(The Secret World) MSL-North: Tha Boyz - Episode 6: The Backroots Part 1

[00:00:00] The Secret World MSL-North

[00:00:01] Our wisdom flows so sweet. Test and see. Transmit.

[00:00:08] Time to learn the truth, boys and girls. In the 30s, Prime Minister King kickstarted a hedge fund for investigating and hunting various paranormal phenomena.

[00:00:18] Now, fast forward along a line of mysteries, blood, and maple syrup money throughout the 20th century,

[00:00:25] and you find numerous groups across the country, unified under a loose collective,

[00:00:31] hunting strange creatures and tackling paranormal threats for profit.

[00:00:36] Don't believe the lies by the so-called news networks.

[00:00:40] The Secret World is real. Here there be monsters.

[00:00:43] And the Monster Slayers League, north of the American border, is out there.

[00:00:49] Even out in Newfoundland, there's word of a new team known only as the Byz.

[00:00:53] And, don't even get me started on the-

[00:01:00] Hi, and welcome to One Less Die.

[00:01:03] A-

[00:01:04] Diff-

[00:01:05] I was actually going to drop the five inches to go-

[00:01:08] A secret world-

[00:01:09] Secret world actual place podcast?

[00:01:12] You did it!

[00:01:13] Bees?

[00:01:15] Bees?

[00:01:17] Yes.

[00:01:18] We are-

[00:01:19] Fifth edition?

[00:01:20] Yeah, using fifth edition rules.

[00:01:23] Mostly.

[00:01:24] Mostly.

[00:01:25] We're homebrewing a little-

[00:01:26] We're adding a little bit of homebrew to the system, because we don't-

[00:01:29] Some of us want a little bit more meat on them bones.

[00:01:33] Yeah, the game doesn't use enough crunch for guns.

[00:01:36] Yeah, and we have some gun fondlers in the party.

[00:01:38] So, uh, but yeah, we're playing our Secret World, the tabletop RPG campaign,

[00:01:44] uh, Monster Slayers League North, um, and we're focusing on the Newfoundland arc, so, the boys.

[00:01:51] The boys.

[00:01:51] The boys.

[00:01:53] Uh, and speaking of the boys, uh, let's introduce characters.

[00:01:56] Starting on my left.

[00:01:58] Or directly ahead of me.

[00:02:01] Hi.

[00:02:02] I'm Troy McClure.

[00:02:03] Uh, I'm playing, uh, Jacob Blackstone.

[00:02:06] I'm a Magus.

[00:02:09] And a bee.

[00:02:12] Uh, so, Tom'sy.

[00:02:13] And whatever other animal you want to be.

[00:02:14] And whatever other animal I want to be.

[00:02:16] Uh, I went, uh, to the Innsmouth Academy.

[00:02:19] Um, and yeah, I'm a Magus, who also specializes in shape-changing.

[00:02:26] He, like, long walks on the beach.

[00:02:28] I like long walks on the beach.

[00:02:29] Killing Draugr.

[00:02:30] Killing dinners and draugr and things.

[00:02:36] Stuff.

[00:02:37] Secret World.

[00:02:38] Secret World-y things.

[00:02:40] Illuminati.

[00:02:41] M2 Browning.

[00:02:42] M2 Browning.

[00:02:42] Etc.

[00:02:44] Something, something.

[00:02:45] Please, Daddy Roenick.

[00:02:46] Can we get a, uh, can we get an airstrike?

[00:02:49] That would be.

[00:02:50] By the way, I got like a couple of, uh, chuckles on the, uh, of the Discord.

[00:02:53] Just a couple?

[00:02:54] Yeah.

[00:02:54] Also, I am Groot.

[00:02:55] It was, I threw it in the, I put it in the middle of like an actual serious conversation.

[00:02:59] So.

[00:03:00] Bad timing.

[00:03:01] Yeah.

[00:03:01] I am Groot.

[00:03:03] Yeah.

[00:03:04] No, we are Groot.

[00:03:05] We are Groot.

[00:03:06] Yes.

[00:03:06] Um, yeah.

[00:03:07] Yeah.

[00:03:08] And, uh, currently I wear plaid and a raincoat and, uh, I have a Tokarev in a shoulder holster

[00:03:16] and, um, a rhino strapped to my hip.

[00:03:19] Do you have a Takwa on you?

[00:03:21] Yes.

[00:03:22] I wear a Takwa with my flannel.

[00:03:24] Yes.

[00:03:27] Okay.

[00:03:28] To anyone listening, they are going to be extremely confused and Googling furiously.

[00:03:32] How do you spell Takwa?

[00:03:34] Well, T-O-Q-U-E.

[00:03:38] Yeah.

[00:03:39] Takwa.

[00:03:40] Alright.

[00:03:42] And, uh, next up we have Dave.

[00:03:44] That's me.

[00:03:45] I'm playing, uh, John Deere, no relation.

[00:03:47] He's a, uh, ex-con and the mercenary class in this game.

[00:03:52] He's a bullet shooty man and backup healy man with the, uh, sharpshooter archetype.

[00:03:58] And I also have a thumper one, but I never use it because it's clunky to switch in this game.

[00:04:04] I feel like maybe we should, like, get, like, cue cards and just, like, put them on there so you can just swap them out like that.

[00:04:09] That might make things a little easier.

[00:04:12] I believe it would fit in a cue card.

[00:04:13] Maybe, like, a couple of cue cards or not.

[00:04:16] It's clunky to me the same way that, okay, Aaron, um, when you are a wizard in most things, you have a selection of spells that you use for adventuring,

[00:04:27] another selection of spells for when you're in a dungeon and you rest in between and switch between them, right?

[00:04:32] Yeah.

[00:04:32] That's basically what this is.

[00:04:33] Yeah.

[00:04:34] Yeah.

[00:04:35] So how come you don't like it?

[00:04:36] Because I'm not setting it up.

[00:04:41] It's preset.

[00:04:42] It's set up by somebody else.

[00:04:43] I guess, yeah.

[00:04:45] Um, so if I was doing it and I had access to, say, both elementalism and, uh, uh, uh, my wild nature,

[00:04:56] um, you know, I would, as presets, okay, if we're gonna be in the city, well, no AOE spells,

[00:05:04] so it's all specific targeted spells, try to avoid fire damage because you don't want to set a town on fire,

[00:05:10] but also I'm going to want, uh, some animal shapes available for within this town that fit within a town.

[00:05:17] Yeah.

[00:05:17] So things like dogs, rats, birds, you know, stuff that's not out of place and can maneuver through the town really well.

[00:05:27] You don't want to be a panda.

[00:05:29] Yeah.

[00:05:29] Yeah.

[00:05:29] You don't want to turn into a grizzly bear in the middle of a, in an alleyway where you can't turn around.

[00:05:35] Yeah.

[00:05:35] It just, it doesn't make any sense.

[00:05:37] Yeah.

[00:05:38] Um, whereas this is when you switch between them, it's no, no, you, you still like elementalism.

[00:05:46] Um, you've got fireball and you have your targeted spells.

[00:05:49] There's no, it's, it's not, you're not, um, prioritizing yourself based on what you're doing.

[00:05:54] You're prioritizing yourself towards an entirely different, um, scope of skills.

[00:06:01] It's not taking what you have and picking and choosing what you have available for that specific, uh, type of adventure.

[00:06:11] It's archetypical.

[00:06:12] It's not tactical.

[00:06:13] Yes.

[00:06:13] I do it tactically as a wizard.

[00:06:16] I don't do it archetypally.

[00:06:18] Okay.

[00:06:18] That makes sense.

[00:06:19] Yeah.

[00:06:22] All right.

[00:06:23] And there.

[00:06:24] Oh yeah.

[00:06:25] I'm playing a game here.

[00:06:26] Uh, I'm playing Marcel Andri.

[00:06:29] I'm a demolisher.

[00:06:30] I like to hit stuff with my big hammer.

[00:06:32] I could play thumper, but, uh, I don't want it.

[00:06:36] Yeah.

[00:06:37] I'm noticing, I'm noticing, yeah, again, like, like, like, this is good because this is a

[00:06:39] play test technically of the game because the game is just coming out.

[00:06:43] Yeah.

[00:06:44] Uh, like we started before it was coming out.

[00:06:46] Like we got the play test rules and stuff and we're noticing some things that we don't

[00:06:49] really care for in the system, in the system that's coming out.

[00:06:51] Well, it might work out particularly well for some people who are new to gaming at all.

[00:06:57] So that they, they pick an archetype and then they discover they really just hate that archetype.

[00:07:01] But then they get to pick another archetype and they can switch to the new archetype.

[00:07:05] Yeah.

[00:07:05] Give it a try.

[00:07:06] If they don't like it, they can switch back to their old one or wait until they level up

[00:07:10] again and pick another new one.

[00:07:11] Also, what this is really good for is if you have a character and then you, you're playing

[00:07:16] with one group and then you take that character to another group, you can pick a different

[00:07:19] archetype to fill a different role.

[00:07:21] Yeah.

[00:07:21] Which is like the beauty of it.

[00:07:24] So you can...

[00:07:25] Well, and also if we were coming up being something that wasn't vulnerable to radiant

[00:07:29] damage, I'd probably switch.

[00:07:32] Mm-hmm.

[00:07:32] Like if we were fighting plant monsters and they're totally vulnerable with fire, yeah

[00:07:36] I'm gonna switch with a thumper.

[00:07:39] The curse is all about them plants.

[00:07:41] He is.

[00:07:42] He loves his plant zombies.

[00:07:44] I can switch with a thumper and do a whole lot of fire damage.

[00:07:46] There may be a session coming up where you guys have to deal with the Canada fires.

[00:07:50] The Canada wildfires.

[00:07:52] See so.

[00:07:53] Chris took the game Plants vs. Zombies and thought to himself, well what if both of them

[00:07:57] were zombies?

[00:07:59] What if they just had romance and fell in love?

[00:08:02] No, no, no, hang on, hang on.

[00:08:04] It was, it's like, yeah, well kind of but like...

[00:08:08] I took it and was like, well what if I threw the plants that were versing the zombies and

[00:08:13] took the zombies that were versing the plants, throw them into a blender, tossed in the,

[00:08:17] that one creepy horror movie where like they're on an Aztec temple and then like it's the vines

[00:08:24] that are going, penetrating their bodies and stuff like that.

[00:08:27] I think it's called The Ruin.

[00:08:28] I think it was a hentai.

[00:08:29] Toss that into the blender as well.

[00:08:32] Throw in some aliens just for good measure and puree and oops, the ovaku.

[00:08:37] But that's a whole different game and idea and stuff like that.

[00:08:40] So.

[00:08:41] It could be this game at any time.

[00:08:43] Maybe.

[00:08:43] Um, so uh, yeah, so you're a demolisher.

[00:08:46] Yeah.

[00:08:47] Okay.

[00:08:47] And yeah, you guys all work for a group of monster hunters from Newfoundland called the

[00:08:54] McGregors.

[00:08:54] Um, you're the monster hunters of Newfoundland as Canada is effectively a, a, a, a nation

[00:09:03] of freelance monster hunters.

[00:09:05] Um, the various secret societies, uh, kind of pick and choose where they, where they do

[00:09:14] things in, in Canada.

[00:09:15] Uh, but nobody's like laid full claim to it.

[00:09:18] Um, and yeah, it's been about, uh, just under two weeks since the last thing.

[00:09:23] Um, shit happened last week.

[00:09:26] Uh, last, last time you guys, uh, were on a mission.

[00:09:28] Um, an airstrike was called, um, people died.

[00:09:31] Um, but the, the problem that could have gone a lot worse didn't get worse.

[00:09:36] So that's good.

[00:09:38] Um, and because the Templar were the ones that didn't airstrike, they dealt with the,

[00:09:44] um, with the cover up of, uh, a bunch of people, a bunch of people on their, their lakeside

[00:09:50] homes dying.

[00:09:52] So, um, so it's been about a week and a half, maybe just under two weeks.

[00:09:57] Uh, what we're gonna have a little bit yet at the start here of like, what have you,

[00:10:00] what have you guys been doing when you're not working at the, as a monster hunters?

[00:10:03] Like, what are you guys doing?

[00:10:04] Like, I guess at your apartments or at your home, at your homes and stuff like that.

[00:10:08] Okay.

[00:10:09] Well, I guess if we're continuing in the same order.

[00:10:13] Yeah.

[00:10:14] Might as well.

[00:10:15] Um, dum-dum-dum-dum-dum.

[00:10:19] You guys do need a new car, which you guys are getting a, a box truck this time.

[00:10:24] The Mastery Machine is being-

[00:10:26] Box van!

[00:10:27] The Mastery Machine 2.0 is getting gonna be a-

[00:10:29] You don't have to stop at the red light!

[00:10:30] A box van.

[00:10:33] Um, I prefer the term cube truck.

[00:10:35] Yeah, cube truck, yeah.

[00:10:36] It sounds a little bit, uh, less creepy.

[00:10:39] Vans are always inherently creepy.

[00:10:40] That's fair.

[00:10:42] But like, just a big white box truck, that's pretty non-conspicuous.

[00:10:45] Like, could be anybody's.

[00:10:47] Yeah.

[00:10:48] And at least one or two motorcycles?

[00:10:51] Yeah, I got mine already.

[00:10:52] Okay.

[00:10:53] Cool.

[00:10:53] Alright, so yeah, what, uh, yeah, so what is, uh...

[00:10:57] I forgot your name already, dammit.

[00:11:01] Um, Jake, uh, what are you doing, uh, in the last-

[00:11:06] What have you been up to in the last two weeks?

[00:11:08] Well, I spent a fair bit of time reading, um, both, uh, uh, some- some fantasy fiction.

[00:11:15] Like, not fanfic, but like, actually-

[00:11:18] You're starting-

[00:11:19] You're working on your OnlyFans now.

[00:11:22] Hi.

[00:11:22] I'm rereading the Dresden Piles.

[00:11:24] There, I'm rereading the Dresden Piles.

[00:11:27] Um, but I've also been, uh, writing letters to a couple of, uh, old classmates.

[00:11:32] Okay.

[00:11:32] You know, the old snail mail way.

[00:11:34] Yeah.

[00:11:35] Um, just about, you know, sort of the stuff that I've been doing without breaking confidentiality.

[00:11:41] You know, uh, uh, um, and occasionally summoning books from the school for, uh, uh, uh, ritual research.

[00:11:49] Mm-hmm.

[00:11:50] Well, I mean, they have no problem with that, especially since, uh, you guys- you met- you did, uh, give- effectively give the Dean, um, uh, Montag, uh, new specimen material.

[00:12:00] Well, and it's literally a part of my skill set.

[00:12:02] So I can summon a book for research materials.

[00:12:05] Yeah.

[00:12:07] Based on whatever we're doing.

[00:12:09] Yeah.

[00:12:09] But yeah, you definitely probably got, like, contacted from, uh, Montag, like, again, thanking you for the new specimens for the biology classes.

[00:12:16] No problem, Jeffrey Combs.

[00:12:18] What?

[00:12:19] I don't- I don't get to that reference.

[00:12:22] I don't speak like Jeffrey Combs.

[00:12:25] I wish I could do a proper, like, Jeffrey Combs accent, but, like, he doesn't really- he has a mannerism, but it's not really an accent.

[00:12:31] He does- he is very distinctive, but it's very hard to mimic.

[00:12:35] Yeah.

[00:12:37] Yeah.

[00:12:37] Okay, so he's basically just been reading and-

[00:12:39] Yep.

[00:12:40] Studying.

[00:12:41] Okay.

[00:12:42] Um, John Deere.

[00:12:45] No relation.

[00:12:46] No, not at all.

[00:12:47] What have you been up to?

[00:12:48] I've always seen my parole officer.

[00:12:51] Really?

[00:12:51] I don't know.

[00:12:52] Why am I- how did I get out of jail for this?

[00:12:55] I don't remember.

[00:12:57] Well, yeah, that's a good question.

[00:12:59] Did the bee, like, do you eat the bee- did you swallow the bee while you were in prison?

[00:13:03] Probably.

[00:13:03] And then, like, suddenly you were being, like, being released on good behavior?

[00:13:08] You probably have.

[00:13:09] I think that's- that probably is what the, the Lumenati or the Templar- or the Templar-

[00:13:12] Right?

[00:13:12] He was about to get shanked by neo-Nazis and he's trying to talk them out of it.

[00:13:16] And all of a sudden, a bee flies like-

[00:13:19] I just want a bee!

[00:13:20] Yeah.

[00:13:21] God.

[00:13:22] And then they killed him.

[00:13:23] And he woke up.

[00:13:24] And he respawned.

[00:13:25] And he respawned.

[00:13:26] That's how I got out of jail.

[00:13:28] I- I-

[00:13:29] You faced a life sentence and then you died.

[00:13:30] That's why I have a new name now.

[00:13:32] Oh my-

[00:13:32] Because John Deere is not my name.

[00:13:34] Oh, that's true, yeah.

[00:13:35] I kind of actually like that you died in prison.

[00:13:37] In prison, yeah.

[00:13:38] And then you woke up in a- in a- you woke up in the mulk.

[00:13:42] Because your body wouldn't have been destroyed from the- from the injections or whatever it was.

[00:13:45] Wouldn't I have just woken up in a garthorn?

[00:13:47] No, no.

[00:13:47] Remember?

[00:13:48] Because we have a-

[00:13:48] Because your body wasn't destroyed.

[00:13:50] Oh.

[00:13:50] If your body got shanked, but you weren't like-

[00:13:52] It's not like they incinerated you.

[00:13:54] Yeah.

[00:13:55] Well, maybe they did.

[00:13:55] Yes, they did.

[00:13:56] No.

[00:13:57] Yeah, so you woke up in the morgue and then you managed to escape from that.

[00:14:00] And then you got picked up by the Templar like shortly after being-

[00:14:03] or escaping prison.

[00:14:05] Okay.

[00:14:05] Or escaping the morgue of a prison.

[00:14:06] He woke up on the way to the crematorium, but he wasn't able to escape the box.

[00:14:10] So they put him in the furnace and he died again.

[00:14:13] Yeah.

[00:14:14] And then woke up in a garthorn.

[00:14:15] Yeah, there we go.

[00:14:17] Are you okay with- like what- what- is this- like what- what happened?

[00:14:20] Like is that- is that what happened or is like-

[00:14:23] Whatever's funniest.

[00:14:25] I mean the funniest is me dying twice.

[00:14:26] It is.

[00:14:28] I do fucking love that honestly.

[00:14:30] It's just-

[00:14:31] That is the funniest.

[00:14:33] Oh my god.

[00:14:34] Yeah, that's- that's exactly- okay, so that's- so that's what happened to your characters.

[00:14:37] Yeah.

[00:14:39] You- you- you- you- you- you- you- like your character no longer exists.

[00:14:42] Like your- your old identity is basically cleared.

[00:14:45] Yeah.

[00:14:46] Oh man, that is too good.

[00:14:49] It only took like two deaths.

[00:14:52] That's fine.

[00:14:53] Like yeah, it's- it's- it's- those weren't comfortable and like-

[00:14:56] No.

[00:14:56] Didn't hurt your- didn't- uh- do any wonders for your brain.

[00:14:59] No.

[00:15:00] No.

[00:15:01] I feel like that should come with some penalties.

[00:15:03] Like you have a fear of fire now.

[00:15:04] I- and boxes.

[00:15:07] And-

[00:15:07] So plus shakes.

[00:15:08] No, no, no.

[00:15:08] No, shakes is fine.

[00:15:10] Claustrophobia though, or- and like maybe pyro- pyrophobia.

[00:15:13] I just learned fireball.

[00:15:16] Or pyrophilia.

[00:15:17] Yeah.

[00:15:18] You know.

[00:15:18] And a hatred of neo-Nazis.

[00:15:20] Oh yeah.

[00:15:21] Mm-hmm.

[00:15:22] Yep.

[00:15:23] Yeah.

[00:15:24] A hatred for skinheads.

[00:15:25] Yup.

[00:15:27] So, all right.

[00:15:28] Yeah, I guess I have a clean slate.

[00:15:29] I was not seen that.

[00:15:30] Yeah, so you- yeah, you- but you're still like- you still have like some- you still have

[00:15:34] some context that you kind of like- you had to like reestablish as like, yeah, I faked

[00:15:38] my own death.

[00:15:38] I totally faked my own death.

[00:15:40] Yeah.

[00:15:41] Thar- thousand yard stare.

[00:15:43] Mm-hmm.

[00:15:44] Very intricate plan that I- that I handled effortlessly.

[00:15:49] Yeah.

[00:15:50] Totally wasn't by like miraculous happenstance and the will of Gaia.

[00:15:54] No, I was not saved by magic.

[00:15:55] That sounds ridiculous.

[00:15:56] I swallowed a tea.

[00:15:57] Yeah.

[00:15:58] Yeah.

[00:15:59] Oh man.

[00:16:00] So yeah, yeah, what are you doing in the last two weeks though?

[00:16:03] Like in your apartment or- wait, what is your apartment?

[00:16:06] What's- what- where do you live?

[00:16:08] Probably just in some shitty little apartment.

[00:16:11] Just-

[00:16:11] In St. John's or like outside of St. John's?

[00:16:13] Oh right, cause we don't have to be like in the same area, right?

[00:16:15] No, you guys like live like close enough that you can drive out to Belle Island, but

[00:16:18] you don't have to be on the compound in Belle Island.

[00:16:20] Mm-hmm.

[00:16:20] Yeah, just some biggie little apartment.

[00:16:23] Okay.

[00:16:23] Yeah.

[00:16:24] Somewhere in St. John's probably or- or Kittivity or something like that.

[00:16:28] Mm-hmm.

[00:16:29] Like one of the satellite towns.

[00:16:31] Yep.

