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Welcome to A Ravenous Hunger, a second edition Trail of Cthulhu actual play performed by
the 12-sided stories radio theater.
Now your keeper, Wes Otis.
Hello, my name is Wes Otis and this is A Ravenous Hunger, episode number four, second edition
of Trail of Cthulhu actual play sponsored by Pelgrine Press, who is running a backer
kit right this second.
This game probably comes out like two days before the backer kit is over.
So if you've listened this far, you like the game and you should go back it.
Alright, so let's find out who is with us, who is ready to go a little baddie.
Hello, I'm Lev and I'm going to be playing Matilda Mendoza.
They are a medical student.
They are in the midst of learning information about their family.
They're in the midst of turmoil and so am I.
I use they, them and so do they.
Hello everyone, my name is Candice.
I also know Candice Magnificent.
I am playing LaShawn Roberts.
Both of us use they, she pronouns and we are sleuthing up a storm.
Hi, I'm Jen.
I play Mac.
We both use she, they pronouns.
Hey, I'm Michelle and I am playing Dot through Heel and yeah, she's just trying to, you know,
not die.
Alright, in the last episode, you all met George, who is the janitor at Miss Katonic.
He was chopping down one of the walls to get to one of the mini tunnels under Miss Katonic.
He gave some really harrowing background on what happened at the pool building and said,
look, don't just don't go there.
It's not good.
You all decided with that information to go to the journalism and history building and
raid the library, which is quintessential trail of Cthulhu goodness.
You found out a ton of information.
First you found out about Rachel Harper from 1834, who actually built all of these buildings
and had a church called the One True Light.
And she died 20 years later in 1854, but there wasn't a lot of information on what happened.
You didn't really find anything.
There was an odd hole there.
You also found, I believe LaShawn noticed some sigils in the posts.
These were original pieces of wood from the buildings and they were ancient Greek and
coordinates, but not to the anywhere on earth that you can find.
And you also found that the pieces of paper and the carvings on people's chest that also
have ancient Greek on them have something to do with what happened at the pool.
It was a lot.
They all decided after the one medical students in the party, they kept hearing this knock
and Matilda, the medical student, really wanted to go check it out to make sure no one was
hurt.
But then everyone else is like, hey, we should go to the basement.
I'm sure they'll be fine in this freezing building that is unnaturally cold.
And all of them left into the basement to come back around and check on whoever was
doing that knocking.
And that's where we catch up in the basement with Rob, who's covered in blood because
he saw a horrific death.
And George, who has collected a bunch of items, you all were heading towards the art building.
And that's where we're going to pick it up.
What do you want to do in the art building?
Where do you want to go?
There's the dance studio at the top.
George does have petrol.
If you want him to get the generator going, he can do that.
But right now, it's dry as a bone.
I mean, it feels like the best decision is to have a place that's safe and a brightly
lit place that is where all the hot air is going to rise to seems like the safest spot.
But that's just my opinion.
I agree.
Yeah, I agree with you.
Agree.
So George is going to get the generator and the furnace going, try to get all the lights
on.
Did you want to take a moment to critique Max artwork or are you going to do something
else?
Wow, you're just going to offer it up there, aren't you?
I am absolutely keeping an eye out.
I want to remind people of their options.
That's all I'm doing.
That's it.
Yeah, I am keeping an eye out for Max name on any of the art that's hanging in the hallways.
Awesome.
Love this for me.
Rob says, well, I'll stay down here with George and help George out.
I don't want to go up there.
So all of you head upstairs and Mac, just for fun, why don't you explain like you guys
are looking through all the different things.
You don't hear anything.
There's not as much damage in this building and it is relatively well lit.
And what would one of your art pieces look like?
I feel like Mac has absolutely no talent in art whatsoever and is a struggling art student
because they really want to do art, but they can't do art.
And so their pieces of art are very like impressionist or like they come across as being very impressionist
because they can't do it.
They struggle.
It's just something they can't do.
They're really good at coloring though.
So like a lot of times their art is like some really bad wire sculpture or something to
avoid drawing and illustration.
So I imagine like, you know how schools have those like galleries in the hallways of like
all the art operate.
So the art building, if I may, is full of these displays of art throughout the whole
thing.
Right.
So they pity Mac because Mac was paid in.
Right.
Like we know that Mac's dad paid for them to be there and they were like, I'm going to
be an art student.
So Mac is paid in.
So their art is like in the front, not because it's good, but because they want the people
to get over it.
Like when they're like in the expanse of like, oh wow, look at all this great stuff.
Right.
And they want them to get over it because they just got there.
So they want their art to be kind of like within that space before they actually start
critiquing all of the things in the school so that people actually send their kids there
for art.
So Mac has these like really bad stick figure wire sculptures with duct tape around, masking
tape, any type of tape that they then color badly.
