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role climb until we reach the top we all share the same, taking more chances And

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welcome back. So last we left off this, this troop of adventures, having lost a friend, avenged, a friend, and really setting off to discover what the next wave of mysteries before them were worth pursuing, decided to follow one thread that was mentioned by Lord Eric's Astor off to the dreamscape theater, where apparently a series of disappearances he had heard rumored were or had occurred in recent weeks around the establishment, gathering your things.

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You headed further into the corresponder of drew SAR to the dreamscape theater, proper you acquired tickets.

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I found yourself a nice box seat on the left hand, upper side of the theater preparing for a performance of a troop referred to as Kendra's flying waters, which it's great when you make up stuff.

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And after I go, like, I don't know what, I haven't figured that out, bringing the auditors, But as you all have your seats, it seemed that Dorian was pulled aside.

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Somebody requested a conversation in which an individual named Cyrus made themselves a scene in a brief intense conversation, ensued in the stairwell beneath before you returned to the box seat, as the show was about to begin.

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And so here within the steadily darkening, interior of the dreamscape theater, you have a few moments to prepare before the performance of the afternoon.

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What would you like to do?

16:03

And Dorian's rejoined, right? I think right now Doreen is returning Everything.

16:08

Okay. Did you go get refreshments?

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I forgot.

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Sorry. Just wasn't. Hmm, hold on. It's due to come down.

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Oh, that's right. It was a patron. Yeah.

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Yeah. I was just someone who recognized me from Michelle and it was chit-chatted for a little bit.

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I use the restroom and excited to see the, the flying lungs.

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Was it? I think it's honors.

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Like the, yeah, I think that's what I heard. They just throw them around the state Oh,

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Nine. Oh fuck.

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Fuck eight.

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Oh,

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all

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right. Okay. At this point, the last bit of lights begin to vanish and you can see the small cylindrical devices that are fixed to the far upper right and left of the interior walls of the chamber.

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Begin to light brighter. As you see the stage, the curtains begin to steadily open as the music from the pit below, it begins to pick up a bit and would that you can see the, the audience begins to hush.

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As performance began to come to the stage, you can see what looks to be a troop of about six acrobats begin to emerge in bows.

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The music begins to swell a bit. So a few people thought I was like, I thought I was going to be honors, But if I'm preparedness, as they begin to release themselves into a flurry of flips and backhand Springs and toss us into the air, a brilliant display of physical prowess back and forth across the stage or waiting for the moment they collide and they do not, it seems they do not.

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It goes pretty damn well. There's a few moments where you find yourself clenching the wood on the edge of your chairs.

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Uncertain. If this is safe, we're going to end poorly.

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But with extreme speed and a practice capability, you watch as they finish their first flurry of their gymnastics routine.

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And what you thought was a resonant kind of chant that was rhythmic from an unseen chorus.

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You notice at this point is coming from the performers as they undergo their display.

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As they finish their bow, you can see their mouths moving in unison as this low chant that's being spoken in sung amongst them is the other half of their performance.

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Severes. Now not misses feels like there's something, something I'm watching the Audience.

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lights. Now at this point, and attention's kind of at the stage, then you hear the pushing of wheels as a large Seesaw, like device is brought to the center stage.

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And there you watch, as they begin to gather from side to side where there are now ladder is being placed in the sides.

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The curtains pulled back further, the lights and colors, change and shift.

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As they all begin to take their places, the side one by one, they began to leap from the sides onto one side of the saw and catch the other and flip and rotate and catch off of bars that you didn't even notice where it fixed higher under the stage would that you've watched as the, the energy begins to rise.

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And as they're doing this, the song changes now they're vocalizing a harmony and as it progresses, it's you can't help, but feel enraptured by this combination of physical capability and musical prowess and nothing bad happens.

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It's going great. The audiences in hushed, gasps, and whispers and cheering and sh and just this constant cycling of, of reactionary sounds and exclamations, and the people in the dark shaded space before you, you can see, as at one point, they seem to have stopped on the Seesaw and then three individuals climb up and at once leap off in unison and slam on the one side, the impact of the wood under the stage is so loud that you see people in front of him come to cover their ears.

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And you sure some of the wood may have cracked as in the opposite side, wondering when individuals thrown out of sight up and beyond the curtains, She's

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dead. Where did he go? He died, oh my Gosh.

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By their friends and placed under the stage, all the voices begin to come to a close as the one that was caught and landed, comes out with this beautiful falsetto.

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And everyone kind of goes, okay, that was weird, but good on you.

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And they cheer. And when their third act, they pull away this odd Seesaw and you watch his swing descend from above the state.

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What looks to be a set of three trapeze and utilizing these same ladders.

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You can hear that falsetto voice that ended.

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The last act is now brought up by the other performers into an angelic chorus.

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It almost feels like some sort of odd warship adjacent like musicality that feels the chamber echoing and swelling in this, this beautiful sound that feels almost like it requires reverie, but the energy of him climbing is palpable as they leap and swing and grasp in spin.

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Not so great. One of the misses, the swing under the, what does it pause or the performance turn and look, they get up into a display, arms out big cheers, cheers.

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And as they're sharing, they bow and bow and quietly exit the stage, holding their back.

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It is It's quiet. I'm just wrestling with a paper bag.

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The performance takes up into this final act for a moment, but you can see there's like a general nervousness amongst them.

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They seem to almost come to a close of the performance, the musicality, their voices.

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Now introducing an element of discomfort and curiosity amongst them.

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They ended rather abruptly and then leave the stage.

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There's some clapping. Okay. If

23:05

you want ones pass beyond what would have been roughly a 25 to 30 minute performance, you watch as a half hour, man comes out onto the stage, dressed in impeccable tails with broad shoulders that come to an extravagant point that curve ever so slightly at the edges, this kind of deep blue velvet with what looks to be almost like a leopard pattern interior that just drifts past the back of his outfit.

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He has these, these type faintly striped like green and brown pants that go down to these immaculate boots and horizontally Or

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vertically Horizontally, A large smile.

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And this, this toothy grin that he wears.

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He is a long and chiseled of complexion that looks to be maybe in his early fifties or so, but handsome and holds onto it.

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Well, you see his dark complexion and Amber hair that is slicked back slightly to one side.

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And this pencil mustache that glides just over the upper lip, he steps out.

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And then everyone, thank you so much for joining us.

24:22

Hello. We hope you enjoyed this performance of Kendra's flying.

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Ladas that? I know he funds, but have a wonderful night and hope to see you again a good night.

24:33

And he exits the stage.

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There's a few claps and some Something

24:40

happens. He's specifying no refunds.

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You like that's very specific. I think the show ended rather early.

24:47

That's a weird way to close a show.

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It's not an easy one.

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Maybe that one performer Was

24:53

hurt. Can we look down in the audience? Are the lights coming up?

24:56

The lights are beginning to come up. We can see the oil interns are now being turned up by the ushers.

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They move to the audience and you can make out the details of people.

25:03

Now being to shift from their seats, talking, they look a bit confused.

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Some folks are leaving. Some folks are excitedly talking about what they adjust.

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Seen. You can gauge their experience and Look

25:12

especially distressed in the audience.

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Not a particular, not, not running off of your leather.

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The lights are up. Now. I'd say rolling out their perceptions of It's

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20. You don't see anyone specifically distressed by any means.

25:35

It's just a lot of confusion.

25:38

These are all, you know, paying patrons of the arts.

25:42

And they're, there just seems to be not unlike some of you up there in the box that you paid quite a decent amount for bit of frustration at the brevity of performance for the night, but people are going to exit and make their way beyond and out of the theater.

25:59

What we're trying to do Is

26:01

this standard fair for the theater.

26:04

I think you said it did feel a little sh Yeah.

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Kick. It would have been better with autos.

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Honestly. Imagine them doing that flipping thing.

26:15

So, I mean, there really did you ever see one of them, they take the smash, open the clam.

26:20

They can do like juggling.

26:23

Yeah. The whole time when the person, oh, it's specifically am, was caught or fell in, was not caught.

26:33

Just fell anyway. What were you going to say?

26:35

What if we could say, you know, having spent so much money on, on these particular seats, we could say that, you know, we were enamored with the performance and wanted to Congratulate

26:44

the performers in person. A lot of times when, when people, you know, spend a lot of money on something, they they're granted extra perks, right.

26:55

Backstage pass or something like that. Yeah. I'm sure we could ask you to go backstage.

27:00

I smell money. Where's that can happen as they say no.

27:02

Right. Let's give it a shot and we just do it without permission.

27:05

How do we do It's do we just, did we go up and be like, Ooh, we paid money.

27:09

I feel like the Marion should probably say something just because he's the one that asked for the seats after all, I

27:17

suppose we would try to flag down the attendant.

27:21

Alright. Right. I'm going to peek my head out the curtain and look down the hallway.

27:25

Do we see anybody around or It's,

27:27

it's a, it's a little staircase leads down beyond just be on the box where you are.

27:30

Cause you guys are elevated, but we've been looking over the side.

27:33

You can see, there are three ushers that are kind of working their way through.

27:36

One of which is a syringe.

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The dragon born that had previously, both brought you to your seats and retrieved you for you are encountered before the performance.

27:46

Just say we were offered a backstage tour with the box.

27:50

Oh, a little fit. You're going to lead with a lie.

27:56

Yeah. Okay. Pretty harmless. I don't. We all go at once links, a little bit of pressure and that's it.

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Who's the most convincing liar I

28:12

can try. Yeah. Look respectable. Yeah. I think you do you look respectable.

28:17

Yeah. I took a quick peek over the balcony's edge.

28:21

Is it cleared out some is it It's

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cleared out some, but people are taking their time.

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Some individuals are almost hoping that there's going to be an Encore performance.

28:31

Others probably just have back issues and are taking their speak from experience, taking their time to, to exit.

28:38

And then it's not exactly Sure.

28:47

We had down Woke up to that.

28:49

Okay. Let me see. You see her in the process, like picking up elements of a ticket scraps and other bits of it looks to be almost like now empty discardable bottles, people that snuck in, he just kind of shakes his head from it before looking up.

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Hello? We were just wondering what entrance it is. We were supposed to use All

29:15

the Exit. Not the exit. No, the interest.

29:19

The backstage. Oh,

29:21

you're there. Isn't you. You're not allowed to go.

29:24

Oh, we got special permission on account of being such a streamed patrons.

29:30

Go to the , walked down the vom and you'll be right there.

29:33

Something like that.

29:34

And who said this?

29:39

The littler one. Yeah. I can't remember his name.

29:43

Either Described them.

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Maybe are no smell.

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Oh, a half lane.

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Yep.

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That's the one . Oh, you know what?

30:00

It might've been him after all that.

30:06

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apologize. But I, I, I think I'd wait, wait here.

30:32

I'm going to go ahead and make sure I wasn't Stovall.

30:38

I can't be sure that no, he was, he was smaller.

30:41

You know, she has a bad memory.

30:43

I just, I forget. I, I jumbled letters together and half Lincoln ticket taker.

30:50

Oh, gotcha. All right. I'll go ahead and show you kind of exits past you and begins, shuffling off to be Because

30:57

we're on a tight schedule And

31:00

he exits through the exit into the main area there That

31:03

could have gone back to smoking. Yeah, that's what I was hoping.

31:06

I'm very sorry. I thought that the name popped in my head and then I realized it wasn't it.

31:15

I don't remember the fellow who just made the speech at the end of the show.

31:19

Well, that could have worked. That could have worked.

31:24

Yeah. So what are you doing?

31:25

Is

31:25

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Entrance? Is there a stage door From

31:30

this point? You don't see an immediate, like entrance to the stage that Yeah.

31:37

Yeah. How it works. Is there anybody in?

31:40

Yes. There's probably about 40 other patrons that haven't exited yet.

31:46

Should we make, create a distraction?

31:50

Oh, I'm sure we can come up with something where I got it and I .

31:55

And then from a backstage you hear fire God in a literal loop.

32:09

And then I thought mutter J again, you start to smell, smoke, smell, smoke Dramaturgy.

32:20

One more time.

32:20

It looks like smoke above the church is the greatest speller Ships

32:24

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32:28

That's a can't trip, but it's enough to get a few people's attention.

32:35

The, the, I take it. This is the instantaneous sound.

32:39

Yeah. Okay. It's not a phrase and say, so fire is about as much as you can get out with it.

32:45

So fire from backstage, from backstage, right.

32:50

People immediately begin to get up and grab their things and wash up fire to fire.

32:54

There's

32:54

a

32:54

fire

32:54

that

32:54

Begin

32:54

to

32:54

exit

32:54

with

33:00

haste. We should, We should move. We should move that.

33:02

Let's let's, let's move on under the stage and backstage.

33:07

Okay. I'd like to let me just check if you're doing this quietly, What

33:14

are

33:14

we

33:14

doing

33:20

now? 2018. 21 7.

33:22

Okay.

33:22

It's

33:22

that

33:22

squeaky

33:26

wheel. This isn't going to use that dice again. Cause I can't tell what three.

33:29

No, it's not. It can't be a three.

33:32

Why would you use this dye?

33:35

Because sometimes it rolls.

33:39

Amazing. Other times was no one I didn't do well.

33:45

It's a fine. When did you get images?

33:48

Oh, I wrote a 20,

33:51

20, 23, 23 7.

33:54

Okay. Thankfully there was some distraction in there.

33:59

And overall more successes than failures, even though a few people probably watched you go on stage.

34:05

They don't necessarily give a shit.

34:07

Cause they're either worried about the fire or like how long the couth and just keep moving.

34:12

But you do scoot up into the wings of the stage, past the, the curtains.

34:16

And immediately back there, you can see there isn't a stagehand there.

34:20

It looks to be, some of the performers are in the process of kneeling and helping kind of get cushions under the one that fell during the performance who looks like they're injured, but it's not like grievous by any means.

34:36

They're just like, they don't notice you Except for the half health man who finished the performance, who as you come to the curtain is literally standing right there in front of you.

34:52

As you push through, who would have been at the front of the pack, leading the charge into the backstage.

35:02

I'll go first. Maybe they lifted me on the stage first.

35:05

Let's say So it was a cruise by the side.

35:09

You almost run straight into the sternum of this, of this man stops.

35:14

Puts a hand on your shoulder.

35:19

I'm sorry. What are you?

35:22

Oh, I'm I I'm fresh cut grass.

35:25

I not supposed to be here. Oh, I was very concerned about you're a performer who had an injury and wanting to come back and offer my services.

35:35

I'm a bit of a medicine, bought A

35:40

dress for a medicinally trained individual costumes are always welcome.

35:48

But I believe me when I say that we have it under control and you hear it and you sort of like helping the performer up and kind of like stretching a bit.

35:57

You can see someone has administered some kind of numbing agents to the space where they kind have impacted on their, on their butt.

36:07

Oh, Y it, I don't want to disagree with you.

36:10

It's it seems like you do have everything in hand, but I think I could help that, that performer feel better much quicker.

36:19

He is quite a talented medical practitioner.

36:30

Sure. 13, The person that you've sussed out at this point is Steven gives you a look.

36:37

I'm certain it wouldn't hurt at the very least make way we have curious self-professed healer who's arrived and kind of like guides you past hasn't and then looks over you.

36:51

I'm sorry, this, this is not an exit to have to go the other way.

36:55

Okay. And of course we're just with him.

36:57

We just had to accompany our associates.

37:00

Self-professed Healer really enjoyed the show.

37:03

We had such esteemed boxes where we were seating that we had.

37:06

Oh, is that what you were CT?

37:08

Oh, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. And you'd like, has forgotten entirely about you and the, your harmed individual and is now engaged in this like really anytime there is a membership that you could actually, and that will allow cheaper seats throughout this year.

37:22

What else do you have airing with the rest of the season?

37:25

Oh, well I have to go ahead and get my repertoire out my office here in the bed, But

37:30

I'm gonna have to accompany.

37:33

You

37:35

Make

37:35

a

37:38

prescription. Come on.

37:43

Oh, okay. Okay. 22. Got it. Looks at you. It looks at Dorian in particular over the dresses.

37:48

Certainly that can be arranged just please.

37:52

In the meantime, you, And

37:54

I'll, I'll just assess the situation.

37:57

Is this performer hurt badly.

38:01

Make a medicine check 15

38:05

plus five 20, Taking a glance at how they're holding themselves, the physicality of how they're adjusting their weight to compensate.

38:12

You get the sense that probably this might be a, a fractured tailbone.

38:19

Oh, and the game not.

38:23

Okay. So not serious, but definitely not enjoyable by any means.

38:29

Oh, I couldn't help. But notice that you, that you're injured.

38:32

Do you mind if I, if I, if I touch you and, and without you, I, I can only help you.

38:40

I promise. I'm designed to help you Because

38:42

it looks the other members and this up close, you could a glance.

38:45

You could see that there is a familial thread between everybody here.

38:48

There definitely is. This is like a family of performers.

38:53

Stephen said that I, that I was welcomed back here.

38:57

All right. I guess if you can help, Ah,

39:01

this'll only take a second, but I'll have to touch your, your backside if that's all right With

39:07

you. That is fine. Okay. Just turn over a little bit.

39:11

The nerves begin to definitely creep up into their expression.

39:17

No, I will gently lay my hand on, on their, their back and cast cure wounds.

39:25

All righty. Go ahead and roll.

39:29

Let's see. D eight, not great.

39:32

Five Hit

39:34

points. That's not bad.

39:34

There

39:34

was

39:34

a

39:34

sound

39:34

and,

39:34

and

39:34

you

39:34

watch

39:34

it

39:34

all,

39:34

everyone

39:34

else,

39:34

all

39:34

of

39:34

a

39:34

sudden

39:34

reach

39:34

for

39:34

it

39:34

and

39:34

grab

39:34

it

39:34

for

39:43

you. Like what the fuck are you doing before they go?

39:50

Huh? Huh?

39:52

Huh. Oh my goodness. That's amazing. Well, There was just a little alignment issue that we have that in Play

39:59

off. Wow. Thank you. Small metal thing.