[00:16:32] Okay.

[00:16:33] That's probably sourcing where the hell to get guns and stuff because-

[00:16:37] Yeah, so basically you just- I have a new lease on life sliding back into my old ways.

[00:16:43] Actually, here's a huge question.

[00:16:45] Actually, here's a huge question.

[00:16:45] Actually, where do I buy illegal firearms here?

[00:16:46] I- here's- here's a character defining question.

[00:16:49] Why were you in prison in the first place?

[00:16:52] Um, were you like caught as a gun smuggler?

[00:16:55] Did you murder a man?

[00:16:56] He didn't do nothing.

[00:16:58] He was uh, he was completely innocent.

[00:17:02] It was a case-

[00:17:03] As is everyone in prison.

[00:17:05] Yeah.

[00:17:05] I didn't do it.

[00:17:06] You have no proof.

[00:17:07] Okay, well-

[00:17:08] I was wearing a mask at the time.

[00:17:10] How do you know?

[00:17:12] I didn't even know-

[00:17:13] I was wearing a mask.

[00:17:14] What?

[00:17:15] Sorry, but-

[00:17:17] Not I was.

[00:17:19] The-

[00:17:19] Okay.

[00:17:20] The criminal that you say I am.

[00:17:22] Out of the game, so we have some development for your character.

[00:17:25] Like, what did you do?

[00:17:26] Like, what-

[00:17:26] Why did you go to prison in the first place?

[00:17:28] That was banked, Robert.

[00:17:29] Okay.

[00:17:31] Were you originally from Newfoundland or did you like-

[00:17:34] Was that somewhere from-

[00:17:37] I can't be from Dueldo again.

[00:17:40] I was robbing the bank of Dueldo.

[00:17:46] You don't have to be from Dueldo.

[00:17:48] I'm not from Dueldo.

[00:17:50] You did rob their bank.

[00:17:51] I did-

[00:17:51] That's how I got caught.

[00:17:53] You're still a Dueldo robber.

[00:17:54] Cause the-

[00:17:56] The police of Dueldo.

[00:17:57] They're just-

[00:17:58] There's not a lot of-

[00:17:59] They're not a lot of-

[00:18:00] Okay, they're too good.

[00:18:01] Yeah.

[00:18:01] The people-

[00:18:02] The town of Dueldo is not big.

[00:18:03] It's like cold water.

[00:18:05] Yeah.

[00:18:06] And how many times has cold water-

[00:18:07] As soon as I said that, I was like, wait, no, the bank of cold water-

[00:18:10] In my-

[00:18:11] When I was in high school, it was like robbed three times.

[00:18:12] It was like every week.

[00:18:14] Yeah.

[00:18:14] God.

[00:18:15] There was an ongoing joke that if you were gonna go rob Coldwater's bank, you'd go in and say, stick them up.

[00:18:23] And they'd be like, it's not your week. Take a number.

[00:18:26] Yeah.

[00:18:27] Nice.

[00:18:28] That's not a joke, by the way.

[00:18:29] Also, like, it's a joke, but it's not a joke.

[00:18:31] Yeah.

[00:18:31] Yeah.

[00:18:32] That bank got robbed a lot.

[00:18:33] A lot.

[00:18:34] In like the mid-2000s.

[00:18:36] It was kind of obscene.

[00:18:37] Yes.

[00:18:38] Anyway.

[00:18:39] Yeah, okay.

[00:18:39] So you robbed bank and went to prison and then you swallowed a bee and died twice.

[00:18:44] Yes.

[00:18:45] And then ended up in-

[00:18:49] Ended up with the Templar.

[00:18:50] Yes.

[00:18:51] And they, for some reason, saw some potential with your skills.

[00:18:55] Even though like the most like valiant and like paladin-esque like of the three factions were like, we need a rogue.

[00:19:05] Well really, they just didn't want the Illuminati to get him.

[00:19:09] That's true, yeah.

[00:19:10] Yeah.

[00:19:12] That's true.

[00:19:12] Because like, the Illuminati probably would have picked you up pretty hard.

[00:19:15] Mm-hmm.

[00:19:15] So.

[00:19:17] So you're just Buffy.

[00:19:19] Buffy.

[00:19:20] Died twice.

[00:19:21] Kills monsters.

[00:19:22] Oh my God, you are.

[00:19:22] You're basically male Buffy.

[00:19:24] Sure.

[00:19:25] You're Buffalo.

[00:19:27] Yeah.

[00:19:29] Anyway.

[00:19:31] So, John Deere.

[00:19:33] Yeah.

[00:19:34] Anyway, sorry.

[00:19:35] Okay, so yeah.

[00:19:36] So you're living in your, like kind of just like base apartment.

[00:19:41] Mm-hmm.

[00:19:42] Yeah, is there anything you're, so you're just like browsing for, like looking on like, um.

[00:19:48] Silk Road or, uh, or what have you.

[00:19:50] Like, like basically the dark web for, um, for, uh.

[00:19:54] Well, can't I also requisite your stuff from the Templar?

[00:19:56] That's true, yeah.

[00:19:57] Yeah, you can also, yeah.

[00:19:57] Like I don't have to do it fully illegally, right?

[00:20:00] No, yeah, you can also do it secretly.

[00:20:01] Like through the secret world stuff.

[00:20:02] So yeah.

[00:20:03] Yeah.

[00:20:03] Um, and you can go to like various like deep like dealers that are in the know and such.

[00:20:08] Mm-hmm.

[00:20:08] But like through these new contacts that I have, I'm kind of like getting ideas and hints

[00:20:14] of going back into my old way of, uh, of crime and contacting my old cronies.

[00:20:19] Yeah.

[00:20:20] Cause I didn't rob a bank alone.

[00:20:21] Oh.

[00:20:22] I was just the one that got caught.

[00:20:24] Yeah.

[00:20:24] I mean, you've also heard like within the secret world that there is actually an organization

[00:20:27] that smuggles items and stuff like called the, uh, I think they're called the Dynasty.

[00:20:32] Um, that are, and from what you've heard the rumors is that they're run by mummies.

[00:20:37] Interesting.

[00:20:38] Like Egyptian.

[00:20:39] Not mothers.

[00:20:39] Not mothers.

[00:20:40] Egyptian mummies.

[00:20:41] Nice.

[00:20:42] Are there any of those left?

[00:20:43] I thought the Brits ate them all.

[00:20:44] No.

[00:20:45] No, that's where they all went.

[00:20:47] Ha, you see I am a crime, you know, a criminal.

[00:20:51] And to prove it I shall break some laws.

[00:20:54] Um, okay so that's what you've been up to then.

[00:20:57] Yes.

[00:20:58] John here.

[00:20:58] Yes.

[00:20:59] Uh, alright and then Marcel, what have you been up to the last two years, or two weeks?

[00:21:02] Two years.

[00:21:03] Well, after the last mission I went and got myself a little place out in the suburbs.

[00:21:08] Rented it out.

[00:21:10] I got hits in paradise with the, the, the, the suburbs that you, where your first missions

[00:21:14] were.

[00:21:15] Well, the house was vacant.

[00:21:17] And I already knew the land.

[00:21:19] The, the, the, the, the, the, the realtor was like, now this house did have a gas leak

[00:21:24] a couple of weeks ago, or a couple months ago, but it's fine.

[00:21:27] They, they've moved it since we moved down.

[00:21:28] It's all fine here now.

[00:21:30] Yeah.

[00:21:31] How are you?

[00:21:31] Nobody else wanted that guy for a steal.

[00:21:33] Yeah.

[00:21:34] Um, I also got myself a Triumph motorcycle, uh, Scrable 1200.

[00:21:40] It's a good thing for my size of fella.

[00:21:44] Um, I'm working on that cause it's a British bike, so it's fucked up right out of the box.

[00:21:50] That's how it is.

[00:21:52] I was, as you said, because I was sourcing guns for myself, I was also like looking into

[00:21:55] like requisitioning the Browning for us.

[00:21:58] Cause we have to get a new one.

[00:21:59] Might as well, yeah.

[00:22:00] I have also fallen back into some old bad habits.

[00:22:04] I've been painting Warhammer amazing again.

[00:22:07] Jesus.

[00:22:08] New horse wall.

[00:22:09] Really?

[00:22:10] Is that, I love that.

[00:22:12] So your character's a war gamer.

[00:22:15] I play orcs.

[00:22:17] Okay.

[00:22:18] Okay.

[00:22:18] I'm gonna start.

[00:22:19] I'm gonna add another scenario idea here of, uh, uh, Attack of the Killer war games.

[00:22:25] The Indian in the Cupboard thing happens?

[00:22:27] Hmm?

[00:22:27] The Indian in the Cupboard thing happens?

[00:22:29] Yeah, yeah.

[00:22:30] We should start working off.

[00:22:32] I also bought a motorcycle.

[00:22:33] Okay.

[00:22:34] An 86 Rebel 450.

[00:22:39] Okay, I have to look that up.

[00:22:40] So I had this big spanking new bike and you got this little beat up little piece of shit.

[00:22:44] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:22:46] Beat up?

[00:22:48] Piece of shit?

[00:22:50] How dare you.

[00:22:52] If I was to own a motorcycle it would be an 86 Rebel 450.

[00:22:56] It looks pretty fucking cool.

[00:22:57] It is a cool bike.

[00:22:58] I do like that.

[00:22:59] I do like the design.

[00:22:59] Like, what did you get?

[00:23:01] Uh, Triumph Scrambler.

[00:23:02] 1200.

[00:23:03] Triumph Scrambler.

[00:23:05] Dual Sport.

[00:23:07] Looks cool.

[00:23:08] And I probably only paid like five grand for mine.

[00:23:11] Mine's only 15 new.

[00:23:13] Yours is also kind of cool.

[00:23:15] Yours is also kind of cool.

[00:23:16] Not as cool as the, uh, the 450 but, what?

[00:23:20] Pretty cool.

[00:23:21] But it's British.

[00:23:22] Yeah, it looks, to me that one, like to me the Triumph Scrambler looks more like kind of a dirt bike than a motorcycle.

[00:23:30] Uh, okay.

[00:23:31] So that's what you guys have been up to basically like re-restocking and, and uh, settling like kind of just hang, like kind of uh, trying to decompress after the events of the last hunt.

[00:23:43] Um, well, you're, uh, uh, so it's August 13th, uh, when you guys all got a call, um, or from, uh, to, uh, uh, to meet at the, uh, at the, uh, the bunker, or meet at the compound on Belle Island.

[00:23:58] But not for a, an official hunter job, but for a Templar job that they want, that they, uh, they want to, they want to meet you guys and do, have like a, like a, uh, an on-call sort of meeting, uh, using the, uh, the hunters, um, staff room.

[00:24:14] So, uh, so you guys all meet there.

[00:24:16] And, um, on the, uh, the screen, like around the big screen they have there, uh, Richard Sonak himself pops on.

[00:24:24] Um, and, uh, so he's, uh, for, for people who don't know the secret world, Richard Sonak, he's, uh, uh, a, uh, a black gentleman with a suit, uh, very, very, very, like carries himself very nicely.

[00:24:40] Um, he's basically the, the personnel rep of the Templar, uh, as well as the guy who administers missions for, uh, for various Templar agents and such.

[00:24:51] And it's like, ah, boys, uh, nice to see you again.

[00:24:55] So, um, we've seen that the, uh, this requisition you, uh, you asked for a couple of weeks ago about a, um, uh, what helicopter was it again?

[00:25:04] A hind.

[00:25:06] Mm-hmm.

[00:25:06] So you guys want to...

[00:25:07] An I-24 hind.

[00:25:10] Yes, you want, uh, that helicopter.

[00:25:13] Um.

[00:25:13] Yeah, we're going to blend in with that thing.

[00:25:15] Well, um, we would be, we would be glad to, uh, uh, process this requisition.

[00:25:22] However, um, without, uh, we, we do require that you, uh, work for it, so to speak.

[00:25:30] Um, we do have a mission, uh, right now that could use, that needs, it could use the, uh, the eyes of the Templar on it.

[00:25:38] Uh, tell me, are you familiar with, um, Urban Exploration, uh, and, and the, and the, the various vlog, YouTube vlog communities online?

[00:25:50] Yeah, I've seen some of them.

[00:25:52] They go to abandoned malls and shit like that.

[00:25:55] Yes, indeed.

[00:25:56] Yeah, they checked out an old abandoned strip club in, uh, like, this place in Ontario.

[00:26:01] Called Edgar.

[00:26:03] Abandoned strip club.

[00:26:05] Oh, okay.

[00:26:06] The Hacker League.

[00:26:07] Somebody went, somebody, or next first.

[00:26:09] I need to look up the video for that.

[00:26:10] Because I'd be curious to see how that looked up right up to the end.

[00:26:13] Yeah.

[00:26:14] But I mean, also, like, there was, there's a bunch of video out there of people.

[00:26:17] And it was, like, six months before it was demolished.

[00:26:19] Oh, nice.

[00:26:20] So, like, right, like, basically right before it was torn down.

[00:26:24] Uh, well, yes, uh, there,

[00:26:25] we have, um, we've received word from our contacts out in, uh, in Transylvania that, um,

[00:26:32] uh, there is a, a group out there of YouTube explore, uh, urbex vloggers called, uh, from

[00:26:38] a, from a channel called 4alark.

[00:26:41] Uh, 4 underscore, the number 4 underscore alark.

[00:26:46] Um, and, uh, their, their team was following up on some rumors, uh, from various conspiracy zines

[00:26:53] and blogs online.

[00:26:54] And eventually traveled out to Transylvania a few weeks ago, uh, with the goal of investigating

[00:27:01] various Cold War era bunkers that were left abandoned in the Carpathian Mountains.

[00:27:07] We know all this because they have been streaming, or they've been posting, uh, on a fairly, they

[00:27:13] were posting on a fairly regular basis until their disappearance, uh, about a week ago.

[00:27:19] Yeah.

[00:27:20] Um, hang on, I forgot anymore.

[00:27:23] I don't know.

[00:27:24] I keep forgetting.

[00:27:24] Jake?

[00:27:25] Yeah.

[00:27:25] Mr. Blackstone, yes.

[00:27:27] Okay, just to be clear, this is 4alark, not 2th-the-arc.

[00:27:32] Yes, yes, it is 4alark.

[00:27:34] I don't know what this 2th-the-arc is.

[00:27:36] Yeah.

[00:27:37] Well, if it was 2th-the-arc, that would be an entirely different thing and possibly horrifying

[00:27:41] if it was accurate.

[00:27:42] Okay.

[00:27:42] But that's beside the point.

[00:27:44] Yes.

[00:27:45] And 4alark is not spelled A-L-L-A-H-R-K.

[00:27:54] No, it is the number 4, underscore, A-L, or A, underscore, or, um, lowercase a, upperscore

[00:28:03] L, lowercase a-r-k.

[00:28:06] As in 4alark, as in a joke, or a...

[00:28:09] Okay, no, just wanted to make sure that this wasn't some sort of, like, uh, uh, religious,

[00:28:15] um, religious thing.

[00:28:17] True, yes.

[00:28:18] Um, like 4-I like you mispronouncing 4al-ah-R-K.

[00:28:23] Yeah.

[00:28:25] That, I, yes.

[00:28:28] I don't expect any djinn in this, uh, in this, uh, on this mission.

[00:28:32] Though, who knows?

[00:28:34] Perhaps they, perhaps they decide to take up north, uh, in, in Transylvania.

[00:28:38] So I should leave this behind.

[00:28:40] Pulls out a flask.

[00:28:42] Perhaps.

[00:28:44] Um, despite, uh, so back to the, back to the, uh, the situation here.

[00:28:48] Um, despite warnings and scoldings from the locals, uh, they ventured out into the wilderness

[00:28:52] in the, the Carpathian mountain valleys, uh, recording their journey and even site of

[00:28:59] the, according to their, their videos that we have been analyzing, um, prior to the

[00:29:04] disappearance, uh, they were, they, they claimed to have been spotting a large wolf that seemed

[00:29:09] to be trailing them the entire way, uh, to, out to the, out through the Carpathian Valley.

[00:29:14] Um, they, uh, they found a, a lone hatch in the middle of a glen.

[00:29:21] And upon popping the lid, uh, they discovered, uh, the footage shows that they discovered a,

[00:29:27] uh, an old cement chamber with various terminals and, uh, and broken screens, like some kind

[00:29:34] of observation or surveillance room.

[00:29:36] Um, and, uh, after several days, uh, of recording and posting the, through, they apparently had

[00:29:43] a satellite uplink in their, in their van, um, as they were, uh, setting up, uh, they set

[00:29:48] up a site, a campsite, uh, right on top of the hatch, effectively.

[00:29:52] Um, they were, they were posting these update videos for several days before, um, they discovered

[00:30:00] something else up, uh, down in the, in the bunker. Uh, it was a reinforced door that, um,

[00:30:08] they were trying to get opened and they, uh, the last video we have of them is of them saying that

[00:30:16] they were going to, uh, post an update of them finally opening the door and seeing what's on the

[00:30:21] other side. That's where, that was about a week ago and, uh, nothing has been updated on any of

[00:30:29] their social media platforms on any of their YouTube channels, their Twitter, or their, their

[00:30:34] X feeds, or actually, I guess it would still be Twitter at the point, their Twitter feeds

[00:30:38] or anything like that such. So they have gone missing, uh, as far as anyone is aware.

[00:30:45] Um, the, the creature, the wolf creature is, uh, something of a concern for us because, uh, we,

[00:30:51] the Templar, uh, are privy to the various dealings of the secret world within the Carpathian

[00:30:58] Mountains and the werewolves do occasionally run packs through those mountains. So we would like

[00:31:07] you to go out to Transylvania to these, uh, to this, this location. We have the coordinates.

[00:31:13] Luckily they have, we have, we were able to, uh, use, have our analysts find the proper coordinates

[00:31:18] of where they were trying to get where they were exactly. Uh, and, or not exactly, but like,

[00:31:25] we know roughly like what valleys you'll have to do some legwork while you, when you get there.

[00:31:29] But we would like you to search for them and find out what happened to them and see about this,

[00:31:36] this, this lone bunker that they've, uh, they found in the middle of a glen. So, and in so doing,

[00:31:44] uh, once you've found, uh, found out what the situation there is, if you can recover them or

[00:31:49] recover any of their information from them and assess the situation, report back to us.

[00:31:56] We will take it from there and you can, uh, have yourself a, a new helicopter. Sound fair?

[00:32:04] Sounds too easy.

[00:32:05] Now, did you reach out to the Russians yet to, uh, see if they have any intel in this facility?

[00:32:11] Uh, Russians have not had an occupation, uh, not had a presence there since the, the early 90s.

[00:32:16] It's been mostly, um, locals that we have, we have some, we have some contacts with the locals there, but.

[00:32:22] But if it's supposed to be a Soviet era bunker.

[00:32:25] They, they abandoned them back in the, in the early 90s.

[00:32:28] The, the bunker, a lot of the facilities and bunkers in those mountains had, had for about,

[00:32:33] about a decade ago, they were used, um, uh, by various vampire cults and organizations.

[00:32:40] But they have since been dealt with and, uh, have kind of emptied out, um, emptied out of those,

[00:32:46] those locations.

[00:32:47] But there are a lot of various old war Soviet facilities out there that are, that were simply

[00:32:53] just left abandoned during the Cold War.

[00:32:57] As well as perhaps most of their experiments.

[00:33:03] Hmm.

[00:33:04] The Dracoleshti.

[00:33:06] Yes, the Dracoleshti do also have a presence in those mountains.

[00:33:10] Son of a bitch.

[00:33:11] Why?

[00:33:12] Oh, no, no, no.

[00:33:13] Okay.

[00:33:14] It's different from Shadowrun.

[00:33:16] The Dracoleshti are kind of more like the Romani.

[00:33:18] So they're a traveling group of, actually they're, they're, they're descended from Dracula,

[00:33:22] who was not a drac, he's not a vampire in the set, in, in Secret World.

[00:33:26] He was a vampire hunter.

[00:33:28] His brother was the vampire.

[00:33:32] And, uh, yeah, so like this, yeah, and like, um, this is actually stuff that you guys

[00:33:36] might have, like you might have known for, because like, uh, it is, it was probably put

[00:33:40] in some more recent history books in the, um, uh, at Innsmouth Academy.

[00:33:45] Because about, in 2012, there was a big kerfuffle where a vampire army went, surged through the

[00:33:52] Carpathian Mountains and took up shop in a bunch of, uh, the various Soviet facilities

[00:33:56] that were left there by the Soviets and basically planned on like doing some bad stuff.

[00:34:02] And then they were dealt with by the various Secret World Societies.

[00:34:07] So, um, and yeah, Dracula was, the Dracoleshti did have a, uh, a strong presence there, um,

[00:34:14] back about a decade ago.

[00:34:15] So, okay.

[00:34:18] All right.

[00:34:18] So, uh, so I'll check and make sure the rhino's full of silvered rams.

[00:34:25] Double check the Tokarev.

[00:34:28] For sure.

[00:34:28] We only buy silver rhino, right?

[00:34:30] Yep.

[00:34:31] Do you have an infill plan for us or are we finding our own way?

[00:34:34] Uh, well, you, you can, um, uh, you can of course drive down to St. Pierre and, uh,

[00:34:38] use our Templar, uh, um, friendlies, uh, at that, at the airport in St. Pierre to travel

[00:34:44] to Transylvania.

[00:34:45] Um, there is also, uh, you are all bees from what I see on your dossiers.

[00:34:49] So you could try and access the, uh, uh, an Agartha portal nearby.

[00:34:53] Um, that I believe, according to that, you believe, uh, I believe that your, um, uh, your,

[00:35:03] your employer's compound is actually not too far away from one.

