WEBVTT 00:00:02.060 --> 00:00:04.459 Hello, friends. I just want to reiterate that 00:00:04.459 --> 00:00:08.099 we are in the horror arc now, and there are going 00:00:08.099 --> 00:00:10.380 to be some scary moments, and there might be 00:00:10.380 --> 00:00:12.939 some adult themes that aren't appropriate for 00:00:12.939 --> 00:00:20.320 everybody. So be warned, and enjoy. Guys, we 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:23.079 are running our first Fantasy Pants giveaway. 00:00:24.019 --> 00:00:27.059 We're giving you the chance to win a full -body 00:00:27.059 --> 00:00:31.579 custom D &D character portrait. of your D &D 00:00:31.579 --> 00:00:34.479 character done by a real portrait artist, and 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.259 it's really simple to enter. All you have to 00:00:37.259 --> 00:00:40.700 do is tag Fantasy Pants anywhere on social media. 00:00:40.859 --> 00:00:43.140 I don't care if it's an Instagram story, an Instagram 00:00:43.140 --> 00:00:46.920 reel, a Facebook post, Facebook, do they have 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:49.539 stories? I don't know. We're also new to TikTok, 00:00:49.820 --> 00:00:52.579 so all you have to do on TikTok is follow us 00:00:52.579 --> 00:00:54.520 there. You don't have to like or tag anything. 00:00:55.140 --> 00:00:59.039 Tag us on Instagram or Facebook. Follow us on 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:02.299 TikTok. That's it. And you'll be entered in it 00:01:02.299 --> 00:01:47.239 for a chance to win. The Red Mud did open, a 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:50.920 new terror revealed. Boulay broke the surface, 00:01:51.219 --> 00:01:54.939 determined to kill, and chased our brave heroes 00:01:54.939 --> 00:01:59.180 to their home on Farm's Hill. Though trapped 00:01:59.180 --> 00:02:02.780 in stone walls, our heroes survived. Curly's 00:02:02.780 --> 00:02:06.019 safety was traded for Proclaim Award's life. 00:02:17.810 --> 00:02:28.430 That might have been the best one yet. Yeah, 00:02:28.449 --> 00:02:31.129 that was pretty damn good. That was solid all 00:02:31.129 --> 00:02:33.930 the way through. Don't get used to them. Because 00:02:33.930 --> 00:02:36.460 we're... Moving on to the climax of this particular 00:02:36.460 --> 00:02:40.180 arc. Who knows what happens after that. I mean, 00:02:40.180 --> 00:02:41.659 you're not going to have to answer to us. You're 00:02:41.659 --> 00:02:43.139 going to have to answer to our listeners as to 00:02:43.139 --> 00:02:44.819 why we don't have a storyteller Oren anymore. 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:48.240 You know, no storyteller Oren, no Jules, no Zebulon. 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.419 Sad, sad state of affairs. Coming your way, good 00:02:51.419 --> 00:02:56.900 listeners. Now, here we stand at the edge of 00:02:56.900 --> 00:02:59.199 what I think future generations will call the 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:02.710 Friends v. Letterkenny trilogy. I suggest we 00:03:02.710 --> 00:03:06.449 close the book on this argument now. We spent 00:03:06.449 --> 00:03:11.009 enough time exploring how wrong Steven is. Just 00:03:11.009 --> 00:03:14.210 how terribly wrong. It's time to move on from 00:03:14.210 --> 00:03:17.909 that, Steven. What are you going to say? Nothing. 00:03:17.969 --> 00:03:20.370 I'm done. It's over. I said what I said. I thought 00:03:20.370 --> 00:03:22.189 you had final thoughts. Yeah, I'm done too. No, 00:03:22.250 --> 00:03:23.509 you're wrong. That's it. Final thoughts. Okay, 00:03:23.509 --> 00:03:25.189 one question. Yeah. Have you watched it yet? 00:03:25.250 --> 00:03:28.090 Stop it. We moved on. It's over. Just answer 00:03:28.090 --> 00:03:30.629 the one question and we'll leave it. The trilogy's 00:03:30.629 --> 00:03:35.300 done. Of course not. We win, Steven. How is that 00:03:35.300 --> 00:03:38.280 a win? Well, moving on. Moving on. Damn it. Moving 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:39.960 on. I don't know about us winning, but I think 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:42.259 David loses. Because if you haven't watched Letterkenny, 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:45.240 you automatically lose. Yes. It's over. And now 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.659 we move on. We moved on. Okay. That was a great 00:03:47.659 --> 00:03:55.099 last word. You're wrong. Lose. Well, out of the 00:03:55.099 --> 00:03:58.639 way, let's discuss something new. Like Steven's 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:04.360 old man back. It's old, old, sad, gross, sweaty 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.180 back. Steven, tell me about your back. Who's 00:04:06.180 --> 00:04:08.659 the old man now? Who's the old man now? That's 00:04:08.659 --> 00:04:12.979 right. It's been a bad back day. I have a large 00:04:12.979 --> 00:04:18.459 dog, Rosie, Great Pyrenees. Incredibly, incredibly 00:04:18.459 --> 00:04:22.899 stubborn. So we let her out to go potty this 00:04:22.899 --> 00:04:25.100 morning before heading out to work. She decided 00:04:25.100 --> 00:04:27.480 she didn't want to come back in, as she often 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.829 does. So I went out. to you know grab her collar 00:04:30.829 --> 00:04:33.329 and lead her inside and sometimes she'll do this 00:04:33.329 --> 00:04:36.569 thing where she just flops down on the ground 00:04:36.569 --> 00:04:40.449 won't move doesn't want to get up not for treats 00:04:40.449 --> 00:04:43.709 not for anything so i was just standing by her 00:04:43.709 --> 00:04:45.110 waiting because i knew eventually she's gonna 00:04:45.110 --> 00:04:46.490 have to get up she's not gonna want to lay there 00:04:46.490 --> 00:04:49.089 whatever a couple minutes later she gets up and 00:04:49.089 --> 00:04:51.750 she tries to like juke me out and run under the 00:04:51.750 --> 00:04:57.040 bushes and i just bent down scooped her up picked 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:58.660 her up and started to carry her towards the house. 00:04:58.819 --> 00:05:02.279 And about halfway through the yard, I realized 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.180 that I had done something horrible to my back 00:05:05.180 --> 00:05:08.319 and the rest of the day has just been miserable. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.600 And, uh, you know, I've worked some, some difficult 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:15.300 manual labor jobs and the job I have is fairly 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:18.220 physical. It's not anything crazy, but everything 00:05:18.220 --> 00:05:20.660 I did all day long hurt. All right, Steven, Steven, 00:05:20.699 --> 00:05:23.839 you are doing too good a job of building sympathy 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.610 towards your cause. And see, the thing of the 00:05:26.610 --> 00:05:30.170 show is we shit on you. And you're making that 00:05:30.170 --> 00:05:32.490 very hard for me right now by making me feel 00:05:32.490 --> 00:05:34.829 legitimately bad about shitting on you. Yeah, 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:39.490 dude. It was a rough day. Well, damn it. Damn 00:05:39.490 --> 00:05:41.790 it. Go ahead, though. No, let's hear it. Come 00:05:41.790 --> 00:05:47.399 on. What do you got? You're old. Like I told 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.100 Jeremy earlier, he said to me, Jeremy said, oh, 00:05:50.180 --> 00:05:51.800 who's the old man now? I said, you know what? 00:05:51.819 --> 00:05:54.680 I'll wear that moniker today as I'm like hobbling 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.000 through the brewery. I get a text at like, what, 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.379 like 630 this morning saying, man, it's going 00:06:00.379 --> 00:06:05.199 to be a long day. I threw out my back. It's not 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:08.160 even just today. It's not even just the back 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.000 because there has been a bit of a misunderstanding. 00:06:12.089 --> 00:06:14.769 Towards the crew of our show here. And that misunderstanding 00:06:14.769 --> 00:06:17.709 is that Jeremy is the old man of our little group. 00:06:17.790 --> 00:06:19.670 Because while Jeremy is technically the oldest 00:06:19.670 --> 00:06:22.449 of us three, and Stephen is technically the youngest, 00:06:22.709 --> 00:06:27.129 our little spring blue bird, he is in his mind. 00:06:28.829 --> 00:06:32.889 Forget that. It's gone. He is in his mind about 00:06:32.889 --> 00:06:37.949 118 years old. Okay, so two weeks ago, our group 00:06:37.949 --> 00:06:41.379 had a karaoke night. I don't go out to these 00:06:41.379 --> 00:06:42.620 things much. Me and Jeremy went out. We were 00:06:42.620 --> 00:06:45.139 having a blast. Steven showed up. It was a good 00:06:45.139 --> 00:06:48.079 old time. Steve made about 20 minutes. 20 minutes, 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.060 Steven, you think? Yeah, maybe. He's just, I 00:06:51.060 --> 00:06:53.279 don't like this new -fangled music. It's too 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:55.779 loud. It was way too loud. I've got to go outside. 00:06:55.899 --> 00:06:57.639 You were outside all night. That's the point. 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.939 You jam along to it. You jam, man. You jam. I've 00:07:00.939 --> 00:07:03.860 got a few points to make. First point, I was 00:07:03.860 --> 00:07:05.899 not there for karaoke. I was there for Kolsch 00:07:05.899 --> 00:07:08.560 night. We're going to drink lots of Kolsch, and 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.230 it's really fun. Second point, we were standing 00:07:12.230 --> 00:07:17.230 right next to the karaoke fucking setup. The 00:07:17.230 --> 00:07:18.949 best spot. It was a good time. That was awesome. 00:07:19.069 --> 00:07:20.269 That's prime spot. That's where everybody wants 00:07:20.269 --> 00:07:25.310 to be. Thirdly, and I realize that I could say 00:07:25.310 --> 00:07:28.529 nothing and go along without getting any flack, 00:07:28.550 --> 00:07:30.949 and what I'm about to say is just going to add 00:07:30.949 --> 00:07:32.769 to your pile of, oh, Stevenson, oh, man. Oh, 00:07:32.769 --> 00:07:35.329 I can't wait. Oh, bring it on. I'm so ready. 