Welcome to Agent's Dossier, a Delta Green actual
play series brought to you by 12 Sided Stories.
And now your GM, Wes Otis. Hello. My name is
Wes Otis. Welcome to Agents Dossier, episode
number 33. I have some wonderful players with
me. Let us start with Pooja. Hello. I am Pooja
playing Robin Porter, who is 100 % standing behind
her decision to stay in the car. Hello. I am
playing Norman Morales. And honestly, I just
have to ditto. Just big ditto to Robin. We're
smart. Hi. I'm Mac and I'm playing Wanda Sims,
who is at this moment feeling less smart. Hey,
I'm Michelle and I am playing Maggie Cortez.
And she's at the moment wondering what the hell
has she gotten herself into? Right. I mean, out
of everyone, you're literally the newest person.
And this is all quite interesting and horrifying.
So in the last episode, you had found out that
the three women, Summer, Tiffany and Bree. were
feeding these spider babies, these monstrous
babies of some deity. They were feeding one in
particular with their human enemies. And then
from what you gathered, they were buying or stealing
meat or using cattle. There is mention of cattle
mutilation. So it's possible they've been doing
that too, to feed the other babies that seem
to need their attention. And they were talking
about the fact that they are getting pressure
to feed these babies more. When you were staking
out Bree's house, you noticed Pete in the window,
horribly deformed with eyes all over his face,
spider eyes, and just not looking his best. You
know, maybe not doing so well. You went to an
apartment that Omar owns that seems to have another
one of these babies that they've been feeding,
where you heard this argument about them having
to expand their pool of victims to be able to
keep up with the demand, growing children and
all, you know. And some spiders dropped down
and you heard the creature in the air ducts moving
around. It was Wanda and Maggie inside the building.
Robin and Norman were outside the building. And
you all got the fuck out of there. You ran. You
weren't stealthy at all. So Bree ran after you
because she heard you. And she took pictures
of the SUV as you were pulling away. And then
you notice this white rental old cutlass taking
pictures of all of you, of Bree, of the black
SUV. Now, you know. because you're part of the
government. conspiracy that your license plates
will go nowhere. So there's no real way for them
to track who you are. And plus they're not connected
in that way to be able to make that happen. As
for the people in the cut list, you don't know
who they are, but you got the fuck out of there
as quickly as possible. And there was so many
questions on what was going on, what's happening
to Pete and everything else. And that's kind
of where we ended it. I don't think there was
anything else of revelation from last game except
for those big things. So you have sped off in
your SUV. No one is following you as far as you
can tell. There's nobody behind you. Where do
you want to go? It's getting late at this point.
I think we said you left around like 10 because
you were at the main warehouse, the first warehouse
two episodes ago. around seven when it had gotten
dark and and then you followed everybody else
around so we'll say it's like 11 o 'clock at
night or so what do you guys want to do next
you might want to talk amongst each other in
the car as you're speeding around go for it we
could see the cutlass taking photos of us but
were we close enough to maybe see its license
plate i think you were just getting the fuck
out of there you did notice that it was one of
those generic white Rental cars? It's probably
Enterprise. Right. Okay. Got it, got it, got
it. Yeah, so we need to find out who rented that
car. We also need to maybe get a different car
ourselves. Yeah. Yes. And find somewhere to hole
up for the night. Mm -hmm. Agreed on all points.
Absolutely. So I guess as we're making sure we're
not being followed, let's definitely call in.
to agent jackson uh i'll do the call if you want
to act that out all right you call her you do
an info dump and let her know what's going on
and she goes okay so we all need to find out
where obviously all these creatures are uh we've
cleaned up the first site and we've removed What's
going on with the other husbands? Are they in
similar situation? Yeah, conditions maybe deteriorating.
We haven't gotten eyes on them yet, but I suppose
after this basketball game, and I don't know,
I guess we'll cut away to, I don't remember what
that plan was. We're going to go to the game
tomorrow. Tomorrow, yeah, you were going to go
stake out the game. It's Thursday night. You
were going to stake out the game on Friday night,
tomorrow night. That might change. You might
change your minds and decide to do something
else now that all of the chainsaws and bowling
balls are in the air and you're juggling them.
It's really up to you. Well, and also we've been
compromised because we've been cited. So we'd
have to play to the disguise game probably. I
will let you know. The SUV was spotted. You all
were not because, by Bree at least, because...
