Welcome to Agents Dossier, a Delta Green actual play series brought to you by 12 Sided Stories.
And now your GM, Wes Otis.
Hello Patreon listeners.
This is Delta Green's Agents Dossier and I am here with some new players to this particular
story.
And so let's introduce them.
Let's start with Pooja.
Hi, I'm Pooja.
I'm playing Neha Singh, a former military security contractor.
And Jay.
Hi, I'm Jay.
I'm going to be playing Parker Allen, a former FBI agent.
Cool.
Well, you guys have actually already been in Delta Green for about six months.
We are going to do a really quick flashback scene, one for each of you, about how you
came to find out about Delta Green and how you two met and started working together.
Now as the cells are usually made up of two to four people and they usually have code
names that are part of whatever alphabet letter they've landed on.
So A is obviously the top.
So you're not going to be A. And I believe the other group, Michelle and Mac, I think
they're M right now.
So what letter do you guys want to be?
And then you'll have to pick a code name that just starts with the same letter.
So the other group is M and I suppose we're newer than they are.
So
Not really.
You guys started about the same time.
So if you wanted to be like O or S or whatever you can.
And people die.
So you could be an earlier one if you want.
Just cycles right back around to the top.
What do you think?
O sounds fine, I guess.
O works.
Yeah.
All right.
So what name starting with O do you want to use as your code names?
Ocelot.
Awesome.
So Ocelot.
I'll get behind that.
Pooja?
Well, if that's the case, Osprey.
Osprey.
It's a bird, right?
Yeah.
A cat and a bird.
That sounds like fun.
Yeah.
Good combo.
Sounds like a mid 1990s Marvel comic book.
Ocelot and Osprey.
Yep.
Lots of pouches.
You can knock Hawk and Dove off the...
It's the new cloak and dagger team.
Yeah, absolutely.
All right.
So let's start with Ocelot and describe your character, their name, and how they came to
be in Delta Green.
All right.
So as I said, it's Parker Friedman Allen is his full name.
He just goes by Parker or Park or Ocelot.
And he was a career FBI agent, black guy, shaved head, sort of tall, you know, very
sturdy FBI brown shoes, square jaw kind of dude.
He is married.
His wife is Janice and his wife is an archivist and librarian.
And I'm still not sure where she came across it, but she's the one who stumbled into the
sort of mysterious goings on.
And the first place that I heard the name Delta Green was through her and through her
research, research that drove her increasingly paranoid and obsessive until a couple of years
ago she went missing, leaving me and our daughter Miranda, who's about nine on our own.
I would investigate and I tried to get my FBI cohort to investigate with me.
They all refused.
Everyone just thinks she split on me.
We had a slightly rocky marriage that was made worse by her descent into weirdness.
And so after being frustrated at the FBI, I split, hung out my own shingle for a while
and continued her investigation.
And that eventually led me to Delta Green and they recruited me since I was on to them.
Okay, cool.
And have you personally run into anything that makes you believe that there are horrible
things out there before you joined Delta Green?
Not personally, no.
I've not run into it.
I believe it because I do believe in my wife and she believed it.
Her files are full of all sorts of very bizarre pictures that don't make sense and scribbling
in notes, events that don't quite add up.
So I believe that it's there, but I personally haven't seen anything yet.
Okay.
You are located in Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, and you've been there for a while.
It's not very far from the FBI headquarters and your kids have been going to school there
for a while.
And one morning you're making them breakfast and they're getting ready for school or whatever.
And you hear a knock on the door and when you open the door, there's an envelope with
just your name on it.
It's just says Parker.
Yeah.
Well, I pick it up and open it.
There is a note from this guy named Jake Woodman and he used to work with you at the bureau.
You guys were pretty close friends before you left and then you kind of lost touch.
And it just says, Hey man, I came across this picture.
I'm not sure where it was taken, but I thought you'd find it interesting.
And it's this picture.
It looks like there's a man standing and you see his back and then you see a bunch of people
in front of him with robes on, but with the hoods down and they're on their knees.
They look very joyous as they're looking up at them and they're kind of have their hands
up and in the front row is Janice.