[00:35:06] Uh, in fact, it's on the same island.

[00:35:09] No.

[00:35:10] Um, well, that's handy.

[00:35:12] Yep.

[00:35:13] I haven't been back to Agartha in a while.

[00:35:16] Since I've been there once.

[00:35:17] I've never been.

[00:35:18] Oh, great.

[00:35:20] Uh, it'll be a splendid little, uh, venture.

[00:35:24] But when we get there, is there, like, some kind of tutorial mission that I have to do

[00:35:28] that you guys are stuck waiting around until I get finished or something?

[00:35:31] Yeah, of course.

[00:35:33] Like, I said no and you're like, yeah, of course.

[00:35:35] Well, I mean, it's based on an RP, or, uh,

[00:35:38] an MMO, right?

[00:35:39] That's true, yeah.

[00:35:39] There's a train conductor guy.

[00:35:41] Like, as soon as you enter, he's just standing there.

[00:35:43] Oh, yes, the station, the station master.

[00:35:45] Yes.

[00:35:48] And you have to wait through all of his dialogue and go to all the different locations he tells

[00:35:51] you to go to.

[00:35:52] And then you have to bludgeon ten lobsters and a stick.

[00:35:56] Yeah.

[00:35:57] Hmm.

[00:35:58] Anyway, um, yeah, so, uh, so you guys are agreeing to this, uh, this mission?

[00:36:04] Yeah.

[00:36:05] I will serve the Templar wherever I'm called to.

[00:36:09] Excellent.

[00:36:11] Godspeed, gentlemen.

[00:36:12] And then the thing goes off.

[00:36:14] And you guys all get, uh, kind of, um, a dossier on your, on your phones through, uh,

[00:36:18] like, email and stuff of, like, various information for it, including, uh, actually links to the

[00:36:23] YouTube channel and the YouTube videos of the last, uh, of the last few videos of, um,

[00:36:28] uh, for a Lark.

[00:36:29] So you guys could also look at those if you're, if you had some time, uh, between travel and

[00:36:34] such.

[00:36:35] Um, and that's actually as, uh, as, uh, Jack comes in, it's like, so I hear you guys are,

[00:36:40] uh, leaving the province for a bit.

[00:36:41] Sounds like.

[00:36:43] Seems that way.

[00:36:44] We're leaving the continent for a bit.

[00:36:46] Ah, right.

[00:36:46] I mean, technically we're leaving our dimension for a bit.

[00:36:50] Oh, you're going, you're going to go through the, that, uh, that whole, like, world tree thing

[00:36:55] that's, has portals.

[00:36:58] Yeah.

[00:36:59] Um.

[00:37:00] It's quicker and cheaper.

[00:37:01] Right.

[00:37:02] Uh, you guys are, uh, then you're going, uh, you're going to go.

[00:37:04] Uh, so you're, you're aware that we have one, we have one of them portals, uh, on

[00:37:10] Bell Island, right?

[00:37:11] So I've been told just now.

[00:37:13] Um, it's currently protected.

[00:37:16] Under construction.

[00:37:18] You can't go.

[00:37:19] It is, it is protected right now, um, by a rather stubborn banshee, um, who, who has

[00:37:28] made the, the spot where, where presides, uh, her domain or layer.

[00:37:32] So you'll have to try, you'll have to, you'll have to talk to her.

[00:37:35] She's, she's not a hostile banshee or like Dennis.

[00:37:38] And that's why we keep her around.

[00:37:40] We don't like, we haven't exercised her or, uh, dealt with her.

[00:37:43] I don't know why I keep going.

[00:37:44] I'm going between Irish and like Southern with this guy, but whatever.

[00:37:47] I'm going to roll with it.

[00:37:49] Um, but, uh, yeah, so you'll, uh, you guys could, uh, try and talk, uh, talk to her and,

[00:37:54] uh, getting passage through her little lair, uh, to the portal if you wish.

[00:38:00] But we, we haven't had much luck.

[00:38:01] Uh, but then again, none of our employees have really been bees up until you guys showed

[00:38:05] up.

[00:38:06] We do have a champion bullshitter in our midst.

[00:38:08] Indeed.

[00:38:09] Or do you just want to catch a flight?

[00:38:10] Yeah.

[00:38:12] The flight is going to be a little bit longer, but like Agartha would be quicker, but you

[00:38:15] have to deal with us with a, with a banshee.

[00:38:18] Uh, and we deal with the banshee now, then we can use the Agartha portal whenever the hell

[00:38:22] we want.

[00:38:23] It's true.

[00:38:24] It's true.

[00:38:25] If we need to use it.

[00:38:28] So then we don't have to, if we have to go to Agartha quickly to get to A to B quickly

[00:38:31] and we're slowed down by this banshee that we may or may not have to fight.

[00:38:36] Can we take the bikes through the, through the Agartha portal?

[00:38:39] Um.

[00:38:41] Yes.

[00:38:42] Uh, so Jack is like, if you're bringing that up in game, like can we be able to know that?

[00:38:47] Would we not?

[00:38:48] Well, you could, you can.

[00:38:49] You guys haven't been to Agartha.

[00:38:50] You don't know anything about it.

[00:38:51] Um, I will say like people do take vehicles through portal, through the various portals.

[00:38:55] Um, though it's usually also the problem isn't on the Agartha side because the Agartha

[00:38:59] side is usually pretty accommodating for like various things.

[00:39:02] The side is usually on the human, on the earth side or on the surface side because the

[00:39:06] terrain.

[00:39:08] Uh, for example.

[00:39:09] Sometimes it's like a busted down tree and shit.

[00:39:11] Yeah, they're usually well hidden.

[00:39:13] Like the, the, the spots are usually like in like niche crevices.

[00:39:16] There's no off ramp to the Agartha portal.

[00:39:18] Yeah.

[00:39:20] So how do we get anywhere else we get there?

[00:39:23] Catch a, catch an Uber?

[00:39:27] Or like, yeah, like talk, like when you go, if you're going to like a certain location,

[00:39:30] like, yeah, like go to like, I guess I could turn into a horse again.

[00:39:34] Hey, there's a, how are we going to get our, our new truck over there?

[00:39:37] Is it going to get flown over?

[00:39:38] No, we're not going to take it.

[00:39:39] We'll have to be on a flight.

[00:39:41] Or if we are going to take it, then we might as well just fly with the truck.

[00:39:44] Yeah.

[00:39:49] Well, we'll put on a, the, the truck onto a plane.

[00:39:52] It's going to have to be a really big plane.

[00:39:54] I don't think I have that in St.

[00:39:55] Fair.

[00:39:55] Maybe a car.

[00:39:56] No, maybe a, it's a Templar friendly airport.

[00:39:58] So they probably have like, it wouldn't fit on a frigging, uh, C-130.

[00:40:02] You have to get to a, to a C-5 galaxy basically.

[00:40:04] Okay.

[00:40:05] Maybe, yeah.

[00:40:05] Yeah.

[00:40:06] I was, I mean, I told you we should have done a pickup truck, but don't listen to me.

[00:40:12] Dave, I'm getting all saucy.

[00:40:14] You get your own pickup truck if you want.

[00:40:21] So we just get that Gartha portal over and rent a car?

[00:40:25] Yeah, I guess.

[00:40:29] I'll try to take my bike.

[00:40:31] It's only a 450.

[00:40:35] All right.

[00:40:35] Then you can turn into a horse and walk and I'll take your back.

[00:40:39] Or you can walk your ass and I'll ride a bike.

[00:40:43] All right, fine.

[00:40:45] Okay.

[00:40:45] So you guys are taking the, are you guys deciding on the Gartha portal?

[00:40:49] Yeah.

[00:40:50] It looks that way.

[00:40:51] Okay.

[00:40:52] Uh, so the Gartha portal on Belle Island, uh, where the Banshee's lair is, is in a bog

[00:40:57] in the center of Belle Island.

[00:40:59] It's called Doran's Garden.

[00:41:00] Well, I would have known that beforehand, so I'm not bringing the motorcycle off.

[00:41:03] No.

[00:41:04] I was waiting for like, it's like, I should probably, I'm going to wait for the, wait for

[00:41:08] you guys to like decide and then I'm going to mention that.

[00:41:11] You pulled the bog.

[00:41:12] Ah, fuck.

[00:41:15] I'm not going to say it's like a bog.

[00:41:16] I'm going to say it's like a hovercraft.

[00:41:18] Yeah.

[00:41:18] Yeah.

[00:41:19] Absolutely.

[00:41:19] No, it's like, it's like basically like swampy terrain that you're, you're going through

[00:41:23] initially.

[00:41:24] Still a hovercraft.

[00:41:25] Yeah.

[00:41:25] And there are also some dirt roads that go by it, but yeah.

[00:41:31] Okay.

[00:41:32] Well, I guess that, uh, we're on foot.

[00:41:36] Yep.

[00:41:36] Walking through a bog.

[00:41:38] Need a, need a hover conversion for your bike.

[00:41:40] Where like the wheels turn sideways.

[00:41:42] Like, no.

[00:41:44] So I'm in all the combat gear.

[00:41:46] I got my, uh, my dress clothes and the rucksack on the back.

[00:41:49] Yep.

[00:41:50] Yeah.

[00:41:51] Um, yeah, the terrain is like pretty mushy, pretty wet.

[00:41:54] But you get out to the, basically the middle of the island in pretty quick order.

[00:42:00] Um, and you're looking around and you're trying to find like what's going on.

[00:42:05] And then you start hearing a kind of lyrical melody on the air.

[00:42:10] And, uh, you see, or as you guys all turn around, um, to see, you see this woman kind

[00:42:17] of hovering over, uh, a pond and behind the pond, like basically, uh, like she's almost

[00:42:23] like protecting like, uh, the other side of the pond.

[00:42:26] Uh, there is a, uh, a cave, like a large, like, uh, deadfall cave or deadfall constructed

[00:42:33] cave that is glowing in the, uh, uh, amber and has various things like little like glowy

[00:42:39] bug-like creatures, um, kind of like buzzing around it.

[00:42:44] Um, for John Deere here, uh, you know, that, that is an Agartha portal.

[00:42:49] It's the, uh, it's a mystical opening to the, the world beneath.

[00:42:54] Or, and the world between you.

[00:42:56] Considering I'm living in this town, is this the Agartha portal that I left from?

[00:42:59] Um, there are actually, you might be even privy that there are three portals in Newfoundland.

[00:43:05] Oh, okay.

[00:43:06] Uh, there is one on, I swear to God, this is an actual island, Devil Island.

[00:43:10] Great.

[00:43:11] Um, and in the north, in the, the northwest of Newfoundland, uh, there is one, uh, there is

[00:43:20] one, uh, at Flat Bay Brook, which is out in the southwest.

[00:43:25] And then there is Dobbins Garden, which is on Belle Island.

[00:43:28] Um, near St. John's.

[00:43:31] Mm-hmm.

[00:43:32] So one of those is the one I used to get in here, I guess.

[00:43:34] It wasn't the, I will say it's not, it wasn't the Dobbins Garden one.

[00:43:37] It was probably, it was probably Isle of Demons.

[00:43:40] Devil Island?

[00:43:41] Oh, it's actually called Isle of Demons, not Devil Island.

[00:43:43] Okay.

[00:43:44] Yeah.

[00:43:44] Literally called Isle of Demons, Quirpon, uh, Quirpon Island.

[00:43:50] Nice.

[00:43:51] Yeah.

[00:43:52] Or Quirpon Island.

[00:43:53] Um, kind of on how you spell, how you pronounce that Q.

[00:43:58] But, uh, yeah.

[00:43:59] So, uh, she is like, kind of like, just hovering there ethereally, um, long red hair, completely

[00:44:05] like pale as, as a corpse.

[00:44:07] Um, looks rather, again, aside from, from looking like a corpse, um, she looked like she, at one

[00:44:14] point she was rather beautiful, but she's also rather gaunt.

[00:44:17] Uh, her dress is just kind of flowing down, um, just like around the ankles and like in

[00:44:23] tatters at the base.

[00:44:25] And, uh, she is looking at you guys and is like, why do you disturb my garden?

[00:44:33] We're just passing through.

[00:44:36] And why should I let you pass through my garden?

[00:44:41] Because we mean you no harm?

[00:44:45] You can roll a persuade on that.

[00:44:56] Persuade.

[00:44:59] Total of 19.

[00:45:03] Okay, cool.

[00:45:04] Go on, you have your business.

[00:45:06] I will let you pass for a favor down the road.

[00:45:12] Does anyone else want to roll higher for, so we can try to not get a favor?

[00:45:17] Milady.

[00:45:18] Joking aside.

[00:45:19] We serve the great Gaia engine.

[00:45:23] Okay, you can roll persuading.

[00:45:41] Well, I guess gaslighter doesn't really apply here, I'm telling the truth.

[00:45:44] Mm-hmm.

[00:45:45] Uh, 23.

[00:45:51] Alright, I'll let you pass this time.

[00:45:53] But next time, bring some rum, some screech as offering.

[00:45:59] Do you not know how this works usually?

[00:46:01] Oh yeah, reach into my jacket, pull out the, uh...

[00:46:03] The flask.

[00:46:04] Pull out the flask.

[00:46:05] I have some gin.

[00:46:08] I'll take it.

[00:46:10] I don't even like gin.

[00:46:13] Yeah, she, uh, yeah, she takes it and, um, it just, yeah.

[00:46:19] Doesn't drink it, right, just doesn't, like...

[00:46:21] Doesn't down there?

[00:46:22] Yeah, doesn't down there, but, like, she just takes the flask.

[00:46:24] Drinks it, just falls right through her.

[00:46:26] Yeah.

[00:46:27] Um, and she, yeah, she takes that as, like, um...

[00:46:30] When you need, when you need passage, I require offerings.

[00:46:35] This is an acceptable offering?

[00:46:37] This would be an acceptable offering.

[00:46:39] Okay.

[00:46:39] Pull out a notepad.

[00:46:41] By case of screech.

[00:46:45] Alright.

[00:46:45] We have a note of it.

[00:46:47] We have an accord.

[00:46:48] Alright.

[00:46:49] I would shake your hand, but I don't think that would do anything.

[00:46:53] Why was he gonna give Ray's speech to the librarian?

[00:46:57] Nice.

[00:47:00] Alright, uh, so, uh...

[00:47:02] Wait, wait, was that like...

[00:47:03] It's like, alright, hang on.

[00:47:04] Get her!

[00:47:10] So, we're through the gate now?

[00:47:12] Yeah.

[00:47:12] Alright.

[00:47:13] Okay, let's see.

[00:47:15] Pale, redhead, let anybody through her garden for a fifth of gin.

[00:47:20] Goddamn, I think I went to high school with that girl.

[00:47:25] Roll, roll the, uh...

[00:47:27] Roll a quince's check, uh, so percentile die.

[00:47:30] And high or low.

[00:47:32] So...

[00:47:35] 85% high.

[00:47:37] Okay, you have to call a higher low first.

[00:47:39] High.

[00:47:41] Uh, the three.

[00:47:44] 15%.

[00:47:44] So you're rolling a d20.

[00:47:46] Yeah, he's just...

[00:47:47] Oh, no, no.

[00:47:48] Okay.

[00:47:48] He's doing it based off of, uh, d20 is, uh, uh, every point is 5%.

[00:47:54] Okay.

[00:47:55] That's not a bad way to do it, actually.

[00:47:56] Yeah, I'm not getting the dice out here.

[00:47:58] That's fair.

[00:47:58] For one percentile.

[00:47:59] Fair enough.

[00:48:00] I think it could also just have, like, other evens, but yeah.

[00:48:03] Yeah.

[00:48:03] Uh, yeah.

[00:48:05] You definitely, like, feel like your ears, like, hurting.

[00:48:08] It's like...

[00:48:09] Like, you're already through the portal, so, like, it doesn't translate over, but, like,

[00:48:13] she might be pissed.

[00:48:15] You might have heard that during the transitionary phase between realities.

[00:48:19] It's like...

[00:48:19] Um, but you suddenly, like, there's a surge of, like, a rush of current, almost, like, around

[00:48:29] you guys.

[00:48:30] And a golden light.

[00:48:31] And as your eyes, like, you're on top of this massive, like, you're on top of this massive,

[00:48:45] um, like, polished wood tree branch, um, that goes out to a, to a, to a stand, like, to a,

[00:48:52] like, a massive trunk.

[00:48:54] Uh, with...

[00:48:54] Massive as in, like, we could have our truck sitting here easily.

[00:48:57] Yes.

[00:48:57] We could drive our truck around here.

[00:48:59] Yeah.

[00:48:59] And you, you see, like, countless, like, like, platforms that are floating, that are connected

[00:49:06] to some of these branches.

[00:49:07] Tons of branches, like, branching off of the, of these, uh, trunks.

[00:49:10] And there's more than just this one trunk.

[00:49:12] There are other, these other vertical wooden shafts all across this expanse.

[00:49:17] I know.

[00:49:19] Um, and, uh, there are people, um, kind of walking to and fro along some of these branches

[00:49:25] and some of that, um, and...

[00:49:26] There's little portals next to some of them, like, little pads on the ground that when people

[00:49:30] step on them, it shoots them in the air.

[00:49:32] Yeah, yeah.

[00:49:32] The man cannons from Halo.

[00:49:33] Yeah, yeah, you, yeah, you see people, like, trap, like, getting catapulted and traveling

[00:49:37] across, like, gaps, um, to, uh, other platforms safely.

[00:49:42] Uh, like, they're landing...

[00:49:43] Safely.

[00:49:44] They land and they die, but they're already Anagartha, so they just pop back out.

[00:49:47] No, no, no, like, they land back, they land on another platform on the other side of,

[00:49:51] like, one of the gaps.

[00:49:52] And, like, it's as if, like, the, like, inertia, like, kicks in or something like that,

[00:49:56] and they, they land, like, blanketed, uh, uh, from, like, Featherfall or something like

[00:50:00] that.

[00:50:01] Okay.

[00:50:01] Um, and, uh, you see, um, a, a gentleman, uh, start walking up toward you guys, uh, accompanied

[00:50:08] by a massive, like, ten foot tall, like, juggernaut of a golem.

[00:50:13] Like a steampunk looking, like, uh, like, you know, like those old, uh, submarine or, like,

[00:50:18] submersible, like, suits or diving suits.

[00:50:20] Like diving belts.

[00:50:21] He's a big daddy?

[00:50:22] Yeah, like a big daddy kind of suit.

[00:50:23] Um, it's like that.

[00:50:24] We're talking about Bioshock.

[00:50:25] From Bioshock.

[00:50:26] Yeah, from Bioshock.

[00:50:27] Yeah, not like a leather daddy.

[00:50:29] No, no, it's very different.

[00:50:30] Yeah, like a Bioshock big daddy.

[00:50:32] Um, it's not a big stuff.

[00:50:35] It's a big steampunk golem, basically.

[00:50:37] Like, you know, it's like, like, automaton of some kind made of, like, pipes and brass.

[00:50:42] And, uh, the gentleman coming up to you guys is in a suit of, uh, befitting a, uh,

[00:50:46] a train conductor.

[00:50:47] Uh, he's like, uh, oi!

[00:50:49] Okay, welcome here, uh, welcome here to the, uh, to the, the great, to great Agartha.

[00:50:54] Um, we don't see many people coming through, uh, this, uh, this portal.

[00:50:59] What can we, uh, how may I be of service?

[00:51:01] I am the station master.

[00:51:04] Well, part of the reason you don't see too many people coming through that portal is because

[00:51:07] it's currently being guarded by a banshee.

[00:51:09] Ah, wonderful creatures.

[00:51:11] But, but, she's not hard to get along with.

[00:51:13] You just gotta bring her a fifth of gin.

[00:51:15] Yeah.

[00:51:16] Yep.

[00:51:16] You have to know that, though.

[00:51:18] Oh, I see you're from the, uh, uh, he's doing, like, kind of, like, an English accent.

[00:51:22] And he's like, I see you're from...

[00:51:24] No, he's not.

[00:51:25] He's really not.

[00:51:26] I'm trying.

[00:51:27] Why can't I do it?

[00:51:28] Yeah.

[00:51:29] You need a trigger word.

[00:51:30] Go with Cockney.

[00:51:31] It's all good, man.

[00:51:32] You need a trigger word.

[00:51:33] Oi!

[00:51:33] Prick!

[00:51:35] There you go.

[00:51:36] More Australian.

[00:51:37] We're getting there.

[00:51:39] Oh, no, I just gotta try to reflect Gerald.

[00:51:42] Yeah.

[00:51:42] Just, just channel Gerald and you've got your Cockney there, so.

[00:51:46] Um, I see you're from, uh, you're from the, uh, uh, Newfoundland?

[00:51:52] Fuck, bud.

[00:51:53] Yeah, right.

[00:51:54] Ah, welcome.

[00:51:55] We have, uh, welcome, uh, welcome back to the...

[00:52:03] I don't think I've ever been here.

[00:52:04] Oh, no?

[00:52:05] But you're a bee.

[00:52:06] That doesn't mean he's been here.

[00:52:08] I've been here before.

[00:52:08] Yes, I recognize you.

[00:52:09] Against my will, but, but that's what most of the time we're here.

[00:52:13] I don't think I've been here before.

[00:52:15] Ah!

[00:52:16] Ha ha ha ha!

[00:52:19] Well, Tom is...

[00:52:20] I'm just silently glaring at him.

[00:52:22] As he's laughing, he, like, grip pulls out his, like, pocket watch and, like, checks.

[00:52:25] He's like, ah, well, um, I have to get back to my post.

[00:52:29] Um, is there anywhere, anything I could, anywhere I could direct you?

[00:52:32] We're trying to get to...

[00:52:35] Transylvania.

[00:52:36] Transylvania.

