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 Kids on Bikes?
Wait, this is the finale?
If you don't remember what happened in the last episode, you should just go back and
re-listen to that one.
I mean, this is the finale, people.
You can't just come in here not knowing what's going on.
That's just... that's ridiculous.
Like, I can't stand for it.
If I told you what was going on, it'd be really irresponsible.
Well, I'm not gonna do it.
Welcome back to Tales from the Crit.
I am so excited to present our season finale and the final episode of Crit's on Bikes,
our Kids on Bikes playthrough.
Returning to the table reprising their roles, I have Rebecca.
Hello.
Tim.
Howdy.
Connor.
Hey, hey.
And Derek.
Hello.
Playing Andy, Maxwell...
No, I thought I could do it quick.
Andy, Maxwell, Danny, and Josh.
I will be reprising the role as Billy, but before we find out what happens here in the
little town of Bethlehem, we're gonna answer a question from the Ultimate RPG Campfire
card deck.
That question is for your characters, not ourselves.
The question is from our characters past, and the question is, what is the worst mistake
you have made in your time adventuring, and how does it impact you today?
I think the biggest mistake was that we didn't even try really to save Tammy and Tommy and
Jim.
We kind of just ran away.
And Andy is concerned that in the heat of the moment, we may or may not do that again.
Okay.
Danny feels like he made several mistakes in his dealing with Shelley over these past
few days.
He could have been more scrutinous and maybe a little more courteous towards her at the
end there.
Not really sure where we left things, and he does kind of regret it.
Or at least when he's able to think more about it, he will certainly.
Okay.
Is that having any impact on his current adventuring?
It's definitely something that's distracting in the background.
He's like, oh, wait a minute.
What was going on?
Where is Shelley?
He's still kind of concerned, but also kind of weirded out still about her saying that
thing about knowing the most about what was going on with Tommy and Jim, and then not
remembering the issue at the fortune teller.
And also that could have just been because she was under a spell also.
But yeah, lots of questions that he's now thinking that he was blinded by some other
emotions for the past few interactions that he might not have scrutinized as much.
All right.
Josh and or Maxwell regrets since I have come to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on this little
adventure.
It doesn't have to be on this adventure either.
It can be from a previous adventure that you were tied to.
Maxwell was tied to?
Yeah.
Okay.
Not Tim.
I mean, Tim's been on plenty of adventures, but it'd be weird.
If I can count the other game.
Yeah.
I would have to say I kind of regret just leaving that one girl behind and then she
was presumably murdered by the River people.
So yeah, that always comes into play a little bit.
I think maybe that's why he stuck so tight when he realized this group of kids was becoming
his friends.
This is like the idea of just because you don't know one as much as like you know other
people doesn't mean you should just completely abandon them or throw them away, so to speak.
That's great.
And if you guys don't know what Maxwell is talking about, Maxwell is actually from the
Badge Quest storyline in season one.
So if you haven't listened to that one, go back and listen to that.
That's very fun too.
All right, Josh.
All right.
I feel like Josh may be regretting something that probably didn't happen.
I think that he's regretting that the group wasn't there for whatever Jack might have
went through when he disappeared.
Being that he still is paranoid about his friend disappearing and everything else that
something might have happened and that the group wasn't there to help and aid in his
friend's struggle.
So a little bit of paranoia.
A little bit of paranoia.
Even though we should assume that Jack is fine.
Yes.
But Josh doesn't know that.
Josh doesn't believe it.
Awesome.
Well, don't let all of that haunt you too much.
Going into this last phase of the adventure, as you guys are standing at the top of the
stairwell waiting to descend back down, you hear the violin music once again.
And as you turn to look back towards the door, is the light still off on the landing?
I don't think any of us would have turned it back on and then the door came.
Okay.
So you guys have two flashlights standing at the top of the landing beginning to descend.
You hear the violin music start once again.
And from underneath the door, you begin to see flames.
And very quickly, they begin to encompass the entire front door and then are creeping
out towards you guys on the landing.
We still got that rope, guys.
I don't know if we're getting through that door.
You guys are outside.
We're outside.
Yes.
So the spiral staircase is the only thing in front of you.
Move down.
The door behind us is on fire?
Yes.
Oh.
Pushing us off the landing.
You're on the landing.
Yes.
Stairway in front of you, door closed behind you.
The flames are coming out from underneath the door behind you.
Oh, keep running.
Yeah.
Right?
Yes.
Go.
Andy, Andy, go, go, go, go.
Everybody give me some flight checks.
Pretty low roll.
Just a three.
I got a one.
I also got a one.
18.
Six.
We up out of here.
All right.
So this is the first one down the stairs, navigating very quickly and easily down.
The intense and immense number of stairs that are spiraling has no effect on his ability
to fly down them.
However, almost everybody else tries to run at the same time, tripping down the stairs
and landing several stairs apart from each other.
It takes you a moment to get back up.
And at this time, the fire has creeped to the top of the stairs and you can see it begin
to spread to the stairs themselves.
Well, hopefully that kerfuffle of me falling alerted some of the other people in this apartment
building that there's something going on.
You have no indication of such.
I'm sure they have fire alarms.
Let's just keep going.
Hopefully.
Oh, I thought you guys were like mid fall and I was like, we're talking about.
Yeah, you don't.
Yeah, Josh is going to keep focused on getting down the stairs.
Oh, Josh.
You made it out fine.
Okay.
Right.
You got a six.
So you leap over Maxwell, Billy and not Maxwell, Danny, Andy and Billy as they tumble down.
However, you're fine too.
Okay.
Once I get to the bottom, I'm going to immediately light another one of those flares and just
hold it above my head.
All right.
Getting down.
Right on.
So the three that had a hard time make it down the stairs and you guys are in front
of the hatch and you can see the fire spreading down the walls towards you.
I think we'd have the boys go through first.
And you get down into the tunnels and sue the door.
Okay.
That was terrible.
Um, we just keep running.
Yeah.
We got to make a mad dash for the bookstore.
I think so.
Music stop.
The music is not as loud.
Okay.
The music has definitely died down since you guys got in here, but everybody give me some
brains rolls.
Just cause we don't see them now.
It doesn't mean they're not close.
Anybody get above a four?
I got a four.
I got a five, three.
All right.
Um, so Maxwell, you still hear the sound of the violin.
However, you're not sure.
You can't pinpoint it.
Nobody else can hear that it is now no longer just, uh, omnipotent around you, but you can
hear it actually coming from the tunnel in front of you.
As you move through this single file tunnel back to the large corridor, you can hear it
getting louder.
And as you come out into the large, large tunnel, you can actually tell it's coming
from a little bit further down main street still and, uh, more in front of you towards
the other side of the tunnel.
