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2:00

your over finally set up a puppet master.

2:03

Yoda for have a super long

2:05

awkward conversation with a fan my

2:07

whole men and ask them are

2:09

and befriended a demon and point

2:11

be made his way back to

2:13

the Silver Lion after completing a

2:15

submission by flying on. What will

2:18

the roof find inside the abandonment

2:20

some they discover why doesn't absolve

2:22

Ah Zen on. Dunams

2:28

having investigated the. Dead

2:30

and their processes Throat cellphones You

2:32

have found. I. Triangulation.

2:35

Here. And old chancel. The rich

2:37

neighborhood. Or the sort of

2:40

gaudy neighborhood that is slammed

2:42

up against the side of

2:44

the Governor's. Old

2:46

old money mansion your make your

2:48

way through these packs streets packed

2:51

with. Houses with people

2:53

as the new or past kind

2:55

of all the the low hanging

2:57

fruit quinney that you've been observing

2:59

of of buildings that are packed

3:01

is a little too close together

3:03

right the up. A variety of

3:05

styles of variety of wealth, everyone

3:07

just desperately trying to show how

3:09

much coin they have and how

3:11

little taste they have. It is

3:13

an architectural gumbo that no one

3:15

likes and your be led by

3:17

a Djibouti Missy the in/and feature

3:19

infantryman. He gets it. Neither can

3:21

I. Having figured

3:23

out where the the various

3:26

on dad's sort of magical.

3:29

Cord is being pulled from. So having invested

3:31

throw town a you're finally on your approach

3:33

to what looks to be a derelict mansion.

3:35

There are a few of these similar to

3:37

if you've ever seen those incredibly chilling images

3:40

of the non planned community mentions the kind

3:42

of got abandoned during the recession where they

3:44

were joy mega mansions. I remember there was

3:46

one that had a room that to sit

3:48

extra room and it was size of my

3:50

house but there's nothing there and this is

3:53

a similar thing is clearly a very expensive

3:55

has and you seen a few these that

3:57

are boarded up that are for sale. That

4:00

still our fancy but are clearly not.

4:03

Are. This

4:05

kind of makes sense given or thing

4:07

you've heard about the financials to a

4:09

situation going on here. And sell guns

4:11

when's trade is flowing? The. Money's flowing.

4:13

Everything is good for everyone involved. Why

4:16

the trade is not flowing? Things are

4:18

bad. When the undead walk the streets,

4:20

think about it. You know all those

4:22

usual economic factors that would take all

4:24

the the up so you pass a

4:27

few these, but this is the one

4:29

that you can lead up to. I'm

4:31

it has a a massive wrought iron

4:33

fence around it. Despite how close these

4:35

houses are packed, they still have little

4:37

yards are they still want to feel

4:40

in some places as much as a

4:42

mansion as possible. Despite the the proximity

4:44

so this one seems to have aggressively

4:46

built a yard around, it's fast. It's

4:49

not as close to some the other

4:51

buildings as what you seen, but. It's.

4:53

Only you know, maybe a meter or

4:55

a I guess a month three, four

4:58

feet for our America Mistress of Guard.

5:00

It's not a lot, it's an uptown

5:02

kind of screwed around it as but.

5:05

They've. Basically unlike some the other properties

5:07

that are just a house next to

5:09

a house there's a little bit a

5:12

yard run this one okay with a

5:14

bit of a deeper front yard so

5:16

kind of cuts out into the front

5:18

At this thing is a a big

5:20

serve imposing two storey building. Up from

5:22

the outside it is that painted a

5:24

deep mahogany so. A weird

5:27

mix of what are clearly stone

5:29

pillars that have been kind of

5:31

painted in a vaguely would ask

5:34

color, a huge pillars out front

5:36

to statues of lions sir flanking

5:38

the door. Or

5:41

the windows have all been very artfully

5:43

boarded up, so none of this is

5:45

kind of like we had to abandon

5:47

this in a hurry to sort of

5:49

a it hasn't sold yet so we

5:51

want to put some stuff up to

5:53

make for the looky loos. don't do

5:55

their looky loo and so not. I

5:57

don't think that is as decrepit, but

5:59

simply m. Almost packed for storage.

6:01

recently abandoned or no not recently. Okay

6:03

that you can tell that the you

6:06

the things that would put up the

6:08

block and windows or weathered. Clearly this

6:10

this one has been available on the

6:13

market for for some time. Huge.

6:17

Sort of steep roof that are also doesn't

6:19

have any work done it a while. It's

6:22

not, you know, fulfils or anything but it's

6:24

definitely showing some wear and tear. Divide you're

6:26

getting is very much. Of

6:28

whoever owns this hasn't felt the need to keep

6:30

it up until it sells would possibly means has

6:33

been on the market for a long time on

6:35

some the other for sale places you've seen have

6:37

been very stage some them have you know lights

6:39

on inside and or this is why the ones

6:41

that that is using a few like this on

6:44

your way and but. This

6:46

one does not at so jimbo kind of

6:48

movies you have to the door and says

6:50

oh yeah will see your yard or your

6:52

your highness about you but whole does. again

6:55

too much of a bow but he's more

6:57

comfortable now. He served gaining confidence having spent

6:59

time around other the three of you says

7:01

or is this I am I'm afraid I'm

7:03

not too familiar with this this part of

7:06

town other than you know what false from

7:08

it into the sewers so or it's a

7:10

wonder what of people poop in this neighborhood

7:12

and the any poops from this place I

7:14

guess. ah I wouldn't. Be able to tell

7:16

you it is. We We don't get culture

7:18

to catch every poop like we're not running

7:20

around with with. You know, Wilson's nicest if

7:22

there's a clog or major issue down down

7:24

in the sewers that we kind of come

7:26

through. And and and seventy cards. Yeah, okay, so

7:29

you don't know anything. I mean I

7:31

know some things but get what you know about this

7:33

house or no I don't I think with his house

7:35

and some things. Oh in

7:37

general I'm a cart poop or I'm I'm a very complex person

7:39

and i just i don't like being reduced to nothing is a

7:41

don't know but this one fancy house I'm in a marriage as

7:44

you to nothing as didn't have you know when he of this

7:46

of se detail what I think let's be fair by a tell

7:48

us the top three things about yourself. Okay,

7:50

well the first is that I'm a

7:52

great. If. He Truman. In.