Oh, I thought Bree was taking photos of us as
we were running away. Yeah, but she didn't get
a good clear shot of your faces and you jumped
into the SUV with the tinted windows and all
that stuff, so... Oh, okay, that changes things
a little. Yeah, they don't have confirmation
of the way you look. Now, the guy who was taking
pictures from the cutlass or the woman or whoever,
they might because you were running that way
out and they were taking pictures as you were
coming out. Gotcha. Fair. So there you go. Can
we, to Agent Jackson, can we get just some info?
Perhaps some recent Enterprise white cutlass?
Insert model here, rentals, because we might
have a third party involved. Yeah, I can do some
checks for you on that while you're doing what
you need to do. Like I said, we need to find
out what's going on. We need to find out where
mom is. You know, that's a little disconcerting.
And how to send her back to where she came from
or get rid of her altogether. We did have the
little clues of origin here and there, Peru,
Brazil. Maybe Australia, but perhaps if we find
the state of the other husbands, there will be
other old info we can clean from. Maybe not them,
but their surroundings. Right. Maybe what you
could do is tomorrow night when they're all at
the basketball game, or at least the wives are,
you could sneak into one of their houses and
try to get some info from their places. They
probably have. information there. They don't
seem like they're an advanced cult that knows
how to hide what's going on. The fact that they've
gotten away with this this long is kind of amazing,
but that'd be my suggestion. Find out what's
going on with the other husbands, break into
one of their houses, possibly find out what's
going on there. There's probably more of these
things that whatever, because he's got several
properties. Nope. I think you said it pretty
great. Thank you. No problem. And she hangs up.
All right. So yeah, you've got a few different
options on what you want to do, how you want
to go. I'm going to say that you make it back
to your rendezvous point where you stay and sleep
and whatever. What is the plan? Do you want to
do anything else tonight? Or are you going to
wait until tomorrow to do some more stuff? How
do you want to proceed? I want to do a little
research to find out about giant spider sightings
in North America. The weird newspapers, stuff
like that. Like Weekly World News type stuff.
I miss the Weekly World News. Something like
that. You definitely find things like vampire
spider attack in small town. Nothing, though,
in the Fresno area. Nothing that pops up. No,
I'm, I'm expanding like, you know, weekly world
news, the Seattle strange. That was the one.
Tie in. Seattle strange. You know, stuff like
that. All those really weird bat boy type newspapers.
Yeah. There's a smattering of different large
spider scene and it's a grainy picture. Some
of them look real. Some of them do not. Some
of them look like they're props from really bad
movies. Do any of them look like our spider?
Not as far as you can tell, no. There does seem
to be more activity worldwide of larger spiders.
Now, most of the spider news is like spider infestation
of... you know, let's say tarantulas in a place
where tarantulas shouldn't be that kind of thing.
You're kind of running into that. And so there
does seem to be an uptick of normal spiders,
you know, earth spiders that have multiplied
quite a bit, especially in those areas that I
was talking about, Australia, Peru, the Amazon,
there seems to be an uptick of spiders all around,
but none that are like, you know, half human,
half. spider half horror kind of thing. So I
got a weird one. It seems like the husbands are
involved in some capacity with their businesses.
And the one that we haven't dug as much on is
the one that's the accountant. Right. And just
wondering if there's something else going on
beyond just people mad at other high school parents
kind of thing. And I was wondering if Norman
could maybe hack into the accounting business
for me because. I took really high accounting
for some dumb reason. And I'm just wondering
if I can look through that and see if there's
anything else that we can glean from that, like
weird quantities of money getting moved around
or if there's some other piece of the puzzle
we're missing. Absolutely. Little forensic accounting.
Yeah, we did a little like a cursory hacking
of his business before. Oh, did we? Because,
yeah, I haven't like really looked into it because
I'd like to do an accounting role on it if we
can get into it. business holdings yeah i don't
even have to roll this time since we already
have um or we were able to hack in there before
we got in the yeah i'm not gonna it's not like
he's changed his security since that happened
got it i think from the last time that you did
it you found out that he has been sending money
to like the caymans and things like that that
was just a cursory thing go ahead and give me
an accounting role watch me like botch this horribly
The IRS knocks on your door. You critically fail.
We're here for an audit. What? Oh, man, I just
made it. I got a 58 under my 60. So here's what
you're finding when you look through his information.
