police already talk to me, right? You have all that?
Speaker C:Yes, but, you know, we're. As part of the FBI, we're required to kind of do some of our own background just to make sure the police might not have missed anything.
They do a great job. I'm not saying they don't. I just, you know, we try to. Also, he kind of looks at Mason sometimes.
Speaker B:The police lie, so we try to make sure everything is a. Okay.
Speaker A:Uh.
Speaker D:Oh. Okay. Okay.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker D:Well, how can I help?
Speaker C:Well, I was wondering if you could fill us in on your roommate's just general behavior leading up to the suicide. Was she. Did you notice anything out of the ordinary or anything like that? In terms of how she was, let's say, sleeping or her comings and goings?
Yeah, let's start there.
Speaker D:We kind of travel in different circles. Our schedules didn't really line up. She's more of somebody. She would stay out late a lot. I. I tend to be a little more, I guess, 9 to 5ish.
Does that make sense? But, like, she's. She would come in pretty late. We. We didn't talk much. We weren't like, really good friends or anything.
Speaker C:Sure. No, I. I understand. And that's. That's fine. You know, what we're really interested in is as someone who was.
Even if her comings and goings were off schedule from yours, our hope is that maybe you'd notice something may have changed in that timeframe, but if not, that's okay.
Speaker D:I mean, again, we didn't really have a lot of overlap in the room. I'm a private person and I kind of keep to myself a little bit. She's a little bit more out there.
She'd always be kind of out doing stuff and living life as she was.
Speaker B:Well, if she's a private person, he cuts her off then. Or if you're a private person and she's not, then you must know a lot about her. Give us a little information.
Did she do and he, like, looks around and kind of whispers drugs?
Speaker D:I don't know. I don't think so. She kind of side glances you.
We argued a little bit just because, like, sometimes she would come home really late and interrupt stuff and just basic roommate stuff. I was looking to try to get a solo room next semester. We just don't really get along. Yeah, didn't really. Didn't really get along.
Speaker C:Solo room's the way to go, if you can get that. I had to do the same thing. And it was a life changer for.
Speaker B:Me to be sure Agent Mason will stand up, put his fingers on the table and go, this is going nowhere. I'm calling Washington. Lenny, wrap this up. And he walks. He walks away.
Speaker D:She looks very startled. Her eyebrows are up. She looks at you, Lenny.
Speaker C:Lenny hunches down. He's like, oh, crap. Okay. Sorry. I'm still kind of getting used to Mason. My partner they've assigned to me recently. Yeah.
Is there if there's anything you can think of and maybe, maybe guests that came by or any phone calls you might have overheard that seemed out of the norm?
Speaker D:Go ahead and roll a persuade plus 20%.
Speaker C:Roll the night, y'all. Five success.
Speaker D:She bites her bottom lip. She suddenly looks like she's trying to hold back tears. She takes a hard gulp and looks up at you.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker D:The night when I found her, the night before when I found her non responsive, she was definitely drunk or on something or something. She was. She was saying all this gibberish. All this so messed up. I should have. I should have called somebody. I should have called somebody right then.
I didn't know how. I didn't know it was that bad. She begins to start to sob a bit.
Speaker C:It is not your fault. It was never your fault. You need to know that. Do you remember any of this? You said gibberish. Do you remember anything specifically?
Even if it didn't sound normal to you, do you just. Do you remember any of what she said exactly or closely? And Lenny kind of like grimaces like, oh, I hope she does.
Speaker D:She was slurring and then she was shouting. I had to turn off my dream. I yelled back at her. I feel so bad for doing that. She was just shouting. It was like black goats. Black goats in the woods.
And she started throwing things just against the wall towards me. I had to like duck down behind my screen. Then she just passed out. She just passed out. I. I tried to sleep.
I thought it was just another her coming home late. Wanted to ignore her to morning. But when I found her unresponsive, that's that morning. I called 911.
Speaker C:Did you. Did you say she came in while you were streaming?
Speaker D:Yeah. She was going nuts.
Speaker C:This may be a long shot. Any chance that some of that might have been recorded that we could see?
Speaker D:I have a screen up to separate between. To have some privacy when. When I'm doing that.
Speaker C:Or maybe the audio. If not, it's okay, but if it's something you have the audio for coming in and things she was saying that might be helpful to us.
But again, if no pressure. If not. Lenny. Lan looks over for Mason, who's like, where's he at?
