Welcome, my little critters, to Tales from the Crit Season 2, The Level Up.
We're an actual play podcast with an ever-changing cast of players making our way through a bunch
of different RPG systems, from micro-RPGs to some of the more well-known role-playing
games out there, and the occasional highly narrative tabletop game.
Content warnings can be found in the episode's description.
My name is Riley Groves, and I am the Crit Keeper on this episode of Tales from the Crit.
Last time, on Crit's on Bikes, we made our way into the tunnels by using some powers
I kind of forgot I had, and I did a lot of damage to a wall underneath the historical
building.
Safe to say that bad boy is going to fall down anytime now.
When we went into the tunnels, we found out there's a stairwell to the bookstore.
And as we went up, we discovered that the beast has been living in the tunnels.
But in even bigger news, we found this really strange book that looks like it must be the
key to something.
Welcome back to Tales from the Crit.
I am here with my wonderful friends Rebecca.
Hello.
Tim.
Oi.
Connor.
Hello.
And Derek.
Hi there.
We are very excited to keep playing Kids on Bikes today, but before we jump into that,
we're going to answer a question from our RPG Campfire deck, or the Ultimate RPG Campfire
card deck, I guess it's officially called.
I will never remember that name, about our characters.
And this question is about your present state of your character.
The question is, what quality do you most admire in others?
Bonus points if you can answer that if you think you possess this quality.
I'll say childlike wonder.
Because I'm a college student now and it's been downtrodden out of me.
Oh, so you no longer possess the childhood wonder.
I'm an adult now, man.
Yep.
That was more depressing than I thought.
You're welcome.
Bravery.
Okay.
Maxwell really admires when others can take a frightful situation and stand up to it, where
his gut instinct is always, you know, we should regroup and reassess.
So do you think he possesses this quality?
Bravery?
Yeah.
It certainly doesn't seem so.
Well, I mean, I think he has some past heroic deeds.
He did attack a Girl Scout with a knife once.
He lost pretty bad in that one.
I mean, I guess points for sticking up for friends, but attacking a girl with a knife
may be not the best.
It's not bravery, I don't know what is.
If it was like attacking that really large teacher whose name I can't remember.
Or a dinosaur.
If he'd stood up to a dinosaur with a knife, that would have been brave.
I mean, he's no Vivian.
Or a stupid.
That's for sure.
Yes, absolutely.
All right.
What about Danny?
You know, Danny admires people who are authentic and have a lot of, you know, show off their
self-esteem and aren't afraid to be who they are.
All right.
You know, he doesn't quite think that he's there yet.
He feels like he's a little more reserved.
But he also does recognize that sometimes you can't run around in a superhero costume
all the time because you're a superhero.
That might be not quite self-confidence as much as some other things of, you know, maybe
childlike wonder.
All right.
And Josh?
Josh's answer is going to be kind of two parts.
First he, well, he has two older people that he looks up to.
With Andy, it's definitely her bravery and levelheadedness in stressful situations.
It's something that he definitely does not have, especially with his flight being his
second highest skill.
And when it comes to Danny, Josh feels very jealous about his ability to attract animals
and how much that they really like him.
That you're going to say ladies?
Nope.
Not yet.
Still on the skunk.
Still young enough to appreciate a good skunk.
So yeah.
And I'm going to guess Josh does not believe he has that same.
Josh does not believe he has that animal magnetism either.
Animal magnetism.
He feels kind of off put every time Billy runs for a cat.
He's like, oh great, another cat.
And he gets scratched.
All right.
Awesome.
So without further delay, then let's jump into the episode.
Just to bring everybody up to speed.
Y'all just watched the twins murder someone out underneath a street lamp and then they
disappeared and the violin music continued to crescendo and you heard the unmistakable
roar of the beast coming from the tunnels below where you recently were.
But we haven't left the bookstore yet, right?
No.
Should we go check on that person?
Maybe they're like not dead.
That's a really hopeful thought.
Yeah, I mean, do we still see the twins?
Did they run away?
I don't want to go confront them.
I don't have a big knife.
Oh, I don't either.
But it seems like they've just vanished.
Josh is now clutching the crowbar.
He's passed out.
Let's not forget he clunked his head against the wall and no one's helped him come to yet.
He's just been carrying him around.
Did we have smelling salts or was that a different game?
Totally a different game.
I don't think we had smelling salts for this one.
Hold on, hold on.
I thought somebody was sniffing something.
That was definitely a different game.
Maybe we can use the stinky boots he's been wearing to shock him awake.
That's a great idea, Max.
Do you want to try them?
I don't want to get too close.
They're pretty gross.
Yeah, I can do that.
And I take the boots and I tip it upside down above his face and I kind of use my other
hand to try to waft the smell at his nose.
All right.
There's no real chance of failure on this one, but I do want to just see if it works
because that's a wild thing to try to do.
And if that doesn't work, we'll just go get milkshakes without him.
All right.
For some reason, give me a charm.
Ooh, charm.
Charm is a key.
And we'll call it just a four for a charm.
A two.
All right.
He continues to be passed out.
At this point, he may be faking it because you guys are carrying him around, but you're
not 100% certain.
What if I pay my adversity token to help him on his role by saying the taunting about the
milkshake and seeing what he says?
Like, oh, he didn't wake up.
I guess we'll just have to go get milkshakes now without him.
Oh, I'm here.
I'm here.
I'm ready for the shakes.
You okay, Billy?
I think we're going to wait a minute on the shakes.
I am bleeding out of the back of my head.
Yeah.
Okay.
A milkshake on the back of it would feel good.
I think a bandage would be better.
Do we have that?
The door is open so we can grab some of the stranger's t-shirts to bandage his head.
That is a great idea.
Why do I have them wrapped around my feet, too?
Why do we have that?
I don't remember.
To keep your boots on?
No, because no.
We wouldn't put the boots back on him because he got electrocuted or...
Yeah.
He attacked the book with burning hands and then was flung out of the boots into the wall,
stuffed his head, and has been passed out since.
Since then, Danny said he was going to wrap his feet in t-shirts, and then you guys made
a joke about just wrapping everything around his feet that was in the room.
That didn't happen.
Okay.
But we can say he's got rag feet.
Okay.
He's also bleeding out of his forehead, the back of his head, and his nose, or has been
in the last hour.
Okay.
I think maybe we should just go straight to the hospital?
I mean, the sheriff's department's right across the street.
Maybe we should go there.
They might have band-aids, and we can say that we just saw murder.
I feel like at this point, he kind of needs some plasma.
It seems like he's run out of plasma.
I think he's run out of a lot of his blood.
Billy, are you feeling all right?
I feel fine, my dude.
I just need some candy, extra candy on top.
Can I look in my bag to see if I have...
Candy?
Anything that's...
Hell, yes.
Yeah, what are you looking for?
First aid kit, bandage.
Oh.
Bandana, anything.
I was trying to go with the prepared, but I need two tokens.
Oh, you need two tokens.
So I just figured I would just see if I could...
Spend a token and spend a roll.
And let's just say...
Just roll a D20, and if you get higher than a 10, we'll have some...
Three.
All right.
So you can find some little bandages, but not gauze or anything.
You have a little pack of Curad bandages.
I'll start taking them out, and one at a time, going across his...
Oh, I'm feeling way better now.
Okay, I still think Danny had the right idea with the sheriff's office and the...
Why are we going there?
I only hit my head.
We don't need to tell them because I hit my head.
There was also a murder.
Yeah.
We were there for that part.
You see that dead lady in the road over there?
She's not there.
Oh.
She disappeared with the twins.
Okay, then there's no dead bodies.
Then maybe we shouldn't go to the police.
Who died?
Was it me?
No, you're right here.
Oh, okay.
I couldn't quite tell who it was.
It was some vaguely familiar looking person, but it was dark and they were far away.
I feel like we're trapped in some sort of dreamscape.
Wake up.
What is the situation on the beast at the moment that we're standing?
You heard it roar down below?
Is it still...
There's no signs of it coming up the hole or anything near you.
We did establish it was about a 30 foot climb from basement to this room.
It's a deep ass tunnel.
Yeah.
I just wanted to make sure that we're done seeing the murder if we're in immediate danger
of anything else besides getting hit by a car.
I still feel like we're in close to immediate danger.
We just witnessed...
Did anyone feel like the girls saw you?
I don't think so.
But who knows what they see.
I feel like they're always watching.
I don't think it's a matter of whether they did see us.
They definitely saw us.
They appeared so that we would see them and see the action of the murder.
Didn't the knife they had look a lot like that one that was in the book, in that drawing,
in the monster's heart?
I couldn't see the details from here, but it did look like it could be the same knife.
What do you think, Billy?
I didn't see the knife.
I was passed out.
No, before.
Oh, right.
Yep.
Good call.
And then I tried to read that book.
I remember that, but I'm not good at reading.
Yeah, you are.
That makes sense.
It was relatively a thick script.
It looked like some of it might have been in Latin or something.
I don't know.
All I saw was fire.
Then I was out.
What should we do about the girls?
I feel like they're still going to come after us.
Do we want to try and go to the police again?
They have not listened to us as far as I can remember any time we've gone there, but we
can take a vote.
We're all varying age of people.
I don't think they're going to listen to us.
They didn't listen to us the last couple of times.
I don't think they're going to listen to us either.
When I was in The Brave Blossoms, the times that we really made a lot of progress was
when we just decided to do everything on our own.
I think that if it seems like it's the girls that are the issue and everyone keeps having
visions of them, we should just get our hands on these girls and interrogate them.
Ask them questions.
But maybe with a circle of salt so they can't disappear, we'll bring them into a circle
of salt like a Scooby Doo episode.
We will set up the trap ahead of time, lure them into it, and then pull the masks off.
I love this idea.
Andy, I'm a little cold.
Do you have a sweater?
Yeah, here.