This is Roderick, by the way. And Roderick has
been moving money around from different companies
in the city that he is partially owner of. And
a lot of the money has been sent out. The other
thing that you notice, though, from this time
is all the building costs and everything else
for Omar's apartment buildings and whatever,
all of his real estate, is funneled through Pete's
lumberyard and his contractors. It's basically
a triangle. Roderick deals with all the financial
ends of it, does accounting for both Omar and
for Pete. Omar is funneling work on his properties.
to pete and then pete is making bank off that
and then they're they're basically it's like
a huge slush fund that they're sending out of
state and the thing that's interesting about
it is you're not sure if the wives know and this
activity started up about the time that the first
victim was killed so like a few months ago during
football season So that's what pops out. It's
obvious from what you can tell, they're laundering
money, basically. They're saying that they don't
have as much as they really have, and they're
hiding it in the accounting, from what you can
tell. Got it. Okay. Hmm. I wonder how that hooks
into at least one of them becoming kind of a
carrier. Yeah, unless that was not their intention
to be a carrier and surprise, surprise. I mean,
I'm just saying we've kind of seen stranger things
when the wife finds out the husband's about to
disappear with all their money. Oh, look, enjoy
your life as a spider now. That's all I'm saying.
Don't cross your wife. Yeah, that's a lot of
information, I guess. At this point, you have
to decide how you want to execute on any of this
stuff. You know that now there is a third party
that you don't know about following you. I have
one thought, but it's like at the basketball
game, which is I just because, again, not to
like super meta it, but because of the stuff
I took, I kind of want to talk to Bree. because
I've got like psychotherapy and persuade and
stuff and see if I can squeeze something out
of her surreptitiously, you know, under the guise
of, you know, we're helping the school with funding
and we were told you're the parent to talk to
blah, blah, blah kind of thing. But that's when
we get to the game, and I don't know if we're
ready to get to that part yet or not. I guess,
how do you want to approach the game? Are you
going to all go to the game? Do you want to try
to split up and have some of you go to the house
and try to break into one of their houses? Like,
what's the idea? Well, I don't know. If they've
got a spider thing living in the house, I don't
know that that's a wise idea. Fair. Yeah. I think
that putting trackers on their cars while they're
in the parking lot, on all of the involved parties
might not be a bad idea. If they all show up.
Yeah, well, whoever shows up putting trackers
on their cars. Okay, yeah, that makes sense to
do that. I had one thought before we do the full
basketball game, which is can we wait to see
what info we get from Jackson before we... go
anywhere else like i'm assuming she'll get back
to us in the morning but yeah i just want to
try to nail down who the people in the car are
before we go to another location probably be
a different car right anyway it'll definitely
look out of place i think yes yeah i'm suspecting
it's has something to do with our phantom tv
people yeah that's my guess too yeah oh that
makes sense i've forgotten about them right there's
so many players here So many people. So I was
just thinking, hmm, let's try to nip that in
the bud before they become a big issue. But then
after that, I think I'm fine with moving on to
the game and or someone's house if we want to
do. I also want to ask Jackson, like, if we can
have a flamethrower to just have eight. That'd
be nice. Lord. I'm going to say no to the flamethrower
because that would. That's like, yeah, let's
try not to burn down half of Fresno. You know
what? If we have to do it, we have to do it.
It was necessary. Not just me this time. I will
say that she gets back to you and does say that
it does seem that the Phantom X news people are
in town and they have rented a car. Somehow they
have found out information on Bree and the other
two and are following them. and just happened
across you all so yeah and the lead is jessica
shin she is probably here with them if they feel
if with cattle mutilations and everything else
this might be a big enough story for her yes
yes all right well that just that solves my itch
in the back of my mind Keep an eye out for Miss
Jessica Shin. Luckily, I already have a an eye
on her Google alert. Very high tech. Yeah. Oh,
yeah. Luckily, I guess they haven't published
anything yet. No, not yet. They're still they
publish once a week, usually. But the big news
pieces are usually once a month. So like once
a week, they might do something where it's like
we're going to regurgitate the information that's
already out there. You know, like so many YouTubers
will do. And then once a month, they'll do some
big expose on something that they're following.
So this obviously warranted them coming out to
Fresno to find out what's going on with the cattle
mutilations. And they might have come at it at
a different angle and ended up at the same place
kind of thing. I mean, to be honest, I feel like
they haven't been super low -key about what they're
doing. They're using their own properties. To
be fair. They're not pro -cultists for sure.