Speaker B:Mason is pacing back and forth, pretending to talk on the phone. And at this moment, he loudly, so she can hear, says, director, if he doesn't get any information, I say we fire him.
Speaker C:Oh, crap.
Speaker D:She. She looks up, looks at you. I don't want to get you in trouble. I don't have. I don't have anything like that. I deleted the stream.
Speaker C:That's okay.
Speaker D:So mad. I'm so sorry. I should have. I should have called that night.
Speaker C:It's not your fault.
Speaker D:Just called right away.
Speaker C:It's not your fault. I just. I just want to confirm. You said she stated and was shouting black goats in the woods. Did I have that correct?
Speaker D:She was slurring. She was shouting something about seeing something in the woods. Goats. Yeah. I didn't know what it was. I thought. I was so mad at her.
Speaker C:It's okay. I can tell. This is. Lenny checks his watch to see how long it's been that they've been talking. Just curious.
Speaker D:About 20 minutes, actually.
Speaker C:Hey, let's talk about something else, just for a minute to help, you know. What are you majoring in here? The idea being he's gonna kind of just ask her about her major for a while to kill time.
Speaker D:We don't have computer science. Yeah. And so y'all. Y'all start to do that. Go ahead and roll your human intelligence.
Speaker C:Holy sh. Nope. Failed.
Speaker A:What did you fail with?
Speaker C:48 out of 11.
Speaker D:Go ahead and check that, please.
Speaker C:Yes, Lenny, please let me skill him up.
Speaker D:She's pretty terse and abbreviated, but she tells you some basic things as you continue. And Zechariah Mason paces only a few steps away. We're gonna move now to another scene, to the Cutler residential building.
Now, from outside, it's a fairly squat old brick building. Looks like something from the original construction of the university, perhaps. It's about three stories. It rambles on.
However, it's pretty spread out. It's on university property itself, which is open this time of day. So You've had no issues getting this far in.
It looks like the building itself probably can hold between 100 and 200 students, maybe more. You do see from the outside that it is keycard access only, but you see students moving in and out of it at a fairly frequent clip.
You know you need to get into a door in order to get to the third building into suite 314.
Speaker A:We're just gonna tailgate somebody into the building. Does that sound fair?
Speaker D:Yeah. I think you're going to attempt to tailgate in.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Sophie.
Speaker E:Yeah. I'm gonna follow right behind. Kind of like if it's my dad leading the way. That's how I'm looking at this. Vadim. You're my dad.
Speaker A:I am Papa.
Speaker D:Anything special I should know? Anything that would perhaps influence the inevitable skill choice?
Speaker A:Oh. So what we're gonna do is we're gon go to the front desk, flash our badges, say that we need access to that.
Speaker D:So there's no front desk. There's just key card entry to the dorm.
Speaker A:So they don't have. Okay. Okay.
Speaker E:But it's just that initial entry. Correct.
Speaker D:There are several doors across the expanse of the building on each side of its large rambling facings. They are all key card entry.
Speaker A:Understood. Cool. Wow. Suppose we should look up which wing has their dorm in it. We can probably find that online.
Speaker D:This building. It's building three. Mr. Hatman. Sweet. 314 hats.
Speaker A:So that.
Speaker D:Yeah, I just. I just want to know how to influence your role. Or I'll just do a luck. If y'all have.
No, if y'all just want to, like, just literally want to do roll of the dice.
Speaker A:I'm confused about what the question really is here.
Speaker D:Yeah. Do you want to talk to somebody? Do you want to try to break in? Do you want to try to be stealthy? Like, what do you want to do here?
Or I can just roll a 50%.
Speaker A:Okay. So you said there's no front desk, so.
Speaker D:That's correct.
Speaker A:Who would we talk to? Like, confused?
Speaker B:Like a student?
Speaker E:I'm just. Yeah. Okay. So I'm just gonna approach a student, I guess if I could just see who's around. Who's the closest? Chris. The guy or girl?
Speaker D:Yeah. As you park alongside this very long semicircular driveway in front of the street facing part of the Cutler residential building.
There are park benches. There are many students going back and forth carrying their book bags.
There are students parked in, like, sitting in front of the building, just hanging out. There are students going in and out of the building.
Speaker E:I think what I'd like to do is approach somebody who's sitting on a park bench close closest to the doorway and with the idea of, yeah, no, that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker D:There's a couple of girls there. One has a half shaven head and orange dyed spiky hair. The other has long brown hair and sunglasses. They're chattering joyfully as you approach.