You can just wear mine.
It's a really girly sweater.
Thanks.
I think I might have to go back to sleep now.
Okay.
You should stay awake.
Stay awake.
Huh?
Yup.
I think that's a great idea, Max.
And I also wonder if it's connected to that cult we dealt with last year.
And if there's a book on that cult, you know, and how to like trap them or something.
Well, here would be a great place to check.
Yeah.
Because they have the occult section here in the bookstore.
Yeah.
Let's go check that out.
Well, I hope it's not that one that's already missing.
Oh crap, probably.
Oh wait, what if the one that's missing is the one that's floating?
Well, we can't read that book.
What if it was here the whole time?
Other than the pages it's open to, right?
Oh, right.
Well, then would you just check to see if there's anything left that might give us a
clue?
I agree.
I haven't tried to read the book, right?
Everybody tried to do something with the book last time.
And despite it not moving or doing anything at any attempt, everybody just continued to
press on, which is admirable.
I feel like the number one rule was we all agreed, don't touch the book physically with
your body.
Okay, I have an idea.
Andy has a strength called intuitive where I can spend an adversity token to ask the
GM about my surroundings or an NPC.
And you have to be honest.
Ooh, spend that token.
Token spent.
Now ask the right question, because the wrong one will get you nowhere.
What do we do about this fucking book?
Follow up question.
Can you read your thing again?
Because the book's not an NPC.
But it's part of my surroundings.
Oh, okay.
What do you do about the book?
You would stab this book with the dagger to end whatever curses on it.
Whoa.
Good, because I thought we were going to have to stab the beast.
Guys, I just had an epiphany.
We stabbed the book with the dagger.
Awesome.
Where's the dagger?
Those girls have it.
Fuck.
Okay, I'm out of ideas.
Well, I think that they've been taunting your brother and Josh.
Yeah, they have.
If we're going to set a trap, we know where we can find some bait.
Maybe it has to be a dream trap.
We all fall asleep holding hands.
We appear in the same dream.
And then we make our salt circle, and when they appear, that's when we do the wooby-doo
thing.
But Max, if you die in your dreams, you die for real.
That's the law.
Well, then I don't know where I am now, because I've died a lot in my dreams.
I think this might be my twelfth reincarnation.
You don't wake up first?
From dying?
No, before you die in your dream.
Not often.
What happens after you die in the dream?
Well, I'm kind of here after the last one.
I remember I was selling cookies, and then these dinosaurs came out of a portal, and
then I was getting dropped off at that hotel.
So we talked about some milkshakes before.
What's going on with that?
Do you see what time it is, Billy?
There's no milkshakes right now.
Billy, I think you might need more bandages.
I think I need to just get some different clothes on.
Okay.
And shoes, and maybe a little water.
Maybe we should all go to our house and regroup so that Billy can get himself together.
I can't go home.
Yeah, your mom's gonna kill him.
Mom doesn't even know you're home yet.
Well, and she thinks I'm home.
Maybe she'll be so happy to see you, she will forget that it's whatever time it is
and that Billy's out of his room when he's supposed to be and very hurt.
My dad might be passed out by now.
Okay.
Do you have clothes that Billy could wear?
Max lives right across the street.
Okay.
The hotel does have a pretty good lost and found section.
We might be able to get some shoes for Billy, and then, yeah, we could do all the planning
there, where no one knows where we are, except for us and hotel staff.
Okay.
I'll walk out on the scary street first.
Oh, I was just gonna say, travel montage.
I don't know why I had circus music, but I imagine as we slink down the road and you
guys pass, do you guys go past the flickering light where the girl was killed or do you
just cut across the street?
Hell no.
I was staying in the dark.
Hell no.
I'm not going anywhere near that light.
Okay.
I am gonna go check out and just see if there's anything in the area.
How far out of the path is it?
They're still gonna be able to see me, right?
20 yards.
Yeah, I'm gonna just-
Yeah.
I'm gonna just go to the
first as well.
See if there's like, you know, person shadow baked into the ground or-
There's no person shadow.
However, both of you give me some brains rolls.
Does it smell like sulfur?
Of a six.
Fuck.
Four.
Kind of one.
So there's nothing easily recognizable here.
Just kind of a streetlight.
All right.
Yeah.
Dash back to the group.
Nothing over there.
No blood even.
Not a thing.
Not even a blinking light.
It stayed on the whole time.
It's a creepy light.
All right.
Should we investigate?
I was gonna say, in Josh's paranoia of looking around, does he see anything that would indicate
the twins not just disappearing into thin air or-
Where are you looking specifically?
I mean, I feel like he's like looking around.
He's standing back from the streetlight.
So he's looking on either side of it.
He's-
All right.
Looking back to the bookstore and the old tower, nothing really is going on at those
locations.
Okay.
Andy will look under the light where the lady died.
Okay.
What is the check again?
Six.
For brains?
Sure.
Yes.
It's a two.
Never mind.
So everybody's just kind of investigating the street.
Cars are going around you guys.
It seems pretty awkward.
You are on-
Cars are going around?
Isn't it the middle of the night?
The streetlights just came on when you guys were in the bookstore.
So it's early evening.
Oh shit.
I thought it was-
I am fucking confused.
Yeah.
It's like three hours later than that.
No.
It was like midnight-ish.
No, no, no.
The streetlight was just coming on and began to flicker outside.
I thought it came on because of the creepy girls.
I mean, it probably went off because of the creepy girls and then came back on.
I am not good at puzzles.
This is hard for me.
Okay.
Let's give up on the light.
And go to the hotel.
Yeah.
I think your brother needs some-
Help.
And help.
Yeah.
Go to the hotel.
The hotel lady has just watched Maxwell bring more and more children to and from his hotel
over the past two days.
So now all five of you head up to Maxwell's room.
Okay.
So what's our plan here?
You seem to know the Scooby-Doo plans.
Well, at this point, I think that we should all make sure to have a separate diet.
Some would order room service, but everything should be different from one another because
maybe there's a chance that something in this town, there's like yeast in the well, and
we're all suffering from mass hypnosis, mass hallucinations, and none of this is real, and
we should be the ones going to the hospital for ourselves, not necessarily all the murdered
people.
That's theory one.
Josh walks out of the bathroom with a handful of white towels and looks over at Maxwell
and goes,
Yeah, but if we order from room service, everything's coming from the same kitchen.
And I don't know if you've eaten at the school, but
Okay, we'll use Foodfast.
That doesn't work in this era.
What's that?
Yeah, what's that?
Well,
Good old fashioned delivery.
Yep.
I ripped this page of pizza out of the yellow pages earlier.
When you're looking at the phone book.
Billy, stop moving.
Who's got money?
Yeah, I can take care of that.
Listen, this isn't for this town, but it's a good starting point.
What?
Billy, what?
It's for Allen's town.
I couldn't help it.
That's the phone book I was looking through.
Oh, well, um, we'll find something pretty close to it.
How about that?
It'll be something that starts with the letter P and ends with A.
All right.
Um, so do we know where the girls live?
No.
And we haven't found Eric Zahn.
We found the building he was in, but we didn't find exactly where he is in the building.
Who?
Oh, the guy with the thumb?
The music teacher.
The twins' uncle.
Oh.
Possibly.
The guy with the thumb is Dale.
Dale's dead.
Dale's certainly not alive.
We don't have proof.
We saw his bloody shirt and we saw his thumb in a bag.
Yeah.
That's a good sign of life.
All right.
I always hate doing the thing where like we're plotting outside of our characters.
Um, but we don't know where they live.
We kind of have an idea of where the uncle is.
We know the knife is important and is needed for the book.
We think the twins have the knife.
So locating the twins is the biggest thing.
Should we set up a stakeout scenario on the apartment building?
No, because we don't know what he looks like even.
All right.
So maybe we have to figure out what he looks like.
So maybe some sort of database with like a license plate photo.
So maybe we need to break into the police station and go through their computers.
Do they have computers?
I keep forgetting what era this is.
This is 93.
So computers are 1993.
Yeah.
Oh man.
Computers are real easy to use back then.
We'll just go through the roll decks.
They just kind of appear when they're ready to murder someone or like in the dreams.
Maybe we can just go hang out.
The tunnels go up towards like the tower also somewhere else, tangential to the tunnels
that the beast apparently is in.
And he seems to be near the girls and maybe we just use Billy and Josh's bait.
What if the uncle is the beast?
That could be too.
I was thinking that.
And it feels like, you know, get super beast powers when he gets a blood sacrifice.
Yeah, I feel like our best bet right now is our only good lead right now is the the uncle
or the music teacher.
I do kind of like this idea of going to one of these potentially like haunted spots where
like, you know, supernatural energy is high to try to trigger another apparition.
But when they do appear, they also disappear, which is the idea that maybe they're not actually
there in physical form.
Well, they were in school physically.
Billy and Josh, you know, had class with them.
Yeah.
But they answer any questions in class.
They got interested.
Yeah, they they are they are physical actual beings.
But the thing is, is that they've shown us in visions.
None of the stuff we're seeing is necessarily physical.
It could all be visions or projections.
The teacher we saw get in the fire and taken away in an ambulance.
So that that happened.
That didn't get projected into our into.
Well, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, that actually happened.
But the the girl getting stabbed under the light that might not happen.
There's no evidence of it.
That's just the teacher.
The teacher was one thing.
But if the beast needs sacrifices, burning the bodies is that you know, it wasn't it
didn't it didn't involve the knife, did it?
I don't remember involving the knife.
No, they put it just pushed her in.
So that could have been an isolated incident.
That just involved them.
Maybe the people are dying are people that were somehow a part of Eric Zahn no longer
being the music teacher.
That's a possibility as well.
It's like a revenge thing.
The other thing is that keeps bugging me is the easiest way to solve this would be to
just go to school the next day and corner the girls, but we're on fucking vacation.