40:02

You're I've been very helpful.

40:04

Oh, it was a fantastic show where I'm sorry, you took a spill there, but before you were just incredible flying through the air like that Remarkable.

40:15

Well, it is, there's a family affair here.

40:17

We are only as good as we are as a whole.

40:19

You're all, You're all related to each Other.

40:21

I have motor less.

40:23

Wow. I'll take it. There was more to the show.

40:27

There was, but you know, I have to take care of ourselves first, So

40:31

great. How long have you been in the business?

40:35

Well, and it looks over and you can see there's the, an older, the older moment of the, of the, of the troop.

40:41

This is going to steps forward. You can see she's in her probably early fifties, but fitter than anyone you've seen in their twenties for the most part, kind of comes forward with the discerning glance.

40:50

And it's kind of at this point, now you can see the protectiveness kind of the matronly protectiveness kick in, as they begin to look through you and take in both of you with as much of an instant read as that can, my name is Kendra, and this is my family.

41:05

We have been doing this for about 15 years together and we will continue to do it until I had drop or the rest of us do.

41:16

Wow. So you're, you're the, you're the head honcho.

41:20

They all kind of like, look at her, then I get you.

41:25

I think you very much for helping my son.

41:31

It's my absolute pleasure. And I can't wait to see your show.

41:36

She looks over and the younger performer that you have to go, and maybe sooner than the, we were disgusting.

41:42

Well, you need to rest regardless just to make sure anyway, it is appreciated.

41:51

We could actually maybe use your help for something.

41:54

Since we're back here In the shutter, we could be helpful to follow, but We

41:59

do need a little information.

42:02

There've been some rumors flying around about people disappearing from the theater.

42:08

We're just kind of looking into that a little bit.

42:10

Yeah. I'll kind of go against each other.

42:14

And Kendra goes, I cannot say I've heard the rumors.

42:17

We've only been in town for about a week.

42:20

You're a traveling show. We res, oh, how, how long Have

42:23

you been residents of this Theater? Only for two more weeks.

42:26

And you've only been here a week.

42:28

Yes. On that note, ORM is going to fade back while everyone's talking to them.

42:31

And just out of curiosity, check out the house again and see if anyone's living room.

42:37

You guys. Can I ask them, ask where Steven is in relation to Let's

42:41

do it. Well, this conversation and healing is happening. Steven was going to talking with you guys up until the point where you wanted to re-engage.

42:47

In which case he would have followed her. He wants to stay nearby.

42:50

He's definitely seems invested in these sudden arrivals that are going to possibly drop more money onto the performances.

42:57

What kind of feedback was Orrin?

42:59

Just be a second set of eyes with him as well.

43:02

Okay. So 22, 22.

43:05

Okay. Yeah, assistant. I was at, I'm always at advantage.

43:10

It's

43:10

a

43:13

secret. He's always In

43:15

the

43:15

game

43:15

and

43:22

life. You see most patrons leave, but one who in the far, far back, kind of to the side of the exit, you see one, it's kind of hard to see this distance, but they're wearing a hood indoors, which is a really cool, remarkable.

43:42

It's awesome. It's every, every online role-playing character from the late nineties Look

43:49

off in the corner there That's

43:55

right about then that they exit after the other patrons, What

44:02

do you think?

44:05

Probably nothing.

44:09

Shall we follow? Let me put it like that.

44:14

Let's go. Alright, Kendra. As we leave, I just go sit in a message image and be right back and I'll send back starting a connection.

44:28

All right. Let me know for four minutes, what's going on.

44:38

Images. The messages are accompanied by banjo While

44:54

that's transpiring. And Stephen is beginning to approach the group.

44:57

Kendra is kind of talking to you the best of Benson, asking him about any sorts of recent things would be the owner in points over to Stovall new steps.

45:11

What about me? They're asking about there have been disappearances and songs.

45:19

That's preposterous. I mean, there are those people that leave the performances early, because whether they are and appreciative of the art we present or drunkards that have been a disappearances, Is

45:30

there a particular section where people often lean, maybe that, that seat in the house doesn't get the best view or something And I'm to cast, detect thoughts.

45:43

As

45:43

I

45:43

asked

45:43

that

45:49

That is going to be a 16 GDC.

45:58

Fuck 14. The, you still catch surface thoughts, right?

46:01

One of them was the only, You

46:04

only have to roll the roll if I'm prying.

46:07

Prying. Yeah. I'll catch surface thoughts.

46:11

Yes. Regarding Nice surface thoughts.

46:13

You catch is a immediate beat of recognition to fear, to curiosity and a thought of like what?

46:24

Huh? And he goes, Kendra, take your family to rest.

46:27

You've had a very intense past hour, but well done.

46:32

Well done. Everyone have a good night.

46:37

We should talk. All right. We'll follow you in your offices.

46:41

If you don't mind, just follow me.

46:43

Please Want me to take care of the other kids or do you want, do you want some muscle here?

46:49

I don't think we'll need muscle.

46:51

It's

46:51

up

46:51

to

46:54

you. We should all stick together.

46:56

Well, you having to nod here are off arms, pretty capable.

47:03

One is mom has got things covered off to where what'd they go?

47:11

They followed, they followed someone and I'll just ask Lauda, where exactly?

47:17

Where are you going?

47:19

Oh, saw creepy guy in the corner.

47:23

They saw, they saw a creepy guy in the corner.

47:26

Just giving them a look.

47:33

See, Can you ask her? What Levels?

47:35

What did he look like?

47:38

Exactly. What did he look like?

47:44

Exactly. Really cool. Clip. What color was it?

47:46

What

47:46

color

47:46

was

47:48

it? It was hard to see the below house lights that weren't super bright at this distance, but you did roll pretty high.

47:54

So

47:54

you

47:54

would

47:54

know

47:54

it

47:54

would

47:54

been

47:54

like

47:54

a

47:54

dull

48:00

gray. Okay. In fact, now that the question comes up again, when you think about it, it's not unlike an individual that you saw when you had a run in with the Corsair.

48:13

Interesting. Oh, it was something we saw the Corsairs sorry.

48:17

I want to ask when.

48:19

So when I perceived in the wings, the Corsair than my, was he, was he cloaked to, did he have a hood?

48:27

Okay. Pull the hood back before revealing themselves.

48:38

Okay. Got a friend.

48:40

Not a friend. I don't know. It could be for instance.

48:44

So you both, they might be friends.

48:46

I'm not sure.

48:48

Likely. I saw someone earlier of lurking in the wings.

48:55

Oh, You saw, I didn't know what to think of it at the beginning.

48:57

I thought maybe it was part of the act or I saw it and it just sort of, I don't know, was distracted and anyway, yeah.

49:06

I think it was from someone from the Corsairs Keep

49:12

us

49:22

posted. We'll do exercise makes me feel so warming In

49:28

the interim while you two are both wanting to make a stealth check as you were pursuing this individual.

49:35

All right. All right. All right.

49:37

All right.

49:40

17, 16, 60. Okay.

49:42

Got it. Well, you guys begin to pursue carefully out of the chamber.

49:46

The rest of you follow Steven out of the wings, the theater into a hallway, into a switchback staircase that leads to a second floor on the level of where the rafters would have been.

49:58

And a little further back, you can see there is a nice kind of dark mahogany door that has these intricate carvings of the comedy and tragedy masks.

50:08

They're kind of mingled in with tree leaves and what looks to be almost like a, a relief composition of drew SAR, spires in a simplistic way.

50:20

Following into the interior. It's not a massive office by any means.

50:25

It's quite cluttered with the furniture that's there. And it has a, you'd see a lot of collected antique furniture that has been used to fill most of the space here almost to ensure that anybody that's entering and stepping at the edge of the desk to greet him is uncomfortably pressed into proximity.

50:39

So the five of you pushing in there, it's very much kind of shoulder to shoulder as to Vaughn steps around to the other side of his desk and sits down crosses when the, over the other places, his hands on the edge.

50:52

If you wouldn't mind closing the door for me.

51:01

Thank you.

51:03

So You're asking about disobey parents.

51:05

This is, where did you hear about this All

51:11

over and everybody's talking about it 12.

51:29

Really? Everyone. I mean, I don't know everyone in this city.

51:35

Just, I mean, I think that was more of a general statement.

51:39

Where did we hear about how did I care?

51:49

The fact that we're even here should have you a little worried.

51:54

Oh, quite curious. As to what your intent is, asking these questions Only

51:58

to help you out.

52:02

Really just a few deep pocketed strangers come and see one of our matinee performances and decide out of the goodness in their heart that they're going to look into some disappearances that apparently have been rumored by everyone.

52:13

Isn't it? What,

52:14

what are you, yeah.

52:16

When she'd be more suspicious.

52:19

If, if penniless desperate people appeared at your door wanting to know about this stuff, It

52:26

is possible. There are good people in the world Since

52:29

back in things for a second and you kind of take in the garish office, you can see all sorts of Bibles and posters of performance has passed to that are plastered along the walls.

52:39

You could see asthma and the child of light across the OzNet under a ready night, the calamity and interpretive dance history of Exandria his greatest tragedy.

52:53

To kill a God. The Scanlon short held one man show manner of various various performance posters throughout the years have been collected and are on display.

53:06

Some seem to have maybe caught a bit of like moldy corners of the edges.

53:10

But nevertheless, it is this definitely a collection of keepsakes for one man who is desperately trying to keep this theater.

53:17

What he wants it to Be.

53:19

You've been in business for a long time.

53:21

Oh, I've been in business for not enough time, but what we're working on it.

53:33

I love it with you.

53:35

If you are indeed here to help, it's not like you're going to do any more than the Wilders wardens have not done.

53:44

And to just pressure me with questions.

53:46

Yes, yes.

53:47

We've

53:47

had

53:47

some

53:51

disappearances. Don't know why. And I'm a bit frustrated that anyone I've spoken with has turned up with no answers.

53:59

And a lot of eyes seem to be on me.

54:02

How Long have they been going on About

54:06

three weeks ago? It was the first disappearance of our previous janitor.

54:12

His name is OSHA Breck.

54:14

Say that again? One more time.

54:17

Our previous janitor Lucia Breck, a very nice older halfling gentlemen, who'd been working here for over 10 years.

54:27

Quiet kept to himself, but was a good worker.

54:31

Was I didn't interact with them too much, but he just sort of vanished.

54:36

We thought maybe he just quit.

54:40

Maybe he decided to move on. So we didn't think anything of it.

54:42

I replaced the position.

54:46

It was fine. Two weeks ago, we had a performance troop come through and I missed the diamond mask.

54:55

One of the performers was a half giant actor who played not the lead, but one of the supporting roles named CNO then vanished.

55:06

The troop began to ask questions. I of course have no answers, but you know, performance that can be flaky.

55:13

What These happening during the shows or To

55:17

my knowledge, these disappearances were not noticed until either intermission or some point after the night's festivities, but two performances or two disappearances.

55:34

Within that same week, we had two patrons vanish.

55:40

This is Eden called swell.

55:42

And Mr.

55:44

Amir, the OTO both, well often at the same box that you currently took up seats, But they disappeared.

55:56

No one noticed until their family came around asking the next day, the separate families.

56:01

What was the second gentleman's name?

56:06

Mr.

56:06

Amir,

56:06

Leo

56:09

Alto. They apparently were last seen here for performance for the night.

56:15

And That was that same troop. The diamond masks were performing during That

56:19

time. They did bring the understudy, believing that CNO the may have just absconded.

56:25

So they were finishing out their on.

56:27

And that's when these patrons apparently disappeared.

56:31

The night they were seeing the show.

56:35

One week ago, we had an occasional patron named Jada and I do not know his last name.

56:45

Not very well off. Occasionally scrounge up the money for one of our backseat tickets, younger gentlemen, he apparently punished as well and friends of his began to ask similar questions.

56:59

So that's when I really began to take notice my nerves begin to fray a bit and began to do my own internal investigations, but it's very hard to maintain focus while also trying to run a business.

57:15

And it's about this time, that word got to the wardens and they began to poke around and to no avail other than leading to make very presumptuous statements in an, at my presence.

57:32

And then three days ago, a young woman who was one of our rotating bartenders here at the theater named lydney OSA Dolla.

57:45

She vanished, she's the most recent sober.

57:49

Now looking at a total of six people who have disappeared in the period of three weeks and I'm growing anxious and worried.

57:59

So if you're looking to help, what do you have?

58:04

Well, first of all, can I just say that that's sounds tragic and horrible and I'm sorry that you've had to go through all of this shouldering, this burden of guilt and, and all by yourself, but we can't help.

58:21

We've been pretty good about finding people who either don't want to be found or, or have been lost themselves so far.

58:29

Well, one for one, Right?

58:31

Are you investigators? What is your trade for my task?

58:36

Look a bit some, and I mean this with nothing, but the utmost respect in this light, you look a bit patchwork.

58:50

We are intentionally as such. We're kind of a Jack of all trades troop.

58:55

Everyone

58:55

brings

58:58

something. Hm. So what are you looking for?

59:01

The adoration of the innocence of drew saw you looking to make a name for yourself, or you just wanting a payday, Like,

59:14

like many performers. We also have a patron and he wants, he just wants to do some good in the world.

59:20

So we're here to please him leans Forward,

59:22

getting a little darker in the face.

59:24

So you were sent here by someone who's I might have, We're

59:33

not really at Liberty to discuss that.

59:37

I, for one can say, I'm excited to be a patron of the local arts in any way I can.

59:48

We're not fully under his wing as of yet.

59:51

So we only take jobs that appeal to our nature.

1:00:01

So just out of the goodness of your own heart, That

1:00:06

hard

1:00:06

to

1:00:06

believe

1:00:11

Sometimes, but we are purveyors of stories of hope here.

1:00:17

And even in this old long dragged gut of mine, I would like to think there are individuals out here that wish to make any difference, but he was one money is If

1:00:37

it

1:00:37

happens,

1:00:37

it

1:00:39

happens. All of these people that went missing.

1:00:42

What type of show was it?

1:00:44

A matinee and evening?

1:00:45

Was

1:00:45

it

1:00:45

all

1:00:48

sorts? They all seem to be evening performances.

1:00:53

If I recall, or at least the disappearances and were noticed by the next morning.

1:01:06

All right. Any particular nuts in general, There

1:01:12

wasn't a pattern. If that's what you're asking, it's a bit scattershot and which days that happened And

1:01:21

just to make sure that we have all of our geese in a row, you didn't have anything to do with Absolutely

1:01:36

not. I'm too busy to commit to anything is foul.

1:01:40

Did you build this structure yourself or did you, do you buy it already after it was bill?

1:01:45

It's a little bit of both.

1:01:47

I purchased it in a simpler state and expanded it, unleashing its potential.

1:01:54

And do you have an underground storage in this theater?

1:02:00

We do. Would you mind if we took a look around there Kind

1:02:05

of glances back at the five of you again, you've been rather quiet.

1:02:10

What's your specialty in this strange troop, Humble

1:02:17

bod Know a few jokes.

1:02:20

You're a performer. Are you a performance troop? Are you trying to use this to get yourself an audition?

1:02:28

No, no, no, no. We all come from various backgrounds and Found

1:02:30

our way. Cause again, respect the hustle.

1:02:35

Well, you know, maybe once we've found, I

1:02:38

want nothing less fan to be honest age.

1:02:42

No offense. Nope.

1:02:44

Okay. I clarify something.

1:02:46

I wouldn't mind. Oh really? Oh, it just sounds fun.

1:02:49

It looked fun. They were all up there getting clapped at and stuff.

1:02:54

Well, you know, maybe after all this has done, we can look at Dorian and FCG and Fern to yes, I would love to.

1:03:02

Oh boy. Nope, Nope, Nope. Oh No,

1:03:04

no lunch in the wings.

1:03:09

Yes. I will notify the staff that you are here under my business to ask questions and the staff would probably have better questions to answers to your questions than I would since I don't really directly deal with most of these individuals of Interest.

1:03:27

Two quick ones, that three quick ones then Throw

1:03:29

in a fourth fire at what do you want For

1:03:33

then? Well first, do you know about any secret entrances, weird trap doors that may exist in the building connecting to the center of the buyer, et cetera?

1:03:44

No, the only trap doors we have at the stage, and those are specifically just to go under the stage.

1:03:50

We'll keep it on after.

1:03:52

Sure. To, is there anyone working here who worked here before you got here?

1:03:55

No, I Am

1:03:57

the oldest one, Three. It's

1:03:59

possible not to point out, but a lot of our employees are so young.

1:04:04

So Sometimes there's someone who remembers something that's way back there.

1:04:08

These buildings are weird.

1:04:10

And is it possible to get an address for that janitor that disappeared at some point, that would be where I want to start looking once we've discovered, If

1:04:18

I'm going to make them tiny, honest, I have no idea where he lives.

1:04:23

That was fair. Some of the people in front the staff might know also you might want to let your staff know that we are a okay to be here.

1:04:34

I will do so. I'll do it now.

1:04:37

Actually, B S exit my quarter's Before

1:04:39

we go. Just, just one quick question for me, just based on what we were talking about before That

1:04:43

isn't the costume, is it?

1:04:49

Oh, and you can see that he leans in real close and starts inspecting me kind of looking over the lens, like eyes and like, pardon me, poking the metallic phase.

1:05:03

You know what I don't, I don't honestly know, but I, I think I was built to, to be helpful, but I was really curious about what you said before.

1:05:12

How do you get into acting?

1:05:15

Like, is it, do you take a class or like, do I need an agent of some sort like, I'm sure you get this question.

1:05:29

I do please. Who say, I sound really cool.

1:05:32

And, and I think that's all I

1:05:34

really

1:05:36

need. Get out, grab fresh, cut grass and drag them out.

1:05:47

This is actually important. We have a couple of companions who are out right now on an errand, but they will be joining us here shortly.

1:05:57

I assume a small man named Army's a half Lang, very agile brown hair.

1:06:03

And one of her friends, her name is law.

1:06:10

Now she is, She can be intimidating in her prison, dark hair.