They both stop as your shadow casts from above.
Speaker E:Hi, excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt. First of all, let me just say I love your hair. My name's Sophie.
Speaker D:Oh, thanks.
Speaker E:Yeah, I apologize for interrupting. I'm new here into the storm and I was just wondering if either of you, if you live here, do you happen. Do you live here?
Speaker D:The girl with the brown hair says, I live here.
Speaker E:I'm actually trying to get into building three, but I kind of misplaced my card and I was just wondering if you happened. If you could help me with that. If you could help me get in.
Speaker D:Go ahead and roll your persuade plus 20%, please.
Speaker B:You should tell her that you're with the scary Russian guy. That might help.
Speaker D:I thought she was piggybacking on his shoulders.
Speaker E:Okay, so it's got plus 20, success 53.
Speaker D:She shrugs, says, yeah, yeah. Okay. She walks over to the nearest key card panel, takes out her cell phone case, runs it across it, hear it beep, flash green.
And she opens the door.
Speaker E:Thank you. Thank you so much. What was your name again?
Speaker D:Rachel.
Speaker E:Rachel. Are you, are you in building three as well?
Speaker D:No, I'm in two.
Speaker E:Two. Okay.
Speaker D:But it's all good.
Speaker E:Cool.
Speaker D:All right, yeah, I'll see you around.
Speaker E:All right, thanks, Rachel. And I kind of wave.
Speaker A:Skip the toilet.
Speaker D:Are you present here in this scene? I always imagine you in the bushes watching this and waiting for Sophie to open the door later for you.
But if you' there to say skibidi toilet, that's a minus 20% to our persuasion.
Speaker A:Well, she still succeeded, so. No, she wouldn't have.
Speaker D:Not with a minus 20.
Speaker A:Ruined everything. But we're already in, so goodbye.
Speaker D:Is that how that works? No. So, I don't know. You go ahead. I can tell Sophie. Go ahead and walk on in. The door shutting behind you.
And you make your way to one of the side entrances and you text Vadim. You wait for him to make his way through that entrance as you open it from the inside for him. And now you're both inside.
Speaker A:And now Vadim says, skibidi toilet.
Speaker D:Yeah, go ahead, please.
Speaker A:Skibidi toilet.
Speaker D:Thank you.
Speaker B:Everyone dies of laughter.
Speaker D:The door closes. You stand on the linoleum floor near a stairwell and what looks like an ice machine and stares down to a laundry facility.
Speaker A:The half machine for ice.
Speaker D:They have that in Russia? Dude, they have ice machines in Russia?
Speaker A:In a college dorm?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:People are so soft.
Speaker B:Is he, like, in the middle of Siberia in the woods?
Speaker D:He's just been on the. He's been in the Gulag this whole time.
Speaker B:He just got out?
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker E:All right, so we're on the first floor, and it's just steps. There's no elevator or anything. If I look around.
Speaker D:Oh, yeah, you can go to the center of the building. It's just this particular wing where you let the scary Russian man in. You chose kind of a side entrance to do so rather than the front entrance.
And so, yeah, you're welcome to walk all the way to the elevator and take that up if you'd like.
Speaker E:And does that also require a card?
Speaker D:You're not sure. You haven't seen it yet. You haven't really checked out the elevator banks. Your first order of business was to let the very scary Russian man in.
Speaker E:Copy.
Speaker A:He smiles appreciatively.
Speaker E:All right, you gotta play it cool. I just like you're my father. That's what we're gonna roll with. Right now. I'd like to go see if there's a faster route up to the third floor.
And if it requires any sort of card entry, I'll probably just try the same route that I just did with Rachel outside.
Speaker D:Okay, so you both make your way to the nearest elevator bank. And there's no card security here, just a nice little push button that lights up when you hit it.
And you make your way up to the third floor, down the stain carpeted hallway towards suite 314. You're now standing in front of a wooden door that has very little decoration on it compared to the others around it, but is clearly marked 314.
There's the sounds of music and shatter all around you through the thin walls of the dormitory.
Speaker A:Okay, do your magic.
Speaker E:All right, well, I know this requires card entry. I'm gonna try opening it just in case. Just to check that. Nothing, actually.
Speaker D:The door. The door is key entry normal key.
Speaker E:Oh, excellent. So it's just into the building. Got it. Well, Chris, I am going to attempt to lock pick after just trying the door.