So schools out and we like can we just pause the story and be like we all hibernate for
seven days until school.
Nothing happens, thankfully.
Things we hunker down.
Body count grows to 12 and school starts again.
School never starts because people keep getting murdered.
We never go back.
It's like the opposite of what kids would do.
I'm going to stay in bed until school starts again.
So what do we think about trying to find a point?
I guess we have to figure out how to locate them.
So we did break into the school and there was no evidence of where they lived, correct?
Or are we just looking for Zahn?
I don't believe we were able to find anything on them.
We could try.
You guys found their files, but you didn't do anything with them after that.
Josh got all freaky.
Josh had like a hallucination of the teacher burning in the kiln or something like that.
So we should get those files out of Josh's backpack where of course we all put them.
Yep.
And then I just need to fail another role so they'll just be there.
So yeah, maybe we confront the go confront the twins.
I don't necessarily dislike the going to the police station and seeing because there would
be I don't want to get yelled at again.
I just didn't know if there's a distraction if they had something on Zahn's location,
like his actual physical address or other things on him because he's a person in town.
But why would we tell you kids we're just adults and your kids get out of here.
We have an adult now.
She's just a woman though.
It's the 90s.
Do you guys want any help organizing clues?
I have no fucking clue what's happening.
We know Eric Zahn lives in the silk mills.
And he was a music teacher.
He has the same last name as these girls.
He has the same last name as those girls.
He was a substitute.
He moved to France and played in a violin in the orchestra.
Over there.
You know that the tunnels run from all the way down Main Street essentially towards several
locations much further down from where you guys went.
You know the daggers, what you need to stab the book and the girls have the daggers.
So I'm not putting any other pieces.
I don't know if we go to the silk mill apartments if we're going to be able to find them again.
I feel like we could do that and we can play the doorbell game again.
Yeah.
Or we can go find that girl who really doesn't want to see me in the apartment.
Carrie, right?
Carrie.
But her dad will let us in.
He was like, this is a guy.
I'm kind of annoyed.
But he didn't seem to care too much.
Her dad just lets you in because you're a guy?
No, I mean he's familiar.
I don't think he's, he didn't seem like he would be too scrutinous of like, oh, if I
said, hey, we're here to see Carrie, he would check first.
He's been in and out like four times in the last two days.
So I thought Carrie's dad was really strict, but what if the uncle is playing some sort
of cursed violin to control the girls into performing the murders as an act of revenge?
And that makes sense.
But I don't know what the catalyst is that causes him to do this.
I do have to ask for one thing.
Why do you guys keep saying uncle?
I don't know.
No one's ever said that he's an uncle.
I think I just wrote it down at some point.
No, there was an uncle, but it is unrelated.
Oh, I think I tied it in together in an accident.
Then what does he care about the girls then if they're not even related?
I didn't say that either.
I'm fucking lost.
It's their father.
I think we drew some connections that we didn't have a lot of evidence for and we've like
ran with those.
Okay.
Is he playing music out of the book and that's giving the girls powers and summoning a beast?
Let's find the girls, steal the knife.
So do we want to go to the apartments where we think the girls might be or hang around
the sewers?
I think we should think really hard and see if we can remember what the girls address
is.
We just killed somebody so I feel like they would not be in the hotel.
In their house?
Or in their house, yeah.
Or unless...
Why?
We just did a murder.
We know we've been at home all day.
We are the only ones that, and by we it's a pretty loose we.
Some of us are the only few that have seen any of the murders committed by them.
Everyone else they're just acts of randomosity and have nothing to do with pushing or murder.
It was alcohol and tripping.
Whoever this girl was no one even knows.
There's no body.
We can't even prove there was a second murder.
Yeah, I mean what happened to her?
It's just like Obi Wan's just gone.
That's what I was picturing.
There was a robe and now there's nothing.
Because there's Thumboy.
Didn't he get eaten?
Well that was the beast, not the girls.
Maybe Eric is the beast.
Or maybe he is the violet.
It's that other name that I can't think of but the uncle from the guy that we killed,
Jeffrey Tambor.
Yeah, I wrote that down.
Jim was the guy.
Jeff is his brother that just got out of jail.
So I thought he was going to have some revenge issues.
Yeah, okay, we just fucked him up.
Jeff would be the uncle.
Jeff is the uncle.
To the dead kids.
What's their name and brother?
Timmy and Timmy or something.
He wouldn't know that at all.
Maxwell doesn't know that which is why you're rightfully confused about the uncle.
Awesome.
I feel like in the last episode someone started talking about Jim or Jeff or something and
I was like who are these people?
They were the main protagonists, no, main antagonists of the first episode.
Jim was leading the cult.
Jeff was in jail but he just got out.
He was not in the first story really.
I feel like the first Kids on Bikes, I was just listening to my friends be amazing performers
and wasn't really paying much attention to plot.
I was just like they're really good at this.
Thanks.
Well thank you.
We're not.
I was like oh.
And now I peek behind the curtain.
I'm very confused.
All right.
What's the plan of attack here?
We can move towns, man.
We move away.
We'll say you all got different, the pizzas arrived and you guys are still just mulling
over.
We'll say it's like 8 30 now.
This day has been crazy long.
Has anyone else noticed that?
It has been a long day, but I think that's the stress.
I was just going to say when you're stressed, you know, things take a long time.
It feels like everything is a lot.
That is true.
Well, we need to find these girls.
I say we take all the pillowcases from the room so we can put them over their heads when
we find them.
Oh, that escalated.
I don't think we should do that.
I mean, maybe just so someone to see that duct tape and rope.
Also good things to have.
All right.
So maybe we should do a good old fashioned vote.
How many people think that we should go after the girls?
I guess I do.
I do.
I also do.
Yes.
I mean, I guess I do.
They're kind of scary, though.
OK, I just want to make sure because I know that we were still thinking about going after
Erick Zahn.
What about that thing in the tunnels?
I don't think we want to find that, Billy.
We want it to stay in the tunnels, I think.
But it's only been in the tunnels that one time.
Well, we've only been in the tunnels that one time.
And it's been there every time.
And it's only been outside once, maybe.
Or twice.
As far as we...
Or one long time.
Do we know where it ends up?
Like where it sleeps?
I assumed the tunnel was its base.
Where in the tunnels?
Maybe it just turns into a regular cat when it sleeps with Billy.
It's OK, Billy.
He's just joking.
OK, I don't want any grown man cat sleeping with me.
I think that's fair.
That is how most children probably feel.
Let that be a lesson to you to stay away from strange cats.
I have pillowcases here so we can use those pillowcases.
So we just need duct tape and rope and shoes.
Oh, that's right.
We gotta go to the lost and found on the way out and get you some shoes, buddy.
Yeah.
When I did my brains check, I failed.
Do I get an adversity point?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Anybody that fails does.
Oh, I've been failing so much and not giving myself a chance.
Oh, man.
Take those really loud coins that we've decided to use.
You chose the coins.
I know I did.
I know.
And I've stuck with them despite having every opportunity to change them to the regular
plastic chips or squares that we would normally use.
Instead, I really want to use the 19th century Chinese coins we have.
That's old.
Anyway, we don't care about these stupid coins.
Should we track the beast?
I don't really want to track the beast.
Yeah, I think the beast we should skip for now.
I thought we just voted we were going to go after the girl with pillowcases and duct tape.
How do we find the girls is the issue.
We know their address from we looked up the school files.
Their address is also labeled as the silk mill apartments.
Oh, my God.
They're the same person.
Their uncle splits into two different little girls.
He's not their uncle.
And then the uncle's friend plays the violin.
Oh, man.
Is he the pine pine?
I'm just glad that the listeners are like, oh, good.
They're as confused as we are.
We thought they knew where they were going.
Who is steering the ship?
This is going to be seven more episodes.
The one with the head wound.
This isn't a murder mystery.
It's just a mystery mystery.
I think that we should maybe not go to the silk mill apartments again.
Should we just camp outside?
We can go either camp outside like in the weird wooded area where we got attacked by
the beast before that was kind of close to the first murder or we can just go roaming
around the tunnels.
I feel much better about encountering little girls.
You know, we were in the silk mill apartments and we didn't see any anywhere creepy like
little creepy girls would live.
But the tunnels did lead down that way further.
So you think if we get in and we go to the basement of the silk mill apartments, basements
are creepy.
Little girls are creepy.
Murdering is kind of creepy.
Although it seems to happen more and more in this town.
Should we stack up on weapons if we're going to go back in that tunnel?
Because that wolf almost got me and it was fucking scary.
This crowbar is not going to do anything.
I need a gun.
I don't know.
It's the 90s.
I could get one.
It's so easy.
It's super easy.
But I'm a girl so maybe not.
No, it's easy in the 90s.
What state are we in?
Pennsylvania.
Oh God.
Yeah.
Okay, so is the gun shop open?
I think we just need silver to kill werewolves.
Is the silverware real silver you think?
Probably not.
It's 1993.
Strong chance it is.
We haven't fully hit our depletion on good material.
Oh, we are in a hotel.
They might have fancy china.
I thought they'd have cheap shit because they're a hotel.
Just stares down at the silverware.
It's like silver.
Oh wow.
I think it is silver.
Yeah, I mean it's trademarked to be silver.
It's gotta be.
What's the test?
Is there a test you can do?
Yeah, the water displacement test.
That's how you find out it could be silver.
That will actually help you determine but no there's.
If it's fake it won't displace as much water as nothing.
We all conduct a science experiment for the rest of the episode.
Should we try and get into the tunnels from the basement of the hotel again?
I think so, yes.
I think that that's a good plan.
I feel like we couldn't before.
We could only look through a little window.
We could do a little light vandalism and get into the tunnel.
I mean it wouldn't be the first time.
We're really good at vandalizing stuff.