00:07:35.490 --> 00:07:37.550 I think I need to, like, clean my ears out, dude. 00:07:37.610 --> 00:07:39.959 Like, the past couple weeks, I can't hear. First 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:47.959 shit. It's all that sweat. I got Q -tips right 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:49.800 in the next room. No, see, Q -tips don't help 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.120 because Q -tips just push shit further in. I 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:54.939 mean, you don't stick the Q -tip into your ear. 00:07:54.939 --> 00:07:57.379 I know how to use a Q -tip. You don't stick the 00:07:57.379 --> 00:08:00.379 Q -tip. Wait, hang on. What? You don't stick 00:08:00.379 --> 00:08:01.819 a Q -tip. You gotta go around the edge. Yeah, 00:08:01.819 --> 00:08:04.319 around the edge. I go right in there, really? 00:08:04.420 --> 00:08:06.540 No. You don't put it in the... Huh. No, don't 00:08:06.540 --> 00:08:10.319 go in the hole, man. Huh. That just compacts 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:12.800 your shit. Whoopsie. Which I think is the problem 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:15.019 that I'm having here. You shouldn't have done 00:08:15.019 --> 00:08:17.259 that, Steven. You got to get some like, you know, 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:19.579 some liquid stuff. I know all about, yeah, I've 00:08:19.579 --> 00:08:24.100 had some good results. I don't want to get into 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:26.319 that. I don't want, nobody wants to hear that. 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:30.740 Old man Steven here just talking about his ears. 00:08:31.100 --> 00:08:34.620 Earwax, earwax, earwax, earwax, earwax. It's 00:08:34.620 --> 00:08:37.740 a good thing we got headphones on. Yeah, I can 00:08:37.740 --> 00:08:40.080 hear now. I can hear fine now. That's good. That's 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.299 good. Not if I turned down your headphones. No. 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.360 Yeah. That wouldn't work well. Did you turn down 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:45.700 his headphones? I turned them down all the way. 00:08:46.100 --> 00:08:47.799 What do you say to a Steven that can't hear anything? 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:57.039 Anything you want. Oh, yeah. So, Steven. That's 00:08:57.039 --> 00:09:03.080 what it sounds like all day at work. It's a loud 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:08.139 -ass brewery. Yeah. Misconception has been fixed. 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:11.360 Steven's the old man. Pick on him, please. Not 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:12.820 just about this, about everything. Pick on Steven 00:09:12.820 --> 00:09:15.679 all the time. It's really funny. I make a habit 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.120 of it. It is my favorite thing in the world. 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.000 It's all right, guys. Put it all on me. I can 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:21.759 take it for you. No one has to make fun of you. 00:09:22.860 --> 00:09:29.039 Steven's here. You're weak. Steven, tell us about 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.299 art. How did this banter go wrong? Tell us about 00:09:31.299 --> 00:09:36.250 art. Oh, do you want to do like the... We need 00:09:36.250 --> 00:09:37.769 to talk about the portrait. We watched a live 00:09:37.769 --> 00:09:40.629 portrait yesterday for your character. It was 00:09:40.629 --> 00:09:43.149 really awesome. I want to hear your impression 00:09:43.149 --> 00:09:44.610 in particular because it's really, really cool. 00:09:44.750 --> 00:09:47.269 And you got to see Zebulon come to life. That 00:09:47.269 --> 00:09:50.289 must have been awesome. Yeah. So I've obviously 00:09:50.289 --> 00:09:55.149 been familiar with Eric's work. We've been buddies 00:09:55.149 --> 00:09:57.090 on Instagram for a little while since we started 00:09:57.090 --> 00:10:01.009 this whole thing. And I didn't quite know what 00:10:01.009 --> 00:10:06.409 to expect, but it... was not as cool as what 00:10:06.409 --> 00:10:11.830 we got. Eric put an immense amount of work into 00:10:11.830 --> 00:10:14.389 Zebulon's portrait, and it's not even done yet. 00:10:15.250 --> 00:10:17.269 Like you said, we watched him live, and he was 00:10:17.269 --> 00:10:20.090 on there for like three hours. By the time this 00:10:20.090 --> 00:10:22.429 is out, I'm sure it's going to be up on Instagram 00:10:22.429 --> 00:10:24.809 for you all to see. If you haven't seen it yet, 00:10:24.870 --> 00:10:27.870 check it out. It is incredible. And the whole 00:10:27.870 --> 00:10:30.950 process was amazing to behold. Really cool to 00:10:30.950 --> 00:10:34.029 watch. Eric's a great guy. He's entertaining, 00:10:34.269 --> 00:10:37.070 educational, you know, all the time. He's kind 00:10:37.070 --> 00:10:39.750 of like on stage while he's painting. It was 00:10:39.750 --> 00:10:46.149 really great. And Zebulon looks like peak. Peak 00:10:46.149 --> 00:10:50.269 Zebulon. He like probably just finished like 00:10:50.269 --> 00:10:54.399 100 push -ups. He has no right looking this cool. 00:10:54.460 --> 00:10:56.740 He's got like a professional modeling coach right 00:10:56.740 --> 00:10:58.899 over his shoulder sort of thing. I told you, 00:10:58.940 --> 00:11:01.940 it looks like his like official luminary ID badge. 00:11:02.019 --> 00:11:04.899 It's a nat 20 charisma check. And he is mean 00:11:04.899 --> 00:11:09.299 mugging hard. Yeah. He has no business looking 00:11:09.299 --> 00:11:12.399 that cool. Yeah. But Eric did it for us. And 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.879 stay tuned because Jules is coming up soon. And 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.679 I can't wait to see that too. Yeah. And who knows 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:19.299 what else after that, but yeah, so, so exciting. 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:23.149 So, so cool. And I think a week after, this airs 00:11:23.149 --> 00:11:25.889 is when we're going to announce the winner of 00:11:25.889 --> 00:11:30.029 the giveaway. Oh, excellent. Excellent. So I 00:11:30.029 --> 00:11:34.629 think pretty soon one of y 'all will be talking 00:11:34.629 --> 00:11:37.570 to Eric yourselves, giving him G &G character 00:11:37.570 --> 00:11:41.500 details. Get into it. To be there watching your 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:44.519 character come to life like that, it's so worth 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.399 it. It's so cool. Really special. I'm really 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.679 looking forward to someone out there getting 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.600 to have that experience. Yep. And at this point, 00:11:50.620 --> 00:11:52.779 we've probably said it a few times, but all you 00:11:52.779 --> 00:11:55.139 have to do to enter is just tag us anywhere on 00:11:55.139 --> 00:11:58.080 social media, Facebook story, Instagram reel, 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.200 whatever it is. We're also new on TikTok, so 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:03.960 all you have to do is follow us on TikTok, and 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.960 any of those things will get you an entry. Hell 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:11.429 yes. Now we're talking about Zebulon. Zebulon 00:12:11.429 --> 00:12:15.529 being heroic. Zebulon being cool. Let's move 00:12:15.529 --> 00:12:22.230 on to Zebulon and his death. Oh, yes. Well, then. 00:12:22.289 --> 00:12:26.289 It would be just our luck for us to get kick 00:12:26.289 --> 00:12:28.110 -ass character art of Zebulon and then for him 00:12:28.110 --> 00:12:30.490 to die. Get that roll 20 up for me. I'm about 00:12:30.490 --> 00:12:34.110 to hit you with some music. Roll 20 is a go. 00:12:34.409 --> 00:12:36.830 Oh, yes. Then how about Sirenscape? You good 00:12:36.830 --> 00:12:39.330 on that? No, I don't want to start this. Oh, 00:12:39.409 --> 00:12:42.009 start that music. It's a little familiar music. 00:12:42.009 --> 00:12:46.970 We played it last time. As you ran for your lives. 00:12:48.169 --> 00:12:52.970 We see the stone reinforced home of Uncle Polder. 00:12:53.450 --> 00:12:58.090 Outside we see Coley, Jules and Chester and Jean 00:12:58.090 --> 00:13:02.269 Franklin all watching as Zebulon and Horseback 00:13:02.269 --> 00:13:05.429 begins to trot and gallop out into the field. 00:13:06.350 --> 00:13:09.970 And then down somewhere below him. Right by the 00:13:09.970 --> 00:13:14.649 hole you just climbed into. About 10 to 20 feet 00:13:14.649 --> 00:13:19.049 south of that hole as you move past it. Also, 00:13:19.049 --> 00:13:23.769 riding south, the ground shakes. Boom! Explodes! 00:13:24.129 --> 00:13:27.899 Bursting out at this massive... A plate -headed 00:13:27.899 --> 00:13:31.179 monstrosity, the boulet. Some might call it a 00:13:31.179 --> 00:13:34.159 boulette, I will say that. But I believe the 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.259 technical pronunciation is boulet. I looked it 00:13:36.259 --> 00:13:38.659 up. That sounds better. Yeah, it's a weird thing. 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.960 This reptilian creature blasts out its big claws, 00:13:43.139 --> 00:13:45.100 digging its way out of the hole, and it just 00:13:45.100 --> 00:13:47.200 starts to, like, not even, like, running on land. 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:50.210 It is jumping. digging, jumping like a dolphin, 00:13:50.490 --> 00:13:54.009 riding over waves, over these red, muddy hills 00:13:54.009 --> 00:13:58.470 and farmlands as it begins to give chase. As 00:13:58.470 --> 00:14:00.929 you guys see this, everyone at the stone home, 00:14:01.049 --> 00:14:04.049 are you guys making your move to run? Well, you 00:14:04.049 --> 00:14:06.909 have this opening. That's up to you, Jules. You're 00:14:06.909 --> 00:14:10.110 leading that front. I think Jules is leading 00:14:10.110 --> 00:14:15.269 them out of the back. Okay. But I don't think 00:14:15.269 --> 00:14:18.750 Jules follows with them all the way. Okay. I 00:14:18.750 --> 00:14:20.269 think he looks around the back corner of the 00:14:20.269 --> 00:14:23.049 house, just keeping an eye on Zeb. Okay. All 00:14:23.049 --> 00:14:25.350 right. Jules positioned at the back corner of 00:14:25.350 --> 00:14:28.289 the house, watching. He stands to the north of 00:14:28.289 --> 00:14:30.049 the house, watching south. This is going down. 00:14:31.029 --> 00:14:34.769 Everybody else sprinting full on towards the 00:14:34.769 --> 00:14:38.649 woods where they know they will be safe. And 00:14:38.649 --> 00:14:42.230 the boule, who's been waiting, waiting for some 00:14:42.230 --> 00:14:45.049 movement, some activity, some reason to strike. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.879 He's done waiting and the chase begins anew. 00:14:50.899 --> 00:14:54.519 His is gonna work. You are on horseback. That's 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.100 awesome. You saw last time that this horse was 00:14:57.100 --> 00:14:58.779 so fast I didn't bother rolling for it. He was 00:14:58.779 --> 00:15:00.720 just off the screen. I'll tell you why. Because 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:02.759 this horse's athletics checks to make this run 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:07.899 have a plus 16 when he's dashing. I basically 00:15:07.899 --> 00:15:10.419 give attributing a bonus for every 5 feet over 00:15:10.419 --> 00:15:13.120 30. Boulay, I'll tell you right now, had a plus 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:15.799 8. For every roll I made. Because he has a 40 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.700 feet movement speed. This horse has a set 60, 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:21.600 I believe. Plus you're doubling that because 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:26.840 it's 60. So he's dashing. He gets that plus 16. 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.779 Here's the problem, though. Zebulon. Koli has 00:15:32.779 --> 00:15:37.019 formal training riding these beasts. What does 00:15:37.019 --> 00:15:39.559 Zebulon's training look like on horseback? Why 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.659 don't you tell me? Well, as we've talked about 00:15:42.659 --> 00:15:46.679 before, Zebulon has done some level of training 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.820 with his older brother, Arhalon, but I'm guessing 00:15:49.820 --> 00:15:55.279 Zebulon's horse training is more like in the 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:58.860 apartment at home after Arhalon's like hands 00:15:58.860 --> 00:16:01.340 -on training where they're like standing there 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:03.480 in the living room and Arhalon's like teaching 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.480 him how to stand. It's like, no, no, a little 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.039 wider stance. You have to be able to, you know, 00:16:09.059 --> 00:16:10.899 move your feet this way and blah, blah, blah. 00:16:11.700 --> 00:16:14.620 So they're like, I don't know, almost practicing, 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.340 like, not on the couch, but you know what I mean. 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:21.320 So I don't know that Zebulon has ever ridden 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:26.100 on a horse, but I think he understands the basic 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:29.820 movements. All right, all right, all right. Given 00:16:29.820 --> 00:16:33.399 that, that was my assumption as well. I'm going 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:35.320 to give you two things. First of all, I'm going 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:38.080 to give you a button. I love that honesty. I 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:39.700 think that's really cool. You could have just 00:16:39.700 --> 00:16:42.120 said, oh, he's a master horseman. I would have 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.500 just gone with it. But this was really cool. 00:16:45.539 --> 00:16:47.700 I thought it was for my Arhalon impression. No, 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:49.200 that's actually part of it. That was a good Arhalon. 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:51.340 But I also just love the honesty. I think that's 00:16:51.340 --> 00:16:53.960 great because here's what's going to happen as 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.960 a result of that. To ride this horse, I'm going 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.500 to say you make no checks. You're fine. But to 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:02.340 push this horse into a dash action to basically 00:17:02.340 --> 00:17:05.059 cause it to run double its normal speed in a 00:17:05.059 --> 00:17:08.869 round, To get that plus 16, I'm going to need 00:17:08.869 --> 00:17:11.309 checks. Now, I was thinking a lot about this, 00:17:11.390 --> 00:17:13.650 and at first I thought animal handling would 00:17:13.650 --> 00:17:15.210 be the right check to sort of fit the situation, 00:17:15.430 --> 00:17:17.390 but I decided against that because you're on 00:17:17.390 --> 00:17:19.109 the horse, and the horse is damn well going to 00:17:19.109 --> 00:17:20.809 try to run. It's not like you're trying to make 00:17:20.809 --> 00:17:23.230 the horse run. It is scared as shit. Yeah, I 00:17:23.230 --> 00:17:24.769 don't need to convince it anymore. What you need 00:17:24.769 --> 00:17:28.849 to do is stay on the horse. So every round, if 00:17:28.849 --> 00:17:30.410 you decide to push yourself to get that plus 00:17:30.410 --> 00:17:33.109 16, it gets my plus 8 in this chase sequence. 00:17:33.950 --> 00:17:37.650 then you are going to have to make a check. I'm 00:17:37.650 --> 00:17:39.730 going to say it's going to be athletics or acrobatics 00:17:39.730 --> 00:17:41.150 to stay on the horse's back. Either you're going 00:17:41.150 --> 00:17:42.890 to be holding on for dear life with athletics, 00:17:43.109 --> 00:17:44.890 or you're going to be shifting your weight just 00:17:44.890 --> 00:17:48.269 right to nullify the impact of this dashing, 00:17:48.269 --> 00:17:51.230 terrified horse beneath you with acrobatics. 00:17:51.250 --> 00:17:53.190 Okay, and movement -wise, what happens if I do 00:17:53.190 --> 00:17:56.750 not elect to dash? You'll be plus eight. Okay. 00:17:56.769 --> 00:17:59.289 You will have a 50 -50 chance of beating out 00:17:59.289 --> 00:18:04.190 my boulet. Okay, gotcha. Yes. All right. And 00:18:04.190 --> 00:18:06.650 with that, we're at the top of the first round. 00:18:06.750 --> 00:18:08.750 You're just outside the stone building, just 00:18:08.750 --> 00:18:13.450 running past that hole that became Proclaimer 00:18:13.450 --> 00:18:16.970 Tungsten Ward's grave. And the horse you ride 00:18:16.970 --> 00:18:19.569 on is only there with you because Ward gave it 00:18:19.569 --> 00:18:24.630 up. One final act. And you carry their spirit 00:18:24.630 --> 00:18:27.549 with you now, Zebulon. As you go to protect your 00:18:27.549 --> 00:18:29.450 friends, you begin to run. Give me athletics 00:18:29.450 --> 00:18:32.190 check. I'm making one, too. All right. Zebulon. 00:18:33.719 --> 00:18:39.700 Zebulon's carrying Ward's spirit and their scarf. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.740 Rainbow scarf. And their scarf. Yes. Hell yeah. 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:46.640 I was like, it's not a kerchief. Before you make 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:49.640 this roll, plus eight or plus 16, your choice. 00:18:49.859 --> 00:18:54.299 Are you dashing? Yeah. Let's try. Let's go for 00:18:54.299 --> 00:18:56.180 the dash for the first roll here. Okay. Okay. 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:58.640 Go ahead and make your eclectics roll first. 00:18:58.900 --> 00:19:06.769 All right. 15 for athletics. 15 total? Yeah. 00:19:07.529 --> 00:19:10.890 Wait a second. Did we say athletics or acrobatics? 00:19:11.009 --> 00:19:13.829 It's athletics. Oh, shit. I thought we talked 00:19:13.829 --> 00:19:17.569 about... In your case, you're not using your 00:19:17.569 --> 00:19:19.730 stats. You're using a horse's. So it's a plus 00:19:19.730 --> 00:19:23.130 16 on the die. Oh, okay. Jeez. Then that's 26. 00:19:23.589 --> 00:19:27.990 26. Okay. You beat me by five or more. You and 00:19:27.990 --> 00:19:31.069 the horse move 20 feet ahead. You are 60 feet 00:19:31.069 --> 00:19:35.019 away. You're... Now 80 feet. Okay. You need to 00:19:35.019 --> 00:19:36.440 hit five rounds because you're hitting the woods 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:37.880 and you're escaping. That's your plan, right? 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:40.140 Trying to leave this thing as far away from your 00:19:40.140 --> 00:19:44.299 allies as possible? Sort of. Yeah, Zebulon, I 00:19:44.299 --> 00:19:47.960 think, wants to try to make it all five rounds 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.900 because he doesn't want to get further away from 00:19:50.900 --> 00:19:56.559 the boule than the other party is. Okay. I don't 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:00.660 want its attention to be redirected. Okay. I 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:03.569 love it. So you move ahead, but now you did push 00:20:03.569 --> 00:20:06.269 yourself, you did dash. Give me either acrobatics 00:20:06.269 --> 00:20:08.630 or athletics. All right, I'll definitely elect 00:20:08.630 --> 00:20:11.230 to do acrobatics. If you fail this, we'll touch 00:20:11.230 --> 00:20:16.190 on what happens then. I need a DC 15. That's 00:20:16.190 --> 00:20:21.329 a nine. You are not ready for the force of the 00:20:21.329 --> 00:20:24.009 real thing. And as you kind of go to shift your 00:20:24.009 --> 00:20:27.410 weight, and this thing starts to move. You find 00:20:27.410 --> 00:20:30.450 yourself almost thrown off the back. Your balance, 00:20:30.589 --> 00:20:32.509 your posture on the horse is totally thrown off. 00:20:32.589 --> 00:20:34.950 You slide a little bit off your saddle onto the 00:20:34.950 --> 00:20:36.910 horse's back. You're holding onto the reins for 00:20:36.910 --> 00:20:40.230 dear life. In this next round, if you decide 00:20:40.230 --> 00:20:42.490 to make this check again, you're making it with 00:20:42.490 --> 00:20:46.829 disadvantage. All right. Definitely not going 00:20:46.829 --> 00:20:49.049 to dash then this round. Okay. Just going to 00:20:49.049 --> 00:20:51.170 go with the plus eight. I'll also allow this. 00:20:51.690 --> 00:20:56.640 You can drop it to a plus four. And regain your 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:01.619 balance on the horse. You could force the horse 00:21:01.619 --> 00:21:06.400 to slow down. So I'm off balance until I slow 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:11.240 down? That's cruel. Oh, I love cruel. You know 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:13.640 I love cruel. All right. Well, let's see how 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:15.420 it goes. I'm just going to roll the plus eight. 