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Hello and welcome back to the podcast.
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I'm Michael, I'm Noe and we are the Knights of Entertainment.
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This is part two Call of Cthulhu.
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Lone against the flames.
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Alrighty, you wander through the streets of Emberhead without any particular destination
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in mind.
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The village is built on a relatively flat upland with a splendid view.
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To the north, the hazy tips of the wide mountains reach for the heavens.
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To the south, the sparkling waters of Lake Winnipegsockie touch the horizon.
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The village itself takes less than five minutes to cross from edge to edge.
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Oh fuck, I'd kill myself.
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You arrive on the winding road to the west.
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The other road leads to the south, following a lower ridge of the land as it turns east.
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In the southwest of the village, an open grassy space borders a ruined church, its graveyard
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cresting the cliffs.
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To the northeast, the three main thoroughfares meet at a raised black metal structure.
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It looms stark against the blue sky.
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You may now ask about transport at the local general store, seek out the village hall,
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walk down to the lower level and check out the eastern road, examine the large metal
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structure, explore the church, or look for local people with their own transport needs.
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Local people with their own transport needs.
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Let's start with the top.
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Let's go to the general store.
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Go to the general store.
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Maybe they got some condoms.
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That you can use with a...
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Alrighty.
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The general store is on a corner beside the main road.
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Just before it plunges to the south.
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The shopkeeper is a brisk and mince lady with a starched apron and strong shoulders.
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Strong shoulders.
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Bam.
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You need a massage, I wonder.
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She looks hard at your unfaithful face.
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I bet she does.
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It's a double entendre.
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That one got me.
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I don't know why.
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Double entendre.
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Yeah, it got me.
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Transport?
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There's a motor coach that comes through twice a week.
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Missed it?
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Yeah, bitch, I missed it.
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The truck brings in my supplies every second Tuesday, but it's not due until next week.
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She shrugs.
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She shrugs those massive shoulders and a ripple sends through the whole building.
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Yeah, you're the one that said you like muscle mommies.
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Muscle mommies.
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It seems Emberhead is content to keep its distance from the outside world.
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You have enough money to buy one or two inexpensive everyday items here.
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Note them down in your investigator's sheet.
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Remember the year is 1927.
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Do you have any condoms, snug size?
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For the little ones?
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The shop stocks no weapons except a dusty hunting knife, which you may purchase if you
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want.
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Yeah, I could use a knife.
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So write it down then.
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Just put it in my pocket.
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I'll remember.
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I'll remember at the last minute.
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I'm Ember.
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Ember.
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I'm Ember.
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Did you even say how much it is?
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Just gave me a knife.
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Apparently you bought it.
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Yeah.
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You're beginning to get your bearings in Emberhead.
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Would you like to explore some more?
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You may choose another option from below.
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You can either ask for transport at the local general store, which you already done.
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Yeah.
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Seek out the village hall.
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Walk down the lower level to check out the Eastern Road.
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Examine the large metal structure.
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Explore the church or look for people with their own transport needs.
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All right.
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Let's go to number two.
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Number two.
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So you want to seek out the village hall?
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Yeah.
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I think so.
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Now that's the general store, right?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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The village hall backs against a cliff to the east of the Silbury Street.
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It's the largest building you've been and seen so far in Emberhead.
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It is, however, locked and shuttered.
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You walk around, peering through the gaps in the shutters.
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And we all know how you like to take pictures through windows.
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It's my job.
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There seems to be one large room, presumably for community meetings, and a smaller annex
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that serves as an office and archive.
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One of the windows is bricked up.
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Back at the main door, you can see no posted opening hours.
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Mr. Winters does an open in mornings this time of year, says a gray garbed woman passing
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by.
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Best come back this afternoon.
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You ask whether the office has a telegraph.
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Don't know, she shrugs.
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Who would we call?
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Jesus, anybody.
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This place is so fucking isolated.
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It is terrifying.
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You will have to try again later.
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Damn.
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So now, you can either walk down to the lower level and check on the eastern road, examine
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the large metal structure, explore the church, or look for people looking for their own transport
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needs.
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Let's do the next one, I guess.
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Go down the list.
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I'm just going down the list.
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All righty.
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The air is fresh and you walk down to the lower ridge invigorating.
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You notice cultivated fields stretching through the lowlands around Emberhead and among the
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crops of some livestock but no horses.
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Are you going to have to make your own onward journey on foot?
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Further down, the road skirts the edge of a ridge and descends.
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There are a few scattered hovels there with signs of habitation.
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You have set a substantial distance apart.
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As you examine him, the doors open and an older man steps out.
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He wears a bedraggled suit but carries a piece of cloth, which he tosses over his head like
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a hood.
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As he does this, he sees you and freezes.
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Make a luck roll if you succeed.
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Luck roll?
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Yeah.
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What's my luck at?
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My luck is uh, I don't have a luck roll.
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No luck roll?
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Hold on.