It's that or we go back to historic and then we just don't take the.
We go back to historic Bethlehem.
We go in the way we already know but we just keep going straight and we don't turn toward
the bookstore.
Or we just go back to the bookstore and jump down.
I forgot the ladder broke.
We don't want to jump 30 feet into the wolf's mouth.
I use featherfall.
I say we go through the basement of the hotel and on the way down we swing through.
The lost and found.
No, well the lost and found too for shoes for Billy but at the same time I think we
should check to see if they have real silverware downstairs.
The actual serving stuff which would be a bigger knife.
If I'm remembering correctly though, I feel like the basement of this very hotel was potentially
linked up to that same tunnel system.
Maybe we should go to this basement.
Just try going right from our basement.
I agree that guy who wouldn't serve us beer earlier.
Did he serve us beer?
He did.
He served us beer.
That guy who told us we couldn't get into the tunnels earlier, he seemed to be adamant
but I mean we could see into them so there's got to be a way, right?
Yeah and it was just blocked off a little bit.
I have a, okay so we'll bring a crowbar.
A small amount of explosives which I bought at the explosive section of the hotel lobby
in the gift shop.
I think if we go with a crowbar we could potentially break something out.
I think the crowbar is a great idea.
I do think we need some good weapons.
We should head to the hardware store because that's going to close soon.
Josh would know this.
He spends an extraordinary amount of time at the hardware store.
How far is that?
I mean it's right down the street.
Alright.
Okay let's quickly go to the hardware store.
Do you think they sell guns?
It's probably a long shot, huh?
That'd be the post office.
The hardware store does not sell guns.
However, what we will do, you guys go to the hardware store.
I don't know how much money everybody has collectively.
I don't think we've established that.
But what I will do is you guys, as you search for desired items, I will let you.
One of my strengths is that I am wealthy so I can spend money like an adult.
Nice.
Okay.
Nice.
Then what I will do, I will give everybody their choice of one item to find at the hardware
store.
You may spend an adversity token to get another item.
Maxwell, you can find two items to start with.
And if you spend adversity tokens, you can gain an additional item per token.
Does that sound fair?
Yeah.
Alright, let's do a quick buying montage.
Do you guys think I should get this big lead pipe or like two dozen doorknobs and put them
in this pillowcase?
I like the doorknobs.
I love the doorknob idea.
It seems a little unwieldy.
It's true.
I think you could save some money by not buying doorknobs and we could just get some rocks
off the street.
I like the lead pipe because if the pipe doesn't work, the lead might later on.
It's a long game.
You hope you get enough lead in and around their mucous membranes to eventually poison
them.
So when they run through the town, you know, 50 years from now, they develop something
terrible.
Just keep licking the pipe.
Licking the pipe.
Really slow torture.
Maxwell is going to choose a 50 foot length of rope.
Kind of a light climber quality so that there's strength in it.
And then a large bottle of BBs, the little round BBs.
I've got a construction helmet with a lantern on it.
Brilliant, Pilly.
A helmet's great for you.
Yeah.
It's a good way.
Now you can see and be protected.
That's him turning it on and off.
How are those new shoes that we got from Lost and Found?
Fantastic.
Nice.
They fit perfectly.
Finally.
Yeah, it was getting a little...
After hours of torture.
Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't get any blisters.
Oh, I did.
Very painful.
You must have popped them all.
I didn't see them earlier.
Josh did.
There's blood all over those white towels.
Oh, yeah.
Crap.
I saw it in my head and never said it.
When we were talking and planning, I was assuming that Josh, or I was going in my head that
Josh was folding the hand towels and stuffing them on the back of his head and then taking
a belt, tightening it around his face to stop the bleeding.
Love it.
Because he was passing out when I had control of him.
He should really go to a hospital.
No, blood's fine.
He's good now.
He just needs sugar.
Maxwell is also going to spend one adversity token to buy a package of flares.
With one adversity token, you can buy an additional thing as well with yours because you're...
You got two in one.
So you can take another item for that.
Oh, okay.
Josh, what are you taking?
Josh wants to...
Bigger crowbar.
Nope, he is upgrading.
Josh would like to get 15 feet of medium weight dog chain with a hook on the end and an 18
inch machete out of the gardening section.
You tried to get the machete last time and you were too young.
However...
Adult.
You have adult with you, I guess.
All right, yeah, spend that adversity token.
Sweet.
Fuck, am I the only one left?
I'm just going to take the pipe.
Danny's going to take the pipe.
Still got the pillowcase.
I mean, yeah, right.
I can find rocks and put the pipe in the pillowcase.
I'm tempted to say that I should get duct tape and then a weapon.
What's your great idea?
Oh, I could get a fourth item.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
So I am going to find some sort of small rods.
I'm using my fingers, audience for like four or five inches, little things that could potentially
be used to pick a lock.
Kind of like a lock.
I'm trying to like kind of do like a build my own lock picking.
Gotcha.
Here.
Okay.
Yeah, you could definitely find.
Yeah.
So it's like a little filer and like one of those picks, like an automotive pick.
Yeah.
They have.
Yeah, you can put that together.
Okay, I'm going to skip the duct tape because we have rope and we have chains.
But I was thinking I'm going to go to the garden section and get...
Are they called...
They're not hose.
What's the spiky rake thing?
Trowel?
I don't know.
Oh, you mean the little...
A spade?
No, she's talking about the little iron rakes.
Yeah.
The long one like that or the one that's like that?
Oh my God, I didn't know there were so many fucking rakes out there.
Does it look like this?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's flat, but it's bent like this.
There's one that's curved, it's got like six on it that's used for like digging out where
a plant goes and then there's the iron rakes for like getting rocks out of soil.
The one for like ripping the grass and stuff.
Yeah, it's like the little handheld one, just not for...
Figure.
So you don't have to bend over.
Yeah, okay.
That.
Okay.
And then a sledgehammer.
A two-handed sledgehammer or a one-handed sledgehammer?
Two-handed.
Or a splitting maul, which has a hammer on one and a blade on the other.
I hate hardware stores.
I don't go to them.
It's all right.
There's so many options.
Go with the sledgehammer, that's cool.
I like the sledgehammer.
Here's my thought on the sledgehammer.
When we went down to the basement and we had that little tour thing, there was the wall
with the little window that we could peek through.
We could just smash that fucking wall down.
Yeah?
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm just a boy.
Well, maybe you can't, Max, but we'll take care of it.
Me and Danny got this.
And then the rakey thing is my actual weapon.
All right, spend that adversity token.
Anybody buying anything else?
No.
All right, montage can...
Go ahead.
Yeah, one more.
All right, I'm gonna spend another token so I can get...
You can get five things.
No, you can get six things.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Awesome.
All right.
He's got way more money than I thought he did.
I hope he bought the pizza earlier.
Oh, I've been using my parents' credit card for most things.
They said only use it if it's important.
And I think so far it's been pretty important.
This seems important.
I'm gonna get...
I just realized how many things I have and my arms are starting to hurt.
So I'm gonna just get that satchel over there so I can hold it all.
And then I'm also gonna grab a small packet of rock salt.
And by small I mean enough to make that circle, because I still think that this might be supernatural.
All right, montage concluded.
The hardware guy is not very vocal, so he just cashes you out because he's trying to
close up for the day.
And he boots you out right around nine o'clock.
Okay, well I've got this nice hard hat.
This should help.
That will help.
Do you have like a weapon or something?
Does Billy get it for city tokens?
I am a weapon.
No.
Oh, that's true.
I forgot.
He might just be better off with some defense helmet pads.
I would love if he...
The one other thing he bought was just a trash can lid as like a shield.
Oh yeah.
I can just find one.
Just a metal trash can.
What about the whole trash can and he can just put our moves in there?
He can be our tank, literally.
I've had enough distractions or inability to move today.
I think that would probably be worse.
Yeah, it might be a little claustrophobic in there, but it was a good idea.
It definitely was.
Okay, so we have all of our equipment and now we just need to, I guess, get back in
the tunnels.
Do you think that we should go in the front door of the hotel with all these sledgehammers
and lights?
No.
Oh Danny, what about the way we got in last year?
I do remember there being a back door we could try.
Yeah, can Maxwell just let us in the back door?
He lives there.
I was definitely going to suggest that the last time we all went in there, I was getting
some weird looks.
Front desk was giving me eyes.
And not in the good way.
In the bad way.
Anyway...
You're pretty young to know about the good way.
I like to read.
Oh.
He's 12.
Oh.
I actually turned 13 this year.
Oh goodness.
He just turned 13.
He knows all about eyes.
Yeah, soon I'm going to get a bigger voice or a better voice.
Well, I like mine now, but eventually it's going to get different.
At least that's what the classes I've been taking say.
Anyway, I'm going to stop talking because this is awkward for me because you're an older
lady and I shouldn't be talking about these things.
That's my sister.
I know.
Should we invite your other sister on this or no?
What other sister?
Shelly!
Yeah.
We've talked about this several times.
Shelly's not your sister.
She was for a minute.
Nope.
Danny said so.
Danny did not say so.
I don't know.
I thought it was one of those two birds with one stone situation.
Another sister and a girlfriend.
Or was she just a substitute?
Like a teacher.
Danny, what are you teaching these kids when I'm away?
Or a scab.
Like when someone else is away and won't do the job, you just get someone that'll do it
as good as they can.
Are you dating Shelly?
I don't think so.
Oh.
Well.
It's never been the intention.
Or was it?
Oh.
Maybe.
Certainly not recently.
I wonder what Shelly thinks about that.
Where did Shelly go anyways?
She got angry and left.
Maybe she's at Carrie's.
Oh.
All right.
Well, I hope she's not there when we burn the apartment building down.
That would be a shame.
A real shame.
We should go and not worry about Shelly or other girl.
We're going to go to the back door.
Remember, Maxwell, when we went down to the basement, there was that one spot before the
tunnel?