[00:52:37] The, whatchamacallit mountains?

[00:52:39] The Carpathians.

[00:52:40] The Carpathians.

[00:52:41] Oh, very well, very well.

[00:52:43] Um, uh, I'll have, uh, or, uh, if you come with me, I gotta go, uh, it's on my way to

[00:52:47] my post.

[00:52:48] Uh, and, like, so it's walking back away from you guys.

[00:52:50] I expect you guys to follow.

[00:52:52] Okay.

[00:52:52] Um, and yeah, you, uh, travel down...

[00:52:55] Is that market still there?

[00:52:56] Yeah, yeah.

[00:52:56] In fact, yeah, you see, like, as he's, like, walking down, like, there's a, uh, uh, kind

[00:53:00] of a path, uh, and he takes one of those, he takes...

[00:53:04] There's this...

[00:53:05] Oddly enough, so, like, everything's, like, bio, like, all organic and, like, just, like,

[00:53:09] like, tree limbs and stuff like that.

[00:53:11] Except for these, like, platforms.

[00:53:13] These, like, metallic platforms at the edge of various platforms.

[00:53:17] Were they metal?

[00:53:18] Uh, or these little, like, kind of, like, um...

[00:53:20] They're, like, three or four feet across, uh, and about five feet long.

[00:53:26] And it has, like, a little bit of a taper to it.

[00:53:29] And there's some kind of, like, energy emanating, almost like a, like a, like a...

[00:53:33] Uh, almost like some kind of, um, mirage-like effect coming off of it.

[00:53:38] Um, and it's, it's pointing at other, another platform.

[00:53:42] And you just see this, him, the station master, just walk briskly onto it.

[00:53:45] And then just, like, get catapulted up, uh, up into the air into an arc.

[00:53:49] And all the way to the other side.

[00:53:51] And lands perfectly fine on another platform.

[00:53:54] Uh, where, like, that's connected to a large, like, uh...

[00:53:58] To what looks like the, it's, like, a giant cluster of, like, um...

[00:54:02] Burrows and caves into, like, they're carved into the, uh...

[00:54:06] Into the trunk of the big tree.

[00:54:08] Mm-hmm.

[00:54:08] Uh, and, uh, even the, even the, uh, the guardian, the giant, like, steampunk guardian

[00:54:13] does the same thing.

[00:54:14] He hops on him.

[00:54:15] No.

[00:54:17] And then you guys just, like...

[00:54:19] Yep.

[00:54:19] I'll wait to take it.

[00:54:20] I'll be like, it's just like Halo, come on.

[00:54:22] Well, I mean, this is based on an MMO, so I'll just reach into my horse pocket and pull

[00:54:26] out my motorcycle.

[00:54:27] That's...

[00:54:29] Uh, and yeah, you jump on, and it's, like, it...

[00:54:33] Suddenly gravity doesn't exist for a second?

[00:54:35] As you're just, like, seemingly...

[00:54:36] Or does it exist, but it's in that direction?

[00:54:39] Like, it's an arcing direction?

[00:54:40] Yeah, it's in...

[00:54:40] It seems like gravity is redirected to propel you.

[00:54:45] Like, it doesn't feel like...

[00:54:47] There's a rush of the wind, but there's no, like...

[00:54:51] You almost feel weightless for the time that you're in that arc.

[00:54:54] And when you land back down, you land perfectly.

[00:54:57] You don't, like...

[00:54:57] There's no impact.

[00:54:59] You just land as if you, like, took a step.

[00:55:03] And you get off the little, like, device, and you're perfectly fine.

[00:55:07] Okay.

[00:55:08] I'll open my eyes back up.

[00:55:09] Okay, I guess that wasn't so bad.

[00:55:11] You turn to look at me and I'm just yakking.

[00:55:17] Wow, that will be making it down to the, uh...

[00:55:20] To the roots for about two or three years.

[00:55:25] Oh, because it yacked over the side?

[00:55:29] Um...

[00:55:29] But yes, if you follow, uh...

[00:55:31] Not that...

[00:55:32] Yeah, but we'll make it to that platform.

[00:55:34] It's not in us.

[00:55:36] So we just land...

[00:55:37] Watch out!

[00:55:40] All they do is look up.

[00:55:42] Oh, God!

[00:55:43] Oh, God!

[00:55:46] Yeah, um...

[00:55:47] Nobody looked down.

[00:55:48] I can't know what was me.

[00:55:49] Yeah.

[00:55:50] I believe in the portals that you...

[00:55:52] The gateways you're looking for are, uh...

[00:55:55] Um...

[00:55:55] Not...

[00:55:56] Not that...

[00:55:58] Not that jump...

[00:55:59] Uh...

[00:56:00] There, but the two past it.

[00:56:02] Any points, like, down the...

[00:56:04] Down the ledges.

[00:56:05] And there's just, like, kind of a bunch of...

[00:56:06] Of these hoppers that go to other platforms and stuff like that.

[00:56:10] So it's not this jump.

[00:56:11] It's not the next jump.

[00:56:12] It's the next jump?

[00:56:12] Exactly!

[00:56:13] Okay.

[00:56:14] All right.

[00:56:14] So I was going to say, do we...

[00:56:16] Not this one, and then skip two more,

[00:56:18] And then it's the next one?

[00:56:19] So the fourth jump?

[00:56:20] This is jump one.

[00:56:22] We're getting off of jump three.

[00:56:23] Okay.

[00:56:25] Okay.

[00:56:26] Well, then I...

[00:56:27] Tip my hat to him, and I guess we'll make our way to jump three.

[00:56:31] Mm-hmm.

[00:56:32] Chip Cheerio!

[00:56:33] And he hops off.

[00:56:34] Or he goes off to another platform and hops over to his...

[00:56:37] His station.

[00:56:40] All right.

[00:56:41] So you guys...

[00:56:42] Yeah, and you see, like, there's people, like...

[00:56:44] There's a lot more people, and there's a lot of, like...

[00:56:45] By the wear of their uniform and stuff like that, they are of the other factions that

[00:56:50] they're working...

[00:56:51] They're, like, hanging out, like, in tandem around this place.

[00:56:53] There's a dragon!

[00:56:54] Kill him!

[00:56:55] Apollo back in!

[00:56:57] Apollo back in!

[00:56:59] Yeah, and you see, like...

[00:57:00] He's deleted from existence by everybody in the building.

[00:57:03] Pretty much.

[00:57:03] But it's fine, because he respawns here, because it's a cover thought.

[00:57:07] Yeah, it doesn't matter.

[00:57:07] Oh, God, I made a horrible mistake.

[00:57:10] Spawn campers?

[00:57:12] There's spawn campers at his body?

[00:57:16] I made a horrible mistake.

[00:57:19] Every time I die, I get one word out.

[00:57:21] I need to say, like, I'm sorry.

[00:57:23] I didn't mean to do it.

[00:57:25] I'm sorry!

[00:57:28] Yeah, no, that doesn't happen.

[00:57:29] So you guys are going to the jumpers that go to the platform that he's on.

[00:57:33] He said.

[00:57:34] Mm-hmm.

[00:57:35] Okay.

[00:57:36] After another hop to another portal, or to another platform, it's another...

[00:57:41] It looks like it's another...

[00:57:41] There's countless trees, like, these massive trees, like, all over the space.

[00:57:45] And again, you can't see the horizon.

[00:57:49] Like, it's just this kind of ambient, like, light of...

[00:57:52] Like, kind of ambient amber light all around you guys that kind of, like, permeates this space.

[00:57:58] Is that because the render is set too short?

[00:58:00] No, it's just, like, it's...

[00:58:02] Yeah.

[00:58:02] It's just that big.

[00:58:04] Like, it's that grandiose.

[00:58:07] And there are a couple of gateways on this one.

[00:58:12] And you can actually, like, see through the event horizon of these portals.

[00:58:18] These archways...

[00:58:18] Like, in these archways, there are these massive, like, event horizons of these portals.

[00:58:21] And you can see, like, dark forests and mountains.

[00:58:27] We're seeing, like, an image of what's on the other side as if it's a window, right?

[00:58:31] Yeah.

[00:58:32] Yeah.

[00:58:33] Are there any sign...

[00:58:33] Is there any signage on these?

[00:58:36] Because I know...

[00:58:37] I know...

[00:58:38] Yeah.

[00:58:39] There's no signage.

[00:58:40] I'm going to say there is.

[00:58:41] There really should be signage.

[00:58:42] I'm going to say there are some, like, plaques above the ones.

[00:58:46] And so, like, there's one that says Harabereshti.

[00:58:51] There's one that says the Dark Forest.

[00:58:54] And then there's one that says the Carpathian Mountains.

[00:58:56] Okay.

[00:58:57] Dark Forest.

[00:58:58] Is it, like, is there a Sarius song coming from it?

[00:59:02] That's the Lost Woods.

[00:59:03] That's the Lost Woods.

[00:59:04] But yes, that's a couple of limbs down.

[00:59:07] It's like...

[00:59:11] You can hear it on the winds of the...

[00:59:15] Around that are going around these trees.

[00:59:20] Is there actually a breeze down here?

[00:59:21] I don't know.

[00:59:22] I mean, like, if you look...

[00:59:23] If you, like, get to the edge of, like, the platforms and stuff, I'm sure there's, like,

[00:59:27] kind of, like, that, like, yawning, like, breeze, or breeze of, like, from, like, that

[00:59:32] you get from, like, just sheer height and, like, things and some of that.

[00:59:36] Like, there is air circulation.

[00:59:38] So, yeah.

[00:59:38] There would be some kind of current.

[00:59:40] Okay.

[00:59:42] What else has current?

[00:59:44] Lightning Bolt.

[00:59:46] Yeah.

[00:59:46] Still just, like, saucy about that.

[00:59:52] I mean, again, we are playtesting this.

[00:59:55] Yeah.

[00:59:56] And if we think that this doesn't work and we should do something else, we can do something

[01:00:01] At this point, I am just more sassy than anything.

[01:00:04] Oh, I know.

[01:00:04] I'm running with this as long as I can.

[01:00:07] Yeah.

[01:00:09] Yeah.

[01:00:11] So, yeah.

[01:00:13] Well, actually, you guys, if you guys are, like, unsure, like, where you need to go,

[01:00:16] you guys could consult the...

[01:00:18] You could roll an investigation to consult the dossiers and information you guys got in

[01:00:22] the email packet from Ronak.

[01:00:25] Or from...

[01:00:25] Not Ronak.

[01:00:26] Sonak.

[01:00:27] Okay.

[01:00:28] Just remember, he's Sonak the Hedgehog.

[01:00:30] Right.

[01:00:30] Yeah, he's Richard Sonak the Hedgehog.

[01:00:33] Gotta go fast.

[01:00:36] And this is what kind of a check?

[01:00:38] Uh, investigation.

[01:00:41] Investigation.

[01:00:42] Total of 20.

[01:00:43] A dirty 20.

[01:00:44] Okay.

[01:00:46] I feel like it should be an easier way to do this.

[01:00:47] Like, do we not have a wiki of Gartha?

[01:00:50] Hmm?

[01:00:50] Yeah.

[01:00:51] Yeah, what's the Wi-Fi password down here?

[01:00:54] Um...

[01:00:56] A series of numbers, like, number station numbers.

[01:01:01] Interesting.

[01:01:02] Is that just a Gartha one?

[01:01:03] Super easy to remember.

[01:01:04] Yeah.

[01:01:05] No.

[01:01:07] Yeah, you're checking the dossier, and you see that...

[01:01:10] So these kids started from their journey in Transylvania at Harabereshti Village,

[01:01:17] which is, like, the main...

[01:01:19] It seems like to be one of the main settlements or, like, towns in the Transylvanian valleys.

[01:01:24] Do we have a map of the area, or do we have to go through to get a map?

[01:01:27] You guys have a map, yeah.

[01:01:28] The dossier provided, like, a map of, like, the mountain valleys and such.

[01:01:32] And then they were heading out from there.

[01:01:35] They headed out into, like, down the...

[01:01:37] Like, basically through the mountain roads into the wilderness of the various valleys and stuff.

[01:01:43] Do we have any idea where the portal will spit us out?

[01:01:46] Yeah.

[01:01:46] They sell them out?

[01:01:47] Yeah.

[01:01:48] The portal in Harabereshti will definitely...

[01:01:52] The portal is, like, up the road from a village.

[01:01:56] Like, from, like, the Harabereshti village.

[01:01:58] The one to the Dark Forest, it looks like it'll take you...

[01:02:02] It spits you out somewhere in a Dark Forest.

[01:02:05] The other one spits you out by the looks of the event horizon.

[01:02:08] You can see that you're, like...

[01:02:11] There's a mountain path that goes out into a snow-capped ravine, basically.

[01:02:15] Okay.

[01:02:17] But they're all the same sort of area.

[01:02:19] Yeah.

[01:02:20] Okay.

[01:02:21] So...

[01:02:22] One of them could theoretically be closer to our destination.

[01:02:24] It's just going to the Carpathian Mountains, one is the safest, I guess.

[01:02:28] It's closer to the town.

[01:02:29] I say Carpathian Mountains.

[01:02:31] The whole place, the whole, like, zone is the Carpathian Mountains.

[01:02:35] Yes.

[01:02:35] Just one of them is outside town.

[01:02:36] One's in a village.

[01:02:37] One's in the forest in the foothills.

[01:02:39] And then one's up in the mountains.

[01:02:40] Like, up in the mountains.

[01:02:42] And you don't...

[01:02:42] And from what you saw...

[01:02:44] What he saw was looking up into the dossier and stuff like that.

[01:02:46] It looked like these gates didn't go up to the mountains.

[01:02:49] They were some...

[01:02:50] They went into the town.

[01:02:52] And from the town, they went out into the woods in the foothills.

[01:02:55] Okay.

[01:02:55] So we could take a shot in the dark and go just directly into the woods.

[01:02:59] Or go into the town and try to ask around or just see the direction that they would have

[01:03:04] went from the town and retrace their steps.

[01:03:06] We've got smartphones and GPS.

[01:03:08] We walk through.

[01:03:09] We get a GPS signal.

[01:03:10] We have the coordination.

[01:03:12] We're going to know exactly how far it is and which direction.

[01:03:15] The other side of that is that that could be a long way.

[01:03:19] And if we go to the village first, then we could probably get a vehicle.

[01:03:23] But worst case scenario, we just walk back through the portal.

[01:03:26] Also, us getting a vehicle, they weren't driving anywhere.

[01:03:30] They were walking somewhere, right?

[01:03:31] No.

[01:03:33] They were driving?

[01:03:34] Yep.

[01:03:34] I just say they had a van.

[01:03:35] Oh, okay.

[01:03:36] They had a satellite uplink.

[01:03:38] Okay.

[01:03:38] That's how they were uploading to YouTube.

[01:03:40] Right.

[01:03:41] Yeah, they were updating regularly with a satellite uplink.

[01:03:44] Okay, so then we should get a vehicle.

[01:03:45] Until they managed.

[01:03:46] All right.

[01:03:46] So I'm down.

[01:03:47] Okay.

[01:03:49] Okay, so you're driving through the Hara-Bereshti portal.

[01:03:55] Same kind of feeling that you guys got when you entered through the Bell Island portal.

[01:03:59] And you find yourself in a sort of...

[01:04:03] It's not a natural cave.

[01:04:05] It's a cave.

[01:04:06] But it is.

[01:04:06] It's a cave that was dug out.

[01:04:08] It looks like the part you're in is natural.

[01:04:12] And then somebody years ago dug through concrete that was placed over it.

[01:04:18] Over the opening.

[01:04:19] And you open up into basically the side of a highway next to a dam.

[01:04:27] Goddamn.

[01:04:29] And the road goes down.

[01:04:31] You can see down the hill from this hillside highway, there is a small Eastern European town with lights and stuff on it.

[01:04:42] And it's currently dusk.

[01:04:46] Okay.

[01:04:47] I forgot to ask, what was the temperature like in Agartha compared to where we came from?

[01:04:50] Agartha was like temperate.

[01:04:53] Room temperature.

[01:04:54] Yeah.

[01:04:54] Basically room temperature like comfortable.

[01:04:57] Yeah.

[01:04:57] You got in here, it cold.

[01:05:00] Yeah.

[01:05:00] Like it was August in Newfoundland.

[01:05:05] It's...

[01:05:06] I mean it's August here, but it's up in the mountains.

[01:05:09] So it's like higher altitude, so you're looking at like probably like 10 or 20 degrees less than the warm summer temperatures in Newfoundland.

[01:05:22] Okay.

[01:05:23] So I'll say like Newfoundland was probably like 24, like 24, 26 degrees Celsius.

[01:05:29] You're now back, you're now down to like closer to like 5 or 10.

[01:05:32] Okay.

[01:05:34] Okay.

[01:05:35] What are the gun laws like in Transylvania?

[01:05:39] I believe they are best summarized as fuck you.

[01:05:43] Like fuck you, I can have what I want?

[01:05:45] No, fuck you, you can't have nothing.

[01:05:47] Okay, I'll do my raincoat up.

[01:05:50] You know?

[01:05:51] Yeah.

[01:05:53] All right, so you're...

[01:05:56] Yeah, the road doesn't seem to be very well like...

[01:05:58] Like there's not a lot of traffic.

[01:06:00] So you guys can just walk down like the side of the road like into town.

[01:06:04] Into Harabereshti.

[01:06:06] Just to clarify.

[01:06:06] When we exited the portal, the portal...

[01:06:10] There was a...

[01:06:11] When we exited the portal, there was a concrete thing that was broken apart so there was access

[01:06:16] to the portal again, but that concrete was directly on a road?

[01:06:20] Basically like through some bushes and suddenly you're on a road.

[01:06:24] Okay, it's not like there's the road and there's a broken piece of concrete that you can drive

[01:06:28] past and see the opening.

[01:06:30] Okay.

[01:06:31] There's a little...

[01:06:32] There's a band and like it's a little out of the way.

[01:06:34] Okay.

[01:06:35] But like it basically just opens up onto a highway.

[01:06:37] Okay.

[01:06:38] All right, so I'm going to take my phone out and do a GPS signal and I'm going to see

[01:06:42] where we are.

[01:06:43] Five minutes later after it's finally calibrated, figure out where you went.

[01:06:47] Grab this phone and throw it on the highway.

[01:06:49] You want the government to see where you are?

[01:06:51] We own the government.

[01:06:53] You're not wrong.

[01:06:55] Sorry about your phone.

[01:06:57] Matt.

[01:06:59] It's not broken.

[01:07:00] No cars are goodbye.

[01:07:02] It's working on the sidewalk or on the road.

[01:07:04] Probably heard of that.

[01:07:05] Did you buy an honor box for it?

[01:07:07] I got a laugh poof.

[01:07:09] Okay, so your phone tells you where you are in Transylvania.

[01:07:14] You're there.

[01:07:16] Like you know where you are situated.

[01:07:17] Like you're in the basically the middle of nowhere.

[01:07:20] Like you're nowhere near a major capital or a major city.

[01:07:24] But you do see the town in all the map and stuff like that.

[01:07:27] And how far are we to our objective?

[01:07:28] Well, they don't know the exact.

[01:07:31] Our objective is the town.

[01:07:32] Yeah, the objective is the town.

[01:07:33] You're like fine.

[01:07:34] I thought we had coordination on them.

[01:07:36] No, I said that like they knew where they were heading into, but they didn't know like

[01:07:40] the exact coordinates.

[01:07:42] Well, about how far is it?

[01:07:44] Well, from you from the town, like you're looking at like.

[01:07:47] I think he wants to know how far we are from their last known location.

[01:07:50] Their last known location?

[01:07:52] Somewhere in the mountain valleys around on the map.

[01:07:56] So like you're looking at like maybe an hour out of the village and into the wilderness.

[01:08:02] Yeah.

[01:08:03] Okay, since we don't know exactly where they are, how far to their van from the town?

[01:08:10] Hmm?

[01:08:11] Okay.

[01:08:11] That's okay.

[01:08:12] Because their van had a satellite uplink.

[01:08:14] So there should be a GPS on it.

[01:08:15] You're right.

[01:08:16] Right.

[01:08:17] So we should have a GPS coordinates for their van, if not them.

[01:08:21] Okay.

[01:08:21] Yeah.

[01:08:22] Yeah.

[01:08:22] Their van is about an hour and a half out of Howard Brashti into the like a log on a

[01:08:29] looks like like that.

[01:08:31] Looks like there's a road.

[01:08:32] It's okay, guys.

[01:08:33] I can be a goat.

[01:08:35] For the goat path?

[01:08:36] For the goat path.

[01:08:37] Yeah.

[01:08:37] Yeah.

[01:08:38] It looks like there's a road there.

[01:08:39] Like that like, like, like, it looks like it was, it was like paved road, not just a dirt road.

[01:08:44] Um, that where the, the, the, the van should be according to the coordinates they have.

[01:08:48] But yeah.

[01:08:50] So I guess we'll walk into town.

[01:08:52] Okay.

[01:08:54] Yeah.

[01:08:54] Yeah.

[01:08:54] Yeah.

[01:08:54] You walk into town.

[01:08:55] It's a bunch of residential like houses and cottages and such.

[01:08:59] And, uh, in the center of town, there is a, uh, there's a couple of barns and some, like, some kind of like a, like a meeting hall.

[01:09:06] And then there's a tavern.

[01:09:08] Um, it's actually says the, um, it says, uh, the, um, the forest god.

[01:09:15] Tavern.

[01:09:16] Actually, you may not know because it's, uh, everything seems to be, I think everything would probably be in Cyrillic in this part of the world.

[01:09:24] It's okay, guys.

[01:09:25] I know Cyrillo.

[01:09:26] Yeah.

[01:09:27] Hang on.

[01:09:28] What is the language?