It's like when you're in fifth grade and you watch Sailor Moon for the first time, so you
start designing your own Sailor Moon outfits.
It's like that.
Okay.
So you all see this and you're looking around.
I believe all of you have noticed, correct?
Pretty sure.
Yeah.
No, I do not.
Oh.
You don't.
Okay.
So as the three of you are looking around it, and I'm sure Tilly and Francis are looking
around as well, and Tilly's been sticking super close to LaShawne.
Wherever LaShawne is going, Tilly is right next to them.
You guys notice that there's a pattern on the ceiling.
It looks like a space scene, almost like a space and planets and things like that, but
it's very faded.
I'm going to come back to your art because it has to be talked about.
It has to be, but there's a space thing up there, and we were talking about coordinates
that aren't on this planet, and I think that probably takes precedence over these dolls
that you've made.
They're action figures.
Of course, action figures.
Oh, I see the articulated limbs now.
I understand.
Yeah, that's what the knobs are.
I can't get them to move, though.
So they're not really articulated, Francis says.
That's not the points.
That's not the points, Francis.
The point of action figures is that they're articulated.
Listen, Francis, the point is that we're at school, and Mac is learning, and eventually
they will figure out how to make those elbows move.
Won't you, Mac?
Yeah.
I'm learning, you know?
It's learning, Francis.
They're learning.
Okay, okay.
It's learning.
It's half the battle.
All right, so.
Lashawn glares at Francis hard.
Yeah.
You are looking up at this particular painting.
It's hard to see.
Do you want to try to find a ladder to get up closer, or do you just want to leave it
be?
Someone can use my shoulders as a ladder.
Like either a ladder or if there's a chair or something.
Yeah, you can do a chair, yeah.
When you look closer, it's all of these strange painted planets.
You notice through all of the space, there's this lake almost, like it looks like a lake
of some sort.
And at one end of the painting, there's a city, and it's just very gray and dull and
kind of strange looking.
And at the other end, it looks like there is a bunch of stars, and in between there
are planets.
And as you're looking through, you can see along the edges, there is a lot of text.
If you take like 30 minutes or an hour to sit there, you can write it all down, but
that's up to you if you want to take that much time.
I just want to read it, I think, and maybe get the gist, because I know we don't have
a lot of time.
Are you reading it out loud or to yourself?
To myself.
So you start reading it, and you have to move the chair because it's in this long hallway
kind of area.
So you keep moving the chair and reading more, and you're kind of making your way around
as everybody else is trying to look at different pieces of art and see what they find.
At some point, you hear the sound of one drop hitting the floor of liquid.
Like it's close?
If she hears it, it definitely is close.
Then a few more drops of liquid.
I look to see where it's coming from.
You look down or up?
Yeah, down.
You see four or five drops of blood from your nose, and you go like this, and there's a
bunch of blood streaming down and dripping off your chin.
As you've been reading it, not all the words make sense in the context, but it definitely
is some sort of ritual that you seem to be figuring out a little too easily.
You need to make a stability roll for me.
If you want to spend any points, let me know.
You need to beat a four.
Seeing her nose bleeding, can I just go and steady her to make sure that if she crumples,
she doesn't fall directly on the floor?
Yeah, absolutely.
Okay.
And I made it.
Six.
Okay, cool.
Did you spend any points?
All right.
So, you also need to take one point of sanity because this is a mythos thing.
It's a ritual.
This is a spell of some sort, an ancient spell of some sort.
You have a cult, so I'm going to say it definitely opens up some sort of portal, and it talks
about needing at least three people in order to cast the spell, but that the best number
is a large number of God.
A large number of what?
God.
What's the number most associated with God?
Oh, is God 777 or three?
Right.
777.
Or it could be three.
And the church had 777 members.
Correct.
Yeah.
And there were 70 people at the pool when they went down.
Yeah.
Ugh, so we need Rob.
Gross.
All right.
So, what do you all want to do?
If you want to check out the whole building, you can, there's no kids in this building.
When the storm hit, most of the kids that were going to be here were probably either
in the dorm or already left campus for Christmas or whatever for their winter holiday.
If you go upstairs, you can hear when the generator kicks on and you can feel the warmth
start to go through as the furnace kicks on.
Then after a little bit, you start smelling something weird in the heat as it's coming
up.
I like that.
What do you all want to do?
Kind of weird, Wes.
Cooked meat?
I thought so.
I think LaChan sniffs the air.
They go out a lot to like the city and stuff.
They're in restaurants and bars and things like that with their friends and with their
aunts.
They're kind of a worldly person.
Would I recognize the smell?
Would I, a person who's around death and things that are cremated, recognize the smell?
Okay, but me being just a weirdo, would I also recognize the smell?
Michelle, you have to do it too.
Me coming from a ranch.
Do I recognize the smell?
I would say at least if you don't recognize it, Matilda will let you know instantly that
it smells like there might be something human in the furnace.