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What was luck?
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Shit.
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Could have sworn luck was, yeah, it hasn't told me my luck.
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Uh oh, we got a problem.
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I think a luck's supposed to be something, half of something.
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Yeah, that's never asked for that yet.
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It hasn't asked for it.
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No?
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Um, cause my luck is zero on here.
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See, it's a, so it has to be one of these other things combined with something or deduct,
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let me check the rule book.
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And pause.
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All right.
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All right guys, we're back.
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We figured it out.
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I got to roll a D6 three times and then multiply it by five to get my luck.
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Let's see.
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Three.
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One.
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Oh.
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Five.
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So that's eight, nine times five is 45.
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Oh boy, that's quite the high number.
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I'm fucking high rolling here.
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Shit.
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Let me get these fucking dice.
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All right, I got to go underneath 45.
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That's unbelievable.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Come on baby.
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Wait, no, it's 39.
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Yeah.
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The blue one's the blue one.
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You got it barely.
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Oh man.
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I thought it was 93, but the blue one's the blue one's the a hundred, right?
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Yeah.
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39.
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I got it.
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That did get it by nothing.
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Didn't I?
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You barely got that one.
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The man looks up at the village, scanning the cliptops.
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You get a brief flash of his face.
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There is something unsettling about it.
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Then he turns to walk away from the road, but as he does, he raises a hand and slowly
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beckons to you.
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If you follow the strange man, I always follow a stranger man.
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Even in the van.
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Yeah, let's go.
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All right.
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You follow the strange man.
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You follow the man around the outcrop.
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He glances up, then steps between two rocks and vanishes.
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Closer inspection.
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He's a witch.
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Closer inspection reveals a narrow channel leading into a cliff.
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There's just enough light to see a small natural chamber within, but you will be uncomfortably
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close to this man if you go inside.
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Do you still follow him?
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I love being close to men.
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In we go.
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And more than one way.
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Okay, but the detective's gotta get the job done one way or the other, male or female.
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With wary steps, you squeeze between the rocky outcrops and enter the concealed chamber,
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almost banging your head on the lower ceiling.
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I'm a midget.
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The man settles back against the wall and watches until you draw close.
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Then he slides back his hood.
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Make a sanity roll.
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Is he that drop dead gorgeous?
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My sanity is only 50.
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Uh oh.
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I'm gonna fucking lose my shit apparently.
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Come on baby.
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Under 50.
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You lose one sanity.
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Okay, so that's 49.
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You're already starting to go insane.
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Lost my shit.
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Some of the man's face remains.
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A strip from the side of his jaw to his right eye socket is healthy and pale, if aged.
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Two-faced?
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But the left side is consumed by an angry scar tissue.
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It is two-faced.
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One eye droops, hooded by melted flesh, and the nostril on that side is pulled open to
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leave a gaping hole.
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The disfigured man studies your reaction with his one good eye.
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Imagine screaming, right?
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And then you try to compose yourself to like, you know what I mean?
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How awkward it would be.
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Oh my god, you ugly.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry, sir.
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Name's Arbogast.
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Willard Arbogast.
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Willard T. Arbogast.
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Guess I don't need to ask what brings you to Emberhead.
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Yeah, you do.
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I'm lost.
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Here's two things you can do.
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If you claim to have come for the festival, or if you admit that Silas has stranded you
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here.
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No reason to lie.
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So just say Silas stranded you?
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That dirty bastard left me here to die.
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It reminds me of that movie with Nicolas Cage.
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That Bee movie?
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Yeah.
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Not the bees!
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Where the whole village is trying to kill him?
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Yeah.
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Something about that is just terrifying to me.
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The bees?
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The bees, the fact that the whole town, you know.
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Is he trying to kill him?
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It would be like, it would be, you know, it's you against the whole town.
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It would be terrifying.
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Bring it.
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I'll fucking kill him all.
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I don't know.
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He tried.
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He got the bees.
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Not the bees!
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He's never been to a redneck place.
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That swollen mouth gives you a little twist downwards.
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Son of a devil.
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Son of a devil has rat's blood.
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His fingers tighten into a fist.
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Apparently he doesn't like Silas too much.
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I don't either at this point.
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Arbogast fixes you with a lopsided yet intense stare.
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You seek me out, eh?
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He looks up at the cave ceiling.
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Which one of them told you about me?
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Never mind.
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It doesn't matter.
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Truth is, they fear what I know.
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They never come at me direct.
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Don't want to end up like old Arbogast.
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He giggles.
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The high pitched sound.
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That's a weird thing.
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He giggles, it's a weird way for a grown man.
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You know what I mean?
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The man was six nine, a hundred, like three hundred and six pounds.
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He then giggled.
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He giggled like a little asian girl.
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I'm like what the fuck?
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The high pitched sound is all the more grotesque coming from those bloated lips.
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High pitched sound too, so you know he's giggling his ass off.
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Then abruptly his gaze turns to iron.
