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Hey, guys. What are you guys doing on the weekend

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of May 12th? May 10th through 12th. What are

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you guys doing on those days? I know what I'm

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doing. I'm going to be sick. Unfortunately, so,

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so ill. Because I'm coming down with a case of

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mountain mania. Mountain mania. Burke Mountain

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Resort in Vermont. 10th through 12th May. Be

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there or be square. Because we're going to be

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there. We're not going to be square. We're going

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to be round. And we're going to... We're going

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to run a live show. It's going to be awesome.

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There's going to be magic. There's going to be

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D &D. I might run a table. I don't know. I'm

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thinking about it. It's going to be a good time.

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Be there and hang out with us. And then say hi.

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Seriously. Say hi to Siobhan. She's putting it

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all together. Right? She's awesome. Anyway, see

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you there. I hope. Thought I might talk about

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the kings of coin that oversee the city. Let's

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start with Grand Master Amos Nier, the first

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king of coin and a man of no small presence.

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The Grand Master oversees the trade of wine and

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anything else related to the jelly flower. As

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the king of Norway's top export, he's a man of

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great, great wealth and power. Of course, the

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jelly flower was only discovered 16 years ago.

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Before that time, the Grand Master dealt wholly

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in wine trade without the benefit of the magical

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pink petal flora we all know and love today.

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He lives a rich life and is in it with a large

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family. He and his wife, Madame Torea Nier, have

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five children, with their heir being the well

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-known and somewhat troublesome prince, Osra

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Nier. The Grand Master has also been known to

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be remarkably close to his staff. Marie Serene,

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his head of service, rarely ever leaves his side.

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And his chef, Fyodor Popov of Arnakek, is a master

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of the art who was sought out by the Grand Master

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himself. These two in particular are so close

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to the Grand Mesa that he retains them in his

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palace each year during the first day of the

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march, the annual meeting of the Kings of Coin.

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Though most of the Grand Mesa's family are strictly

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sent away, it seems Amos Nier understands that

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there is just no replacement for good food and

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good service. Just goes to show, the old sin

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to sin is true. When it comes to throwing a party,

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nothing to discourage Grand Mesa Amos Nier. Ooh,

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love it when I end on the note. Love it. You

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know, we comment on this every time you happen

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to add on it. But no matter what, you don't hear

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it. It gets edited to sound. It gets edited to

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sound the way it sounds. Just know that sound

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is good for us. It's good for you this time.

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It doesn't always happen that way. Let's do a

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murder mystery, they said. It'll be easy, they

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said. 12 NPCs, they said. I said. I bet it would

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be a lot easier if it was all like written down

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in one cohesive area. Well, okay. So yeah. All

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right. My notes last time were a little rough.

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Uh, I also was, I was, so we, we had last session

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and I was straight like feverish. Um, I could

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not read during it. I am actually shocked when

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I heard it, that it sounded as like, uh, uh,

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not legible. What's the word audible. There we

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go. That makes sense as audible as it did because

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man, I was out of it. Um, but you know what,

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you know what? I'm really excited because yeah,

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there's 12 NPCs. Yeah. That's crazy. But we're

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going into a murder mystery. This is my absolute

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shit. My favorite genre. I love Agatha Christie.

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I love Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney. I love this

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shit so much. Put it on a t -shirt. Put it on

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a t -shirt. That is my absolute shit. Dude, I

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am so stoked. And this time around, I think my

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notes are a little cleaner. I think I'm ready

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to go. And what's so fun about these is it's

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not really up to me. Like you guys are going

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to be our detectives. I hope. should you be able

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to get yourself in that situation. I'm not holding

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your hands. You guys got to get in there. You

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got to fight for it. But I'm going to give you

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a reason to fight. All right. Get ready, folks.

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Just you wait. This arc is going to last longer

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than San Satyan. Oh, gosh. With 12 NPCs? Maybe.

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Blanch cast Switchbolt. This blows up everybody.

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It'll miss. Maybe. It always misses. How you

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guys doing? Doing great. Ready to play? It's

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been two weeks since we've played, right? Yes.

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It has been. Yeah, I had to go into a writer's

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depression for a week after the last one. David

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had to recover from both a mental and physical

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illness. We hung out last night, though, to kind

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of like get back into the swing of things. Oh,

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we did. Had a cigar outside. Well, half outside,

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then the other half inside because it was still

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cold. It was very cold. It was very cold outside.

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I mean, if there was no wind, it would have been

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fine. Yeah. But it was a nice night. It was a

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great time to hang out. Get us ready for the

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game. Get us ready. Yeah, it was lovely. It was

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lovely. Man, so much cool stuff going on. Another

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cool thing going on, actually, this coming weekend,

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Stephen, as far as he didn't mention this, we,

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Stephen and I, Jeremy, unfortunately, got bogged

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down with both editing this show and a number

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of other life things. Real life. Real life happened.

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Real life happens a lot. I got very, very, very

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lucky that I was able to skip out because it's

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the one slow weekend ever here. So we are heading

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down to Connecticut, right? Yes. Yes, to meet

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physically, in person, Dee and Rochelle. I am

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stoked. This is so cool. Yeah, I can't wait.

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We're going to finally meet up with Rochelle,

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sound pukey girl, who makes all our maps for

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us. A little note on that later on. We have an

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amazing man tonight. And yes, her DM and friend

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and our friend as well now, D, Daniel, is going

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to be there. So we're going to hang out. It'll

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be wonderful. And then a couple weeks later at

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Mountain Mania. Oh, we're dropping it. What?

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Rochelle is going to be there with us. Oh, shit.

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So we're having like, yeah, it's going to be

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a wild month. So crazy. I'm very excited. Mountain

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Mania is just going to be really cool. It's amazing

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to have something like Mountain Mania so close

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to home for us because we live up in the boonies.

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Yeah. You know, most of these gaming conventions

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and things like that, we've got to travel down

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to Boston or Providence or whatever. Who wants

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to go to Boston ever? Nobody. Nobody. They come

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here all the time for a reason. But Burke Mountain

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in Vermont? I'm going there, man. Fuck yeah.

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That's where I'm going to hang out and play games.

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We're going to do a live show. Yes, we're going

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to record a live show. So you'll be hearing that

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probably end of May, beginning April, right?

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I don't know. We've had issues with saying specific

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dates in the past. Let's not shoot ourselves

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in the foot this time. Several weeks from now.

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But yes, if you want to, you're around this area

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and you want to come by and be there live when

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our party journeys to the tundras of Arnikek.

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Maybe even catch a little hint of old enemy turned

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ally mesmerize. Hang out at Mountain Mania because

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it's coming. Still a bad name. Stop it. Throw

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eggs at Jeremy for there. Throw all the eggs.

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You guys want to do a murder mystery? You guys

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want to do a murder mystery? Yeah, I'm ready

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to solve some murder. Hell yeah. And by the way.

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This arc, I'm putting these maps out and putting

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this data out on the Discord, perhaps on the

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Instagram, if Stephen's willing to get involved

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in that. Yeah, of course. I want you guys, listeners,

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to try to solve this too. I think it's going

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to be a really fun one. So if you want to get

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in there, anyone who solves it and sends us the

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name and you get it right before everything comes

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out, I'll send you a button in the mail. Get

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your own button. Can we do that? Yeah, of course

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we can do that. I want to know what that envelope

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looks like. I imagine it just being totally empty

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just with a button. That's precisely my plan.

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That is awesome. Yeah, full David style. That's

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just fine. Maybe I'll throw a sticker in there

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when you're not looking. Don't let me see, though,

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because that'd be bad. All right. Now give me

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a moment to open Sirenscape, because I forgot.

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Too excited. We don't plug Sirenscape enough.

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Sirenscape, you guys rule. This is seriously

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like my favorite DMing tool ever. And if you

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want music, you want sound effects, you want

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all the shit, get Sirenscape. Sometimes it'll

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blow your ears up with all the effects at once.

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It's hilarious. Is that a selling point? Just

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open on a heartbeat. Faded on Jules' eyes looking

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in at this scene. Seeing a body, the body of

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Melo Ara, son of king of the jeweler's trade,

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Samira Ara, the sort of overseer of this policing

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force, a silent verse, who is behind you shaking

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with rage, tears filling her eyes. You look at

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this body who is dressed to look like you, Jules.

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Why? Why you? You just hear Chester beside you.

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Holy shit, Jules. Is that supposed to be? You?

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What? What? Blanche's eyes are taking in the

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blood letter symbol written in blood on the back

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wall. So obvious, so clear, a message. But how?

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This place is locked down. How did a blood letter

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assassin? Some revolutionary with a, you know,

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some dangerous cause. How did they get in here?

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How did this even happen? All these thoughts

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swirling in this moment, and then you find yourselves

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being pulled, yanked rudely away. That's enough.

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That's enough. We need to lock this down. Harlan

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Burnshadow, the duergar, sort of head of the

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silent verse, the captain, is pulling you away,

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trying to close the door. Ooh. You hear Samira,

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no, no. I want him to explain to me, gesturing

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towards you, Jules, what have his revolutionaries

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done to my son? What have you done? Madam, madam,

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look around. This universe needs to control the

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situation. We will get our answers, I swear it.

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Look. She sort of spins around and you all do

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and you see that the hallway is now full of people.