That's a body.
That's not, that's a body.
That's, that's a, that's a, I can't say it any more times.
That's what it is.
Uh, body?
That's, that's, that's the smell.
Gross.
It doesn't smell that different than anything else.
Um, is, is George okay?
Oh, or Rob.
Yeah.
Or Tilly.
Do we check at this point or do we, I mean, I don't know what we do with this, with this,
with this spell.
You were going to check at the knocking and you're now going to check at the potential
dead body in the furnace.
I, you can't.
We know who's in the, in the basement.
We didn't know who was knocking.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
That's true.
It's really hard to be nice about your art.
Francis says, well, I mean, if we had checked, we'd know who was doing the knocking.
Quiet, Francis.
So decision, you guys have checked this building out.
You know, the ritual, there's a ritual here.
You're not sure what happens when it's cast.
You know that you have a sigil that is not complete.
There is at least one component missing.
You have coordinates from the library.
You have not checked the pool yet to see anything in there and you smell human flesh through
the furnace.
What do you all want to do?
The Sean like holds onto the wall to study themselves, finding out that it's cool, man.
It's cool.
I guess I'm not as worldly as I thought.
I think everybody but Matilda needs to give me a stability check.
I made the roll and I got a two.
I also got a two.
Okay.
So you guys both failed.
I got a six.
Yay.
Failing together.
Okay.
So you're not sure what's going on, but I'm going to say you're going to take four points.
Four points, Wes?
Four points.
That seems steep.
It does.
He's trying to kill us because it's the last episode.
No, no.
I wouldn't kill you because it's the last episode.
You know that the only bodies that you would know of would be George or Rob.
And it's your only way back to any of the other buildings because it's the only way
to the tunnels.
So at a certain point we have to find out, right?
Yeah.
You can sit up here and just hope that everything passes, survive.
You could totally survive and just like stay here until hopefully the storm passes and
then, you know, live with that decision.
It's all up to you.
You know, you would think that if this happened every 20 years on the same day, they would
make sure campus was empty.
No, they wouldn't.
They need sacrifices for whatever the fuck this is.
I mean, that means do we think, so you think the faculty knows?
They have to.
Why wouldn't they?
Yeah, exactly.
There's like all the evidence is here and we found it in what, three hours?
If that's the case, why do any of us pay for tuition?
This shit should be free.
Education as a whole should be free, but that's a different conversation.
I agree.
So what do you all want to do?
Burn it down to the ground.
Yeah.
Set it on fire.
Is there a way to look for the coordinates within the stars?
Yes, there is.
I'll take one for the team this time.
Okay.
If you want to know where the coordinate is.
The painting looks like a map of some sort and if you look closely enough, the coordinates
appear within the ritual and it looks like they are, in our terminology, several light
years away from where Earth is, but that this river I was talking about that's kind of through
the painting is a quicker way from that particular place and Earth.
Oh, oh, I think I understand.
I think I understand.
I think the river is where the pool is and they had to open a gate to get to wherever
this coordinate is and they needed blood to get there, right?
I don't like that.
I mean, I don't love it either.
Oh, well then.
How do we close the gate?
Because it looks like they left it open.
More blood.
I think that that's definitely a stability check Matilda.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.
I'm going to spend two.
Okay.
Puts me down at eight.
So six total.
Okay.
Nice.
I've been training for this my whole life.
I know that there's weird shit out there.
I know that I know that we're not the only things out there and this is just proving
my point.
So I don't know where I was going with that.
I just needed you guys to know that I that I know I'm aware.
I know.
Dot's eyes are huge.
I'm along for the ride with you and everything, but this is this is fucking me up.
I think Lashawn like pats their front down and in their pocket they like pull out like
an almost empty packet of cigarettes and one of the cigarettes inside is a grass one.
Okay.
And they spark that up.
It just got to sit and like look at everybody like they are clearly not having the best
time.
Well, Tilly goes, look, we can can I get a puff of that?
We can we can just stay here then, right?
I mean, I mean, no, we've got to cut this off.
Lashawn passes it.
We have a responsibility now.
How do we cut it off?
What do we do?
I mean, I think we've got to go on that fucking river, right?
In the painting is the river in the painting on the ceiling or is the river in the painting
in the dorm room?
The river is in the painting on the ceiling.
The coordinates line up to where exactly these five buildings are.
And you are right.
They were worshiping something that they were trying to go to.
Or but they brought it through instead.
Maybe maybe.
Does that seem like something?
That's what it sounds like.
Matilda is looking frantically between their like three friends like this.
This all tracks down, right?
This is it.
I'm not I'm not making connections where there are connections, right?
No, that you're you've connected the dots, I think you guys have a ton of information.
Where do you want to go?
Lashawn just stands there with the cigarette kind of hanging out of their mouth.