1:06:17

Beautiful. I will notify the staff.

1:06:21

Just leave Them

1:06:27

there. Joining Mormon. God, You said that, that people wouldn't notice that they were missing until the next morning We're

1:06:34

sometimes intermission or sometimes intermission or sometimes most of the individuals that disappeared actually don't know the specifics you might need to ask around The

1:06:49

half giant. The performer was that in the middle of a show that he went missing or, or at the end of It?

1:06:55

That was afterward.

1:06:57

Okay. Alright.

1:06:57

Do

1:06:57

you

1:06:57

have

1:06:57

the,

1:06:57

you

1:06:57

run

1:06:57

the

1:06:57

whole

1:07:01

ship. Do you ever have a stage manager or someone who oversees what's going on?

1:07:09

I have two individuals to help me manage the length and breadth of the establishment.

1:07:15

The two main right hand helpers Tafta she handles most of the business and financials with me.

1:07:25

And there is no Kenpo previously performer, but his now become one of my stage managers and helps run the ship.

1:07:36

Alright, Thank you very much.

1:07:40

Of course, he reaches over and you can see kind of off to the side.

1:07:44

There isn't an odd conical device that is a fixed to the left-hand wall and kind of leans into it.

1:07:54

There is an odd true when you hear an echoing through and you now this is like a strange connecting series of audio tubes, Australians, troop of seven odd individuals that have my permission to wander.

1:08:09

The premise is help them.

1:08:13

If you can. Two of them are apparently scattered about, there is a small childlike, one named boredom And the creepy lady One.

1:08:36

I don't remember that. Nope. I leave my headshot on the way out.

1:08:55

special

1:08:55

skill

1:09:10

It hurts With the rest of us.

1:09:12

That's the one that's the biggest, no, don't do that.

1:09:15

I'm doing everything else.

1:09:18

Give a shot. The two of you have pursued into the, the entryway of the theater, the holding entrance, where we can see the ticket holders are no longer present.

1:09:31

And there are a few people that are lingering and having conversations we a half dozen or so that are left in here, but the doors are partially open and people are exiting and you can see the dragon born usher is kind of just making sure that everyone leaves you catch just kind of fading past into the night air at this time, which is, Oh

1:10:00

boy, shit. You see what looks to be a similar figure heading off into the night air.

1:10:06

I Get

1:10:08

a little air. Sounds good as we're walking through the lobby too.

1:10:12

I just want to kind of keep my ears open and see if I catch any chatter from the audience.

1:10:16

If anyone's like where's George.

1:10:20

I don't know. No, Tom from George strange thing, but a little bit of chatter you catch up on seems to be people going.

1:10:30

I, it was a good show.

1:10:32

I just wish maybe it was a bit longer and somebody else's, you know, oh, I remember when I had a buddy like that many years ago, I could climb and leave with the rest of them.

1:10:44

But then I married you, you know, You step out into the air and Take

1:11:01

care of yourself. And it's the city at night, Right? It's the city of nights.

1:11:04

You can see the temperature is dropped To

1:11:12

come to this Hour

1:11:14

and a half. The temperature has dropped significantly for the night. It was a bit chilly and there is a faint missed the, just starting to kind of operate along certain elements of the city around you make a perception.

1:11:31

Check for me. What is that?

1:11:35

That's a one that's not much better.

1:11:44

Real good though.

1:11:46

We're good. Well, two of them, three of them, Unfortunately

1:11:52

you lost sight of them.

1:11:56

Oh boy. You know what? Yeah. Yeah.

1:11:58

That's true. Cause you have advantage on Medicaid. So yeah. Go ahead and roll separately.

1:12:07

No 12th.

1:12:07

I

1:12:07

think

1:12:07

he

1:12:10

went. I think I know he went that way.

1:12:12

No, I was watching him.

1:12:14

He was, I jumped six feet in the air and try to look over the crowd and then land back down shit.

1:12:22

There is a, a child about your height, who was holding hands with the mom who was in the mid conversation on the outside.

1:12:27

He was just staring at us.

1:12:32

Laying

1:12:32

goes,

1:12:35

Oh wow. And it's like Barry's was facing.

1:12:37

It

1:12:37

was

1:12:37

mom's

1:12:39

skirt. Stay away from the theater kid inside a short lift.

1:12:50

Yeah, Fuck.

1:12:52

Sorry. Rose really high Peter wondering where the fuck we went.

1:12:58

I'm going to try the lower men's room.

1:13:01

Try the up of women's crossways again.

1:13:08

Okay. Quickly discovered the bathrooms here are unisex, but yeah.

1:13:15

Good for them. You wonder a bit trying to, are you looking for the rest of the troop or are you doing your own investigations here I

1:13:23

guess for touring the theater?

1:13:30

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well go search.

1:13:33

Come with me. I lead us to the spot where I first spotted the person.

1:13:37

I'm just on the off chance that they dropped their parking ticket.

1:13:42

Sure. Wrote an investigation check for me.

1:13:51

17, 17, not bad. I didn't drop anything.

1:13:53

Do you feel confident that you're not missing anything, but they were only you get the sense that they were only there briefly?

1:14:03

Hmm. That's a big fat dead stumped.

1:14:09

You want to talk to emission?

1:14:13

Yes. I check in with him in gen.

1:14:23

Oh, we lost him. Pushed out from the, the chamber of your conversation.

1:14:29

You hear the terrifying whispers of laudanum into your mind.

1:14:33

Oh, Perfect timing. Well, long, long ways.

1:14:35

Don't do it.

1:14:40

Don't start that. Don't want to decide that you like smell bad or something.

1:14:48

Yeah. You introduced yourself as being covered in shit lamb.

1:14:54

It's true. Go back to the civil war.

1:15:00

We are about to tour their underground storage facility.

1:15:02

If you would like to join us, they're About

1:15:06

to tour the underground storage facility, Meet

1:15:10

you by the, where are we going?

1:15:13

I don't know where to tell you what we'll be on the ground level.

1:15:15

Should we do a, Should we come with you or should we expect others inspect other areas while you are And

1:15:22

distracted? No, we've got the run of the place now.

1:15:25

So come with us. We could use all those we could get.

1:15:28

All right.

1:15:30

Let's meet them downstairs.

1:15:32

As you gather up in the main theater chamber, is that where you're meeting The

1:15:37

ground, letting the main theater chambers that were that's where we're going to go.

1:15:42

Sure. As you convene there, you see stepping off the stage, a, a kind of human man in his thirties, reddish brown skin, wavy black hair that covers over one eye and goes just past kind of the chin.

1:15:55

You can see, he has all manner of jewelry that are visible peaking through from underneath the jet black baggier outfit that he's currently wearing over his body.

1:16:05

You can see it has like a hood space over the shoulder, make a history check for, And then, yeah.

1:16:22

And then you don't pick up anything noteworthy or memorable this by the figures kind of steps off the stage.

1:16:31

Okay. All right. So we're supposed to be showing you around, I guess I'm Ocampo and the stage manager.

1:16:38

What did, what are you looking for?

1:16:44

Looking for Clues about? We

1:16:45

know there's been some, some disappearances around here.

1:16:50

We're trying to get a beat on maybe some, some entrances that we don't know about or exits you know About

1:16:58

the disappearances, right? I'm

1:16:59

I'm not aware How

1:17:02

aware? Well, I, I, I I've worked with a couple of them.

1:17:06

Three of them have included the performer, but it was a temporary time.

1:17:13

Yeah. Why? I was just trying to figure out if you had something to do with it.

1:17:19

Excuse me. I think what she means is, do you have an opinion about perhaps what's been happening?

1:17:25

We always have such specific questions. We never asked the person's feelings.

1:17:28

What did you feel out there?

1:17:33

Thank you for asking.

1:17:37

I mean, look, Boucher was a very sweet man. Just kind of kept to himself.

1:17:41

I think a persuasion check.

1:17:47

That'd be a 24,

1:17:49

24. Okay. Yeah. It kind of opens up to you immediately.

1:17:53

Like Lucia was a very, very nice man.

1:17:55

You know, it was working before I started.

1:17:57

I've only been here for about three, four years as a, as a stage manager.

1:18:00

I was a performer beforehand and was kind of stuck around, but the, he was very nice.

1:18:07

He, he was in fabric and keeping everything clean in and outside of the theater, he kept the surrounding streets clean.

1:18:15

It was just very into his work.

1:18:18

Nice. Like a genuinely nice are nice. Like, boy, I always thought he was such a nice guy, too bad.

1:18:22

He ate the neighbors, you know, That's

1:18:25

a, did he eat The

1:18:27

neighbors? No, no, no. Nevermind.

1:18:29

It was very nice. Very nice.

1:18:30

I know. Weird vibes.

1:18:33

No, just kept to himself and becomes kind of sad vibes.

1:18:36

That makes sense.

1:18:36

You

1:18:36

know,

1:18:36

the

1:18:42

lonely. Yeah. I, I didn't know too much about Mrs.

1:18:47

Caldwell.

1:18:47

And

1:18:47

the

1:18:47

other

1:18:47

one

1:18:47

you

1:18:47

might

1:18:47

want

1:18:47

to

1:18:47

ask

1:18:47

Tafta

1:18:47

I

1:18:47

know

1:18:47

that

1:18:47

she

1:18:47

had

1:18:47

to

1:18:47

kind

1:18:47

of

1:18:47

motivate

1:18:47

a

1:18:47

rapport

1:18:47

with

1:18:59

them. Yeah. They have to in general had a little more face time with a lot of the patrons here.

1:19:03

I just kind of run things from behind the stage.

1:19:06

I feel bad about it living either. She was very sweet.

1:19:09

She'd only been here for a few months.

1:19:12

Bright-eyed young woman on into, you can see she wanted to be an actor herself.

1:19:15

And this was kind of what she thought was her shoe.

1:19:19

And she mentioned a few times and I passed it up the chain and you know, maybe there was an opportunity down the road to have her in for an audition.

1:19:29

And then, So if, if you did, if you wanted an audition, you are the person to talk to you about that.

1:19:35

No, no, no, no, no. I mean, I can pass it to them, but that, you know, that, that goes through Steven.

1:19:40

He's the one with the Basement

1:19:44

storage. Right. That's what You guys are kind of like walking and talking as you go, okay.

1:19:47

You're getting to that space and just like pulling out a keys and a key ring and starting to situate.

1:19:51

And those are litany the night they went missing.

1:19:55

I, you have any memory of it.

1:19:57

I, I did. Yeah. I think I did.

1:19:59

Yes. Do you remember where they were when you last saw them?

1:20:03

She was just doing his usual rounds, cleaning the inside, cleaning the outside.

1:20:07

It's it's kind of his business.

1:20:11

And Lindsey was at the bar. It didn't, he was at the bar.

1:20:15

She was, she was very nice.

1:20:18

Very quiet girl. Kind of kept to herself on her breaks.

1:20:20

Where did She go on her brakes?

1:20:24

I don't know specifically. I think maybe outside.

1:20:28

She, I don't know for certain, but you could smell on her post sometimes times.

1:20:33

I think she, I think she enjoyed partaking in the burning of various tobaccos.

1:20:44

Oh, The first to disappear as janitor.

1:20:47

Did he have, did he have keys, a master key?

1:20:51

Did he have access to all of the theater?

1:20:55

We'll all have The theater. I would be between me, Steven and teff.

1:20:59

That'd be the only three with access to the entire theater who she would have had access to the front door and all of the central chambers, but the offices and the storage basement, he would not have had keys to.

1:21:16

All right. What type of perform did you use to what, what, what did you, Oh,

1:21:23

I

1:21:23

was

1:21:23

a

1:21:23

October

1:21:23

and

1:21:23

a

1:21:23

poet

1:21:23

depending

1:21:23

on

1:21:23

what

1:21:23

was

1:21:23

required

1:21:23

to

1:21:30

meet. Oh, very cool.

1:21:32

Impromptu poetry or rehearse. Oh,

1:21:34

I, I was reading other people's poetry.

1:21:37

I guess orators should be the specific terms.

1:21:40

I'm did not write my poetry, but I was very good at speaking other people's hearts forensics.

1:21:50

Sure. Anyway, opens the door and you can see the staircase to send us into a lightless expanse below is the creepiest part of the theater goes ahead and reaches up and grabs the land, land turning kind of like turns.

1:22:01

You can see the what kind of light a bit and pulls the oil in from down.

1:22:07

You're getting, Yeah.

1:22:09

Before, before we plunge, I would like to hang back as everyone's going down and just take one last scan of the house and anything I can see from the stage and see if I can clock Cyrus.

1:22:21

Yeah.

1:22:21

Make

1:22:21

a

1:22:28

perception.

1:22:28

Check

1:22:30

17. Not bad. You do a thorough scan in the short period of time.

1:22:33

Feeling confident that looking within the inside.

1:22:37

No sign of Cyrus, Unnaturally

1:22:40

close to him. What are you looking at?

1:22:46

Jesus to make it?

1:22:48

You see something? No, no. I was just making sure everyone made it out safely from the fire.

1:22:56

We lost that creepy guy really quick.

1:23:00

Oh good. Yes or no. Oh, I mean, he lost us.

1:23:04

You,

1:23:04

you

1:23:04

lost

1:23:07

him. He's a fascinating way because it depends on how you phrase it.

1:23:10

I guess if it was a threat, we lost him. But if you were after him, he lost you makes you think, are you coming?

1:23:22

I, yes. Right. I try to find everyone in the dark safe Mack fifth, I attack .

1:23:38

They got it. And think about there being some sort of a curse laid on this theater.

1:23:45

So you just send following into the basement area here and with the light that you can see curling from the lantern, there are large cases like luggage, compartments, and, and locked boots that have bits of costumes like spilling out on the side of where they were closed.

1:24:03

You can see there is Cobb winds everywhere.

1:24:07

This is, this is the graveyard performances past where props and portions of stage decor and flats are kind of just left and forgotten in the far end.

1:24:20

It, it is truly nightmarish without context and still creepy with context to see just this odd arrangement of nonsensically fit together, colors and shapes and furniture and masks and partial creature bodies and crowns and weird human faces that are painted over and all lit by the singular lantern as he passes through.

1:24:47

I've never been so comfortable anywhere.

1:24:52

My entire org specifically looking for anything that is not look, it looks like it's been moved, disturbed, not covered in dust and sitting there for 10 years.

1:25:00

Is it all that if a prince help out with that and of course, Okay,

1:25:09

you are crackling lights begin to disperse throughout the room and you watch as Ocampo turns.

1:25:17

Oh, Keep yours lit as well.

1:25:20

By all means. So

1:25:22

here is where do we start the things from there, nothing used, we generally keep a central pathway here and he kind of begins to describe the, he tries to describe how well-organized it is, but the more he describes it, you can see he's beginning to admit that it's not very well organized.

1:25:37

And he's like, I w I was meaning to change that up. That needs to be moved.

1:25:41

There was a space here, but that fell off the top and we just never got it on the it's not usually like this.

1:25:54

That's clearly always make a Perception check for me.

1:25:56

Protection or investigation, or your chosen in general, Is

1:25:58

everything pushed up against the walls?

1:26:00

Or are there openings around where the walls are for fireplace?

1:26:04

No, this is very much not fire safe.

1:26:06

Everything was pushed up against the walls.

1:26:12

21, 21. Oh no. Yeah, you can.

1:26:13

You

1:26:13

can

1:26:13

see

1:26:13

where,

1:26:13

where

1:26:13

certain

1:26:13

pieces

1:26:13

of

1:26:13

equipment

1:26:13

have

1:26:13

been

1:26:13

shifted

1:26:13

and

1:26:21

moved. It's like this room is left, abandoned the entire time.

1:26:24

A lot of things that are put into storage and then brought out for other performances or dragged in, and now you can see certain regions of the room are, are left to, to far more dust and decay comparatively.

1:26:37

And the areas that are closer to the door have a lot less dust.

1:26:39

And you can see are placed in specifically there because they get the most used.

1:26:44

And those involve like chairs and tables, you know, kind of generalized furniture that can be utilized for multiple different types of performances, as well as general costumes.

1:26:51

You can see one space where it looks like it has outfits that have almost a, a Siara designed to them, colder, inferred based.

1:27:02

You can see some that look almost, they might lean a little bit towards the Denali empire.

1:27:06

You can see the reds and golds.

1:27:08

They're all these different, like kind of cheap versions of different cultural locations from around Exandria that have all been kind of just left off to, to die in the shaded corners of the chamber to person bear Costume

1:27:26

hero. It'd be bad, but no, no signs of rock scatter from shade, creeper holes, anywhere along the edges, You

1:27:34

want to do a thorough inspection again.

1:27:36

I want to like, I'm tapping the walls with the hammer, just to see if anything gives us sound, things like that.

1:27:44

Crate has been, yeah.

1:27:46

Okay. Going throughout the room, you do not see any sign of such holes or exits or anything that would be akin to what you had previously encountered, dealing with the shape.

1:27:59

Creepers. It's a little big on you and kind of like falls past your eyes, but it still is kind of good because I see this wide brim, dark hat, not unlike what a well commonly see Robbie wearing it drifts past his eyes, like a child trying on his dad's Woody costume.

1:28:18

You're like, great. I'm going to try and gently injure one of the tables or chairs, just to see if it reacts.

1:28:26

It's not like you wouldn't have helped before.

1:28:36

Like scrapes across the ground.

1:28:39

The, the, the table that you snuck on the side, you could see it leans to one way and where the table is kind of nailed in, or that the leg is nailed than it is now bent slightly to one side.

1:28:47

But it doesn't seem to react to the wise.

1:28:49

Is there like a prop, a prop, chest or Aura?

1:28:52

There are a handful of prop chests around here.

1:28:57

Yeah. Okay. Go ahead and roll.

1:28:59

The

1:28:59

six

1:28:59

quarter

1:29:03

Lepto Memes the table that was just injured by that Snaps

1:29:08

back into place five freaked out.

1:29:12

I'm really happy.

1:29:14

Okay. You open up a chest and immediately glancing out inside.