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Everyone here. Everyone that's here in this manor

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stands behind you. All looking in. I'm going

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to activate a little something here. Blanche.

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We talked about this between sessions. I think

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there's a fun way to sort of make sure you guys

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get all the info you need and the listeners also

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get the info they need. Because this is a lot

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of stuff I'm dropping at you. I don't want you

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to think about last week. I want to be able to

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keep this info coming fast and loose. And I want

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to be able to update it. And I want it to make

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sense. This is a little silly, but I think it's

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pretty fun. I think it's awesome. You have these

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glasses you got from It's Mindel Prado. The eyes

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of minute seeing. I like to think that one of

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your lenses has the ability to sort of zoom up,

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zoom out, kind of like having a single sort of

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detective glass. How do I not know this? Magnifying

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glass? Damn it! Magnifying glass in your hand

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or sort of like right in front of your eye that

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you can kind of control. But the other lens you

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have found is something entirely different, something

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that you've attuned to over the last few weeks.

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For this is not just a, these spectacles are

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not just eyes of my new seeing. They're also

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something called eyes of memory display. You

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see, Itzman would use these to look upon like

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all the different people he'd meet with, you

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know, potential clients or investors, and he

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could pull up any information that he has in

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his mind sort of right to the forefront, displayed

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right on the screen. What? That's crazy. Man,

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so convenient. So convenient. For this format.

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Perhaps you spin around to look at the crowd

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that's built around you and you see little bits

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of information popping on your little screen.

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You've got pen and paper. Get it out now. Here's

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the suspects. Amos Nier, king of jelly and wine

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trade, owner of this palace, leader of the kings

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of coin. Asra Nier, son of Amos Nier, big fan

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of Diva Luma. You're going to have to slow way

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down so I can actually write this down. You're

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going to listen back, right? Sure. I don't need

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it right now. Well, no, because we're doing two

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episodes tonight. You're right. I'm not going

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to need this information or anything for the

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next two and a half hours. All slowed down. What

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do you need now? You need Azra again? Yeah. Azra,

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A -Z -R -A. A -Z -R -A -N -I -R. Son of Amos

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Nier. Big Diva Luma fan. That's all you've seen

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so far of this guy. It's all stuff that you know

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that you've seen, so it's not like you're getting

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new intel. So you see the head of the house and

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the prince. You look over to see Samira Ara still

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beside herself with rage, fury, and loss. The

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king of the jeweler's trade, overseer of the

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silent verse policing force. You look over into

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the room again to see the corpse on the ground

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dressed as jewels. Mello Ara, Samira's son. In

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the crowd is the king of the tavern -keeping

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trade, the jolly orc named Margus Ruba. And beside

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them is their daughter, Xenia Ruba, sort of gothic

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half -orc, a big jewels fan from what you've

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heard. There is, of course, De Piero Montelio,

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king of the fishing trade, the seventh most recent

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king of coin. Lord of Meletoran, the Golden Bay

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Tortles. What was the Meletoran? That's just

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what the people of Zinda call Golden Bay. Golden

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Bay is a turtle. They refer to their area as

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the Golden Bay. It's not... what is known as

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elsewhere. A lot of folk refer to it as Mélétoran.

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And of course, besides de Pierrot, is Ledoux

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Lemoyne, his financial advisor, brought to this

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meeting in the role of banner bearer in Jean

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Franklin's stead, in case the young prince didn't

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show. Just what you would know, actually, Blanche,

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Ledoux is de Pierrot's ward. He'd sort of found

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him when he was much younger and saw that Ledoux

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had this Absolutely brilliant mind for numbers.

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A lot of people, because DePiro has made a huge

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sort of wave in the Zinda region by becoming

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the seventh king of coin and kind of taking over

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the fishing trade. And what people don't realize

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is he had a secret weapon behind him. And that

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weapon is Ledoux Lemoyne, his financial advisor.

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Brilliant. But kind of an asshole. Maybe a hot

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asshole, though. I don't know. Reminds me of

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somebody. Hey. True. There is Diva Luma, who's

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been with you guys in the billiards room for

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the last hour or so. A battle diva graduate of

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the Elucidarium. It's a barred college here in

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Zinda. She's a popular luminary adventurer and

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a performer across all worlds. Pretty well -known

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name. There is Fyodor Popov, the personal chef

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to Amos Nier, a human from Arnikhek. So it kind

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of stands out. Very, very large, large, pale

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man with big, bushy mutton chops. Then there

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is Larissa Reen, the head of service for Amos

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Near. Can you spell the last name? R -I -N. See,

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a young woman with a... Which is what? The head

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of service. So basically just head butler, kind

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of like the Grand Master's right hand. She seems

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to be, like, right by his side. Even kind of

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looks similar with the wheelhead. They both have

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sort of shaved heads as if she's shaved hers

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to kind of copy his. And lastly, as you're looking

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around, there is, of course, Harlan Burnshadow,

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captain of the Silent Verse, a duergar from Rotham.

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You know that the Silent Verse works for Samira

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Ara. They're supposed to work for all the Kings

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of Coin, but they're overseen by one of them.

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All right, I will organize that mess of notes

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later. Hell yeah. That's a lot of suspects, David.

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A lot of suspects. And immediately as you turn

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around to look at them and take these names in,

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I mean, the whole hall is evolving into chaos.

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Just what is the meaning of? Whoa, is that Mello?

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Oh, my God. No, no, this cannot be. This cannot

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be. Oh, dear. Oh, that sweet boy. Oh. I don't

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understand. Everyone starts speaking at once.

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Suddenly you just see Dwargar start rushing the

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hall. Some appearing out of invisibility. Actually,

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just apparently everyone. It's these black leather

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armor with gold sort of filigrees. You see that

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Harlan Burnshout is not the only Dwargar, and

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you start to understand how they've been hiding

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so well. These Dwargar, a number of them coming

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from invisibility, are just surrounding everyone.

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Harlan's just looking at them, nodding them,

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just like, Log it down! Log everything down!

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Before we get pushed away or anything. Yeah.

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I want to try to see, maybe this is stupid. Yeah.

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I don't know. I'm interested. I want to see if

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I think the body was dressed as Jules before

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or after being murdered. You saw it for a moment.

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Give me an investigation check. You saw it for

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long enough to kind of think this through. I

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probably wasn't within one foot, was I? No. If

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you can get back in there, though, you might

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be able to get another check to see when you're

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close up. Okay. As she's making this investigation

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check, Samara, you know I was locked in that

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room. You can trust me. Let me help you figure

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this out. Let me help you solve this. She's just

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seething. Fifteen. Fifteen. With that, I will

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say, you remember one thing starkly. The shirt

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and cloak that was covering it did have holes.

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The body was dressed as jewels before being stabbed

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to death. Interesting. Chaos all around. Duergar

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kind of trying to rush people out, just like,

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everyone's returning to their rooms. Bring them

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to their rooms right now. We're locking this

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down. We need to investigate. Search every room,

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every person. We need to... And suddenly Harlan

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sort of stops, and he looks over. Now I'm going

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to tell you a little bit about the scene you're

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standing in. You are on the second floor at the

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end of the hallway. And there's kind of a branching

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sort of opening part of the hall where on one

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end is what looked to be Grand Messer Amos Nears

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room. It's like the most ornate doorway here.

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And on the other side, from that, there are two

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doors. One belonging to Mello, or the other,

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you don't know whose it is. Beside that, there

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is another door. Basically right in front of

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those two doors, right beside them, staying next

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to you. And this door is closed. You're not really

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sure what Harlan stopped for, and then you kind

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of hear something, like a sliding sound from

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behind that door. The bathroom. Oi! Who's in

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there? Oi! Starts pounding on it. Come out now!

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Come out! Harlan's occupied? He's turned to try

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to knock on that door. I'm trying to decide if

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I need to get closer. It's a tricky thing. Right

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now is a really sensitive time. Sure. You're

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trying to make a point that you should be allowed

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to investigate. Right. Yeah, so I don't really

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want to... Put myself in a bad grace. It's up

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to you, because if you can't get in a good grace,

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this might be your chance. But then again, everyone's

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watching, and there's duergar all through this

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place. You realize the silent purser actually

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looked like they were a dwarven clan, a dark

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dwarf clan. How about this? How many duergar

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do I see right now? Let's at least gather some

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info. Currently, there are six. Six, including

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Harlan? No, Harlan. Six more apart from Harlan.

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Okay. It all seemed like they rushed in from

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outside. You know, some of them. Like I said,

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some came from invisible, some didn't. Looks

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like they must alternate that. If you know anything

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about Duergar, they can't always turn invisible,

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but they can do it like once a day. Well, how

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about this? What does Blanche know about Duergar?

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Give me a roll. Like, how do you spell it? History.

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You want to spell it? Give me a history check.

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Okay. I'll give you the spelling, but I'm probably

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even saying it wrong. In which case, message

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Steven. Yell at him. 17. Duergar. D -U -E -R

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-G -A -R, probably. D -U -E -R -G -A -R. They

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are dark dwarves from the world of Rotham exclusively.

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Rotham is a subterranean world. In the deepest

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depths of it, you'll find races like the Duergar.

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They are generally very isolationist. They generally

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keep to their own clans. It's super weird they're

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here because this is a tropical, sunny world.