And she just looks at everybody and shrugs.
I mean, I guess that means we're going to the fucking pool, right?
Yeah, I don't have enough blood for 70 people.
Nor do I.
I'd really appreciate if none of us spilled any blood, honestly.
We can probably just reconstitute the blood that's already there.
Yeah, unless the pipes are frozen.
How are we going to close this gate, though, if the gates open or if the gate opens, how
do we close it?
Well, I mean, Doc, can you teach us what you saw?
I know it gave you a bloody nose and all, but maybe it's just because you were trying
to handle it yourself.
Maybe spread across seven people.
It's not so bad.
I mean, yeah, but let's get there first.
You head downstairs and when you get into the basement, the smell is bad.
There's blood all over the place.
There's blood on the ground and on the walls.
And it looks like George was shoved in head first into the furnace and floating about
three feet off the ground, almost touching the top of the basement is Rob.
His shirt has been ripped open because he was fighting, obviously, with George to get
him into the furnace.
And he has a symbol on his chest and markings.
So look like he carved it into himself.
It doesn't know.
And he is muttering words.
And you notice that things start to get strange around you.
Reality is shifting a little bit.
And he's not responding to you, but the world around him is responding to the words coming
out of his mouth and possibly others.
Is it ancient Greek?
It is.
What is he saying?
The same ritual that you had read on top of the painting.
And the thing carved on his chest, is it the third sigil?
It is.
So you can take note of it.
He's not attacking you.
What do you guys want to do?
I make note of the sigil.
So you head over to the pool.
And once you get there, there's a pump to empty the pool.
And inside is clear water.
But at the very bottom of the pool are 70 bodies.
Matilda, your aunt, is among them and doesn't look like she's decayed much at all.
You can make out her face and she's staring up at you.
So you feel a presence in this building and you can hear the sounds of three different
voices muttering three different parts of a ritual as this presence waits.
What do you all want to do?
We don't want to say the ritual.
We want to stop them from saying it.
Yes.
Where are they?
Two of them are in the dorm.
Edward and the art teacher.
And then one of them is in the art room.
Matilda goes, okay, how are we going to do this?
There's three of them.
What are we going to do?
And reality keeps warping around you more and more.
Matilda, can you come get me?
Can you see me?
Come to me.
Matilda will kind of totter over to the edge, not on the edge of the pool, but like far
enough down that she can look into the pool.
There's all 70 of these people are writhing at the bottom of the pool, reaching for their
throats and for the surface of the water.
And you can see your aunt trying to speak with you and you get a flash of your nightmare.
Make a stability roll and take two sanity points.
Take two sanity points.
Take two sanity.
And then do a stability roll.
Right.
That you absolutely do not want to fail.
I'll use another two then.
Okay.
No pressure or anything, but.
Just so you know.
Don't fail it.
I got a five.
I rolled a three.
I got a five.
All right.
Yeah, you're lucky.
So you can resist the urge to jump into the pool.
Matilda is going to like clap their hands over their ears and back away as far as they
can.
We have to go stop them.
We have to.
Okay.
Well, who's going where?
What are we doing?
Well, I wonder if it's kind of like a three legged stool.
You knock out one leg and the whole thing falls over.
Do you want to make that bet?
I'm down to make that bet.
I don't know if we have.
I mean, we've we cut we cut Eddie's head off.
Sorry, Lashawn, but we cut Eddie's head off and he's still going.
What?
Can you not hear him?
Yeah, he's the third voice, right?
That's got to be him.
I mean, I'm sorry.
Unless they got one of the other ones.
We left Dr. Wilkes.
I'm sure they're cloning them.
Yeah, didn't Rob say Dr. Rope got ripped apart by that thing?
Dr. Bowen?
Yeah, but I mean, we cut Eddie's head off and apparently he's carrying it around.
And right as you all are talking, notice that the water starts to turn to blood slowly.
Oh, no.
It's working.
And reality starts to warp around you even more.
And the creature appears in the room floating above the water, maybe five feet.
And it's very clear to see that it's all 777 members of the cult.
All of their faces.
It's this huge amorphous blob of these faces pressed up against the misty outer shell of
this creature.
The pool is filling with this blood.
Reality is warping around you.
You all need to make a decision right now before it's too late.
I want to turn on the pump.
We're sure as fuck not joining them.
You want to turn on the pump?
Yeah.
All right.
You run over and you turn on the pump and the creature lets out this noise and sends
this group of arms that are fused together and tries to smack you away from the pump.
What?
You're rude.
No.
All right.
So it hits Dot because I rolled really well.
Dot, you fly into the wall across the room and it hits the pump into the water so that
it stops and you take three points of damage.
You've got a huge bump on your head and you're pretty banged up.
What do you all want to do?
I want to go grab Dot and pull her with us as we go wherever the fuck we're going.
Okay.