1:29:17

You can see what looks to be just piles and piles of white lace dresses.

1:29:27

What'd you find Ashley's

1:29:33

closet There. They're pure white. And then you get a little closer and look at it.

1:29:35

And they've kind of yellowed with time slightly, but they look to be, you know, designed in a way to, to exhibit a nobility, not a more cohesion, nature history, but from some further off land in Exandria definitely theater decadent, where it looks beautiful in the close you get.

1:29:56

You're like, oh, this is meant to function as a costume to see it from a distance.

1:30:00

This is the most beautiful dress I take it.

1:30:16

Probably not Nine.

1:30:18

Aha. Aha. You notice that Ocampo has the land turn facing the other way and it's like, I'm not entirely certain what you're looking for, but you know, take your time.

1:30:29

It

1:30:29

doesn't

1:30:29

notice

1:30:34

anything. Just not notice at all.

1:30:45

Wow. I'm going to go up to fresh cut grass.

1:30:48

Did you learn anything on what's gone?

1:30:53

We learned that. Oh, oh, that's right. And you weren't with us.

1:30:56

We learned there's been a series of disappearances and there's about six people missing.

1:31:01

They have no obvious relation to each other other than the fact that they all disappeared here either during or after a show.

1:31:09

Also just learned that there's a whole stack of cat costumes back.

1:31:14

Yeah.

1:31:14

They

1:31:14

look

1:31:14

very

1:31:24

gelical. I grabbed one, They look at it later, but then some of them looked like they were, It's

1:31:29

not my artistic vision.

1:31:30

That was specifically Steven's interest to try and rebrand the show.

1:31:33

It's not great. I recommended this one wears Converse,

1:31:41

But I, you found what you're looking for?

1:31:44

No, no, Not at all.

1:31:46

We were looking for some sort of a entrances or exits down here, but there are none.

1:31:51

No. And that's where we came in. Does This

1:31:53

cover everything? This is the only chamber down here.

1:31:55

There's no other levels, no other chambers.

1:31:59

This is not like a .

1:32:01

We were A

1:32:04

theater troupe. Are there any other, there are rarely used areas, fly space.

1:32:10

Other areas sometimes I'm told in the theater, two performers might become amorous with each other and maybe sneak off to the, to, to somewhere unseen so they can canoe.

1:32:25

Oh, I says my first day rolling around.

1:32:30

Is it To go off your question?

1:32:33

You're

1:32:33

in

1:32:33

that

1:32:33

room,

1:32:33

By

1:32:33

the

1:32:33

way,

1:32:33

don't

1:32:33

touch

1:32:33

that

1:32:41

table. That's why I was so wobbly.

1:32:46

It looks suspicious. But as far as other spaces, like there are rafters about the stage.

1:32:52

There is a tough does in her office probably for the next hour or so.

1:32:58

And we did want to do a full investigation.

1:33:01

Of Course, of course. Yeah.

1:33:03

Start with Tafta and then fan out to the whole theater.

1:33:06

Is there like a staff break room at all or green room Kind

1:33:11

of the backstage. Sure. I'll I'll take you there leads you back up, closes and locks the door behind and leads you to the, a pathway, a hallway that you didn't see.

1:33:22

That is kind of like to the backside of the theater that leads to the backstage.

1:33:26

And you can see there is a green room that is literally just the back part of the stage.

1:33:30

And there Kendra is flying. Lauder's are all there with like, let's say a glass bottle of some sort of Brandy in the middle that is like half drinking.

1:33:38

And they're all kind of laughing a bit and telling stories and having drinks.

1:33:41

And they're kind of just winding down there.

1:33:43

You get the sense that most of the, the space in this, this dreamscape theater is for the patrons and you know, everyone else backstage just kind of figures it out with what space they got.

1:33:56

It's not bad. But as you approach, you see like some of them raise their glasses over towards you and kind of on the opposite side of the chamber and keep talking amongst themselves.

1:34:05

So this is our backstage.

1:34:09

This is where the leathers go up to the rafters this way.

1:34:13

This is where we control the curtains and any sorts of, well, you know, for their performance, any points where you could see like where there, the trapeze hanging swings and all the various elements there, you can see where they're the ropes attached and let them down.

1:34:30

I handle these along with, with Tina and Yvonne, who after taking tickets come and help me with everything backstage let's.

1:34:41

Can I show you, Is

1:34:43

there an area that the staff would be able to access to get to like a back alley or anything?

1:34:49

Others. Yes. Yeah. That is kind of, and kind of walks to the back hallway that led you into the, the backstage.

1:34:55

And you can see there is a door that exits out into the back alleys is this leads into there's an alley that runs entirely around the building of those in the front here.

1:35:06

And you recall like it's, you know, there's the large wall of the Spire, not immediately butted against the alley.

1:35:12

There were some buildings in between, but there's a lot of dense buildings in the vicinity and the theater just kind of stands out in the middle of it all.

1:35:19

Like it's carved its own little, little kingly space in this neighborhood.

1:35:24

Can I look around the alley and around the door and see if I can find any areas that like, I see little cigarette butts or anything drop to the ground.

1:35:34

I can, oh God.

1:35:37

Oh, thank you. Reception or investigation, check your choice.

1:35:43

Why

1:35:43

do

1:35:43

I

1:35:43

get

1:35:46

stuck? That would be, oh, good guidance. It's not gonna make any differences at four.

1:35:50

Okay.

1:35:50

We'll

1:35:50

try

1:35:55

it. Anyway. Five plus 4,

1:36:00

9, 9, Oh,

1:36:03

that's a two.

1:36:05

That's a nine and that's nine plus three is 12 plus four is 16.

1:36:12

That was an emotional roller coaster there.

1:36:19

Okay. I'm stepping out The heavy door has a few locks on it and Kempo opens it and it leads you out into the alleyway behind.

1:36:25

You can see there's like a bit of a, a street divot in the center so that any sort of rain can run itself off into the main road, kind of brick side elements of the alley.

1:36:35

It smells a bit musty, but like any other alley here in the city, you can see there's some kind of discarded bits of refuse and some construction materials that have been left abandoned from unseen projects.

1:36:50

There, it looks like in the alley, kind of looking around the space, you don't see anything directly around the door that would resemble any sort of tobacco paraphernalia or leftover materials from a person who is smoking.

1:37:08

Okay. All right. I'll show you to her office.

1:37:10

I came home, brings you up on the opposite side of what you can sense as far as the structure is for the main theater itself.

1:37:16

The opposite end of where Steven's office is, there is a secondary office.

1:37:20

Okay. What kind of knocks on it out?

1:37:24

I have those visitors that's a on and said are to ask questions about the voicemails that goes, oh right.

1:37:35

Let them in Door opens immediately.

1:37:37

As the door opens, you smell this strong flowery perfume that just like a, like a punch of Sephora just hits you as a wave.

1:37:47

The door opens up on the inside.

1:37:49

There is an office that is decorated in a garish pinks.

1:37:56

And, and you can see on this, not even a desk, like a curved table and an older, no mish woman who looks to be what would be the human equivalent of her fifties or so later fifties in this like curl almost beehive hair that looks like it's bright, bright, vibrant red, but you can see it's graying at the edges that you can't tell if that's natural or the dyes fading.

1:38:22

She has these elongated glasses that come to horned edges and just the, the makeup is glorious in the, the, the extravagant use of blush and reds to match the hair tone.

1:38:38

The dress is almost flapper tastic in the tassels that hang from it.

1:38:42

And you can see there's a bunch of books and pages and ledgers and other things around.

1:38:46

And it looks to be a collection box of coins.

1:38:49

And you can see gold and silver that immediately just kind of shifts underneath something before turning.

1:38:54

How can I help y'all Oh, hello, handsome little boy coming until Where

1:39:12

the, where we don't have a name.

1:39:16

We're doing reading as a side issue.

1:39:18

Yeah, It is a brand in 1 0 1 mistake.

1:39:26

Well, we're patrons of the arts and also concerned citizens.

1:39:31

And we understand that there's been some, I'm sorry if this is a sensitive subject, but disappearances around the theater.

1:39:38

Indeed. Very sad. Very sad, very steep.

1:39:46

Can I detect thoughts?

1:39:49

I

1:39:49

didn't

1:39:49

know

1:39:49

about

1:39:54

You catch you catch the waves of curiosity upon the first bit, then sadness, then an aroused curiosity, and she leans forward and says, well, we're very lucky to have a bunch of handsome helpers coming through here to discover what Mr.

1:40:22

Hayes,

1:40:22

Matt,

1:40:22

and

1:40:22

found

1:40:28

It's

1:40:28

full

1:40:28

of

1:40:28

Randy

1:40:35

people. It's true. Apologize. I, I imagine that everyone who works here has answered these questions, 10 fold, but we're really trying to uncover every last stone in the place.

1:40:51

Of course Kohl's

1:41:06

Going can you take us back to the beginning of all this?

1:41:12

Does anything stick out in your mind?

1:41:16

Does the owner here or anyone have any enemies?

1:41:24

Persuasion, Jack Not great. 10 even 10.

1:41:28

She goes, Well, I mean, Stu Vaughn has made a number of enemies through the years.

1:41:34

Usually performers that made promises.

1:41:36

They couldn't keep and were paid accordingly.

1:41:41

You no matter how nice and folks trying to present their skill, maybe they hold grudges.

1:41:50

But anyway, I try to probe a little bit deeper.

1:41:55

She's thinking the same thing You

1:42:00

probe deeper. And the thoughts within her mind go to this is a strange looking crew.

1:42:08

But if I can pry a little companionship out of that, I'll say whatever they want me to.

1:42:21

Okay. Plenty of enemies, But it doesn't sound like enough to push to violence.

1:42:27

I certainly hope not. I mean, something like that for this loan takes talent and the hunting limits.

1:42:31

Hey, and none of it had any, Oh,

1:42:40

did you? I mean, you just, you have a performer essence.

1:42:46

Oh no. I'm not a girl for the stage. I got a mind for business and coin hunter.

1:42:55

Oh, Gotcha. One does not have to be.

1:42:57

And I mean this without fans, but Oh, I can see a performer when they walked before, but you don't have to be pushing for talent to be talented.

1:43:11

And that does not mean you have to push yourself upon other people with your persona to be effective.

1:43:18

I'm a shoe business woman. I look past the nods about this.

1:43:20

Not know how to get contracts, situated in set.

1:43:22

I make this place money and I keep it afloat.

1:43:27

I'm so intimidated by her.

1:43:29

She's Amazing. And now, you know why I work, how I do.

1:43:33

I didn't know what to do with your flustered two missing patrons.

1:43:39

That's gotta be a problem.

1:43:42

Yeah.

1:43:42

Well

1:43:42

more

1:43:42

than

1:43:42

two,

1:43:48

Three missing pantries.

1:43:51

Yeah. He's a, he's a curious fellow, but the, the ask me, it's not entirely unknown that miss Eden Caldwell, Mr.

1:44:03

EMEA, we're carrying on an affair.

1:44:09

Is it possible? They went off to have a rendezvous in the middle of the show.

1:44:13

I mean, it wouldn't be the first time. This is where they came to meet up.

1:44:17

In fact often doing an emission is when they would go ahead and go someplace normal.

1:44:23

Find them sexy time Somewhere.

1:44:26

No, I assumed it was going to get a drink and talk about that day.

1:44:32

Okay. Would that be oh, okay.

1:44:35

Okay. Okay.

1:44:36

The time usually happens in the storage, not at, And

1:44:40

they can't get to the stores. They don't have a key, I don't know some place for no one to find them On

1:44:46

the premises. You think though?

1:44:48

I imagine not far from it And

1:44:51

the place that even the actors didn't know to go to both.

1:44:54

I think about, we got to get in the Headspace of people that need, that need that Somebody

1:45:01

Randy, Thoughts, please. Don't please. Don't like, I don't want to know around your image.

1:45:06

You have to find the bones.

1:45:11

And you mentioned this Yarden what was their deal?

1:45:16

No, no, there was another one.

1:45:18

Yeah. I mean, he's a younger man.

1:45:22

He picked up whatever the, the cheapest tickets were and negotiated his way to a dirt poor seat, but popped in every year.

1:45:30

Now at first we weren't sure if he was just an enjoy the arts.

1:45:33

And I think part of it was, but also he got in trouble twice because I caught him selling some Keppra dust to some of our patrons does kept a dust.

1:45:47

Yeah. Kept Tests For those, not from the streets.

1:45:50

What is, what is Keppra?

1:45:53

I mean, I never had the stuff myself, but from what I heard, it's just something that it's like a snuff that takes you on a trip for awhile.

1:46:04

I don't know.

1:46:07

I never seen All right.

1:46:08

So, so they Yarden was here buying or selling Keppra And

1:46:13

kept the dust, but he got in trouble. We told me how to take it off the premises.

1:46:17

So Why would he go to sell?

1:46:21

I don't know. Wasn't selling it in here.

1:46:24

So three, three of the vanished we're into sort of elicit sneaky things.

1:46:30

What about the others? The performers and the janitor barges, you know, who came through Seeing

1:46:41

no look, I don't mean to be a receptacle for so much hearsay, but it does keep me interested.

1:46:48

Amongst business Siena was a of a drunk, or if he asked me, showed up to a few performances, a bit, a high on the solace and caused a few arguments.

1:46:57

When they first set up here performances, it was a bit of a scuffle.

1:47:02

I almost say a scuffle, but a loud confrontation, but not they finished his final performance before he drunkenly wandered off last.

1:47:12

Anyone ever saw them Confrontation

1:47:15

With him. The rest of his performance theater that possible Yeah.

1:47:22

Diamond, diamond mask. What was the name of the creative Dammit

1:47:27

masks? So They were in residence.

1:47:29

When these disappearances, when OSHA left, they were here.

1:47:34

They were. And did they move on to another theater or They

1:47:37

did. They packed up their things and left. They figured that he probably left.

1:47:40

And after the argument, maybe we went and found his fortunes elsewhere.

1:47:43

They had an understudy. He would to be perfectly honest was far more talented than that scene.

1:47:47

No felon fit. The costume is better too.

1:47:50

But once he was gone, they seem to move on quickly.

1:47:52

And I don't know where they found themselves here on my kid ever since Lydney

1:48:02

And lydney sweet girl. They make friends often kind of just did her thing.

1:48:06

She was a good employee.

1:48:08

You can tell she was still kind of coming out of her shell before she disappeared.

1:48:12

Say We got to find that secret spot.

1:48:14

It sounds like everyone was loaners.

1:48:17

Right? Everyone. It Was like people leaving the theater.

1:48:21

Yeah. I got something. Well, you got to leverage trust and an entrepreneurial spirit.

1:48:27

Someone going out to smoke and an actor left and off, is there a rooftop or a balcony or at least there's an alley, but that the access to that is backstage.

1:48:39

So it wouldn't.

1:48:41

Yeah. And the alley cell phones around the building and people can access and you can exit from that point, we do have a rooftop, but that's an accessible to anyone that doesn't work here on Empty

1:48:53

rooms, offices that aren't working.

1:48:55

Aren't you. And then everything here that's not in use is just the open space for the painter.

1:49:01

This it's my office, backstage Stephen's office and the storage facility.

1:49:06

Everything else is just meant for the performance.

1:49:09

They

1:49:09

are

1:49:11

The restrooms, The

1:49:14

restrooms too. But Amir

1:49:15

and even sit traditionally, Steven stated our box.

1:49:22

Oh, you will use some box spinning patrons.

1:49:29

Thank you. Well, I feel like we should just look around, look around.

1:49:32

I think we should check out that Allie, Maura.

1:49:34

I didn't really get a good look. It was Near

1:49:37

the box Near the restrooms. Is

1:49:39

it okay if we give it like a thorough look around, really put this to bed.

1:49:46

Anything

1:49:46

you

1:49:46

want,

1:49:49

honey? Anything, Would you go in here?

1:49:51

If

1:49:51

you

1:49:51

wanted

1:49:51

to,

1:49:51

you

1:49:51

know,

1:49:51

engage

1:49:51

in

1:49:51

a

1:49:51

little

1:49:51

hanky-panky

1:49:51

with

1:49:51

someone

1:50:01

Where have I gone? But you can say the basement.

1:50:05

Cause that's a given, Oh

1:50:07

honey, how do I narrow it?

1:50:09

That I've left my mark up and down.

1:50:14

This studio Casablanca.

1:50:20

Don't do that. How would you go over there?

1:50:24

Would, would it make sense to, I have Access

1:50:27

to everywhere. So I go away everywhere.

1:50:30

All right. But meaning if you were, you know, a mirror Eden, where would you go?

1:50:36

And then lastly, have the restrooms are elsewhere.

1:50:38

Not a whole lot of places. The privacy around these bonds.

1:50:44

The restaurant. Yeah. Right? Yeah. That's a good place to look.

1:50:50

So

1:50:50

yada,

1:50:50

yada,

1:50:50

yada,

1:50:50

I

1:50:50

heard

1:50:50

that

1:50:50

he,

1:50:50

she

1:50:50

came

1:50:50

here

1:50:50

a

1:50:56

lot. Was there a specific place that he would say, John,

1:50:59

he would just take whatever seats were available and he would negotiate it down.

1:51:03

Take the leftovers if you will. It wasn't a, it wasn't a young boy of much means Going

1:51:11

outside and buy or sell product that was not insane.

1:51:16

Selling in the restroom.

1:51:18

Also. Not insane. Insane. Should we split up and go scour the theater before the next show starts?

1:51:24

How long do we have before the next show starts?

1:51:27

She kind of glances over and you can see there's a glass sphere on the edge of her table that you can see it turning to like a darker tint to it.

1:51:37

Say he got about nine and a half before we stopped opening the doors.

1:51:45

One more question, one word, first word that pops into your head.

1:51:50

When you look at us, Lucky

1:52:04

Just feels like we're getting farther and farther from a knee steered in every direction, travel, locking truck.

1:52:13

Truckle Anything else I can help you out with?

1:52:17

We'll get out of your hair.