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And they do not like the sun. You remember seeing

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Harlan grimacing in pain when you first met him

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just an hour ago outside. He does not handle

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the sunlight well, but inside in the shadows

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here, he's at his full sort of peak. But for

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them to be here, it's very odd. There's definitely

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a story there that I'll make up when it comes.

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Harlan is like, pounds the door again. There'll

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be another sort of skittering sound inside. Just

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break it down. Break it down. They start like

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coming at the door, smashing against it, smashing

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it. What are you guys doing in this moment? It's

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like this door's coming down. Maybe this is the

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killer. Maybe it's all settled right here, right

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now. Who's missing from the, who's missing? Who

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isn't in the crowd though? Ledoux's not there.

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Oh, he is. Wait, he is? Oh, oh, Jean's not there.

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The door smashes open. Oh, fuck. And you just

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hear, it's, it's, ah. It's not what it looks

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like. Um, ah. You look into this now -opened

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bathroom door and see Jean Franklin is standing

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up against the sort of back wall, hands raised,

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and down at his feet, a bloody silver knife.

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Of course. Awesome. Of course. A spread of blood

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across the floor, and he's just standing, sort

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of paralyzed. Ah, ah. There's just this moment,

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this frozen moment, as Harlan sort of steps back,

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almost shocked. It was that easy. And the silence

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is broken only by Samira Ara as she looks into

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the room and says, Kill him. Hands go to weapons.

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What do you do? No. No, it wasn't him. Harland

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is kind of frozen in place. He doesn't know what

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to do. He looks to you like he wants something.

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He stares into Harland's eyes. It was not him.

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How do you know? How? What? What the hell? I

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don't understand. Oh, he's just shocked. Johns,

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it really is. It wasn't me. What wasn't me? What

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happened? I've been... What are you waiting for?

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Kill him! He means it. He's got no idea what's

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going on. I was going to make a stupid joke,

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but... It just felt too mean to John Franklin.

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Don't do it, Jones! Don't make a joke, Jones!

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He's willing with his eyes. He just looks...

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He's too focused on himself to know what the

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hell's going on. Damn it! His, like, green skin's

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gone wholly pale. He's just looking around for,

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like, any kind of help. His eyes fall on you,

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Blanche. Sir? Sir, it wasn't me. I didn't...

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What happened? What happened? Holland, we clearly

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need to de -escalate the situation. Let's take

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Jean and leave this area. No, no, no, no. You...

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You're not a part of this. This is all business.

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I... I'm the only one you can trust, Harlan.

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And as she says that, she looks to Samira. You

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know that's true. Samira's just frozen in rage.

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Madam, listen. Let's take the turtle downstairs,

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right? We're in the basement. We have the cell

00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:08.799
down there. We've used it before. Just lock him

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away. We'll put guard on there. He won't go nowhere.

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And we can look into this. We can research. We

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can investigate. We can figure it out. But I

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need to know. I need to know for your son. Madam,

00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.589
please. That we got the right guy. We'll interrogate

00:24:21.589 --> 00:24:24.589
him. We'll figure it out. We can't be rash. Not

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here. His eyes sort of glance over to Amos near,

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who just looks furious. This and his house. And

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you. I guess he spins on you, Blanche, as two

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guards come over and start like ushering, ah,

00:24:35.809 --> 00:24:39.589
hey, easy. Start pulling John away down the hall.

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The pair goes, hey, easy with my son. Just a

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whole chaos sort of devolving a little bit down

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the hall. But Harlan's turned to you now. Why

00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:52.279
should I trust you? Because of my capabilities,

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and you locked me away while the killer did this.

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You know where I was, and maybe I could have

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stopped it. You're right. You're right. You might

00:25:06.900 --> 00:25:08.480
not know this, but we had eyes posting on you

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the whole time. There was a man outside, the

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billiard room window, invisible like, just watching.

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The four of you that were in there, we know you're

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in the clear, but I need something more. My young

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lord was murdered. I need to know who did it

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and why. Prove to me that you can be helpful

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to me here and I'll give you what resources I

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can. You can meet with the main suspect. You

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can hear your young lord's side of the story.

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I'll even give you a detailed map of the palace.

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I can give you whatever you need. Just prove

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to me. Slowly, not threateningly, Blanche pulls

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out her sword, takes a knee in front of Harlan,

00:25:52.269 --> 00:25:56.710
in front of DePiero, in front of everybody. And

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she says, I swear on my title, on my life, in

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front of you, my Lord, and everyone here, that

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I will help you catch this killer on my honor.

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I think Samira. Almost storms up to you. Your

00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:21.579
honor? What does your honor matter when - No!

00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:26.319
Madam, please. She's a warrior. She speaks true.

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You catch, like, a glint of something very similar

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in Harlan's eyes. Some connection. He nods. And

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you. I can trust you, Mr. LaRoche. Lance, do

00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.960
you trust me? With everything I've got. Well,

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Harlan, there you go. Nothing I can say that's

00:26:44.859 --> 00:26:48.440
going to make you trust me anymore. And I'm with

00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:50.599
him. I'm a sidekick, kind of, sort of. So, yeah,

00:26:50.700 --> 00:26:59.319
like, me too, all right? Just a, fine. I'll take

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what help I can get. I think he just turns back.

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All right, you lot stay here with me for a minute.

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The rest of you, and he spins around, all of

00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.380
you, go into your rooms now. I mean it. Guard

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posting every door. You're locked down. Until

00:27:12.900 --> 00:27:15.759
we come to you, investigate, tear your rooms

00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.059
apart, hear your side of the story. You're not

00:27:18.059 --> 00:27:20.759
going anywhere. I think you hear, like, the Grandmaster.

00:27:20.859 --> 00:27:23.339
This is outrageous. I will not be demanded of

00:27:23.339 --> 00:27:26.160
in my own home. You serve the kings of corn.

00:27:27.180 --> 00:27:33.779
Coin. Kings of corn. Kings of corn. Nope, we're

00:27:33.779 --> 00:27:38.680
keeping it. Dark Dwarf, we serve Samira Ora.

00:27:39.420 --> 00:27:42.359
As per your assignment, Grandmaster. Her son,

00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:44.059
the young Lord Mello, has just been murdered.

00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:46.759
You want to fire me or arrest me, you may do

00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:50.019
so tomorrow. But today, you will do as I fucking

00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:55.720
say. I think the game almost steps back. Fine.

00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.259
Fine. But despite your lockdown, I'm sending

00:28:00.259 --> 00:28:03.880
a missive to Sturgeman. By dawn, you'll be replaced

00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:08.269
by a real investigator. sort of moves over to

00:28:08.269 --> 00:28:10.769
his room, slams the door. You're like more sort

00:28:10.769 --> 00:28:14.309
of grumbles as most of the guests begin to shuffle

00:28:14.309 --> 00:28:15.930
off towards their own rooms, sort of Duergar's

00:28:15.930 --> 00:28:18.049
pushing them. A few of them sort of remain in

00:28:18.049 --> 00:28:20.890
place. I think Diva Luma steps forward. You ever

00:28:20.890 --> 00:28:23.130
thought the same, Harlan? I set myself up in

00:28:23.130 --> 00:28:25.190
the salon on the first floor. Could have put

00:28:25.190 --> 00:28:28.230
my face on for the show tonight. Madam Diva,

00:28:28.410 --> 00:28:31.170
Prince Mello's been murdered. There will be no

00:28:31.170 --> 00:28:35.109
show. You're funny. Have you met the Grand Messer?

00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:36.900
Do you really think a little murder is going

00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:40.240
to stop his... fun? Macabre as it is, you might

00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:44.400
have to get used to it. Fine. I don't care. It's

00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.940
over in the salon. Just don't you leave. We'll

00:28:45.940 --> 00:28:48.900
have a guard there. Theodore pop off. The chef

00:28:48.900 --> 00:28:51.140
walks over. In this case, I would be happiest

00:28:51.140 --> 00:28:52.980
in kitchen. I have work to do as well, after

00:28:52.980 --> 00:28:56.200
all. So... All right. Yeah, yeah. And Larissa

00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:58.460
read in the head of service. If I am to be held

00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:00.299
captive, I will do so in the chambers of the

00:29:00.299 --> 00:29:02.910
Grand Messer. So I may attend to him if needed.

00:29:03.369 --> 00:29:05.349
Fine. All right. Yeah. Go where you want. Just

00:29:05.349 --> 00:29:09.549
stay there. Fucking. All right. Everyone sort

00:29:09.549 --> 00:29:12.009
of gets up. Big Samira. That doesn't sound like

00:29:12.009 --> 00:29:15.670
a good idea. Everyone go into your own rooms

00:29:15.670 --> 00:29:18.410
where you can each get murdered one by one. There's

00:29:18.410 --> 00:29:22.410
guards at the doors. The doors. I don't know.