Oh, I'm just going to assume this entire time, Maxwell walked to the front and you guys have
been having this conversation walking around to the back.
Hey, Max.
Max, give me your bag of stuff so it doesn't look like you're carrying shit in.
Already gone into the hotel.
Max left a long time ago.
Well, shit, we better get to the back door.
Hopefully it's unlocked.
Well, that's right.
He's coming to unlock it.
Okay.
How am I the one that knows this plan?
You don't have as much going on as some of us.
You know, when you're trying to stay conscious, you listen better.
Man, I wish there was skunks around here.
The door opens and Maxwell merges.
Come on in.
All right.
Last time, it took us three different tries with a pipe and a crowbar to get this door
open and then we were accosted by a janitor.
Oh.
Well, we didn't even have the forethought to bring the piping crowbar with us that time.
I think it helps if you just have a key or access to the inside through a...
Anyway, I'm sorry you got accosted.
It's okay.
I froze his arm.
It might have fell off.
Who knows?
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Um...
This was certainly much easier.
Yeah, we should go in.
Go.
Yeah.
Quietly, stealthily.
All right.
You guys are in the basement.
You can see the entrance to the speakeasy.
It just has a rope up in front of it and the door is closed, but that's it.
And there's no other...
We don't see any tour guides or janitors or...
No, the tours are long over for the day.
Okay.
It is now after nine o'clock, so...
Can I go see if...
I'll sneak under the rope.
Yeah, see if the door's open.
The door is not open itself.
It does seem locked.
Oh, there's a rope in front of the door.
Yeah, you know, one of those like velvet ropes that corral people.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like that.
Very secure, but the door is locked.
I've got the sledgehammer.
Are there any other places that seem like we can go in the basement or it's just like,
this is the door and we have to get through that or does it look like we can see there's
further down there?
There might be another entrance to the tunnel because the tunnel seemed like it went further.
The tunnel basically wraps around the entire foundation of the building.
However, the only other rooms down here are like the rest of the lockers and the laundry
room and maybe some janitorial closets, functional areas of the hotel.
Okay.
I'm going to try the lockpicking gear that I got from the hardware store.
And I'm going to look in the janitorial closet and some of the lockers to see if there's
a set of master keys.
All right.
Well then on that, let's get a grit roll from Maxwell first.
Let's see.
We'll put it at an eight.
Okay.
We've got to roll pretty high on this one.
Rolling with a D10.
That's a four.
Okay.
Four is not successful and you do break one of your picks.
We'll say you have like three solid picks to use.
So you snap one of them.
All right, guys, I'm not going so well the first time.
I only have two more of these left, so I want to be careful about using it.
Well let's look around in some of these staff areas and see if we can maybe find some keys
or something like that.
I'm going to use a sledgehammer on the door.
All right.
Danny, while you're looking around, why don't you go ahead and give me a brain's roll?
Let's do a six.
And Andy, from you only need a strength roll of a three.
Strength, brawn?
Do we blow up in this game?
Yes, we do.
I got a four.
I'm good.
I got a 13.
All right.
So simultaneously you find a set of keys in one of the janitor's lockers and Andy smashes
the door knob off the door.
Okay, guys, I think we're in.
I'll swing the door open.
Leave no trace, huh?
Oh, is that what we were doing?
Sorry.
We were trying to be sneaky about it.
Listen, we fought with doors for a long time last time.
I just wanted to get past it and move on.
No one's going to come in the tunnels looking for us.
You kind of made some noise, so let's get going.
Yep.
I pick that door knob up and put it in the pillowcase.
Yes.
This is how we do it.
Start in a collection.
All right.
You guys walk into the speakeasy.
The lights are off.
And as you were in there, Billy turns his headlamp on.
Oh, kind of spooky in here.
Very spooky.
Good thinking with that headlamp, Billy.
Thank you.
It's to protect my head and also allow me to see.
I'm going to snap the flashlight on and look for light switches.
Oh, yeah.
There's lights.
You find them pretty easy.
Let's head over to where the looking area into the tunnel is.
Okay.
You head over to the small window that leads directly out into the tunnels.
It's got several bars across the front of it, and the light is out in the tunnel that
was on earlier.
It is not on at the moment.
But yeah, it's just a concrete wall with some bars.
Can I borrow one of your flashlights?
Yeah, here.
I want to look in the bars and like to the sides of the tunnel and see if there's another
door, another entrance way that looks like we can find her from in here before we start
taking out this wall.
All right.
Yeah, give me another brain's roll of a four.
Four.
Exactly a four.
Solid.
As you look down the tunnel to your left, which would be further down Main Street than
you guys have been down in the tunnels, you do see that there is what looks to be a little
hatchway, only a few feet further down this wall from you.
Well, guys, it looks like there might be another way in further down there.
I don't know if we want to try and go around the way and search for that or try and get
through this solid wall here.
I mean, we should probably try to search for something.
What is on that side of the room?
Mostly booths where one would sit.
No door or anything like that.
Nope.
Air vent.
Okay.
And the hatchway is located down closer to the floor level.
Yeah.
So originally, they set up the tours to be from here, so there has to be a door into
the tunnel somewhere.
I'm going to go start lifting the cushions off of the booths.
Awesome.
Want to make you roll for that.
As you continue to pull those away, you do notice that behind one, you crank on it a
little and it's a little stiff.
But as you wrench it away from the wall, there is another hatchway behind one of these seats.
Hey, guys, I think I found something.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Is it locked or is there any way to?
I mean, it's been closed for quite some time, so I don't think it's locked, but I think
it's stiff.
Okay.
I'm going to try and shake and pull it open.
Give me a brawn.
Check's going to be at a five.
That's a one.
Let me give that a try for you, Josh.
As I slip back and fall on my ass.
Yeah, here.
I'll hold the flashlight for you.
All right.
Thanks.
Blow that up.
Get a 14.
You were able to get your fingers in where they need to be and you just wrench this door
right open and out of this booth and you do now have a crawl space to enter into the dark.
All right.
I'm going to hold on to this flashlight, Josh, and I'll shimmy in here first.
And I get down an army crawl through this little hatchway.
Yeah, it is.
It is definitely a crawl space.
So you go and you follow the tunnel around a 90 degree turn.
And then you were once again faced with another solid wall in front, not a wall, but like
a hatchway or the door out in front of you.
All right.
Okay, guys.
I'm going to try and push on this other hatch on the other side here.
Okay.
Same brawn roll as before.
Oh, I only got a three this time.
So it's pretty tough to push open.
Maybe it's the angle that you're at.
Hey, Danny, here, try using the pipe.
Get it wedged in there.
All right.
I'm going to try and shimmy the pipe up and against this thing.
Maybe that you saw the little crowbar.
Maybe I can whack this pipe and get the hatch open.
Oh, yeah, here.
I'll pass them up the crowbar as well.
All right.
The check will be reduced to a three.
All right.
Let's give this a try.
Seven All right.
You're able to pop the door open.
And now there is a clear tunnel from the speakeasy into the tunnels themselves.
All right, guys, we're through.
Come on.
Nice.
Oh, Andy.
Yeah.
I don't really want to die.
Um, I mean, you won't.
You can stay behind me.
Okay.
Is that okay?
Yeah, sure.
Do you want to go home?
No, not really.
But I don't want I definitely don't want to go to the hospital.
Josh has told me horror stories about those.
Oh, I wouldn't worry.
It's where the frog people are living.
No, I wouldn't worry about what Josh says about the frogs.
He also says there's frog meat.
It's true.
I don't think it's true.
There's also frog meat at school.
No, that's not really that is true.
It's gray.
Billy, it's not real.
Don't listen to Josh.
I don't know what's real.
It's not real.
Just stay behind me.
And if you start bleeding again, let me know.
All right.
And you guys are in the tunnels.
All right.
So it's a kind of dark and dusty in here, guys.
Let's all stay close.
Josh, how many flashlights do you have?
We've established that I have one.
And I have a headlamp.
Okay.
Better keep that on.
We should have bought more flashlights.
I really thought that was going to be like one of the number one items that was purchased
at the hardware store.
But I forgot we were the dark.
I just assumed Josh would have a backpack full of flashlights.
I had tried to establish that earlier.
And Riley was like, you have one flashlight.
I was like, I pull out the flashlights for the group.
And he's like, you have one.
Oh, see, I picture Josh having like a bunch of those big heavy black ones and then like
those ones that like are on envelope openers.
And then a backup one that you have to shake.
The wind up one.
One has a radio in it.
After all the shit that's happened.
The real thing is just how big Josh's bag is, is the fucking huge.
Ridiculous.
Poor kids.
I assume.
He looks like a turtle.
I assume my kids are good at school, so they pack all their books and everything in.
I assume that since Josh is bad at school, his bag is just as big and heavy, but has
nothing to do with school.
Yeah.
It's like no book in sight, clothing, flashlights, ball bearings, random screws.
What is it?
What is the order?
I guess what is the formation of the group?
I mean, I think Andy and Danny are in the front lot.
Billy's behind me.
Billy.
Maxwell?
Someone with a light needs to be up towards the front.
He's got my light, but I'm also carrying some of his stuff.
I figured going through the tunnel, you were behind me.
Yeah.
Billy and Maxwell behind you.
Says Billy and I in the back.
I think so, wouldn't I?
Unless you want to be somewhere else.
You want to be in the front?
Or in the middle?
I mean, flares, right?
The second middle, third middle, whatever you want.
Oh, you do have road flares.
Yeah, I guess I could stay in the back.
Okay.
So for those of you who have the light in the front, I guess Billy would be standing
in the back with Max because he's behind Andy.
So Danny and Josh and Andy being at the front with your single light, up ahead of you about
50 yards, you start to see some anomalies on the floor, or on the ground of the tunnel
up in front of you.