Brie is not a mastermind. No, these are mook
-level cultists. In the morning, Agent Jackson
also lets you know that Yesenia is out of surgery
and she's still in a coma, but seems to be doing...
All right now, they still have her in intensive
care. And like we said, it's going to take a
while for her to recover from this. And she's
probably 99 % sure she's retired at this point
because the amount of damage, they're not sure
whether or not there's like motor damage or anything
like that. So it's going to be a long haul, but
she seems to be stable at least. So that is good
news. All right. During the day before the basketball
meet. Is there anything that you want to do before
we jump to the basketball meet? We got to get
eyes on the husbands to see what status they
are at. For sure. Got to buy out the local Home
Depot of all their bugs, right? Oh, yeah. That
too. Just saying. For Wanda's sake. Has nothing
to do with me. Just for Wanda's sake, right?
Sure, sure. Yeah. And the local 99 cent store
of all their Aquanet. Oh, Lord. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Homemade. Homemade. Yeah. Well, we'll give us
a flamethrower. We'll make our own flamethrower.
Be like a 1990s concert where they do the like.
So whatever works, whatever works. Indeed. Well,
why don't we go by one of Omar's properties,
the one he's been supposedly staying at, not
at home? Does everyone agree with that? I mean,
that's as good a place as any. Yeah. Okay, so
you head over to Omar's apartment, and it's in
the better part of town. He's definitely picked
a nice, posh area to live in. And you know what
make his car is. He has a nice Mercedes, probably
like something like an S -Series or something
like that. He's still there. And at some point,
you're surveilling him. You notice that he comes
out and he's got an obvious limp. He looks okay.
Like physically, there's no... obvious spider
markings on him at all. But he is limping a bit.
And from what you know from the data that you've
collected, there was no mention of an injury
or a disability that would cause him to do that.
So that's a bit off. And he gets in his car.
Are you going to follow him to his work? Or what's
the plan? I kind of want to see inside where...
He's been staying. Yeah. Ooh, yeah. I feel like
this would be one of those times where it's like,
yes, let's actually split up seems like a good
thing. Yeah, I'm kind of thinking that too. I
hate it. I hate it that those words have come
out of my mouth. Loathe it as I may, I think
that we may need to... Wes, you stop that. What,
what, what? You stop that, sir. Sir, you are
not warming your hands. Go on. No, just kidding.
Who's going where, then, if you're splitting
up? Because you've got one car, so you're going
to have to make the decision quick. Who has the
best stealth, basically, and is breaking experts?
My stealth's a 50. My stealth's a 52. Yeah, no,
41. I'm 31. Oh, I'm stealthier than I thought
then, so. All right, it's you guys. We'll pick
you up after school. Thanks, Mom. This is how
the spider chase happened last episode. I know,
I'm like, wait a second. Well, look, I won't
be there to shine a flashlight into a monster's
face. So we've learned. All right, so Robin and
Norman take off after... And who's driving, by
the way? This is always a critical question.
Oh, crap. Yeah. Norman, you have an actual point
and drive, whereas I do not. Oh, okay. You're
at 20? Yeah. I'm at 23. See, you should let me
drive. I've got drive. You wanted to sneak. I
was voted to go sneak. Oh, I know. I have a 40
drive. After five years of running these games,
no one has started their character off with,
you know, I need to max out my drive. Well, you
know, I didn't max it out, but I did put points
into it. I always put points in stealth. Exactly.
Stealth and drive, because I know you. On the
other hand, Robin has a 50 botany. That might
come in handy. It did. It has. It literally saved
my life. All right. So you're off. Well, all
right. And we'll just see where this all goes.
I'm just wondering why I have 60 points in drive
heavy machinery. Like, why did I do that? That's
crazy. What? Like, not even heavy weapons, heavy
machinery. I've never... Get away from her, you
bitch. So you can have your aliens moment. Yeah,
you're waiting for your aliens moment. Yeah,
I guess. That's why I was so excited to go to
the lumberyard. I'm like, I'll turn a thing on.
I'll move it. Damn. Okay. I'm going to have to
work something in now before that. Yeah, put
a crane in the game. Put a crane or something.
You get your one chance and you critically fail.
She's got to play the crane game to get the pivotal
thing out of the machine. Oh, my God. She has
to pick up the huge spider body out of whatever,
you know. She keeps getting the Pokemon or whatever.