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Amberhead died forty years ago, shattered by flame consumed by the stars themselves.
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The ancient hill was cleansed by inferno and from the blackened ground came new life, as
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is the way of all things.
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The Abinaki knew.
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Arbogast wipes his nose on his sleeve.
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You nasty fuck.
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Did you have a fucking napkin?
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Except none of that happened.
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The flames were turned away.
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The necessary death postponed a year and a year again.
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And now those up there, he stabs his scrawny finger at the ceiling.
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Think themselves saviors of the village.
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They think they can defy the great old ones.
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Up there?
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Are we underground?
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You're in a cave.
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Caves can be absolutely up ground, can't they?
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We're like downward I guess.
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I'm like what the fuck?
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I'd be like, I would look it up every time you point something.
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What are you pointing at?
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Ahi katuga.
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He shakes his head.
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With strange aeons, their lives matter less than the blink of an eye.
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A fierce intelligence burns in his gaze.
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But you suspect that Arbogast may be quite insane.
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I don't guess.
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I'm pretty sure I know.
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Should his mood change, it would not be difficult for him to seize one of those loose rocks
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and crack you in the skull with it.
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I have this knife.
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You can ask Arbogast about the Abinaki, to ask him about the great old ones, to ask him
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about the villagers, or to leave while you still can.
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I just fucking dip.
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Let me think here.
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Bitch, I'm out of here.
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Well, I mean, he's the only person who's been so forthcoming.
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I can already tell this town is weird.
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Two weeks from everywhere.
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So a festival, so that means that something happened 40 years ago that was going to destroy
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the festival.
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They post-botted by sacrifice.
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So every year they sacrifice somebody.
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And guess who number one is right now?
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I guess it's me.
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Let me ask him about the, what's the first one?
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The Abinaki.
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What's the second one?
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The great old ones.
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After that is the villagers.
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And then you can still leave.
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And I just fucking dip.
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Let me ask him about the number one.
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The Abinaki?
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Yeah.
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The Abinaki, he frowns.
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They knew this land and cherished it.
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They lived here in harmony with their allotted time, air and earth, water and fire.
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Thank you, fire.
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Thank you, Avatar.
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They accepted every day break as a gift and they trod lightly on the land.
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Yet we came and we ended them.
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Their time has passed.
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Now ours too must end.
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Arbegast runs a hand through his hair.
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A wide strip of is missing on his left side, displaced by scar tissue.
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He climbs to his feet because he was kind of...
356
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You kicked me in the face.
357
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He doesn't look like Two-Face.
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Oh God, he does.
359
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He looks very much like Two-Face.
360
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Arbegast pauses in the shadows.
361
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There's something about you, something the previous ones never had.
362
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A mats and cocks?
363
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Or being so short.
364
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Perhaps you can make it through.
365
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If you want to hear more, meet me again after dark.
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Nine o'clock.
367
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The graveyard on the other side.
368
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A graveyard?
369
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He lifts a gnarled finger.
370
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How about a fucking Starbucks or something?
371
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He lifts a gnarled finger.
372
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Don't be followed, else I won't be there.
373
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This ain't the time of year for a showdown.
374
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Arbegast wipes his nose on his sleeve again.
375
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You nasty motherfucking bro, come on.
376
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Go now.
377
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Their eyes are on me.
378
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And stranger, don't try to run.
379
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You'll never make it.
380
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You emerge into the sunlight blinking and more than a little shaken.
381
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You have discovered a secret.
382
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Later tonight, the text will offer you a chance to follow up on the previous appointment.
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At that point, if you want to go and meet with Arbegast again, add 20 to your current
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entry number and go to that new entry.
385
00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:05,520
Okay.
386
00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,520
I'll just write down add 20.
387
00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,520
All right.
388
00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:19,920
You turn back to the road and your core business.
389
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Getting out of Emberhead and onwards to Osepe.
390
00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:28,240
The ridge gives you a good viewpoint from which you can see the course of the road.
391
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It winds with the hills, disappearing into woodland for a while before emerging further
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on.
393
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You lose sight of it somewhere towards the second path of woodland.
394
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At your best estimation, it has to be at least six or seven miles distant.
395
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You see no other settlements or traffic.
396
00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,480
It may be worth taking a chance and walking.
397
00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,000
The weather is still mild, but you'll need supplies before you attempt it.
398
00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000
I can't afford it.
399
00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000
I got a knife.
400
00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,780
All righty.
401
00:16:58,780 --> 00:17:05,240
So now you can walk down to the, let's see, you can examine the large metal structure,
402
00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,960
floor of the church or look for people looking for their own transport needs.
403
00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:09,960
Let's do number three.
404
00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:10,960
Number three?
405
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Mm hmm.
406
00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:12,960
So examine the...
407
00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:19,360
Or the one where I look for people with their own motor transportation or whatever the fuck
408
00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:20,360
is that.