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.599 Okay. Jules, you're watching this. You see Sebby 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:20.200 Alon start sliding off this horse immediately. 00:21:21.259 --> 00:21:24.799 Natural 18. Natural 18. Okay. All right. So I 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:31.960 got natural 17. Oh, baby. You beat me. Not by 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:35.200 a lot, but enough to pull 10 more feet. You're 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:37.680 now 90 feet. You're just getting a little more 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:40.319 ground. 90 feet ahead of the boule. You're doing 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:44.859 very, very well. What does Zebulon see if he 00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:48.960 looks over at the rest of the crew? Good question. 00:21:49.140 --> 00:21:51.200 I think at this point you look out and you see 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.009 that it's tough because. There's a house between 00:21:54.009 --> 00:21:55.730 you and them and a hill at this point. You wouldn't 00:21:55.730 --> 00:21:57.490 see that. Oh, okay, sure. Jules is looking around 00:21:57.490 --> 00:22:00.170 the corner of the house. You can see Jules? Yes. 00:22:01.049 --> 00:22:06.190 Jules! Get out of here! Not without you! Not 00:22:06.190 --> 00:22:09.450 without you! I'm coming back a different way! 00:22:09.609 --> 00:22:12.930 I'll meet you there! He is not going to turn 00:22:12.930 --> 00:22:15.269 around and come back by the house. He's going 00:22:15.269 --> 00:22:17.109 to take the long way around. Not until I know 00:22:17.109 --> 00:22:19.680 you're safe! All right. Don't get eaten, man. 00:22:19.859 --> 00:22:22.359 All right. I'm going to do the plus eight again. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:24.339 I'm feeling pretty comfortable with my lead here. 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:28.940 Round three of the chase. And I threw my die 00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:35.539 on the floor. But it is a 17. 21. 21. Oh, my 00:22:35.539 --> 00:22:38.380 God. But you pull a little bit ahead again, Zebulon. 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:44.500 Now, 100 feet ahead of this thing. And that's 00:22:44.500 --> 00:22:45.940 the end of the chart I made in Roll20, so we're 00:22:45.940 --> 00:22:47.339 going to have to start keeping track mentally. 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:50.680 You son of a bitch. We only got two more rounds, 00:22:50.819 --> 00:22:52.359 so. We only got two more rounds. We're going 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:54.220 to the next one. Oh, you're sticking with that 00:22:54.220 --> 00:22:55.960 plus eight? You're still on the back, barely 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:58.799 hanging on? No, I'm actually going to take the 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:02.519 plus four. Okay. I'm going to get re -situated 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:08.359 here. Oh, I hope you roll a one. Just a ten. 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:13.000 Just a ten. For me, it's a 22. You fall back. 00:23:13.879 --> 00:23:16.599 20 feet. That's over five. Not too bad, though. 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.599 But he regains his balance. Oh, it's going to 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:21.519 be tough for me to catch you now. Last round. 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:24.200 You literally, like, unless I roll, like, two 00:23:24.200 --> 00:23:29.579 natural ones, right? Yeah. It's going to be better 00:23:29.579 --> 00:23:31.880 for you than I thought. Yeah, I feel pretty good 00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:33.200 about this. Let's wrap this up. You're rolling 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.880 hot tonight. You know what? Use your good dice 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:38.339 rolls now. Yeah, great. Use them now. Give me 00:23:38.339 --> 00:23:39.680 that nat 20 that you're going to need later. 00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:44.509 No. And here we go. Last check. 14 on the die. 00:23:44.970 --> 00:23:47.490 It's 23 for 15 on the die, so you're, again, 00:23:47.549 --> 00:23:50.450 just one ahead of me. Nice. No, I'm one ahead 00:23:50.450 --> 00:23:51.769 of you. I was going to say. I was like, wait 00:23:51.769 --> 00:23:52.930 a minute. Yeah, wait a second. I was like, you 00:23:52.930 --> 00:23:55.529 said 15. Yeah, you fall back another 10 feet. 00:23:57.009 --> 00:24:00.869 But with that, this thing, ground shaking. You're 00:24:00.869 --> 00:24:03.170 barely hanging on to this horse. Your fingers, 00:24:03.230 --> 00:24:07.289 like, slipping every, you know, round here as 00:24:07.289 --> 00:24:08.549 you're getting closer and closer. I think, like, 00:24:08.549 --> 00:24:11.049 your hand's falling off, sweating, because you 00:24:11.049 --> 00:24:14.279 sweat so profusely. It's your Steven's character. 00:24:14.940 --> 00:24:21.059 You're holding on by a claw as forest overtakes 00:24:21.059 --> 00:24:24.519 you. Hefty trees surrounding you. The horse maneuvering 00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:27.019 slickly through them in this massive boule hits 00:24:27.019 --> 00:24:30.200 the trees. You see it kind of dives into the 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:32.579 ground and just kind of like, you feel like, 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:35.680 you hear like this shaking as the trees behind 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:37.900 you are like moving, leaves falling everywhere. 00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:41.220 And this thing pulls up. You realize it's getting 00:24:41.220 --> 00:24:43.450 caught in the roots. It's like these first trees 00:24:43.450 --> 00:24:45.170 when you start falling and collapsing, but it 00:24:45.170 --> 00:24:48.910 is not going to maintain any kind of speed in 00:24:48.910 --> 00:24:52.910 this environment as you slickly pull away. Jules, 00:24:53.049 --> 00:24:55.490 you see this happening from the farmhouse. You 00:24:55.490 --> 00:24:58.190 watch Ebulon disappear into the forest. And then 00:24:58.190 --> 00:25:00.869 I run. And you run. I imagine I'm safe enough. 00:25:01.190 --> 00:25:04.369 I'm so far away. You are way too far away. And 00:25:04.369 --> 00:25:07.509 I knew the way that those rolls were going, I 00:25:07.509 --> 00:25:09.250 knew I could stay there. It was a cool plan. 00:25:09.470 --> 00:25:12.869 It was a cool, cool plan. Props for that. Steven, 00:25:13.029 --> 00:25:15.509 I liked it. Thank you. I liked it. It was good 00:25:15.509 --> 00:25:17.730 shit. It was good shit. I'm so glad you rolled 00:25:17.730 --> 00:25:20.589 well. Yeah, I know. Right. That's the thing. 00:25:20.589 --> 00:25:22.630 It's just one or two bad rolls, and that could 00:25:22.630 --> 00:25:24.950 have really changed the game. So, Zebulon, you 00:25:24.950 --> 00:25:26.630 sort of turn in the woods. I imagine you're kind 00:25:26.630 --> 00:25:30.049 of moving through the forest, sort of wide around 00:25:30.049 --> 00:25:33.089 the field. Exactly, yeah, to try to catch up 00:25:33.089 --> 00:25:34.829 on the other side. And as you kind of move farther 00:25:34.829 --> 00:25:37.509 away, you can hear more trees falling. You can 00:25:37.509 --> 00:25:45.029 hear this aloud. Getting further and further 00:25:45.029 --> 00:25:50.450 away. Bye -bye, Boulay. Jules. Yes? You reach 00:25:50.450 --> 00:25:54.029 the woods. You see Chester is just, like, hanging 00:25:54.029 --> 00:25:55.789 out right outside the woods. Basically, just 00:25:55.789 --> 00:25:57.829 like, hey, come on, come on. What are you doing, 00:25:57.910 --> 00:26:00.710 Jules? What are you doing out there, man? We 00:26:00.710 --> 00:26:02.670 don't leave anybody behind, okay? I know, but... 00:26:02.670 --> 00:26:05.529 I was just making sure that he was safe. I almost 00:26:05.529 --> 00:26:07.990 left you behind. No. All right, all right. I 00:26:07.990 --> 00:26:12.509 was safe. I was safe. Okay? Fine, fine. And we're 00:26:12.509 --> 00:26:14.509 all here, and Zeb's coming around the corner. 00:26:14.750 --> 00:26:17.670 He is. He's fine. You saw. He made it. Well, 00:26:17.809 --> 00:26:22.970 that's news. Yeah. It might be good news, but 00:26:22.970 --> 00:26:25.549 who knows? John Franklin just turns away. You 00:26:25.549 --> 00:26:30.250 tell me. Cully just staring. Staring to the north. 00:26:30.690 --> 00:26:34.289 You could see, like, he's barely holding himself 00:26:34.289 --> 00:26:38.589 back from just moving on. Pushing towards whatever's 00:26:38.589 --> 00:26:41.650 waiting. But he does wait, and you all wait. 00:26:42.369 --> 00:26:50.109 A few minutes later. Brush parts, and Zebulon 00:26:50.109 --> 00:26:56.490 is there looking. Give me a charisma check. Great. 00:26:58.470 --> 00:27:02.990 Do performance, because why not? Okay. Yeah, 00:27:02.990 --> 00:27:04.809 go back in there and change it. Zeb's time to 00:27:04.809 --> 00:27:07.109 shine. Finally found it? Do persuasion. Yeah, 00:27:07.109 --> 00:27:11.190 finally found it. I'm just kidding. See, Zebulon 00:27:11.190 --> 00:27:14.509 comes in looking real fucking lame. He's like 00:27:14.509 --> 00:27:16.690 holding on. He's like, at this point, you see 00:27:16.690 --> 00:27:18.789 the reins are pulled back and Zebulon is like 00:27:18.789 --> 00:27:21.910 falling off the back of the horse. The horse's 00:27:21.910 --> 00:27:24.849 bushy tail is like in his face. Haggard and exhausted. 