7:55

Turn with that. Infantry mins the

7:57

internet get you nippert. Juniper just sidles

7:59

up to. Who I didn't happening be like. And.

8:02

I think he might need some inspiration at some

8:04

point. I'm just gonna. I'm. Gonna quickly change back

8:06

to car talk. I don't I don't know out or you're

8:08

gonna need to be hit her Yeah I'm good. I'm I'm

8:10

gotta. Fruits. Us so are really

8:13

good that even though just started by

8:15

morning very quickly or to I am

8:17

good at inspiring others are these oh

8:19

my gosh Really? yeah. Bigger night Carter

8:21

can be somewhat of a. It

8:23

looks first lie lead all of you as

8:26

shitty job. But I'm

8:28

not. I might my job have to

8:30

try and make given I Cartersville little

8:32

bit better about it. So you know

8:34

if someone. Carts. Poop very

8:36

effectively. I make sure that that I pointed

8:38

out and and tell them you know people

8:40

don't necessarily see what we're doing put it's

8:42

important which is I think why I'm a

8:44

little bit touchy about. The. Not knowing but

8:46

has hosted. I'm sorry know there's bigger things it works

8:48

here than than me down about our they did. Spiry

8:51

gets a very important it under

8:53

appreciated skill. They ever yell I would

8:55

describe it is Barry Central to go

8:57

talks identity Wow okay what will thank

8:59

you gotta talk us and I guess

9:01

the the third. The. Third thing about

9:04

me, his. Paw. I am very

9:06

very good with a cart or the

9:08

D and will not surprising know the poop

9:10

courts are not necessarily built for efficiency

9:12

but I've gotten very good at them and

9:14

I tend cart professor than many of

9:16

my colleagues which I don't brag about

9:18

to them. I instead show them how you

9:21

know if if the wheel was in

9:23

such a proceeds had very technical about willing

9:25

sir shit okay well I guess I

9:27

just so. You know I just want a

9:29

played out that if you're good at wheeling sit

9:31

around your also public good at We're we're out.

9:33

Really a bunch of other things around. Just.

9:36

Know that and and he nods to transferable

9:38

skills that can be used in the future.

9:40

was just it applied in Peterman Ship. Sure,

9:45

Absolutely set of said that like

9:47

things that need it's need to

9:49

be carted around to like a

9:51

different squads like weapon said president

9:53

James and things like that. Numbers

9:55

weren't an important mission, but I'm beginning to realize that we

9:58

might need to tackle have been more with you birds. The

10:00

A bogus we you you said you are a

10:02

lot more interested so one dimensional person, credible brand.

10:04

And then we actually three things about yourself and

10:06

two of them were about carding poof neither about

10:09

how good I am at at those things and

10:11

it has verbal still the got out cerebral stealth.

10:14

Nephila guard talk knew that and you didn't though.

10:16

Also, I think one of them was inspiration to

10:19

which is just it's a nice thing, but you

10:21

only actually specified it in regards to the Poop

10:23

Catherine. It isn't slider little print things about you

10:25

that are unrelated to work. On

10:27

of that use Jimbo not you

10:30

Is Jimbo the and for German

10:32

turn or had chemo the night

10:34

Carter? Okay ah well I love

10:36

stories of adventurers and heroes. that's

10:38

why want become my in one

10:40

myself? Know that go by? ah

10:42

didn't hear hear it when were.

10:45

Cleaning up one of the tavern clogs

10:47

which are particularly nasty yeah, I often

10:49

hear that the sounds of bards echoing.

10:52

Down. Through the day the the toilets and into

10:54

the sewers and it echoes off the walls is a

10:56

little hard to make out but the sounds of the

10:58

heroics made me want to join us over Ravens because.

11:01

You. Know it Celtic? They're. They're.

11:04

They're making a real change and way people

11:06

can see know that and so so

11:08

I love. I love songs about heroes or

11:11

which was kind of said to be you

11:13

guys okay I guess. ah and become one

11:15

myself so that that's one thing but me,

11:18

ah I'm what else I never forget. birthday.

11:20

Ah, That's something that I've been told is

11:22

is a very generous of you know. yeah wow,

11:25

don't particularly. Priests eat when I show up stinky

11:27

to bring them a low gift or something that

11:29

it may be found in the sewers may be

11:31

found elsewhere. but I always remember and I always

11:34

go and visit my friends on the birth this

11:36

point Queen's birthday. While no sir I've I've only

11:38

just met you when it's your birthday. oh it's

11:40

on, you know, Medieval Day and Fantasy month. Okay,

11:44

great Now I don't think I'll probably see

11:46

you again because I'm here and you're going

11:48

to go back to where have you came

11:50

from. But just know on medieval day fancy

11:52

most I'll be thinking of yes so that

11:54

have to get that counter to translate. it's

11:56

oh yeah that is an assist Airbus and

11:58

at the theater. The third thing. Me

12:00

is fine for third or fourth the scared

12:02

of thunderstorms just don't like him face does

12:04

a bothers me that that electricity can make

12:07

the jump from the sky to the ground

12:09

that feels very dangerous to do like this

12:11

don't hours into they prevent added easy do

12:13

not leagues don't ask some as a mixed

12:16

won't happen. While I appreciate that there there

12:18

and you know I guess we're going the

12:20

sewers that floods bad down there are you

12:22

near the gross down there us but I'm

12:24

also worried by come up there are getting

12:27

hit by lightning or like to the sometimes

12:29

they can attach. Types of that on.

12:31

I just think it's don't don't don't you think

12:33

it's It's scary. I. Mean, I could

12:35

summon lightning and patrol weather so. Now.

12:38

I'm good. What about you guys? You guys by lightning? No.

12:41

Not not in any meaningful way. I

12:44

can protect myself. have different ideas. Energy.

12:46

Included Light named after I wanted to Zero

12:48

Zero Zero Folks, he does have have ways

12:50

around this. Me: a guy like hide hide

12:52

under a tree. That. Safe and lighting.

12:54

Not all that yeah. Stop as whites know, you're

12:57

good when you're underground. But the tree things? bad.