And she has this kind of euphoric, strange look on her face.
It's a black and white photo.
Hmm.
Okay.
Are there any identifying marks?
Is there, you know, on the back of the photo, is there a photo development place printed
back there?
Is there anything, a timestamp, a date, anything on it?
There is.
It just says on the back, Edna Bay photo processing.
All right.
Well, I mean, I get back in, get Miranda up and out to go to school.
Okay.
You know, keeping the picture from her.
She asks, who was at the door?
I'm like, a salesman, send them away.
Don't, don't worry about it.
Go to school, you know, get her on the school bus.
And then I go to the internet and then look up Edna Bay processing.
And where is that?
Edna Bay is in Alaska.
You know how Alaska has that little tail that comes down the coast of Canada?
Yep.
There's a bunch of islands.
It's on one of those really small remote islands all the way out there.
Can I call them?
Yeah, sure.
I call Edna Bay processing.
Hello?
Hello.
Is this Edna Bay processing?
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Yeah.
You do a photo processing there?
Yeah.
Yes, we do.
So I've recently come across a photo from a friend of mine.
I'm trying to track down maybe who or when this was processed.
A black and white photo of a number of people.
Maybe there's other sets of these.
They seem to be maybe some sort of religious sect.
Does any of this ring a bell?
Yeah, we have a lot of different people that come through here that come to see the town
and the local.
Look, I don't like speaking ill of them at all, but there are some funny people up here.
Yeah, definitely.
Okay.
How long have they been there?
Ever since the fishery opened, the cannery, we have a new cannery.
It's a black cod fishing company.
Suddenly, all these people started showing up.
Yeah, you think that new business is going to do you good, but it just doesn't.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
I'm really, really sorry.
I was wondering, with these new people coming to town, do you get to know the new people?
Do you get to know the new arrivals at all?
Not like we used to.
We used to be a town of 75 people.
Now there's like 200, 300 and growing.
That's a lot.
That's a lot of big growth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Does the name, does Janice Allen mean anything to you?
No, no, I'm sorry it doesn't.
That's fine.
So you said the company was Black Cod?
Fishery, yeah.
Fishery is the company that built this new cannery in town and is bringing these new
people and seems to be maybe involved in some not quite normal religious practices.
Yeah, we get a lot of hippie-dippie stuff.
It happens.
I mean, you know, people come up here for the nature and they don't wear shoes or have
flowers in their hair.
You just get used to it.
Yeah, you know, I've heard that much about that part of the country, about Alaska.
Yeah.
If they're not hunting moose, they're trying to find God.
It's just one of the things, yeah.
The odds are good, but the goods are odd.
I know, I've heard.
So, well, thank you.
Thank you for this information.
This is very helpful.
If you come out here, come by and show me the picture, I might be able to help you more.
I will see.
It's quite a distance for me right now, but it's very possible I'll be making my way up
to you very soon.
Well, have a good day.
You too.
So I hang up the phone.
Okay.
And then immediately go and search Black Cod Fisheries.
All right.
So you go on there and we will get right back to you in one second.
All right.
So tell me what a day starts off like for you, Pooja.
How does your...
Neha wakes up really early, no matter what, just from years of getting up and having to
go train from her time in the MMA circuit.
The downside is now she doesn't sleep very much anymore, but no matter what time she
can finally fall asleep, like 5 a.m., 5.30 at the latest, eyes are open and she must
go do something.
Whether that's bleary eyed, like she stumbles in, mixes up some coffee and hits a workout
just to get all the crap out of her brain.
It's a lot harder than you think.
Somebody would want to work out first thing in the morning, but she's used to it.
This is her thing.
This is what she does every day because nothing else is an option.
And how did you get involved with Delta Green?
What was the incident that brought you into the fold?
Neha used to work for a security firm called White Ice and they were military subcontractors
who did operations in the States sometimes, but mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan, just like
most military contractors do.
Her team went out on what should have been a routine extraction and along the way, one
of her team came into possession of like a really old coin.
It was at a market.
He thought it looked cool, bought it and it all went downhill from there.