Further away from like the motel side, like down further away from the main part of town
or closer to where the bookstore and the police station and stuff is.
I guess it's more almost directly across from you rather than down, down the road.
Oh, but run towards the school, I guess we're just going to get in that hallway and run.
Yeah.
So what do we already run to?
Back the way we came towards the hotel.
And we can decide if we're going to try and get out in the hotel and run into the top
floor of the bookstore or try and come, oh, we can't come up the ladder, right?
We broke the ladder.
There is no ladder.
Right.
But we did, we propped the door.
So we should definitely.
Yeah.
I think that's the best up through the hotel across the street.
Or to the place where we busted it open, the historic place.
Running that way regardless, right?
Okay.
So we ran down the tunnel past the body parts and it only takes not even a minute probably
to get down this tunnel running at full speed down to where the speakeasy door is that you
guys broke open.
This is like right across the street.
I say we just get out here.
Yep.
Oh, we got to crawl through that thing again.
Everybody through the crawly hole on your belly.
And the five of you pop up in the speakeasy.
Awesome.
Are we going to keep moving?
I feel like we don't have time to stop.
Yeah.
Just keep moving.
Don't listen to the concierge.
Don't even make eye contact.
Just run.
Just book it.
The first fire detector, smoke detector that's up in the thing, I'm going to presume myself
a flare going and just hold it right next to it, try to set that off so that we can
start to cause a distraction of us getting out of here and cause a distraction as we're
about to make our way over and just be in a bookstore right now.
But also to get some emergency folks.
Set up.
Fire alarm.
So that when we get out of there, something south happens.
All right.
Good idea.
Yeah.
So you set off the fire alarm in the Hotel Bethlehem.
Awesome.
And then continue running out the back door.
You are not the back.
No, we're going out the front.
We're going out the front door?
We're going out the front.
Yeah, we're going right out the front door.
I mean, so the back door would technically be closer for you guys.
If you come into the speakeasy, you'd have to go like up the stairs because it's in the
basement.
But the front door is closer to the bookstore.
That's true.
Okay.
So it's less time on the wolf too.
Instead of doing this, we're doing this.
Yeah.
Just looking like a bunch of deranged farmers and running through.
Yeah.
And so when you guys get up there, there's a lot of people that are pretty confused to
get that classic, oh, should we evacuate?
There's plenty of people leaving the bar here.
The hotel is starting to unpack its residents.
Josh stops and slams the crowbar on things.
The hotel is on fire.
Leave.
Just really sending people outside where the wolf is.
But maybe if they're in a big group, they'll be okay.
I wasn't necessarily planning to try and evacuate everyone.
Yeah.
Oh well, whatever.
It's happening.
I mean, the fire alarm is going on.
We're going outside.
Yeah.
We run to the bookstore.
As you guys are running across the street, all of the streetlights begin to flicker all
up and down Main Street.
And as there are still people on the road itself and leaving the building, you can hear
another roar coming from the woods.
And some of the residents stop and look at each other wanting, it must be the bear.
The bear is back.
We have to get back inside.
We need shelter.
And they begin to panic.
However, the cops are very quick to respond as they were right down the road.
And soon there are also several sheriffs that are pulling up investigating the scene.
The perfect distraction.
Yep.
And then we run into the bookstore, right?
Is where we're heading?
Mm-hmm.
We should already be there.
I mean, it's only across the street.
Yeah.
If you guys run there, you get there very quickly.
Yes.
Busting in through the same back door you guys have busted in through before.
Yep.
Hopefully being a little quieter this time.
Which of us has the best brawn, Danny?
My brawn is 12.
Okay.
Mine's only four.
So four.
Perhaps you should be the one to stamp the book.
As you guys enter into the bookstore, you hear a lot of screaming coming from the street
as these lights continue to flicker and then go out completely.
And you can hear the roaring of the quote unquote bear right outside the front of the
bookstore.
Guys, that bear is getting close.
Guys, let's get to the book and stab that shit and hope to God that that's how that
works.
Do you think we're supposed to stab that thing in the chest with the knife?
I mean, we should start with the book.
We're here.
Everybody give me a brains roll quick.
I don't know why I made you roll.
Anybody get lower than a one?
No.
I got 11.
Lower than a one.
As you guys are briefly contemplating as you move towards the propped open door, you can
hear the loudest roar yet.
And as you turn your head, you can see the beast is directly outside the bookstore, getting
ready to leap through the window.
Max, give me the knife.
Yep.
We'll hold him off.
The knife.
My Swiss Army knife?
The dagger.
Oh, the dagger.
Can you hand him the Swiss Army knife?
Not this little one.
Pick the other one up.
Okay.
I hand him the knife and then I pull out a flare and I start putting a line of salt in
front of the door.
Danny, I'm going to charge into that little back room and try and stab the book.
As you're running, the beast leaps through the front window.
Give me a brawn of a 10 to stab this book.
Oh, it's a two.
I don't have anything that really helps myself.
I got protective and loyal, but those are perhaps with my friends.
Anybody got anything?
Derek and Tim have flippy coin things.
I could spend it on one common item that I might be able to find.
I can spend two on a common item that I might have.
I thought we could always use them to help other roles or something.
No?
No, it has to be one of your traits or strengths.
Also, there's nothing that's going to bring it up eight points.
I'll just be honest there.
Your first attempt at stabbing the book, the dagger, you don't stab it in the right spot.
Maybe it's in your haste.
You stab the wrong or what you would assume the wrong page of the part of the book is
and the dagger just bounces back off.
The beast breaks through the window and is now in the bookstore with all of you.
Somebody should probably take over Billy quick and do something helpful.
Can he do ice breath again?
He can do ice breath again.
Okay, I'm going to take him and say, I'm going to huff and puff and blow you away.
All right, roll me two D4.
Okay.
It's going to take a six.
Oh, well, that's impossible.
I got a four.
It's not impossible.
And a four.
That's eight.
Yeah, both of those things blow up actually.
Oh, and I'm rolling.
Yeah, three.
Roll again.
Another one.
You rolled two fours.
Oh, both blow up.
And two.
So eight plus five.
I mean, that's a lot.
That's 13.
Yeah, 13.
The biggest gust of frozen air comes billowing out of Billy's mouth.
And as the beast, which you guys can definitely now see as a large werewolf like creature,
as it stalks closer to you, it slowly gets frozen in place.
And as its legs freeze into the floor and its arms, which were swinging wildly, knocking
bookshelves out of the way, slow down.
The beast is temporarily stuck here.
Danny, what do you do?
Should I try and stab the beast guys or should I try and stab the book again?
The book.