12:59

Wait, you want to be. I. Think

13:01

you want to be around this the

13:03

shortest stuff. You wanna be at

13:05

a low lying. Areas that sit silicon

13:07

valley of have a hope it will

13:09

into another room For Am I gonna

13:11

move under a bridge? Tornado him Under

13:14

a bridge Lightning. I. Don't know if

13:16

you wanna be under beds. I thought that was that.

13:19

Of death Maybe I bet. cracked. Pretty. I

13:21

only know know what to do that today that we

13:23

haven't really had counted. Dub you do have to say

13:25

what he opinions of the three riddles need Go under

13:27

the bridge right? That's.

13:30

That's troll trolls and that's cross a bridge

13:32

as the but that's like a good bridge

13:35

at night and invaders. That this is like

13:37

I think trouble says. Heard that and they

13:39

started taking advantage at to like and like.

13:41

Added. A pill for off as live with them

13:43

going are targeting one is kind idols while we're here

13:45

like I don't know maybe they could we be to

13:48

got a cultural significance know crunches a trauma. Pledges

13:51

a half Tell Astral okay so crimes can

13:53

have answer this question like is it is

13:55

a troll thinkers of they just cashing in

13:57

on a myth that I get bad rumor.

14:00

I'm not going to pretend another might have a troll. Know.

14:02

But I i think crunch might. Ah,

14:05

I don't think had unfortunately said a

14:07

whole lot of time around. Bridge trolls.

14:09

Far so yeah? yeah, yeahs. missing the

14:11

riddle? Have yes he's He's the thump

14:14

and half. yeah. Charges. Clear

14:16

lot more like holding. Like a big

14:18

like stick and headache things. Are

14:20

tornadoes better or worse than lightning? Worse.

14:23

Hollins or were you scared of tornadoes?

14:26

I am now and you know they

14:28

were, but apparently worse. Than lightning. So

14:30

we'll get that. Have you ever seen a

14:32

tornado? Know and you've ever heard of one?

14:34

Know? They're probably not a debit to this

14:36

area. You don't have to worry about. At.

14:38

What are you conceptualizing in your head

14:41

as it is being a tornado like

14:43

lightning but it from sideways mouth mother

14:45

to her at. I mean most likely

14:47

go said as you look up with the sky. The.

14:51

House looms, other students or I'll probably never.

14:53

they begin to my glad for my mentor.

14:55

I feel like the God of meat kind

14:57

of told me that we should keep focusing

14:59

us. So we got this house. The looks

15:02

abandoned but it may be evil. I'm not

15:04

very sneaky. Did. Jimbo my be able

15:06

to get us through the sewers if we need

15:08

to for like an ambush but I feel like

15:10

quality wanna like this is my a question of

15:12

like yeah how many. Precautions.

15:15

Do we want taken? getting in and mean you the

15:17

king of a Rome You are very much a hello

15:19

new friend gonna guide you? Want to start by knocking

15:21

on the door or somebody home or do you want

15:23

me to see my can break? As in these are

15:25

frequently this is like an exploding zombies scenario and we

15:27

get diplomatic immunity so ambulances break and like go to

15:30

go to some sneak see what's in it. I want

15:32

to know if it should be a hammer first or

15:34

hello first situation. I well let's start with the door.

15:36

I guess I like you were your head that with

15:38

the sewer they've they've killed a lot of people so

15:40

we should be careful. I'm gonna die cast. detect evil

15:42

and good on myself. So for the next ten. Minutes

15:45

am I will know if there.

15:47

Is an aberration? celestial elemental? say?

15:49

fiend or undead within? Thirty feet of

15:51

the. Okay,

15:53

we'll look to backgrounds it was and

15:55

what is that? The. First

15:58

like this since. On

16:00

casting difference visually then than

16:03

junipers to think. Ah, No,

16:06

I think it's identical. Have that because

16:08

I think because regardless of the persona,

16:11

they're all a paladin. Save all, they

16:13

all share the. Oath with the fifth

16:15

over to for Obama. Did you have

16:17

rebels work? make baby? Had some another

16:19

of i think the werewolf is your

16:22

first. Oh no and. Yes,

16:25

the and so and so

16:27

know it's it's It's like

16:29

it's like lighten silvery dungeons.

16:31

Okay, well you're. Pressing

16:33

are three and a mess as much money

16:35

goes off hard and yeah you can tell

16:37

there is a fuck ton of undead in

16:39

in the building ahead of you. Helped?

16:41

hey, we've got we've that. An

16:44

overwhelming number of a dead

16:46

souks. Ah no. Inside a

16:48

building. So. Be aware, I'm

16:50

glad I'm here with a cleric in a power

16:52

within a. Front Door. Still what

16:54

we're thinking are okay. So here's I'm thinking if

16:57

I stay. And help public displays

16:59

Tom from Syrup or it's large, it's it's.

17:01

sort of a two storey mansion. Which.

17:04

Only New York brownstoner, literary. Ah

17:07

ce bit bigger than

17:09

that's this is a.

17:13

True, Think. With wise. I

17:18

really know what what com to pull for this

17:20

other than just kind of like a are you

17:22

know didn't he says mentioned flagging. Okay it's us.

17:24

It's not thin or or small it's it's a

17:26

big with a big structure. Horrible. If someone is

17:28

going to try to be allowed to would probably

17:30

get a covered like three different angles. The so.

17:33

Jimbo. If you go down into

17:35

the sewers, When I expect

17:37

you to fight me buddy. But if somebody

17:39

like pops into the sewers and fails, stuck,

17:41

follow him again and send word to us

17:43

that we can track of. How can I

17:45

send word? Best you should. should I say.

17:47

says. Hims to pretty. Sure,

17:51

You get your own answer to this problem. Let's go

17:53

with that said Mr. Biden, he sent a note or

17:55

something, a dribble cover the sewers and then I'm figured

17:57

I could stay here out front. And

17:59

carter. If you go round the back we can

18:01

look at each other down this alleyway so we don't get

18:03

lost and we know what's going on and then quinney you

18:06

could break in because then if somebody bus out they got

18:08

in on our way I come our lock the doors for

18:10

you and not open them so that there is ready for

18:12

you to open a few on and I can still come

18:14

in a third way if you're coming up the window or

18:16

something like that are down the chimney I don't care what

18:18

I get why don't want to go up and down the

18:20

chimney or whatever by were like whatever use your your this

18:23

year to break and expert amazon like we wanna know what's

18:25

going on in there and we got to avoid a lot

18:27

of zombies. I don't want to set off and explode a

18:29

thought in this. House Gray on the evidence we

18:31

have cel refuse to begin them. Between Jimbo

18:33

me and guard talk we can make sure

18:36

if somebody bails out, it runs. We.