00:27:25.529 --> 00:27:28.569 Did you guys see that? Did you guys see that? 00:27:30.170 --> 00:27:35.289 I mean, no. Jules walks up to the side of the 00:27:35.289 --> 00:27:38.210 horse and taps Zeb's leg and says, you did good, 00:27:38.289 --> 00:27:42.500 kid. You did good. You saw? You should have run, 00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:45.240 by the way. You were making me nervous. You were 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:49.140 making me nervous. That's why I stay. Oh, man. 00:27:49.259 --> 00:27:52.059 Let's be real here. Come on. I was way out ahead. 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.099 There was no way that thing was catching me. 00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:56.480 This horse. I saw, man. You handled that pretty 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.839 damn well. Yeah. Did anybody ever catch this 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:02.940 horse's name? Actually, you did. The horse is 00:28:02.940 --> 00:28:07.390 Percy. Percy? I believe. Audrey, if I remember 00:28:07.390 --> 00:28:09.450 right, Audrey was the horse that died to the 00:28:09.450 --> 00:28:11.349 dire coyotes, and Percy's the horse that lived. 00:28:11.390 --> 00:28:13.930 Okay. All right. Ward mentioned their names a 00:28:13.930 --> 00:28:17.789 while back. So Percy just nays way more heroically 00:28:17.789 --> 00:28:20.630 than Zebulon looks. And I take it nobody recorded 00:28:20.630 --> 00:28:22.609 that, though, huh? You know, I thought about 00:28:22.609 --> 00:28:27.109 it, but my thought was that if I was like, oh, 00:28:27.130 --> 00:28:29.529 yeah, Zebulon pulls out the recording diamond. 00:28:30.269 --> 00:28:32.049 then he'd roll poorly, and you'd be like, well, 00:28:32.150 --> 00:28:34.069 he dropped the recording diamond. So I was like, 00:28:34.210 --> 00:28:37.069 nah, it's fine. I'm just going to keep it in 00:28:37.069 --> 00:28:41.529 his pocket. You might have had to roll some crazy 00:28:41.529 --> 00:28:44.549 disadvantage dex roll to be able to maintain 00:28:44.549 --> 00:28:47.049 your... To hold on to it. To hold on to the horse. 00:28:47.190 --> 00:28:49.029 It would have been a little more difficult. All 00:28:49.029 --> 00:28:53.849 right, so I don't regret that. And here you rest, 00:28:54.130 --> 00:28:57.630 outside the field in the safety of the trees. 00:28:58.829 --> 00:29:01.809 The relative safety, for you are still in the 00:29:01.809 --> 00:29:05.390 rattle. Right now it is late afternoon. After 00:29:05.390 --> 00:29:07.609 you came in the morning here, you rested for 00:29:07.609 --> 00:29:12.029 a good long while inside the stone home. Now 00:29:12.029 --> 00:29:15.210 the sun is starting to sink again. What do you 00:29:15.210 --> 00:29:18.809 guys want to do? I thought we did this when the 00:29:18.809 --> 00:29:21.789 sun first came up. We were like, okay, in the 00:29:21.789 --> 00:29:24.109 morning we were going to have breakfast and do 00:29:24.109 --> 00:29:27.329 this. When you guys... I think that's how we 00:29:27.329 --> 00:29:29.950 left it. Last episode. Yeah. When you guys first 00:29:29.950 --> 00:29:32.690 came upon this spot, you traveled through the 00:29:32.690 --> 00:29:36.230 night, and so dawn was breaking as the Boulay 00:29:36.230 --> 00:29:38.869 First came out and chased you. You hit the building, 00:29:38.950 --> 00:29:42.329 and that was morning. You stayed eight hours, 00:29:42.509 --> 00:29:45.670 which means it would now be moving night on evening. 00:29:45.990 --> 00:29:48.930 It's not evening yet, and you know you're close. 00:29:49.170 --> 00:29:50.890 It might not be nightfall before you hit there, 00:29:51.029 --> 00:29:53.730 but it's looking like it could be sunset. All 00:29:53.730 --> 00:29:55.950 right. Well, I guess there's nothing to do but 00:29:55.950 --> 00:30:01.240 push on north. Yeah. All right. I think Zebulon's 00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:05.839 going to stay on Percy and maybe take point, 00:30:05.940 --> 00:30:11.880 do a little scouting. Okay. I like that. I mean, 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:13.579 he is the rogue. I like that for Zebulon, yeah. 00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:15.960 I think he's comfortable on Percy now, and he 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.460 doesn't trust Kali enough to let Kali ride. Fair 00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:22.519 point. I like this. Give me an animal handling 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:24.660 check, actually. Oh, excellent. Yeah, that'll 00:30:24.660 --> 00:30:27.160 be... That'll be really good, I'm sure. Let's 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:29.779 see how much Percy likes you. Well, it's wisdom, 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:32.859 so I'm rolling with a negative three. Oh, my 00:30:32.859 --> 00:30:36.160 God. He's not going to like you very much. Ten. 00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:41.559 Oh, man. All right. You give Percy a pat. This 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:45.900 horse has been through some severe hell. It had 00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:48.799 to run away from a boulet twice. It had to spend 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:51.940 the entire afternoon pooping all over a farmhouse. 00:30:52.740 --> 00:30:55.619 In the farmhouse, yeah. I'd argue that that was 00:30:55.619 --> 00:30:57.720 more uncomfortable for us than the horse. Right. 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:04.119 That's a good point. And it lost its owner. It 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.559 was there, too. It knows what happened. And its 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.720 companion horse. Yeah. And as you kind of go 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.339 to ride off on this thing, you stroke its ears 00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:19.130 gently and fondly, and it turns its head. Its 00:31:19.130 --> 00:31:21.250 black eyes just take you in, and there's just 00:31:21.250 --> 00:31:25.950 some acceptance there. And just a snort. But 00:31:25.950 --> 00:31:29.329 a good snort. A friendly snort. At the very least, 00:31:29.369 --> 00:31:33.009 a snort of acknowledgement for an ally in this 00:31:33.009 --> 00:31:36.630 hell. So we get a lot out of that snort. Get 00:31:36.630 --> 00:31:39.190 a lot of that snort. It was a very telling snort. 00:31:39.230 --> 00:31:42.880 Yeah, I guess so. You want to roll inside check 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.200 on the snort? You can't. No, I was going to say, 00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:46.759 I was like, what's your animal handling? The 00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.920 whole outcome of this quest rests on what this 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:54.819 snort tells us. It's true. It's true. I mean, 00:31:54.819 --> 00:31:56.480 like, you can roll inside. The snort could be 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:58.240 lying. No, that's all right. I'm just going to 00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:00.940 take it at face value. You fucking fool. At horse 00:32:00.940 --> 00:32:05.460 face value. You trot along, moving on ahead of 00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:07.619 the group. I'll say everyone's probably moving 00:32:07.619 --> 00:32:09.019 at this point, but you're staying. How far ahead, 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:11.740 Zebulon? Let's call it mechanically significant. 00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:13.940 Let's say, like, 50, 60 feet ahead. Hell yeah. 00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:17.880 Okay. And you're the first to break from the 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:21.500 heavy, dense wood around you, where the trees 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:25.019 are far more sparse and scattered amongst these 00:32:25.019 --> 00:32:29.859 open, yellow fields on red clay. Above you, you 00:32:29.859 --> 00:32:31.920 can see the sun is sinking further and further. 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:36.779 The sky begins to burn just a little. And as 00:32:36.779 --> 00:32:39.430 you move just a little further... You catch sight 00:32:39.430 --> 00:32:45.450 of an old road coming in from the east and pushing 00:32:45.450 --> 00:32:48.849 up north. You realize this is a... Actually, 00:32:48.970 --> 00:32:51.589 are you going to hold up the road and wait for 00:32:51.589 --> 00:32:53.029 everybody, or are you going to want to check 00:32:53.029 --> 00:32:56.049 it out yourself? I mean, if I can see pretty 00:32:56.049 --> 00:32:59.950 far down the road and it looks safe, then yeah, 00:33:00.069 --> 00:33:04.190 I'll hold up here and wait at the junction. You 00:33:04.190 --> 00:33:06.569 see no real dangers, but go ahead and roll me 00:33:06.569 --> 00:33:12.460 a perception check anyway. Okay. Eleven. Within 00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:17.200 eleven, you see a few things. First of all, you 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:20.779 see that the road itself has sort of deep tracks 00:33:20.779 --> 00:33:24.599 impressed in the mud. Looks like carriages, horse 00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:27.339 feet have pushed through here. Maybe not recently, 00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:30.700 but at least at some point. And you realize this 00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:33.539 must be a public road. Unlike the one that headed 00:33:33.539 --> 00:33:35.980 towards Cradle Ace Lake, this road's actually 00:33:35.980 --> 00:33:39.349 in use still. And so this is likely the road 00:33:39.349 --> 00:33:42.549 leading directly to the farm pact that you are 00:33:42.549 --> 00:33:49.230 seeking. You also see more small holes pushing 00:33:49.230 --> 00:33:51.029 up into the road. You see it looks like it's 00:33:51.029 --> 00:33:53.470 actually unstable. Parts of the mud and clay 00:33:53.470 --> 00:33:57.329 have collapsed down, creating this very difficult 00:33:57.329 --> 00:34:01.789 terrain as it's moving forward, where small holes 00:34:01.789 --> 00:34:06.750 and one very large trail of holes. You see between 00:34:06.750 --> 00:34:11.590 the burrows where something has appeared, those 00:34:11.590 --> 00:34:16.449 same telltale handprint dotting all over the 00:34:16.449 --> 00:34:19.210 place between something scratching and pulling 00:34:19.210 --> 00:34:24.630 its way from burrow to burrow, traveling on this 00:34:24.630 --> 00:34:27.469 very same road. I wonder if this is the road 00:34:27.469 --> 00:34:32.090 that the wagon carrying the giant rattlesnake 00:34:32.090 --> 00:34:35.190 came through. The wagon tracks and the horse 00:34:35.190 --> 00:34:38.250 tracks that David just said we saw. I don't like 00:34:38.250 --> 00:34:40.710 that. I wonder if they were going out, not in. 00:34:41.269 --> 00:34:44.909 It is very, very possible. What are we heading 00:34:44.909 --> 00:34:50.650 toward? It's not good. Our demise. But yeah, 00:34:50.730 --> 00:34:55.010 he'll wait there at the fork for the rest of 00:34:55.010 --> 00:34:58.510 the crew to catch up. And the crew break from 00:34:58.510 --> 00:35:00.110 the trees as well, entering this sort of open 00:35:00.110 --> 00:35:03.239 territory. As you look ahead, you see the trees 00:35:03.239 --> 00:35:06.340 go along the road, get more and more sparse to 00:35:06.340 --> 00:35:07.900 the point where it's just sort of open plains 00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:12.059 once again. Red mud and yellow grass under a 00:35:12.059 --> 00:35:16.679 burning red sky. Black clouds sort of slowly 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:22.340 moving above you. You can just feel it. The malevolence. 