You're in the room with the book.
Go for it.
I'm going to try and stab the book again.
Eleven.
You stab into this book right where the dagger, the illustration of the dagger would be stabbing
into the beast's heart in this book.
It slides through like butter.
And as you continue to stab this dagger through the page, straight through the page disintegrates.
And so does the dagger along with it.
Oh, shoes.
The book falls down onto the ground, no longer bathed in a purple light.
And in front of you guys, the beast quickly transforms from this hideous werewolf and collapses
down and Jeff Tambor is laying in the bookstore in front of you, unconscious.
That must be Eric Zann.
No, no, that's Jeff from the picture.
This is Jim's brother.
Who's Jim?
Jim was the guy that we.
He owned the bookstore, actually.
Yeah, he did own the bookstore.
He died.
He does.
Guys, should we tie him up?
Because this is Jeff of Jim or Jim of Jeff.
Which one is this?
Two J's are confusing.
Jeff.
This is Jeff.
The brother of Jim.
Who owned the bookstore.
Yes, and is dead now.
So that's terrible.
We should tie him up, probably.
As you guys are standing here, several sheriffs begin to rush towards the building as there's
ensuing chaos outside and this giant beast just broke through the front window.
Close the trap door.
Is Jeff naked?
Oh, then.
He has.
Yes, actually, he is.
If the cops are rushing in or rushing towards us, I think we should all retreat to the room
where the book was in.
I mean, I'm a girl.
I could just stay here and be like, he attacked me and he's naked.
And so I attacked him.
I think we should hide.
OK, we hide.
My nose is bleeding a lot.
Oh, yeah, we got to get you another T-shirt.
Oh, they're in the room.
It's perfect.
All right.
And you guys run into the secret room?
Yes.
We'll say you guys get in there and are able to close the door before the cops are able
to follow you.
It's a good thing this guy has a lifetime supply of T-shirts.
And it's wild that Billy's the one that needs them all.
Oh, I'm glad he had them.
I don't feel so hot.
I feel really cold, actually.
My teeth are chattering.
Oh, we could get you some hot chocolate.
Danny, you did it.
I did something.
I mean, the dagger's gone and the page of the book completely disintegrated.
And then that beast turned into a guy.
So if we took care of the beast, maybe the girls are separate and maybe we have to smash
the violin that we have no idea where it is.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Everybody, quiet down for a second.
Do we still hear that violin music?
You do.
Coming down from below you in the tunnel.
Oh, God, it's coming from below us.
I really was hoping that that would stop when the beast stopped.
Yep.
Anyone have a ray fire bomb to drop down this hole?
I could drop a flare down.
Couldn't hurt.
It's a long drop.
And if we got to climb down, it'd be nice to know what we're landing on.
Yep.
All right, here we go.
You send another flare down.
It lands at the bottom next to the crumpled ladder.
Is there anything in here that we can tie off this rope to to rappel down the hole?
Yeah, there's a there's a good post and they post holding up a beam.
Looks pretty structurally structured.
Perfect.
Rather good.
All right, tie the rope off.
All right.
And you guys climb down the tunnel into the tunnel.
I'll go down first.
I just rappel down.
We usually would try to like sandwich the boys in there.
I'd go down next.
Yeah.
And then Andy would go up last, just in case something happened.
You would need to be up there to talk Billy down the roof.
Yeah, that's true.
I tried this in gym.
Yeah.
It went real poor.
Well, you're going to do better this time, buddy.
All right.
And Billy grabs onto the rope and almost immediately slides down, getting rope burn on his hands
all the way down.
Oh, my hands are burnt.
Much worse than last time.
Me and the two other boys are down there trying to catch Billy.
That's why I went first.
This sucks.
This day's been terrible.
I'm going to slide down.
It's not over yet.
We'll get you to the doctor soon.
I might think that being grounded was safer.
Mom doesn't like me, but she usually doesn't beat me or light me on fire or freeze me or
try to stab me.
And she gives me shoes.
Josh rocks by.
Yeah, definitely safer for you to stay home, Pat's on the back.
Let's go.
For now we press on Billy and we follow the sound of the violin.
It's coming back down the tunnel towards the Silk Mill Apartments.
However, it is definitely not coming from the Silk Mill apartment side.
That'd be the school, right?
On the other side?
Yeah.
Guys, I think it's coming from where the school would be.
That is where some of the other beast activities occurred.
So I guess let's head back over that way.
This is like we have a habit of breaking into this school.
Yeah.
I mean, we've kind of broken into like everywhere in town.
So at this point, the school is the least offensive.
That's a good point.
Well, actually, maybe there's a door and then it's not breaking in at all.
It's just you seeing a different entrance.
It's really breaking in when the tunnels go everywhere.
Is this your first time at school?
I'll show you my locker.
And I guess technically, I mean, I've been like in a school, but this is my first time.
I mean, yeah.
You guys broke into this school already.
Oh, that's right.
I forgot everything that's happened.
It seems like many days in between.
It's hard to remember when you're so active.
I can't believe it's only been like 48 hours.
It's been the longest 48 hours of my life.
Yeah.
OK, so are we going to keep going or are we just going to keep discussing how long the
day has been?
Well, I'm just kind of putting it off because I'm a little scared.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I feel a little tie tie.
You should always do the things you don't want to do first.
So let's go.
I don't want a milkshake.
We could take care of that later when we're topside.
Yes.
Let's get through the underdark now and then we'll get milkshakes later.
Do we get to pass that really creepy pile of bodies again?
Probably.
Probably several more times tonight.
Maybe even another equally as creepy pile of bodies.
Oh, cool.
Or worse.
Oh, even better.
OK, so are we at the school yet?
Sure.
I'm not asking Billy.
Is there another tunnel that leads up?
Any exit from the tunnels is pretty similar.
However, this one actually is a set of stairs rather than a ladder.
It's just a metal set of stairs that leads up to a door at the top through the door.
Oh, yeah.
Does it just open?
Well, I had to touch the door first, make sure it's not hot.
There's a fire on the other side of it.
It is not hot.
However, the music is definitely louder on the other side of the door.
Do we have any earplugs or anything?
Just thinking about that.
No, we've got little pieces of t-shirt.
Yeah, I was just thinking that too.
I think there's cotton in flares if we pull them apart.
We could put the cotton in our ears.
I wouldn't put explosive cotton in my ears.
I thought it was the gunpowder that was explosive.
Let's just rip up this t-shirt and shove it in our ears.
Look, I have extra t-shirts.
You could just wrap it around your head and tie it.
Yeah, it was smart bringing those since we're definitely going to need them more and more
for Billy.
Yeah, and maybe for ourselves soon.