So you guys run out of the pool room?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Are you going to go after one of the people or are you going to split up and go after
all three?
What do you want to do?
I think we've got to drop all three.
Yeah.
I'm going to say that you know from the ritual that there is a time limit on this.
That's why it keeps happening on the same day because obviously the stars have to be
correct for it to run through the river between the planets.
I say we take out Rob.
Well, then we go to the dorm because there's well within the dorm there's two.
Oh yeah.
And we all go to the dorm together.
True.
And that means we take out two and then we can come get Rob if we have to.
Okay.
Let's do it.
I said I wasn't going to make any decisions and now I'm trying to make decisions.
That's a good decision.
No, no.
I think you're right.
I think that's a good decision.
Look, we just need to go and do something and Francis just starts going.
Great.
Yeah.
Follow Francis.
I'm ready.
And he just kisses you on the cheek and goes, just in case we don't make it after this,
I'd like to go out for coffee or something.
Let's go.
LaShawn kind of like turns, looks at her and blushes a little bit and then looks back at
the others and like their eyebrows raised and goes, yeah, I mean, we should probably
keep it moving.
So you all run up to the dorm.
You can, as you're getting closer to these chanters, these, I guess, sacrifices in a
way, you can hear them louder and louder.
There are two of them in the lunch area or in the mess hall.
One is Dr. Wilkes and then the other is Jane and they are up on tables, about two feet
off of the tables, reciting this ritual.
How do you want to take them down?
How do you want to do this?
Totally.
Yeah, that's a good caveat.
As much as I really hate the thought of this, I think we need to like ruin the sigils.
The second dot says that LaShawn walks up to one and starts to like hack at it with
the axe.
The axe.
Okay.
That's a little more than actual getting rid of a sigil, but it works.
So who is hacking at the other one?
I will.
I'll try and be more like precise on Jane.
I'll try and just like...
Mess it up?
Pull, yeah, like pull a couple pieces of skin rather than like the whole thing.
I know that sounds awful.
No, no.
But I think I want to be more like discerning with it because I know that maybe like this
isn't a death blow, so like maybe Jane can be saved.
Okay.
So as LaShawn is literally going ham on Professor Wilkes and just slamming this axe into her
and blood is going everywhere and you can hear the sound of her gasp as the axe hits
her lungs and fills with blood and then drops to the ground.
Meanwhile, Matilda is meticulously using her medical prowess to skin part of the runes
off of her body and...
I'm so sorry.
Change them a bit.
You have to actually cut into a couple of the marks because they're a little deeper
into the flesh, I'll say.
But then she stops as well, drops to the ground.
She's bleeding all over the place, but she's still alive.
I'm just going to first aid bandage as much of her chest as I can and then if Dr. Wilkes
is still alive, I'll probably do the same thing.
She's not.
So LaShawn stops pummeling the professor with the axe and then turns around and realizes
that Jane is alive and seems to be conscious again and then looks back down at the professor.
A lighter hand would have been enough.
Can you make a stability check for me, LaShawn?
Do I have to?
Oh, absolutely.
All right, I'm going to spend one point.
Fuck.
Uh oh.
How many points?
Quick.
I said I was going to spend one point.
Okay.
So that's just a three.
Oh, altogether?
Oh no.
Yes, Wes, altogether.
So you just murdered someone.
Let me see how many points that is.
What?
Well, I mean, you took an axe of someone and you chopped them out of the sky.
But was it a bad guy though?
I mean, you know.
It was a professor.
It was under control of a bad guy, but not a bad guy.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
But not a bad guy.
So, Tilly's never going to go out with me now.
How many points do you have right now?
Four Wes.
I'm in dire straits.
You are in dire straits.
This is terrible.
You guys don't understand.
The other day we were playing fucking.
We were playing fear itself and I was just rolling so good.
Y'all.
I should-
Not today.
You used up all your luck there.
I did.
This is terrible.
Five points of stability.
Westability.
West, no!
Plus the point that you spent, so that's six points, so that puts you at negative two,
which means that you are mentally unstable.
You can roleplay that any way you want.
You just killed someone, so you're probably in shock and you're covered in blood.
Lashawn turns to all of you and just like runs a finger through their curly hair.
I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool.
We're destroying the sigils.
We're destroying the sigils, that's what I'm doing.
I've destroyed the first one, where's the next one?
And they start like brandishing the axe again, where's the next sigil?
I took care of the other one.
We can, we're good.
Yeah?
We're good here.
We're good.
Okay.
I'm like standing in front of Jane.
We're good here.
Awesome.
Okay.
Jane's unconscious and Francis says you guys need to go and get rid of Rob now.
I'll stay with Jane.
I don't know if we should risk you becoming one of these.
Can you carry her?
Yeah, I think I can carry her.
Okay.
Are you and Tilly maybe?
Yeah.
Yeah, I want to look at Tilly, how's Tilly doing?