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:27.119 The darkness waiting for you ahead. What do you 00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:31.369 guys think is up there? I don't know. But I know 00:35:31.369 --> 00:35:36.650 who's up there. Kiana, this is it. We're close. 00:35:37.769 --> 00:35:39.670 Just up this road, we're going to see many homes. 00:35:40.590 --> 00:35:44.110 There's various farmhouses laid out over large 00:35:44.110 --> 00:35:46.489 territory. But they're all alongside the road. 00:35:47.170 --> 00:35:50.489 I don't know which one's Kiana's. I need to search 00:35:50.489 --> 00:35:54.769 them all. When we find her, Oren, you and Kiana 00:35:54.769 --> 00:35:57.289 are going to get on this horse, and you're going 00:35:57.289 --> 00:36:00.840 to get out of here. He doesn't look at you. His 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:03.719 eyes narrow a bit, but he is focused wholly on 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:08.179 what's ahead. You can still save her. He's my 00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:12.440 boy. And I can't be sure I can't save him too. 00:36:13.460 --> 00:36:16.500 You can't be sure. Is it any better if all three 00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:19.800 of you are dead? Sometimes I feel like I died 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:23.440 a long time ago. You can still live a long life. 00:36:24.619 --> 00:36:27.659 You and Kiana. We're going to make sure you do. 00:36:28.139 --> 00:36:32.150 That's our job. That's what we're here for. Damn 00:36:32.150 --> 00:36:36.269 it. All right. Sure. But I ain't leaving till 00:36:36.269 --> 00:36:39.849 we find her. I'm staying with you. I don't know 00:36:39.849 --> 00:36:41.449 if she's going to come with y 'all, but she'll 00:36:41.449 --> 00:36:44.469 come with me. That's all we want. This time, 00:36:44.469 --> 00:36:48.909 I'm making damn sure she comes with me. And he 00:36:48.909 --> 00:36:52.590 begins to move. Let's go. Let's do it. Staying 00:36:52.590 --> 00:36:55.269 on horseback? Yeah, Zebulon's going to stay on 00:36:55.269 --> 00:36:58.630 horseback, at least for now. I think Jules... 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:02.219 is kind of staying just behind the group, and 00:37:02.219 --> 00:37:04.579 he's watching behind him, but he's also kind 00:37:04.579 --> 00:37:07.360 of just keeping a really close eye on Cully, 00:37:07.460 --> 00:37:13.659 ready to jump at any moment. All right. As you 00:37:13.659 --> 00:37:18.559 move, maybe half a mile up the road, you see 00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:22.679 the first farmhouse. It's off to your left. Not 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:26.739 far off the road at all, maybe 100 feet. Um... 00:37:27.670 --> 00:37:30.650 Anything we can tell from the outside? A few 00:37:30.650 --> 00:37:33.829 things. I'll make a check for this. Your passives 00:37:33.829 --> 00:37:38.030 will get you this. The door looks like it's been 00:37:38.030 --> 00:37:42.789 broken open. It's sort of flapping lazily against 00:37:42.789 --> 00:37:48.530 the rim. It looks like there's a pattern on it, 00:37:48.550 --> 00:37:52.789 like an X, made out in small handprints. Oh, 00:37:52.809 --> 00:37:57.050 I hate that. In sort of a rusty... Brownish red. 00:37:58.050 --> 00:38:02.210 And that smell of metal. Oh, it's strong now. 00:38:02.869 --> 00:38:05.590 The air reeks of it, and it feels so thick, so 00:38:05.590 --> 00:38:09.510 heavy. You also see this house is nothing like 00:38:09.510 --> 00:38:11.269 the one you just left. That house had reinforced 00:38:11.269 --> 00:38:13.809 everything. Reinforced windows, all stone home. 00:38:13.889 --> 00:38:18.489 The door was, like, strong. And, I mean, you 00:38:18.489 --> 00:38:20.969 heard Polder say. Actually, Polder, I will say 00:38:20.969 --> 00:38:23.389 he broke off when you guys got out to go ahead 00:38:23.389 --> 00:38:25.500 straight towards Promise to get back up. Got 00:38:25.500 --> 00:38:28.599 to touch on Polder. He thanked you profusely, 00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:32.239 Jules, but his sort of objective was, I'm getting 00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:34.340 help. I'm going right now, hitting the promise. 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:36.920 I'm going to run as fast as I can, and I'll get 00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:38.820 people to come. If y 'all need people, they'll 00:38:38.820 --> 00:38:40.579 be on this road heading to that farmhouse, all 00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:43.340 right? I mean to go all this time, but I couldn't 00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:47.719 leave. Thank you. Thank you so much. And he took 00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:53.179 off. So he's out of the way. But you see, these 00:38:53.179 --> 00:38:55.340 homes are nothing like his, where his was reinforced, 00:38:55.659 --> 00:38:59.860 built to survive the rattle. These homes are 00:38:59.860 --> 00:39:05.119 new, new made and cheap. The windows, you see 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:09.900 this one, are shattered. So, I don't think, Jeremy, 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:14.219 that we're going to need to go inside and clear 00:39:14.219 --> 00:39:18.079 every home that we come by. Right. Here's my 00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:21.710 thought, and you tell me what you think. Zebulon 00:39:21.710 --> 00:39:24.409 on the horse can kind of like go around the perimeter 00:39:24.409 --> 00:39:28.730 of the house and kind of like, not like very 00:39:28.730 --> 00:39:32.449 loudly, but kind of call out to see if anyone's, 00:39:32.449 --> 00:39:34.110 you know, say, Hey, we're here to help. Come 00:39:34.110 --> 00:39:38.170 on out. Okay. Can we give it a shot? Yeah. And 00:39:38.170 --> 00:39:42.050 I think while, while you do that, I think Jules 00:39:42.050 --> 00:39:45.550 is going to be going up to the front door, not 00:39:45.550 --> 00:39:49.809 going in, but just kind of listening. Okay. Yeah, 00:39:49.849 --> 00:39:53.949 so Zeb will trot around the perimeter. Hello? 00:39:54.690 --> 00:39:59.869 Is anybody home? We'd like to help. Please come 00:39:59.869 --> 00:40:04.409 on out and speak to us if you're here. You move 00:40:04.409 --> 00:40:07.130 around the house. Jules, you're moving up closer 00:40:07.130 --> 00:40:10.809 to the door you said to. Correct. So as you approach 00:40:10.809 --> 00:40:12.829 the front, Jules, you notice there's dried blood 00:40:12.829 --> 00:40:17.889 all over the broken glass. And... As you move 00:40:17.889 --> 00:40:20.789 around back to Milan, you see there's clothing 00:40:20.789 --> 00:40:25.690 and belongings lying in the mud all around. Left 00:40:25.690 --> 00:40:28.190 sort of blowing and moving faintly in the breeze. 00:40:29.210 --> 00:40:32.869 No sign of people, no sign of life. But as you 00:40:32.869 --> 00:40:37.269 call out, in a back window shattered that you 00:40:37.269 --> 00:40:39.750 can see, in one of the front windows that you're 00:40:39.750 --> 00:40:44.469 looking at, Jules, you both see a severed hand. 00:40:45.929 --> 00:40:50.219 Fingers. wrapping around the sort of window pane, 00:40:50.420 --> 00:40:54.920 crawls up, almost like watching you, and just 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:59.559 sits there. And as your eyes fall on it, in both 00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:02.420 your cases, you see these fingers, the pointer 00:41:02.420 --> 00:41:07.219 finger in each hand, slowly raises, pointing 00:41:07.219 --> 00:41:12.599 north. And they just sit there, frozen in this 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:21.260 pose, pointing you onwards. Wow. I feel like 00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:26.639 we're in a horror movie. That's unsettling. Very 00:41:26.639 --> 00:41:29.960 unsettling. Zebulon is very unsettled. He'll 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:31.880 trot the rest of the way back to the front of 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:34.900 the house. I think as you come around the corner, 00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:39.679 say, hey, Zeb, look at this. Yeah, I saw the 00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:46.519 same thing out back. Let's keep going. And you 00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:49.940 move on. I'm with you. You return to your little 00:41:49.940 --> 00:41:55.159 group. And you push onwards up the road. Another 00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:57.880 farmhouse off to your right. These houses, I 00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:01.239 think they're all empty. Does this one have the 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:04.659 red X on the door? You see another red X on a 00:42:04.659 --> 00:42:07.739 broken door. You see more clothing and a belongings 00:42:07.739 --> 00:42:11.420 just thrown around the yard. And you vaguely 00:42:11.420 --> 00:42:15.340 think you see something on the roof. Small. raising 00:42:15.340 --> 00:42:20.039 an index finger, and pointing. You keep moving? 