How did it go downhill?
What do you mean exactly?
Well first, the person that we were supposed to be extracting turned out to be dead.
They had their throat slit in their room.
And when we were getting out, our team, like we got a little ways out of town.
We were just going to go meet up with our contacts, like our transport and get out after
what had happened.
But we ran into a sudden sandstorm and inside the sandstorm, I mean nobody believes it.
Nobody believes me.
But like the shadows made by the sandstorm were not the shadows made by the sandstorm.
And they were their own thing and they came for us.
And it didn't matter what we did.
We couldn't, like shooting them didn't do anything.
I mean at one point, at one point Pete threw, he lobbed a flashbang out to try to dissipate
it like with light.
And I still have nightmares about what I saw and they were fully lit up.
The creatures, the shadows, they got James who was the person who had bought the coin
and then the storm died.
Okay.
And did the coin disappear with James or no?
The coin was on the floor of the truck.
Okay.
And I have it now.
Okay.
I haven't ever actually touched it with my hands.
I pick it up like with a, like I wrapped it in a handkerchief when I saw it and shoved
it in my pack.
If I don't touch it, it can't hurt me, but I have to know what happened.
I have to know how this happened.
So you wake up in the morning super early, like what?
Five thirties you think?
Yeah, something like that.
And you hear the sound of movement in your living room.
Okay.
Well, I grab a gun that I keep in the, I have a thumbprint safe right?
Like a nine millimeter or something?
Yeah, just like a standard home protection kind of pistol.
And so I grab it out of the safe under my bed and go slowly and carefully to find out
who the fuck is in my house.
When you go out to the living room, there's no lights on.
The sun is, I mean, like there's that really early pre-dawn kind of, it's going to be brighter
soon, but it's not quite there yet.
And you see that the bathroom door is open and there's a light on and you know you shut
it.
I'm going to go around and kind of peek around.
So you peek around the door and you don't see anybody in the bathroom, but your tub
is halfway filled with sand and the coin is sitting unwrapped away from where you put
it in the center of that sand.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Can I get a sand check from you?
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I got a 24.
Excellent.
So you take no sand loss and what do you want to do?
I'm going to grab the hand towel or bath towel or whatever is right there and grab the coin
with it and scramble back into my room and shove the coin into my gun safe.
Okay, so as you're reaching for the coin with the hand towel, you see behind you casting
a shadow on the wall, two hands and a humanoid figure start to reach down for your throat
from behind.
I'm going to duck down, like sharply bend.
All right.
To try to evade their grasp.
You drop down and kind of see what's going on and like, because it's a bathroom, you're
like, it's not a huge bathroom.
Yeah, I don't live in the Ritz.
Right, exactly.
You look around real quick and you see that there is no one there.
You've got this.
You just have to hold on long enough to find out what happened to James.
What happened to all of us.
Just have to figure it out.
It'll be okay.
Locking it up.
Okay, you grab the coin with the towel and make it back to your gun safe.
You put it in there and in your hurry, you're in the other room.
You have a light switch in the bathroom, but it's also one of those older bathrooms where
you can also pull the little light switch on the actual light and you hear that sound
of it turn off as you're putting the coin in the gun safe.
And I'm just, I'm like, going to call out, fuck you.
We didn't do anything to you.
Leave me alone.
There's a lot of the sounds of like crickets and things like that, like thick crickets.
You have, you're from New Orleans, so you know, you know what that sound is.
Yeah, I know the deep south.
Yeah, yeah.
You know that, but that's all you hear.
James, I'm not going to let you down.
I'm not going to.
I'm going to figure this out.
I'm going to get my damn life back together.
And this morning, instead of coffee or with my coffee, I'm going to have a healthy shot
of whiskey.
It's a good way to get your life back together.
Absolutely.
The morning, morning whiskey is a great way to start that health regimen we all want.
It's medicinal.
So at some point, do you go back into the restroom, back into the bathroom?
The sand is gone.
Yeah, it saves me from having to clean it up.
Exactly.
And like just a really long sip of my Irish coffee.
Okay, cool.