1:52:19

That's

1:52:19

just

1:52:19

tacky

1:52:25

levels.

1:52:25

Well,

1:52:25

good

1:52:27

luck. And If you have a curious about some of us special memberships, there are arrangeable pricing on certain seats.

1:52:38

We'll be sure to keep that in mind.

1:52:42

Thank you so much. You've Been

1:52:44

very

1:52:47

helpful. I know. Well, good luck. Hope you figure it out.

1:52:53

It's going to go. It turns out you don't need to cast, detect thoughts to understand what the fuck she's thinking.

1:53:02

You cast it and you get a far more detailed explanation.

1:53:07

Membership tiers. Is that sort of thing available?

1:53:12

She's truly confident.

1:53:14

Yes. She was know that's that's admirable.

1:53:17

Yeah, honestly.

1:53:19

It's very helpful.

1:53:21

Absolutely. Bathroom, bathroom, anybody bathroom.

1:53:26

I've never seen really What's

1:53:27

one

1:53:27

herd,

1:53:27

one

1:53:31

specific. It was like a general idea of a, of a position.

1:53:34

You know what I mean, limbs in places I'll tell you later on No

1:53:42

much compatibility gets real creative Limbs

1:53:47

in place. The acrobats were doing some bleeps earlier.

1:53:51

All right. Where to first Are

1:53:54

we sticking together? Are we splitting up?

1:53:56

I feel like, well, we only have 90 minutes now I'm going to check out the rafters.

1:54:00

I already hear the box bathroom upstairs restroom.

1:54:06

Right? Check the other one. How many restrooms are there in this place?

1:54:11

All right. I guess I'll go with you to the box or I could check out the alley.

1:54:14

Maybe get a better idea of the alley.

1:54:17

Okay? Sure. Yeah. What actually let's let's do both.

1:54:19

You're I feel like a stiff wind will knock you over and worries me.

1:54:24

Thank you. Is there a pit? Is there an orchestra pit? There is an orchestra pit.

1:54:27

You go down the orchestra Pit.

1:54:32

Okay. I'll help him check with the different boxes.

1:54:35

Okay. Who's going to the bathroom.

1:54:38

So, So, alright, so you're going to which bathroom first?

1:54:43

Upstairs. First. Okay. You headed to the restroom grant?

1:54:46

I'll I'll cast enhance ability on you or let's see here, Intel intelligence.

1:54:53

So I get an advantage on all the tangents include, including I assume like investigation.

1:55:01

Yeah. Investigation, even telecom.

1:55:04

Sorry. Alrighty. You feel the sudden surge of energy within you and for a moment your already fairly clever mind is crisp and picking out details that you didn't initially see Red

1:55:17

bull. All Right. Not entirely on the run.

1:55:20

You are you heading to the top of the butter?

1:55:22

Mister? Mr. Top first. Okay. Edit the top restaurant, which is kind of often the corner on the secondary floor.

1:55:27

And you know, like a lot of the restaurants here you enter and there is a seating arrangement, but it is largely just a, a hole in a tube with a seatbelt around it effective and you know, polished.

1:55:39

And, and there are some flowers in here, but if you would like to inspect it, you can make an investigation check with advantage people It's been awhile.

1:55:58

Okay. Huh? Oh that's yeah. Thank God.

1:56:00

I had advantage 10, 10, no glancing.

1:56:07

It's a small role or it's a small, it's a small, small chamber as well.

1:56:14

Nothing catches your eye is out of the ordinary.

1:56:17

It's fairly well kept this one, you know, for a restroom, it looks like this.

1:56:22

One's probably utilized by more of the upper crust patrons as the direct line from here is the upper boxes.

1:56:29

And it's just a single, single chamber.

1:56:31

Like a single room, correct?

1:56:33

Nowhere to hide. No, no way to block walls.

1:56:36

A door and the pot.

1:56:39

No Vince. Yeah. No vent above, which is unfortunate.

1:56:45

Yeah. I looked down the hole three times a day be, Oh,

1:56:49

I see. What do you think?

1:57:10

She, she I think I can get it Last

1:57:18

Forever. Sorry, Laura. Throwing the sword back at the lady and the lady.

1:57:28

Oh, nothing. Nothing. Oh, just a shit hole.

1:57:31

Yes. All right. Cool. Downstairs, downstairs, downstairs.

1:57:33

This one is not as well cleaned Wells cap.

1:57:35

This is kind of the general public area.

1:57:37

This one does have a vent.

1:57:38

It does have a, it was like two different splits in the wall, but just open up to the outside.

1:57:42

They're about an inch wide.

1:57:45

The pain tier is cracking a bit, but similar structure is similar.

1:57:51

You know, general interior of the, two of the secondary is the first, Oh, that's a little better.

1:58:02

13,

1:58:02

13

1:58:02

climbing

1:58:07

learnings. I know. Oh

1:58:08

my

1:58:08

investigation

1:58:11

shit. Okay. It seems to, you know, have been recently repaired to a certain degree, but beyond that it is a bathroom Recently

1:58:19

repaired. In which ways, Meaning it looks like you can see there's like fresher sealant in the bottom of where the, the seat it's the ground.

1:58:27

How fresh Would

1:58:28

I know A

1:58:30

bacon intelligence check It's

1:58:32

tasted

1:58:32

just

1:58:32

straight

1:58:35

intelligence. The whole, Ooh, we should. Should've been doing this the whole time.

1:58:40

20 total. Whoa. Wow.

1:58:41

It's maybe a couple of months old looking around and everything else around here has like a layer of like, of, of just age to it and grittiness.

1:58:52

But the seal, the base around where it is, whatever substance was used to kinda kind of seal the hole to whatever the, the seat is.

1:58:58

There is a bit lighter than the rest and you can see as a bit fresher.

1:59:02

I don't know, tap the, tap the wall.

1:59:04

See if anything sounds weird.

1:59:10

Nothing catches your eye. If it catches your ear, I'm going to look in the hole.

1:59:13

It's

1:59:13

my

1:59:18

turn. Worse. You

1:59:18

find when you expect A

1:59:38

Tiniest I mean, yeah, it is just a whole, like, you know, like most of the restrooms here, they, they are just pulls that progressive deep into the rock and vanish.

1:59:49

While you guys doing that, who's going to the Box.

1:59:51

I'm going to the box.

1:59:53

All Right. Yep. You stepped back up to the box where you stayed.

1:59:55

What are you looking for?

2:00:01

I'm gonna look in the curtains. I'm going to look under the chairs.

2:00:04

I'm going to look just every, I'm

2:00:08

going to look for false panels in the wall or curtain poles that open secret doors.

2:00:15

Or even if you tilt the chair back, it opens like a secret door, But

2:00:22

totally make either perception or investigation.

2:00:24

Check.

2:00:27

I'll

2:00:27

go

2:00:27

for

2:00:31

perception. 23 Perception or what investigation.

2:00:34

Okay. Let's do this 15.

2:00:39

15. Okay. Very good. You do not pick up any sort of sliding doors or interesting panels.

2:00:49

And it seems like it's a fairly solid, they built box.

2:00:51

What you do pick up is where the, where you sit in face outward along the railing, it looks like there is, looks like scratches in the wood, in the interior, but you can see one of them kind of sits between the set of four chairs that are normally arranged here is they had to bring more chairs up to get you guys situated for this box for your group size.

2:01:14

Normally you can see they've taken those away. And it's just the four chairs that sit in this box.

2:01:18

Normally you can see on the kind of between the, the situations between the two sets of two to each side where the scratches are you getting close?

2:01:27

And one of them points outside.

2:01:31

One of the scratches points out.

2:01:33

It reads, it reads outside.

2:01:35

He says outside the word.

2:01:42

Wow. In common. No, it would be an occasion.

2:01:46

I can either of us read. I can read.

2:01:48

Okay, great. What does that say? So as outside.

2:01:57

Oh, okay. Wow.

2:01:57

Touch it.

2:01:59

I

2:01:59

guess

2:01:59

maybe,

2:01:59

maybe

2:02:06

Trace it. Yeah. It's like gently carved into it and it's hard to make out unless you're really kind of looking to see what it means and you know what it means, but you don't make sure you read the word, but it's just gently carved, but you can see where, where it is.

2:02:20

Very good handwriting. It's not like a hack job.

2:02:22

Like you see on a park bench or anything.

2:02:25

It's like a quick carving.

2:02:29

Oh yeah. Someone left a message for someone else to receive maybe okay.

2:02:34

Outside.

2:02:36

This could be where Amir and in maybe one of them left a message for the other.

2:02:45

So they went outside. So they went outside.

2:02:47

So from here, let's, let's figure out how they would've gotten outside.

2:02:51

Maybe not through the front door. Maybe there's another way from here to get to the alley.

2:02:55

Okay. So if I sit here, Get

2:02:58

into the Headspace of, of Eden, even Caldwell, she is an upper requester in her marriage.

2:03:09

She she's been trying to, she's been trying to go on a, on a diet.

2:03:13

And so it's making a really cranky all the time Because

2:03:15

as you get older, your metabolism slows.

2:03:17

Yeah. She just Has to accept that, but she's not, she wants to stay young longer.

2:03:22

And so she wants a little spice in her life. So she gets the show and she sees the note from Amir, someone Scribbled

2:03:30

a note on the railing Mark.

2:03:33

He can, she can read that it's a mirror telling him where to house.

2:03:37

Okay. If I look, if I look to the outside, which way is the outside?

2:03:43

Well, there is the off the balcony to the right.

2:03:44

There's the entry way into the main theater where most people walk in from where you are.

2:03:51

There is the spiral staircase that leads down.

2:03:54

It does connect to the hallway that heads towards the back into where the backstage area was to the left.

2:04:07

Sorry, Let's go that way. Okay. So it feels Like

2:04:09

we're going to retrace Those steps. You guys are making your way there.

2:04:13

Come on, Let's

2:04:14

go

2:04:14

have

2:04:14

an

2:04:17

affair. You were going to the alley to the alley.

2:04:19

All right. From instruction. You're coming in here. I

2:04:20

was going back through the door that we had gone through before.

2:04:23

And I was going to try to walk around the alley outside to see if I could find any like greats or entrances into the lower level, like the sewers Or

2:04:33

anything. And you're looking into the, you Described

2:04:36

ladders and ropes going up into the rafters. So I'm going to get a little bit of a running start and sort of start fleet jumping my way into, Easy

2:04:43

to do, like in the time that they've been doing their searching and stuff.

2:04:47

And you all kind of looked at the box, you've begun heading to the alley.

2:04:52

Actually, we'll get you into a second. You begin to head up into the rafters and begin your process of searching around and kind of what are you looking for a little bit Of

2:05:00

light up here?

2:05:03

Oh, Sure. It's not going to hang out very long if I'm Yeah,

2:05:06

I just need a minute.

2:05:08

I think I'm going to look for, is there any kind of platforms or like catwalks, like there would be in some theaters, There

2:05:18

is, there is what looks to be two different catwalks that go across the open stage above and you can see number of ropes that are tied across them.

2:05:25

You can see where the trapeze swings are currently kind of held off to the side and latched to the edge with hooks and all manner of various, you know, slidable ropes and sandbags and the general theater arrangement.

2:05:39

Okay. So I'm just going to I'll scan the catwalks for any, anything odd.

2:05:43

I don't think I'll find anything, but I still will, but I'll also look for any kind of like trap doors in the ceiling of the theater that lead up and out.

2:05:51

Good. Cool, Good to make a perception check or investigation That

2:06:00

is 17 17th, you kind of glance about you don't see anything that looks out of the ordinary necessarily that would pertain to the, the narrative that you're pursuing Kirlian.

2:06:12

This, you do see there is one wooden ladder that descends in the far end of the catwalk that goes up to a hatch.

2:06:23

I'm definitely going to I'm good. And then I just sort of jog over to it and start climbing.

2:06:28

Okay. As

2:06:28

they're

2:06:28

coming

2:06:31

up. Alright. It slams over with a little bit of an, of a turn.

2:06:33

The sound can kind of shake for a second, but you can look up and you can see the stars, the sky above I'm

2:06:40

up on the roof, on the roof.

2:06:42

And I'm just going to look at the, the streets and get the lay of the land from up here and watch for image into appear.

2:06:51

Cause I know where she's going and I'm just going to, I'm just going to perch a pair and keep an eye on.

2:06:56

Got it. All right.

2:06:59

And you are okay. So the go to the door that exits into the alley step out into the space.

2:07:05

It's about 20 feet across, from side to side, looking at a divot in the road where you're looking out at heads to the right, and then you can see it kind of curves at a site that direction.

2:07:15

And then to the left a little bit closer since you're not, you know, you're kind of more to, if you're looking to the theater from the front door onward, you're a little bit to the left hand side of that perspective.

2:07:28

And that curve is maybe about 15 feet or so to your left around to the alleyway that way.

2:07:39

Okay. I'm just gonna, it all seems very private.

2:07:42

It seems fairly private.

2:07:43

I mean, it's, it's, it looks like there's this kind of like a square alley from what you can see right now, you just have visual on, on one portion of it, but it kind of curves off and then kind of flanks the two sides of the feeder before connecting with the open.

2:07:55

Are there any areas that have like stacked crates leaning up against the wall or anything like that?

2:08:01

It's like small. And are you, which way are you glancing?

2:08:04

I'll look to The

2:08:06

right First. Okay. So you look to the right and kind of walk down a little bit and look over and make a perception, check 19,

2:08:18

Glancing down that way and thinking a few steps in that direction.

2:08:20

You can see there, like some small, long rod crates that have probably just been left to fall apart, splintered wood and bits of rusted iron.

2:08:30

But other than that, nothing that would be like sizably barricade of any means.

2:08:38

Are there any like sewer grates on the ground or anything?

2:08:42

The sewage system here doesn't operate like a, you know, some other standard cities since it's all kind of runs almost like a building.

2:08:50

Yeah. From, from, from in, into the Spire itself and not unlike a, I hate describing it this way, a terrifying gutter system, it all kind of runs through the Spire and then is left out into the forest floor.

2:09:03

What about if it rains? Like where does the drainage happen there?

2:09:06

What you can tell it drains on the center of the city or the upside, the center of the alley, and then drains out into the main road.

2:09:11

And at the very edge of the lips, you can see all the, all the districts that are along the outside of the Spire are at a very faint angle.

2:09:18

And there are areas of the roads kind of come to walls and there are sections where yeah.

2:09:23

And when it rains heavily in this city from a distance there's just hundreds of tiny waterfalls pouring down the sides of each spider.

2:09:35

That's really fucking shit. Those

2:09:36

are interior. But yet In

2:09:38

that case, I will check the other direction and look for, Can

2:09:41

I glance over there? And you can see immediately as you come around the corner, the alley continues to the street, but there is a secondary alley that offshoots and kind of heads inward like a slightly smaller alley goes about 60, 80 feet back and then comes to a cul-de-sac.

2:10:01

I'm going to send a message to Lorna.

2:10:04

I found a dead end here in this alleyway could be something sounds promising.

2:10:14

I'll light up my orbs and walk down that direction.

2:10:18

Okay, Ashton, Let's get out of the shitter into the alley.

2:10:23

What are you doing? Oh, I'm

2:10:25

done the orchestra pits, creeping, sneak, and looking for stuff.

2:10:29

I've got my cemetery out and kind of trying to see if I see anything okay.

2:10:34

Glancing around in the pit here, you can see, there are a number of chairs that are kind of just pushed off to the sides.

2:10:39

It's not a vast orchestra pit.

2:10:41

It can comfortably fit maybe six people and can uncomfortably fit 10 depending on how much they're being paid and how much they need the money.

2:10:51

But there is an initial glance, no sort of trapdoor, hidden exit that goes under the stage.

2:10:58

And you remember when you sat down for the performance, the performers actually entered from another space and then stepped into the pit and then sat down there.

2:11:06

So they didn't emerge from underneath the stage or anything.

2:11:09

Okay. You kind of glancing around getting a few, if you want to make a investigation or perception, check to look for any specific details.

2:11:17

Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that. Let's think around.

2:11:19

Are there still like instruments and stuff around or is it pretty cleared Out?

2:11:22

No, the instruments were taken by the impact, the performance Poopoo

2:11:31

Eight, give it a pretty thorough sweep.

2:11:34

And you hear this heavy sound, this kind of above and you glance up and you can see up in the rafters, just past the, where the curtain is.

2:11:41

You can just see that the shape of the forum kind of stopping for a second before climbing up onto the roof and finishing from act, I'm

2:11:52

going to look around. I'm pretty confident. I didn't see anything.

2:11:54

And I'm going to a hoist myself up onto the stage.

2:11:59

And I think would make my way up to make my way up to arm, Making

2:12:03

your way. All right. You head over, find the ladder quickly and begin climbing up into the rafter and kind of following the suit from that point.

2:12:09

All right. So you had done the alleyway lights out, you're walking in as you're approaching, you see those refuse and you know, piles of rubble and, and building materials that have just kind of been left there.

2:12:21

Some look fresher than others.

2:12:23

The allium in front of you is immaculate.

2:12:28

Like for all. I think it was, looks very messy in this space here.

2:12:32

There's just, just initial glance. As you begin to enter it, like, it looks very clean.

2:12:36

I'm going to stop where I am and just open up my mind and see if I can feel anybody around me here.

2:12:42

Any thoughts? Like close by?

2:12:45

Okay. Are you using the open-mind ability as opposed to the spelling?

2:12:50

Okay. Let me see. This

2:12:51

would be over there. I can see your donor thing.

2:12:55

Oh yeah. That's so cool from up here, You

2:13:02

do

2:13:02

sense

2:13:02

of

2:13:10

presence. A mind though, From where you stand. You're not certain where it is.

2:13:17

There's just something and you're not picking up any, anything specific.

2:13:21

It's like, it's just static almost.

2:13:24

You're not certain how to even interpret it.

2:13:26

And I've never Sensed

2:13:27

anything like that before.

2:13:30

No, you know, I'm going to stop. I'm Not going to go down this way without, without lawn.