Oh, my gosh. All right, you all go after, and
Wanda and Maggie go into the apartment building.
The main reason I need a stealth roll is just
we're going to use a stealth roll for the break
-in, you know, to make sure no one finds you
as you're doing all of this. So both of you give
me a roll. Ooh, I got an 81. Ooh. I'm not stealthy
today. I'm not stealthy either, and I got a 66.
Okay. Uh -oh. Yeah, but I can talk like a motherfucker.
So if somebody shows up, I'm going to talk their
ear off about why we're supposed to be there.
True. As you hear the lock turn and the sound,
you know how those hallways can be a little,
have a little bit of a reverb in them. You crack
the door lock and you swing it open and it. You
didn't mean to push as hard as you did, Maggie,
and you pushed a little too hard and it hit the
side of the wall. And the next door neighbor
opens the door. And it is a 80 -year -old woman.
Even though she's 80, it seems that obviously
she's very sensitive to the things going on in
the house. And she comes out and she goes, oh,
hello, are you Omar's friend? Now, why is she
saying that? You notice in Omar's place that
there are... these spiderwebs all over inside
of his place, and papers have been pasted on
the walls. It looks really weird, and you kind
of smell this weird smell coming out, and you
hear something rustling in the place that's starting
to come towards the front of the apartment as
this little lady is walking towards you on the
outside. Okay? Yep. Shall I? Go ahead. Oh, good
day, ma 'am. How are you? Oh, I'm fine. I'm sorry.
I haven't seen you around the building before.
Oh, we're with the survey service. We're actually
coming through and doing some checks, routine
maintenance, looking for if we need to bring
in exterminator services. How has the living
experience been in your... uh, in your place.
And I'm going to go over and like, kind of go
over to her and not put an arm around her, but
more of that, like, Oh, I'm, I'm a friendly person.
That's coming to talk to you about your bullshit.
Well, you know, the water does take a little
too long to get warm. And I feel like the sun
hits the side of the building in an awkward way.
I see. The sun we can do less about, but the
warm water, we can definitely look into that
for you. Well, I was wondering about like maybe
an awning or something. I was told that it couldn't
get an awning because it would make the facade
look different. But I really think that an awning
would be the best way to go. Totally understand,
but there's building regulations and everything,
so we're looking into things for improvement,
and we'll definitely make note of that. Also,
I've been seeing a lot more bugs in the apartments.
I talked to Mr. Omar, and he said that spiders
are good because they eat other bugs, but there
seems to be a lot of bugs. Yeah, we're definitely
going to look at extermination services. If that's
everything, though, I'm so sorry to rush you,
but we've got a really busy day. We have a lot
of clients lined up today and really need to
finish our survey here and move forward. Okay.
Well, one last thing. I think there's also a
little issue in the parking. There seems to be
some drainage problems down there. I know that
they talked about excavating a little bit of
putting in some kind of pipe down there so that
it doesn't flood as much when there are rains.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Each of us would get
some kind of storage unit down there, but they
haven't built the extra storage units. You know,
like I said, we're in a real hurry. I wonder,
can I get your phone number so I can have one
of our people contact you and make sure that
we've got all of your notes down? Sure. Let me
go write it down. I'll be right back. Oh, no,
no. Just go ahead and tell me. Photographic memory.
I'll remember it. Don't worry. Okay. Are you
sure? Oh, I'm absolutely sure. Part of the job.
All right. And she rattles off her number. Now,
Maggie, why this is all going on. You suddenly
see this large looking strange spider just over
the size of like a shopping cart. One of those
really big shopping carts. And it's obviously
got human parts on it, but it doesn't have the
torso. It has like two of its legs are actually
human arms and hands. It's kind of skittering
along. And then. Instead of the, it has the weird
head like the last one you saw, but it actually
seems to have a longer neck that kind of stretches
out a little bit. So it's a little bizarre, and
it makes this hideous hissing sound with its
jaws kind of open up. And just as you're about
to get the old woman into the apartment, this
creature makes a sound and starts scurrying for
the door. Oh, I shut the door. And she turns
around and she goes, what's... Now, I was told
we weren't allowed to have pets. What is in there?
You know, we heard reports of steam escaping.
So it's been causing these horrible hissing sounds.