So Parker, yes, you were going to do some research on this black cod fishery, correct?
Yep.
Well, there's actually a small island literally off the coast, not far, maybe 20 minutes away
from Edna Bay called Black Cod Island.
And it is associated with a indigenous tribe, the Hydaea tribe, basically owns the entire
island, but it's basically their native lands.
And you do research and you find that there's been a split in the tribe and some of them
are still living on Black Cod Island.
But then there's a large contingent of the younger people who have moved to Edna Bay
and have opened up this fishery.
They are working for a conglomerate, some huge like craft or whatever to basically go
out and process local fish.
And then they send like a thousand pounds a month.
So they're processing a good amount through there.
There's not a lot of information though on the actual owners.
You do not think that the owners are from this tribe.
Got it.
You are guessing that they are probably from, like I said, one of these big food conglomerates.
There's not a lot of information.
And a few months after they opened the fishery, there's this talk of this holy man.
And they never say what his name is, but he basically has these people that follow him
and it kind of has a Jim Jones feel to it.
That's not good.
No, it's not.
He's very charismatic, but there's not a lot of information about him.
And you're not quite sure how he's recruiting.
He didn't have a church in Boston, you know, or whatever for 10 years before he moved them
all to.
They've just show up as if drawn to this tiny island.
Before the fishery opened, there was literally 50 to 75 people there and it was just a mail
point.
Mail would come in from smaller communities and then it would go out from Edna Bay.
That is not what I thought you meant by mail point.
You're looking at all this and you're like, okay, you don't really see a connection between
this guy and the fishery.
You're not sure if there's a connection.
Are there any pictures of him?
Is anything actionable?
Everything is his back or he's being obscured by somebody because there's pictures of the
cult on the internet, but it's always other people.
Which is very odd for someone running a cult of personality.
Yeah.
I call up my buddy Jake.
Okay.
I was figuring he'd be giving a call.
I didn't know when they were going to be delivering that piece of information to you.
Yeah, yeah.
It arrived this morning and I spent a little bit of time trying to figure out a few things,
but why don't you tell me, where did you come across this?
Jake is part of Delta Green as well.
Well, so we know you've been searching for your wife, obviously, and there's been an
open order to keep an eye out for any information that comes across.
Now just out of character real quick, Delta Green is incredibly segmented.
The reason that is, is because if you go cuckoo banana pants, they don't want you infecting
a bunch of other people or causing damage to a bunch of other people.
They keep everything very segmented to contain knowledge.
Got it.
So yeah, when you joined on, they kind of put out this order saying if they saw this
person to report it in.
Anyway, it came up.
I guess there was some kind of investigation going on out there due to the fact that all
of a sudden this cult popped up in the middle of nowhere.
They basically wanted to send people out there to find out what was going on.
I don't have any information about what happened to that investigation, but this picture came
back and I was pretty sure it was her.
So I thought I'd pass it on to you.
If I'm being honest with you, I think that there's probably a pretty strong request in
that picture.
Yeah.
I was thinking that, but I wanted to get a sense of what I was getting into.
What happened to the team that was doing the investigation?
Come on, man.
You know they don't tell us that shit.
Yep.
All right.
Well, okay.
Well, I guess I know what I need to do next anyway.
Right.
Well, be careful and get in touch with your handler.
Yep.
And before you go out there, just let them know.
I think it's a little shitty to do it this way.
They should have just said, hey, we need you to go out there, but you know.
Yeah.
Well, listen, I'm at least glad to have a little, you know, a little forewarning is
better than none.
Well, be careful.
All right.
Thanks, Jake.
No problem, man.
All right.
So what do you want to do?
How do you want to proceed?
Well, I go upstairs and start packing a bag.
Okay.
I guess I'll call my handler.
You want to call ostrich.
Ostrich.
Just so you know, as a GM, if the players pick something, I lean into it hard.
So that's always good.
That's what we like.
That's all we ask for.
If you guys, if you guys go a certain way, I'm just going to go with you and just be
like, all right, that's where we're going.
All right.
Let's do it.
Ostrich.
Yes.
Ocelot.