I hope not.
We ready to do this?
Yes.
Do we swing the door open wildly?
Might as well.
You're the one with the sledgehammer.
Well, it's just, I'll swing it open wildly.
Okay, swing the door open wildly.
It seems like you walk into the entrance of a closet.
Okay, this isn't what I expected.
And there is another door in this room.
We'll just go through this next door.
Where the music is even louder.
The music's so loud now.
Yeah, so you whisper when things get louder.
I don't want them to hear us here.
Someone put this on shovel.
This song's been playing for a long time.
It does have a very repetitive nature to it.
It's kind of hypnotic.
It's hot cross buns, isn't it?
It's actually a recorder.
There is light coming in from the other side of this door as well.
I'm ready with my rake.
I have a flare and a handful of salt.
That salt was clutch last time.
Got a pillowcase with a doorknob and a set of keys in it.
And the youngest one has a machete.
And a crowbar.
Yes.
All right, you go through the door boldly.
You kick open the door and in front of you is a large old gymnasium, one that you guys
have not seen yourselves or certainly have never played in.
And there are several spotlights lighting up this room.
And standing in the middle of it on a small podium is a man, erratically playing a violin.
Surrounded by him, there are strange markings on the floor that are in the color red.
And there are several bodies of girls laying around on the floor as well.
This looks terrifying and reminiscent of a situation we've been in before.
This building's definitely going to collapse into hell.
Okay, anybody got a ranged weapon?
I'm just going to yell, Erick Zahn.
He continues to play his erratic violin.
Maybe it's not him, guys.
What does anything else happen?
We got to stop that music.
I'm going to start moving forward toward him.
All right.
Yeah.
So, moving forward, the twins materialize in the middle of this circle in front of them.
I cast Zone of Silence.
My goal is to break the circle.
With salt?
With your own circle.
No.
Create a smaller circle.
I want to separate the circle of bodies.
Break the power of the circle.
All right.
Let's do this.
Let's actually roll initiative this time, because that'll be way easier for my brain
to figure out.
I got a 12.
Roll a D20 first.
I got a one.
Oh.
17.
You can roll a smaller die.
You can get a lower number anyway.
I got a 20.
17.
One.
What if I started saying ace?
It could go either way.
It feels more exciting.
It feels...
I kind of want to see that more often.
All right.
Josh, you were going first.
He's standing in the middle of the circle.
Circle is how wide?
20 feet altogether from one side to the other.
Twins are in the circle with him on either side.
In between us and him?
They're in between.
They're both in front of him.
So if this is the circle, you guys are down here.
They're standing between...
They're blocking your path from him directly.
And he's on a podium, so he's raised up a little bit from the twins and us?
Correct.
About, we'll say two and a half feet.
I'm going to move out and around to the right and see if either one of the girls follows
me.
As you move, she definitely watches you.
Well, the one that would be closest to you on that side is watching you move that way.
Okay.
So I'm not main focus.
They said I was next at one of the other things.
I wanted to see if they'd both follow me or if one would follow me or if they would ignore
me.
All right.
So I'm moving, like, putting distance between myself and the group.
Okay.
Walking out and around.
So you're just running?
Not running, but...
Just moving.
Okay.
That makes it so it is Maxwell's turn next.
All right.
Yeah.
I'm going to press forward toward the circle there.
Okay.
With my flare in.
And your handy pistol pocket salt.
Pocket salt.
Yeah.
Okay.
Doing anything.
I'm going to try to break the circle.
Maxwell's just surface has to be some sort of crazy occult stuff at this point.
And he's just trying everything is seen off of like TV shows.
All right.
So are you just moving at this point?
Or are you going to take an action?
Can I get to the bodies?
Sure.
All right.
Yeah.
I want to try to break the circle of bodies.
Okay.
What are you doing specific?
So they're in the circle?
The girls?
Yes.
All right.
So I guess as soon as I get to the circle, I'm going to talk like bend down to grab like,
I guess like an arm or leg to start pulling.
And then with my flare hand and toss the flare into the circle, like on my way down to grab
the.
All right.
Give me a grit check.
Give me a grit of eight total to do both things.
A 10 or zero.
I guess it depends.
Roll.
Roll again.
Another 10.
No shit.
Roll again, man.
Amazing stuff.
And a three.
All right.
So a 23 out of eight.
Fantastic.
So you toss this flare right into the circle and it goes skidding across the floor towards
the twins and you're actually pulling one of the girls out of the circle and you've
got her about halfway out of the circle now, which is fantastic.
And as the flare goes skittering towards the two twins, they actually do move both away
from it kind of perpendicular to where they are.
One to the left, one to the right.
Awesome.
And then one of their turns, the one that is closest to you.
And suddenly you feel a tugging on your shirt and on this body and you and the body that
you're holding get yanked into the circle and you're pulled about six feet closer to
one of the twins.
And she comes not like rushing, but very quickly, quicker than she looks like she should be
able to move.
She is now directly in front of you.
Gonna release that handful of salt next turn.
And Andy, it is your turn.
I think Andy's gonna try to run up to Maxwell and try to pull him out of the circle, right?
So now me and the twin girl are doing like a tug of war over him.
Okay.
You're gonna try to pull him out?
Yeah.
All right.
Give me a brawn of a six.
Are you trying to pull the body out too or just Maxwell at this point?
Just Maxwell.
Okay.
He moved the body out of the circle.
And she just tugged it back in.
Yeah.
Oh, whatever.
I got a three.
All right, you are unsuccessful at pulling him in.
So you are kind of right with Maxwell at this point.
All right, Josh, you are moving around the other side of the circle from these two.
And as you're moving, you know, kind of keeping the twins in your line of sight, you can see
the one begins to move towards you similar as the other one did.
And you feel a tugging on your shirt as well.
And you get pulled about six feet closer to the twin who have the distance easily between
the two of you.
Danny, it is your turn.
Seeing the twins separate and no longer blocking the path between me and the person playing
the violin, I start to whip the pillowcase around my head and I'm going to launch it
like a sling at where I assume is Erickson playing the violin.
All right, sure.
Give me a brawn.
Check.
We'll put it at a seven.
12.
12, blow that shit up.
Get it.
A 13.
13 is so good.
You throw the pillowcase at Erickson and it hits him right in the violin and the music
temporarily stops.
And he for a moment is brought out of this trance-like state that he is in.
And the moonlight peeks in through one of the windows in here and you guys can see the
full moon.
And as you're watching him, he begins to glow very strangely in this light.
And then we're back to Josh's turn.
Did anything happen to the twins when he stopped playing for a second?
Nothing visually.
I was hoping they would disappear.