I'd like to try it, make sure it's not, you know, if it's locked or unlocked.
Speaker D:The door is locked.
Speaker E:All right, lock pick it is.
Speaker A:Vadim's. Gonna kinda loom over her blocking whichever way would be the most loom bonus.
Speaker D:Is applied for any potential stealth rolls. All right, let's roll that lockpick.
Speaker A:Skivity toilet.
Speaker D:Yes, so very deftly, as if they were in her leather sleeve the entire time.
Tools of the trade emerge, these thin, wiry lockpicks that Sophie holds between her index fingers and thumbs expertly as you position yourself to loom and create any cover necessary.
If someone enters the hallway or exits one of their rooms to glance over, you haven't even fully positioned yourself in full looming splendor before you hear a click. Smiles and pics are gone.
Speaker A:Skibidi.
Speaker B:It's gotta stop. The skibidi's gotta stop.
Speaker D:Never gonna stop.
Speaker A:He'S telling me.
Speaker D:So you open the door, both of you walk in, closes behind you. Now, both girls have the same furniture. Chests of drawers, writing desks, twin beds that are lifted with a little bit more storage beneath them.
They have about the same amount of space too, maybe 8 by 10ft. But the decor itself is a stark exercise in contrasting personalities. Molly's area, you can tell, is on the right when you enter.
There are lots of pictures of her, lots with the sorority girls and other friends you don't recognize, but definitely the girls from the prior research on a collage. Also university pennants, string lights, and a good amount of framed or stickered slice of life messages. Things like Live, laugh, love.
Those types of messages pretty much plastered across the whole thing. On the other side, Madison's, you see a focus on anime games. There's a few figurines on her computer desk.
Speaker A:What are they figurines of?
Speaker D:We're gonna go she a Weeb. We're gonna go Witcher stuff. Except anime versions of the Witcher characters. So she's got a Geralt that's like very Final Fantasy esque.
And she's got a Ciri that is sort of animated as well.
Speaker B:Hybrid Weeb.
Speaker A:Vadim doesn't know what that stuff is, just sees it and nods.
Speaker D:They do have anime in Russia as well.
Speaker A:Yeah, but he doesn't know anime, so he's not familiar with any of it.
Speaker B:Is he nodding at them like hello?
Speaker A:No, just like a nod, like, okay.
Speaker C:He just looks like. This is not berserk. I don't know it.
Speaker A:Nah. Nestor Vadim is a Naruto fan.
Speaker B:You can tell by the way he runs.
Speaker A:Yeah. Which is just stupid. Anyways. Yeah. Anyways, we're back in the scene and we're observing and go, Chris.
Speaker D:I've gone ahead and described it to you.
Speaker A:That's all we get.
Speaker D:What would you like to explore and do?
Speaker E:So before I. Before we explore, I just want to send a quick text to Mason and Hargrave saying, hey, we're in.
Look for an update ETA for them or say, hey, give us as much.
Speaker D:Time as we can. So when you receive that message, Lenny, Madison's looking kind of bored off to the side.
She says, yeah, I mean, that's why I take summer classes, so hopefully I don't have to do another 18 hour semester.
Speaker C:Cool.
Speaker D:Yeah. This is. As you're reading the text, would you.
Speaker C:Wait here for just a moment? I need to. I need to just check in with my partner, Mason, if that's okay. Can I get you anything?
Speaker D:I mean, it's Frogert day, so yeah, I take a vanilla with Reese's PCs on it.
Speaker C:Vanilla with Reese's Pieces. Gotcha.
Speaker D:Yeah, Let me Reese's PCs up here in this state, sir, I prefer if you said it properly.
Speaker C:Lenny's eye kind of like twitches. Reese's.
Speaker D:Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces.
Speaker C:A little blood comes out of his ears while he's trying to hold it together. He says, yeah, I'll bring that right over. Yeah, if you wouldn't mind waiting. I just need to talk. Talk with my partner.
Speaker D:Sir, I need to hear you say it.
Speaker A:She holds you in her unbreakable gaze.
Speaker C:Peace. Peace. Immediately just starts vomiting blood everywhere.
Speaker D:She nods appreciatively.
Speaker A:You are with us now.
Speaker C:So Lenny's going to go grab Mason, who's like, hey, we need to buy like 20 more minutes. So I told her I'd buy her a frozen yogurt.
Speaker B:Sounds great. What's the topping?