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:25.460 Yeah, let's keep going. Okay. It's getting dark. 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:31.119 It is, indeed. Getting dark. Above you, you see 00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:35.340 crows circling. Every once in a while, one seems 00:42:35.340 --> 00:42:37.159 to drop down like it's looking for something, 00:42:37.460 --> 00:42:40.820 and then just pulling away as if terrified, as 00:42:40.820 --> 00:42:45.989 if it just can't land here. You move on. Another 00:42:45.989 --> 00:42:50.190 house off to your left. Another red X. Keep moving. 00:42:50.829 --> 00:42:56.409 Keep trotting. And as you get close, you watch 00:42:56.409 --> 00:43:00.130 as suddenly the ground besides you shifts in 00:43:00.130 --> 00:43:03.750 a few spots. So you have one hand to the left, 00:43:03.869 --> 00:43:08.530 one a little farther to your right. These severed 00:43:08.530 --> 00:43:10.369 hands digging their way out from the ground, 00:43:10.449 --> 00:43:14.570 lining the road on both sides. And they raise 00:43:14.570 --> 00:43:18.530 their pointer fingers and they point north. Imagine 00:43:18.530 --> 00:43:20.530 all the epic loot we're missing in all those 00:43:20.530 --> 00:43:23.889 houses. Things that could probably save our asses 00:43:23.889 --> 00:43:27.769 in the fight that's to come. You totally missed 00:43:27.769 --> 00:43:30.989 the Vorpal Sword. Right, yeah. A plus three Vorpal 00:43:30.989 --> 00:43:36.489 Blade of hand -killing. Yeah, we're going to 00:43:36.489 --> 00:43:41.030 keep moving. And you trot. Koli's just eyes on 00:43:41.030 --> 00:43:45.400 every single one of them. Huge. Chester is, like, 00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:47.940 close. He's, like, every time he walks by one, 00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:49.599 he pushes a little bit, like, away from it towards 00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.719 you, Jules. Yeah, I think Jules is actually kind 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.219 of, I think Jules has his hand on Chester. And 00:43:55.219 --> 00:43:57.659 Jean Franklin's just so, looking at him with 00:43:57.659 --> 00:44:02.719 such detest, just disgust. Well, I will say you're 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:06.900 both right about one thing. I'm actually starting 00:44:06.900 --> 00:44:09.699 to miss that little town. I'm going to enjoy 00:44:09.699 --> 00:44:15.639 myself when we get back there. If we get back 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:19.239 there. Gulps. We're going to get back, Sean. 00:44:19.460 --> 00:44:23.519 Just remember what I asked you to do. And he 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:27.119 kind of nods his head in Orin's direction. Sean 00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:32.699 nods, blue eyes, fierce. Fierce and frankly scared. 00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:36.719 Hey, it's a pun, frankly. Sean frankly scared. 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:41.260 Sorry. Anyway. It's a serious mode for serious. 00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:47.590 As you crest. A hill on this old, destroyed road. 00:44:48.469 --> 00:44:54.329 And you see a large farmhouse. It appears abandoned 00:44:54.329 --> 00:44:57.349 like the smaller houses, but there's no X marking 00:44:57.349 --> 00:45:00.909 this one. You can see that along the road and 00:45:00.909 --> 00:45:03.210 in the fields around it, there's farming implements 00:45:03.210 --> 00:45:07.289 lying abandoned in the mud. You see sickly crops 00:45:07.289 --> 00:45:11.570 in the field starting to die. You know this is 00:45:11.570 --> 00:45:17.070 a new farm. It shouldn't be dying. Not yet. You 00:45:17.070 --> 00:45:19.269 see the same clothes and possessions strewn around, 00:45:19.329 --> 00:45:23.590 but not as many here. Just a few. And you see 00:45:23.590 --> 00:45:27.349 another large burrow. Looks like it's right in 00:45:27.349 --> 00:45:32.130 front of this building. And you see tracks. You 00:45:32.130 --> 00:45:36.690 know what you're looking for. Hands moving closer 00:45:36.690 --> 00:45:40.230 to it. Vanishing down one more time somewhere 00:45:40.230 --> 00:45:44.699 beneath. the house. And I'll say this building 00:45:44.699 --> 00:45:47.400 is probably about a squared building. I say large 00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:51.519 farmhouse, but it isn't large like you would 00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:54.400 be used to on the cities you're from. It's probably 00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:57.639 about 50 feet by 50 feet. Squared building with 00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:01.659 a wraparound porch. It seems like it's set pretty 00:46:01.659 --> 00:46:05.280 much right on the road. You're about 500 feet 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:07.019 from it now. You can sort of make it out as you 00:46:07.019 --> 00:46:11.300 get closer. What do you want to do? Oh, I should 00:46:11.300 --> 00:46:15.230 also add, What you don't see. Because you don't 00:46:15.230 --> 00:46:17.670 see a red X on this door. I don't know, Jeremy. 00:46:17.730 --> 00:46:24.449 I kind of feel safe outside. Yeah, same. I don't 00:46:24.449 --> 00:46:25.789 know if anybody's going to come out, but I think 00:46:25.789 --> 00:46:29.670 we should at least give it a shot. Yeah. I don't 00:46:29.670 --> 00:46:32.710 think we should split up and go around each side. 00:46:32.909 --> 00:46:35.590 No. I think we need to stay as a group as we 00:46:35.590 --> 00:46:39.809 approach the porch. Is it two stories or one? 00:46:40.630 --> 00:46:44.989 One story. One story? Okay. Zebulon's going to 00:46:44.989 --> 00:46:49.389 dismount at this point and maybe hand the reins 00:46:49.389 --> 00:46:55.889 to Jaune. Kully, why don't you call out and see 00:46:55.889 --> 00:47:00.369 if anyone's inside? And I don't think you even 00:47:00.369 --> 00:47:03.369 need to ask him. He's already sort of trotting 00:47:03.369 --> 00:47:06.949 down towards it, just a man on a mission. I don't 00:47:06.949 --> 00:47:09.050 think Zebulon's going to let him get close. Did 00:47:09.050 --> 00:47:10.909 you get in his way? Yeah, I think he's just going 00:47:10.909 --> 00:47:12.929 to, like, grab his arm. How close do you let 00:47:12.929 --> 00:47:16.389 him get? I don't think I let him leave the street. 00:47:16.570 --> 00:47:18.809 Like, if the house is on the road. So you guys 00:47:18.809 --> 00:47:20.369 get basically up towards the house, and he's 00:47:20.369 --> 00:47:21.989 moving towards the porch. You grab him? Yeah. 00:47:22.389 --> 00:47:25.670 Just call from here. If anyone's in there, they'll 00:47:25.670 --> 00:47:29.670 respond. Yeah, Jules is going to come up on the 00:47:29.670 --> 00:47:31.630 other side of him, too. He looks over at both 00:47:31.630 --> 00:47:34.429 of you, and you can see, like, his eyes so panicked. 00:47:35.389 --> 00:47:37.269 And they calm just a little bit, taking both 00:47:37.269 --> 00:47:41.739 of you in. He nods. Keona! Keona, come on out! 00:47:42.539 --> 00:47:47.159 It's your uncle. It's Uncle Oren, huh? No. It's 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:51.320 Uncle Kool -Aid. Kool -Aid, I'm back. Keona! 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:55.239 Silence. You guys are looking around. You can 00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:56.880 see that some of these farm tools lying around 00:47:56.880 --> 00:48:00.900 you. There's like a pitchfork where it's right 00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:03.260 through a severed hand, which is no longer animate. 00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:06.739 You can see another hand a little ways off. It's 00:48:06.739 --> 00:48:09.500 like chopped. Some fingers lying sort of away 00:48:09.500 --> 00:48:12.079 from it. Where a hoe is lying on the ground. 00:48:12.139 --> 00:48:16.119 Looks like there was a battle here. And no sign 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:20.199 of victors. Zebulon's going to draw his weapons 00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:29.679 at this point. Stay here. Kali, stay here. No. 00:48:30.780 --> 00:48:34.010 We don't know what's in there. Ah, no. Who's 00:48:34.010 --> 00:48:40.449 in there? I know. I know who you are. Colin Jr. 00:48:41.829 --> 00:48:46.610 Come on out, son. Come on out. Come talk to your 00:48:46.610 --> 00:48:51.250 pa. I came a long way. I came a long way to see 00:48:51.250 --> 00:48:55.050 you, boy. You'll come out. You'll come out right 00:48:55.050 --> 00:49:00.690 now. And more scratching in the mud and dirt. 00:49:01.369 --> 00:49:07.070 His two hands. crawl up and point towards the 00:49:07.070 --> 00:49:10.469 door. Oh, my God. I so don't want to go in there. 