[01:09:29] Uh, what is the?

[01:09:39] Yes.

[01:09:39] It's all Cyrillic.

[01:09:40] So.

[01:09:41] Mm-hmm.

[01:09:42] So, but I mean, you guys all got phones.

[01:09:44] So you can, like.

[01:09:44] You got smartphones.

[01:09:44] Yeah.

[01:09:45] Yeah.

[01:09:45] And you guys can just, like, take a picture and then, like, Google, like.

[01:09:48] Translate.

[01:09:49] Put it up on Reddit.

[01:09:50] Yeah.

[01:09:50] What's this say?

[01:09:52] Anybody got this for me?

[01:09:56] Yeah.

[01:09:56] So, yeah, you see that it has, like, um.

[01:09:59] Actually, it has, like, basically, like, one of those old style, like, kind of, like, um, signs, like, that, like, are swinging above the door.

[01:10:06] And it has, like, antlers on it.

[01:10:08] And it says something in Cyrillic.

[01:10:10] But the phone tells us.

[01:10:12] Yeah.

[01:10:12] The phone, yeah.

[01:10:13] You're, you're, with, like, a quick check on, like, Google, through, like, your, your various apps and stuff.

[01:10:16] It says, um, that that says, like, the horned god, or the, you know, the forest god, um, tavern.

[01:10:22] Mm-hmm.

[01:10:25] Wait a minute.

[01:10:26] So, why are we going to a tavern?

[01:10:28] Don't we need a vehicle first?

[01:10:30] What's the name of the giant antlered cerninus?

[01:10:35] No.

[01:10:37] I mean, yes.

[01:10:38] That is one of them.

[01:10:39] I was more thinking about, uh.

[01:10:42] Ah.

[01:10:43] The ones that Molly was going to recruit in Russia.

[01:10:48] Geralt of Brugner hunts them all the time.

[01:10:52] Um.

[01:10:55] Fuck.

[01:10:55] Why can I not remember what they're called?

[01:10:58] I don't know.

[01:10:59] I can't help you.

[01:10:59] Rindlekin?

[01:11:00] No, I don't understand.

[01:11:00] No, they're, they're a Germanic creature.

[01:11:04] They, they're, they're like the evil version of an ant.

[01:11:08] I don't know.

[01:11:09] Sorry.

[01:11:13] But yeah, um.

[01:11:14] So.

[01:11:14] Josh would know.

[01:11:15] Yeah.

[01:11:16] Josh knows that.

[01:11:16] There are also, like, you can see some old, like, not just old cars.

[01:11:19] That's why he gets to play Justin.

[01:11:21] Yeah.

[01:11:22] Aw.

[01:11:24] Because he knows.

[01:11:26] You about to get murdered, son.

[01:11:29] I've run.

[01:11:32] For those at home.

[01:11:34] Hair in his.

[01:11:35] Oh.

[01:11:36] Brandy sugar knife.

[01:11:37] While staring.

[01:11:39] Staring with absolute hatred in his eyes.

[01:11:48] Now he's got knives akumbo.

[01:11:50] Yeah.

[01:11:51] Um.

[01:11:53] But yeah, there are people, like, wandering around the streets, like, look me.

[01:11:55] Give me, you guys kind of like.

[01:11:56] Oh.

[01:11:57] Like, who are you guys?

[01:11:58] But.

[01:11:59] Now he's gone, uh.

[01:12:01] What's that anime guy?

[01:12:02] He's Zoro.

[01:12:03] He's Zoro.

[01:12:04] Yeah.

[01:12:05] Yeah.

[01:12:05] From, uh, One Piece.

[01:12:07] Yeah.

[01:12:11] But yeah, um.

[01:12:12] Yeah, there are people walking all, like, down the side of the street as well.

[01:12:15] Like, I can give you guys kind of, like, side clouds.

[01:12:16] This is because, like, you're newcomer.

[01:12:18] You're outsiders.

[01:12:19] Um.

[01:12:19] Are you wearing your full combat gear?

[01:12:21] Under a trench coat.

[01:12:22] I put my trench coat on.

[01:12:23] Okay, I was gonna say.

[01:12:25] There are, like, street lights.

[01:12:26] So, like, the place isn't, like, completely, like, dark and dreary.

[01:12:29] But it is pretty dark and dreary because it's in a Eastern European, like, mountain village or mountain town.

[01:12:37] But it does seem to have some level of, like, modernization.

[01:12:40] Like, there's, like, old cars from, like, the 80s and 70s.

[01:12:43] But there's also some newer cars on the side and stuff like that.

[01:12:47] Uh, one of the barn buildings that you see, like, on the main strip, like, at that intersection where the tavern is and stuff.

[01:12:53] Um.

[01:12:54] Looks like it is a gas station slash mechanic.

[01:12:57] Mm-hmm.

[01:12:58] Like, converted from a barn.

[01:13:00] So.

[01:13:01] Um.

[01:13:02] Yeah.

[01:13:03] There, there's, uh.

[01:13:05] What do you, how do you guys want to proceed?

[01:13:09] Well, I think we need to find a vehicle, but I also think that, uh, stopping at the tavern to try to collect information is not a bad idea.

[01:13:20] Like, finding it with the local, uh, rumors and myths are might not, might be helpful.

[01:13:28] Yeah, because to them it might be just a rumor or myth that doesn't mean anything.

[01:13:34] But to us it's life or death potentially?

[01:13:36] To what we might run into.

[01:13:36] Yeah.

[01:13:38] Yeah.

[01:13:38] Because, like, while the Templars might think that it's, uh, uh, uh, uh, fucking wave of, uh, werewolves, it might in fact be lycanthropes.

[01:13:49] Or.

[01:13:49] Well.

[01:13:49] Um.

[01:13:50] Some other local rumor that's different but similar to what the Templars are familiar with.

[01:13:56] Do any of you guys have, um, uh, points in history?

[01:13:59] Or, like, any kind of, like, ranks in history at all?

[01:14:02] Yes.

[01:14:02] Yes.

[01:14:03] Then you could roll that because this location, this area of Transylvania is fairly well known, uh, historically for, uh, for the secret world.

[01:14:11] History or Arcana?

[01:14:12] I would go either, either or.

[01:14:14] Whichever one's better for you.

[01:14:16] Okay, then.

[01:14:16] I'll take Arcana because I have advantage on all Arcana checks.

[01:14:21] Okay, that's a dirty 20.

[01:14:23] Would religion help?

[01:14:25] Um, probably not.

[01:14:27] It's more like the, more on the arcane side.

[01:14:31] Well.

[01:14:31] Okay, it'll be a dirty 20.

[01:14:33] Dirty 20?

[01:14:33] Okay.

[01:14:34] Um, well, uh, what are you, are you rolling through history?

[01:14:38] I'll roll a history check and go.

[01:14:42] 21.

[01:14:42] Okay.

[01:14:43] So, um, historically, in, within, like, the various, like, pseudo-societies and stuff like that,

[01:14:48] you know that this, this area, like, they, they, like, like, uh, Sonak said, like, this area is dotted with old Soviet facilities that were during the Cold War and so that, and you know, that this, this is the place that the Soviets didn't want people to know about.

[01:15:03] Mm-hmm.

[01:15:04] Like, public, the public to know about, but the secret world people knew that they were in here conducting research on various experiments, and when they left, they left and they abandoned these facilities and they abandoned the experiments that were conducted here.

[01:15:16] Okay.

[01:15:17] Yes, Aaron.

[01:15:18] How do I, um, black stuff out on Discord?

[01:15:23] Oh, uh, it's, uh, two vertical lines on the, before it and after it, whatever you're trying to do.

[01:15:29] Yeah.

[01:15:29] If you want to test it, just, like, direct message me and do a test.

[01:15:33] Yeah.

[01:15:34] No, I just wanted, I used to know how to do it, I just didn't remember anymore.

[01:15:38] Um, so yeah, you know that, like, basically, like, the Soviets left, like, they, they just up and left.

[01:15:42] Like, they were conducting research here for some reason, um, specifically around a certain, there's a certain mountain up in the, up in the,

[01:15:48] uh, uh, up farther, higher up on the, on the slopes that they were conducting research on.

[01:15:54] And then they just abandoned it during, like, once the, um, the wall fell and such.

[01:16:25] Mm-hmm.

[01:16:28] Proper authorities of Transylvania don't really come here.

[01:16:32] Because this place has a history of people getting lost.

[01:16:37] Like, this is, this is sort of a black spot on the map.

[01:16:40] Even though it does appear on Google Maps, or on the, on the various, like, maps of that.

[01:16:43] But it's, like, like, people don't usually come here, um, to be found.

[01:16:51] Arcane-wise, um, these valleys, uh, in the last few years, or back, as of, like, a few years leading up to 2012, um, there was a mass exodus, uh, or not, not, uh, what's the reverse of an exodus?

[01:17:06] An insodus?

[01:17:07] An insodus.

[01:17:08] An insodus.

[01:17:09] An insodus.

[01:17:09] There was a mass insodus of various, um, folkloric and supernatural entities, um, retreating to these mountains, um, to get, uh, and this, this area kind of became unofficially a, a land, uh, or a, uh, a sanctum for various non-violent, non-hostile magical creatures and supernatural beings that were trying to get away from human civilization that was encratching on their, their original territories.

[01:17:36] Um, so there are a lot of, of various creatures that have made their homes in these, in these mountain valleys for the last few, uh, years.

[01:17:44] Uh, and then, back in 2012, vampire army swept through here, uh, and those creatures, alongside the, the, the mountain villagers and such, had to fend those, those creatures, those, those vampires off.

[01:17:55] Um, there are also roving, uh, werewolf bands based on your, um, based on what you know from the secret world, uh, from the Illuminati, uh, uh, uh, Innsmouth Academy.

[01:18:05] Yep.

[01:18:05] Um, and, uh, there are, yeah, there's just, it's, this place is an influx of, like, supernatural creatures and such.

[01:18:15] So, like, it could be any number.

[01:18:17] The Templar are suspecting a werewolf thing, maybe, with the, what's going on.

[01:18:21] It could be any number of other creatures that were, that they spotted.

[01:18:25] Um, so the people around here basically know what's up.

[01:18:27] Yes.

[01:18:28] Yeah, the mountain villagers, like, these, these, these villagers that you're, like, hanging out at runs, like, the, they're, they survived the 2012 vampire.

[01:18:36] So, and they knew about what's going on.

[01:18:40] Would they recognize, uh, faction sigils?

[01:18:44] Yep.

[01:18:47] Yeah, this is basically one of those, like, places, one of those towns where you guys can actually, like...

[01:18:51] Be ourselves.

[01:18:52] Be yourselves.

[01:18:52] Like, in fact, if you were a non-human entity, you might even be able to get away with being yourself.

[01:18:57] In fact, everybody roll me perception.

[01:18:59] Or, actually, what is everybody's perception?

[01:19:02] Passive?

[01:19:02] Passive, yeah.

[01:19:03] Fourteen.

[01:19:04] Fourteen?

[01:19:05] Thirteen.

[01:19:05] Thirteen.

[01:19:06] Did mine go off with proficiency bonus?

[01:19:07] What's the calculation for that?

[01:19:09] I forget.

[01:19:10] Uh, it's ten plus your...

[01:19:11] It's just ten plus perception?

[01:19:12] Yeah, unless you have it, like, uh, uh, checkmarked, I think.

[01:19:16] Then you get the, uh, you also get the, uh, proficiency bonus on it.

[01:19:21] Okay, well, either way, it's seventeen.

[01:19:22] Seventeen?

[01:19:23] Uh, in fact, um, John, you notice, um, I mean, you don't want to be rude, or, like, ableist,

[01:19:32] but that little person looks less than human.

[01:19:38] Like, he turns the...

[01:19:39] Like, he's, like, walking down...

[01:19:41] Okay, hold on.

[01:19:41] That is really racist.

[01:19:43] Hang on, I'm getting there.

[01:19:44] Like, he's walking, he's walking, like, he walks past you guys, and, like, as you're going.

[01:19:49] And at first you're just like, oh, it's just, like, a little person.

[01:19:51] And then he, like, turns, like, check the street and looks, and, like, you see his face?

[01:19:56] That's a mole's face.

[01:19:58] Like, it looks like a mole.

[01:20:00] Like, he's got, like, big buck teeth that are sharp.

[01:20:03] He's got whiskers.

[01:20:05] His cheeks are a little puffy.

[01:20:07] He's a tiny furry mole.

[01:20:08] He's not furry, he's a hairless mole.

[01:20:10] Gross.

[01:20:12] He's got, his ears are pointed, and, like, and it's...

[01:20:15] Yeah, he looks like a rat man.

[01:20:19] But he's about, like, two, three feet tall.

[01:20:22] With a tail?

[01:20:23] No, not a tail.

[01:20:24] And he's wearing regular clothing.

[01:20:25] It's, like, regular civilian clothing.

[01:20:27] But he's looking around, and just, like, and, like, quickly, like, scuttles across the street.

[01:20:32] So roll fear?

[01:20:34] But, like, you're just like, oh.

[01:20:38] Lashy.

[01:20:39] Hmm?

[01:20:40] A lashy.

[01:20:41] Yes.

[01:20:42] That's what I was trying to get to.

[01:20:44] Yeah.

[01:20:44] Fuck.

[01:20:45] Oh, God.

[01:20:46] Oh, the evil tree.

[01:20:47] Yes.

[01:20:47] Evil tree people.

[01:20:49] Yeah.

[01:20:49] Okay.

[01:20:50] Which is funny, because not every folklore has them as evil, but...

[01:20:54] No.

[01:20:54] No, they're kind of more neutral-ish.

[01:20:57] Yeah.

[01:20:59] But, yeah, you see one of those, like, this creature, or this person that seems to be more

[01:21:05] than human.

[01:21:06] I'll nudge whoever's next to me and mention them, so don't be freaked out, but there's

[01:21:10] some non-humans walking among us.

[01:21:13] Oh, hey, yeah, now, Ian, that's Holland the Mole Man.

[01:21:17] He's the imposter!

[01:21:20] You saying that, actually?

[01:21:22] You saying that?

[01:21:23] Wrong type of among us.

[01:21:26] Okay, he doesn't hear you.

[01:21:28] I didn't give you a stink out, but...

[01:21:31] Because he's, like, farther enough away that he doesn't catch that.

[01:21:35] I don't think they get the Simpsons here.

[01:21:36] Yeah.

[01:21:38] But, yeah, so where are you going from there?

[01:21:40] I was saying boo-wurrins.

[01:21:44] Yeah.

[01:21:46] So, yeah, there's a gas station with a mechanics place, there's the...

[01:21:50] What's closer?

[01:21:50] There's the tavern, and then there's also, like, a couple of, like, surplus stores and

[01:21:55] grocery stores and some of that.

[01:21:56] Like, mom-and-pa, like, home-groceries kind of places.

[01:22:00] Okay.

[01:22:01] Which is closer between the tavern and the mechanic.

[01:22:04] You're literally at the intersection where these all kind of converge, so, like, they're

[01:22:07] all living and walking.

[01:22:08] Yeah, you have to make a choice.

[01:22:10] How dare you force a choice upon us?

[01:22:11] Let's go into the tavern.

[01:22:14] Mm-hmm.

[01:22:15] Okay, so you walk out to, like, you kind of walk onto, like, the place.

[01:22:20] The property, like, next to it, because, like, the door is, like, not on the actual, like,

[01:22:25] sidewalk, but it's, like, on the side of the building.

[01:22:27] And there's a little, like, kind of patio area, like a little alcove patio area that

[01:22:31] you go past.

[01:22:32] And you go in, and it's a nice, cozy, rustic, for lack of a better, a tavern.

[01:22:37] Like, if you pull it straight out of, like, a D&D game or something like that, except

[01:22:41] it's been modernized.

[01:22:44] And you see a couple of tables and people in...

[01:22:47] It's pretty low light.

[01:22:50] Like, there's a couple lights, like, actual, like, electric lights on the...

[01:22:56] By the actual, like, bar.

[01:22:58] But the...

[01:22:59] A lot of the tables are candlelit.

[01:23:01] Or, like, have, like, lamps.

[01:23:03] Like, oil lamps and such.

[01:23:05] And there's about maybe six people in various...

[01:23:10] Like, various stalls and such.

[01:23:12] Uh, and there's a woman, probably in about her, uh, 30s or so.

[01:23:18] Um, homely.

[01:23:20] Um, like, she's...

[01:23:21] Maybe she, like, works too much, kind of, like, look to her.

[01:23:24] Uh, a little frazzled.

[01:23:26] Uh, but she's at the, um...

[01:23:28] She's at the...

[01:23:28] On the other side of the counter.

[01:23:29] And she, uh, gives you guys a warm smile.

[01:23:31] And it's like...

[01:23:32] And starts speaking to you in a different language.

[01:23:35] Her name tag is Shahara?

[01:23:38] No.

[01:23:39] Are you sure about that?

[01:23:40] Yep, I'm 100% sure.

[01:23:42] Because this is a character from the game.

[01:23:44] Um.

[01:23:45] It's Sarah, Aaron.

[01:23:47] No.

[01:23:48] Uh, fuck it.

[01:23:48] It's Sophie.

[01:23:51] Um, and, uh...

[01:23:53] Yeah, her little name tag is in Cyrillic.

[01:23:55] And you check it.

[01:23:56] You don't have to check it.

[01:23:57] When she realized that you guys aren't, like, understanding what she's saying,

[01:24:00] she started speaking in English.

[01:24:02] And I was like, oh, I'm sorry.

[01:24:03] Um, you must be newcomers.

[01:24:06] Uh, or you must be from out of country.

[01:24:08] I am...

[01:24:09] Hello, my name is Sophie.

[01:24:11] Uh, what can I get you today?

[01:24:12] Do you need room and board?

[01:24:13] Or do you need a drink?

[01:24:16] You...

[01:24:16] Well, let us be starting with just, uh, beverages.

[01:24:20] Beer all around, yes?

[01:24:23] Raise my eyebrow at the sudden change of accent.

[01:24:25] Be like, yes.

[01:24:26] Oh, fuck, bud.

[01:24:30] Now, we just get a round of brewskis for the three of us, eh?

[01:24:34] Okay.

[01:24:35] Uh...

[01:24:36] Give me a second.

[01:24:38] Um...

[01:24:38] I guess this may be...

[01:24:39] Well, we have, uh...

[01:24:40] We have, uh...

[01:24:42] We have a...

[01:24:43] We have a couple on tap, actually.

[01:24:45] We have Ursus.

[01:24:46] We have, uh, Stajar.

[01:24:47] Uh, we have, um...

[01:24:50] Uh, and, uh, Asahi.

[01:24:54] Actually, not Asahi.

[01:24:55] Uh, Silva.

[01:25:00] So...

[01:25:02] Ursus sounds good.

[01:25:04] I'll taste the bear.

[01:25:05] Bear?

[01:25:06] That is actually is...

[01:25:07] It's Latin for bear.

[01:25:09] Yeah.

[01:25:09] Yeah.

[01:25:10] Uh, good choice.

[01:25:11] Yes, it's one...

[01:25:12] It's very favorable.

[01:25:14] Oh, fuck.

[01:25:14] Are you sure it's dark and flavorful?

[01:25:17] Uh, that.

[01:25:20] Uh, one, two.

[01:25:21] Oh, very well, yeah.

[01:25:22] Make it three.

[01:25:23] Make it easy.

[01:25:24] All right.

[01:25:25] Yeah, she, like, pours you guys, uh, all, uh, steins.

[01:25:29] And, uh, here you go.

[01:25:30] Um, uh, if you need, uh, any food or anything like that, we use the menu, and she hands you,

[01:25:34] like, a piece of paper, like, uh, like, uh, a very well, like, old, well-used, um, like,

[01:25:39] laminated piece of paper, or, like, uh, menu.

[01:25:42] Okay.

[01:25:42] I'll, uh, pull out a Sharpie, and I'll circle what I want.

[01:25:45] Hand it back.

[01:25:46] The price is they're still in rubles?

[01:25:49] I actually, I don't know what Trans...

[01:25:50] Hang on.

[01:25:50] What's the Transylvanian currency?

[01:25:52] I think it's still in Euros.

[01:25:53] I think you're right.

[01:25:55] Maybe it is now, but if it's that old, it might be in...

[01:25:57] It's in Romanian Lube.

[01:25:59] Well, you know...

[01:25:59] Or Ron's.

[01:26:00] We've probably got US dollars, and that'll buy whatever you want anywhere on Earth.

[01:26:04] Yeah.

[01:26:04] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:26:05] They'll take American, so...

[01:26:07] Everybody will.

[01:26:08] Will they take Canadian, though?

[01:26:10] No.

[01:26:10] No.

[01:26:11] Ours are prettier.

[01:26:12] They come in colors.

[01:26:13] What is this?

[01:26:14] This is Monopoly money.

[01:26:16] What is this Maple Leaf?

[01:26:17] We don't take...

[01:26:18] I'm sorry, we don't take this.

[01:26:21] We have a bank...

[01:26:22] The grocer's just down the street has an ATM machine.

[01:26:27] I pull out an American 20.

[01:26:30] Ah, that we will take.

[01:26:32] As you guys are doing this,

[01:26:33] some kids,

[01:26:35] like two or three,

[01:26:36] like,

[01:26:38] tykes

[01:26:38] kind of run by.

[01:26:40] Like,

[01:26:41] maybe like five or six years old.

[01:26:43] And he's just like,

[01:26:44] Ah!

[01:26:45] No!

[01:26:46] Little one!

[01:26:47] No!

[01:26:48] Don't run!

[01:26:49] Don't run!

[01:26:50] You're casting tangles.

[01:26:54] Bam!

[01:26:55] Right in the floor voice.

[01:26:57] Cut it.