00:29:23.250 --> 00:29:27.349
My lady, Samira, please. I beg of you. Just go

00:29:27.349 --> 00:29:29.809
to your room as well. I will come to you with

00:29:29.809 --> 00:29:31.730
every update, every bit of information, but you

00:29:31.730 --> 00:29:34.930
need time. You need time. This is a sensitive

00:29:34.930 --> 00:29:38.509
time for you. This is not your home. She sort

00:29:38.509 --> 00:29:44.349
of takes a wheezing, shaking. Fine. Just see

00:29:44.349 --> 00:29:46.950
it done soon so we can get my Mello somewhere

00:29:46.950 --> 00:29:50.710
decent. She moves into, you see she moves into

00:29:50.710 --> 00:29:52.210
the room actually right beside Mello, the one

00:29:52.210 --> 00:29:53.430
that you're staying here right now. So you're

00:29:53.430 --> 00:29:55.250
staying in front of Mello's door, in front of

00:29:55.250 --> 00:29:58.630
her door, by a bathroom door. Sort of. closes

00:29:58.630 --> 00:30:03.650
it, and you are left in the hall with the captain

00:30:03.650 --> 00:30:07.450
of the silent verse, your new ally. Blanche pulls

00:30:07.450 --> 00:30:10.369
out a notepad and a cigarette. All right, let's

00:30:10.369 --> 00:30:18.750
solve this. It calls for a music change. Oh my

00:30:18.750 --> 00:30:24.009
gosh. Harlan, what do you know? All right. Oh,

00:30:24.029 --> 00:30:26.839
I know little. I came up here. As you saw me

00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:28.119
downstairs in the billiards room, I was asked

00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:32.059
to come up. I did. And I came upon this. No one

00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:34.759
else was in the hall when I came. So I came running

00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.900
back downstairs, called in the guard. God, who

00:30:38.900 --> 00:30:43.859
could have done it? Was Mello a fan of Jules

00:30:43.859 --> 00:30:47.079
LaRoche? Mello? I don't think so, no. I've never

00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:51.019
mentioned him. He's not really a music kid. Could

00:30:51.019 --> 00:30:55.019
he have brought this costume in his... In his

00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:57.480
bags and his luggage with him? It could have.

00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:00.299
We haven't, we didn't search the princes. Only

00:31:00.299 --> 00:31:02.619
ones we searched were, well, just that Ledoux

00:31:02.619 --> 00:31:06.700
fella. We got him before you came along and yeah,

00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:08.900
he was fine. He was in the clear. Just that stupid

00:31:08.900 --> 00:31:13.079
banner or whatever. Sorry. He made a big deal

00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:15.019
of it. Sorry, it was weird. Wait, why did he

00:31:15.019 --> 00:31:17.000
say Ledoux was in the clear? He's saying the

00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:18.720
only one they searched was Ledoux. Everyone else

00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:21.420
worked here or... Gotcha. Yeah, you guys were...

00:31:21.420 --> 00:31:22.799
Your group would have been searched probably.

00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:24.339
You were downstairs in the billiards room until

00:31:24.339 --> 00:31:27.400
that all happened. Ledoux was dealt with earlier

00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:29.759
in the day. They came early. That's why he wasn't

00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:32.180
in the room with you. Did you get a good look

00:31:32.180 --> 00:31:35.839
at that knife? We can look now. Let's go take

00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:37.440
a look, see if we can see maybe where it came

00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.039
from. All right. Hey, before I forget, because

00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:43.940
David's going to forget. Here's a map of the

00:31:43.940 --> 00:31:50.039
whole man. I won't do it like that, but I think

00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:51.579
you guys get a chance to take a look at the knife

00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:53.779
and maybe he calls for someone to go like, hey,

00:31:53.779 --> 00:31:56.000
to my office, security office, grab the map.

00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:58.940
Might be helpful to look at. They run over and

00:31:58.940 --> 00:32:01.140
I just want to give you guys access to this because

00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:03.359
it's awesome. And I really want to gush for a

00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:06.380
second before I forget to gush because holy shit.

00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:08.319
I'm pretty excited for this one. What's the big

00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:11.160
twist going on in this adventure, guys? You know

00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:13.200
what's not a big twist? The fact that fucking

00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.640
Michelle out did herself again. Oh my goodness.

00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:18.420
I can't wait. Oh dude. Okay. First of all, let's

00:32:18.420 --> 00:32:21.759
go to the first floor of the manor. It is huge.

00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:24.259
It's still loading, but I can see this. Wow.

00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:27.180
This gigantic man. So we'll look kind of describe

00:32:27.180 --> 00:32:29.779
as we go where, where certain things are. Um,

00:32:30.259 --> 00:32:31.400
we'll kind of like when you go to certain rooms,

00:32:31.460 --> 00:32:33.160
we'll just describe their placement in the manor.

00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:34.460
It's going to be on Instagram. It's going to

00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:37.289
be on discord. Check this thing out. It's incredible.

00:32:37.470 --> 00:32:39.450
You can see the billiards room downstairs. You

00:32:39.450 --> 00:32:40.569
can see where you guys would have been shuffled

00:32:40.569 --> 00:32:42.130
in from the front of the Great Hall, down the

00:32:42.130 --> 00:32:44.049
hallway, into the billiards room. You would have

00:32:44.049 --> 00:32:46.009
been waiting there, the four of you, for about

00:32:46.009 --> 00:32:48.170
an hour. And then you would have gone upstairs.

00:32:48.869 --> 00:32:51.029
Hold on, hold on. I'm on the other side of the

00:32:51.029 --> 00:32:53.289
map. Okay, the billiards room was where we were

00:32:53.289 --> 00:32:56.589
locked up. Yes. Okay, so I see the study of the

00:32:56.589 --> 00:32:58.789
library. Okay, so the bathroom there, a couple

00:32:58.789 --> 00:33:03.259
doors down, that's where Jean was. Gotcha. Holy

00:33:03.259 --> 00:33:05.339
mackinoli. Let's go to the second floor where

00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:07.660
you're at now. I have some information down.

00:33:07.779 --> 00:33:10.759
Hopefully nothing that's going to, I think it's

00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:13.960
all stuff you know. Oh, it's got rooms on it.

00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:18.299
Okay. Let me hide some information. Okay. Yeah.

00:33:18.380 --> 00:33:20.819
So you're looking at this. You see, let's zoom

00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:22.960
over to the hallway you're at now. As you can

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:26.039
see, all the rooms are labeled. A number of the

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:30.220
guests are staying on the eastern side of this

00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:34.019
wing. There are, Azra has his own bedroom here.

00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:36.279
There's a couple empty rooms, probably for the

00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:41.019
King of Coin and Air that did not show. Margus

00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:44.880
Ruba and Xenia Ruba's rooms are here. We also

00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.339
have rooms called the Pink Room just down the

00:33:47.339 --> 00:33:49.240
hallway. This is Harlan's sort of office where

00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:50.680
he's setting up. He's sleeping, but he's also

00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:53.880
kind of overseeing things. Where you stand now

00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:56.779
at the very edge of sort of western wing, you

00:33:56.779 --> 00:33:59.539
have to the south. The master suite belonged

00:33:59.539 --> 00:34:03.380
to Amos Nier, where he's now locked up with Larissa.

00:34:04.099 --> 00:34:07.700
And you have, to the north end of that, Mello's

00:34:07.700 --> 00:34:10.280
room, the crime scene. Beside that, Samira's

00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:12.119
room. I think there's actually a note on the

00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:14.219
map that this was supposed to be Xenia's room.

00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:16.739
Usually the Kings of Coin will get the actual

00:34:16.739 --> 00:34:19.380
larger suites, but Samira had them rearranged

00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:21.900
just to be able to be closer to her son. So she

00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:23.619
took the smaller room so she could be right beside

00:34:23.619 --> 00:34:27.110
Mello. You also see just south of that, there

00:34:27.110 --> 00:34:29.829
is a small bathroom. This is where Jean was hiding

00:34:29.829 --> 00:34:33.849
out, where the knife was found on the floor right

00:34:33.849 --> 00:34:36.349
in front of him. What the hell is happening there?

00:34:37.349 --> 00:34:41.610
Jeez, yeah. So, like you said, we're going to

00:34:41.610 --> 00:34:44.769
post these both on social media and on the Discord.

00:34:45.670 --> 00:34:48.670
Probably beneficial to at least have the map

00:34:48.670 --> 00:34:51.250
up so you can take a peek at it if you want to

00:34:51.250 --> 00:34:53.690
while listening. Oh, hell yeah. You know, a little

00:34:53.690 --> 00:34:56.460
pro tip. Or come back afterwards. And yeah, yeah.

00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:58.460
We'll try to find a way to follow those movements

00:34:58.460 --> 00:35:02.039
as we go. I won't show you the other rooms yet,

00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:03.699
other floors yet. When you go to the other floors,

00:35:03.820 --> 00:35:05.320
we'll pop them up. I don't want to go too crazy

00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:07.280
with this. Sure. Yeah, seriously. Incredible

00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.199
map. Unbelievable. This is a dream come true

00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:12.400
for me to run a murder mystery. And Rochelle

00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:14.559
made it possible with this unbelievably cool

00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.500
sort of setting. Yeah. I can do so much with

00:35:17.500 --> 00:35:19.400
this. And I've used this map a lot in crafting

00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.039
this. Keep locations on the map in mind that

00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:26.789
might be important. Wow. Yeah. Incredibly detailed.

00:35:26.909 --> 00:35:30.949
Really cool. Custom freaking huge manor map.

00:35:31.550 --> 00:35:33.550
Yeah. Thank you, Rochelle. This thing is incredible.