2:13:39

Okay. London, where are you in?

2:13:41

We're heading.

2:13:41

We're

2:13:41

heading

2:13:41

that

2:13:45

direction. Yep. Right around this time, you both step out into the alley.

2:13:49

You can see now, like the paint pink glow to the left, where imaging is kind of stepped off to the side alley.

2:13:55

And right about that time, Ashton and LaDonna catch up to you.

2:14:05

Impeccably clean. Allie, w There's something weird. He keeps an alley of this cleaned, especially since a janitor has been gone for weeks.

2:14:14

Now it's very romantic.

2:14:19

Maybe, maybe, maybe. I mean, what's, what's even thinking right now.

2:14:24

Oh, Amir. My husband is just such a bore and I need some sex.

2:14:29

It's all about the sex with her. I don't know how you should get into acting.

2:14:35

Oh, really?

2:14:37

I'm so convinced. Thank you.

2:14:38

I've been really trying to get in the mindset.

2:14:42

Okay. I mean, this is for a Caldwell, right?

2:14:45

So you, you want me to call?

2:14:49

Okay. Let's look at, let's look at this clean alleyway.

2:14:53

What's going on amateur in. Or did you find, I

2:14:56

don't know. I mean, obviously seeing the same thing you guys are, but I can hear something.

2:15:04

It's just, I don't know what it is.

2:15:06

It doesn't seem normal.

2:15:10

You can hear something, You

2:15:13

know,

2:15:13

like

2:15:16

thoughts. Yeah. Do you need help doing it? No, I'm just, I mean, you can See

2:15:20

what you feel like. Maybe you can make it Out.

2:15:23

All right. I will cast detect thoughts.

2:15:28

So we're in like a it's it's like a school, like a dead end.

2:15:38

Yeah. Dead end Allie And cast detect thoughts and see if I can hear or sense anything more than she can.

2:15:44

Some odd static. None of like you, like, you don't know if it's from a creature.

2:15:49

No, you don't. There's just a, there's just a presence.

2:15:53

That's odd. We've got find the source right in front of us.

2:16:00

You see about which point you guys have kind of met up now on the roof, the lip on it And

2:16:05

watching the performance from above. Okay. What do you think they're talking about?

2:16:09

Ah, definitely cracking the case. Oh, I think they've got it figured out and I would probably close.

2:16:15

Yeah, probably I look up, I'm going to give a quick look in every direction for any creepy creatures or a stranger and perception of it.

2:16:30

We're coming down.

2:16:34

Dang 16, Nothing

2:16:35

catches your eye. Okay. I

2:16:37

mean, I could probably hop my way down was easy for you to get us there, I suppose.

2:16:44

Yeah. W would you rather help her?

2:16:46

We could once a day. I can.

2:16:48

Oh, no. Say that. Okay. I think, yeah, just in case something happens, how high up, probably This

2:16:57

it's almost two and a half stories up from the roof here for the, for the full height of the theater.

2:17:01

You know, it's a two story building, but some of the stories are extended just for the how's the interior of the theater itself.

2:17:07

But so you're looking at about 25, 30 feet to the floor.

2:17:14

I think you could make it. I would probably twist an ankle.

2:17:17

I'll go away. We'll be done in a minute.

2:17:20

Don't go anywhere. What you see in this alley before he was about 70, 80 feet, it just kind of comes to an end.

2:17:27

Just you can see there's the stone building walls.

2:17:30

And there's the cul-de-sac end where the drain kind of comes to an end, a little divot in the, in the alley, but it's clean.

2:17:40

That's it Really, there might be some secrets, some secret hotties let's look around For

2:17:45

secret hotties Paulo areas in the walls Or

2:17:49

fall ground. You go to the very end.

2:17:53

You're the you're gonna roll investigation, check Warmer,

2:17:56

colder sort of thing. Does the static get louder? If I go to a certain area, Get

2:18:01

to that in just a sec.

2:18:04

Well, better than I did.

2:18:07

Did I rolled a 16, as I say, So

2:18:11

you both have like head to the edge. Both of you are in second the sides And

2:18:15

I'm just stepping back and sort of scanning the air to see if I see anything with the wrong color or shading.

2:18:22

Okay. As you all kind of move forward, imaging, you kind of step in with your mind, still open the static.

2:18:26

It's a little louder as you begin to step deeper in the alley and kind of flex your eyes for a second and glance up.

2:18:35

As you see Ashton image in both kind of inspecting the far back wall.

2:18:40

And as they're inspecting it, you see the striations of the stone on the wall back split where an eye is in the space.

2:18:53

Another section opens up slightly where you can see jagged points within intangibles.

2:18:58

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welcome back. So jumping into this scenario, let me go ahead and get the .

2:21:47

I know it's going to be good guys.

2:21:51

Oh

2:21:51

my

2:21:51

goodness

2:21:54

gracious. They want me to show packaging is, you know, there's the alley.

2:22:12

It's a Roper is an Ashton right there.

2:22:19

You've got to look on the screen On

2:22:22

the screen. Do you want to, does that help?

2:22:34

No,

2:22:41

it. perfect. Yes. Yes. There you go.

2:22:42

So look over here.

2:22:48

We painted Fern, checking the walls on this side, like in the walls, all this money you were what's happening here.

2:22:56

Yes, I am sorry. Lany. Are there images right there?

2:23:02

Fresh cut grass. I said I had stepped back to see colors and stuff.

2:23:07

So I rally at the right at the thresholds of the threshold and just pointing at the back of the threshold would be forum and Dorian right there.

2:23:20

So, because this creature was unseen in its direction and the attack was sudden it does get a surprise round.

2:23:30

In which case it is going to attack twice with its sort of pots.

2:23:37

One against you as the natural one.

2:23:41

You like it swings out towards you glance up and just now notice right above you.

2:23:46

The wall itself is shifting and quivering and you can see the mouth was opening.

2:23:49

I got it right this time.

2:23:53

And that is going to be a, an 18 against you lot now.

2:23:58

Oh

2:23:58

wait

2:24:03

19. Yeah. No. Okay. Cause it AC meets, right?

2:24:06

Yeah. No. Okay. I'll take it.

2:24:09

Well, the pseudopod whips out and Slims and you like a hammer and you're like, but you're adhered to it.

2:24:16

Oh, she has to me.

2:24:20

Can you take 11 points of piercing damage?

2:24:24

Sorry. Sorry. So this is the wrong one. I'm sorry. That's my bad.

2:24:27

You take 11 points of bludgeoning damage.

2:24:36

Okay. You are grappled. Yeah. Yeah.

2:24:38

As you are currently helped by it.

2:24:40

Do you think girls feel fear?

2:24:44

Probably not.

2:24:44

Well

2:24:44

they

2:24:44

do

2:24:44

good

2:24:44

and

2:24:48

stuff. Yeah. I'm afraid of earthquakes. Yeah. And then it was going to hit her and it missed you with the pseudopod.

2:24:54

It's going to try and bite you.

2:24:57

That is going to be 24 to hit real back.

2:25:06

You take 14 points of bludgeoning damage off 14, 11 points of acid.

2:25:15

David as the mouth Trump's skin to you and you feel your shoulder and almost your neck, that's 25.

2:25:23

He consumed you try and pull yourself out. And as you pull your arm out, you can feel the teeth breaking away and you watch as the teeth shatter and then more form behind it from where it was.

2:25:31

And as you pull away like that kind of hurt.

2:25:34

And then the S the saliva from the creature is now burning into your ass.

2:25:38

I really heard it now.

2:25:40

Like

2:25:40

everyone's

2:25:43

rolling. they already did not have a reaction because this is a surprise right now.

2:25:46

You have no reactions. It's always about to ask me when law and that took her, her bludgeoning damage.

2:25:51

There was no acid from this, the wipies, correct?

2:25:54

Okay. Just the mouth, just the mountain. All right. Now everyone, please will initiative for me, please.

2:25:58

Let's do a big one.

2:25:58

Let's

2:25:58

do

2:25:58

this

2:25:58

big

2:25:58

duty

2:26:08

poop. 25 to 20 22, 3 22, 21 20 that's it's the wall.

2:26:25

Sure. Wow. That really hurt.

2:26:27

I think that, yeah, that Would,

2:26:28

yeah,

2:26:28

that

2:26:28

was

2:26:28

already

2:26:28

20

2:26:28

to

2:26:28

15,

2:26:28

15

2:26:28

to

2:26:28

10,

2:26:28

9,

2:26:28

13,

2:26:28

13,

2:26:41

13. What's your dexterity by the way.

2:26:44

16. Okay, there we go.

2:26:47

What's your decks. Two 14.

2:26:49

And you go, okay.

2:26:51

So the order over here contributing is that all right, you now see the semblance of the wall.

2:27:01

The end of the hallway is shifting away in the bending.

2:27:05

And there is actually more alley behind it.

2:27:09

This creature had positioned itself near the edge and it prematurely become the end of the alleyway that you see.

2:27:14

I just, the wall are starting to curve away and peel, as it begins to slither, you see, it's actually able to shift slowly in your direction, but at the top of the round goes to Ashton with ORM on deck.

2:27:26

What are you doing?

2:27:30

I am, That is not going to be a very helpful rage On

2:27:35

the ground and train a little decay, which is not really useful here.

2:27:38

Not in this sort of thing.

2:27:41

That's okay. And I am going to, I assume that there's a tongue between, or like a thing between LaDonna and the mouth.

2:27:48

That's just kind of connecting right now.

2:27:51

Like, Like a pseudopod slash under him kind of pulls her close, but she's now she's right next to it.

2:27:55

Like they're, they're adjacent.

2:27:58

Oh, so Where am I on the Overview? I'm so sorry.

2:28:00

You are right in there. Yeah.

2:28:02

Okay. So we've got, you're about 10 feet from Latina.

2:28:07

Okay. I am going to try and go over and smash that tongue.

2:28:11

I'm going to walk over and give it a good, good whack.

2:28:13

Yeah. And see what happens. Okay. So are you just doing a name as a creature or are you trying to free her from trying to free her?

2:28:19

Gotcha. Okay. Go ahead and make an attack with disadvantage.

2:28:25

Okay.

2:28:29

Let's see what happens. Nope. That was a natural one.

2:28:33

Oh yeah. That's a miss. So I'm going to back out and go and swing and you hit it and it gets stuck to it.

2:28:39

And you're trying to pull it away and you have to put a foot up to try and pry it away and you pull it away.

2:28:43

But now your foot stuck and you look over at LaDonna and eventually managed to tear your foot free, but your turn is wasted.

2:28:49

I'm in the building. I'm going to back up a bit, then I'm gonna back out of it.

2:28:53

Yeah. How far back I got 10 feet, I guess In

2:28:56

the corner. Okay. It's going to take it's reaction to hit you short the pseudopod it's going to be a 12 to hit.

2:29:07

Nope. So it whips out towards you and you duck just the way as it hits the wall.

2:29:11

And you can see where it hits some of the stonework next to you cracks and the stones that impact pull away.

2:29:17

And now the part of its tendrils like covered in broken stone and brick.

2:29:21

All right. Is that your turn? It's my turn, right?

2:29:23

Or I'm you're up with imaging on deck or Having

2:29:27

a little trouble seeing the battlefield. But I think if I run on a diet that doesn't help.

2:29:31

If I run an, a diagonal towards Bern, can I get within about like 20 feet of it, Daniel

2:29:41

From, I can just get to her left To

2:29:45

your right 20 get there Is

2:29:46

that within 20 feet of monster?

2:29:50

That is Within 20 feet. Okay. So I run a, I grab a dagger out from the back of my boot and run and get in front of Fern.

2:29:57

And does it have eyes or is it all mouth?

2:30:00

It has kind of one central eye right now that you can kind of see that's going peering out somewhat and then it vanishes, but it's mostly this massive mouth now.

2:30:09

That's just So I shot, Hey and I Chuck the dagger and aim for the eye and I'm going to make a goading attack.

2:30:19

Alrighty.

2:30:21

That hits that's a 23 to hit.

2:30:23

That definitely hits.

2:30:28

So demo first, it's just 8 0 8 damage.

2:30:31

Plus

2:30:31

the

2:30:31

superiority

2:30:31

die

2:30:31

10

2:30:31

and

2:30:31

it

2:30:31

has

2:30:31

to

2:30:31

make

2:30:31

a

2:30:31

wisdom

2:30:37

save. Alright, So I'm just going to reset 8,

2:30:39

10, 10, 10, 10, 10, And

2:30:45

wisdom. That is a, So it fails any attack on anybody except for me is a disadvantage.

2:30:50

You got it Sounds

2:30:52

good. Awesome. The finishes, the turnover, that's it. All right. That brings us to imaging with Fernandez.

2:30:57

Can I Off of what Orem just did?

2:30:59

And as I see him fling the dagger at the I I'm going to at the same time, try to cast blindness on the, on The

2:31:09

eye. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

2:31:15

That day, that wall, That,

2:31:17

and it's a safe content con save 14.

2:31:23

Exactly. Sorry. Good call though, on that one. Yeah. So you go ahead and try and you watch as you're about to release the spell towards an eye and you watch as the eye, the, the blade or the, the, the attack that ORM complete impacts it.

2:31:34

And you see it.

2:31:36

The, I close up the spell doesn't impact in a secondary.

2:31:38

I kind of like opens up further up a wall and advantages again, into the weird shifting Fleshlight stonework.

2:31:46

I didn't want to stay put, or would you like to move?

2:31:48

I'm Going to back up a bit.

2:31:52

Yeah. How far back?

2:31:54

Just behind FCG.

2:31:56

You got All right. Finishing up front.

2:31:58

You're on deck with the door. Sorry for in Europe.

2:32:00

With on deck.

2:32:03

Okay. So I'm going to put my hand up and shoot scorching rays.

2:32:10

Okay. At this thing that this wall is three, three shots I'm going to use.

2:32:16

My first one does not hit my bonus action to convert some sorcery points into a spell.

2:32:22

You got it the first time, 10,

2:32:26

10 misses. Unfortunately That would be 20.

2:32:32

It does Hit

2:32:35

Natural one. Oh, But when does that says 2d six, you can go ahead and roll that 360 fire damage against it.

2:32:51

Okay. I bring eight points, Eight

2:32:53

points of fire damage to it.

2:32:55

So you lob one and it kinda just scatters off the side of the wall.

2:32:58

Second one, you throw the mouth, third one, you try and throw, but as you release it, you release it too late and just hits the ground in front of you.

2:33:11

All right. As it hits, you know, Mister is on your shoulder and shows, I

2:33:17

know just a second.

2:33:20

All right. That finishes your turn or you want to move or a stapler.

2:33:23

Okay. Yeah. I'm going to back up a little bit and just kind of back up around that corner Around

2:33:30

there. Yeah. Got it.

2:33:33

Okay. That brings us to Dorian's go.

2:33:36

Cool. I can't see around the corner. How far is laudanum from the creature?

2:33:40

She's grappled, right? London is right up against it.

2:33:46

Oh man. That's tough right up on it.

2:33:49

Want to give me, give you a, I know this is a camera placement.

2:33:53

I thought it would be more helpful.

2:33:56

We

2:33:56

actually

2:33:56

love

2:33:59

it. Can we get overhead?

2:34:08

Hey, there we go. Is it, is, is, is there any point that I could aim at around the creature that's within a 10 foot sphere that wouldn't also hit Lauda?

2:34:19

Fortunately? No, no. It's that the alleys that tight. It's a pretty tight Alley.

2:34:25

Okay. I mean, you could, you could hit like right next to it here and a 10 foot sphere that explodes outward and maybe Dodge, but then you have to go like in the far back corner to do that.

2:34:38

Yeah. Okay. Just doable. Oh, I'm to run right in.

2:34:41

I'm gonna, how far am I from the creature?

2:34:45

You are about 35 feet from it.

2:34:49

35

2:34:51

feet. Oh no, I can't do a lot.

2:34:57

All

2:35:00

right. I will, I will run over. I will. I'll go to fresh cut grass actually.

2:35:05

And hi, smiley, smiley day to you too.

2:35:09

I've got a feeling. We're going to be doing a lot of healing and I'm going to give them bardic inspiration and it's amazing.

2:35:16

Action first to you. Oh yeah.

2:35:18

Thank you.

2:35:19

All right. And then I am going to how I'm going to run up behind Oram.

2:35:26

Is that who's sorry.

2:35:28

Yep. Run it by and then I'll hold my action.

2:35:31

I think what are you holding?

2:35:37

I know I slept at the time. Or is that quorums thing?

2:35:44

Is that no, I guess it's an attack.

2:35:46

I guess It's you're holding a tack for when something comes into re Yes,

2:35:50

I think so. Yeah. Sort of like a defensive position.

2:35:53

Okay. Okay. You got it.

2:35:55

Alright. That finishes your attorney. It is now the creature's turn God slithers upward into the space.

2:36:04

Kind of holding under there as the wall moves forward.

2:36:18

Travis, Travis it's, pseudopods kind of pull back into its body.

2:36:22

The mouth closed, you hear?

2:36:25

Oh no, no. Watch near the mouth.

2:36:27

It

2:36:27

begins

2:36:27

to

2:36:32

swell. The mouth opens and sets this large globule of kind of greenish clear liquid.

2:36:42

That explodes a little ways in front of it.

2:36:44

Just passed to you.

2:36:46

I need Oram, Dorian and Ashton to make a dexterity.

2:36:50

So

2:36:50

I

2:36:50

haven't

2:36:56

abandoned. Nope, no, I've gotta be in it. Right. Am I in it or no?

2:36:59

No, it was right over there.

2:37:02

This is a short radius AME

2:37:07

globule Okay,

2:37:09

cool. 17, 17, you take 14 points of acidemia.

2:37:13

The living. Fuck.

2:37:15

Okay. Nine you take 20, sorry.

2:37:17

28 points of acidemia.

2:37:18

Oh my fucking God.

2:37:20

Six, six. You take 28 points of acid damage.

2:37:25

Oh, I'll take seven points of Ashton's damage.