18:38

Catch him aka otherwise if you

18:40

getting. Knocked his personal time

18:42

up or whatever if is he can get up. And

18:45

get him and will figure I was going up

18:47

ahead avoid apparently all to zombie so either a

18:49

lot. Apparently they. Detected.

18:51

A lot of. The same time we have had

18:53

a bed surrounded by a whole bags that

18:56

habit a tax. Cut their dissuaded to take over

18:58

for process the so we don't else a well at

19:00

the at A don't break the processes of you don't

19:02

have to. Okay, Aren't.

19:04

Well sir with your door here at

19:06

the front and I'll bug out my

19:08

to visit Jessica job ago as like

19:11

a specific about his position a wave

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24:00

because that would cause damage to the door which would

24:02

lower the property value on sale. But

24:04

instead just kind of wax

24:06

seal stamped, this is a

24:09

slightly faded, slightly weather worn notice.

24:12

I'll have a look at that.

24:14

Sure. So in sort of swirling

24:16

script it just says, Galen

24:19

Manor available for purchase

24:21

or long term lease. And

24:24

it just contains a bunch of information about kind

24:26

of which barrister to speak to, all

24:28

that sort of jazz. You can wait on it.

24:31

The price is exorbitant even

24:33

by your standards. That

24:36

just seems to be what it is. It's again

24:38

a notice to find someone in town. That's

24:42

it. Okay. I

24:45

don't think that would keep me from proceeding. So I've

24:47

just taken my thieves tool and started to go to

24:49

work on this. Great luck. Give me a sleight of

24:51

hand with your usual advantage please. Right

24:54

because of the

24:56

advantage on my first kind of breaking and entering check

24:58

in the rich neighborhood. So we'll take that. I think

25:00

that was a 14. So

25:06

once you start working on this lock, you

25:09

can tell that what it looks like from

25:11

the outside and compared to what it is

25:13

on the inside are very different. You would

25:15

venture that someone has built a more advanced

25:17

lock on the other side. I mean locks

25:19

are no concern of Quinnie Brown Barrow. But

25:22

it's not as simple as you

25:24

get your thieves tools, your two

25:26

picks into the lock and suddenly

25:28

you're finding like a much more

25:30

complex mechanism beyond. But

25:32

again you're very studied in this. You're very good

25:34

at it. So you're able to make quick work

25:36

of it despite how complex it is. But you

25:38

hear several things kind of click and shift on

25:40

the other side. On your

25:42

side, it's a very standard keyhole. On the

25:45

other side, you'd imagine it's probably almost a

25:47

panel of different interlocking mechanisms. Sounds expensive. It

25:49

does sound expensive, okay. Well

25:52

once I'm satisfied that I've finished my work

25:54

here, I'll walk back over to Butthole

25:56

and say, notice on the door,

25:58

so this is Galen Manor. So I

26:00

don't know if Lord Galen or anything like that

26:02

rings a bell doesn't to me. No, not to

26:05

be I don't have that anywhere in my brain

26:07

lock on the outside pretty run-of-the-mill lock But on

26:09

the other side of the door once I got

26:11

in there, I could tell that this is very

26:13

expensive and intricate So yeah, the

26:15

outside of the certain facade the inside seems very

26:18

very like that was an expensive lock that I

26:20

just aimed It's full of zombies. They don't have

26:22

their own locks. She's weird here. Yeah.

26:24

Yeah, so just giving you the Intel I got that's your

26:26

door. I'll see you in a minute and I go around

26:28

the side of the house to the back door Okay

26:32

You are surprised to find no back door. Oh there

26:36

are a number of windows

26:38

kind of looking out Large

26:41

kind of arch windows looking out over the

26:43

back of the property, which is again like

26:45

a few feet and then more buildings It's

26:47

very much like modern condo building where the

26:49

view is other condos But

26:53

the windows are similarly boarded to what you

26:55

saw out front and it seems there was

26:57

a back door at some point But it

26:59

has been sealed over basically

27:01

like brick did very intricately There's

27:03

like a painted fresco of flowers

27:05

and it it looks very fancy,

27:07

but it has been Sealed

27:10

shut interesting. What do you want to do a guard talk? I

27:13

want to try prying the boards off a window or

27:15

I can I can get you into a window or

27:17

we can try something else um

27:22

There's bound to be traps, right? Haven't

27:25

seen any traps so far, but the

27:28

outside is very much not indicative of what's

27:30

inside from what I've can tell so far

27:33

Well, we gotta find out one way or the

27:35

other so Window.

27:38

Yeah, you want to give me a boost here?

27:41

Sure. Or can you pry the boards off? That'd

27:43

be easier. I Well,

27:45

I suppose I can go for

27:48

it right clamber

27:51

on to Gestures

27:56

like do you

27:58

do like switch? Yeah realizing

28:01

there's no official sign language on

28:03

top of Quinny shoulders is still

28:05

shorter than you just standing or

28:07

yeah Should

28:10

he just points it at you two and

28:12

then points it himself and then does a

28:14

little circular gesture with his hands Roll

28:17

me an insight I think 18

28:22

16 all right. Yeah, you get what he's saying, but do you do anything about

28:24

it? What all things we're doing a really good job Yeah

28:28

Yeah, like all right fine I have

28:30

when he has his own qualms about

28:33

like getting boards affixed to a window

28:35

off in any kind of efficient fashion

28:37

But he'll take the note and be

28:39

like all right. Let's let's try switching and

28:41

all right, okay I'm

28:43

up on top of yeah, guard talks quarters and Butthole

28:46

just laughs his hands under his head points

28:48

at them points at him does it again?