409
00:17:20,360 --> 00:17:21,360
Yeah.
410
00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:25,680
Not far from the lead better house.
411
00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,320
The one that you went looking for those little condoms.
412
00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,280
On the north side of Sillsbury street, there is an open courtyard.
413
00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:38,360
The rhythmic tattoo of a hammer seems to announce your approach.
414
00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:42,200
The courtyard is the busiest location you have seen yet in Emberhead.
415
00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,480
It is bordered by a ring of workshops.
416
00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:46,360
Some are brick buildings.
417
00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,600
Some are only rough huts.
418
00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,940
The blacksmith sees this to hammer, thrusting something red and glowing into the bucket
419
00:17:51,940 --> 00:17:52,940
of cold water.
420
00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:57,600
A weaver looks up from his loom, blinking at you for a moment before returning to his
421
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shuttle.
422
00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:05,120
A potter, engraver and carpenter each work at their own space, exchanging friendly banter.
423
00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:08,160
You move among the artisans chatting about their work.
424
00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,080
Eventually you bring up the question of export.
425
00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,240
Some of them send occasional packages with Silas.
426
00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:19,480
Some restrict their custom wares entirely to the villagers.
427
00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,440
You receive no suggestions about alternate transport.
428
00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:23,440
How surprising.
429
00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,420
Almost like they don't want me to leave.
430
00:18:27,420 --> 00:18:29,120
Make a psychology roll.
431
00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:34,040
I'm trying to make one of my skills.
432
00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,040
Let me check.
433
00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:36,040
Oh, I do.
434
00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,040
Oh, it's a 50 percent.
435
00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,040
OK.
436
00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,120
Well, you failed the last one, sir.
437
00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:44,120
Did I?
438
00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:45,120
Oh, yeah.
439
00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:46,120
With Silas.
440
00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:47,120
Yeah.
441
00:18:47,120 --> 00:18:50,120
Come on, baby.
442
00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:51,120
54.
443
00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:52,120
Fuck.
444
00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:53,120
All right.
445
00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:58,120
Well, I'm going to go ahead and do this.
446
00:18:58,120 --> 00:18:59,120
All right.
447
00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:01,120
We're back to those same options again.
448
00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:03,120
Well, God dang it.
449
00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:05,400
Examine the large metal structure or explore the church.
450
00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,400
Let's go.
451
00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,000
Let's look at this large metal structure that's so adamant that I explore.
452
00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,600
It's like always a top one.
453
00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:13,760
Always.
454
00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,880
You walk up the approach, the most central of the village's major streets.
455
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,480
It points directly at the odd metal structure.
456
00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:25,300
As you emerge from the shade of the nearby buildings, you are greeted by a magnificent
457
00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:28,920
panorama spread of the north and the southeast.
458
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The last colors of the faint tint, the hills and a sleepy gold.
459
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:40,360
The structure, by contrast, is made from uncompromising iron, singed black.
460
00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:44,640
It supports an immense curved platform at the level of your head.
461
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,800
Further struts, snake up from the central point.
462
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,280
It looks like there may have been some kind of sculpture at one point, but are now twisted
463
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,360
and melted beyond recognition.
464
00:19:55,360 --> 00:20:00,440
An older gentleman passes, looking up at you with roomy eyes.
465
00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:01,440
Look at me.
466
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:02,440
I'm a little person.
467
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:03,440
What do you mean, looking up?
468
00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,440
But you're up on the hill.
469
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:06,440
Okay.
470
00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,840
There's at least a reason for him to be looking up.
471
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,160
Otherwise, he'd be looking down.
472
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,720
Are you here for the festival, he asks.
473
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:15,040
That's the beacon.
474
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:20,160
When they light it, night after next, you'll be able to see it 10 miles away.
475
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:25,600
He gives a little nod of satisfaction and then moves on, leaning on his walking stick.
476
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:30,240
Now you notice bundles of wood tied and stacked against the buildings nearby.
477
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,320
Perhaps this festival would be an interesting diversion, but you really must be heading
478
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,160
to Arkham as soon as possible.
479
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,040
Make a spot hidden roll.
480
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,760
My spot hidden is 70.
481
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,800
Well, that's actually pretty high.
482
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:44,800
I'm a detective.
483
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,720
I have to make sure I notice things.
484
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,360
What is it?
485
00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:56,360
Well, it's 102.
486
00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,360
Or is it just two?
487
00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:00,360
Two.
488
00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:01,360
Two?
489
00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,360
Yeah.
490
00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:03,360
Or is it?
491
00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:04,360
I guess it went to zero, zero, four.
492
00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,360
To both of them or zero, it's 100, right?
493
00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:07,200
That's what I read in the rule book.
494
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:08,800
If it's on both dice.
495
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:09,800
Okay.
496
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:10,800
So it is two.
497
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:11,800
I did it.
498
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:12,800
Thank God.
499
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:13,800
I had 102.
500
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:14,800
103%.