Nice to hear from you.
It is a pleasure.
So I got a picture here taken in Edna Bay, Alaska.
Okay.
And I guess I'm planning to go there.
Well, yes, we had Jake send it to you.
It wasn't my idea of how to entice you to go there, but the last set of people that
were sent out that way didn't make it back, unfortunately.
Oh.
It's a dangerous mission, but they all are, you know.
Of course.
I mean, that's why we do them, right?
Because of the danger.
Yes.
And obviously this cult, from what we've been able to tell, is able to call people
from across the globe.
They don't even have an Instagram account.
It's very different.
Oh my.
Wow.
And without an Instagram account, that's unheard of.
Well, we want to try to find out what's going on, if the fishery is involved at all.
And we saw that your wife was out there.
We know you've been looking for her.
Yeah.
I mean, I have to say, you know, you hit the nail on the head there.
I don't necessarily appreciate this sort of handling, you know.
While I'm glad to know that she's there, I'm glad you didn't just send me blindly to the
wolves.
You know, I would have liked to have heard it from you.
I know, I know.
I usually would like to tell you straight, but I have people above me as well.
And for some reason, they felt that this was the way to go.
I don't always agree with them.
And I apologize.
I really do.
It is what it is.
So we live with it.
But you know, you can let them know.
I understand we're a covert operation, but sometimes all this cloak and dagger nonsense
is...
Nonsense?
I know.
They do treat us like cogs sometimes, and I apologize for that, you know.
It's very difficult.
It is.
All right.
Well, nonetheless, I guess I am getting on a plane.
Not by yourself.
What?
Well, you can't go by yourself.
Why?
Because we deal with supernatural things that...
Any backup, of course.
And Osprey is, you know, not doing anything right now.
And we both know what that means.
Yes, we...
We meet at all hours in the morning.
She is that way even when she has better things to do.
True.
No one else available, huh?
Well, she's very...
Look, she's...
She's very reliable.
She's just a little bit drunk.
Drunk is the opposite of reliable, but again, if...
She's the only one you've got at this point, unfortunately.
If you insist, then I guess I'm going with Osprey.
Well, I...
Well, I mean, it's better than a rookie.
Is it?
Is it, though?
It is.
Okay.
Well, like I said, I'm sorry they decided to do this, but, you know, good luck and keep
in touch.
Yep.
Ours not the reason why, I suppose.
I'll call you once we've...
We touch down in Alaska.
Okay.
That sounds good.
Bye, darling.
Bye.
I note to myself, we didn't actually talk about how I'm to get to Alaska and who is
paying for my ticket.
Oh, they pay.
They pay for everything.
They'll have...
A jet?
No, you're not.
At least business class, so it's not too terrible.
Okay.
All right.
Fine.
So how many drinks do you have of your Irish coffee?
Are you just having one or a couple?
I'm just going to do one.
Okay.
And then work it out.
You mean like go for a run?
Yeah.
Okay.
So we'll say that you go for your run a few hours past because obviously no parent gets
up at 530 unless they have to, just speaking from experience.
And we'll say Parker will give you a call after he gets off the phone with Ostrich,
who if you didn't figure out is a nice older woman.
Mm-hmm.
Lovely.
So yeah, I pick up the phone and I call Osprey.
Yeah?
What's that?
I need to multi-hear from you.
Listen, Osprey, it is what it is.
We've got a mission.
What wild goose hunt are they sending us on this time?
Edna Bay, Alaska.
Yeah, I could go for somewhere cold.
All right.
Be prepared to eat a lot of cod, apparently.
To Alaska?
I mean, don't they have crabs or something?
Apparently, yeah.
Apparently, not.
Apparently, this island is all about the fish.
So prepare for plenty of fish.
All right.
I'll pack some turnalobars.
Good idea.
The car will be around soon.
How hot are we going in?
Mm.
Well, they've already sent a team that didn't come back, but it looks like the situation
on the ground, it's not, you know, open warfare.
Okay.
See you.
Yep.
See you at the gate.
So usually what they do is they'll have the cash of whatever weapons you usually use and
you'll get like money, you know, petty cash and all that stuff.