28:52

Very exasperated wait are we

28:54

supposed to switch places with buttholes? I guess

28:56

walk us over there Goes

28:59

to meet them halfway. That's a guard talk you wheel the two of

29:01

you over and like a like vaguely

29:03

sway Muppet man's neck Yeah,

29:05

yeah, you guys trying to take

29:07

boards off the window. Yeah Can

29:10

we do that still holly? I don't know

29:12

yet. I haven't really gotten in there. Okay. Here's what I'm

29:14

thinking Why don't we put guard talk out front put

29:17

me back there Quinny? You can go break

29:19

in worst-case scenario I hammer in through a window and

29:21

jump in okay? front

29:23

doors unlocked guard talk Don't

29:26

wait yet, but lock was super intricate on the

29:28

other side, but all right All

29:31

right, and I'll be ready yeah, and just from guard

29:33

talk shoulder I'm gonna try to keep up on

29:35

to the on to the side of the Let's

29:39

go over there yeah Aquinnis

29:42

purpose okay, so roll I guess

29:44

acrobatics to get up the up

29:46

the wall. Oh a

29:49

seven Did it start

29:51

on uneven terrain seven plus

29:53

fifteen? I forget

29:57

Forget about expertise on My

30:00

acrobatic to doesn't come up as off

30:02

as you might as well. The lab

30:04

like and say lied with a good

30:06

food that has you you clamber up

30:08

this the wall of this. Because this

30:10

building is sort of overdesigned, there's actually

30:12

plenty to to grab onto so you're

30:14

able to. I clamber up relatively easily.

30:16

It's are you do find the. Piles.

30:19

On that the roof a little loose their for

30:21

your taste because they're so I'm ill kept concubine

30:24

in mind. ah yeah you're you're able to out

30:26

to make it up there and you'll he for

30:28

chimney correct ah chimney or a high window I

30:30

am so the high windows at the same boarding

30:32

probably more than I was upstairs or but there

30:34

is a to me that is not borders or

30:37

it and a side note that chimney do I

30:39

think I can make it down there can be

30:41

type it by yep. Yep,

30:43

really to do some roles to see

30:45

if you get Santa Claus or not.

30:47

But we can begin on. won't that be

30:49

a fun episode? Sociologists from The From

30:51

the Fireplace Oh God oh god What?

30:55

Have you? Won't

30:58

you'll arrive by Christmas ornament branch the calendar

31:00

so that's that's gets Okay cool. So got

31:02

actually going around the front as a you

31:04

really were front door twenty you've got up

31:06

for the chimney and bottle you're in. a

31:08

try and prize winners off Bible isn't going

31:10

to touch her window until yeah, sick as

31:12

he doesn't. Want to blow the stealth

31:14

on this for twenty so he says

31:16

ready with a hammer to either smashed

31:19

or hurl a whole body through a

31:21

window into the house. Great! Okay so

31:23

Quinney you are because the action rest

31:25

with you. Then you make your way

31:27

up to the the. Chimney

31:29

again dark looking down it's Ma'am

31:32

we wanted. Ah I'll take out

31:34

my rope since around my waist

31:36

anchored around the chimney and. Start.

31:39

To make my way down. Okay,

31:42

let's do another acrobatics but a

31:44

disadvantage please. Fifteen.

31:47

Sixteen. Plus has been thirty

31:49

thirty yards or so you search,

31:52

you shimmy your way down that.

31:55

It is. It is tight. This isn't a

31:57

A. Large. Chimney.

32:00

but it's enough that you can kind of do

32:03

the awkward, like you have to kind

32:05

of keep your arms above your head. It's kind of just a

32:07

full body worm shitting down. I think it is one of those

32:09

things that I, the player, Tyler, personally

32:11

find terrifying. Oh my God, I'm deeply uncomfortable.

32:14

Yeah, I'm deeply uncomfortable even describing this, but

32:16

I hate it. Yeah, so you squirm your

32:18

way down. And

32:21

how are you going in head first or feet

32:23

first? As uncomfortable as it makes me once

32:25

again, I think I'm going in head first. Like

32:28

a pro. Oh yeah, yeah, 20

32:30

is much more comfortable with this than I am.

32:32

Yeah, we can both unpack our fears of small

32:35

spaces later. Go ahead and

32:37

roll me a perception please. Oh

32:40

wow, that was threatening to

32:42

be an eight, but 16 plus perception, 16 plus five

32:45

for 21. And

32:48

I have devil's sight, so I can see in the

32:51

dark. Okay, great. So as you are squirming your way

32:53

down, you can see where the chimney

32:55

opens up into a fireplace. There's

32:57

no fire. But

33:00

you can see just a few, what

33:02

to your eye as a thief particularly,

33:04

you can see that there have been

33:06

some switches very quietly installed. So

33:09

if any body was to move through them,

33:11

they would trigger. So someone has clearly trapped

33:13

the exit of this fireplace. Okay,

33:18

switches, meaning like

33:20

pressure switches? Yes,

33:23

yeah. So if someone has- So you basically see bricks that

33:25

are, so if we're looking at a brick, and

33:27

you're looking down the brick chimney, you

33:31

can see a couple of them, the color

33:34

doesn't quite match, which your devil's side gives you,

33:36

and the gist edging out ever so slightly. So

33:38

to your kind of studied eye, yeah, these are

33:40

pressure switches where if these, if

33:42

something were to slide through these, it would very

33:44

clearly Just push them

33:46

enough. Okay, and are these in the chimney, in the

33:48

fireplace, or in front of the fireplace? Near the mouth

33:50

of the chimney. So Basically if anything's coming down, it

33:53

would trigger these before landing in the chimney. I See,

33:55

okay, so if I spotted those, basically just wanna take

33:57

the extra time to avoid them as I continue on

33:59

then. You would need

34:01

to do something about them because of

34:03

your your wedged in there. So okay

34:05

he sued based. We need to see

34:08

me through them and I can. I

34:10

do a little bit of a inverted

34:12

upside down in the dark. Ah, these

34:14

tools work to disable the it's I

34:16

guess so a Db disadvantage because it's

34:18

incredibly awkward or your mission postponing it.