2:37:31

Right? I will absorb, I will absorb seven points.

2:37:38

Oh my God. Well, I mean, that might okay.

2:37:44

Keeps kind of shifting forward its tendrils now emerging from the front and it's biting mouth that finishes it.

2:37:54

Stern damage to it.

2:37:56

Derek. You're up with fresh cut grass on deck.

2:38:00

I am up. Wow. All right.

2:38:03

I don't quite know what's going on.

2:38:12

Fuck

2:38:15

me. I'll I'll bonus action.

2:38:18

Form of dread to primarily get the temporary hip points here.

2:38:28

cool. shit.

2:38:33

Shit. Roll. Okay.

2:38:37

Kind of comes up. So traps form of discomfort.

2:38:41

Oh shit. This thing has done a lot.

2:38:44

I haven't done anything to it. You know? I think that a couple of hits.

2:38:48

No, I

2:38:51

don't know what this wall.

2:38:56

Oh wow. What'd you got Alaina.

2:39:04

Will am I near its mouth?

2:39:09

It's it's various portions of its form shift around right now.

2:39:13

Not necessarily, but you can hope to.

2:39:19

Alright. I guess I'll just Eldridge it and see what Happens.

2:39:23

You have disadvantaged in the street, Come

2:39:28

on, log rolling to them and disadvantaged.

2:39:32

I so probably Go to go ahead and release the blast.

2:39:34

And as you do it, shifting forward, tugs you with its city, he some tendrils dragging you behind it.

2:39:38

And in doing so blast goes wide and it's near a window up above which the shutters closed at the impact.

2:39:50

Right? All right, Mr. And fresher grass. You were up with Ashland on deck To

2:39:54

put on my, to swap out my hand and attach my bolt thrower.

2:39:59

Was is that an action to Do

2:40:01

that? Okay. It's Not advanced. I will spend my action to do that.

2:40:12

Alrighty. I'm ready to throw some bolts next time.

2:40:15

And then as a bonus action, I know y'all are both low, but to prevent any further damage, I think I'm going to cast shield of not shield of faith, but Sheila help on, on Ashton granting them a plus two to AC.

2:40:40

Okay. That's good.

2:40:42

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. So plus to the AC and you are currently concentrating on that sheet and at The

2:40:49

end of the turn, I take seven points.

2:40:58

Yes you do. Okay. Single

2:40:59

digit

2:40:59

or

2:40:59

double

2:40:59

digit,

2:41:03

Double digit go before Dorian or after Dory.

2:41:07

Just after Dory.

2:41:09

Okay. All right. Finish this tech. You want to stay put, or do you want to move?

2:41:13

Oh boy, I think I'll tuck around.

2:41:16

Well, blue boy. I want to stay within 30 feet of everybody.

2:41:22

So w Lauden is 30 feet from me now.

2:41:24

LaDonna is about 30 feet from me. And if I tucked around that corner, would I still be within 30 feet of folks?

2:41:31

I mean, probably throw that corner just slightly, but you would not have eyes on large.

2:41:35

I will have The cover. Can I have cover around the corner or not really?

2:41:40

I think he could do that.

2:41:42

All right. So kind of shift around to that space there.

2:41:45

Yeah. Okay. Got it.

2:41:47

Finishing your go, Ashton. You're up on your neck.

2:41:50

I'm going to run in and try and get you loose again.

2:41:55

Okay. So I'm taking a, taking another swing.

2:41:57

I think I might make it a reckless attack, so I don't have disadvantage anymore.

2:42:01

You can do that.

2:42:05

Yeah. Hold on, come on.

2:42:09

That's a cause I don't remember my numbers anymore.

2:42:11

17, 17.

2:42:14

And does it?

2:42:14

It

2:42:14

is

2:42:14

a

2:42:17

wall. Well, we haven't Had it here.

2:42:19

Haven't heard it from, I'm pretty sure I'm

2:42:22

going to fuck it. I'm just going to pump a Casperson to this desperate attempt to get it to work.

2:42:26

So let's do some psychic damage and see how that goes.

2:42:32

So let's, You're not moving to merely with you.

2:42:34

You can still throw, if you don't want to waste your action, you're calling.

2:42:39

Would it help the cause of, I don't know what wouldn't at this point.

2:42:42

Yeah, let's do it.

2:42:45

Okay. So we'll run his tack into That's

2:42:49

10 points of bludgeoning damage.

2:42:53

Alrighty. And I wish six points of psychic damage.

2:42:57

Okay. 16 points to you. Got it. And I still have a little bit of movement I think, or what would have needed to You

2:43:08

do have, Can

2:43:10

I grab LaDonna and start Booking

2:43:13

the other direction?

2:43:15

So as you go ahead and slam your hammer down onto the pseudopod, that's currently holding her, you would have to move around here to do so since she is, she, as you backed up and creature moved forward, it's kinda between, she had to move around 15 feet to get to her slamming, destroy it.

2:43:32

And I'll say like with that much damage, I would say it's just enough to destroy the pseudopod, which means you are not currently grappled.

2:43:39

Oh, it does take a lesser damage because you were focused on sending her free than doing maximum damage to it terribly anymore.

2:43:47

You do have, what's your speed.

2:43:49

30, 30, you got 50 more feet of movement.

2:43:51

And it's, I would say half a minute drag her way.

2:43:53

So you could move her five feet at most your call.

2:44:01

I'll fucking take it. All right. Anything we can goddamn do, pull back to there and we're fine working on it.

2:44:09

No longer graph of Lauda you are now.

2:44:12

Oops. That's the only way I can tell what's going on.

2:44:17

Hmm. Ain't no way everybody.

2:44:20

We all have metaphorical walls that we put up.

2:44:25

If

2:44:25

it's

2:44:25

to

2:44:25

remove

2:44:28

them.

2:44:28

They're

2:44:28

visually

2:44:28

now

2:44:28

I

2:44:28

would

2:44:28

take

2:44:28

that

2:44:37

too. But especially now this is the, this has meant to establish the visuals, but anything you want me to remove away for that Like,

2:44:45

boom, boom, boom, for us to see over on the side, but it looks so pretty audiences only looks great.

2:44:53

This is fine. You tell me this and the guy in the upstairs, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta finish these actions, go arm your up with orange, Totally

2:45:05

burning acid everywhere Over It, lights his hand on the wall and just kind of, and I'm going to use, he poops.

2:45:17

He poops a second. Wind is a bonus.

2:45:23

Action. 11. Thank God. Well, and I shout out a little help here and I'm going to step directly in front of this thing and just start attacking it.

2:45:34

So yeah, we're, that's a natural one, which I will reroll.

2:45:38

That's a tear I miss. So, but I'm going to action surge and go again.

2:45:43

Okay. Not hits. That's a 19 plus stuff as a goading attack again.

2:45:51

So is sorry everybody, but keep it the block.

2:45:58

Come on six plus slow roll six plus.

2:46:02

Okay. 12 damage. And it has to make a wisdom.

2:46:04

Save

2:46:09

again. All that 15. I think it just matched it.

2:46:11

Yeah. She said it succeeds.

2:46:13

Yeah. Sixties. Okay. And that's it. And I'm just standing right in front of it.

2:46:17

You kind of smash it and look up shield in front.

2:46:19

You just see the massive it shadowing you as it progressively shifting forward and almost threatened to push all of you forward with it.

2:46:29

All right.

2:46:31

All right. Finishing warms, go imaging.

2:46:33

You're up in front on deck.

2:46:36

I'm going to, I'm going to look towards LaDonna and see how fucked up she is.

2:46:40

And my eyes are just going to flash white and I'm going to flare up my hands and hit it with a which ball.

2:46:48

Okay. Level one level two level two, level two. Go ahead.

2:46:51

Roll to attack.

2:46:52

Which

2:46:52

boat

2:46:52

would

2:46:52

you

2:46:52

if

2:46:52

you

2:46:52

didn't

2:46:52

have

2:46:52

14,000

2:46:52

shut

2:47:04

up. That definitely hits. Go ahead and roll your 2d 12.

2:47:09

Yes.

2:47:11

Yes. That's my base.

2:47:15

Whoa. Hey, nice. 1880 2.2.

2:47:17

It's as it shifting forward.

2:47:23

Let me see, like, as you're concentrating in the black energy and purple sparks or teach, but that, that little cluster words emanating, it's just focused and holding.

2:47:36

Got it.

2:47:38

Nice. Staying put, How far can I get from it?

2:47:40

I think I have to stay within 30 feet, so I'll stay within 30 feet.

2:47:48

Okay. A little closer together. I would've stepped up.

2:47:51

So put you there and I'll stay right there. All right.

2:47:53

You got it.

2:47:55

All right. Finishing your goal. That brings us to from the Dorian on deck.

2:48:01

Okay. What size creature Is this?

2:48:02

This is a large.

2:48:08

Great. Okay. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna put my hand out and I'm going to cast telekinesis with my stunk keys rang.

2:48:24

Yes,

2:48:24

but

2:48:24

that's

2:48:29

good. The creature strength check.

2:48:43

So

2:48:43

what's

2:48:43

my

2:48:49

Only objects that aren't being worn or carried. You cannot talk at a creature feature.

2:48:52

You can try to move isn't Creature,

2:48:56

maybe an ability check with your spell casting ability.

2:48:59

That is the spell telekinesis.

2:49:02

Correct. But the items donkey's ring says you can cast a spell telekinesis at will, but you can target only objects that aren't being

2:49:14

okay. Okay. And that is the balance. Otherwise that would be a fifth level.

2:49:17

Spell it.

2:49:19

Well, super powerful. It's all good. It's all Good.

2:49:21

So what I'm going to do then Okay.

2:49:30

This is a little wild. Let me just, let me just, let me just double check on this.

2:49:40

Don't see bells.

2:49:42

Okay. That was, let me just figure something out real quick.

2:49:51

okay.

2:49:52

Oh,

2:49:52

all

2:49:54

right. Sorry. I'm in a peek under my Cape.

2:49:59

Ooh, Mr. Are you ready to happen?

2:50:04

Oh, in there. Okay. As an action man, You

2:50:06

can see the flame in the back of the chest, like burning and ready to go.

2:50:10

Oh, he's getting ready.

2:50:18

Okay. Yeah. So, Nope. That's not wild shape. That would be someone wildfire.

2:50:22

Spirit. Yes. So sorry.

2:50:24

I I, okay, so wait, you had a plan. I had a plan.

2:50:27

It didn't work. I'm improvising here.

2:50:30

Alright, so I'm gonna take, I'm gonna have him throw a flame seat.

2:50:33

All right. So, so as an action action, you come in Him.

2:50:36

Is that just the action you can spend on a new journey while she features now let's move him.

2:50:43

Sorry. That's okay. No, it helps if you read it out loud, but in a mumbly way that no one coming to the drama.

2:50:57

Okay. So what's great is when you're reading like that, you're not actually reading.

2:51:02

That's what was happening. I was doing that and I'm like, I'm not taking in any information right now.

2:51:05

What am I doing?

2:51:11

Okay. All right. So I would like him to get, you know, just a little bit in front of me up there.

2:51:19

Yep. And he's just going to take his flame seed and he's gonna Chuck it into the mouth.

2:51:27

Is it the eyeball of the, Is

2:51:28

it a bonus action for you to tell them to flip the frame seed?

2:51:36

I know I might only be able to command.

2:51:39

Okay. In combat wildfire, spirit shares your initiative count.

2:51:41

Great, but it takes a start immediately after yours.

2:51:43

Okay. It doesn't matter. The only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action.

2:51:46

Unless you take a bonus shack action on your turn to come in.

2:51:49

So you can do that.

2:51:51

Yes. You actually create it in bullets actually to give it all right.

2:51:55

So you watch as Mister leaps off of her shoulder, as he does, you watch, you watch this, this tiny monkey.

2:52:00

That is that at this point, aside from, from those who traveled here with Fern has been just this little free monkey that stays like hidden in her hair and underneath the cloak and occasionally emerges and screams.

2:52:11

Now you watch this, it leaps off of the shoulders.

2:52:15

Suddenly it bursts into flames around it. And is now this like elemental burning monkey on the ground.

2:52:21

And he just grabs a chunk of monkey flame and throws it over at this giant mouth covered wall.

2:52:33

Go ahead and roll an attack.

2:52:36

That's not Sanitary layman Dude.

2:52:38

Throw shit at the wall.

2:52:43

Wow. Yes. That's exactly what she's doing.

2:52:58

Mr. That's Hey, Mrs. What's more stationary than a wall, A

2:53:05

door, The secret enemies. The next enemy is the ground and be able to hit it.

2:53:09

He does manage to hit the wall, but it, this one unfortunately, was not charged with the elemental fire and is literally just a smear of Dukie.

2:53:18

Oh, okay. I give him a little switch on his head. It's okay.

2:53:20

It's okay. I'll get it next time.

2:53:25

We'll get something. Can I bring to life?

2:53:27

My staff? You used your own a section that I'm gonna strike.

2:53:29

That's what I just did.

2:53:34

Nevermind. I'm all state. Okay. Finishing your turn from Dorian Europe.

2:53:40

Woo. Oh My God. If you want it to, so go ahead. Throw it now if you want it before you're turning.

2:53:45

I think after I see Mr. Fail and I'm like, I'll try to throw something.

2:53:52

Sure. Okay. 18, 18 heads. Go ahead and roll damage.

2:54:00

Oh, let's go faster. Not great, but okay.

2:54:03

That's a five, Five damage.

2:54:06

Yes. You got it done.

2:54:08

And it's like stuck in the wall though.

2:54:11

Okay. I'm feeling all right about myself. All I want to do is go help ORM, but I can't.

2:54:17

Cause I'm parked. I am going to, I'm going to run around.

2:54:22

It's so cowardly. I'm going to run around the corner over by Fern and I'm going to ha fuck.

2:54:31

This sucks so bad. I was D and D so real bugs.

2:54:37

I'm gonna cast. I'm gonna I'm so hurt. I'm going to cast level to cure wounds on myself on yours.

2:54:47

I'm so hurt.

2:54:49

It's eight plus three 11 Because

2:54:51

was all for 11, a little bit of respite there.

2:54:54

Not a problem. I know. That'll that'll end My

2:54:57

turn. All right. It is now the wall's turn first to see if does get its spit back.

2:55:08

Oh boy.

2:55:08

Oh

2:55:14

boy. Oh boy. It goes, I wonder how far cause it's right there.

2:55:23

It goes Under the ground right in front of it.

2:55:27

Bladders out. Oh, I need LaDonna, Ashton and Oram to go ahead and roll.

2:55:39

I'm going dad. Where's your dad.

2:55:43

Where are you? That was a lot of .

2:55:51

How many points you guys and you've got Bonus.

2:55:56

Tim hit 2020.

2:55:58

So you take 11 points of acid damage.

2:56:02

Okay. So 2011 points of acid damage still ELs 12, you take 23 points of acid damage.

2:56:11

Are you alive? I would take half of that, but I'm not allowed to write mad.

2:56:17

Only allowed to take up to Only

2:56:19

attacks, right? Or no, no, no. He said it was literally to a certain number of value.

2:56:25

Well, no, you can, you can, you can prevent any number of value, but you only get temporary hit points equal to your level.

2:56:31

Plus your was the modified.

2:56:33

Oh, Is that right? Yeah. It sounds forever written.

2:56:36

Now are you, can You do that?

2:56:39

Are you good? I'll take half of that shot.

2:56:46

Okay. All right. Yep. So I will take the hit points, but I can't dish out that many hip Roundup.

2:56:52

Well, she takes half damage and then you up to, and it should say in the ability up to you, I think it's your cleric level, plus your wisdom modifier, Which

2:57:02

is Seven. So you get seven temporary. So

2:57:04

I only take seven of her hip points or I take 11 of her hip points.

2:57:08

She Takes house damage from the stroke.

2:57:11

Okay. So I, okay. So I get 1100 points back, correct?

2:57:15

And I take seven temporary Hip. You take 700 points.

2:57:17

You cannot get higher than seven.

2:57:20

Okay. Thank you. Can it be from Roland death saves.

2:57:25

Oh, so you get, I

2:57:29

am currently possibly suffering the effects.

2:57:31

We'll find out I've absorbed some damage, but minutes, Half

2:57:39

damage essentially. Yeah. Let me just make sure this is right. Hang on.

2:57:41

Hang on. Let me reset. My Shit

2:57:43

went from 23 damage To 11, but I had temporary points and it was weird.

2:57:46

So I'm going to take 11 damage, right?

2:57:50

Okay. So I have 10 hip points. Okay.

2:57:52

All right. Up to the hip Whites.

2:57:55

Thank you. What does that mean? You have 17 brand new points that are just kind of like a string around you waiting to either protect you or harm you.

2:58:04

All right.

2:58:04

That

2:58:04

is

2:58:04

your

2:58:04

reaction

2:58:04

with

2:58:07

that. The creature is going to go ahead.

2:58:09

Can't really push forward with you in the way.

2:58:13

I mean it can, I'll say, I'll say for the size against your size to being a small creature, go ahead and make a strength saving throw for me.

2:58:27

That's A two plus two.

2:58:27

So that's a four.

2:58:29

As it begins to push forward it, you try and get your shield in the way and hit it and hold your ground and you feel your feet just sliding against it.

2:58:40

And so it's going to push you forward as it goes.

2:58:43

Are we all on top of it again?

2:58:46

Or Where is it leaving you guys behind?

2:58:51

It leaves Ladonna's Camilia space, but it's still within yours.

2:58:53

You're not currently attached to it because it has not struck you with any M pseudopods.

2:58:57

It's just use the last couple rounds to blast the ground with it's acidic spittle, but that finishes its turn you all of you begin to see the tendrils and you see orange push back shield in front, kind of partially to here to the front of it.

2:59:08

And there's a little part of you that worries. You're not able to pull yourself free of it.

2:59:11

Now that you've met it, you haven't reached that point yet.

2:59:14

Finishing it's turned is now loudness go with fresh grass hunter.

2:59:17

I just left my Maylee range. So can I move back?