00:35:33.710 --> 00:35:35.969
It's so amazing. It's so amazing. Oh, my gosh.

00:35:36.829 --> 00:35:40.949
Without further delay, though, can I use my eyes

00:35:40.949 --> 00:35:43.269
of minute seeing to investigate this knife? Okay.

00:35:43.329 --> 00:35:45.289
So you step into the bathroom. You go to investigate

00:35:45.289 --> 00:35:48.929
the knife. Give me an investigation check with

00:35:48.929 --> 00:35:56.329
advantage. 16. Okay, you reach down. 16. Two

00:35:56.329 --> 00:35:59.190
things come to your attention, basically. You

00:35:59.190 --> 00:36:01.429
see there is a sliding pattern of blood, I think

00:36:01.429 --> 00:36:03.230
I mentioned before, that seems to slide across

00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:06.530
the floor to where the knife is. As if the knife

00:36:06.530 --> 00:36:07.929
was thrown across the floor? As if the knife

00:36:07.929 --> 00:36:10.170
was slid maybe perhaps beneath the doorway. You're

00:36:10.170 --> 00:36:11.449
looking at the door and there's enough of a gap

00:36:11.449 --> 00:36:13.409
that perhaps it could have been like pushed underneath

00:36:13.409 --> 00:36:16.409
and slid in there. The blood pattern looks like

00:36:16.409 --> 00:36:19.869
it could corroborate that, but perhaps Jaune's

00:36:19.869 --> 00:36:23.840
story will help clear that up. The knife itself

00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.559
is not a weapon of murder. It looks to be a small

00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:30.739
silver paring knife, as if used for some kind

00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:37.179
of meal or snack. She'll point this out to Harlan.

00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:40.059
You see, Harlan, it looks like the knife was

00:36:40.059 --> 00:36:45.639
slid under the door. You don't say. Oh, shit.

00:36:46.460 --> 00:36:49.679
All right. Do you agree? I can't say nothing

00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:53.699
yet, but it looks possible. Maybe your boy was

00:36:53.699 --> 00:36:57.000
set up. Maybe. Who did Jon leave with when we

00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.119
split? He was going up with Depiero at the time.

00:37:00.579 --> 00:37:02.679
Why is he here? This is nowhere near his room.

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:05.840
Yeah. His room, if you look at the map, his room's

00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:09.079
on the eastern wing of the third floor. That's

00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:11.179
what I'm saying. Somebody put him there. Something

00:37:11.179 --> 00:37:13.360
weird's going on. Something weird's going on.

00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:17.300
And this paring knife, does this match with the

00:37:17.300 --> 00:37:20.360
knives that Theodore uses here in the palace?

00:37:20.980 --> 00:37:25.010
Oof. Fyodor. I can't keep any of them straight.

00:37:25.289 --> 00:37:28.289
That's fine. Honestly, it's funnier. So, um,

00:37:29.369 --> 00:37:31.849
no, it's not the kind he'd use. More like something

00:37:31.849 --> 00:37:37.590
we'd serve with. Wait. I think. Right. You might

00:37:37.590 --> 00:37:39.809
want to check out the crime scene. Your answer's

00:37:39.809 --> 00:37:41.929
right there. Might be right there. We'll head

00:37:41.929 --> 00:37:46.150
into the Red Room. That's the bedroom next to

00:37:46.150 --> 00:37:47.949
you. Mello's room is the crime scene. Why'd you

00:37:47.949 --> 00:37:49.650
say it like that? Oh, I thought the red room

00:37:49.650 --> 00:37:51.510
was like... It would make sense, wouldn't it?

00:37:51.630 --> 00:37:54.869
Yeah. I thought that was the murder room. Oh,

00:37:54.869 --> 00:37:57.090
no. Now I see. Murder scene. Did you say that

00:37:57.090 --> 00:38:01.210
really weird? What? I don't know. It sounded...

00:38:01.210 --> 00:38:03.429
I don't know. It's my way of being like... Okay.

00:38:03.889 --> 00:38:06.170
He realized something. He's like, eh. Oh, okay.

00:38:06.250 --> 00:38:07.769
Because from my end, it sounded like somebody

00:38:07.769 --> 00:38:11.389
was in your ear. I mean, put it this way. Maybe

00:38:11.389 --> 00:38:12.949
you don't trust Harlan all the way, too. Right,

00:38:13.010 --> 00:38:15.190
yeah. He's one of the suspects. Absolutely. He

00:38:15.190 --> 00:38:16.889
says he... I mean, think about it. The last person

00:38:16.889 --> 00:38:19.250
to see the body was him. He came running down.

00:38:19.289 --> 00:38:20.809
That's true. He could have killed him and came

00:38:20.809 --> 00:38:23.070
running down immediately. Yeah. You hear this

00:38:23.070 --> 00:38:25.510
might thrash you. There's anyone. Anyone could

00:38:25.510 --> 00:38:26.869
be it. It could be Jules. It could be Chester.

00:38:27.389 --> 00:38:29.789
It's me. And speaking of Chester, actually, I

00:38:29.789 --> 00:38:31.690
think he's going to sort of be like, hey, Jules,

00:38:31.849 --> 00:38:33.469
look, you know I'm not good with the dead body

00:38:33.469 --> 00:38:36.690
thing, right? So maybe I'll do some Chesterin.

00:38:37.110 --> 00:38:39.489
If we're allowed free access, I can pick up some

00:38:39.489 --> 00:38:42.610
rumours. Do what you do best. All right. I'll

00:38:42.610 --> 00:38:45.469
be back. He kind of saunters him. We'll see you

00:38:45.469 --> 00:38:50.829
up to it. It's fine. He's with me. All right.

00:38:50.829 --> 00:38:53.909
He's quite capable with a bow as well. I hope

00:38:53.909 --> 00:38:56.969
he's not killing somebody. So that's not helpful.

00:39:01.829 --> 00:39:03.449
Chester has this ability we talked about before

00:39:03.449 --> 00:39:05.630
to pick up rumors sort of passively. He's going

00:39:05.630 --> 00:39:07.170
to go do that. Maybe he can give you some information

00:39:07.170 --> 00:39:10.610
if he's sort of doing his own thing. So he's

00:39:10.610 --> 00:39:13.900
walking away. You go to the bedroom. You push

00:39:13.900 --> 00:39:16.199
open the door again. Harlan sort of takes a step

00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:19.019
back and gives you access. After that, you know,

00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:20.420
the blood spatter thing, he seems like he's a

00:39:20.420 --> 00:39:22.380
little more, okay, I want to see what these guys

00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:27.400
can do. And so you step into the room. So how

00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:29.639
are these, are these eyes of minute seeing going

00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:32.699
to work as far as like, I want to investigate

00:39:32.699 --> 00:39:35.579
this room using the eyes of minute seeing? Or

00:39:35.579 --> 00:39:37.880
do I have to investigate like an item? I'll let

00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:39.340
you guys get the room with him. Okay. That's

00:39:39.340 --> 00:39:40.880
kind of fun. You can go through and see what

00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:43.119
you pick up. You're sort of scanning around low

00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:51.860
and careful. Just an 11. Okay. Maybe there's

00:39:51.860 --> 00:39:54.780
not a lot here to see, but I will give you the

00:39:54.780 --> 00:39:56.739
main sort of bulk, the main things that stand

00:39:56.739 --> 00:39:58.619
out to you that even when the 11 you pick up

00:39:58.619 --> 00:40:01.989
on pretty clearly. And actually, your passive

00:40:01.989 --> 00:40:03.929
would get a plus five. So you'd go for your passive

00:40:03.929 --> 00:40:06.150
investigation plus five as your minimum, if you...

00:40:06.150 --> 00:40:08.849
Oh, wow. That's... I mean, my passive investigation

00:40:08.849 --> 00:40:14.030
is 14. Holy... You have a 19 all the time with

00:40:14.030 --> 00:40:16.070
those eyes, as long as you're within one foot.

00:40:16.170 --> 00:40:19.050
Yeah, apparently. That's incredible. Your passive

00:40:19.050 --> 00:40:21.969
what? Passive investigation. Investigation. Yeah.

00:40:22.329 --> 00:40:25.590
That's crazy. It is intelligence -based. Yeah,

00:40:25.630 --> 00:40:28.429
so you are Sherlock Holmes. Right. Blanche Holmes.

00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:32.019
You move in this room. You're looking around.

00:40:32.219 --> 00:40:34.480
And like I said, perhaps you don't see a lot

00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.019
of small details to pick up on, but there's a

00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:38.539
lot that you can sort of put together just from

00:40:38.539 --> 00:40:42.199
a quick sort of moving around. First of all,

00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:43.619
there's a blood letter symbol written in Mello's

00:40:43.619 --> 00:40:45.739
blood. As you take that in, especially with a

00:40:45.739 --> 00:40:49.460
19, it was drawn by fingers, probably wearing

00:40:49.460 --> 00:40:52.079
a glove. Would you say the symbol is called?

00:40:52.860 --> 00:40:55.099
The blood letter symbol? The blood letter. It's

00:40:55.099 --> 00:40:57.639
like the sort of circle with a bunch of... sort

00:40:57.639 --> 00:40:58.980
of triangles pushing inwards. It's basically

00:40:58.980 --> 00:41:02.239
supposed to be the open sort of mouth of a leech.