34:20

however you do ever these tools which

34:22

I think would counteract that so I'm

34:24

gonna give you just a straight role

34:26

on this. And yeah it's Can I

34:29

give myself the advantage. That. Mice and

34:31

the know You didn't say that I would have

34:33

had advantage. sorry I would from your these tools

34:35

okay can I? I very rarely do this but

34:37

I do have the can trip made hand at

34:39

the ready. Can I. Give. My

34:41

fees to my needs hand Yeah for a bit

34:43

more freedom? Yeah, hi, Okay, yeah, I'll give you

34:46

advantage for having an extra pair of digital has

34:48

splinter at a out that circle. It's varieties of

34:50

those of us. Okay,

34:58

Slay. Of hands. Twenty

35:00

Three. Twenty three. Okay,

35:03

So. With the assistance of

35:05

your mate hand and you basically

35:07

find a way to which them

35:09

does when shit. Around.

35:12

These hard enough that. They

35:14

don't have room to slide so the still

35:16

sticking out of the trap still exists, right?

35:18

But. The. The actual pressure

35:20

yeah things can't an uprising like like

35:22

a if I may like like a coins

35:25

with this of just as a.single gold

35:27

going sure yeah we actually worst and each

35:29

one to hold it in. Plump that

35:31

young younger so and inexpensive selection but a

35:33

solution unless I yes so they're they're wedged

35:36

into feel his coffin Early move of

35:38

Ghana and I proceed. Grains are so you

35:40

weren't your down to the bottom the

35:42

chimney and serve Reaching the the lip of

35:44

the chimney you can see the. Am

35:47

sort of clear incineration trap that set

35:49

up to to trigger ah with the

35:52

for anyone displacing those switches. Yup look

35:54

I'm and can you tell me I.

35:58

Think. i'm gonna say insight.

36:03

But I would take a pitch. This

36:05

is basically like how familiar is Quinny.

36:08

I also want a thievery check for this because I

36:10

basically want to like how familiar is Quinny with anti-theft

36:14

deterrent traps. Do you

36:17

want me to pitch a weird ticket to you then?

36:19

Do you want me to roll a Dex history? Yeah.

36:22

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Thank you. So

36:24

we don't do that kind of stuff very

36:27

often but that's basically I'm using my Dex

36:29

modifier and any proficiency I have with history

36:31

as a combination roll. Yep. That's good. So

36:34

6 plus my Dex modifier

36:36

plus 5 for a total

36:38

of 11 and my history plus

36:40

1 for 12. 12?

36:43

Okay. You're not too familiar with traps like this

36:45

in your experience this just

36:49

this is an odd one but that

36:52

unfortunately isn't high enough to get much more than that. Okay.

36:56

And sorry can you set the scene for me one more time

36:58

of where I am? You're still in the chimney. Yep. You

37:01

have made it to the lip of the chimney and

37:03

looking down you can see that there's very

37:06

clearly some sort of mechanically installed

37:09

incineration things. Just set a huge

37:11

jet of flame up

37:13

the chimney if anyone triggers the trap.

37:16

The trap. Okay. And yeah

37:18

unfortunately you don't, based on that roll you

37:20

can't recall enough about sort

37:22

of anti theft to

37:25

really have any sense of what this is. To learn anything

37:27

about it. Yeah. Okay. Or to know kind of its nature

37:29

or anything like that. Okay. I

37:33

think based on the context I have

37:35

to be satisfied that I've

37:37

disabled the switch mechanism so that

37:39

this shouldn't go off anymore

37:42

even though it's still functional or appears

37:44

to be functional so I'm going to

37:47

carefully proceed even though I don't know

37:49

about like the make or the intention

37:51

behind why this would be in the

37:53

chimney or anything like that. So

37:56

you worm your way further in

37:58

and You drop

38:01

out of the chimney quietly, you know,

38:03

you lower yourself into the fireplace, and

38:05

it is a large fireplace. You

38:08

find yourself in a dimly lit

38:10

bedroom. Bedroom, okay. So

38:12

it's clearly the sort of master bedroom

38:14

for Galen Manor. There is

38:16

a huge, like, king-size

38:19

plus an extra half-size bed.

38:22

Big, you know, the very classic,

38:24

weird, old-timey, like, it has giant

38:26

bedposts and a giant canopy over

38:28

the bed. A lot

38:31

of gilt gold in the

38:33

headboard, very plush, rich-looking linens

38:37

on it, big, heavy blanket. The

38:39

room itself looks built for luxury. Every

38:42

chair has wings and is, you

38:44

know, like, well-padded. There

38:46

is an old-fated wall-to-wall

38:49

portrait of, you

38:51

know, a fancy-looking lord of some

38:54

sort. It's what's clearly a trade ship, doing

38:57

a bit of the George Washington pose, you know, foot

38:59

up. And

39:01

I think, Quinni, based on your experience

39:04

with rich people, this is very much sort of

39:07

you can see what trade the

39:09

Galen family was most proud of. A

39:12

lot of crates and boxes, a ton

39:14

of working class, just quietly doing all the

39:17

work behind while this guy

39:19

stands sort of looking

39:21

out at the horizon. And

39:25

otherwise, big writing desk with a

39:27

chair, there's a vanity with a

39:29

mirror. And

39:32

there are two bodies in here. The

39:36

bed has clearly been slept

39:38

in. The bedsheets are ruffled, but

39:40

it looks to you very turbulent, like they're just

39:42

kind of tossed around. There

39:45

is a dead butler just

39:49

sort of at the edge of the bed, slumped

39:51

over, wearing a similar

39:54

colors to the outfit that you see

39:56

in the portrait. Not

40:00

animated, just a literal corpse. Looks

40:04

like the body's been here for a long time. And

40:07

just beside it is a tray

40:10

with a couple of broken crystal

40:13

decanters. Sorry,

40:15

a broken crystal decanter and a couple of

40:17

broken crystal tumblers. There seems

40:19

to be a dark stain next to it

40:22

on the ground. The other

40:24

is next to the bed

40:27

with a chair

40:29

leg through its chest pinned to the

40:31

wall. And

40:34

white gloves, sort

40:36

of a similar

40:38

outfit, and clearly has

40:40

been dead for a long time, but is clutching

40:42

the edge of a sheet. Okay,

40:45

and these are, as you described, these are dead

40:47

bodies. These are not animated

40:49

corpses. These are not animated corpses, these are

40:51

just dead corpses. This is

40:54

the first time we've seen, because up

40:56

to this point the zombies have been just a

40:58

line of random zombies. Don't look like they used

41:01

to live there in life or anything like that, but

41:03

these people share the livery or

41:05

whatever of the... These are

41:07

very clearly servants of the Illin Manor. The

41:11

door to the bedroom is ajar, slightly,

41:15

but otherwise there's no movement in this room. Do

41:18

I have a sense of whether I've made my way down

41:20

to the first or second floor in this master bedroom? This

41:22

would be the second floor. Okay. Do I

41:24

see any boarded up windows? Yes.