Tilly's glad that she was far enough away to not get too much spray.
She just walks back to the kitchen, you hear the sound of water and then she walks back
in and just starts with a washcloth, wiping Lashawn's face off and trying to get as much
gore off of Lashawn as possible.
What?
I'm fine.
You got a little bit of what?
Dirt on my face?
You could call it that.
Yes.
Yeah, there's dirt on your face and I just wanted to help you out real quick, okay?
You're so sweet.
Yeah.
So someone said that we need to dispatch Rob.
Yeah, or at least change the sigils.
Just break up the sigil.
I just kind of pulled some skin on the other one, so maybe we'll let Matilda do this one.
Yeah, we'll let Matilda.
You can stand guard.
Are you sure?
Because I mean, I'm more than capable.
I've got what I need.
I would really like you to watch my back.
Yeah, we just need you to stand guard.
Yeah, with...
Oh, they do it.
Lashawn like goes to Mack.
Why is everybody being so weird?
You killed a dude.
What?
What do you mean?
I was supposed to destroy the sigil, right?
I mean, that's...
And you did.
Right.
Yes.
So I did Matilda.
Yeah.
I did my job.
Yeah, you did your job.
Right.
Like you did your job to be on the best of your ability, like outside your payroll.
Like just...
Yeah.
Are you sure you're okay?
Like you decimated that chick.
I mean, I feel great.
I mean, it's really good to be able to just, you know, do my fucking job and well, that's
what I'm doing here.
You know, I'm trying to be the best.
And you know, today, I don't think I felt the best.
But today I did the damn thing, right?
I mean, saw me.
Like I got it done.
We all did.
Tillie comes up and goes, look, we can talk about this never.
Let's go find Rob.
Yeah.
Okay.
See if we can help and get rid of his sigil as well.
Let's go and yeah.
Let's do it.
Let's get out of here.
I'm ready.
All of you leave.
The one thing you notice is that the reality is still warping around you.
There's things slithering inside the walls.
The roof is going up and down and there's this groan of the earth that you should not
be able to comprehend, but you do.
And as you're in the tunnel, you hear the sound of the creature that's in the pool.
It senses what you're doing because you've destroyed two of the sigils and it needs two
people to finish those sigils.
And you hear it start to come through the tunnels towards you.
So this thing is coming at you quick.
You're running.
Francis has Jane over his shoulder.
Everybody needs to make a flea roll to get to the art basement quickly before this creature
catches up with you.
So a flea roll, you need to beat a five.
This is a difficult one.
I'm spending four points.
Okay.
I'll spend it.
I'll spend three.
Okay.
I'll spend three.
All right.
Candice, I don't have anything in flea.
Athletics?
No, sir.
No athletics either.
I mean, I can spend two points of athletics, I guess.
Athletics you can use athletics.
All right, then I'll use that.
I was gonna say, can I give them some of my points?
Go ahead and give it a roll.
Okay.
I got a four.
Nice.
Okay.
You didn't get it.
That's five.
Okay.
Five.
I spent four and I rolled a two, so I got six.
What'd you get?
I got an eight.
You got an eight.
I rolled a five and I spent three, so I got eight.
All right.
So you're all running and a very angry, large apparition is chasing after you.
And Mac, you trip and just land straight on your face.
Great.
And this thing is coming up behind you.
I'm gonna give you guys one chance.
Wait, did you fail?
Yeah.
Yeah, they failed.
Oh yeah.
I said, oh no.
One of you, a chance to grab them and pull them up before they're enveloped by this creature.
So who would like the honors of trying to do that?
What is it gonna be against your?
I will let you use scuffle because if you want, you can also use.
Can I argue sense trouble?
Or sense trouble.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's a good argument.
Okay.
I can use scuffling.
And I can use sense trouble if we need multi doing it.
So you're both gonna try to grab?
Okay.
Yeah.
I'll let you both try.
I don't think that Lashawn is in the mental state to do this.
So they hit the ground.
Go ahead and give me a roll.
One of you wants.
I'm gonna spend three.
Three.
Okay.
Yeah, I spent I spent three.
Okay.
Six.
And I rolled a four.
So I got seven.
Okay.
So as this thing is coming up, you grab Mac quickly and you continue to run and it's right
behind you and you run into the basement and Rob is floating there saying the words, though
it's it's mostly missed.
There's also some bits in it that are human, so it's hard to shove all the way through
this opening.
You have a moment.
How do you want to do this?
If you decide to do it the easy way, which is with the axe, it will be a lot quicker
or you can do it like you did with Jane and that might take a little bit more time.
Lashawn looks at all of you with a very and I hate to use this word, but it's true crazy
eye and like a lingering smile like the most clueless Labrador retriever, but covered with
blood.
Definitely don't let them choose.
We don't have much time.
This thing is it's getting through the wall.