00:49:10.489 --> 00:49:12.989 Fuck, I saw that coming, though. I knew that 00:49:12.989 --> 00:49:15.369 was coming. You, like, look around behind you. 00:49:15.409 --> 00:49:17.829 You can see, like, these hands still exactly 00:49:17.829 --> 00:49:20.909 as you left them, inanimate in place, all pointing 00:49:20.909 --> 00:49:27.070 all the way down the road. All right. Um, maybe 00:49:27.070 --> 00:49:32.349 let's all stick together and let's... Let's walk 00:49:32.349 --> 00:49:34.789 around on the porch. The porch goes all the way 00:49:34.789 --> 00:49:38.789 around. We can look through the windows, see 00:49:38.789 --> 00:49:44.650 what's going on before we go in. We stay as a 00:49:44.650 --> 00:49:51.090 group. Yeah. Let's go. All right. Let's go. I 00:49:51.090 --> 00:49:54.670 think at this point, Jules is now holding on 00:49:54.670 --> 00:49:58.309 to Chester's arm. He's squeezing. I think you 00:49:58.309 --> 00:50:01.679 grab his arm and he, like, a hand. Beaches out 00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:05.840 to grab yours as well, squeezing tight. You've 00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:09.480 never seen Chester so scared, and you've never 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:14.139 seen Chester so brave as he marches towards this 00:50:14.139 --> 00:50:22.699 abandoned farmhouse. You guys move on to the 00:50:22.699 --> 00:50:26.579 porch, the board squeaking beneath you, and you 00:50:26.579 --> 00:50:31.260 pass by the front door. Yeah, I think... we'd 00:50:31.260 --> 00:50:34.679 like to take a loop around. You said the porch 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.079 goes all the way around? It actually goes around 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.340 about half the home. I do have a map. I'm going 00:50:39.340 --> 00:50:40.980 to go full theater of the mind for this, though, 00:50:41.019 --> 00:50:42.460 because I think that's a little better for what 00:50:42.460 --> 00:50:46.579 we're doing here. Okay, cool. Yeah, let's get 00:50:46.579 --> 00:50:48.780 all the information we can, I suppose. So it's 00:50:48.780 --> 00:50:50.500 going to wrap around to the left, basically, 00:50:50.500 --> 00:50:53.260 so you can go around that. Okay, okay. You see 00:50:53.260 --> 00:50:56.739 there's actually in the front of the home, there's 00:50:56.739 --> 00:50:58.760 no windows, but as you loop around to the side, 00:50:58.780 --> 00:51:03.460 you do see A large window. You want to peek in? 00:51:03.940 --> 00:51:07.619 Yeah, definitely. You look in to see a living 00:51:07.619 --> 00:51:10.340 room of some sort. You see the furniture in this 00:51:10.340 --> 00:51:13.599 room is haphazardly arranged. Looks close to 00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:16.880 falling apart. And beneath, the floor is covered 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:21.019 in hundreds of handprints. Looks like they're 00:51:21.019 --> 00:51:24.599 painted using the crimson mud from outside. And 00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:29.860 as you look in, give me a perception check. It's 00:51:29.860 --> 00:51:35.360 a nine. Natural 20. Oh, excellent. Thank you. 00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:37.639 You were looking into this, and you actually 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:39.260 kind of noticed that these hands seem to form 00:51:39.260 --> 00:51:41.199 like a pattern almost swirling around the room. 00:51:41.739 --> 00:51:44.260 But there's a break in the pattern where sort 00:51:44.260 --> 00:51:46.780 of a large sofa chair is sort of knocked over 00:51:46.780 --> 00:51:49.159 it. And it looks like there's an image under 00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:52.179 there, something drawn on the floor. But you 00:51:52.179 --> 00:51:53.559 can't make it out from here. You have to go inside. 00:51:54.340 --> 00:51:56.159 And as you're sort of staring at this, looking 00:51:56.159 --> 00:52:00.690 at that, wham! A hand slaps onto the glass in 00:52:00.690 --> 00:52:04.829 front of you, scraping against it, and then one 00:52:04.829 --> 00:52:09.170 finger points deeper inside, gesturing you, almost 00:52:09.170 --> 00:52:15.090 beckoning you to enter. Come in. Come in. There's 00:52:15.090 --> 00:52:17.550 another door just down the porch from where you 00:52:17.550 --> 00:52:21.090 stand. Oh, okay. All right. It's at least a little 00:52:21.090 --> 00:52:23.550 different than walking right through the front 00:52:23.550 --> 00:52:28.079 door. Yeah. I mean, there's no way we... are 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:32.239 not going into this house. Right, yeah. Can we 00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:35.079 look around back? Is there, like, a basement 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:37.760 entrance? You want to go into the basement? I'm 00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:41.400 gathering all of the information I can. I get 00:52:41.400 --> 00:52:43.760 it, but in the basement? I'm not saying go in. 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:47.400 It could be. Oh, my God, incredible. It could 00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:51.139 be a spot to run out of. That's fair. I'm just 00:52:51.139 --> 00:52:54.059 looking at all of our possible entrances and 00:52:54.059 --> 00:52:57.619 exits. That's fair. I'm just as scared. Me too. 00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:00.360 I have a little piddle in my pants right now. 00:53:01.300 --> 00:53:03.320 So you move past the door on the left side of 00:53:03.320 --> 00:53:05.440 the house to go around to the back. All right. 00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.559 Just to kind of peek around. I don't think we're 00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:11.800 like walking all the way around. I just kind 00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:13.239 of want to peek around the back just to see. 00:53:13.380 --> 00:53:15.659 You move around the back, outside, out back. 00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:17.960 You can see the farmland stretching out. You 00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:21.380 can see the sun is about to disappear over the 00:53:21.380 --> 00:53:25.179 edge of the horizon. Thick mist. filling the 00:53:25.179 --> 00:53:28.500 area down below. You see more farming tools just 00:53:28.500 --> 00:53:31.559 laying there. You don't see an entrance into 00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:34.179 the basement, but you do see another window looking 00:53:34.179 --> 00:53:38.780 in. Some back room there. All right. I guess 00:53:38.780 --> 00:53:40.480 let's take a quick peek. Yeah, might as well. 00:53:40.860 --> 00:53:46.340 Okay. You peek in, and you're looking at a small 00:53:46.340 --> 00:53:49.300 kitchen. You see this kitchen has been torn apart. 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:51.639 You see pots and pans are scattered everywhere 00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:55.500 and rotting food streaks the floorboards. And 00:53:55.500 --> 00:54:02.260 you see the backs of four human figures standing 00:54:02.260 --> 00:54:06.639 still and motionless in the middle of the room, 00:54:06.739 --> 00:54:12.860 swaying just the tiniest bit back and forth. 00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:17.869 Jules. Jules, get over here. Do you see this? 00:54:18.449 --> 00:54:21.489 Who the fuck is that? I bet they're like the 00:54:21.489 --> 00:54:26.289 guys from the wagon in Promise. Well, you can 00:54:26.289 --> 00:54:30.610 make out. You see simple rustic farming clothing, 00:54:30.869 --> 00:54:37.869 overalls, hefty boots, no armor. I really want 00:54:37.869 --> 00:54:42.829 to and don't want to knock on the window. I was 00:54:42.829 --> 00:54:45.849 thinking the same thing. I don't know which one 00:54:45.849 --> 00:54:51.219 it is. Right. Well, John said that they seem 00:54:51.219 --> 00:54:56.340 to be controlled by something. Maybe whatever's 00:54:56.340 --> 00:54:58.139 controlling them is in there waiting for us. 00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:00.960 Maybe we can just leave them here and maybe they 00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:04.340 won't. Maybe they don't have to die? I guess, 00:55:04.460 --> 00:55:08.960 I don't know. Well, right now, whatever this 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:13.400 hand thing is isn't being outwardly aggressive 00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:19.300 in a surefire way. To change that is to attack 00:55:19.300 --> 00:55:21.840 these guys. So you're saying we don't knock on 00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:25.039 the window? I think it's time to go inside and 00:55:25.039 --> 00:55:29.559 see what this is all about. All right. There 00:55:29.559 --> 00:55:31.619 are fewer surprises now. We know they're there. 00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:38.500 Are you guys going in? Front or the side? I like 00:55:38.500 --> 00:55:41.780 the idea of the side door. Same. And maybe Zeb 00:55:41.780 --> 00:55:44.940 and Jean go in first. And then I think, yeah. 00:55:45.420 --> 00:55:47.360 I think Chester and Jules are right behind them 00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.559 because I think Jules wants to kind of keep Orn, 00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:53.599 or, uh, Cully, kind of in the back. He's just 00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:57.820 impatient, like, what do y 'all see? She in there. 00:55:57.860 --> 00:56:00.440 Do you see Kiana? We're going in. We're going 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:04.219 in. Hell yeah, we are. We didn't see Kiana. Let, 00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:08.119 um, let John and I go in first. You guys come 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:11.079 in behind us. We're going to keep you safe. When 00:56:11.079 --> 00:56:14.019 it goes down to it, I need you to say you promise. 00:56:14.929 --> 00:56:18.130 He's got her. He's got Kiana, and you know it. 00:56:18.630 --> 00:56:23.230 We all know it. It's a trap. But if it's me or 00:56:23.230 --> 00:56:26.789 her, I know, I know the value I have to you. 00:56:28.469 --> 00:56:33.090 I need you to promise me you choose her. Promise 00:56:33.090 --> 00:56:36.230 me, damn it! I promise we're going to do everything 00:56:36.230 --> 00:56:40.769 we can to save Kiana. And you. And that's the 00:56:40.769 --> 00:56:45.489 only option. He looks at you, Jules. That's what 00:56:45.489 --> 00:56:48.409 we came here for. And that's what we're going 00:56:48.409 --> 00:56:54.590 to do. All right. Let's go. All right. Zebulon 00:56:54.590 --> 00:56:59.969 opens the door. Push the door open. Staring into 00:56:59.969 --> 00:57:03.730 just the fading light above you is spilling out 00:57:03.730 --> 00:57:08.170 into this black hallway. Scratches and handprints 00:57:08.170 --> 00:57:11.969 lining the floors and walls. The sun in the sky 00:57:11.969 --> 00:57:18.070 finally fully sinks. As darkness begins to overtake 00:57:18.070 --> 00:57:21.110 your little group, as mist begins to rise and 00:57:21.110 --> 00:57:24.909 cover the land surrounding you, and you begin 00:57:24.909 --> 00:57:29.309 to move deeper into the building, taking your 00:57:29.309 --> 00:57:35.469 first steps to Kiana's farmhouse and into Coley 00:57:35.469 --> 00:58:03.559 Jr.'s trap. And we'll call it there. The sound 00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:13.019 of my voice in this mic. Good. We're on it. One 00:58:13.019 --> 00:58:18.980 minute. We're good. Hell yes. Fuck. I was watching 00:58:18.980 --> 00:58:22.300 Steven. That phone's down. I'm safe. That is 00:58:22.300 --> 00:58:25.059 some quality post -credit shit right there. Shit.