41:29

You would see one kind of big

41:31

one looking out over the back of the property,

41:33

so above where

41:36

Butthole is currently standing. There's kind of the large

41:38

ones for the main floor, and then there's smaller

41:40

ones on the second floor. From

41:42

inside you can see that they have actually

41:44

been bricked behind the boards. Oh, man. Okay.

41:48

Do you have a chance of shimmying one out

41:50

or pushing one out to communicate? No. I

41:52

will also note there's no adornment on

41:54

these, so the one on the outside was very... Like, painted

41:57

to look super nice on the other. This is literally just

41:59

like... The equivalent of

42:01

concrete bricks. Right, okay.

42:03

Just get them sealed. I

42:05

don't know

42:08

the way of talking to them, I don't think.

42:10

You can also hear music

42:12

coming faintly through the

42:14

door from downstairs. Okay. There's

42:17

no reason for me to think that the traps necessarily

42:19

stop at the fireplace. So

42:22

I'd like to check for traps

42:25

around the fireplace in going into

42:27

the room. Sure. Let me see

42:29

a perception again, I think please.

42:32

Natural one, so we roll with lucky. Here

42:35

we go. That's a two. Total

42:39

of seven perception. Seven. Nothing

42:42

you can see. And Cooney doesn't know that's

42:45

a bad roll, so he's going to take

42:47

that as like, I am confident that I

42:49

have successfully scanned the room. Yeah, yeah. You

42:51

found the chimney trap was so

42:54

intricate that looking around, yeah, you just have the confidence

42:56

and look well and see if it goes into good here. I'm

43:09

going to still tiptoe

43:11

and then delicately make my

43:13

way through the room to

43:15

the doorway where I hear this music coming

43:17

from. I'm going to untie the rope from

43:20

myself as well. So

43:22

and you want to look out, peer out or you're listening

43:24

or what's... I think I'll, yeah,

43:27

I'll take a look out. Yeah, yeah, a sneaky

43:29

look. I'm not looking to be seen. So even

43:31

from like my Thieves Tools kit, like a mirror

43:33

to kind of like flash into the... Sure, sure.

43:36

Into the hall. So the hallway is,

43:39

you see sort of a landing that opens

43:41

up into the larger space below. From

43:45

your experience with fancy mansions

43:47

and that sort of thing, this seems

43:49

to be sort of the large grand

43:52

main entry room. It's got kind of those

43:54

curving staircases that you see in The

43:57

Matrix, Scarface and Resident Evil leading

43:59

up. up. You can't see what's below

44:01

any of that because you basically see to a banister

44:05

and then the space opens up but it's very clear

44:07

that this

44:09

landing is really only meant to... the

44:12

dimension is big but it's not massive so

44:14

if you come up the stairs there's a bedroom

44:16

here from what you can tell even just

44:18

geographically there's clearly a mirrored room next to yours

44:21

you're not sure what it is but there's two rooms

44:23

at the top of this landing. The

44:25

landing has those two curling staircases that lead down

44:27

into the main space you can't see it down

44:29

the main space but you can definitely hear music

44:31

coming up from down there and you hear the

44:34

sounds of shuffling feet. Can I determine

44:37

the direction that that shuffling is coming

44:39

from? No because it's echoing off the

44:41

walls it's downstairs somewhere but

44:44

it doesn't sound tactical it

44:46

just sounds like footsteps

44:49

going about their business. Going

44:51

about their business huh? Okay that's

44:53

been to become a loaded phrase now. I

44:57

will tiptoe into the

44:59

hall and make my way to this

45:03

balcony kind of over the the main... Stealth

45:10

22. Okay

45:14

so you sort of

45:17

edge forward onto the landing to

45:19

your right as you come out of this room you see

45:22

a wall with another door that's slightly

45:24

a jar again seemingly

45:26

mirroring this one. The landing

45:28

itself only has the stairs down from here there's

45:30

a small bathroom at the end of the landing

45:32

with a door jar again it's kind of dark

45:35

in there you can't really see what's going on.

45:38

The main room is lit there seems

45:40

to be some sort of the classic

45:42

D&D equivalent of an electric lamp

45:44

so just a you know some sort

45:46

of charged stones in torch sconces

45:50

that are running to

45:52

give the space honestly very bright and

45:54

welcoming light. The

45:57

interior of this room as you kind of move your

45:59

way in you You can see the ceiling is

46:01

somewhat arched and has similar ornamentation to what you

46:04

just saw in the bedroom. So a lot of

46:06

very fancy work. It's a little bit like if

46:08

you go to the opera and look up. It's

46:11

just there's a lot of work that's been done. So

46:14

a massive hanging chandelier with these little sort

46:16

of stones going beneath. You

46:18

see the two stairs kind of looped down

46:20

and you're having to crawl because there's banisters. So

46:22

there's no like waist high.

46:25

Here's a wall to hide behind. Well, especially on a

46:27

half link. Yeah. So

46:30

it's very much kind of a

46:32

scooching up to the edge and sort of peering

46:35

up and over. Yeah. Beneath you

46:37

can see the two stairs arched out of the

46:39

center of the room. There's a large fountain that

46:41

is run dry. There

46:43

is a winged statue with

46:45

the classic like scales

46:48

in one hand, not for justice but for commerce

46:51

and like a bag of produce

46:53

in the other hand. So clearly again,

46:56

similar to what you saw in the painting. However,

46:59

bits of the statue have been broken off and

47:01

are arranged kind of haphazardly around

47:03

it. So it's got a

47:05

bit of that winged victory thing going on where like

47:07

the arms are missing, the head is missing, chunks have

47:10

been taken out of it. There

47:12

is a massive mechanical

47:15

thing that has been affixed to where

47:17

the head would be. From

47:20

the back, you can see that

47:22

it's got coils and a barrel.