They're not moving, but you can see that the floor has a different terrain up ahead.
I hope that's not bodies.
All right, there's some stuff up at the top.
I'm going to try and shine the flashlight more over in that area to get a better view.
Do we smell them before we see them?
Guys, what's going on up there?
Why are you starting to walk?
Why are you starting to slow down?
Something different is that I can't tell if there's a hill or if there's an animal in
the path, but something's up here.
How many flares?
All right, I'm going to light one of these flares.
Wow, that's really bright.
Throw it.
No.
Why would I throw a light source?
See, I would throw them lights on us and kill ours so we can see what's up there.
I want the light.
We just went through this in the beginning episode.
Bravery.
Something desired, not acquired.
Your guys' spot is much brighter now.
The light from the flare is probably overpowering the flashlight in the direct vicinity.
Billy's just looking behind everybody, trying to shine a little light forward, but he's
got a miner's helmet on, not a flashlight.
It's not like a very focused beam.
It's not an adult helmet.
No, that'd be too big.
In the tunnel, the air quality has changed.
The smell of the air is no longer just dust.
It smells a bit more putrid.
Did someone fart?
Unfortunately, I don't think so.
What are all those weird bumps up there?
Can we see them?
Do we know that they're...
Are you walking closer to them?
Yeah.
As you guys get closer, you can make out that there are bones and how I guess they're...
Well, yeah, they're bee bones, but not like old decayed and body parts.
As you're walking, you can see a large swath of a yellow tattered shirt with a arm in it.
Just littered all around the floor is various body parts.
Oh, God.
Stop.
Andy throws up.
Take a few steps back.
Andy, definitely throws up.
I think we found Dale.
I think so too, or at least what's left of him.
Does it look like it's been gnawed on?
Yeah, definitely.
Okay.
How many of them flares do you have, Maxwell?
I bought the 10 pack.
So we got a little bit left on this one, then we're down to nine.
I think we should light one and throw it forward in the tunnel.
I'm just going to throw the one I have.
Take something you have and just chuck it as far down as like, man, I don't know if I
should be the one doing that.
Maybe someone else wants to.
You got to test a bunch of chances, Andy.
Come on, it's a brawn roll from the distance.
I'm going to throw it.
In a tight tunnel.
All right, yeah, we'll set no actual check at the brawn roll.
I just want to see how far, based on your dice roll, it goes.
For brawn?
Yeah.
This is a D4.
Yeah.
Four.
All right.
Blow it up.
Four.
Blow it up.
Three.
All right.
Nice.
Eleven.
An epic moment of muscle-ness, muscle-iness.
You whip this flare.
It's like the perfect weight for Maxwell to be able to throw as far as he can.
And after realizing that he recently watched a documentary on the ins and outs of pitching
well, you give it your first try since being able to watch that.
And you send this down the tunnel as far as you can.
And it lands right in front of where there's an alcove to your left, down this tunnel.
Wow.
Maxwell, that was really good.
I think it's all the milkshakes we've been having.
Wow.
I'm going to add that into my diet forever, I think.
Yeah.
You should join the softball team.
You threw that far.
That... it's abnormal for me.
It's exciting.
It feels good to succeed in a physical thing.
That looks also like it landed right in front of another door.
And it didn't look like it passed over any large beasts, so we can move forward and be
slightly less anxious.
Thank God.
I was really scared it was going to land at the feet of a wolfman.
Do you think that we should...
I don't want to say it out loud, but the thought's already there.
Would we acquire any of these body parts to prove to police there's been murders?
On the way back, maybe?
Or would that make us...
I don't want to touch them right now.
Subjects of murders.
They'd be like, it's a child cult.
And they murdered everyone, trying to blame it on innocent twin girls.
I mean, they might get suspicious because we did kill all those people last year, too.
What?
They don't know that.
I mean, I guess I mostly did.
Oh no!
These guys pushed some people into a hole.
They kind of killed themselves with that whole demon summoning thing.
Yeah.
I mean, it wasn't that we just went out to look for murdering.
And these kind of smell.
Yeah, these definitely smell bad.
Yeah, we should keep walking.
Andy threw up right on my shoe.
This is where that galosh would have came in really handy.
Now that I'm wearing flip-flops, this sucks.
Do you want to go back to the t-shirts?
Yeah.
Give me the pillowcases you guys got.
They're full of doorknobs.
The keys are also in that bag.
Which foot did she throw up on?
Both of them.
It's in between my toes.
Well, this is a left foot.
And?
I'm going to knock a shoe towards him.
The foot's still on it.
I've learned anything.
It's that we should not pick up any of the body parts.
Okay.
They will not come in handy later.
Yeah, Danny had that thumb in his pants for a long time.
We should probably get out of here.
This is way grosser than I ever thought it would be.
We keep going.
We keep walking.
All right.
And you walk down to the alcove?
I guess.
Yes.
There is a short tunnel to the left that leads into the dark, similar to how you guys found
the tunnel to the bookstore.
However, obviously in the opposite direction.
It is long and dark and only about wide enough for a single person at a time to get down.
Oh, man.
After you, Danny.
I can't do the flashlight in your pipe.
I'm going to just take the pipe.
I guess.
And not the flashlight?
You're not going to be coordinated enough to hold them both.
Hey, Billy, can Danny wear your helmet for just a second?
I think we're safe up here.
You think we're safe?
Well, I mean, I think we're safe.
You think we're safe?
Okay, never mind.
I figured it out.
I can just shove the flashlight in the end of the pipe.
Use the rope to tie the flashlight to his face.
Well, Danny, I'll have an extra hand for your trash can lid.
Oh, I forgot that back with the shoes.
All right.
I'm probing on with my extra long pipe extended flashlight.
As you go, there is a ladder in front of you at the end of this hallway.
However, this one is not as tall as the one that led to the bookstore.
It's about half the height.
All right, guys, there's another ladder at the end of this hall.
I'm going to head up.
It's not quite as big as the last one and it looks substantially less rotted out.
Well, just a quick thought.
What if the wolf man lives in this apartment and comes down this ladder to eat?
And so we're just going right into the wolf's den.
I mean, wasn't that kind of the plan?
I thought we were looking for girls.
I mean, not in that way.
I'm 13, but in the...
This is not a good place to pick up girls, Max.
Well, put them down more than anything.
Oh my gosh.
Put them down.
Definitely don't bring them here on a date.
But yes, you're right.
I don't think we meant to walk right into the wolf's den, but we might be.
I mean, do we want to wait down here and see if they come out of this narrow passageway
and ambush them?
I definitely don't want to stay down here.
That's rather gross down here.
I kind of just...
It's hard to get my feet moving in either direction, to be honest with you.
It's okay, Max.
I'm here.
I'll protect you.
You're my friend now.
Thanks, Billy.
All right.
I guess we go up the ladder.
Danny first.
Okay.
He's the leader of this group.
I don't think we can get around him anyway.
Yeah, it's single file.
That's true.
I'm...
Oh, I just didn't hear like some sardines.
All right.
I'm going to go to the top of the ladder and I'm going to first just gently press...
Is it a trap door that I'm coming?
This one is a trap door as well.
Yeah.
So I'm going to first just press and make sure it's not like, you know, completely blocked
and it won't move at all.
And then I'm going to try and just gently peek my head up and see.
Well, first when I move it, does any light come through?
Does it look like there are...
It's dark.
It's dark on the other side?
Okay.
I'm going to slowly open it up and try and look around and hopefully not get ambushed
right away.
Okay.
So when you peek your flashlight up through, you are presented with a pretty small space,
actually.
It's only a few feet wide.
And on one side is a plaster and lath wall and on the other is a brick wall that would
match the exterior of the silk mill if you were looking at it from the outside.
Okay.
All right.
There's no monsters up here, guys.
Everybody get up here quick.
It's a very small area though.
As you continue to move up, you are presented with a very old spiral staircase that leads
just impossibly high.
Not impossibly high, but up many stories.
Where are we?
We're...
I feel like we got to be in like, or next to the silk mill.
The apartments?
The apartments.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know if this is like a secret stairwell that's built into the corner.
There have been a lot of secret rooms.
Yeah.
There have been a lot of secret rooms, finally.
This is an old town, you know?
It looks like we're in between walls.
There's a good chance of that.
Okay.
Well, I guess nowhere to go but up.
Unless we want to go through a wall, but I don't know if we should do that.
Maybe the walls should stay up for now.
We'll deal with that later if we need to.
That's a good exit plan.
Maybe a slow exit plan, but a decent one.
Oh, it's very feasible.
These walls are fragile.
Yeah, as you guys are talking, you can actually hear sounds and muffled voices coming from
the other side of the lath and plaster wall.
We should keep it down.
And we start climbing?
Yeah, I'm gonna start climbing the stairs.
You climb up and up and up.
What you believe has to be at least four floors, and there's no landings, and it's just this
one ladder.
The longest single spiral staircase that you've ever seen.
And eventually you get to the top.
And Maxwell and Josh, Billy would probably know, but probably wouldn't, that when you
guys went up to the top, originally there were only three floors.
And so when you guys get up, you are faced with a landing and a single door lays in front
of you.
Up here does not look like the rest of the silk mills.
It's much older, it's dustier, it's more wooden.
There's less finished walls and everything.
It definitely doesn't look renovated or to the same level as the rest of the silk mill,
but there is a single door in front of you.
And the landing is a spot where we can all be off of the stairs nonetheless.
And it is lit up here too, there is a single light.
Can Josh hear anything through the door?
There is no sound coming from inside.
Hey Josh?
Yeah?
Remember when we were in here doing the doorbell plan?
How many sets of stairs did we go up?
Three?
I thought it was three too, but I swear we just went up four.
So I think we're in the attic?
I guess so, that'd be the...
It's a big attic if it is, because I don't know, I guess I don't know.
It could be the whole top floor of the building.