And the way that they do that is they have people in all different branches of the government
moving money around.
Now you guys are part of the project, which is your branch, Delta Green, is sanctioned
by the government.
So you guys have government spending money, which is a lot.
We're going to fast forward to you guys do the trip, you eat the peanuts and you make
your way out there.
I 100% did not count every drink Osprey had.
Now we have been joking a little bit, but does Osprey drink a lot or just?
It's not a ton.
I mean, she's still an alcoholic.
It's not fall down, you know, very type of an abusive dad situation.
She's a high functioning alcoholic.
Right.
You guys make it out there and it is early September and the difference between early
September here in lovely Southern California and there is that up there is actually cold.
Leaves are starting to change.
I mean, there's a lot of like evergreens.
There's you know, you have to fly into a larger city and then take a boat to Edna Bay.
You land on Prince of Wales Island.
Thank you, England.
You have to take a boat around the Horn to Edna Bay.
It almost looks like I don't know if you guys have ever seen deadwood, but it kind of has
that feel of like they just threw up wood buildings really fast and it kind of looks
like a Wild West silver town that is on the grow, you know, and there is this facility
at the back of town that is obviously the fishery.
And there are quite a few of these cultists and I use the word cultist with in Cthulhu
cultists means somebody that's actively worshiping a god of whatever.
I'm using cultists as in the 70s cults and stuff like that.
Just to discern the difference for people.
You guys get there, you've got all your stuff and you do get kind of a rundown of general
information.
The last team came in and they reported that they were going to check out the fishery at
night and then weren't ever heard from again.
There were three people, they were heavily armed and something went terribly wrong.
They tried to get close to the compound where the cultists are, but kept getting turned
back by security and whatever.
So they went in on the first night and reported back that there was something like 50 makeshift
huts that they had put together and it looked like none of the tribes people seemed to be
involved with the cult at all.
There seemed to be about a hundred to two hundred people, they couldn't get a good head
count and more people were showing up every day.
And when they show up, they have items with them, so money and luggage and all that, and
they turn it over to the cults to help pay bills.
That's the line.
Oh, you know, we're here.
You don't need your earthly possessions anymore.
Leave them at the door and we'll turn them into love and flowers.
The line of this particular cult is very innocuous and very like all we're trying to do is find
a deeper meaning to life.
It does seem like there are people from all over the world showing up.
So that's the information that you got.
So they tried to get into this compound and couldn't, but got a head count.
And then the next night they went to the fishery and just disappeared.
All right, let's not go to the fishery.
That seems like a bad idea.
Is there like a bar in town?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you can go there.
Definitely.
I mean, I figure that's a good place to start.
We should probably start chatting up the locals and try to get a little more sort of human
intelligence before we rush into the gap here.
Right.
I mean, is this a let me ask you, is this is this the kind of deal that we're sort of
required to identify ourselves as federal agents or can we?
No, no.
Oh, yeah.
Awesome.
Just one.
So you can lie as much as you want.
Let's go do some lying.
Okay.
Find out some information.
The last thing they want you to do is go Delta Green or whatever.
Clandestine.
Yeah, exactly.
Hi, I'm from Delta Green and I want all your Cthulhu information now.
Point me to the spookiest person available.
Thank you.
There's a guy in the corner with his hands like this.
Welcome.
So, yeah, so no, I once we're sort of settled, I contact Osprey and say, OK, let's try to
do some recon.
Maybe take a walk around the town and look for a bar or a coffee shop or something.
OK, try to talk to the locals.
All right.
So you guys are set up at a bed and breakfast.
It's really the only place in town.
They're literally building a hotel right now.
So the bed and breakfast is the only place for you guys to stay.
And unfortunately, it is not the most ideal place in the world for two people who don't
necessarily want to even be in the same plane with each other.
And the lady running it seems very nice.
Her name's Charlotte and she assumes that you guys are married.
I don't know if you tell her that you're not or that are we sharing a room?
Yes.
Delta Green was only able to get one room.
Is that more than one bed?
No.