00:41:03.699 --> 00:41:06.579
Their whole thing is to drain the sort of bad

00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:09.619
blood from the sort of upper epsilons of Zinda

00:41:09.619 --> 00:41:12.300
society. So that's, you know, drain the blood.

00:41:12.340 --> 00:41:15.519
Leech. I don't know. It's cool. All right. You

00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.820
see, do you want all the stuff or do you want

00:41:17.820 --> 00:41:19.539
it? Hold on. I want to ask a question about that

00:41:19.539 --> 00:41:23.599
first. Okay. Yeah. I'm not trying to get specifics.

00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:26.760
I like this. I'm trying to get something more

00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:30.119
like small creature, medium creature, large creature

00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:33.420
based on the placement of the drawing. This is

00:41:33.420 --> 00:41:35.920
good shit. Okay. You know, like if an ogre was

00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:38.360
in here, then the blood letter symbol would be

00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:41.159
drawn like eight feet up. Stephen just put on

00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:44.539
his cap. I'm so excited. Maybe if a duergar drew

00:41:44.539 --> 00:41:47.139
the symbol, are they small creatures or are they

00:41:47.139 --> 00:41:49.719
medium -sized creatures? I like this a lot. The

00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.480
symbol seems to be drawn. at a medium -sized

00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:54.579
level. Duergar are medium -sized, but I will

00:41:54.579 --> 00:41:57.860
say it looks, you think, a little tall for Harlan.

00:41:58.380 --> 00:41:59.960
You'd have to be reaching up a bit to do it.

00:42:00.059 --> 00:42:03.500
So it's something to think about. Not hugely

00:42:03.500 --> 00:42:05.239
tall. It's definitely possible, but it seems

00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:06.380
like it would be more comfortable for someone

00:42:06.380 --> 00:42:08.780
non -Harlan. All right, Harlan, it's not you.

00:42:09.260 --> 00:42:15.619
Whoa, whoa, Siri. How'd you know? He's just amazed

00:42:15.619 --> 00:42:19.099
already. Is there anybody who I can think maybe?

00:42:20.380 --> 00:42:22.539
wouldn't have drawn at this level? Like, are

00:42:22.539 --> 00:42:25.739
there any small or large creatures here? The

00:42:25.739 --> 00:42:28.000
only one that you think of Harlan being maybe

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.280
a little small for it, the only one that might

00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:33.639
be a little tall for it is Fyodor Popov. He'd

00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:36.340
be like sort of crouching down a little bit.

00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.800
He's very tall. Sure. He's the upper end of what

00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:40.679
medium is allowed to be. What's it written in?

00:42:41.460 --> 00:42:45.300
It's just a simple blood. It's blood. Blood on

00:42:45.300 --> 00:42:46.679
what looks like maybe a gloved hand. You don't

00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:49.739
see no prints or anything on it. Okay. You see

00:42:49.739 --> 00:42:53.019
that. And we can just deduce that it's Mello's

00:42:53.019 --> 00:42:55.659
blood? Yes. I think you can see a small trail

00:42:55.659 --> 00:42:57.880
of drops from the body over to that. So it clearly

00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:02.340
looks like that is his blood. One thing that's

00:43:02.340 --> 00:43:04.679
interesting, a curtain is sort of blowing in

00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:07.599
a breeze, but only one. You see there's one opened

00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.019
window here along the east wall. I think noticing

00:43:12.019 --> 00:43:14.539
that Harlan says. I know what you're thinking,

00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:16.059
but no one got out that window. We would have

00:43:16.059 --> 00:43:17.780
seen if someone tried climbing out, running out.

00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:19.739
We got people around enough. We would catch a

00:43:19.739 --> 00:43:22.420
full person running away. For sure. Well, if

00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:25.380
he was invisible. You think it's one of my guys?

00:43:26.139 --> 00:43:28.280
No, I didn't say that. Lots of people can cast

00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:29.940
invisibility, huh? You have to stop and think,

00:43:30.019 --> 00:43:32.179
like, it's not a bad thought, though. I'll make

00:43:32.179 --> 00:43:33.980
sure everyone should have eyes on everyone else's

00:43:33.980 --> 00:43:35.599
position. I'll make sure nobody was out of position.

00:43:35.699 --> 00:43:38.019
If that's the case, none of mine would do with

00:43:38.019 --> 00:43:40.059
it. Yeah, again, that's not what I'm saying.

00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:41.699
All right, yeah, but yeah, invisible. Plenty

00:43:41.699 --> 00:43:44.050
of people can do it. Maybe. Miserable? Maybe.

00:43:44.210 --> 00:43:46.010
I'll give you that. I'll give you that. So if

00:43:46.010 --> 00:43:48.690
I look out that window, if Blanche looks out

00:43:48.690 --> 00:43:51.329
that window. Yeah. What's within, like, line

00:43:51.329 --> 00:43:54.389
of sight? Like, is there another building within,

00:43:54.469 --> 00:43:58.250
you know, 30, 60, 90 feet? There's a street.

00:43:58.989 --> 00:44:02.710
If you look out, maybe about 100 feet out. You

00:44:02.710 --> 00:44:04.670
know, let me check one thing. This is actually

00:44:04.670 --> 00:44:05.929
very interesting. I need to look up something

00:44:05.929 --> 00:44:10.900
that is kind of cool. Okay. About 100 feet. uh

00:44:10.900 --> 00:44:13.539
out that way is like the end of sort of the courtyard

00:44:13.539 --> 00:44:15.880
surrounding the manor and you see this kind of

00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:18.539
a sort of thoroughfare moving through go ahead

00:44:18.539 --> 00:44:20.840
and roll me a perception check here okay hold

00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:24.739
on i'm just trying to picture the so 100 feet

00:44:24.739 --> 00:44:28.199
out is still the grounds of this mansion i guess

00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:30.000
it's actually in the middle of the city as opulent

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.599
as it says i think 100 feet seems like a lot

00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:34.230
60 feet out Okay. It's like, it's just like,

00:44:34.250 --> 00:44:36.929
it's just like a, you know, sort of garden. It's

00:44:36.929 --> 00:44:39.230
kind of, it looks pretty open though. Open grassy.

00:44:39.250 --> 00:44:41.250
This kind of hedges towards the edge and then

00:44:41.250 --> 00:44:43.250
a sort of fence surrounding the entire state

00:44:43.250 --> 00:44:45.309
where you see about 60 feet out. There's, there's

00:44:45.309 --> 00:44:47.429
this sort of thoroughfare that moves between

00:44:47.429 --> 00:44:50.210
the various manners beyond that one to be the

00:44:50.210 --> 00:44:52.329
next manner for the next king of coin. So the,

00:44:52.409 --> 00:44:54.369
so from, from the window to the fence is about

00:44:54.369 --> 00:44:57.610
60 feet. Yeah. Yeah. A few of the kings of coin

00:44:57.610 --> 00:45:00.510
live here in the city. Okay. What am I rolling

00:45:00.510 --> 00:45:05.389
here? Um, I need you to roll a perception check.

00:45:06.869 --> 00:45:10.670
I needed a big number. It's just a six. Nothing

00:45:10.670 --> 00:45:14.449
unusual. Hmm. What do you make of this, Jules?

00:45:19.869 --> 00:45:21.489
I'll just sit back and let you take this. You're

00:45:21.489 --> 00:45:23.869
asking better questions than I'll ever think

00:45:23.869 --> 00:45:26.030
to ask. Do you want to roll a perception as well?

00:45:26.329 --> 00:45:28.550
Yeah, Jules steps over, looks out the window.

00:45:31.070 --> 00:45:36.289
No. I got a dirty six. Not a perceptive party.

00:45:36.590 --> 00:45:40.750
Two on the day. Yeah, nothing really stands out.

00:45:41.050 --> 00:45:44.030
Just a sort of busy thoroughfare. I mean, what

00:45:44.030 --> 00:45:46.849
about my passive perception? It's 14. Is it really

00:45:46.849 --> 00:45:49.289
14? It's 14. Oh, you know what? Okay, that's

00:45:49.289 --> 00:45:50.469
actually harder than I thought. I'll give you

00:45:50.469 --> 00:45:52.130
something. Okay. I'll give you a little something

00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:56.349
-something. As you look out, you think for a

00:45:56.349 --> 00:45:59.030
moment, it looks like there's somebody kind of

00:45:59.030 --> 00:46:02.900
standing. a little close to the fence. They kind

00:46:02.900 --> 00:46:04.980
of look casual, like they're leaning up against

00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:07.960
it, but they keep sort of glancing over towards

00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:09.460
the manor like they're looking for something.

00:46:09.980 --> 00:46:13.159
And as they're kind of watching, they sort of

00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:17.440
stand up and begin to move away. How far? How

00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:21.380
far are they away? They are 70 feet. Fuck. Never

00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:24.079
mind. Never mind. They move to disappear in a

00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:25.820
thoroughfare, but you get a feeling for a moment

00:46:25.820 --> 00:46:28.960
like somebody was watching the manor from outside.

00:46:29.659 --> 00:46:33.400
Looking for something. And then... I will tell

00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:36.920
you right now, the time is approximately 1 .06.