Speaker C:Immediately evacuates into his pants.
Speaker B:Ah, Reese's Madison Delvey.
Speaker D:No, it's appreciatively. The entire food court is very pleased actually. They're all just kind of watching and.
Speaker C:Slow clap builds into a round of applause.
Speaker B:I'm just going to ask Lenny to dump on me the information, not his pants.
Speaker A:Okay, that was a really strange follow up.
Speaker C:Not a whole lot of information. She did mention that her roommate came in the night before. She thinks drunk and kept screaming about if I got this right, black goats in the woods.
I don't know what that means, but probably worth looking into.
Speaker B:Chris, may I roll in a Colt to see if this rings any bells.
Speaker C:Can I roll a Colt on that too? Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, absolutely. Thank you.
Speaker A:Why didn't you make them roll a colt on Reese's PCs?
Speaker D:That's an unnatural for the Reese's. Fair enough.
Speaker A:Fair enough.
Speaker B:95 out of 50 failure.
Speaker C:98 out of 60 scrub ass rolls, y'all.
Speaker D:Sounds like some satanic stuff. I mean, black goats. Very, very common imagery in satanic writings and supposed ritual.
Speaker C:Let's go get that froyo.
Speaker D:So you go and get the froyo, and the cashier has you repeat the toppings over and over again. She's a little hard of hearing. As you continue to spill blood out of your mouth. Let's go back to Vadim and Sophie.
Speaker A:You know, I could really go for a Reese's Pieces right now.
Speaker E:We'll have to wait. Froyo is later.
Speaker A:It's always later.
Speaker E:Just text, text.
Speaker D:I can't believe they have fucking Reese's Pieces and Froyo in Russia. After all the shit that the D was surprised about.
Speaker A:It's an American treat for him to have Reese's PC.
Speaker B:It's the one treat they had in the Gulag.
Speaker D:All right, I'm sorry, Olivia, please.
Speaker A:So let's smash and grab, I guess, right?
Speaker E:Hey, real quick, though, text. Text Hargrave. He'll get you the Reese's PCs for you.
Speaker A:I don't want to text him. I don't like him.
Speaker E:Okay, text Mason.
Speaker A:I really don't like him.
Speaker E:I will let them know, but no, let's not smash and grab. We're gonna try to be as quiet and as clean about this as possible. So I'll just kind of do my thing over here.
You look over there if you have any questions.
Speaker A:And where are you gesturing?
Speaker B:She's pointing with her hands.
Speaker A:Okay, so Vadim not knowing, she just says, over. No, I'm kidding. So we split the room and we're gonna search. That's what we'll do.
Speaker D:How are you splitting the room?
Speaker A:I have no idea. This is her idea.
Speaker D:Yeah. Why don't we focus on the deceased's side? Yep. Probably don't want to look through the anime games.
Speaker A:Just, you know, look under her bed, toss it, and make it.
Speaker E:Well, actually, I mean, that is what I wanted to do.
Speaker D:You want to look through the anime and games?
Speaker E:No, I wanted to split the room, but.
Speaker D:Okay, well, why don't you just tell me where you're going to look and then I'll tell you what you find.
Speaker E:Well, okay, we'll just start with a general search and see if there's anything at the desk.
Speaker D:Yeah, you don't need to roll anything. You look at the desk, and there's a drawer there where one could maybe put A rollout keyboard.
When you roll it out, you can see that there's a laptop in there.
Speaker A:Okay. Grabbing that.
Speaker E:Yep.
Speaker A:Looking for passwords written down somewhere.
Speaker D:You're looking around for anything that might resemble a password. You don't see any wonderfully placed post it notes, anything like that here, unfortunately.
Speaker A:Now we can always go back to the morgue and just use our fucking dead finger. Okay.
Speaker E:What if I just. Looking over the photos that she had on the wall, is there anything that might stand out from that with the sorority girls?
Speaker D:Nothing stands out, but it is affirming of the same people that she was apparently posting social media about and living and laughing about.
Speaker A:We're gonna go through her desk.
Speaker D:You find a journal. Wow. Taking that, an actual journal where somebody.
Speaker B:Writes in a nerd pay data and.
Speaker D:It looks like she's written quite a bit in it.
Speaker A:Looking under the bed storage.
Speaker D:This is mostly clothing. Nothing too interesting in here. That you see. It's fairly mundane.
Speaker E:What about searching? Searching, like the bed sheets under the pillow. Any substances?