I was wondering if they would blink out, if they'd get fuzzy or something like that.
Josh is going to yell at the top of his lungs and just charge the twin that's charging him
with the machete.
All right, gonna stab a girl.
Let's see it.
That'll be a brawn of four.
Brawn or fight?
I mean a fight.
Check.
I forgot about that completely.
A fight of four.
Seven.
You run at her and you stab your machete and it goes into this child.
It's also a child.
It's fine.
I feel, yeah.
Peer.
This goes into your peer.
Yeah, sure.
And this time she screams as some blood spurts out of her stomach.
Okay, so they are human.
They can be killed.
Yeah, they can bleed.
I don't think I can do anything else.
Does the other twin react to this at all?
Great question.
No, no.
Maxwell, though it is your turn.
Where is the man with the violin?
Still in the circle.
Still inside the circle?
Still on the podium.
Yeah, he's on the podium in the middle of the circle.
All right.
And you have a twin standing right over top of you and Andy.
Perfect.
Pocket salt.
All right, give me a fight of a four.
I did handicap myself with that pretty well.
A three.
You throw this handful of salt and it does hit the twin in front of you and sends her
back a foot or two.
Not as effective as the first time.
However, you also get some salt dust in your and Andy's eyes.
Oh, man.
This is the worst.
Ow, my eyes.
I've done this to like four people now tonight.
And it is your turn, Andy.
Do I have to spend time recovering from my eye wound?
You're going to have a disadvantage on some of the things that you do.
I'm so sorry.
Hey, it's the roll of the dice.
OK, so she's just standing there in front of us, right?
Like a foot or two away.
She's really close.
I'm going to spin my whole body around and I'm going to swing her with that sledgehammer.
And I'm going to yell, Max, duck!
Give me a fight of a four.
She's just a child.
Max is seven.
OK, you connect with this sledgehammer and you manage to hit her like right in the side
of her arm and you hear a sick crunch that sends her sprawling to the floor.
Yay.
I have a human theory, like my own personal player theory on what is happening right now.
And it is I really hope it's not the case.
I mean, I'm excited.
These two have been terrorizing my dreams for like days.
Since day one, yeah.
I get the character understanding what's happening, but I have a good.
Fan theory.
Suddenly they both began screaming.
And at this you see Erick Zahn pick up his bow again and begin to play his violin.
And when he starts this time, you can see some strange purple aura emanating from the
bodies that are dotted around him.
And it seems like they are headed towards him and the violin and the twin that you just
stabbed pulls this machete from her stomach.
And the other one sickly gets up and like rearranges her arm with a sickening crunch
and they are back up still covered in blood.
And the one that just pulled the machete out of its stomach, Josh, it screams at you once
again is mouth opening, but no sound comes out.
However, you're hurled about seven feet back, landing awkwardly on your ankle.
So you're going to be a little injured there.
For Maxwell and Andy, suddenly the twin in front of you, their eyes begin to glow a hellish
red and from its one palm emits a burst of flame, which is going to burn both of you.
Andy, some of your hair gets singed off.
Maxwell, your shirt begins to catch on fire from the bottom up and is currently burning.
Where's Billy in this?
Panicking.
No one has taken over what Billy is doing yet.
Billy actually sees this and he says, no one burns my sister and runs towards this twin
with his hands suddenly bursting into flames as he pushes the one twin away.
Only I get to do the flaming hands.
All right.
So those two are currently in a kerfuffle.
And Danny, it is your turn.
Billy is going to run towards Erick Zahn.
And do I want to throw the pipe at him?
No, I'm just going to run up and if I can get close enough, I'm going to use the pipe
to hit the violin and try to break it.
All right.
Give me a brawn, I think, or a fight.
What would you prefer?
A brawn.
All right.
Let's call it a 12.
I got a five.
You smack this violin with your lead pipe and similar to where you stabbed the book incorrectly
the first time, this pipe goes rocketing out of your hand.
So not similar to the dagger at all, but like similar to where it doesn't do anything and
your lead pipe goes sprawling across the gym floor behind you.
Well, that sucks.
Up here with the creepy violin dude, but luckily he just plays violin.
All right.
And it is Josh's turn.
Josh is going to grab the chain.
He's going to push the twin or he's going to...
Do I have to push the twin or can I move away from the twin that just pulled the machete
out?
You got thrown like seven times.
Oh, that's right.
I got thrown.
That's right.
Josh is going to get up and pull the chain out of his backpack and run right for Erick
Zahn's legs.
And Danny, I'm going to need your help.
Danny's going to throw the chain, like swing the chain to try and get it to wrap.
You're trying to AT-AT this motherfucker?
Yeah.
All right.
Nice.
Wrap it around his legs.
And then if Danny's close enough or whoever's close enough, when we get a chance, I'll yank
and try and pull him not only off the pedestal, but drag him out of the circle.
Okay.
There's a lot going on in there.
There is a lot going on in that.
I think the chain, the success of getting the chain around him.
Yeah.
Because you're at the top of the initiative, Danny is halfway bottom.
You are the bottom.
That's right.
You're one.
You got a 20.
You got a one.
There's infinite people in between.
Who is closer to me then than Danny?
I was just going by him because I thought he had the highest brawn.
I mean, he is closest to Erick Zahn.
Okay.
He's just, he's up there.
So if you want to do that, give me a grit check.
Let's do a grid of eight.
12.
All right.
I missed the track.
All right.
Yeah.
You're able to get the chain around Erick Zahn's legs over the amount of space that
you had to cover as well as that is going to take up your action for the turn.
Perfect.
All right, Maxwell.
All right.
Maxwell's going to start beating out the fire on the bottom of his shirt.
Okay.
Free action.
We won't.
Sorry.
Puts the fire out.
I guess at this point, it's obvious that we have to get to the violin.
Maxwell has seen that they get injured when the music is quiet and they're seemingly invincible
and all powerful when the violin is playing.
How is this girl in between me and the violinist?
Yes.
She is currently grappled up with Billy who are exchanging burning hands.
Okay.
I'm going to try to run, spin, serpentine my way over to that violin.
All right.
I think I'm going to pull out a road flare as well.
What are you going to do with that?
That's all just movement pretty much.
Okay.
I'm going to throw it at him.
At him?
At him.
All right.
I'm going to distract what's going on, break up the music pattern, try to distract from
what is happening.
Sure.
Yeah.
Throw a flare.
Give me a fight with Danny and Josh up there too.
So give me a fight of a six to get the flare in the right spot.
The one.
Can I spend a token?
I mean, I can't spend multiple tokens.
Can I?
I can do plus two with my loyal.
I mean, that would make it better.
Oh, plus one D six two.
Oh, nope.