I wonder if there's a whole hidden floor up here.
Let's slowly try turning the doorknob.
Yeah, I can't hear anything through here.
It doesn't sound like there's anyone in there.
Well should we open it slowly or should we just kick it down to breach?
No.
Well, we definitely don't want to make anyone below us angry because they really don't like
us.
But they also might not know we're here.
That's why I don't want to kick the door in.
Yeah, but I mean, how would they know?
There's no like staircase up here.
Well, let's try...
How would they even find us?
They might just think we're squirrels.
Yeah.
We also don't know who's behind this door, so let's keep it quiet now.
Who's behind door number one?
And we should open it.
Well, the hidden doorknob has got like an old skeleton keyhole I can look through.
Definitely.
I think he's asking the DM, not Billy.
Billy's already scoped out the keyhole.
Billy loves keyholes.
What do you see in there, Billy?
Nothing.
I don't have dark vision.
Oh, only one, Billy.
Well, we know that it's dark then.
Should we smash out this light bulb and open the door and no one would know?
You want to make it darker?
No one would know we're opening the door if they're in there.
Well, I mean...
It's nighttime.
Maybe they're sleeping and the lights are off.
Is the door locked?
I don't know.
All right.
I'm gonna...
Well, first we should see if the door knob opens.
We don't have to push the door open, but if it opens, we'll count to three and then I'll
pop another flare, whip the door open, and I'll throw the flare in.
We'll shut the light off at the same time out here.
The skies are numbers, so they might think there's only one person.
Great idea.
Okay.
Who's opening the door?
I think...
Flare boy?
I really, really like the idea of throwing the flare in.
When we were talking before about burning the whole place down, it sounded far-fetched,
but we were well on the way there.
I think we should maybe just search with the flashlight first, but get that flare ready
just in case.
All right.
It is already.
All right.
I'm gonna open the door.
Danny's gonna open the door with the flashlight.
When you touch the knob, almost as soon as you touch it, the door just...
It doesn't seem like it's latched very well.
Maybe the door knob doesn't fit into the hole very well, because as soon as you touch it,
the door very easily opens all the way in.
And as I shine the flashlight in, I'm immediately faced by two creepy twins.
You are faced with what looks to be an apartment.
Oh, hey, this is a pretty nice apartment up here.
It is actually very big, and it does have two large windows at either side that would
either look out towards the street or towards where the old lake and steel mill was, that
direction.
Okay.
Cool.
But no signs of life?
No.
Or death.
I mean, you haven't investigated that far yet, so I don't know.
Okay, well...
I'm gonna flip on the lights if there's light switches.
All right.
Josh enters, flipping on the lights.
You have now lit up at least what you can see.
I guess we all go in, right?
There's some real big windows.
Well, I guess we're trying to find them, so...
Can we draw the current?
Draw attention.
Oh.
Well, I feel like it's less suspicious to have full lights on than to see flashlight
beams going through windows.
This is true.
Are there curtains on the windows so we could just close them?
Sure.
We could just close these curtains, guys.
Well, let's do that also.
Andy closes all the curtains.
Okay.
So one giant...
If we could see both ends of the building, it would kind of imply this is just one large,
like, giant one-bedroom apartment that takes up the entire floor.
It's more like the main body of the apartment takes up the entire floor.
There does seem to be maybe several smaller rooms.
Kind of up on the sides.
Up on the sides, yeah.
Okay.
But like the original...
Like the kitchen, the living room, any sitting areas, any common spaces are centrally located
right in the middle and take up the entire...
Most of the floor and most of the room.
So a great room style with maybe two bedrooms in the back and a bathroom?
Yeah, there's some rooms.
The doors are closed.
I'm not gonna give you the whole folio.
I'm just wondering what I see, if it's like a little hallway that goes back towards the
bedrooms or...
No, they're directly right off the space.
We should start looking to see if we see anything with names on it.
I mean, maybe this is where Erickson lives.
I walked through the kitchen.
We didn't find him on any of the other three floors.
Maybe it's because we never got to the floor with a door to knock.
I'm gonna search the kitchen fridge where you hang up all of your personal information.
I was heading towards the kitchen to check the fridge and the counter space.
Danny and Andy, where are you guys checking?
I'm gonna look on if there's a coffee table or a dining table.
Any surface that looks like it might have some documents or...
Yeah, or the table by the front door.
I'll go in some of the bedrooms.
Billy comes with me, I think.
Sure.
Come on, Billy, let's go.
All right.
Okay, let's...
Sorry.
Tim, you're checking the fridge.
Yeah, Josh and I are checking the kitchen area.
Opening the fridge, you open it and you see a...
I wasn't gonna open it.
Oh, I was.
You're looking at...
I was totally planning on opening the fridge.
I wasn't.
So I guess I'm stuck.
I was just gonna look out for all the bills and stuff that people always hang on the outside.
Gotcha.
You can see several that say Erickson.
Josh, this is his house.
This is where he lives.
Inside, you can see a bottle or a jug of milk that also says Erick Z written on it.
What the fuck?
Who labels their milk?
Yeah, that's kind of weird, huh?
Do you think that Erick Zon is the milk?
I'm sorry, it's been a long day.
That doesn't make any sense.
Does he have roommates?
Are there any other foods labeled?
Are there any other names on foods?
Anything that's labeled in here is labeled Erick Zon.
What a fucking weirdo.
But is everything labeled?
No, not everything is labeled.
Just the jug of milk and we'll say some Chinese food containers to go along with the coins
on the table, the Chinese coins that make a lot of noise.
This kind of implies there might be more than just Erick living here.
Yeah, it's still kind of weird because you wouldn't do this with your family members,
right?
I've never put my name on milk.
Neither have I.
It's kind of a communal thing.
This man likes bones, strong bones.
There's soda in there.
He likes bones.
Sure.
Let me grab one.
There's plenty of fridge.
You grab one.
Okay.
Danny, you're looking at the table and the coffee table.
On the coffee table, there's no television or anything in here.
By one of the windows, there definitely is a nice seat that someone would sit in that
plays music.
You can tell when there's sheets of music in the corner and there's a lot just spread
out everywhere.
I don't know how well Versed Danny is actually at reading music or if he is at all.
However, you do also find on one of the coffee tables a picture of an older man and two young
girls that look to be identical.
Guys, got this creepy picture here of an old man and some twins and they're girls, so we
must be on the right track.
We got stuff in the fridge that says Erick Zahn.
This is definitely where Erick Zahn lives.
Do you think the twins are his daughters?
Maybe his nieces?
I don't know.
But that would make him their uncle.
Josh heads over and look at the picture to see if he can identify the twins.
Oh yeah, they're definitely the twins.
On the back of the photo, is it labeled?
Sentiments on it?
It is 93.
It would definitely be.
Yes, it does have a date.
1802.
It's the summer of 16.
1013 1969.
In the bedroom.
That was a year ago yesterday.
That was 20 years ago yesterday.
Hey, hey, uh, Andy?
Yeah?
Look at this picture.
I recognize this guy.
In the picture, you can see Jim Tambor shaking hands with two other gentlemen about the same
age as him.
Yeah, that's Jim from that stuff last year.
Yeah.
Do we recognize who he's shaking hands with?
Why don't you go ahead and make me a brains check?
Oh yeah.
I rolled a 14, plus one is 15.
Yeah, that's plenty.
One of the men in the picture looks enough like Jim that you could probably intuit this
is his brother, brother Jeff.
Uh, Billy, we should show everybody this.
Guys, this is his brother Jeff.
He just got out of prison.
Maybe the other person is Eric Zahn since this apparently is where he lives.
And we don't know what he looks like.
Yeah.
Was that the same picture with the two girls in it or no?
It's not the same picture.
It is a different picture.
Yes.
It is.
They're different pictures in different places, but looking at them, the man looks the same
in both pictures.
The one man you don't know.
Okay.
So that's definitely Eric.
Okay.
So they're obviously working together.
Well, that's not good.
Yeah.
But what's up with the twins?
I mean, maybe they're like taking advantage.
I mean, their kids, Jim's kids were involved in the cult before, so maybe he's like grooming
them from a young age.
But shouldn't they be real old now?
Yeah.
These kids should...
This was 20 years...
These are different kids.
Oh, yeah.
The twins.
In the picture.
These are different.
These are the same as other kids.
Maybe they're ghosts.
Maybe they're stuck in an endless cycle of...
Maybe they're dead and they're reanimated bodies.
I think I said that at the beginning.
Are they reanimated bodies?
bodies.
As you guys are all standing in here comparing photos,
you hear the front door creak and slowly close.
The door that we came in.
The front door.
Burn it down!
Which is a different door than we came in?
No, that's the door that you guys, sorry.
But no one's closing it.
It's closing itself.
We don't know.
Is there anybody there?
Josh looks up immediately, hands on his machete.
Looking at the door?
Looking at the door.
Great.
As you guys see just the door close,
nobody realizes in time to catch the seat around the door.
There's nobody standing at the door closing it.
However, Josh, you hear first,
probably before anybody else, the sound of violins.
Oh no.
Give me a flight check, actually, of a four.
It's a one.
You don't realize standing here in the kitchen,
Maxwell, you're also in the kitchen,
so you're pretty close.
You don't realize, but Maxwell, you're gonna see,
now standing behind Josh, are two twin girls.
And the violin music begins to crescendo.
I immediately reach into my right pocket,
which is what I have packed full of rock salt
and whip it at them.
Sick.
Let's see a grit check.
Let's call it a six.
Five, we'll call it a five.
Five.
All right, you throw salt at these two,
and I don't know if it has the desired effect.
It doesn't make them go away.
However, you do basically pocket sand with salt their eyes,
and they are visually shook for a moment.
Hell yeah, salt in your eyes sucks.
Yes, it does.