[01:26:57] It's an Anton!

[01:26:58] Balen!

[01:26:59] No!

[01:27:01] So yeah,

[01:27:02] if you guys want to

[01:27:04] roll at perception,

[01:27:07] as these kids

[01:27:08] kind of just like run by you,

[01:27:09] and like,

[01:27:10] one of them kind of

[01:27:11] brushes past you and...

[01:27:12] Still a 15.

[01:27:16] Oh, that's terrible,

[01:27:17] but it's okay,

[01:27:18] because it's perception,

[01:27:19] so I get it at advantage.

[01:27:24] 15.

[01:27:25] 15?

[01:27:26] 11!

[01:27:28] So 15,

[01:27:29] 14,

[01:27:29] and 11?

[01:27:30] Okay,

[01:27:30] so,

[01:27:31] again,

[01:27:32] John,

[01:27:33] one of the kids,

[01:27:34] like,

[01:27:34] they kind of brush past you guys,

[01:27:36] but John specifically,

[01:27:37] like,

[01:27:37] one of them

[01:27:39] knocks into you,

[01:27:39] and you actually like,

[01:27:40] it hurts?

[01:27:41] it was like,

[01:27:42] did they just jab you or something?

[01:27:43] And you look down,

[01:27:44] and like...

[01:27:45] Your leg is bleeding.

[01:27:46] Yeah,

[01:27:47] actually.

[01:27:47] Your leg is gone.

[01:27:48] Like,

[01:27:49] you're not,

[01:27:50] you're not bleeding,

[01:27:51] but like,

[01:27:52] that kid just rip your jean,

[01:27:53] or like your,

[01:27:54] your like jacket or something like that,

[01:27:55] or your,

[01:27:56] like your pants,

[01:27:57] your pant leg there,

[01:27:58] and you look over to like,

[01:27:59] where the kid is,

[01:28:00] and you see like,

[01:28:00] they're wearing like,

[01:28:02] various like,

[01:28:03] toques and stuff like that,

[01:28:03] or tacos.

[01:28:04] Yeah,

[01:28:05] thank you.

[01:28:06] And this one kid has,

[01:28:09] you swear to God,

[01:28:10] has an antler,

[01:28:11] like a little antler,

[01:28:13] poking through the,

[01:28:14] through the toque?

[01:28:16] And that's when you notice,

[01:28:17] in the far corner of the building,

[01:28:19] of the room,

[01:28:20] in the shadowest,

[01:28:21] like in the darkest part of the room,

[01:28:22] or the darkest corner of this,

[01:28:23] of this tavern,

[01:28:25] there's a man sitting at one of the,

[01:28:26] at the,

[01:28:27] in the darkest alcove,

[01:28:29] and he,

[01:28:30] he's very large and imposing looking,

[01:28:33] and he's got,

[01:28:34] you swear,

[01:28:35] his silhouette looks like it has antlers.

[01:28:38] Like,

[01:28:39] you're just like,

[01:28:40] like,

[01:28:40] it's,

[01:28:40] it's there for a second,

[01:28:41] where you feel,

[01:28:42] like,

[01:28:42] you see,

[01:28:42] like,

[01:28:43] antlers kind of like,

[01:28:44] like,

[01:28:44] light flickers,

[01:28:45] suddenly,

[01:28:46] like,

[01:28:46] nearby,

[01:28:46] and like,

[01:28:47] his shadow shows antlers.

[01:28:50] Oberon?

[01:28:52] He's horny on me.

[01:28:53] And he's just,

[01:28:53] he's just looking,

[01:28:54] he just,

[01:28:54] he's not doing,

[01:28:55] he's not doing anything menacingly,

[01:28:56] he's just,

[01:28:57] he's just watching you guys,

[01:28:58] as you're conversing with,

[01:29:00] with Sophie,

[01:29:00] and getting your drinks and such.

[01:29:02] Okay.

[01:29:03] I'll tip my non-existent hat to him.

[01:29:07] The kids run,

[01:29:08] like,

[01:29:08] the kids kind of like,

[01:29:10] do a circuit,

[01:29:11] and then run past him,

[01:29:13] and,

[01:29:13] and down,

[01:29:14] like,

[01:29:14] into the,

[01:29:15] into the,

[01:29:16] through the,

[01:29:16] like,

[01:29:16] through the,

[01:29:18] open doorway that's like,

[01:29:19] near that spot,

[01:29:20] on that side of the tavern.

[01:29:24] Sorry,

[01:29:24] these,

[01:29:25] my,

[01:29:25] my children,

[01:29:26] they,

[01:29:26] they're a little rambunctious.

[01:29:28] I apologize for them.

[01:29:29] Our children,

[01:29:30] though.

[01:29:30] Indeed,

[01:29:31] yes.

[01:29:32] Um,

[01:29:33] well,

[01:29:33] I hope you enjoy the,

[01:29:34] the beers,

[01:29:35] and,

[01:29:35] uh,

[01:29:37] I will go to the kitchen,

[01:29:39] and get some,

[01:29:39] get that food that you want.

[01:29:40] Uh,

[01:29:41] she looks at your,

[01:29:41] that you've,

[01:29:42] what you've circled on the menu there,

[01:29:44] Jacob.

[01:29:45] Before she goes,

[01:29:46] now,

[01:29:47] do you have anybody with a,

[01:29:48] a car for sale?

[01:29:49] Maybe something,

[01:29:50] a four-wheel drive on the road?

[01:29:51] For rent?

[01:29:52] For rent?

[01:29:53] It's Eastern Europe.

[01:29:55] It's gonna be 600 bucks to buy the goddamn thing.

[01:29:57] He's not wrong.

[01:29:58] No.

[01:29:58] And we're probably not gonna be returning it.

[01:30:02] Um,

[01:30:03] well,

[01:30:03] you have to talk to,

[01:30:04] uh,

[01:30:06] uh,

[01:30:07] couple of,

[01:30:08] a couple of,

[01:30:08] uh,

[01:30:09] just down the road there,

[01:30:10] uh,

[01:30:10] it is,

[01:30:11] there's a mechanic named Jacob.

[01:30:13] He,

[01:30:13] he has,

[01:30:14] uh,

[01:30:14] he may have a,

[01:30:15] he may have a car or two.

[01:30:21] Yeah.

[01:30:23] Yeah.

[01:30:23] She then goes off to go make,

[01:30:25] uh,

[01:30:25] so you just,

[01:30:26] you,

[01:30:26] you don't know what you chose,

[01:30:27] you just kind of like circled something on the menu there,

[01:30:30] Aaron?

[01:30:32] Yes.

[01:30:32] Okay.

[01:30:34] Excellent.

[01:30:37] Um,

[01:30:38] today's brings it,

[01:30:39] roast meat.

[01:30:40] Yeah.

[01:30:41] Brings it,

[01:30:41] the fat illness.

[01:30:42] Meat?

[01:30:42] What meat?

[01:30:43] Well,

[01:30:44] now you realize one of the two,

[01:30:46] one of the three children is missing.

[01:30:47] Okay.

[01:30:50] Um,

[01:30:50] so you said,

[01:30:51] we're,

[01:30:51] yeah,

[01:30:52] so you're sitting in one of the little alcoes or in the,

[01:30:54] uh,

[01:30:54] at one of the tables in the middle of the,

[01:30:56] the bar and such table in the corner.

[01:31:03] Okay.

[01:31:03] You should probably not be in the middle because we can pay.

[01:31:07] There are other people like,

[01:31:08] Oh,

[01:31:08] I know.

[01:31:09] Like you're like,

[01:31:11] like everybody's taking this and you're just like surrounding yourself like on all sides.

[01:31:14] Like,

[01:31:18] I just love that though.

[01:31:19] It's just like,

[01:31:20] it's like fucking high school.

[01:31:21] You're just like isolated,

[01:31:23] like,

[01:31:23] like kind of just like the spotlights on you.

[01:31:25] Yeah.

[01:31:26] I will just undo my,

[01:31:27] my overcoat and hang on the back of my chair,

[01:31:30] revealing the armor with the Templar logo.

[01:31:34] You,

[01:31:34] you think you see a couple of old,

[01:31:35] of older,

[01:31:36] um,

[01:31:37] patrons that are just like kind of nod.

[01:31:38] It's like,

[01:31:39] okay.

[01:31:43] Just perspective.

[01:31:44] Here we go.

[01:31:45] Good guys.

[01:31:46] That's yeah.

[01:31:48] Um,

[01:31:49] it's more of like a gruff,

[01:31:51] like,

[01:31:51] like,

[01:31:52] you're not sure if that,

[01:31:53] that was a positive or if it was just like a,

[01:31:56] like maybe just like acknowledgement that,

[01:31:58] Oh,

[01:31:58] it's a Templar.

[01:31:58] Oh,

[01:31:59] there's my target.

[01:32:00] Exactly.

[01:32:02] Um,

[01:32:02] and after about like 10 minutes,

[01:32:04] if you guys are just like drinking your beers and stuff,

[01:32:06] your food comes out.

[01:32:07] Uh,

[01:32:08] it's a large bowl of,

[01:32:10] uh,

[01:32:10] looks like a,

[01:32:11] like a,

[01:32:11] some kind of a port,

[01:32:12] a borscht or like some kind of a,

[01:32:13] a stew.

[01:32:15] Okay.

[01:32:15] And,

[01:32:15] um,

[01:32:16] how large is large?

[01:32:17] Has a large ladle in it.

[01:32:18] Like the,

[01:32:19] uh,

[01:32:19] the Indian Chinese place that we went to.

[01:32:22] Oh,

[01:32:22] okay.

[01:32:22] Yeah,

[01:32:22] exactly.

[01:32:23] Actually.

[01:32:23] Yeah.

[01:32:23] Yeah.

[01:32:24] There's a large order for all of us.

[01:32:27] And there's a,

[01:32:27] there's a wooden ladle and she stirs it and you actually see a couple of,

[01:32:31] um,

[01:32:32] things bob up from the,

[01:32:34] it looks like some kind of doughy thing bobs up,

[01:32:36] uh,

[01:32:36] from inside the,

[01:32:37] uh,

[01:32:37] inside the soup or the stew.

[01:32:39] Does it move on its own?

[01:32:40] No.

[01:32:41] Okay.

[01:32:42] And she had to do guys some,

[01:32:43] like some deep plates.

[01:32:44] Basically.

[01:32:45] And it's like,

[01:32:46] uh,

[01:32:46] enjoy your,

[01:32:46] uh,

[01:32:47] pierogies and stew.

[01:32:48] Oh,

[01:32:49] okay.

[01:32:50] Thank you.

[01:32:51] I like pierogies and stew.

[01:32:52] Okay.

[01:32:53] Usually separately,

[01:32:54] but yeah,

[01:32:56] whatever.

[01:32:57] Linden,

[01:32:58] Rome,

[01:32:59] Ania.

[01:33:00] Nice.

[01:33:01] Nice.

[01:33:02] Yeah.

[01:33:03] Um,

[01:33:04] yeah,

[01:33:04] you,

[01:33:04] you try the stew.

[01:33:05] It's,

[01:33:05] uh,

[01:33:05] it's kind of,

[01:33:06] it's tomato mostly.

[01:33:08] Uh,

[01:33:08] it's like a tomato soup.

[01:33:09] Uh,

[01:33:10] and then the pierogies are homemade pierogies.

[01:33:14] So potatoes.

[01:33:16] So you have Northern European and East Southern European,

[01:33:19] uh,

[01:33:20] flavor.

[01:33:21] I'm good at that.

[01:33:23] Yeah.

[01:33:23] There's,

[01:33:24] well,

[01:33:24] there is that.

[01:33:25] Yeah.

[01:33:25] There's that whole thing of like Southern Europe,

[01:33:27] tomatoes,

[01:33:28] Northern Europe,

[01:33:29] potatoes.

[01:33:30] It's not wrong.

[01:33:34] Yep.

[01:33:36] is there anything else you guys are doing?

[01:33:38] aside from just enjoying the local cuisine,

[01:33:41] I mean,

[01:33:42] it's like dusk,

[01:33:43] right?

[01:33:45] Yeah.

[01:33:45] Well,

[01:33:45] at this point it's like,

[01:33:46] it's probably been like a half hour or so.

[01:33:48] So we're probably not going out after the kids tonight.

[01:33:52] Right.

[01:33:52] Fair.

[01:33:54] I have night vision goggles.

[01:33:55] What's wrong?

[01:34:00] Yeah,

[01:34:00] you'll be fine.

[01:34:01] In the Transylvanian,

[01:34:02] uh,

[01:34:03] in the Transylvanian mountains,

[01:34:04] you'll be fine.

[01:34:05] Yeah.

[01:34:05] Where we just found out there's been a huge influx of,

[01:34:09] uh,

[01:34:09] historically,

[01:34:10] there have been a huge influx of,

[01:34:11] uh,

[01:34:12] magical creatures.

[01:34:13] Um,

[01:34:14] about 10 years ago,

[01:34:15] there was an army of vampires,

[01:34:18] uh,

[01:34:18] that came to sweat through.

[01:34:19] Yeah.

[01:34:20] Yeah.

[01:34:20] I think,

[01:34:20] I think waiting till daylight might be the best option.

[01:34:24] Are you going to take a look outside and,

[01:34:26] is the moon up yet?

[01:34:28] Yep.

[01:34:28] The moon is up.

[01:34:30] Uh,

[01:34:30] it is full.

[01:34:32] Yeah.

[01:34:33] Maybe we,

[01:34:33] maybe we wait for tomorrow.

[01:34:39] But in every horror movie,

[01:34:40] we would go out at night,

[01:34:41] even though there's no reason to go out at night.

[01:34:43] Yes,

[01:34:43] but see,

[01:34:44] we're not morons.

[01:34:45] Do you,

[01:34:46] I see.

[01:34:47] By the way,

[01:34:48] John,

[01:34:48] do you,

[01:34:48] uh,

[01:34:48] look,

[01:34:49] look back to like that corner where that,

[01:34:50] uh,

[01:34:51] that man was,

[01:34:52] uh,

[01:34:52] sitting in the shadows?

[01:34:53] Sure.

[01:34:54] I think he probably shouldn't.

[01:34:56] That's fine.

[01:34:57] Yeah,

[01:34:57] he's gone.

[01:34:57] It's just,

[01:34:58] it's,

[01:34:58] it's,

[01:34:59] it's,

[01:34:59] it's actually well lit in there.

[01:35:01] In that,

[01:35:02] in that,

[01:35:02] it's something like,

[01:35:03] it's as if the shadow,

[01:35:04] like he took the shadow with him.

[01:35:06] Interesting.

[01:35:08] Okay.

[01:35:09] He had Pass Without Trace on.

[01:35:11] Yeah.

[01:35:12] To increase his stealth modifier.

[01:35:17] No,

[01:35:18] you saw him.

[01:35:19] It's only Pass Without Face.

[01:35:22] Oh,

[01:35:22] that's true.

[01:35:24] Well,

[01:35:25] he gives like a plus 10,

[01:35:26] so it makes it harder to see.

[01:35:27] Well,

[01:35:28] as you guys have been eating and drinking,

[01:35:29] some more patrons have showed up into the tavern.

[01:35:32] So,

[01:35:33] it's gotten actually a little bit more lively

[01:35:35] at night.

[01:35:37] Some people,

[01:35:37] a lot of them,

[01:35:38] basically they come in,

[01:35:39] they're chatting,

[01:35:40] chatting,

[01:35:41] and then just immediately look to you guys like,

[01:35:44] because like,

[01:35:45] it's just like,

[01:35:45] who the fuck are these guys?

[01:35:47] You're outsiders.

[01:35:48] What are they doing here?

[01:35:49] So,

[01:35:49] I guess the question guys is,

[01:35:50] do we want to get a vehicle

[01:35:52] or do we want to get like mules or horses?

[01:35:55] It was an hour and a half away by car.

[01:35:59] Yes.

[01:35:59] Let's go with the car.

[01:36:01] You only be,

[01:36:02] if it's,

[01:36:03] if it's a dirt track,

[01:36:05] goat track,

[01:36:05] you're only doing what?

[01:36:06] About 30 kilometers an hour.

[01:36:09] So,

[01:36:09] yeah.

[01:36:09] Which is still 10,

[01:36:10] probably three times faster than you're walking?

[01:36:12] Yeah.

[01:36:13] So,

[01:36:13] it'd be,

[01:36:13] it'd be several hours for us to get there.

[01:36:16] But,

[01:36:18] horses and,

[01:36:19] and mules

[01:36:21] can handle rougher terrain than cars can.

[01:36:23] I'm not saying that we shouldn't do a car.

[01:36:25] I just wanted to bring up it as an option

[01:36:27] because if we're actually riding through the woods,

[01:36:30] we could ride right the fuck up to the thing

[01:36:33] as opposed to just getting to where they had to abandon their van.

[01:36:37] Well,

[01:36:38] if we bought the motorcycles,

[01:36:40] we could have turned right up to a there anyway.

[01:36:42] Yes.

[01:36:42] And you wanted to carry yours on your back through a bog?

[01:36:45] No.

[01:36:48] Because I can't carry mine on my back through a bog.

[01:36:50] Well,

[01:36:51] I guess maybe I could,

[01:36:51] I could turn it into a bear

[01:36:52] and you guys could strap it to my back.

[01:36:54] Yeah.

[01:36:55] And carry it through the bog.

[01:36:55] What's my strength on this thing?

[01:36:57] Not high enough.

[01:36:59] I wonder if we can get motorcycles in town.

[01:37:01] Or dirt bikes?

[01:37:02] Yeah,

[01:37:03] dirt bikes.

[01:37:05] Probably more close to dirt bikes in this part of the country.

[01:37:09] Yeah?

[01:37:10] Yeah,

[01:37:10] that might be doable.

[01:37:11] Or ATVs.

[01:37:13] Yeah.

[01:37:15] Hell,

[01:37:16] snowmobiles?

[01:37:16] Well,

[01:37:17] we'll find some place to rack out for the night

[01:37:18] and check in the morning.

[01:37:19] Okay,

[01:37:20] the tavern does have,

[01:37:21] she did say.

[01:37:21] She did offer room and board.

[01:37:24] So,

[01:37:25] yeah,

[01:37:25] maybe we take,

[01:37:26] take rooms here.

[01:37:28] Did you offer us any additional services?

[01:37:30] I'll take her room.

[01:37:33] You did know she had a ring.

[01:37:35] And she referenced the children

[01:37:37] that ran over to the big scared goat man,

[01:37:40] the deer man.

[01:37:42] It's fine,

[01:37:43] he's probably just a leshy.

[01:37:45] They're not necessarily evil.

[01:37:48] He was like,

[01:37:50] shrouded by darkness.

[01:37:52] Also,

[01:37:52] I have,

[01:37:53] I have to speak with plants.

[01:37:55] I can talk to them.

[01:38:05] So you're,

[01:38:05] so if you can't speak with plants

[01:38:07] and a tree falls in the forest,

[01:38:10] does that hear him screaming?

[01:38:11] Yeah.

[01:38:12] Yeah.

[01:38:16] Now I'm just picturing

[01:38:17] Christopher the Christmas tree.

[01:38:19] Ah!

[01:38:20] Do you guys remember that cartoon?

[01:38:22] Like,

[01:38:23] although like,

[01:38:23] like,

[01:38:23] like,

[01:38:24] as like,

[01:38:24] all the little,

[01:38:25] like,

[01:38:25] woodland creatures

[01:38:25] are like circling around,

[01:38:27] Christopher is like,

[01:38:27] Christopher,

[01:38:28] we love you.

[01:38:30] Christopher,

[01:38:30] we love you.

[01:38:32] It's,

[01:38:33] it's like,

[01:38:34] so basically it's a Christmas tree

[01:38:35] who like,

[01:38:36] is like,

[01:38:36] starts off as like a little runt

[01:38:37] of a Christmas tree

[01:38:38] and all the big Christmas trees

[01:38:40] like,

[01:38:40] like say,

[01:38:41] oh,

[01:38:41] you'll grow someday,

[01:38:43] Christopher,

[01:38:43] blah,

[01:38:43] blah,

[01:38:43] blah.

[01:38:44] And then he grows into this,

[01:38:45] the biggest tree in the forest

[01:38:46] and he gets cut down

[01:38:48] and,

[01:38:48] and his little woodland,

[01:38:49] one of his little woodland friends

[01:38:50] just,

[01:38:51] like stays with him

[01:38:52] because he's terrified

[01:38:53] of what's going on.

[01:38:54] And then it turns out

[01:38:55] that he was,

[01:38:56] he was cut down

[01:38:56] and brought back

[01:38:57] to New York

[01:38:58] to be the,

[01:38:59] the Christmas tree

[01:39:00] in the center of that,

[01:39:01] that,

[01:39:02] the,

[01:39:02] the Trump plaza

[01:39:04] where his corpse was.

[01:39:05] Yeah.

[01:39:05] Well,

[01:39:06] no,

[01:39:06] he's still alive

[01:39:06] and still at this point.

[01:39:07] But it's funny

[01:39:09] because his woodland critter friend

[01:39:10] is like,

[01:39:10] is sad,

[01:39:11] so,

[01:39:12] so sad during it

[01:39:13] because like,

[01:39:13] but like what happens after?

[01:39:14] It's like,

[01:39:15] well,

[01:39:15] don't worry,

[01:39:15] I'm going to die after this.

[01:39:16] My,

[01:39:17] you,

[01:39:17] you take my pine cones

[01:39:18] back to the forest

[01:39:20] and I'll,

[01:39:21] my,

[01:39:21] my kids will grow back,

[01:39:22] grow big and strong

[01:39:23] and you can take care of them too.

[01:39:25] It's like,

[01:39:26] like,

[01:39:27] wholesome horrifying.