47:24

It's clearly some kind of weapon. A

47:27

barrel like a gun? Yeah, a cannon? Yeah.

47:30

So not dissimilar from

47:32

what the Unseen

47:35

Hand was using circa its

47:37

partnership with Typhus

47:39

but not nearly that advanced. So it isn't like

47:41

holy shit, the future is here. This is just,

47:43

oh, this is like a big

47:46

coils and more as a weird poll

47:48

but think like how technology manifests in

47:50

World of Warcraft where it's more coiled

47:52

and there's a lot more kind of

47:54

gem based power. Yeah, just a little

47:56

more whip. a

48:00

little more 60's sci-fi fantastical than

48:02

the sort of sleek stuff

48:05

we've seen elsewhere. And

48:07

yeah, you can see kind of coiling coming

48:09

down to what's clearly a little gem-based

48:12

generator at the base of the statue. So you

48:14

can see the statue has been disassembled to some

48:16

degree, but also someone has installed a gun on

48:19

it that is pointed directly at the front door. Does

48:22

it appear to be panning in any

48:24

kind of scan motion or it's just fixed at

48:26

the door? At the front door. That

48:30

said, from here you can't tell whether it's active or inactive.

48:32

It's not to say it can't turn, it just is currently

48:34

aimed that way. So

48:37

down below you can see the space leads

48:39

to, comes to a point, so

48:41

if you're currently on the north, looking from

48:43

the north, so to the south there is

48:45

an archway, an open

48:48

archway that leads into some sort of small entry

48:51

hallway. That's like under me? If I'm

48:53

on the second floor? The balcony is along the north

48:55

wall. Okay, yep. So, with the

48:57

stairs, so dead center of the room is the

48:59

statue. On the south wall down,

49:01

on the main level, there's an arched entryway that

49:03

leads into what would clearly be some kind of

49:05

entry hall. No one enters directly into one of

49:07

these spaces. I see. Gotta have like

49:10

a cloak room and a play-go- Yeah,

49:24

that's good. So, but you are currently

49:26

outside north, Garnt Hawk, you are south at

49:28

the front door. Yeah,

49:31

cool. Quinnie, from where you're standing to your

49:33

right, so the west of the

49:35

building, there's a big set of

49:37

double doors off of this large

49:40

chamber that you could assume is

49:42

probably, knowing mansions, there's probably a

49:44

dining hall somewhere or some

49:46

other kind of entertaining space. So,

49:50

there's a door on either wall, you're not sure what they lead to.

49:53

At the south, there's this archway with no door that

49:55

leads into some entry hallway that you can't quite see

49:57

at this angle. Our

50:00

talk would be beyond that from the south. Notably

50:03

in this room right now with you, there's

50:06

a quartet playing music. They

50:10

look like musicians. They're dressed like musicians. That

50:14

said, they are very clearly undead. You

50:17

can see even from here long dried

50:20

wounds, but they look to have been

50:22

killed very skillfully. So it's

50:24

very clear like throat cuts on

50:27

all these folks. And similar to

50:29

the zombies you've seen during the processes, they are

50:31

just attempting to play music

50:33

somewhat discordantly, but they're

50:36

working at it. So you see a

50:38

standing bass. You see

50:41

someone on the drums. You see

50:43

someone with a triangle. And

50:46

you see someone whose throat

50:48

wasn't slit, but who

50:50

has a big dark stain on their

50:53

chest badly blowing

50:55

into a flute. So a

50:57

quartet, but not a string quartet. Interesting.

51:01

It's a skillful killer, but stupid enough to

51:03

prevent their flute player from flaying the flute.

51:06

This is the first time we've seen

51:08

zombies in this town performing

51:12

a job or service. It's

51:14

all been consuming services or

51:16

consuming goods. And now this

51:18

time, yeah, okay. And there's

51:20

more. There are a couple

51:22

of bodies around.

51:26

One you can see from up here

51:28

is sort of slumped against the stairs wearing

51:30

the servants' clothes. There's

51:33

another by the front entrance who

51:36

seems to be wearing what

51:38

you would assume were a barristers outfit. So

51:41

it looks very much like any lawyer you've ever seen.

51:43

So this is the kind of thing Bluebeard would wear.

51:47

But with just a blast hole

51:50

through her chest and out her back. So she's

51:53

just kind of splayed out near the

51:55

entrance with her robe's askew.

51:59

Beyond that, there are... are three zombies

52:02

in servant gear who

52:05

are wandering around the space.

52:08

They seem to literally just be on a track.

52:11

Like they're walking. This is very

52:13

similar to the processes you've seen, where they kind of, like

52:16

bad video game NPCs are just like

52:18

doing one of them

52:20

walks by and then polishes the banister at

52:22

the bottom of the stairs and then polishes

52:24

the other banister and then like leaves

52:27

and so on and so forth. And they seem to be

52:29

coming and going through those side doors. From time to time.

52:31

They open and close behind them. Man,

52:33

it's like, yeah, I want to get the other two in here,

52:35

but this is so... Tricky.

52:45

The quartet of musicians that I can

52:47

see, they're in the lobby playing their

52:49

music. Yeah, they're in the southwest

52:51

corner. There's a little raised

52:54

stage, presumably facing into the room. So if

52:56

I come down, they will see me. Correct.

53:00

Okay. And you

53:03

said a barrister? Looks

53:06

like a barrister or someone. Just someone wearing

53:08

official robes. And

53:10

there's like papers and scrolls and stuff under the body.

53:12

Glass in the chest? Yep. So

53:14

presumably walked in through the door, took

53:17

one in or several in the chest and

53:19

dropped. So are they basically right

53:21

by the doorway or are they like they've been

53:24

moved? Yeah, they look like

53:26

they've been dragged out of the direct

53:28

view of the entryway. They're off to

53:31

the side, but then left kind of

53:33

haphazardly. Okay. I mean, that

53:35

at least implies that they were shot dead on coming

53:37

through the door as opposed to coming through the side

53:39

door and this gun panning over and shooting them. Shit.

53:44

Yeah, I'll

53:47

just run through it. It'll be fine. Yeah.

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