You sleep in the bed.
I can sleep on the floor.
We can swap out.
Whatever.
It's fine.
I'll sleep on the floor.
I've done worse.
You take the bed.
We both have.
Stop being such a martyr about it.
Who was being...
We'll swap out.
I can take you tonight.
You can take the bed tomorrow.
They changed the sheets.
Whatever.
Don't worry about it.
Whatever.
It's fine.
So how do you want to play this?
Well, I guess the easiest way to do it would just be that we came because we heard about
the new religious group.
And we're interested in joining up, but we're not 100% sure yet.
We wanted to get the lay of the land before we made a commitment.
Okay.
I mean, I'm a little worried about us getting into the compound and having to give up our
worldly possessions.
You know what I mean?
How many worldly possessions did you bring with you?
I'm thinking of a very particular kind of worldly possession that would make getting
out of trouble a little easier.
I don't think penises work that way.
Wow.
I don't even, I can't even, I don't even know where to start.
I don't even, I don't even.
Fine.
I mean, do we just walk up to the door and say, hi, we'd like to join your cult?
No, I'm saying we go like to the bar and ask people about it, but tell them like, that's
how we heard about them and we're interested, but we're a little unsure before we approach
them.
We want to know if they're like ax murders.
All right.
That's fair.
Let's do that.
Are we doing this as husband and wife or just friends?
We might as well keep up this marriage thing, I guess.
Seeing as the woman downstairs has probably already told her 17,000 closest friends about
it.
Fair point.
All right.
You'd think, I mean, it's a bed and breakfast.
You'd think they'd have more rooms available.
You would think.
You would think, you know.
But apparently not.
So that's fine.
That's a fine cover.
We can do this.
You do get the feeling that you're getting fucked with a little bit.
Definitely.
Yeah.
Like they know that there's some tension between you two that you fight kind of, you know,
maybe a little tension there.
And so being able to say that you've been married for longer than five years is a good
cover for you.
Because you're just like, tell me how much I dislike you.
Yep.
I mean, it's obviously Ostrich's idea of a joke.
She should read fewer romance novels.
Yes.
Because the stuck with only one bed trope shouldn't be combined with enemies to lovers.
So fewer Sandra Bullock story movies.
All right.
Cool.
You guys head out to the bar.
The bar is called Hook and Net to go with the fish theme that the city has.
Have you guys ever been up to Big Bear?
Every single thing up there is named after like Little Bear, Big Bear.
That's the same thing that they're doing here.
Everything's like fish this, fish that, hook that, whatever.
So the bar is packed with people and people that are here to join the new religious path.
Usually they don't have shoes on or they have sandals and they, they look very stereotypical
of the kind of the new agey movement.
So how do you guys want to approach this?
What do you want to do?
I'm going to get us some drinks.
You want to find the most friendly folk?
Yeah, I'm going to actually try to find a townie instead of one of the cultists.
I'm going to look around and see if there's, if you're going to go to the bar and see
if you can chat up the bartender and I'm going to look for the friendliest looking townie.
If they got a pool table, I'll go maybe put my name up for the pool table.
That is probably where the most townies are.
So yeah, there's some, there's some people hanging out by the pool table playing.
You go over to the bar, Osprey, what do you order?
I am small town bar, so I'll get whatever like a pint of.
The cult actually makes their own IPA.
If you want to give that a try.
That's disturbing in the extreme, but the IPA isn't for me.
It's for Ocelot.
I'm getting a double well whiskey.
So they turn around and they take your money and they put down the two drinks and then
they put your change next to the two drinks.
And as you're reaching for it, you notice that the coin is sitting there on top of the
two bills that you left in your gun case all the way back in Virginia.
And that's where we're going to stop it for tonight.
Oh my.
So thank you guys so much.
That was a lot of fun.
Where on the internet can people find you too?
We'll start with Jay.
The best place to find me on the internet is on the Twitter's at Jay Holtham.
You can find me on most socials at that number.
Awesome.
I am Pooja and you can find me on Twitter at LADC girl.
That's L A D E S I girl and everywhere else as Forgotten Saves.
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