501
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:15,800
102%.
502
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:16,800
I made it.
503
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,800
Yeah, you're good though.
504
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,600
That was low as hell then.
505
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:22,600
Yeah.
506
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,480
As you walk by and walk away from the iron structure, you notice something strange about
507
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,200
the construction of the village.
508
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,240
All of the wooden dwellings are concentrated in the west and southwest.
509
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,600
To the east and northeast, closest to the beacon, the buildings are formed from dark
510
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,920
brick and clay.
511
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:43,220
Does this mean the settlement began at the beacon and spread west?
512
00:21:43,220 --> 00:21:48,000
You may now mark the small box beside the spot hidden skill.
513
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000
Okay.
514
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,160
Give it a little market.
515
00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,160
Done.
516
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,800
And now we go back to the same.
517
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,800
The same old table.
518
00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:58,800
Uh huh.
519
00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,560
The last thing that you have now is explore the church.
520
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:01,560
Okay.
521
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:02,560
Church it is.
522
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,560
It's not even a choice at this point.
523
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:06,560
Hallelujah.
524
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:07,560
Ow.
525
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,560
That one really got the ears going.
526
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,560
Okay.
527
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,360
You cross the street towards the church.
528
00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:20,320
As you glance at your left, you get your gaze alights on a large metal structure.
529
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,760
Something bothers you about his positioning.
530
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,560
You back up and look again.
531
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:25,560
Yes.
532
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:30,480
Amberhead central thoroughfare points directly at that structure.
533
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,180
This seems too precise to be a coincidence.
534
00:22:33,180 --> 00:22:35,800
You press on and draw into the shadow of the church.
535
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,720
The building is in a starry state.
536
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,440
The top of the steeple is missing.
537
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,560
A ragged gash of splintered boards marking its absence and the floors beneath it have
538
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,560
collapsed.
539
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:49,600
It appears to have torn through the roof of the main building as it fell.
540
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,800
Only the back half is still intact.
541
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:57,340
The white paint, which was covered covering the church has yellowed and peeled.
542
00:22:57,340 --> 00:22:59,960
It seems safe enough to explore the rear section.
543
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:03,520
Old pews are stacked against a wall choked with mildew.
544
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:04,880
Most of the windows are broken.
545
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,160
You guess this church has been disused for about 20 years.
546
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,680
There's little more to interest you.
547
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,640
Make a ride roll.
548
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:13,640
A ride roll?
549
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,520
Let's see if I have ride anything on here.
550
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:17,520
I do not.
551
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,400
Let me think I have to use the what the jet.
552
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,400
Well, ride is 5%.
553
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,520
Ain't that convenient?
554
00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:25,960
Hang on.
555
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,440
This is, you may have a bonus die.
556
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:33,000
Roll the 10th percentage die twice and make the lower result.
557
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,000
The 10s?
558
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000
All right.
559
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000
So let me do the one.
560
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,000
It won't matter if I do.
561
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000
I know.
562
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,000
That's a six.
563
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,000
That's 60% already.
564
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000
I failed.
565
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,520
Only had a 5% chance.
566
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,320
Your morning discursions have left you hungry.
567
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,960
You roam through the streets of Emberhead looking for sustenance.
568
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,760
There is nothing resembling the busy cafes of your hometown or anything that might be
569
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:55,760
called a restaurant.
570
00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:00,160
It is beginning to look like you have to get supplies from the general store.
571
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,880
When May Leadbetter comes down the street with a girl trailing in her wake.
572
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:04,880
This must be Ruth.
573
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,880
As she notices you, she races past her mother and approaches you with a smile.
574
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,160
This is a different Ruth from the shy creature of last night.
575
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,220
As she reaches you, she stops and stretches her arms up in celebration.
576
00:24:17,220 --> 00:24:18,840
She looks up into your eyes.
577
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,480
Abruptly the smile drops from her face and she looks several years older.
578
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,980
Get out before the festival she hisses.
579
00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:27,460
Get out.
580
00:24:27,460 --> 00:24:30,760
She blinks hard, then scuttles back towards her mother.
581
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,400
May approaches, wraps her arms around her daughter's shoulders and smiles.
582
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,440
How are you getting on?
583
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,840
Have you found transport yet?
584
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,760
Startled you explain the frustrations of the situation.
585
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,040
I try Mr. Winter's in the village hall.
586
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,520
He's always on the afternoon.
587
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,700
You'll be hungry by now.
588
00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:52,400
Help yourself to any food in the house.
589
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,040
The door's not locked.
590
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,880
You glance at Ruth where she has squirreled herself behind her mother's leg.
591
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,680
Her eyes implore you to silence.
592
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:02,680
You can.
593
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,080
You can ask if you ask Ruth about what she said.
594
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,920
You can ask May about what Ruth said.
595
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:10,920
Or you can say nothing.
596
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,280
Yeah, I'll go with nothing.