Speaker D:Yeah, you're looking for any little baggies or pills, but you don't see anything like that. Did you want to test for substances?
Speaker A:We do have test kits, but we want to be sure we have a substance before we start testing because we have a very limited supply. Correct.
Speaker D:For the purposes of this one shot, you have infinite supply.
Speaker A:That is insane.
Speaker D:If I made it. Like, you shouldn't be using this constantly. I have failed. We're gonna start because. Testing. You have not been using this at all.
And it really needs to. Really needs to be used.
Speaker A:Let's get to testing.
Speaker D:Tell me what you do.
Speaker A:We're gonna. We're gonna swab, like, I guess the bed sheets, the pillow, the desk area where her hands would be. Swab the roommate's area just to be sure.
Speaker D:Okay, so you go ahead and run one of the swabs up and down the sheets where her body was taken from to the corners.
And you go through the simple instructions that Snedeker gave you to trading a couple of the unlabeled substances, the fluids, allowing them to mix, and then placing the swab within them. Sure enough, it shows a light took away shade indicating a positive skibidi toilet.
Speaker A:We have. Bingo. Was his name O?
Speaker C:Why?
Speaker E:Well, what was it? We were told if we found the.
Speaker A:Substance to destroy it.
Speaker E:But we don't have a way to destroy it, do we?
Speaker A:We just take bedsheets and we throw them away or burn them.
Speaker B:Go on.
Speaker E:Mm. So we could probably. I think we could stuff these inside Some pillowcases, you know, if there's no basket around to take this down.
Speaker A:Sounds good to me. Let's pack it all up, get, I guess, a nice pile of this bullshit together and wash it clean. So, looking for a laundry basket, you.
Speaker D:Can use one of the storage baskets underneath the bed if you'd like. Okay. Or a pillowcase, like Sophie said. That sounded like a good idea.
Speaker A:So we're going to use a pillowcase.
Speaker D:Are you all done with the room?
Speaker A:Did the other roommate's stuff come up with anything?
Speaker D:No. Good.
No, you went ahead and put it on her mouse or keyboard, places that you thought that maybe she hung out at her bed, but none of those tests yielded any positive. Good, good, good.
Speaker A:So do they have, I guess, go through the chest of drawers to make sure there's nothing in there, test that with the swabs.
Speaker D:There's nothing that's beyond mundane. So more clothing, toiletries, that sort of thing? Some of Molly's clothes that you test do come up with a small mild positive. Okay.
Speaker A:Throwing that in with the rest and.
Speaker D:Basically take all of her clothing and throw it into these two pillowcases along with the sheets, stuffing them in there as best you can.
Speaker A:Final. Just a quick peruse through the desk of the roommate.
Just make sure there's nothing else there that might relate to her roommate that she might have taken.
Speaker D:There's a lot of office supplies, notebooks, a lot of textbooks. Looks like some electronics you don't recognize. You're not exactly sure why she would have.
Just random electronics, something with an antenna, but you don't see anything that piques your interest.
Speaker A:Okey dokey.
Speaker E:Sophie comes up behind Vadim after he looks through Madison's desk and just cleans it up and says everything as it was.
Speaker D:All right, go ahead, both of you. Roll your a stealth plus 20.
Speaker E:Yeah, we're trying to leave it so everything looks untouched, just. Well, obviously, except for the roommate success.
Speaker C:Wowza.
Speaker E:There's that 99 failure.
Speaker D:So y'all go ahead and do your best to set everything up and leave it as it was. Except for, of course, all of Molly's belongings, which are now stuffed into these large pillowcases that are bulging.
Speaker A:Okay, I think we are as good as can be. Let's go down to wash a terrier and clean everything on the way out of the building.
Speaker D:You go ahead and throw this laundry into two larger washers, fill it with detergent, set them on their cycles, and leave the building out the side door.
Speaker A:You maybe text, let them know we're done.
Speaker E:Yes, I will. Do you still want that froyo Skibidi?
Speaker D:So you send the message that you're finished at the room and that froyo is on the menu. Hargrave. Lenny, you received this message.
Speaker C:Have we finished getting her? Are we her froyo? Are we still in line for.
Speaker D:You've gone ahead and gotten her her little meal and had to kind of sit back down to chat with her a little bit more. At this point, Mason has also sat down now that the call with the director is over. So this is really good. Thank you, by the way.
Speaker B:Of course.