I'm not using my army knife.
Nope.
Yeah.
So I can pay one token to give him plus two.
Okay.
So with a three, you get the flare up there without injuring any of your friends or lighting
anything on fire that you don't want.
However, the flare does not like land perfectly on Erickson or anything.
It is kind of at his feet on the podium.
Okay.
Now he's lit in crazy red, creepily, light and looks like an extra evil.
You know, you guys can see Billy fighting with this one twin.
It's kind of awkward because Billy is a really weird guy.
But suddenly Billy is standing alone and back closer to the podium.
There is now a twin who just materializes next to you guys.
And Danny, you suddenly get yanked backwards about four feet by the back of your shirt.
Andy, what are you doing?
How far away am I from Erickson?
Reachable.
Everybody's like just about reachable at this point.
I would like to swing my whole body around again and use all of my momentum to try to
take out the back of his knees with the sledgehammer.
All right.
Give me a fight.
We'll call it a six.
It's a three.
Can I?
You can.
So I feel like I have protective, which gives plus three, but she's not needing protection.
It's offensive.
So another plus two for loyalty.
Yay.
All right.
With a five, you connect with Erickson's legs and you send him crumpling down just to his
knees.
He is barely able to play the violin, but is still.
Damn it.
He switched over to the devil goes down to Georgia.
And everybody, everybody make me a grit check of a six.
I got a 10.
Nice.
Gun eight.
Oh.
Go ahead.
Two.
I got a 10, but I.
Blow it up?
All right.
Another 10.
All right.
And a four.
Okay.
Nice.
Suddenly from now that most of you are grouped up, another one of these gouts of flame, almost
reminiscent of a fireball hits in between all four.
Anybody that didn't survive is going to have, no, anybody that didn't cast the check, sorry,
is going to be moved four feet back and currently is burnt.
Okay.
Not me.
Not you.
You're still up there.
Very much so.
Maxwell, sounds like you're the only one that just got hit with this fireball again.
Original or extra crispy?
This is extra crispy.
Oh man.
Retribution for you to throw those flares around.
So you want to see fire?
They said play with fire, get burned.
Danny, it is your turn.
Okay.
I am no longer possession of my lead pipe.
I'm going to try to fight Eric Zahn for control of this violin.
All right.
Give me a brawn of 10.
11.
Yes.
As Eric Zahn's now been chained, knee capped, flared and all this, you were able to get
the violin away from Eric Zahn and the music stops.
And the one girl that was stabbed with the machete, she begins bleeding again and they
both scream intensely at all four of you, all five of you, I guess.
Billy's still there somewhere.
And they come running directly at the group of you.
Oh God, they're running at us now?
When they screamed, did like the telekinesis push thing happen again or no?
Nope.
Okay.
They wrestled the violin out.
Just smash it immediately.
Just on the floor.
Yeah.
Just sitting here like twang, twang, twang.
Josh is going to stick to his original plan and still try and drag Zahn away out of the
circle, away from the podium, away from the thing.
He's still got him chained.
So an 11 year old boy is going to drag an adult male out of a circle.
It was already on the ground.
Yeah.
I think you can do it.
It's not that hard.
I mean, it's pretty hard.
11?
Yeah.
Okay.
Give me, I mean, I'll let you.
What kind of floor is it though?
Like if it's a wood floor.
I think you could drag something pretty big.
I bet I could drag you and I'm not, I don't know.
This is something like double a child's weight with a child's strength.
He's not not going to fight, but you also only have, you'll only be able to move him
about six seconds out and give me a brawn of a 10 to move him.
You're going to floor.
Okay.
You're pulling, but you're not moving very quickly.
You're trying to yank him out of the circle, but you know, he's also a full grown man and
he's not dead.
So he's not, you know, just complacent.
He just got the shit kicked.
Oh yeah.
I kind of thought he was like prone or something.
That's what I mean.
I thought he was on the ground already.
I was just going to drag him.
Well, yeah, but still, I mean, anytime I've been getting dragged against my will, there
would be some fighting back, especially if the person dragging me is one of the five
people that just smashed me with a sledgehammer, attacked me with a flare and was trying.
I guess I didn't realize that he just got his knees smashed in and he's getting his
legs pulled with a chain.
It's probably difficult to fight back in that position or have any thought of wanting to.
Well, let's give it a try.
Let's keep going.
Let's go get a chain.
I'm not saying it's not working.
It's just not quick.
It's not a quick endeavor.
He's also possessed or something.
So like maybe he's got that kind of breaks going, I guess.
Maybe you should try and drag one of the limp lifeless bodies to ruin the circle.
That also seemed like they didn't like the idea of that.
That might be better for you, Josh.
Yeah.
Guess I'll drop the chain and grab and try and break the circle up.
Okay.
So you're going to drag a girl out?
Yup.
I mean, you're pretty unhindered.
So like that isn't hard.
I'll give you that one.
You're dragging the girl out and you're just kind of like, is that a one?
Yes, it was.
Oh no.
You do manage to break the circle in some ways because you're able to pull one of the
girls slightly out and smear some of the red liquid that is making up the circle here.
Maxwell, you're up next.
These two girls are still running at y'all.
It's kind of funny because my first thought was that I was going to go help him with the
chain.
Then he put the chain down.
Oh, what?
Like immediately I was like, I dropped the chain.
I was like, ah, I was thinking two of us could probably do it.
That's why I tried to get Danny at first.
I figured we'd be able to separate them.
Girls are running at us.
Fucking pocket salt for the win.
Let's go.
Let's go for pocket salt again.
All right.
Apparently throwing things in people's eyes.
Six.
Give me a fight of a four.
A fight of a four.
Seven.
A seven.
All right.
So I throw a good hand of pocket salt directly into this child's eyeballs and she crumples
up onto the ground crying.
Nice.
And then it'd be Andy's turn.
Yes.
Because she's incapacitated.
So, oh, no, no, no, no, no, the twins.
Oh, thank God.
Before you.
Sorry.
I'm a sledgehammer that violin slam and everything.
I love it.
Can I call it a fight?
Sure.
Yeah, you can fight the violin.
What's the, well, we'll call it an eight.
I tossed the violin on the ground in front of Andy.
So it's not an eight anymore?
No, it's just that way you're not going to hit me.
Apes really high.
You've got friends.
Go for it.
A two.
A four.
Right.
Six, eight.
The violin rejects your smash with a hammer and sends it reeling from your hand, similar
to what happened to Danny's pipe earlier.
Maybe I should try and hit one of the twins with the violin.
This thing doesn't.
Maybe we should have kept the dagger.
It disintegrated.
Oh, okay.
Well, just fall on the body weight on the violin.