597
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,080
It's real shady now.
598
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,400
And another thing, she says she looked up at me.
599
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,760
How short is Ruth if I'm already three foot nine?
600
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,720
This little girl could be short.
601
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,040
She can't be much shorter than me.
602
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,440
She might have to barely tilt her head.
603
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,200
You take your leave of the leadbedders and head towards the house.
604
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,720
The door opens easy.
605
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:35,960
If in the low kitchen, you make a meal from strodgy bread and leftover stew.
606
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,600
A little window offers a view to the mountains.
607
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,400
If you learned one thing this morning, it was that Emberhead streets hold little to
608
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,440
occupy the visitor from out of town.
609
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,400
But there are about five hours of daylight remaining.
610
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,600
You could take some provisions and the bare essentials from your luggage and set out in
611
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,520
the hope of reaching another settlement before dark.
612
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,960
Or you could ask advice from the bad, this Mr. Winter's Mr. Winter's.
613
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,280
I'm me see already.
614
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,960
And I know this place is a hell hole.
615
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,240
I know they're going to kill me.
616
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,240
That's the game plan.
617
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,520
So we'll be talking to Mr. Winter's accomplished.
618
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,320
If I can talk him out of it.
619
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,560
So my options are talk to him or fucking dip, right?
620
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,640
Let's get the fuck out of here.
621
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,100
You take money, water and some sandwiches.
622
00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:29,600
It seems polite to leave made a letter, a note explaining the situation and that you
623
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,880
will return for your bags as soon as possible.
624
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,880
Just said the letter is a fuck you.
625
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:36,880
And gigantic letter.
626
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:37,880
Yeah.
627
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,880
Fuck you with enunciation.
628
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:46,120
Annunciate that.
629
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:49,080
The sky is select with cloud that shows no sign of eminent rain.
630
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,640
A couple of villagers watches you descend to the southern road block.
631
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,720
They already saw me and follow it around to the east.
632
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,480
The blight metal structure looms on the promenade above.
633
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,180
You shiver as you pass the lower huts and head out of Emberhead.
634
00:27:03,180 --> 00:27:07,120
After the miserable and closed streets of Emberhead, you are refreshed by the open air
635
00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,440
and sense of progress.
636
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,280
An hour later, however, the empty road ceases to be a novelty.
637
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:19,040
You have just entered the first patch of woodland where you hear an eerie lifting how from the
638
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,680
north, making natural world rule.
639
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,760
Shit, I'll think natural world is one of mine.
640
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:33,480
If it's not, it's just the basic the baseline it has from the little book.
641
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,360
Natural world is by itself 10 percent.
642
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,520
Oh, I didn't add anything to it.
643
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:41,520
Fuck.
644
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:44,520
There's no fucking way.
645
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:50,640
62 nowhere near.
646
00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:52,840
What is that, a coyote, a werewolf?
647
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,120
That's probably what I'm thinking.
648
00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:55,000
But the fuck is it?
649
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:57,880
I'm a city boy.
650
00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,000
I am in this world.
651
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,480
I don't know what any of this is.
652
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:06,000
You hesitate. You have grown up in the familiar landscape of the town.
653
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,440
Wild animals are a little outside of your experience.
654
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,840
Exactly. Is it unwise to head into the unknown by yourself?
655
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,040
You can either press on or return to the safety of Emberhead.
656
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:16,880
What safety?
657
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,040
They're going to fucking kill me.
658
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,360
Let's just keep going.
659
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:24,000
A second call answers the first, but it sounds further away.
660
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,880
You follow the road through the woodland.
661
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,640
Branches lean over the road.
662
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:33,440
The foliage is quite beautiful from gold to the russet and deep rich red fallen leaves
663
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,760
crunch beneath your feet.
664
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,120
After about half an hour, you emerge from the trees.
665
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,800
The road makes a lazy curve around foothills ahead into further patch woodland.
666
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,680
A rough track seems to be offer a shortcut through the woods.
667
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,040
You can.
668
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,280
You can head up the hill and try to spot another settlement.
669
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,960
Try the track or you can stick to the safety of the road.
670
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,880
Yeah, I'll stick to the road, please.
671
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,560
Let me cut this fucking thick ass wood and get mauled by a werewolf.
672
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,120
And that could be, you never know.
673
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,760
There is no guarantee that the track leads back to the road you are following.
674
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,160
Better to stay on course, even if it takes longer.
675
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:13,960
Hell yeah.
676
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,880
But you are uncomfortably aware that the sun is setting behind you as you walk.
677
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,680
15 minutes later, you are passing a natural clearing and catch the movement
678
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,640
out of the corner of your eye.
679
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,480
So if it's going to set, it's set as I'm going east.
680
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:26,920
I believe so.
681
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:27,320
Okay.
682
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,040
About 30 yards away, something large lingers at the trunk.
683
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,720
It's about your height and black with small rounded ears.
684
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,080
It's four foot one.