2:59:25

Okay. they're not kind of fully embracing my form of dread.

2:59:28

You Can see through the pods have a reach of 15 feet.

2:59:32

Oh, so and so, so what would, would it be? What

2:59:34

do you mean? Meaning if you want to completely leave that reach, it will get one attack of opportunity on your mood.

2:59:41

Pseudopod okay. Do you want to risk it?

2:59:45

No, No, no. Wait, no mobile.

2:59:47

There's things to hit really hard. I mean, I want to move back away from it.

2:59:51

I want to move back, but I don't want to leave it's And

2:59:54

move five feet and stay within the reach of it.

2:59:56

Pseudopod otherwise it'll still strike you on the way back.

3:00:01

I don't want to die or get grappled. All right. I'm going to stay here.

3:00:06

Hex Exit.

3:00:08

You got it without issue.

3:00:13

Right? And then L judge Blass going to take the shadows from around me and gather them up in the energy.

3:00:20

I'm gonna blast it down on top of its head.

3:00:25

Fuck me sideways.

3:00:31

Why? Why?

3:00:33

13, 13, 13, 14.

3:00:37

Just Mrs. . I'm sorry. This is going so poorly, Ryan.

3:00:41

Should I get rid of this?

3:00:43

Have you keep using that one?

3:00:52

It is. You

3:00:54

move around spin exit. And then as you throw the alert blast, the creature seems to less shift with part of its physical movement forward.

3:01:01

And as it does the blast misses it and just our shopping into the sky.

3:01:08

Oh, Dextrous. Alright. Let's stay at damn done.

3:01:12

Okay. All right. That brings us to fresh cut grass.

3:01:15

With What I'm saying is we all carry emotional walls and bro, by breaking them down, we can, we can become more spiritually hold I'm melting.

3:01:25

Sorry. All right. I'll lean out.

3:01:27

And

3:01:27

I

3:01:27

will

3:01:29

fire. I will throw a bolt from my bolt thrower.

3:01:33

Okay. And try to Strack it with said bolt the bolt 18 plus two to hit.

3:01:40

That's a 20 to hit that hits.

3:01:43

Awesome. That's a one D eight, which is five plus I'll pump in the seven temporary hit.

3:01:51

Yeah. Well Points. I don't know how to do as we know It

3:02:01

was like a burst from the impact of the harpoon, like a grappled point as it hits in the UCV the holding of some sort of strange, magical energies.

3:02:10

The impact is you release the temporary, hit points into it.

3:02:14

It has large creature. You want him to, you can pull yourself to it if you wanted to.

3:02:18

Well, I don't know about that. No, no.

3:02:19

This is the bolt thrower.

3:02:21

This is not the, I have a lot of hands.

3:02:26

Gotcha. So yeah. So you just go ahead and fill this. This is just a bolt.

3:02:28

You hit it with that. You got it.

3:02:30

And then with my bonus action, since that was just action.

3:02:34

Action. I can cast a spell, looking over my friends over here who is dying more actually technically means to actually take them.

3:02:46

Leave me too. I'm in single digits.

3:02:47

You're both in single digits.

3:02:50

Barely. Almost disparately in double and I'm Lansing.

3:02:53

I will, I will throw a healing word at, at Ashton.

3:02:59

Yeah, I am. Let's see.

3:03:02

It's the four plus three, three plus three.

3:03:10

Six. Okay, good. All right. He'll just say it that way.

3:03:13

Are

3:03:13

you

3:03:13

staying

3:03:13

put,

3:03:17

Oh, the wall's getting close, but I got to stay close to all my friends.

3:03:22

I'll stay put and just kind of rock right back around the corner again.

3:03:26

Okay. She's Shipped back over that spot. You got it. All

3:03:28

right. It's all just think of this as it as a metaphorical teaching healing moment for all of us.

3:03:35

All right, Ashton, you're up or I'm here on deck.

3:03:40

I am just going to take another.

3:03:43

How far away am I from this? You were in then five feet.

3:03:45

You're like you're off to the side of it. Started to move past you, but it hasn't moved entirely out of your melee range.

3:03:50

Okay. I'm just going to take a, take a fucking swing at it.

3:03:53

See what the fuck happens.

3:03:56

We all actually rolled decently.

3:03:59

Hey, 18, 18. There you go.

3:04:01

And just cause everything sucks. I'm just gonna throw a chaos burst before I go.

3:04:07

Unconscious. You got it. All right.

3:04:08

That's cool. Don't die.

3:04:11

No, I'm trying a fire fire.

3:04:13

Good job.

3:04:14

So

3:04:14

let's

3:04:14

just

3:04:14

do,

3:04:14

let's

3:04:20

Do a roll max damage like you Did

3:04:21

the first four episodes of this case do nine points of lodging, which is great.

3:04:29

And four points of fire damage.

3:04:32

Jean points of damage.

3:04:34

Alrighty. Slam in with a hammer from behind you hit, but it's a glancing blow off of what is mostly a wall and then the flames going to burn straight across.

3:04:41

But you hold the hammer back and try to stop it.

3:04:49

The worst person.

3:04:52

The other wall.

3:04:53

Yeah, I guess I'm just going to back up another five feet.

3:04:58

I'm just going to try and like, just be another, I'm going to try and get some distance from everybody so that there are Five

3:05:04

feet right in from the now right in front of log now.

3:05:08

Yeah. Can we Twitch stream? Let's just try the shit looking at it.

3:05:17

Look at me. Look at these ads.

3:05:19

Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be right in front of log now. Okay.

3:05:21

You got the finishes. You go For them. You're up the image in your own day.

3:05:24

Okay. I assume I'm a fixed with the shield.

3:05:28

Is that accurate? I will allow you a strength saving throw right now.

3:05:32

Nah, let's say it's a fixed. I'm going to use a, a superior superiority dye to faint to the side and make it look like I'm running.

3:05:40

But instead I'm going to grip the shield and swing around and try to stab, swinging an arc and try to stab into its mouth.

3:05:47

So that's an advantage cause it was a faint.

3:05:53

Oh, so two fives.

3:05:54

I wrote two fives.

3:05:58

That's a, that's a 12.

3:06:01

That's not going to hit. This is you pull back on the show.

3:06:03

You got to swing towards the mouth. And as you do, it closes the blade, hits with the teeth, come down and actually catches the blade halfway through and momentum stops and you try and pull away and your blades now fixed.

3:06:14

We give your shield stuck and your blade stuck for Friday And

3:06:17

my feet are pressed on it and they feel stuck.

3:06:21

I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die.

3:06:23

Yeah. I've been accidentally doing my math wrong and I should have for extra damage at this point against this thing.

3:06:27

Cause I forgot my plus two damage. You got it.

3:06:30

I believe I've hit it twice.

3:06:33

Okay. So that's four 17 slash get a call.

3:06:36

Remember learning, learning. Yes. There you go. All Right.

3:06:38

That finishes Your go warm. I'm like a fly on the wall.

3:06:42

You Are imaging. You're up front.

3:06:44

You're on deck. I'm never going to work, but it's getting closer to me.

3:06:47

So I'm going to try to use my bonus action and shove it back telepathically while I burst some more lightening flare into affect large creatures.

3:06:56

It's all, all creatures.

3:06:59

One preacher. I see. Within 30 feet of me, strength saving 21.

3:07:06

Oh wait, wait, wait, wait.

3:07:08

Because hex is the fact that flexibility to checks, not saving throws, but looking, looking out good.

3:07:15

Looking out. It's going to be strength. Okay. Got it.

3:07:16

So strength, ability checks, which means any sort of contested roles to try and break free from the Eddy hearing is now a disadvantage on its own.

3:07:22

So it still helps just none of this nonsense, but I still have I'm here.

3:07:30

Good looking at Within 10 feet of you.

3:07:34

It's the tendrils you're within the reach of his tendrils.

3:07:36

You're like it's coming towards you.

3:07:42

I I'm going to gain Berber verse and lightening into it.

3:07:46

Okay. Yeah. It just hits automatically. Go ahead and roll.

3:07:50

The 12, 12. It only does the level to add the initial impact.

3:07:53

And then it's just a B12.

3:07:58

Wait, what? I couldn't. I have used one of those roles from before, but I rolled again and it was a, Well

3:08:03

thanks. One point a day. I'm scared right now you are so terrible going.

3:08:10

So, And I feel like being closer to the mouth is scarier than not.

3:08:14

So even though it could hit me, I'm going to try to back up as much as I possibly can.

3:08:18

Yeah. To the asset, you try to move back. It's going to go ahead and, And

3:08:21

just try to stay within 30 feet of it.

3:08:24

But you know, so I don't break the Yeah.

3:08:27

30. That would be good. But it's gonna go ahead and try and use this reaction pod.

3:08:31

That was going to be a 16 to hit.

3:08:37

All right.

3:08:39

You take, oh, okay.

3:08:41

14 points of bludgeoning damage.

3:08:43

And you do not get that far because as soon as you try and move beyond it, the tendril hits you and you are grappled.

3:09:01

All right.

3:09:01

That finishes your turn burn.

3:09:04

You're up with Dorian on deck it and there's all this shit you have healer.

3:09:16

Well, we're going to need to, the needle goes unconscious.

3:09:21

You're gonna need to pick them back up.

3:09:25

Yeah, clearly they're going to get there. You have a flying monkey fire bag.

3:09:33

Okay. Okay. This is an idea. And I just need you to tell Me

3:09:36

your name.

3:09:38

Of course.

3:09:39

So With

3:09:42

the wildfire spirit, I can sometimes do fiery teleportation and move teleport and 15 feet to an unoccupied space with my boy, Mr.

3:09:58

and any freed within five feet of it, which can include Or

3:10:02

include Dorian. And if you want it to damage.

3:10:06

Okay. Let's scratch that. I have another idea of that.

3:10:10

Okay. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to, oh, I don't want anybody else to take damage here.

3:10:15

Is there a way I can sort of get to the, the, the left of Oram?

3:10:21

You're right, right here. Yeah. Yeah. You can move over there.

3:10:25

I'm going to do that. And then I'm going to clap my hands together.

3:10:31

Yes. I cast thunder wave trying to do it like, you know, that way.

3:10:38

So No, actually there's just enough space here to not hit or, or Ashton.

3:10:41

That is a 15 foot cube.

3:10:44

Okay. That was, that was the plan.

3:10:46

Okay, great. So Constitution saving, throw in it's point, right?

3:10:55

Recall? Yes. Constitution saving throw There's

3:10:58

a 13. What's your spell. These, come on, Come

3:11:00

on. Class spelled D C is 15.

3:11:07

Yeah, go ahead and roll damage on that one A

3:11:10

little too, right?

3:11:11

Right, right. Okay. Okay. What level were you casting it at?

3:11:14

All right. Go for it. Go ahead and roll damage for second level.

3:11:26

Okay. I see 3d

3:11:29

eight damage. Okay. That would be 15 points of damage Damage.

3:11:36

Nice. And then now my now minister gets and it moves it back.

3:11:42

10 feet, 10

3:11:45

feet. Yeah. Paul are friends with, I mean, I'm on it.

3:11:48

Orem does get pulled with it. And what about me and the am I grappled?

3:11:55

Yep. Yeah. And so it drags them back within, pulls them with it.

3:12:01

Cool. Okay. Now Mr. Gets a turn and he's going to shit in his hand.

3:12:05

Again, throw that flame and seat Greater

3:12:19

on attack 12. I knew I shouldn't have used this one.

3:12:22

It's a lot of rough rules.

3:12:23

This battle guys.

3:12:26

Sorry man. Throws another one. This one is actually goes wide and splatters on the wall behind.

3:12:29

And she's just flaming turds on the actual wall, which was like, Alright,

3:12:49

No, I

3:12:51

mean, oh yes.

3:12:53

Okay. Finishing friends, go Dorian Europe.

3:12:56

All right. I'm going to like use my movement to break backward all the way up against that back wall.

3:13:01

Sort of like right down the middle of the alley as far away as I can go.

3:13:05

Yeah. And then I am going to The

3:13:08

difference being dragged back by the wall, which is now doubling, it's forced to push back against the, the nature of fury that is from, Oh

3:13:17

fuck. Ah, street down the shoot.

3:13:18

I'm going to cast.

3:13:20

I'm going to cast chromatic or, Oh,

3:13:28

I took that fee please.

3:13:30

Let's

3:13:30

go

3:13:30

natural

3:13:30

20

3:13:30

plus

3:13:37

25. Let's go. So you roll first to see what the damage type it is.

3:13:41

Do I roll into my pick and choose? I think I choose it.

3:13:44

Yeah. I'm going to choose a, I'm going to choose lightning.

3:13:48

All

3:13:51

right. All right.

3:13:53

That's

3:13:53

all

3:13:57

right. 16. And I think I, the way I cast is I have to have a diamond.

3:14:02

So if you were to look closely at my chest plate right in the center, you'd noticed a little princess cut diamond and I sorta classy flick it into my hand and catch it.

3:14:13

And it turns into this orb of electric energy.

3:14:16

And I just give it the old MLB throw as hard as I can straight down the center.

3:14:24

Fantastic. What I did and it gave me a, I said in 16, 16

3:14:28

minutes with the double, Would

3:14:30

you say you rolled, well, no, no. I, I got 7, 7 1 8 16, but you can then double it cause you rolled The dice.

3:14:40

Oh, so, so six years.

3:14:55

So 32, Just like I said, except 10 times.

3:14:58

Cool. Yeah. Look at the diamond and grab it and then release the, what happens.

3:15:05

Ooh. It like, as I throw it, it just goes from this tiny little thing gets a little bigger until it looks like I'll just a tiny little orbit.

3:15:11

And as it shoots forward, it just gets faster and faster.

3:15:14

It's almost like a, like a fucking bullet.

3:15:16

And it just goes right in between, right in the fucking Iris of its eyes and sort of buries its way into its eyes slowly.

3:15:26

Ooh. As the, as the wall is standing there on the friend's being dragged in it's mouth open, you can see it's in the process of getting ready to stuff I'm into its giant toothy ma.

3:15:38

And as everyone has this look of despair and fear on their face, you watch this, it just spins and crashes right into its eye.

3:15:45

And as it impacts, the wall seems to lock and freeze and you watch what seems like time everywhere else slows down except for the one slight spin of this arcane bolt that begins to just corkscrew in and burrow into the eye.

3:15:58

And as it does, it tries to close the lid.

3:16:00

And as it, as the load closes, the lid closes.

3:16:03

You can see the blue glow behind the flash of the light.

3:16:07

It's getting brighter and brighter at which point, Arcs of energy begin to shock through it.

3:16:14

As blue lightning, gins, just tear open gashes and sores across this body.

3:16:19

The bits of wall like texture and brick, you see begins to just turn into this odd gray sundered flesh and the wall begins to just, And you see, as it begins to just vomit, kind of a dark, bloody anger out of its mouth.

3:16:35

Other mouths began to appear in the spaces and then go slack and vanish.

3:16:38

The eye itself closes, tries to open elsewhere, but the pupil itself is disintegrated as it begins to take a step forward.

3:16:43

And then another step forward, your friends begin to push away.

3:16:48

You managed to free yourself from the wall. And as you all stepped back to join Dorian at the end of the alleyway against the wall you watch, is it And collapses into the ground?

3:17:06

No,

3:17:06

except

3:17:06

for

3:17:06

that,

3:17:22

That's a brief moment. Do you want just kind of catching your breath in the silence of the night?

3:17:26

You just hear all of your friends around you breathing hard And during your stand there, clustering the diamond in your hand.

3:17:38

Oh shit.

3:17:40

Fuck. I hate ass.

3:17:43

Scary wall.

3:17:47

Nice. Wow. Nice renovation.

3:17:48

Is

3:17:51

everyone. All right. Wow. Well take some damage.

3:17:53

Sit down.

3:17:55

How are you?

3:17:57

Oh, I'm dandy.

3:17:59

Good. Who would like a little bit of healing?

3:18:06

Anyone? Oh, got much. I'll join.

3:18:07

I'll join you. Yeah. I'll go over to Austin.

3:18:12

Sit here for a minute or 60.

3:18:17

How far does this, does this alley go?

3:18:21

Oh yeah, it did that.

3:18:23

Leave a whole, You go and look. And there's about 10 more feet of alley behind it before it comes to the actual end of the alley.

3:18:30

Is it filthy? No, it isn't. It is entirely clean.

3:18:32

Like the rest, except for what looks like remnants of dissolved.

3:18:39

Oh, 10 months. Can I look around the bone fragments to see if there's any sort of identifiable jewelry or Sure.

3:18:48

An investigation check? No. What? I just want to identify the bodies for their families.

3:18:53

Anything that identifies anything? What am I doing?

3:18:57

Investigation. Oh, it's Terrible. It's fine. Fuck. It takes you a long time.

3:18:59

You managed to find some coin.

3:19:03

You find some like bracelets and what looks to be mostly kind of like a metallic based accessories that survived, whatever process.

3:19:14

This creature. Probably. I'm just going to gather whatever I can find is some sort of identifying, sift all the bones into my hands.

3:19:21

Oh, okay. There you go.

3:19:26

Thank you. I'm going to be okay.

3:19:33

Yeah. That was fun. That was fun.

3:19:36

I feel better. You're welcome. We should do that more often.

3:19:46

Inanimate objects. It's a conspiracy of inanimate objects.

3:20:01

walls every once in a while. How are you are right up there on it.

3:20:07

Hey, I thought I wouldn't die, but I, I thought helped me.

3:20:11

I thought I might die.

3:20:14

Can you look over? And Mr is climbed up onto the body and just kind of looks back and then just takes a flaming and poop on them directly.

3:20:28

Yeah. Sometimes back up on you as the flames disappeared, you see the fuzzy Mr.

3:20:32

Behind kind of clutching onto the side of her hair.

3:20:37

It's an attractive animal of his little roll-y tummy.

3:20:42

Scratch. Scratch it from the kneeling position I have on the ground.

3:20:45

Like reaching that you should not be first, anywhere.

3:20:49