I can try to do it again if we want.
Just rip it.
Okay.
I'm like, don't be delicate.
I'm gonna grab a handful of the skin bits and pull.
I don't really I don't want Lashawn to have another death on their conscience when they
come out of this.
Yeah.
Fugue state.
I'm gonna say that one of you has to get on your hands and knees and let Matilda get on
your back to be able to reach.
I'll do that.
You need to make a first aid roll and you need to beat a five, which I believe is what
I had to do last time.
So I'll spend three again.
I rolled a four.
So seven.
Excellent.
Okay, cool.
He drops to the ground and he is unconscious and this thing lets out a huge scream.
It is super angry that you just got rid of its third person.
Upstairs, upstairs with the light and the yeah, let's upstairs.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool.
So you all are running away from this thing and Tilly says, Francis, go that way.
I'm gonna go this way with Rob.
You guys go up the stairs because it can't follow all of us.
It's following you up the stairs to the room.
The last big roll is this one.
Well, it might not be this one, but this one's pretty important.
It's another fleeing roll and you all need to beat a six because it is pissed and fast.
What do you all want to do?
I'm spending five.
I'm spending three.
Okay, three.
Cool.
Mack, what are you doing?
I'm spending five.
Okay.
I think I only have four left, so I'll spend four.
Uh-oh.
I got a nine.
Excellent.
I got a ten.
Okay.
Did you get a one?
No, I got a nine.
Yeah.
Okay, no, I'm talking about Lev.
I did in fact get a one.
No.
Yeah, truly unfortunate timing on my rolls, but also kind of sick storytelling.
Thanks, Dice.
As you're running up, the rest of you get into the dance studio on the top and all the
lights are on.
You hear the sound of Matilda trip at the last moment down backwards down the stairs
and get enveloped.
And as you turn around to look, you see them deep inside of this mist goo kind of thing
and the members of the church start to eat Matilda all at once.
Can I throw my book out that had my letter to my sister in like one last attempt?
Sure.
Absolutely.
You see the book go flying out as the life gets eaten out of them and their bones are
added to the spirits inside.
So let's talk about some sanity loss.
Let's see what the old book says here.
Seeing a friend die.
Thanks a lot, trails of Cthulhu.
Second edition.
Don't forget the second edition.
That's the important part here.
Yeah.
So it's so it's even more harsh is what you're saying.
Let's see.
Well, you didn't kill a friend.
That's good.
Make a stability roll.
You may want to spend some points.
I'm just saying because you just saw something horrific.
I got a five.
How am I supposed to spend points, Wes?
Oh yeah.
I don't have any.
So roll and try to beat a four.
I will spend three points then.
You got a five.
Mac?
Yeah.
Dot, what'd you get?
I got a four.
Hoo hoo, barely.
Okay.
Lashawn.
Do I just tell you what I do or?
Sure.
What do you do?
I got a two.
So I guess I'm going in after them.
Okay.
So suddenly Lashawn runs into the mass.
Matilda, I can save you.
You don't deserve to go like this.
And suddenly just like that, two of your friends are ripped apart in front of you as it's making
its way up the stairs towards the room that you wish it would get into already.
So it's not going to go into this room with the lights on.
So you're going to have to turn off the lights for it to go in and then flick them on.
How do you want to do this?
You tell me how to do this so that I can cut it in so it sounds dramatic.
I hear squeaky.
I think Mac would want to be bait.
Okay.
Mac goes by the far end of the room to coast the thing in and you're going to turn off
the light?
Yeah, I hide right next to the light switch.
It's hard to see this thing in the dark.
So here's the thing.
It's huge and you know you need to get most of it in this room for this to work.
The room's relatively large too.
I'm going to count and you decide which second that you want to flip that switch and how
close because you can't see anything.
Otherwise it'll attack you so you can't use any lights.
It's pitch black in here.
That kind of rocks.
That's kind of cool.
Okay.
I have the number that needs to be.
What kind of die were you rolling there, Wes?
Why would I tell you that?
You ready?
Okay.
One, two, three, four, five.
I turn it on at five.
You turn it on halfway in.
Ah, halfway.
And it sears through half of the creature.
You want it to wait to 10.
It immediately goes back down the stairs and then dissipates to wait another 20 years to
try again.
And that's the end of the episode.
No.
Wes!
Wesford!
Why?
No!
We were supposed to beat it.
That's okay because Matilda and I are going to be there next time and we're going to tell
everybody the shortcuts.
So here's what you've got to know because we're tired of being 778 and 79.
Well now we're probably like what?
335 and six?
Yeah, they have to find more people.
Oh, that's true.
They have to get more people.
Whoops.
Yeah, so did you guys have fun?
Yes.
Yeah.
What kind of die would a show that's called 12 Sided Stories roll?
Okay.
You had to go and make some sense.
That was a lot of fun.