Violins are very fragile.
Just trip onto it.
The other twin runs up to you, Andy, and tries to grab your sledgehammer out of your hand
and protect the violin.
I thought it already flung out of my hand.
Sorry.
Yes.
The other twin runs up and tries to push you away from the violin and scramble and grab
it.
I want to grapple.
Okay.
Give me a fight of a two.
Eight.
I blew it up.
Seven.
All right.
This little girl grabs onto you, and it is just like fighting a little girl.
It is as if an 18-year-old was fighting an eight-year-old.
Stupid child.
I have a little brother.
She screams in your face.
And when you look, her eyes are just pretty much completely dead.
I scream back in her face.
Is Andy going to fight her or...?
And Danny, it is your turn.
I am going to pick up the violin, and I am going to try and just smash it on the ground.
Okay.
Let us call this...
I guess because you are technically fighting this magical violin.
Let us call it an eight.
Of a fight?
On a fight.
It is a five.
And no one has got anything that they can help out here with, right?
No.
No, I mean, I can use my coin to find a useful item, but...
That is not really going to help.
How many of us picked...
Useful item?
A useful item.
Three out of four.
That is fantastic.
To be fair, it came in super handy last time we played.
It did.
We used it a lot.
Yeah.
I should have asked before I made it mine.
Too many of the same strengths.
That is why we are friends.
The violin takes no physical damage that you can see.
All right, can I pick it up and put it in the pillowcase?
Shake it with the doorknob.
That will kill it.
You sure can.
Pick it back up and put it in the pillowcase.
Put it in the back of the...
With my doorknob and my set of keys.
Unless somebody wants to take over Billy, it would be Josh's turn.
What is the situation with the twins right now?
One is on the ground crying because she just got salt directly in her eyes.
The other is screaming.
The other is screaming and throwing a tantrum, being held by Andy.
And how is Eric doing on the ground?
He's still not...
He's just crawling around.
I mean, his legs are tied up.
Is he still trying to make it to the...
He's trying to do anything.
You guys...
We don't know what exactly is going through Eric's head.
He's playing Nightcrawlers.
I don't know what's going through his head, but going through his back is a machete.
Oh my God.
All right, Josh, give me a fight of a two.
That's an eight.
Does that blow up?
No.
Oh, all right.
Unfortunately.
He's about to commit a murder as he stabs Erick Zahn through the back.
Oh my God.
And Erick Zahn is no longer moving.
Does the credit scene come up?
Not yet.
You just left from your save point?
And Erick Zahn is dead on the ground and he is bleeding.
Oh no.
And what about the twins?
The twins are still...
The big bad evil guy is the violin.
I'm still focusing on the violin.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's just do some group actions here as there's very little threat at this point.
Okay.
Billy's going to say, you guys can't smash it.
This is what you got to do.
And he's going to run over and grab the pillowcase out of Danny's hands and empty it out, pick
up the violin and just hold it in his hands.
And he starts shaking it as his hands start to glow red as flames start to come out of
them.
Picks up the violin and starts shaking it and his hands start glowing red.
And then they start emitting flames from his fingertips and around where he's holding
the violin.
We're only two D four.
We need at least a four total.
A two and a four.
All right.
Go ahead and blow this second one up.
And another four.
All right.
Yeah.
And another four.
It's on the stop.
Another three.
All right.
Is that 21?
I think it's 21.
Billy grabs his violin with the last strength that Billy really has, because he has taken
an absolute fucking beating today.
This violin erupts in fire and then disintegrates into ash.
And the ashes disappear before they even hit the ground.
And as soon as this violin disappears, Andy, you are holding the hands of a girl whose
body is quickly deteriorating.
And suddenly you're just holding.
Ew, I let go.
I let go.
You drop a corpse.
The other girl stops it's wailing on the ground and crumples into a dusty form.
The moon suddenly, which was shining brightly through the window, is masked by some heavy
overcast and can no longer be seen.
From here, there's an eerie quiet in the room as all of you are just standing in this room
with now several dead bodies, including Erick Zahn's, which you murdered.
Okay.
Well, Billy doesn't look like he can do the whole earthquake and hide all the evidence
thing again.
I mean, is anyone coming down here?
I don't even know how people get down here if they don't go the way that we came.
I mean, I have a feeling that this would just get tied to the pile of dead bodies that's
just a little bit behind from where we came from.
Yep.
And this dead pile of bodies also.
Yeah.
I say we leave with the stuff that we came with.
Came with.
And we just hide the door when we leave.
Or we could burn the bodies.
I forgot, there are a lot of dead girls around us as well, aside from the two corpses and
the dead man.
But we didn't kill those people.
Josh definitely killed that one guy.
I saw it.
Okay.
All right.
I don't know what you did to that one girl, but that was gross.
What did I do?
You were holding her and then you sucked the life out of her or something.
Nope.
Life got sucked out of the other girl too and I was not holding her hand.
I thought she was just dehydrated from the salt.
Yeah, but you did it.
They're twins.
I did not do it.
Sucked the life out of one for the other.
Here's the deal, children.
We never speak of this again and we leave right now.
Should we burn the school down?
How many flares do you have?
I have five left.
We could just do the same kind of school as Maxwell does.
Online?
I don't even know what that means.
It's the future.
Anyway, should we leave?
Yeah, we should leave.
Yeah.
I mean.
This has been a gross day.
It has.
Should we check and make sure all of the other girls that were around the circle are actually
dead quick though?
Yeah, to make sure they died quickly.
No, I want to make sure they're not.
To make sure they're all actually dead.
If they're not.
Josh is going to kill them if they're not dead yet.
Slowly plunging my machete into their hearts.
If you're checking out the girls that are in the circle, it is strange as the bodies,
they vary from a state of decay that is very, very old, almost mummified looking to very
fresh.
And you do notice or recognize one of the girls in the circle is definitely the girl
that you saw get stabbed underneath the streetlight.
Is it Shelley?
It is not Shelley.
No.
But they're all dead.
So we get out of here.
Yeah, let's just go.
We didn't actually do this most of these murders, so let's just go.
I can always knock down the school tomorrow.
Why are we knocking the school down?
I don't know, that's how we got rid of the last bunch of bodies.
Okay, again, never speak of this again.
I don't know if I can't.
I mean, you can speak to about it as much as you want because no one's going to believe
you anyway.
No one does believe us.
Yeah, let's get out of here.
This is gross.
Yeah, Bailey, we'll talk about knocking the school down when vacation's over.
We probably all should have went with Jack.
Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack.
It's been so long you can't even remember his name, Billy.
I can't.
And you all leave the school.
Yeah.
Where do you go after that?
Milkshakes.