So for, we'll say one turn, they are distracted at least,
due to the salt.
Get the pillowcases, get the pillowcases.
Home invasion.
If I can, I'm going to not even look behind me,
but just leap forward to put distance.
I assume something is right behind me.
You just got pelted in the back.
Yeah, I just got pelted on the side,
and probably heard something, see you,
and just distance.
I think we'd all hear that
and come running into the kitchen, right?
Most of you are actually already in the area,
like everybody's in the same central area now,
so you're all in the same vicinity.
Everybody can see this chaos, yes.
Do the girls not yell?
They just take salt in the eyes,
and they're like champs.
Yes.
Holy shit.
That's actually scary.
That is scarier.
Actually, at this point, I'm not sure,
yeah, they don't make noise,
but also now everybody can hear the same violin music,
and it is very loud.
We gotta smash that fucking violin.
Can we hear where the violin's coming from?
Yeah, where is the violin?
It's coming from everywhere.
It sounds like it's coming from everywhere.
Which makes me think he might be playing out of the book in
the bookstore.
He's in the bookstore?
Or he could be in one of the other rooms.
Someone else would be the connection
between the violin and the book.
Is he playing music out of it?
Is it something like...
Anyway, we're in combat, so.
I said we're in his house.
There's signs of him playing music.
What if he's just playing the violin in his house somewhere
in a room, being all creepy?
Or on the other side of the door.
We could try it.
We have an opportunity to find that out.
Well, I mean, I think in this minute,
we would just start attacking the girls.
We wouldn't be putting the pillowcases?
I think pillowcase on the head and tying them up
is to each other.
I mean, I imagine you guys are closer, so.
We got the table, we have an unlimited water supply.
We're doing this.
Yeah, Josh is.
Josh is looking for a fight right now,
because he's all paranoid and amped up.
All right, tell me what you all do.
Okay, I'd throw in the rock salt.
And once I see, I hear the commotion, I turn around,
I see the girls distracted by getting rock salt
in the eyes, and I immediately run over with
one of the pillowcases that's not with a door knob in it,
and put over one of their heads.
I'm kind of taking up a defensive stance
with the machete and the crowbar,
trying to corral, I guess, the best I can.
I don't want to charge in and fight them,
but I also don't want to.
I was just gonna smoke one in the back of the head
with my rake thing.
You should do that.
Okay, I will.
The handle or the spikes?
The spikes.
Oh, golly.
How else do you use this weapon?
It's just a cheap wooden handle,
it's gonna break if I use the other one.
Deadly efficient.
All right, all right, we'll just resolve all of this
at the same time.
Danny's running up, throwing a pillowcase over one's head.
Josh is assuming a defensive posture.
Maxwell just threw salt in the eye, so his combat's done.
You're gonna try to stab one in the head.
Is it the same one with the pillowcase or the other one?
The other one.
Okay.
What's Billy doing?
Billy's a little shocked and confused,
but he'll chip in, don't worry.
And all right, Danny, you are gonna give me a brawn check.
I need a brawn check of an eight.
Andy, I need a grit check from you of a four.
I got a seven.
I got a six, but I have protective
plus three rolls of protecting friends.
Awesome.
Perfect, turn that six into a nine.
Nice. Fantastic.
All right, so the two of you run up
and you take the girls by surprise
because they've got salty eyes.
And Danny, you're able to get the non-filled pillowcase
over the one's head.
Simultaneously, Andy, you take that little rake thing
that we haven't decided what the name of it is yet,
and you smoke the other girl in the head with it
from a good distance.
And she reels backwards from you
and drops something onto the floor.
At this point, she looks like she would scream,
like her mouth is open, but no sound comes out.
Danny, the one that you have grappled, we'll say,
makes no attempt to move.
She's just in the pillowcase.
And Billy is just standing there in shock at the moment.
The violin continues to play,
and the twin that just got smoked in the head
with the rake stares at you, Andy,
and her face contorts,
and it looks like she's screaming at you.
And suddenly, you feel a jerking motion on your shirt,
and you are pulled across the room to this girl,
and she grabs onto you.
Danny, while you are holding the one
who's not fighting back at all,
you can see her clench some fists
underneath this pillowcase,
and suddenly you are bucked off
and send flying back four feet from her location.
She dives towards the object that the other twin had dropped
when hit by the rake on the kitchen floor.
However, at the same moment, Billy begins to scream,
and as he does, you can see a cold cone of breath
coming from his mouth, headed towards the twin sister.
Um, yeah, he just screams,
and it comes out like a dragon's breath.
Give me two D4 rolls.
And he looks at the camera
as he pulls out a pack of Mentos.
This is how it feels to chew five gum.
That's way better than Mentos, yeah.
So looking for a roll of a four.
I got two twos.
Okay, that's a total of four.
Oh, I was adding, yay.
Those two things add together, which is great.
I don't actually remember how I came up
with that mechanic for this,
but we've used it a few times.
So that works, and he freezes this twin's arm to the ground
before she is able to grab.
What you can now see,
what everybody else in the room can now see,
is the dagger, however, the other twin
is still holding Andy in her clutches.
Which kid is closest to me, other than the twin girls?
Like, of our group.
Oh, of our group? Yeah.
Danny and Billy are probably the closest.
Maxwell's in the kitchen still?
Who's closest to the knife?
I hadn't moved because I didn't know
how much time had passed.
Okay.
The last thing I did was throw the rock.
That's right, so Maxwell or Danny
would be closest to the knife.
Well, I just got kicked back.
Yes, you're on the ground,
but you're still like relatively close.
You're closer than Josh,
because Josh jumped as far away as he could get.
The twin that's holding Andy,
does she now have her back to Josh?
Because that's who he was squaring off with.
She's furthest away, so she's facing everybody.
Okay. At this point.
Okay.
Andy's gonna scream to the boys, grab the knife.
So who's on, is there anyone on the opposite side
of where I am?
So it's me, it's gonna be the girl that I'm close to
who had dropped the knife, or did the girl,
the knife I'm assuming is still on the ground.
What's the status of the building?
I'm gonna dive for the knife.
Maxwell, diving for the knife.
That would be a grit check, I believe.
All right, grit check.
Josh is gonna dive for the twin
that is frozen to the ground,
and come down with the machete,
try and continue to prevent her
from moving towards the dagger.
Okay, Maxwell, you're closest.
Give me a grit check, if four.
I got an eight.
You got an eight, you're able to dive over this twin
and grab the dagger up off the floor.
Josh, give me a brawn of a six.
Two.
Maxwell, you get the dagger.
Billy's standing there recuperating
from blowing his ice breath out of his mouth.
He's wintery fresh.
Andy, you are tied up.
Danny, what are you doing?
Just been kicked to your ass, sent four feet away.
And I see-
You see Josh- Maxwell, she's jumped towards the knife.
I'm going to throw my pipe towards the other,
the one twin that has taken the,
well, that's getting beaten up.
The one closest to me.
Make a brawn check for me, for the six,
and then we'll resolve how both of you attack this child.
Maybe I should attack the other one.
Where's the other?
To you, you would have Andy in between.
Yeah.
Like, she's being held.
Okay, so I'm actually gonna just dive
at the one that's holding Andy
and try and apprehend her.
Okay.
Not with the pillowcase.
You're gonna grapple the grappling child?
Yes.
Okay.
Nine.
Josh, you jump forward with your machete
to try to come down on this child
who's frozen to the floor.
Maxwell scrambles over top of her, grabbing the dagger.
You come down, and as you do,
your machete makes purchase with the brick floor,
or with the wood floor.
And the girl is no longer where you were aiming.
Danny, as you run over and grapple the other twin,
trying to pull her off Andy,
suddenly your arms collapse together,
and you run face first into Andy,
and the girl is no longer there.
And the violin music immediately stops.
And the five of you are standing in the apartment alone.
Oh, that was scary.
I'm gonna run and open the bedroom doors
to see if there's somebody hiding in them.
Maxwell, you got the knife, right?
Okay.
All that rooms in here are empty.
Are empty, okay.
Yep.
It really sucked.
That guy's just hanging out in the bedroom closet,
catching a fiddle and leaving out the window or something.
Well, that was terrifying,
but we got the knife,
and those girls definitely just disappeared.
Yep.
That's...
We gotta get to that book now.
That was not fun,
and then I don't want that to happen again,
but I think we should stop it as fast as possible.
I agree.
As you're saying this,
you guys hear the loudest roar yet,
emanating from outside.
Outside the door?
Run over to the window and look at the window
facing the direction that the roar seems like it came from.
Okay, you run towards the main street side,
and you look out,
and on top of the school,
you can see the silhouette of a giant beast
lit up by the moonlight,
and it is roaring and howling up at the moon,
which is still full for the third day in a row.
Which means that it's not in the tunnels.
That's true.
So we should definitely go that way and not the streets.
We gotta move now.
Yep.
Right down the staircase,
right back down into the creepy dead body cave,
and then keep on trucking.
Yep.
All right, and that's where we're gonna end
today's episode.
Okay.
Next time, we will likely be finishing up.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
Our Kids on Bikes story.
Thank you so much for joining me today,
and I can't wait to see what happens
in the next episode of Tales from the Crypt.
But until then, we will see you next next Tuesday.
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And so now all six of you, five, five, five people.
Did you listen to last week's episode of Tales from the Crit?
Of course I did, Tim. Don't bring it up.
It was a great recap on what brings us to today.
We're recording now. From the clerk? Staff? Desk? I almost said matron D or whatever.
The matron D is a restaurant. That's right. That's why I just kind of brain farted.
Host? Receptionist? Receptionist? We're trying... Oh, shit. Karate chop it.
I keep wanting to call him Steve's on. I keep wanting to say Benita's on.
Give me one second.
And he freezes them to death forever.
Yeah, that's not what happens. Cone of Cold. That's not the name of it. That's D&D.