685
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,320
As you watch it rears up on its hind legs.
686
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:39,880
Oh, there.
687
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,320
Oh, fuck.
688
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,880
It seems most interested in the fruit hanging above it.
689
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:54,360
You can either get a closer look, remain motionless or make a deliberate slow retreat.
690
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,720
I'm going to assume it's a T-Rex and just not move.
691
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,320
You want to say not move?
692
00:29:59,320 --> 00:29:59,960
Yeah.
693
00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:02,920
Oh, shit.
694
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,240
It's going to get a fucking snap.
695
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,880
It's going to get a fucking snack here in a second.
696
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,880
You keep your breath shallow and watch the creature.
697
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,560
It pauses and looks around the clearing.
698
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:15,240
Make a luck roll.
699
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,240
By the eaten by a bear episode two.
700
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:21,880
My luck was.
701
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:23,640
Oh, yeah.
702
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,000
The 45, right?
703
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:25,240
Yeah.
704
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:26,760
I didn't write it down.
705
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:27,800
I did write it down.
706
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,440
Yeah, you got it.
707
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:29,800
Yeah, it's over here.
708
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,280
45.
709
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,000
Oh, fuck.
710
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,440
That's not a high luck at all.
711
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:37,640
Oh, it's 54.
712
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:39,240
Oh, no.
713
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:43,480
Oh, shit.
714
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,440
Something seems to spook the bear.
715
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,800
It turns and shambles away into the forest away from you.
716
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,760
It's a rump swinging.
717
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,200
It's big old ass jiggling.
718
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,560
You wait for five minutes, but the animal does not return.
719
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,000
Still, it was a fascinating creature to observe for a brief moment.
720
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:04,760
Nothing happened and I failed.
721
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:05,160
I failed.
722
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:06,600
That's weird.
723
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:10,840
Who knows if there's something worse?
724
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:11,560
Yeah, maybe.
725
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,000
You return to the road and resume your walk east.
726
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,640
At least you hope you're heading east.
727
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,960
The curves of the road become disorienting when the light begins to fade.
728
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:22,440
It's a road.
729
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:23,000
Just keep going.
730
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:23,880
You'll find something.
731
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:25,720
Clouds hide the stars.
732
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,160
It seems you will not reach another settlement before dark.
733
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,000
You feel weariness in your legs.
734
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,200
The air is much cooler now.
735
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,320
Make a hard listen roll.
736
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,360
Oh, fuck.
737
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,160
Hard listen.
738
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,960
Do I have listen as a thing?
739
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,120
Jump, dodge, traction.
740
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:43,160
Nope.
741
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,760
That means listen is a basic one.
742
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,280
Listen is already at 10% or 20%.
743
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,000
20%.
744
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,920
So a heart is a 10%, right?
745
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,160
I believe so.
746
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,280
Because it's like it's like a heart and then like one more is like a critical or
747
00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,320
extreme or some shit.
748
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,680
So the heart has to be the second one because you got to divide it by half.
749
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:05,160
So 10%.
750
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:06,920
I'm not going to hear shit.
751
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,040
I guess I'm fucking deaf.
752
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:10,760
I'm a great detective.
753
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:11,800
I can't hear a damn thing.
754
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:13,880
Except for people smacking cheeks.
755
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,520
Oh, 7%.
756
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,160
Oh, wow.
757
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:19,880
Holy shit.
758
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,120
Wow.
759
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:25,480
Un-fucking-believable.
760
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,400
It comes from behind, people.
761
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,200
My God.
762
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,560
How the hell did you do that one?
763
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:32,200
Look at the draw.
764
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,080
Very much so, my Jesus.
765
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,520
Damn, that was incredible.
766
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,800
You hear something from the road behind you.
767
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,360
It is a dull clunk, perhaps a dead branch falling.
768
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,160
You pause, but the sound does not repeat.
769
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,160
You retrace a few steps and look down the road.
770
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:50,760
There's nothing to see.
771
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,560
You may check the small box beside the listen skill now.
772
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:56,760
Okay.
773
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:57,960
I'm going to write that down instead.
774
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,520
Listen and check.
775
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,440
Another cry splits the gloom.
776
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:04,920
Oh, fuck.
777
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:05,400
What other cry?
778
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,160
That wasn't a cry to begin with.
779
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,440
The howls, I guess.
780
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,280
It is the same unearthly call you heard
781
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,520
whenever you first entered the first patch of woodland.
782
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,280
But this time with a grating undertone that makes you shiver,
783
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,160
it seems closer.
784
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:18,440
Oh, fuck.
785
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:24,280
You can either take refuge in a tree for the night or keep walking.
786
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:25,480
I'm getting the fuck out of here.
787
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:26,040
Keep walking?
788
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,160
Yeah.
789
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,680
Unappealing as it is to keep walking through the dark,
790
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,040
the idea of hiding up a tree while wild animals congregate
791
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,960
to plan your slaughter is even less appealing.