Hospital?
It's like midnight.
We bring Billy to the hospital?
No, I'm fine.
The old tower.
The old watch tower?
If you guys do leave the school and come out of the tunnel, where would you leave the tunnels
from I guess?
Are you coming out in the hotel?
Are you coming out in historic Bethlehem?
Definitely back at Maxwell's house, which is the hotel.
I mean, the hotel had a lot of commotion going on.
I think we should come out way down in historic Bethlehem and just kind of...
Yeah.
Wander back.
...wander back around and see...
Oh, what's happening over there?
Or we could... did we find a way from the silk mill to get out in the ground floor there
with that building burned down too?
You guys don't know that yet.
What is the status?
Yeah.
I still say we go out through the hotel and up to Max's place because that's got a good
view of the town and we can assess.
It's a good alibi.
They saw us leaving.
So what?
We're fucking digging around playing.
We've been fucking around the hotel all night.
Back to the hotel then.
Okay.
You guys get back to the hotel and as you were going through, there are several firefighters
and cops walking through the building checking because there's obviously no actual fire in
here.
However, you guys are able to sneak around easily and get back to Max's room if that's
what you're doing.
Do you want to go to Max's room or do you want to go to the rooftop?
The rooftop's a good idea.
You guys have been there before.
I want to assess the situation in the town.
When we went into the school, there was chaos, cops, fires.
There are several ambulances out front of the hotel.
However, the police do have it sectioned off pretty well, not allowing people back into
the front of the hotel at the moment.
There is several fire trucks as well and sheriff cars.
Looking over at the silk mills, there's no evidence of a fire at all.
It is fully intact.
The school is also fully intact.
It did not crumple or anything.
And besides the ruckus out in front of the bookstore and the hotel, there is very little
else going on in this town.
So it's all that an illusion?
What's happening?
What happened to the naked guy?
We just kind of left him.
Oh yeah.
I mean, the news would tell us if he got arrested, right?
Do you think he made it back down into the tunnels?
Well, no, because we closed the bookshelf so he couldn't have gotten in.
Yes.
And the cops are coming in.
The cops would take the naked man.
Yeah.
They would have found him pretty easily.
Yeah.
Maybe he's in the drug take.
Well, yeah, hopefully.
Did we get away?
Like, are we good?
How much of that was actually, like, real?
Were those little girls really just corpses the whole time and we just saw them as little
girls?
Who knows?
I think it's best to not think about it anymore.
I wonder what actually happened to them because they went to school with us for a couple of
days.
You got me.
I was only here for part of the story.
At that, Billy walks back over to you and grabs your hand, Andy.
Are you gonna go back to school or are you gonna stay home now?
It's way better with you here.
It's a lot more fun.
I mean...
Danny said so.
Okay.
I mean, I guess I'll stay here for a little while while you guys are on vacation.
We might be on vacation for longer.
Well, I'm sure I could get some kind of excuse for my school that my town is under attack
by a cult.
I don't know.
There's gotta be an excuse for that.
Yeah.
I don't think you can use that excuse, you know, multiple times.
Well, I was in regular school before and now I'm in college, so like...
If she doesn't go to school with us anymore...
It's a different school.
Yeah, yes, I guess it's quite...
They haven't heard this excuse.
She'll have to wait.
She can't use it next year when we come back.
Do it a third time.
You think they'll let us use it?
I don't know.
I mean, your school's gonna be closed a while.
Danny skipped a whole grade because of what he went through.
They kept me back.
Well, that's because you can't read, Billy.
Oh, well, I'm ready to go home.
Yeah, me too.
Milkshakes tomorrow?
Sounds good.
What time is it right now?
2 a.m.
Very late, after around midnight.
Oh, well, that means no one's in the kitchen.
We could probably just go downstairs and make them now.
I mean, doesn't hurt.
Billy's eyes light up.
You have the stuff to make milkshakes downstairs?
Well, I assume so.
We ordered some.
And he...
Like, already gone?
In a flash is gone.
The door just swinging, still swinging open as he super speeds down the stairs to the
kitchen to make milkshakes.
And that's where we're gonna put a pin in Kritz on Bike's Take Two.
That was fun.
Great job, everybody.
Thank you.
Man, that was a good one.
That was a tough puzzle.
I think so, too.
Thanks.
I tried on that one.
So, excellent job.
Great roles.
Good fighting.
Really enjoyed finishing up the season with you guys.
Really enjoyed season two.
Can't believe it's already over.
Can't wait.
We're getting the next episode after this is gonna be our wrap party and we'll talk
about what season three brings at that point.
Until then, we will...
See you next, next Tuesday.
Bye.
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Maxwell, as you stand in your hotel room after a few crazy days, suddenly from next
to the bathroom, a large portal opens up and a woman steps out.
Well, Maxwell, how'd your history experiment go?
Do I call you Margaret or do I call you Ms. Sullivan?
I can't, it's been a while.
Margaret's fine.
We're on a first name basis.
Well, Margaret, it was different.
I kept forgetting that they didn't have the internet for a really long time and I kept
talking about it and I thought it was gonna have that effect where it changes the future.
Is everything okay back in the future?
Or the present, I guess?
Your future?
Your present?
I haven't been back there.
I'm gonna bring you back now.
We can find out if anything's happened.
Oh, I thought you were gonna be making sure there were no ripples.
Well, I had some other things to attend to.
Did the dinosaurs go all crazy again?
They've stayed in the past.
Oh, that's good.
That's been great.
Yep.
I did not like that.
They were big.
I didn't know you were sending me back to such a violent place.
There was a lot more murder.
Murder?
Yeah, there were these children, these two little girls, and they set a teacher on fire
at the school during a school event.
Huh.
That wasn't supposed to happen.
Maybe there have been some ripples from some other things.
And there was a werewolf who played violin, and there were hidden tunnels under the entire
town, and that's where the werewolf lived, and that's where he kept a pile of dead bodies.
There were so many dead bodies.
Okay.
We should go back.
Don't write that in your history report.
I don't think anybody will believe you.
But I saw them.
Okay.
Yeah, let's just get you back to your own time.
I think that'll be fine.
We're even now, right?
Thanks for saving, helping me save the dinosaurs and, you know, your timeline and that whole
snafu.
Yeah.
We're straight?
Yeah.
All right, good.
Now I just owe Vivian.
And boy, her ask was pretty wild.
So.
Oh, what did Vivian want?
I think she wanted to do an in-depth interview with Al Capone.
Oh, wow.
That's very Vivian.
It is very Vivian.
Very Vivian.
That's fun to say.
It is.
All right.
Let's get you back to the present.
To the present.
Let's go.
Let's get you back to the present.