[01:39:29] It really is.

[01:39:30] Wholesome fine.

[01:39:32] Wholesome horror.

[01:39:33] Um,

[01:39:35] okay,

[01:39:35] so if you're,

[01:39:36] you're going to go down

[01:39:37] that trip with weird,

[01:39:39] uh,

[01:39:39] weird Christmas cartoon

[01:39:41] or weird Christmas things.

[01:39:44] Um,

[01:39:45] Dominic the Christmas donkey?

[01:39:47] I have heard of that one.

[01:39:49] Is that the,

[01:39:49] of course you have.

[01:39:50] He's Italian.

[01:39:50] Well,

[01:39:50] is that also a rank and,

[01:39:51] wasn't there a rank and pass of that?

[01:39:53] I don't know.

[01:39:54] I just know the song

[01:39:55] because Sarah loves it.

[01:39:57] I only know of it.

[01:39:58] I haven't,

[01:39:59] I don't know the song that's to it.

[01:40:00] Oh,

[01:40:01] okay.

[01:40:02] Anyway,

[01:40:05] it's an Italian Christmas carol.

[01:40:07] So you guys are just like,

[01:40:09] getting rooms for the night

[01:40:10] and trying for the night,

[01:40:12] in the morning?

[01:40:13] Yeah.

[01:40:13] Yeah.

[01:40:14] I mean,

[01:40:14] we could source a vehicle.

[01:40:16] Ooh,

[01:40:17] he said there was a surplus store

[01:40:18] down the road.

[01:40:19] The problem is if we get the vehicles now

[01:40:20] and then leave them overnight,

[01:40:22] they won't be there in the morning

[01:40:23] any game.

[01:40:24] And,

[01:40:25] okay,

[01:40:26] there's a surplus store down the road.

[01:40:28] So,

[01:40:28] we might be able to actually

[01:40:30] source some kit here.

[01:40:32] Yeah.

[01:40:33] Yeah,

[01:40:33] we'll check it first in the morning.

[01:40:35] Yeah.

[01:40:35] Yeah,

[01:40:35] what time is it?

[01:40:36] It's midnight,

[01:40:37] or not midnight,

[01:40:38] but it's like,

[01:40:38] it's like 10 o'clock in the morning,

[01:40:39] in the evening at this point.

[01:40:40] Yeah.

[01:40:41] You guys are having like your food

[01:40:42] and so that you're drinking

[01:40:43] and so that you're like,

[01:40:45] yeah.

[01:40:45] Okay.

[01:40:47] Nap time.

[01:40:48] Yeah.

[01:40:48] So you go to Sophie

[01:40:49] and books,

[01:40:51] like,

[01:40:51] get one of the rooms.

[01:40:53] Yep.

[01:40:54] Uh,

[01:40:54] she asked if you guys need like some,

[01:40:56] uh,

[01:40:56] we,

[01:40:56] they have cots so they can like,

[01:40:58] because she was going to ask

[01:40:59] if we needed company.

[01:41:00] No,

[01:41:01] no,

[01:41:01] no.

[01:41:01] No.

[01:41:02] Like,

[01:41:02] cause they only have like,

[01:41:03] the rooms only have like,

[01:41:05] uh,

[01:41:05] like a two person bed kind of thing.

[01:41:07] So like she asks,

[01:41:08] is like,

[01:41:08] do we,

[01:41:09] do you need cots?

[01:41:10] Like we have those.

[01:41:10] We don't have food.

[01:41:12] The,

[01:41:12] the rooms only have,

[01:41:12] the,

[01:41:13] the,

[01:41:13] the rooms only have like one bed.

[01:41:15] It's okay.

[01:41:15] We're cuddlers.

[01:41:17] Okay.

[01:41:19] I thought we were getting three rooms.

[01:41:21] Unless you guys are getting three rooms.

[01:41:22] Like she only has two though.

[01:41:26] It's fine.

[01:41:27] I'll take hers.

[01:41:28] No.

[01:41:30] She,

[01:41:30] she,

[01:41:30] if you say that,

[01:41:31] she laughs,

[01:41:31] she laughs that off.

[01:41:32] It's like,

[01:41:32] no,

[01:41:34] I guess I'll take a cot.

[01:41:36] I've slept on worse.

[01:41:38] Okay.

[01:41:38] Well,

[01:41:39] you are from Louisiana.

[01:41:43] It'll be like $20 each.

[01:41:44] Honestly.

[01:41:45] Okay.

[01:41:46] You got this.

[01:41:46] She doesn't accept my money.

[01:41:49] Is there a crack at the American bills?

[01:41:52] Ha ha.

[01:41:54] Might be good for us to change some of our money to American.

[01:41:57] Like,

[01:41:58] I'm going to get one of those old timey,

[01:41:59] uh,

[01:42:00] change dispensers.

[01:42:01] Oh yeah.

[01:42:02] And just have like different currencies,

[01:42:04] the $1 coins.

[01:42:06] Mm.

[01:42:07] Yeah.

[01:42:08] That works.

[01:42:09] The American one,

[01:42:10] it just spits out,

[01:42:12] rolled up American $1 bills.

[01:42:14] God.

[01:42:15] Ha ha.

[01:42:16] Ha ha.

[01:42:17] Ha ha.

[01:42:17] Ha ha.

[01:42:17] So you guys get,

[01:42:18] like,

[01:42:18] uh,

[01:42:19] like go to,

[01:42:19] like go to your,

[01:42:20] up to your beds,

[01:42:21] or up to the bedrooms and such.

[01:42:22] It's very,

[01:42:22] again,

[01:42:23] very sparse,

[01:42:24] rustic.

[01:42:27] Um,

[01:42:28] the,

[01:42:28] the beds are probably like 10 years old,

[01:42:32] like in terms of like the style and stuff like that.

[01:42:34] Uh,

[01:42:35] but they're not,

[01:42:35] they're not bad mattresses.

[01:42:36] Um,

[01:42:38] and,

[01:42:38] uh,

[01:42:39] yeah,

[01:42:39] as you're,

[01:42:40] you're,

[01:42:40] are you guys,

[01:42:41] are nobody like keeping watch?

[01:42:42] You're sleeping,

[01:42:43] like going to sleep?

[01:42:44] Uh,

[01:42:45] well,

[01:42:46] I mean,

[01:42:46] we're going to bed.

[01:42:47] Don't you have a cell for that?

[01:42:48] For what?

[01:42:49] Alarm?

[01:42:50] I don't know if I do as this character.

[01:42:52] Didn't you take a silver wire or something to set the alarm?

[01:42:58] I seem to recall something about that.

[01:43:03] The thing,

[01:43:04] the problem was,

[01:43:04] is this this game or is that the Eberron game?

[01:43:08] That's the Eberron game.

[01:43:09] I do not have alarm.

[01:43:12] Any particular alarm?

[01:43:14] Nope.

[01:43:15] Well,

[01:43:16] I mean,

[01:43:16] I'm sure that,

[01:43:16] I'm sure that lock on the door is going to be fine to keep anything out from attacking you guys.

[01:43:22] Oh,

[01:43:22] I'll just take my hammer because I've got the,

[01:43:25] I've got the,

[01:43:26] um,

[01:43:26] the spike on the back,

[01:43:27] right?

[01:43:27] I was wedging it under the door,

[01:43:29] kick it in place.

[01:43:31] Nice.

[01:43:31] And,

[01:43:32] uh,

[01:43:32] I'll just pull out my backpack,

[01:43:35] open it up and pull out my little homunculus.

[01:43:38] Okay.

[01:43:39] Yeah.

[01:43:39] Tell him to keep watch.

[01:43:40] If anything opens the door or the window,

[01:43:43] then,

[01:43:43] uh,

[01:43:44] start beating the hammer against the,

[01:43:46] uh,

[01:43:46] against,

[01:43:47] against the dresser.

[01:43:48] It,

[01:43:49] no,

[01:43:50] or it salutes

[01:43:51] an acknowledgement

[01:43:53] because it doesn't speak,

[01:43:54] I assume.

[01:43:55] No.

[01:43:56] Yeah.

[01:43:57] all right.

[01:43:58] And you guys like,

[01:43:58] like start sleeping over the night.

[01:44:00] Um,

[01:44:02] at some point in the middle of the night,

[01:44:03] you guys,

[01:44:05] we're going to have to sleep in

[01:44:06] because I'm going to spend the next six hours casting a spell.

[01:44:10] Okay.

[01:44:11] What spell?

[01:44:12] Plant growth.

[01:44:14] Why?

[01:44:14] On what?

[01:44:16] It's a radius thing.

[01:44:19] So for out to,

[01:44:20] like,

[01:44:21] a mile,

[01:44:23] it's a very large radius.

[01:44:25] Why?

[01:44:26] Um,

[01:44:27] because I just want to make things grow better for the,

[01:44:30] this rural town.

[01:44:32] Okay.

[01:44:36] What the fuck?

[01:44:36] Also,

[01:44:37] they worship a woodland deity.

[01:44:40] I'm trying to garner,

[01:44:42] and somebody saw him in the fucking,

[01:44:45] uh,

[01:44:46] uh,

[01:44:46] uh,

[01:44:47] a common room.

[01:44:48] This,

[01:44:48] this could actually get us some positive,

[01:44:51] um,

[01:44:55] influence.

[01:44:56] Some positive influence with the local,

[01:44:59] with the local deity.

[01:45:01] Okay.

[01:45:01] Okay.

[01:45:02] That's,

[01:45:02] that's kind of,

[01:45:03] that's your thinking.

[01:45:04] That's okay.

[01:45:04] I'll let that.

[01:45:05] Okay.

[01:45:06] so it's going to turn terribly.

[01:45:09] It could,

[01:45:10] um,

[01:45:11] but I don't think it will.

[01:45:13] Suddenly all like,

[01:45:14] remember,

[01:45:14] I did mention that most of this built these rooms,

[01:45:17] like how like wood,

[01:45:17] uh,

[01:45:18] wood paneling.

[01:45:18] so they're just like,

[01:45:19] new trees,

[01:45:20] new growth.

[01:45:22] That's incredible.

[01:45:24] If I cast it over hours,

[01:45:26] um,

[01:45:27] all plants in a half mile radius centered on a point within range become enriched for a year.

[01:45:33] Plants will yield twice as much as the normal amount of food when harvested.

[01:45:38] Okay.

[01:45:40] And they grow faster.

[01:45:42] Yeah.

[01:45:42] So,

[01:45:42] it is also technically the summer.

[01:45:44] Like,

[01:45:45] so,

[01:45:46] what happens if there's plant people in the range?

[01:45:50] So,

[01:45:51] so,

[01:45:51] so you need to eat half as much because it's twice as enriched.

[01:45:56] I suppose.

[01:45:59] Because everything's more dense in nutrients.

[01:46:02] Okay.

[01:46:02] That's it.

[01:46:03] That's,

[01:46:03] that's,

[01:46:03] that's all.

[01:46:04] So that's what you're doing for like six hours.

[01:46:06] Like,

[01:46:06] and then you go to sleep and then I go to sleep.

[01:46:08] Okay.

[01:46:08] So,

[01:46:10] while he's doing that,

[01:46:10] like in the,

[01:46:11] in the one room,

[01:46:11] you guys are sharing the other room.

[01:46:14] Um,

[01:46:15] uh,

[01:46:15] at some point in the middle of the night,

[01:46:17] you guys are quite,

[01:46:17] you,

[01:46:18] you hear it,

[01:46:18] uh,

[01:46:19] and they awake,

[01:46:20] you guys are woken up to it.

[01:46:21] Um,

[01:46:22] outside your window,

[01:46:23] you hear a howling,

[01:46:24] like a,

[01:46:24] a mighty howling off in the distance.

[01:46:28] Like,

[01:46:28] it sounds like an animal or a person howling?

[01:46:33] Yes.

[01:46:33] It sounds like a wolf.

[01:46:35] It sounds like a wolf howling,

[01:46:37] but it's like,

[01:46:38] a little bit more guttural.

[01:46:40] Mm-hmm.

[01:46:41] But it's,

[01:46:42] yeah,

[01:46:42] it sounds like a wolf howl,

[01:46:43] but it's,

[01:46:44] it's definitely,

[01:46:44] it's a very distinct wolf howl

[01:46:47] that you can't quite place.

[01:46:49] Did we not ask about the local shenanigans

[01:46:51] going on around here?

[01:46:52] No,

[01:46:53] you guys did not.

[01:46:53] I'm asking,

[01:46:54] you just ate,

[01:46:55] drank,

[01:46:56] went to bed.

[01:46:56] Yeah.

[01:46:57] Asked about a car

[01:46:57] and then you went,

[01:46:58] you bought,

[01:46:59] you took,

[01:46:59] you took some room.

[01:47:00] I mean,

[01:47:00] I was reason why we were going to be here,

[01:47:03] but,

[01:47:03] uh,

[01:47:03] I was wondering,

[01:47:05] I blame the beer,

[01:47:06] honestly.

[01:47:07] I left you guys like room,

[01:47:08] like,

[01:47:09] I was like,

[01:47:09] all right,

[01:47:09] are they good at,

[01:47:10] like,

[01:47:10] what are you guys doing?

[01:47:12] Like,

[01:47:12] you're eating and drinking.

[01:47:13] Like,

[01:47:14] people are coming in to like,

[01:47:16] possibly be info dumpers.

[01:47:17] Nope.

[01:47:18] I'm not the face guy.

[01:47:19] This is all on our fucking bag

[01:47:21] is over here.

[01:47:24] It's not always on me.

[01:47:26] No,

[01:47:27] not always.

[01:47:28] Yeah.

[01:47:28] Um,

[01:47:30] I will say,

[01:47:31] as you're trying to get to sleep there,

[01:47:33] Jake,

[01:47:34] um,

[01:47:34] you do hear,

[01:47:35] uh,

[01:47:36] something,

[01:47:38] very heavy footed walk by,

[01:47:41] like,

[01:47:42] walk down the hallway by the,

[01:47:43] by your rooms.

[01:47:44] Doesn't stop,

[01:47:45] but just kind of like,

[01:47:47] boom,

[01:47:47] boom,

[01:47:48] boom,

[01:47:49] boom.

[01:47:50] Very soft kind of thuds.

[01:47:52] That you just hear because you're,

[01:47:54] the bed is situated in a way that's like,

[01:47:55] it,

[01:47:56] the wall is like,

[01:47:57] right next,

[01:47:58] that's the wall that like,

[01:47:59] looks down,

[01:47:59] like,

[01:48:00] that's,

[01:48:00] um,

[01:48:01] like,

[01:48:01] facing the,

[01:48:02] the hallway.

[01:48:03] Okay.

[01:48:04] Okay.

[01:48:05] Um,

[01:48:07] is,

[01:48:07] this is after I've cast.

[01:48:09] as you're trying to get to sleep after your six hour,

[01:48:11] like,

[01:48:12] ritual.

[01:48:12] Okay.

[01:48:13] Then I will,

[01:48:13] uh,

[01:48:13] go into my bag and grab my,

[01:48:15] um,

[01:48:15] my mage goggles with the,

[01:48:17] uh,

[01:48:17] fiber optic to go under this.

[01:48:19] I,

[01:48:20] that's Shadowrun.

[01:48:22] Damn it.

[01:48:22] I mean,

[01:48:24] that exists as a thing.

[01:48:25] Cause that's something that police use to,

[01:48:27] to look under,

[01:48:27] but you don't have it in this game.

[01:48:29] Only in Shadowrun.

[01:48:30] You literally could have bought it,

[01:48:32] but you didn't say you did.

[01:48:33] So,

[01:48:34] I mean,

[01:48:35] if you have a,

[01:48:36] have a,

[01:48:36] do you have a,

[01:48:37] um,

[01:48:38] a thieves kit?

[01:48:39] No,

[01:48:39] you don't.

[01:48:39] No,

[01:48:40] I do not.

[01:48:41] That's on somebody else.

[01:48:43] Cause I'm sure the thieves kit probably has that because it's like,

[01:48:45] it's,

[01:48:45] it's useful also for like other things too.

[01:48:47] So,

[01:48:50] um,

[01:48:52] okay.

[01:48:53] Well,

[01:48:54] once it's gone past my door,

[01:48:57] followed by smaller,

[01:49:00] lighter feet,

[01:49:00] they kind of scamper by behind,

[01:49:02] scamper behind it.

[01:49:03] Did my door creak when I came in earlier?

[01:49:06] Um,

[01:49:08] no.

[01:49:09] Okay.

[01:49:09] Then I will try to crack my door open a little bit.

[01:49:12] Creaks extremely loudly.

[01:49:14] Well,

[01:49:15] I would say roll a self check.

[01:49:17] Okay.

[01:49:17] To,

[01:49:18] uh,

[01:49:18] to do this.

[01:49:24] That focaccia is really good,

[01:49:25] by the way.

[01:49:26] Like compliments to the chef.

[01:49:29] I will let her know.

[01:49:32] I'm not proficient.

[01:49:34] So 16 total.

[01:49:35] Okay.

[01:49:36] Yeah.

[01:49:36] You,

[01:49:36] you managed to like peak,

[01:49:38] like get,

[01:49:38] get it open enough that you can see like down the hall,

[01:49:41] like where things come.

[01:49:42] Can I see the correct way down the hall or the wrong way down the hall?

[01:49:45] I will say it's,

[01:49:47] the door goes inward.

[01:49:48] I have a plan.

[01:49:50] And it's the wrong way.

[01:49:50] It is.

[01:49:51] It is.

[01:49:51] It is the right way.

[01:49:52] Okay.

[01:49:53] Um,

[01:49:54] yeah,

[01:49:54] you see,

[01:49:55] um,

[01:49:56] well,

[01:49:56] you don't,

[01:49:57] there's a darkness,

[01:49:59] um,

[01:50:00] that you see moving.

[01:50:01] So you don't like,

[01:50:03] it's very large.

[01:50:03] Busy cup takes up the entire like hallway,

[01:50:06] but in behind,

[01:50:07] but in front of that,

[01:50:08] like between that and you,

[01:50:09] there are the three children like scampering,

[01:50:13] like behind it.

[01:50:13] And that one child,

[01:50:17] you're pretty sure has hooves.

[01:50:25] Um,

[01:50:25] and then they just kept,

[01:50:26] they go,

[01:50:26] the shadow goes into one of the other room or goes down like another,

[01:50:29] like turns a corner on the,

[01:50:31] cause it's like a second floor and turns a corner.

[01:50:33] And like the kids like follow suit.

[01:50:35] Um,

[01:50:36] but they,

[01:50:36] they seem like the kids are like,

[01:50:37] they're scampering,

[01:50:38] but they're like trying to be sneaky and they're kind of like trying to stifle,

[01:50:41] like giggles.

[01:50:42] Okay.

[01:50:43] Okay.

[01:50:44] And it's not their room.

[01:50:45] They're going into.

[01:50:46] No.

[01:50:46] Okay.

[01:50:47] No,

[01:50:47] I'm just walking by the,

[01:50:48] walking down the hall.

[01:50:50] Okay.

[01:50:51] Then I will just close my door and I guess,

[01:50:54] uh,

[01:50:55] I guess I'll lock it.

[01:50:56] Yeah.

[01:50:56] And then go back to bed.

[01:50:58] Okay.

[01:50:59] Um,

[01:51:00] the next morning,

[01:51:01] uh,

[01:51:02] you guys all wake up.

[01:51:03] Uh,

[01:51:04] uh,

[01:51:04] you probably a little bit later than the,

[01:51:05] than the rest.

[01:51:07] Uh,

[01:51:07] I'll wake up in the bathtubs and you're missing your kidneys.

[01:51:12] No,

[01:51:13] um,

[01:51:15] uh,

[01:51:15] you,

[01:51:15] uh,

[01:51:15] you wake up and it's,

[01:51:17] uh,

[01:51:17] it's,

[01:51:18] uh,

[01:51:18] the sun's kind of beaming through like the,

[01:51:20] the,

[01:51:20] the windows and such.

[01:51:21] Um,

[01:51:22] and,

[01:51:23] uh,

[01:51:24] yeah,

[01:51:24] you,

[01:51:24] everything seems fine.

[01:51:26] You're not like,

[01:51:27] nothing's bar.

[01:51:28] You look around or nothing's been like moved or touched or anything like that.

[01:51:31] And,

[01:51:32] uh,

[01:51:32] actually if you look out the window,

[01:51:34] uh,

[01:51:34] you see that the tree that was in the middle of the courtyard,

[01:51:37] um,

[01:51:37] um,

[01:51:38] patty feet to the left.

[01:51:40] No,

[01:51:40] is actually,

[01:51:41] um,

[01:51:41] like much greener and like is producing apples.

[01:51:46] Excellent.

[01:51:47] Um,

[01:51:47] which is odd because it's a pine tree,

[01:51:49] but no,

[01:51:53] no,

[01:51:53] it's like,

[01:51:53] it was an apple tree,

[01:51:56] but there are a lot of cedars,

[01:51:58] but like that was an apple tree.

[01:51:59] Like,

[01:51:59] just as we plant it for that little like patio grove area.

[01:52:02] Okay.

[01:52:03] Um,

[01:52:04] and yeah,

[01:52:04] you see like,

[01:52:05] again,

[01:52:05] like there's the,

[01:52:06] the pine forest.

[01:52:06] It's very misty in the,

[01:52:07] uh,

[01:52:08] like behind the place and then where the woods and stuff,

[01:52:10] they go on down the hill and into the,

[01:52:12] the valley.

[01:52:14] Um,

[01:52:15] but there is something like the,

[01:52:16] the clouds have kind of mostly parted.

[01:52:18] There's still,

[01:52:18] like,

[01:52:18] it's still kind of cloudy outside,

[01:52:19] but the sun is,

[01:52:21] is shining.