Speaker D:I appreciate it. I'm sorry. I. I kind of fell apart there. Did you get everything you needed?
Speaker B:Almost. And humans fall apart. Don't worry about that. What is your handle? So I can look you up later for the FBI, remember?
And he pulls out his badge and he slides it over. We're FBI.
Speaker D:Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. It's anninakaigirl03.
Speaker B:You're gonna have to write that down for me.
Speaker D:She cringes, she sighs.
Speaker B:The entire room goes ooh.
Speaker D:Picks up her phone and types it out on a notepad app and turns it around so you can look at it.
Speaker B:I take a picture.
Speaker D:Am I. Am I in trouble?
Speaker B:Well, see, depends if you say something or not.
Speaker C:No. No, you're not in trouble. Thank you very much for your help. We enjoy your frozen yogurt, and we'll be watching.
Speaker D:She stands up and she actually flinches when you say, we'll be watching. And she turns around and shuffles away from the table and out of the food court.
Speaker B:Great job, Lenny. I almost feel bad reporting you.
Speaker C:Okay, he's crazy. Let's go meet up with the rest of the team.
Speaker B:He slaps you in the back, and we head out.
Speaker C:Lenny just goes, ow.
Speaker D:Softly says to himself, y'all take both of the vehicles. And end up in an abandoned lot crisscrossed with growing weeds in the back of what was once an old barbecue restaurant that is now closed.
Your cars are side by side, but with the windows facing one another, so you can speak if you'd like to.
Speaker A:So we got laptop, and we have diary. Unless one of you is special hacker, we probably need to go back to the morgue to use her fingerprint for open laptop.
Speaker B:Just pass it over here.
Speaker A:Okay. And he passes it across. Do we need to do this here? Can we maybe get hotel room and dig in?
Speaker C:Yeah, I've got a few things I'd like to look into as well that she mentioned.
Speaker A:So what did she mention? Also, I believe you owe me Reese's Pieces. Froyo.
Speaker C:Lenny's head literally just explodes on the spot. Blood flies everywhere. Viscera, bits of skull. Getting your hair and your beards, it's awful.
Speaker A:Takes it off with his fingertips and licks those fingertips.
Speaker D:Yeah, get every bit of that. Yeah, you don't want to waste any fluid. It's going to get hot later. Okay. All right.
Speaker B:Yeah. Let's get a hotel room.
Speaker A:We're making great radio tonight.
Speaker B:Y'all dig into the evidence that we've collected.
Speaker D:Y'all grab a hotel room. And now you're there and you've got all this evidence. What's the hotel called, all four of you? It's called Crongler's Delight.
Speaker B:Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker A:It's a perfect place. Hat man approves.
Speaker D:It's a very common Madison chain.
Speaker C:Lenny is gonna spend some time poking around the Internet's looking, trying to cross reference black goats in the woods. And another thing. We'll get answers.
Speaker D:Oh, the other thing.
Speaker C:Yeah, the other thing. Okay, so I was gonna cross reference that with the other thing. So, you know, clickety clack. Let's go.
Speaker A:So you just get a bunch of references to the movie Vitch?
Speaker D:Yeah, the two. The two things that were the highlights of your last scene were black goats in the woods and Froyo. So I assume you're cross referencing those.
Speaker C:You bet your ass I am. Let's go.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker D:You don't get anything relevant to the rest of this mission.
Speaker C:Let me just go. Well, I tried. Sorry.
Speaker B:You got to use the quotes around Reese's Species. That's what it is.
Speaker C:That's it. That's it.
Speaker D:You type that in and Google says, say it out loud. Say it. Right.
Speaker C:How have I not had any sanity rolls for all of this yet?
Speaker D:This is just Lenny's purgatory. Like, he's in hell right now.
Speaker C:Poor Lenny.
Speaker B:And I'm going to see if I can get inside of her computer without locking it.
Speaker D:Yeah, go ahead and roll your computer science, please.
Speaker B:I will. And I did. And I succeeded. 51 out of 60.
Speaker D:You use your own laptop to go ahead and build a bootable USB drive to plug into hers, which you do.
And this allows you to install a little helper program that kind of tricks the thing to go into its kernel, which then again tricks it to go and bypass its security. It only takes you a few seconds to get this done.
Speaker B:I'm glad I typed that to you before to let you know what I was going to be doing. So the. So the audience knows how smart I am.
Speaker D:Well, would you like to say all of that?