792
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,640
Sooner or later, this road must lead you to another settlement.
793
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:42,360
It has to.
794
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:47,160
You step up the pace, but I'm getting the fuck up out of here.
795
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,560
The eerie howls draw closer.
796
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:53,480
They come from either side.
797
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,840
One calls and is answered by the grim chorus, thick and hungry.
798
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,280
They have a strange desperate edge.
799
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,280
You're walking as fast as you can now.
800
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,200
You hear your own breath coming hard.
801
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,560
The trees in the area are too young to support your weight.
802
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,080
Perhaps we have 100 pounds, but they could be little saplings.
803
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:11,960
Jesus.
804
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,120
But how long could you run before you had to stop?
805
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,240
As long as I have to.
806
00:34:15,240 --> 00:34:17,960
A clump of low dark bodies slink from the trees,
807
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,240
blocking the road ahead.
808
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,840
Each silhouette has a high pointed edge.
809
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:23,640
A pointed ear.
810
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,600
Their eyes glint in the moonlight.
811
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:27,560
Make a sanity roll.
812
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:28,840
Oh, no.
813
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,120
What the fuck did I just walk into?
814
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,760
So my sanity, it stays set, right?
815
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,080
But I still I lose points.
816
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,360
You lost that one already.
817
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,480
So it's at 49.
818
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:40,120
Yeah.
819
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,720
No, that's fucking terrible.
820
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,920
Was it sanity or was.
821
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,160
But yeah, you lost the point insanity.
822
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,120
So that means that I have to roll underneath 49 now.
823
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:52,600
Yeah.
824
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,720
Or 49 under.
825
00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:54,520
Yeah.
826
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,440
That would suck if my sanity was really low.
827
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:57,500
Yeah.
828
00:34:58,440 --> 00:34:59,720
Come on, baby, don't lose your mind.
829
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:01,640
Two.
830
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:01,960
Two.
831
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:02,460
Wow.
832
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,880
You're going to get super lucky.
833
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:06,840
I'm getting the fuck out of here.
834
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,080
Even as the beast fan out around you,
835
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,960
the black fear rises in your chest.
836
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,480
You sense something is wrong here.
837
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,880
The pack makes irritable, awkward movements,
838
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,160
not the patient predator predatory approach you might expect.
839
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,160
They draw closer, encircling you.
840
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,160
You hear the rasp of their throats smell their thick musky scent.
841
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,160
They burst into flame.
842
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,680
You gape, fumes filling your mouth and nostrils as the creatures ignite.
843
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,360
Eyes wild, their fur blazes waves of red,
844
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,160
red tinged fire dripping from their salivating jewels.
845
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:50,520
They howl a wolf will cacophony and springs at you with insane burning eyes.
846
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,200
You stagger back, gulping and choking vapors and you fall.
847
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,200
Lose one sanity point.
848
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:56,700
What?
849
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,080
I thought I got the what the fuck?
850
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:00,680
But I got it.
851
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,520
You motherfuckers.
852
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:04,680
Yeah.
853
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,520
What would have happened if you didn't get it though?
854
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:07,800
I would have shit my pants.
855
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:09,820
Or died.
856
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:11,080
Yeah, maybe.
857
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,400
I thought when they burst into flames, they would.
858
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:13,960
Oh, fuck.
859
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:14,460
What are they?
860
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,280
They'd be like flame on.
861
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,160
Oh, you're going to hate this.
862
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:18,600
Like a flaming werewolf?
863
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:19,560
You're going to hate this though.
864
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,040
The skin of your face feels warm.
865
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,880
There is a mattress beneath you.
866
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,320
You blink against the sunlight.
867
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,800
A blurred figure swims into your vision.
868
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:29,720
You're awake.
869
00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:30,520
It's May.
870
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:31,400
May Ledbetter.
871
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:31,900
Fuck.
872
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:34,060
Great.
873
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,680
You shift and pain racks your body.
874
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,080
You feel bruised and your head throbs.
875
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,040
May comes into focus.
876
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:41,640
You're lucky to be alive.
877
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,600
A farmer found you in the small hours lying in the road.
878
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,560
Patched you up and brought you back in his cart.
879
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,200
Said you were in the middle of the wood somewhere.
880
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,360
Best take it easy today.
881
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:53,880
I'll lick it on you later.
882
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,520
The farmer and his cart are long gone, of course.
883
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,280
You snooze for a little longer.
884
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:00,680
You have received first aid.
885
00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:03,400
While unconscious, you may restore one hit point.
886
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:04,840
We lost three hit points.
887
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,840
What the fuck?
888
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,720
I guess we can leave it there because that's kind of a good way to start.
889
00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:10,220
Yeah.
890
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,920
And we'll see you guys on part three.
891
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,120
I guess I'm having a Groundhog's Day fucking episode.
892
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,600
We'll see you guys on part three.
893
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:41,960
God damn it, man.