00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:41.519
That's specific. All right, 1 .10. Not really,

00:46:41.579 --> 00:46:43.079
I'm just making numbers up. It's 1 .10. 1 .10

00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.420
in the afternoon. That might be important later.

00:46:46.980 --> 00:46:51.380
Shall we go on? You see on a table by the entrance

00:46:51.380 --> 00:46:53.400
of this room, there's a silver platter with an

00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:56.559
untouched fruit bowl and some empty space beside

00:46:56.559 --> 00:47:00.480
it. And... As you look at that space, another

00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:02.920
sort of question might be answered. For one thing,

00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:04.880
the silver of the fruit bowl, I will just tell

00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:08.559
you, matches the silver knife you see. And you

00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:10.880
think that must be a paring knife for fruit,

00:47:10.980 --> 00:47:14.059
for this platter. Likely came with that. So it

00:47:14.059 --> 00:47:16.599
was delivered to the room at some point. You

00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:18.940
also see, as an answer to the empty space, that

00:47:18.940 --> 00:47:21.900
there is a bottle of wine, this full, sort of

00:47:21.900 --> 00:47:25.260
thick rimmed bottle, spilled out on the floor,

00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:27.989
along with two... wine glasses, it looks like.

00:47:27.989 --> 00:47:31.989
They're both shattered. And finally, there's

00:47:31.989 --> 00:47:34.150
the victim, who was stabbed repeatedly and savagely

00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:35.969
with a small knife that matches the one that

00:47:35.969 --> 00:47:37.550
you saw. That doesn't sound like this was planned.

00:47:37.949 --> 00:47:42.050
I don't know. How old was Mello again? Mello

00:47:42.050 --> 00:47:49.469
was 19. Two glasses of wine? Hmm. I will tell

00:47:49.469 --> 00:47:52.389
you, the bottle on the ground is labeled... This

00:47:52.389 --> 00:47:55.909
is me not knowing how to label drinks. Jelly

00:47:55.909 --> 00:48:00.349
Black Classic Noir. Oh, it's jelly wine. It's

00:48:00.349 --> 00:48:03.489
jelly wine. And in Zinda, that's a lot. Jelly

00:48:03.489 --> 00:48:06.230
wine is super, super common. For 19 -year -olds?

00:48:06.969 --> 00:48:09.630
Yeah. Honestly, it's a March of Vice, man. Very

00:48:09.630 --> 00:48:13.730
European. Very European. Yeah, it looks like

00:48:13.730 --> 00:48:15.789
a pretty, it's a sort of black label, very fancy

00:48:15.789 --> 00:48:18.389
-looking bottle. Looks like some real top -shelf

00:48:18.389 --> 00:48:22.409
stuff. How much of the wine is gone? Uh, the

00:48:22.409 --> 00:48:25.469
bottle looks like it has fallen over. Oh, essentially

00:48:25.469 --> 00:48:27.989
all just drained out into sort of like the carpet

00:48:27.989 --> 00:48:30.389
and sort of leaking everywhere. Um, there's essentially

00:48:30.389 --> 00:48:32.650
nothing left in the bottle and the glasses are

00:48:32.650 --> 00:48:35.190
tinted with it. Like they were being used and

00:48:35.190 --> 00:48:36.829
then they were smashed. Okay. Looks like they

00:48:36.829 --> 00:48:39.889
just were dropped perhaps in the heat of a moment.

00:48:39.929 --> 00:48:42.610
But as I said, there are two glasses, the old

00:48:42.610 --> 00:48:48.550
detective cliche. You made it. You got there.

00:48:48.650 --> 00:48:54.230
Got it. Thank you, buddy. No problem, buddy.

00:48:57.469 --> 00:49:00.210
That's my best Chester. It's the best you're

00:49:00.210 --> 00:49:02.090
going to get. It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

00:49:02.889 --> 00:49:04.690
Okay. Is that all that Harlan has to show us?

00:49:04.769 --> 00:49:07.010
That's all you see in the room as you kind of

00:49:07.010 --> 00:49:09.670
take your first looks around. You don't see there's

00:49:09.670 --> 00:49:11.650
anything else sort of minute and small. It looks

00:49:11.650 --> 00:49:14.650
like just these broad details. There is, I'll

00:49:14.650 --> 00:49:16.929
say, blood that moves to the wall to that one

00:49:16.929 --> 00:49:21.789
point. You know, with a 19 passive, I think looking

00:49:21.789 --> 00:49:24.650
at the trail of blood, it might move to the window,

00:49:24.829 --> 00:49:28.050
but it also seems to move outwards towards the

00:49:28.050 --> 00:49:31.469
hall. Oh, I see. And actually, as you look at

00:49:31.469 --> 00:49:34.489
the windowsill, you see that there is, again,

00:49:34.590 --> 00:49:39.460
like some fingerprints gloved. that must have

00:49:39.460 --> 00:49:41.980
pushed the window open. But there is a bit of

00:49:41.980 --> 00:49:43.500
a red stain on the window. Are those on the inside

00:49:43.500 --> 00:49:47.199
or the outside? On the inside. But why? So you

00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:50.739
said the trail of blood moves to the window.

00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:53.300
Yes. There are bloody prints on the window. Someone

00:49:53.300 --> 00:49:56.179
opened the window. But it also looks like there's

00:49:56.179 --> 00:50:00.059
a trail of blood from there to the door. To the

00:50:00.059 --> 00:50:01.860
door, as if someone left. And you know that someone

00:50:01.860 --> 00:50:04.280
slid the knife outside in the hallway into the

00:50:04.280 --> 00:50:06.469
bathroom door. So it could have made it. Tried

00:50:06.469 --> 00:50:08.030
to make it look like somebody left through the

00:50:08.030 --> 00:50:09.610
window, but they're actually still here. That

00:50:09.610 --> 00:50:13.730
could be it. That could be it. Or they were communicating

00:50:13.730 --> 00:50:16.929
or passing something off. To that, to whoever

00:50:16.929 --> 00:50:21.250
was standing down there. Can I look, like, up

00:50:21.250 --> 00:50:23.789
and down outside the window, like, to see if

00:50:23.789 --> 00:50:27.389
somebody tried to hide something outside the

00:50:27.389 --> 00:50:31.230
window? I like that a lot. You open the window,

00:50:31.269 --> 00:50:34.610
you look down and up. Nothing up looks remarkable

00:50:34.610 --> 00:50:38.260
at all. And even down, you look and you don't

00:50:38.260 --> 00:50:40.139
see anything that stands out. There's going to

00:50:40.139 --> 00:50:42.239
be a hedge lining the bottom of the house there,

00:50:42.340 --> 00:50:45.039
sort of right up against the window just below

00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:49.139
you. But as you're looking down at that, you

00:50:49.139 --> 00:50:51.460
see the window down below this one, just below,

00:50:51.579 --> 00:50:54.260
is also open. And you can hear from behind, it's

00:50:54.260 --> 00:50:57.659
like, I don't understand. This is crazy madness.

00:50:58.780 --> 00:51:02.239
It's Fyodor Popov. That must be the window into

00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:05.289
the first floor kitchen. where he's been sent.

00:51:06.130 --> 00:51:08.349
You just hear him muttering to himself, kind

00:51:08.349 --> 00:51:10.530
of moving further and further away, but it sounds

00:51:10.530 --> 00:51:13.170
like he's just distressed. And if I listen for

00:51:13.170 --> 00:51:15.510
a minute, you said he's moving away. I can't

00:51:15.510 --> 00:51:16.869
hear anything he's saying. Yeah, I think he just

00:51:16.869 --> 00:51:18.969
sounds like he's just kind of, this is, what

00:51:18.969 --> 00:51:21.570
is going on? This is craziness, craziness. How

00:51:21.570 --> 00:51:23.730
am I to cook now? How am I to make food for angry

00:51:23.730 --> 00:51:26.150
bellies? I don't know what to do. And just kind

00:51:26.150 --> 00:51:28.610
of moves farther away. It just seems, yeah. All

00:51:28.610 --> 00:51:32.710
right. How much experience does Blanche have

00:51:32.710 --> 00:51:35.110
with Jellywine? Ooh, I think you'd have quite

00:51:35.110 --> 00:51:37.809
a bit. Okay. So she might know what it smells

00:51:37.809 --> 00:51:41.409
like pretty well? Yes. Yeah. Okay. She turns

00:51:41.409 --> 00:51:45.309
to Harlan. Harlan, I want to trust you as much

00:51:45.309 --> 00:51:51.590
as you trust me. Will you humor me? Okay. This

00:51:51.590 --> 00:51:55.409
is, uh, I'm scared, miss. She gets close. Massive

00:51:55.409 --> 00:51:59.210
defense. I've got to want more. And looks directly

00:51:59.210 --> 00:52:02.630
into his eyes with an intense stare. Open your

00:52:02.630 --> 00:52:16.280
mouth. Okay. Blanche wants to see if she can

00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:19.940
smell jelly wine on Harlan's breath and use the

00:52:19.940 --> 00:52:22.280
eyes of minute seeing to see if there's any tint

00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:26.099
on his teeth. Okay. All right. Smelling is perception.

00:52:26.679 --> 00:52:28.780
Eyes is investigation. Go ahead and roll ball.