[01:52:23] Okay.

[01:52:25] Well,

[01:52:25] uh,

[01:52:26] and,

[01:52:27] uh,

[01:52:27] you get down,

[01:52:27] you guys,

[01:52:28] yeah,

[01:52:28] that's just a picture.

[01:52:29] Uh,

[01:52:29] there,

[01:52:30] you guys woke up earlier.

[01:52:31] You guys going down to the,

[01:52:34] and you couldn't wake,

[01:52:34] you could,

[01:52:35] you knocked on his door and he would not,

[01:52:36] he was out.

[01:52:36] Like,

[01:52:37] he was not waking up.

[01:52:38] Mm-hmm.

[01:52:39] You were pretty sure I was in a bathtub with us.

[01:52:42] No,

[01:52:42] like he,

[01:52:43] you heard groaning from him.

[01:52:44] I was like,

[01:52:44] go away.

[01:52:45] But like,

[01:52:45] so you knew he wasn't hurt or dead.

[01:52:48] Yeah.

[01:52:48] But,

[01:52:50] so I still have no idea that anything is amiss in this tavern.

[01:52:53] Yeah.

[01:52:54] You walk downstairs,

[01:52:55] um,

[01:52:55] and actually,

[01:52:56] um,

[01:52:56] you hear,

[01:52:57] uh,

[01:52:58] uh,

[01:52:58] Sophie is like humming some kind of a tune as she's working,

[01:53:01] like,

[01:53:01] like for the morning,

[01:53:02] the morning shift and stuff.

[01:53:03] And there's a huge basket of apples on the,

[01:53:06] on the counter.

[01:53:07] And there's a sign in Cyrillic,

[01:53:08] but you,

[01:53:09] it says basically take one.

[01:53:13] Um,

[01:53:13] and,

[01:53:13] uh,

[01:53:14] she's like,

[01:53:14] ah,

[01:53:14] good morning.

[01:53:15] Um,

[01:53:16] what can I,

[01:53:16] can I get you a,

[01:53:17] uh,

[01:53:18] can I get you some,

[01:53:19] uh,

[01:53:19] some refreshments and breakfast?

[01:53:21] We have apples.

[01:53:22] We have plenty of apples.

[01:53:25] Way too many apples.

[01:53:27] Whoever made this many apples can go fuck themselves.

[01:53:30] No,

[01:53:31] I,

[01:53:31] I,

[01:53:31] we have an apple pie.

[01:53:32] We are working,

[01:53:33] got an apple pie in the oven too.

[01:53:35] So I take the apple and I ask her,

[01:53:37] um,

[01:53:37] if the mechanic speaks English as well,

[01:53:40] or if she's able to translate for me.

[01:53:42] Oh yes.

[01:53:43] Most people in town do,

[01:53:44] can speak or understand English.

[01:53:47] Why?

[01:53:49] Uh,

[01:53:50] we had an influx of,

[01:53:51] of,

[01:53:51] uh,

[01:53:52] of foreigners a couple of years back that,

[01:53:54] uh,

[01:53:55] so we,

[01:53:55] we sort of had to learn,

[01:53:56] or we,

[01:53:57] or we did,

[01:53:57] in order to accommodate and such.

[01:54:00] Interesting.

[01:54:01] All right.

[01:54:01] Yeah.

[01:54:02] So I'm going to take my apple and munch on it as I walk over to the mechanic shop.

[01:54:06] Okay.

[01:54:06] So you go outside and like down the street.

[01:54:08] yeah,

[01:54:10] all the,

[01:54:10] all the,

[01:54:11] like,

[01:54:11] so when you guys were,

[01:54:12] first off,

[01:54:12] it's warmer.

[01:54:13] It's like,

[01:54:13] it's daytime.

[01:54:14] Yeah.

[01:54:14] So like,

[01:54:14] it's actually like about 10,

[01:54:17] 12 degrees.

[01:54:17] It's warmer than it was.

[01:54:19] We're on the east side of the mountains.

[01:54:20] Basically the sun's shining.

[01:54:21] So you're actually getting the summer like temperatures of this high altitude and such.

[01:54:24] Or is it 2 PM?

[01:54:25] Yeah.

[01:54:26] Yeah.

[01:54:28] Basically whatever it's shaded,

[01:54:29] you're going to get,

[01:54:30] it's going to get really cold.

[01:54:31] But,

[01:54:32] um,

[01:54:32] all the tree,

[01:54:33] like all the non,

[01:54:33] even the,

[01:54:34] the pine trees,

[01:54:35] the cedars,

[01:54:36] and,

[01:54:37] and the,

[01:54:37] the leafed trees.

[01:54:38] And so that all look a lot more vibrant.

[01:54:40] In fact,

[01:54:40] and actually everyone's lawns are now three feet thick than what they were last night.

[01:54:46] There's a couple of people that are kind of griping about that.

[01:54:50] What in the goddamn fuck happened to you?

[01:54:54] Ah,

[01:54:54] fuck it.

[01:54:55] Uh,

[01:54:55] and actually as you're walking down the street,

[01:54:57] make me a perception test.

[01:55:03] 11.

[01:55:04] 11?

[01:55:04] All right.

[01:55:06] you think you hear something like skitter behind,

[01:55:09] like down an alley,

[01:55:10] but you don't see anything.

[01:55:12] You don't see what it was,

[01:55:13] but,

[01:55:13] um,

[01:55:14] but you do see,

[01:55:15] um,

[01:55:15] just down the street,

[01:55:16] like within like easy walk,

[01:55:18] there's,

[01:55:19] the mechanic.

[01:55:20] It is at the,

[01:55:21] uh,

[01:55:21] it's like the gas station slash mechanic barn.

[01:55:25] Uh,

[01:55:25] do I see anybody outside or?

[01:55:27] Uh,

[01:55:27] no,

[01:55:27] but there's,

[01:55:28] there's a,

[01:55:28] uh,

[01:55:29] door to like a,

[01:55:30] well,

[01:55:30] like a little office area.

[01:55:31] There's our walk in.

[01:55:32] Okay.

[01:55:33] Um,

[01:55:35] the,

[01:55:36] uh,

[01:55:37] you go to the counter,

[01:55:38] the guy's like,

[01:55:39] uh,

[01:55:39] it looks like he's reading a newspaper,

[01:55:41] um,

[01:55:41] at the,

[01:55:41] at the,

[01:55:42] like,

[01:55:42] so it's like kind of up.

[01:55:44] And,

[01:55:44] uh,

[01:55:44] you like,

[01:55:46] doesn't seem to have noticed you even enter the,

[01:55:47] enter the door.

[01:55:49] I announced myself,

[01:55:50] good morning,

[01:55:51] sir.

[01:55:52] Uh,

[01:55:52] the,

[01:55:52] the,

[01:55:53] uh,

[01:55:53] the page comes down and it's a three foot tall mole man.

[01:56:02] Um,

[01:56:03] not the one that you guys saw early yesterday,

[01:56:05] but like,

[01:56:05] he's got like a big burly mustache that like curt coils.

[01:56:09] It's like,

[01:56:09] but he's still got the bucket,

[01:56:10] like the,

[01:56:11] the road buck teeth.

[01:56:12] It's like,

[01:56:12] ah,

[01:56:13] hello.

[01:56:14] How can I help you today?

[01:56:16] I'm just totally unfazed.

[01:56:17] Yeah.

[01:56:18] I need,

[01:56:18] uh,

[01:56:19] three dirt bikes here.

[01:56:20] God,

[01:56:20] it would be ideal.

[01:56:22] Three?

[01:56:27] And you want to buy them or are you looking to rent?

[01:56:30] Or are you looking to rent or buy?

[01:56:33] I'll rent them if I can,

[01:56:35] but I'll buy them if I can't.

[01:56:37] I might have to make some calls.

[01:56:39] I have one and a half here.

[01:56:43] I,

[01:56:43] I've been working and what I've been working on.

[01:56:46] And I know my cousin down the street,

[01:56:49] like down,

[01:56:49] like on the other side of town has,

[01:56:51] has one,

[01:56:51] I think that he might be willing to let borrow.

[01:56:54] What else you got?

[01:56:56] ACVs,

[01:56:56] off-road vehicles,

[01:56:57] anything like that?

[01:56:58] Uh,

[01:57:00] we've got the truck.

[01:57:02] It's like,

[01:57:03] uh,

[01:57:04] it's old faithful.

[01:57:05] Four-wheel drive?

[01:57:07] Yeah.

[01:57:08] Works?

[01:57:10] Yeah.

[01:57:11] I might have to take a look at it.

[01:57:15] Covered in dust,

[01:57:16] he has a turn on in ages.

[01:57:18] How much?

[01:57:20] Uh,

[01:57:21] 300 of the back crank.

[01:57:25] I think I got that.

[01:57:27] Okay.

[01:57:28] You bring it out and you start it for me.

[01:57:30] And I'll give you the cash.

[01:57:32] All right.

[01:57:33] I will,

[01:57:33] uh,

[01:57:34] go take a look.

[01:57:35] And actually,

[01:57:36] how much for the dirt bike as well?

[01:57:37] Uh,

[01:57:37] the dirt bike's,

[01:57:39] two rents,

[01:57:41] 50 American,

[01:57:42] and,

[01:57:43] and we'll go 100 to,

[01:57:45] uh,

[01:57:45] if you want to buy them each.

[01:57:48] I'll buy that dirt back too.

[01:57:50] Okay.

[01:57:51] Get the one.

[01:57:53] He hops off his tall stool and you just,

[01:57:56] you don't even see him.

[01:57:57] You just hear him like clopped off.

[01:57:59] Um,

[01:58:00] yeah.

[01:58:01] And,

[01:58:01] uh,

[01:58:02] you walk outside and after about 10 minutes and you hear some like,

[01:58:06] some yelling and some like complaining from,

[01:58:09] uh,

[01:58:10] and like,

[01:58:10] you hear like,

[01:58:11] like,

[01:58:11] the,

[01:58:11] the,

[01:58:12] the engine's like trying to start and then like,

[01:58:15] like there's an,

[01:58:15] there's like sort of a,

[01:58:16] like a explosion.

[01:58:18] Not,

[01:58:18] not,

[01:58:18] not explosion,

[01:58:19] but like basically like,

[01:58:20] you know,

[01:58:20] like when the engine like kicks and then it stops.

[01:58:23] It's like,

[01:58:23] ah,

[01:58:24] it says,

[01:58:24] so it's like cursing and Slavic.

[01:58:27] It's like a plume of smoke.

[01:58:28] Yeah.

[01:58:29] And then,

[01:58:29] uh,

[01:58:30] after eventually like you see some black smoke come out of like one of the openings in the barn and then the,

[01:58:34] the,

[01:58:35] the barn garage door opens up and like,

[01:58:39] And then the,

[01:58:40] the truck comes out.

[01:58:41] I'm like,

[01:58:44] I'll give you 200.

[01:58:47] 250.

[01:58:49] I heard that.

[01:58:52] Roll,

[01:58:52] roll persuasion.

[01:58:53] I didn't even have to roll my perception to hear that,

[01:58:55] sir.

[01:58:57] Persuasion?

[01:58:58] Yeah.

[01:58:59] So while he's doing that,

[01:59:00] does it have a Soviet star on the hood?

[01:59:02] 10.

[01:59:03] Maybe.

[01:59:04] Maybe.

[01:59:04] It has a red fist.

[01:59:08] 10.

[01:59:09] 10?

[01:59:11] 225.

[01:59:13] Sold.

[01:59:15] So while he's been haggling and getting you guys transportation,

[01:59:19] what is,

[01:59:19] what is,

[01:59:20] uh,

[01:59:20] John Deere doing?

[01:59:22] Uh,

[01:59:22] I'm assuming I woke up after him.

[01:59:24] No,

[01:59:24] yeah,

[01:59:24] you,

[01:59:24] you guys woke up at the same time and then he went outside to go get a vehicle.

[01:59:27] So like,

[01:59:27] what are you doing?

[01:59:28] Ask around the tavern for any,

[01:59:30] um,

[01:59:31] local stories and stuff and myths that are around the area.

[01:59:35] Okay.

[01:59:36] Well,

[01:59:36] there is so we're planning on basically with the cover of,

[01:59:38] we're planning on going for a hike.

[01:59:41] We want to know if there's any places we should or shouldn't go.

[01:59:44] So this is Sophie is the only one in the tavern at this point.

[01:59:47] It's pretty late.

[01:59:48] And you guys are the only people that are like staying.

[01:59:51] So I'll be sitting at the bar eating an apple.

[01:59:52] Yeah.

[01:59:53] You want to,

[01:59:54] you're,

[01:59:55] you're planning to go on a hike and you don't know about,

[02:00:00] about the valley.

[02:00:02] Not as much as I'd like to know.

[02:00:04] Um,

[02:00:05] I mean,

[02:00:05] we have our fair share of,

[02:00:07] there's various dangers and you,

[02:00:09] wait,

[02:00:09] hang on.

[02:00:10] So you,

[02:00:10] that other,

[02:00:11] that other person is your friend.

[02:00:12] Yeah.

[02:00:13] He's a Templar.

[02:00:14] Yeah.

[02:00:14] Okay.

[02:00:14] Yeah.

[02:00:15] Um,

[02:00:15] yeah,

[02:00:15] there's,

[02:00:16] I mean,

[02:00:16] we got the,

[02:00:17] there's the,

[02:00:17] uh,

[02:00:19] there are a few,

[02:00:20] there's a few,

[02:00:21] uh,

[02:00:21] I think some roaming packs of werewolves,

[02:00:23] uh,

[02:00:24] still out there.

[02:00:25] Um,

[02:00:25] they aren't,

[02:00:27] they were wolves or,

[02:00:29] or,

[02:00:29] um,

[02:00:30] loopers.

[02:00:31] No,

[02:00:31] they're rebels.

[02:00:32] Um,

[02:00:32] they are,

[02:00:33] uh,

[02:00:34] uh,

[02:00:35] they're not,

[02:00:36] they don't,

[02:00:37] uh,

[02:00:37] outright attack humans,

[02:00:39] but if they provoke,

[02:00:40] they will attack.

[02:00:41] Okay.

[02:00:42] I haven't seen the,

[02:00:44] uh,

[02:00:45] they,

[02:00:45] I've,

[02:00:46] I've heard that they're pudry,

[02:00:48] uh,

[02:00:48] farther out in the,

[02:00:49] in the woods.

[02:00:50] You may want to stay clear of them.

[02:00:52] What are those?

[02:00:52] Uh,

[02:00:53] they're like a nature spirit of sorts,

[02:00:55] like a,

[02:00:55] like a goat mixed with a tree,

[02:00:58] um,

[02:01:00] with,

[02:01:01] uh,

[02:01:02] fairy magic tied to them.

[02:01:04] Okay.

[02:01:05] Um,

[02:01:06] and,

[02:01:07] uh,

[02:01:07] do they move or is it just a tree?

[02:01:09] No,

[02:01:09] no,

[02:01:09] they,

[02:01:09] they travel or they,

[02:01:10] they move or they roam around.

[02:01:12] Okay.

[02:01:12] Um,

[02:01:14] there are also,

[02:01:16] uh,

[02:01:19] there is,

[02:01:19] the,

[02:01:20] the,

[02:01:20] you may,

[02:01:20] you may come across a specter or two,

[02:01:23] uh,

[02:01:24] out there,

[02:01:24] uh,

[02:01:24] from the various,

[02:01:25] uh,

[02:01:26] wars and,

[02:01:27] and,

[02:01:27] tragedies that have happened in our valleys.

[02:01:29] Of course.

[02:01:30] Uh,

[02:01:31] and,

[02:01:32] uh,

[02:01:34] I think outside of that,

[02:01:36] we haven't seen the vampires for quite some time.

[02:01:39] Uh,

[02:01:39] I mean,

[02:01:39] that's always a possibility.

[02:01:40] We are in the,

[02:01:42] uh,

[02:01:42] I mean,

[02:01:42] the Dracoleshti do what they can,

[02:01:44] but,

[02:01:44] uh,

[02:01:44] this was sort of a hotspot at one point.

[02:01:48] Um,

[02:01:48] and there was also,

[02:01:50] uh,

[02:01:50] I think,

[02:01:51] um,

[02:01:52] Alina,

[02:01:53] was,

[02:01:53] was here not too long ago saying that a couple of,

[02:01:56] she noticed,

[02:01:56] she saw a couple of rogue,

[02:01:57] uh,

[02:01:58] scarecrows with chainsaws.

[02:02:01] Haven't heard that one before.

[02:02:03] Okay.

[02:02:03] Yes.

[02:02:04] Um,

[02:02:05] we,

[02:02:06] okay,

[02:02:06] we've,

[02:02:07] we had some,

[02:02:08] some occasionally the,

[02:02:09] the magics are deep in these lands and,

[02:02:12] uh,

[02:02:13] occasionally it seeps into farmers fields and,

[02:02:16] and the mates,

[02:02:17] their,

[02:02:18] uh,

[02:02:19] their,

[02:02:19] their,

[02:02:19] their scarecrows to devious and malignant ends.

[02:02:24] Good to know.

[02:02:25] Thank you for the warning.

[02:02:26] Yes.

[02:02:27] So then why do the farmers give their,

[02:02:29] scarecrows to chainsaws as well?

[02:02:30] I think the chains,

[02:02:31] they woke up and they stole the chainsaws.

[02:02:34] They go to the shed and take the chainsaw.

[02:02:36] Yeah.

[02:02:36] They don't stir it out with the chainsaw.

[02:02:39] They're gonna start locking up these chains for my sake.

[02:02:41] We do.

[02:02:43] They find,

[02:02:43] they're very crappy.

[02:02:45] For things that were just born literally yesterday,

[02:02:47] they are very crappy.

[02:02:51] Um,

[02:02:52] then there's also various,

[02:02:53] there's also various,

[02:02:55] um,

[02:02:56] I've heard,

[02:02:57] that there are things in the waters nearby as well.

[02:02:59] Island.

[02:03:01] uh,

[02:03:01] so maybe stay clear from the creeks and the ponds and the bogs.

[02:03:04] Okay.

[02:03:06] stay away from the trees.

[02:03:07] Stay away from,

[02:03:09] just stay,

[02:03:09] stay away from everything.

[02:03:11] You know what?

[02:03:11] Just stay on the road.

[02:03:13] Yeah.

[02:03:14] If,

[02:03:14] I mean,

[02:03:15] you,

[02:03:15] you are a friend of Templar or are you Templar?

[02:03:18] I am Templar.

[02:03:18] Oh,

[02:03:19] okay.

[02:03:19] Then you're fine.

[02:03:20] You,

[02:03:20] you can handle it.

[02:03:21] Yeah.

[02:03:22] Um,

[02:03:24] it's like that show I see on Netflix with the Witcher.

[02:03:26] You're like one of them.

[02:03:28] Yeah,

[02:03:29] I guess,

[02:03:29] I guess I am.

[02:03:31] Pass a coin to your Templar.

[02:03:35] And now I'm going to have to add that.

[02:03:36] I guess that's just like,

[02:03:38] never thought that would probably.

[02:03:39] Pass a coin to your Templar.

[02:03:44] Um,

[02:03:45] but yeah,

[02:03:46] uh,

[02:03:47] um,

[02:03:49] yeah,

[02:03:49] after that,

[02:03:49] that's basically like what you get for a gather from like,

[02:03:51] about the local scene.

[02:03:54] Okay.

[02:03:55] There seem to be a lot of magical denizens in these valleys and threats.

[02:04:01] So,

[02:04:04] so,

[02:04:05] uh,

[02:04:05] and then eventually like two hours after you guys wake up,

[02:04:10] uh,

[02:04:11] Jacob wakes up.

[02:04:12] All right.

[02:04:12] So once I've done hercledurcling.

[02:04:14] Yep.

[02:04:15] I love that.

[02:04:15] I'm sorry.

[02:04:16] It's a Scottish term.

[02:04:17] It's like a 300 year old Scottish term for when you're staying in bed long past

[02:04:21] when you should have been up.

[02:04:22] It's called hercledurcling.

[02:04:24] Yeah.

[02:04:24] Wow.

[02:04:25] That's awesome.

[02:04:26] Yeah.

[02:04:26] I'm just glad you knew what it was.

[02:04:28] I saw that tick tock yesterday morning,

[02:04:31] actually.

[02:04:31] While I was hercledurcling.

[02:04:33] I'm keeping that.

[02:04:36] You're doing your private time.

[02:04:37] This is your own business.

[02:04:39] I don't need to know.

[02:04:41] Uh,

[02:04:42] right.

[02:04:42] So once I've done hercledurcling,

[02:04:43] I'll,

[02:04:44] uh,

[02:04:44] I'll get up and,

[02:04:45] uh,

[02:04:46] I guess I'll,

[02:04:46] I'll grab an apple on my way out the door.

[02:04:49] I'm going to head down to the,

[02:04:50] um,

[02:04:51] surplus store.

[02:04:52] Okay.

[02:04:54] as you like,

[02:04:55] so,

[02:04:56] like,

[02:04:56] are you being intercepted by,

[02:04:58] uh,

[02:04:59] by John at all?

[02:05:01] Or,

[02:05:03] or,

[02:05:04] or,

[02:05:04] or,

[02:05:06] or,

[02:05:15] or,

[02:05:15] I'll just be waiting for him to wake his ass up so I can get him up to speed and let him know where everyone is.

[02:05:21] Is he back?

[02:05:22] No,

[02:05:22] he's still,

[02:05:22] he,

[02:05:23] like that,

[02:05:23] uh,

[02:05:23] I don't know how long it takes for him.

[02:05:25] I'm still waiting around for the mechanic to get his ass.

[02:05:26] Yeah.

[02:05:27] Yeah.