So real quick before we do our outros, do you have any questions about story wise?
Do you want to know anything extra or do you just want to leave it where it's at?
What would have happened if one of us fell in the water?
You would have died.
Your aunt would have held you down under the water to keep you there.
If you had lived and gone back, because we would have had a closing thing, all the bodies
would have been gone.
If the creature had been killed, all the bodies would have been gone and then you would have
had your aunt appear in a spirit form and tell you thank you.
But right now she's still trapped down there.
Yeah, she's trapped.
I'm trapped.
Yeah.
It's a family affair now.
It's a family affair.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
That was a lot of fun.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
It was wonderful.
I haven't accidentally murdered somebody in a long time.
Yeah, that was good.
You were in a fugue state.
What's it been since Delta Green?
Yeah, since Delta Green.
Yeah, I think that was the last one.
Well, Delta Green, you can do it any time in Delta Green.
Lev, I think you would have appreciated my run in Delta Green.
I was like an over eager, like by the book agent.
Yeah.
We got one of those too.
Who was like a graduating top of my class.
Of course, when there was a book or a fucking a slab, right, that had writing on it that
you definitely shouldn't look at, I was like, absolutely.
I can look at it.
I'm tough as fuck.
What's going to happen to me?
I'm not kooky like Michelle's guy.
Michelle's guy's all kooky.
He can't look at it, but I can look at it.
I can.
And then I looked at it and it was not good.
And then he fucked up.
Yeah, for sure.
No, it was not good at all.
I was replaced.
I was sent to the quiet place in my brain into the shadows and another creature was
piloting me around like a skin suit.
I mean, that's sometimes delicious.
You know, it was wonderful.
So this happened like three quarters of the way through the show.
So for like a good quarter of the show, I was not myself and nobody knew about it.
Yeah, we did.
I was so shady.
I was like, I was double timing people missing my roles on Perks.
It was awesome.
It was the best time I've ever read.
It was fun.
It was awesome.
Yeah, I shot Janine.
Sorry, Janine.
Yeah, Janine got shot.
I love you.
That was hysterical.
Poor Janine.
Sorry.
So thank you all so much and thanks to Pellegrine Press for sponsoring the show.
Like I've said before, we've played a lot of Gum Choo.
I like the system a lot.
It's just kind of a fun, easy system to get into.
Understand that this was truncated most of the time.
This game should have been three or four games.
I wrote too much, so we really slammed a lot into these four episodes, which is basically
the equivalent of two, three hour games.
Keep that in mind and definitely check out their backer kit and check out more Gum Choo
because it's awesome.
Let's find out where all of these wonderful people are.
Let's start with Jen.
Ooh, I get to go first.
Hi, I'm Jen slash Jungles.
I do stuff on the internet, including this kind of stuff.
Most known for E.T.
One by Night, which is cool.
Also check out Voices in the Woods.
That if you want to hear more of me doing stuff like this and follow me on all the socials
and things.
Okay, thanks.
Hi, I'm Lev.
I have played Matilda Mendoza, who is now one of many.
You can find me on Twitter if it's still alive at Lego M2, the number two RS or on Instagram
and Blue Sky because I'm pretty sure those aren't going to die anytime soon.
But they might.
Who's to say?
At lev.rs23.
You can also hear me play more games and I think I've been killed in other games.
I don't die a lot in games, I've realized.
I think that should change.
Anyway, you can hear me probably die.
Come over here.
Come here more often.
I didn't die last time, Wes.
I can up your count.
I can up your count if you need.
We can do that.
If you want to hear me die and or maybe survive more, check out the Mayday Roleplay.
Candice has been really good about remembering to say this, so I'll do it this time.
Check out Ghostfy where you can find both Candice and myself playing Eli's incredible
system for saying goodbye to characters that we have loved and lost.
It's running through the end of October.
So check them out because they're heartbreaking.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Candice the Magnificent.
I died.
You can find me at the Candice Marie on Twitter and Blue Sky at Candice Magnificent everywhere
else.
You can also hear more of me on Frequencies, which is coming soon, as well as City of the
Black Rose, Herald of Shadows, Bloom and Blight, Partial Veil and more.
Hey, I'm Michelle and you can find me on all of the socials at Michoulu.
That's M-I-C-H-U-L-H-U.
You can also find my music and Wes's amazing sound effects if you go to DriveThruRPG and
look for Plate Mail Games.
You can find me at Plate Mail Games all over the internet.
You can find the show at 12 Sided Stories, which you can find everywhere as well.
The number 12 and then Sided Stories.
You can find us also on our website, which is 12SidedStoriesAllwrittenOut, AllOneWord.com.
Again, thank you for listening.
Players, thank you for playing.
I had a great time.
I hope you had a great time and we will talk to you soon, but not with these characters
because half of them are dead.
Bye everybody.
Bye.