00:52:29.460 --> 00:52:31.840
This is phenomenal. I love Detective Blanche.

00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:35.159
I love Detective Blanche. Just a five on the

00:52:35.159 --> 00:52:43.139
perception. Dirty 20 on investigation. Dirty

00:52:43.139 --> 00:52:46.820
20 on investigation. There's no tint there. Now,

00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:48.380
you might think that a lot of people would have

00:52:48.380 --> 00:52:50.780
tint because a lot of people would be drinking.

00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:53.960
Harlan, it seems, has not had a drop. Okay. He's

00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:57.360
on duty. No drinking on the job, I can see. Well

00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:01.989
done, Harlan. Like you met him. Salutes. I love

00:53:01.989 --> 00:53:04.969
detective, but just a loose cannon, quirky, wild

00:53:04.969 --> 00:53:08.750
and genius. I want a TV show of this. Any thoughts,

00:53:08.849 --> 00:53:14.530
Jeremy? What say you, my dear Watson? So Samira

00:53:14.530 --> 00:53:18.030
is in, she's in her room, which is adjacent to

00:53:18.030 --> 00:53:21.590
this, right? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Can I pop open

00:53:21.590 --> 00:53:25.849
Mello's closet? It looks like that both Mello

00:53:25.849 --> 00:53:28.380
and Samira's room have closets there. They share

00:53:28.380 --> 00:53:30.599
walls. I like this a lot. Open the closet. She

00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:33.079
wants to kind of like investigate the walls to

00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:35.579
see if there's any hidden passages or anything.

00:53:36.059 --> 00:53:39.659
You see nothing like that. Okay. I'll just tell

00:53:39.659 --> 00:53:41.539
you right now, there's no passages you see here.

00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:45.480
And the blood trail corroborates that, that it

00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:47.099
doesn't not seem to go anywhere near the closet.

00:53:47.219 --> 00:53:49.780
Right. So it seems like, so if Blanche were to

00:53:49.780 --> 00:53:53.460
leave the room, it seems like the blood trail

00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:56.039
leads to the bath. and then she loses it there.

00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:58.039
It moves slowly down the hallway and then just

00:53:58.039 --> 00:53:59.780
kind of vanishes. It's like the blood stopped

00:53:59.780 --> 00:54:01.699
dripping then. Right. So wherever it went after

00:54:01.699 --> 00:54:04.719
moving past the bathroom, you don't know. Could

00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:06.079
have gone right down to Grand Messer's room.

00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:08.239
Could have gone down to the east wing where a

00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:09.800
bunch of other rooms are. Upstairs, perhaps,

00:54:09.940 --> 00:54:12.099
where a bunch of people are staying. Yeah. Downstairs,

00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:16.460
anywhere. It feels like we're done with Mello's

00:54:16.460 --> 00:54:20.360
room, with the murder scene, I think. Maybe.

00:54:21.449 --> 00:54:24.389
Blanche looks at the ceiling. Nothing. Damn.

00:54:24.789 --> 00:54:26.510
I want to do something here that's kind of fun

00:54:26.510 --> 00:54:30.150
because you, to open up the curtain a little

00:54:30.150 --> 00:54:32.010
bit, we just paused for like a half second and

00:54:32.010 --> 00:54:33.750
something came up that was pretty interesting,

00:54:33.829 --> 00:54:36.550
which was Steven mentioning that he wished he'd

00:54:36.550 --> 00:54:38.269
seen the person because he wanted to cast message

00:54:38.269 --> 00:54:41.150
on them if he had thought of it on the figure

00:54:41.150 --> 00:54:44.050
that was outside in the street. Now, too late

00:54:44.050 --> 00:54:46.809
for that. But because you mentioned that, I think

00:54:46.809 --> 00:54:50.039
this is kind of fun. If Blanche is to hear about

00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:51.539
this, which I'm sure you guys are sharing information

00:54:51.539 --> 00:54:56.119
as you're looking, you would think that that

00:54:56.119 --> 00:54:57.860
position on the street looking towards the house

00:54:57.860 --> 00:55:00.380
would be a perfect spot to cast message to someone

00:55:00.380 --> 00:55:04.340
on the inside. I think just the fact that message

00:55:04.340 --> 00:55:07.179
came up, I want to give you that logical leap

00:55:07.179 --> 00:55:08.840
because I think that's really cool. I think it's

00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:11.840
really cool. Perhaps that figure... was supposed

00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:14.019
to be contacting somebody. It's just a thought.

00:55:14.099 --> 00:55:16.920
It's a possibility. But it sticks in your mind

00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:19.199
like that might mean something. You know message.

00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:21.239
You use message. That seems like the perfect

00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:24.380
spot to casually linger, look towards a house,

00:55:24.460 --> 00:55:26.519
and if you see a person, perhaps at a window,

00:55:26.699 --> 00:55:31.380
cast message. Okay. Okay. That's great. So now,

00:55:31.619 --> 00:55:35.000
I mean, we know that the Blood Letters are a

00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.519
whatever organization. So we know that the murderer

00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:42.980
is not working alone. So now it's like, is the

00:55:42.980 --> 00:55:45.599
murderer the only blood letter that's in here?

00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:49.440
Are there multiples? Is it a blood letter? I

00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.920
mean, I suppose. Yeah. Right. But whether or

00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:55.000
not it's a blood letter, they're probably not

00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.119
working along. Now I'll give you, I want to,

00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:02.400
I want to help you out here because Blanche is

00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:05.039
very smart. And I want to at least like address

00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:07.260
things that you might, Blanche would consider

00:56:07.260 --> 00:56:09.159
as potential leads based on what you found. I'm

00:56:09.159 --> 00:56:11.139
not going to be handholdy the whole time, but

00:56:11.139 --> 00:56:12.880
I do want to help direct things because it's

00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:16.320
a show. It's just more fun if I know you guys

00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:19.320
have like objectives you can go look into. So

00:56:19.320 --> 00:56:20.760
when you find a clue, when you investigate something,

00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:22.639
when you realize something, I'll help to be like,

00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:25.000
okay, you would know based on your experience

00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:27.039
being this character in this world, you might

00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:31.960
figure this, right? So you see that silver tray,

00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:35.099
the fruit bowl, the knife, the wine, the glasses.

00:56:35.820 --> 00:56:38.039
What comes to your mind is that wouldn't have

00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:40.300
been here initially. They all came from the kitchen.

00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:43.119
Somebody would have brought this up. Who would

00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:45.280
deliver this? Would it be Fyodor Popov or perhaps

00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:48.840
the head of service, Larissa Wren? Someone delivered

00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:51.840
this. When? Did they see anything? You know,

00:56:51.860 --> 00:56:55.019
that's one lead. You also have John Franklin

00:56:55.019 --> 00:56:57.099
down in the basement, apparently like they found

00:56:57.099 --> 00:57:00.139
a cell or something he's staying in. He's going

00:57:00.139 --> 00:57:02.440
to be in a terrible mood, but you might want

00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:04.239
to hear his side of the story. Yep, that too.

00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:06.000
And of course, perhaps Chester's heard a little

00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:08.679
thing or two downstairs as he's kind of been

00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:12.440
listening in. So how do you want to proceed?

00:57:13.179 --> 00:57:15.480
My first thought is one by one going to interrogate

00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:18.019
everybody. Yeah, I think it might be good to

00:57:18.019 --> 00:57:20.460
start in the kitchen. Because of the proximity

00:57:20.460 --> 00:57:22.440
under the window and because of the fruit? Yeah,

00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:25.139
because of the evidence in there. Harlan, I'd

00:57:25.139 --> 00:57:29.960
like to speak to Fyodor, whoever. Popov. In the

00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:33.820
kitchen. Fyodor. What? What him? You know what?

00:57:33.880 --> 00:57:35.360
Doesn't matter. I'm not going to question your

00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:40.500
methods, great detective. I'm just a lowly constable

00:57:40.500 --> 00:57:44.320
in your story. It's nice to get some recognition

00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:49.539
around here. Do you see this, people? All right,

00:57:49.539 --> 00:57:53.800
follow me. And he begins to move down the hall,

00:57:53.900 --> 00:57:56.900
and I imagine the two of you move in behind him.

00:57:57.420 --> 00:58:01.900
Mm -hmm. You press away from this room, away

00:58:01.900 --> 00:58:04.739
from the open bathroom door, the streaks of blood

00:58:04.739 --> 00:58:07.679
run across the tile, away from the closed door

00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:11.719
of Samira Ara, where she sobs, deep, throaty

00:58:11.719 --> 00:58:15.199
sobs you can hear muffled behind the wood, and

00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:19.480
away from the corpse of Melo Ara. A sweet boy

00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:24.139
killed for what? Those eyes are closed now. Perhaps

00:58:24.139 --> 00:58:26.599
Harlan reaches down and closes them before you

00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:29.340
guys take off. And as you begin to move ahead

00:58:29.340 --> 00:58:31.900
of him, he just looks back with one last sort

00:58:31.900 --> 00:58:37.480
of sigh, sort of raises himself. Tears want to

00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:40.960
well, and he doesn't let them. We'll find him.

00:58:41.420 --> 00:58:46.679
I promise we'll find him. As he closes the door.

00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:50.960
To the murder scene. And we'll call it there.