Speaker B:Nope. Nope. I think you got it. You got it. We got it on. We'll just do the playback and then it'll be fine.
Speaker C:It's okay. I missed it. Marconi, if you wouldn't mind just saying it again for my benefit.
Speaker B:Yeah, the corn was in there, and you gotta get the corn out before you can get inside of the computer.
Speaker A:The hat man was in my ear through all of this. Could you repeat it one more time?
Speaker B:I can't actually. It's a secret FBI stuff.
Speaker D:Sorry, it is a secret. It's classified.
Speaker A:Look at the eye.
Speaker D:The nice thing is she keeps all of her passwords in a text file on her desktop, including to those two on her phone.
Speaker A:It's dummy sick, but also sane.
Speaker D:It's called password file.
Speaker E:Damn.
Speaker B:And an iPhone, you can just like, look at the text on, like, straight from the laptop, right? Imessage.
Speaker A:Yeah. They link up.
Speaker D:Absolutely. And so you've got the password for all her social media, for her phone and her browser. All of them just autofill anything you could ever want.
So let's just call it wide open.
Speaker B:I will scroll through all of that and their messages from the time she died. Back.
Speaker D:This is kind of Zechariah's back looking through tons of data and trying to find patterns. Let's go ahead and roll your intelligence plus 20%.
Speaker B:Oh, no.
Speaker D:Dang.
Speaker B:Did I do it? Okay? Yes. 24 out of 80. Hell yeah.
Speaker D:When Zachariah performs these types of tasks, is it a cheerful thing? Does he hum? What does he do while the others Kind of.
Speaker A:He cries uncontrollably.
Speaker B:He sings Sweet Caroline to himself.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker B:But only the Ba ba ba parts out loud.
Speaker A:Vadim immediately recognizes the song and Ba ba Ba's along.
Speaker D:They don't have any gulags. Sorry. They don't have fist bumps. And they don't have ice machines. They definitely don't have Sweet Caroline.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker D:Wow. What are the rest of you doing? I know Lenny is looking at black goats and frozen yogurt and not having too much luck. Sophie. Vadim.
Speaker A:Vadim's going to be pouring over that journal.
Speaker D:Okay, great. Sophie.
Speaker E:She's going to take a shower after going through the linens and things like that and using that kit and finding a positive result to which she also is going to sort of dump on these guys like this. We did find this substance, whatever it.
Speaker D:Is, so you go ahead before you take the shower, you let them know about that.
Speaker E:Exactly.
Speaker D:And that reminds everybody that you should probably be testing a lot of things during the game. And everybody goes, oh, yeah, I forgot about those testing kits. Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker C:Let it go, sweetie. What game?
Speaker A:Football game. American.
Speaker D:It's a little bit distracting to both you and Lenny Vadim as you hear Ba ba ba. Like, every once in a while it startles you as you're poring over your various research.
Speaker B:Hell, yeah.
Speaker D:But that's the condition of the room as you perform.
Speaker A:What is this song? That is not skibidi Toilet.
Speaker B:Don't talk to me.
Speaker D:The journal starts off very normal, Vadim. It's just the hopes and the dreams of what seems to be a very ordinary young woman from Wisconsin.
There's a lot of slang and references to pop culture and TV shows that you don't really understand. We all know anything south of a fist bump you have never seen before as some sort of alien from another world.
Speaker B:Coca Cola. What is that? I don't understand what she's drinking in this. This passage.
Speaker D:But even for your cultural backdrop to your life, you can see that as the weeks go on, things change for her. Her musings become more existential, they become deeper.
Your brow furrows as you continue to read and you see her questions and her thoughts, they get darker. It's as if she's coming to terms with something, perhaps her own place in the world. I mean, she says it in those exact words in one passage.
It feels more like her place in a cosmic sense, though not her place at school or with family or amongst friends or social pecking orders. It's the final pages that are the most damning. Scrawled ravings about the power of things that walk lumber through the woods.
Her penmanship grows ever more erratic as she describes how they sit at the edges of her vision, how they exist like smoke between the worlds, waiting, pacing back and forth. Finally, there's a drawing. The first one, the only one. It's all pencil shaded. And you see Capture.
Black Goat looks like something from a heavy metal band's logo. But the picture itself brings you great discomfort.
You feel like you've seen it before, but it's nothing you can place, nothing you can put a name to, except perhaps the name that Molly herself gave.