Have you been experiencing that? No. And then
all of a sudden, the door... hits really hard
and she goes that's that can't be steam that's
a dog or something i i had to like find a home
for my uh persnephanie and it was very difficult
and i feel like we should all be able to have
Absolutely, absolutely. I completely understand.
We're going to make sure that we get this taken
care of and everything is on the up and up. We'll
see to the rehoming of this particular animal
because, I mean, it wouldn't be fair to you to...
No, it sounds really big to it. It keeps hitting
the door. Yeah. We'll see to it. It sounds...
Don't worry. You're in good hands. Okay. She
finally goes back inside. And this thing's, like,
at the door, trying to get through the door,
scraping at the door with its human hands, trying
to open up the door. Thanks. I hate it, Wes.
Yeah, no thank you. You're welcome. Let's jump
over to Norman and Robin. You're falling behind
this guy. Oh, I hate that. Sorry. I saw the thing
that you posted and that's a lot of no. Also
thinking of the thing where the head comes off
and then the legs grow out of it. Yeah, absolutely.
So you're following. I'm going to give you a
plus 40 % on your roll. because this guy's not
expecting to get followed and he's not an agent
or anything like that. So I'm going to give you
a huge bonus. Yay. So you have a 63 % right now.
Okay. Here we go. Just drive in normal, drive
in normal. We can do it. It's like I flipped
a car. Yes. Okay. 53. Excellent. Yay. All right.
So you follow him to his place and he parks at
the front. He limps in. What do you want to do?
Do you want to try to like break into their phone
service, break into their computers, see what
he's doing? On his computers. Yeah, I kind of
want to do all of that. I'll pare it down. Let's
first, as he's walking in, can I do, I guess
maybe a search? I want to see if there's any
weird clues to his limp on his body. I don't
know. Weird. I think that that might be something
that your doctor friend. Well, that I could do.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Hello. That was something I was
going to say the doctor friend could do next
to you while you look into the technical stuff.
Right. Okay. Yes. I will not take your job there.
Thank you. I'm just saying, like, if you want
me to try to do computer stuff, like, I literally
cannot succeed. Zero, zero computer sense. Understood.
I was just getting excited. I love using my eyes.
Like, I have 10 % heavy machinery. Oh, yeah,
wait. Can I look to see if there's a crane? We
just flatten the offices, my lord. Okay, no,
focus. So, yes, I will whip out my little, I
almost said palm pilot. Wow. Jesus, that's something
that we would say. Yeah, I don't... Wow, I haven't
even thought of what that thing is in so long.
Are you feeling well? Do you need some butterscotch
candy? Some Werther's? You're about to get some
Werther's. I have an old soul. Get off my lawn,
giant spider people. Honest. Yeah, we got to
try that at least once. All right. So I will.
Yeah, let's do a classic Norman style network
sweep. Just look and see what can I get into
emails and or blah, blah. Just do a general computer
role. And then if you, Robin, wanted to do a
I guess a medicine role or some other biology
role or something that's connected that you think.
to help you kind of figure out what's going on
with his leg or, you know, that kind of stuff.
You can do that. Okay. So I'll do a medicine.
Great. Oh, sick. Okay. 26 under my 61. Okay,
cool. And I got a 16 under my 60. Awesome. Yay.
All right. So the thing that you notice when
you're looking at him walk the limp, it seems
like his left leg is maybe an inch shorter than
his other leg or half an inch. If you just watch
his gait as he's walking and you also notice
that his shoe on his left foot. is slightly different
than the shoe on his right foot. Like he's wearing
some kind of brace on there. So you're wondering
if there's some kind of atrophy going on with
his leg, if the muscles are decaying a little
bit. Spider leg, spider leg. Yeah, something
like that. Or spider bite leg. Yeah, something
where there's obviously been some kind of he's
been fed on or something like that. When Norman
gets in, he is looking up how to get rid of spiders,
that kind of thing. I mean, it's very blatant.
He's all like trying to find a legal way to get.
the most dangerous chemicals he can find to get
rid of infestation so stuff that like orkin has
that they use at their plants before they send
somebody out the the concentrated good stuff
that that burns everything out he's also looking
up like how to divorce your wife and not pay
her money stuff that's like how to get your kids
the child support money and make sure your wife
doesn't spend it and whatever and how to avoid
alimony all of these things like calling all
the lawyers in town and talking with them so
that she can't get a lawyer because she he's
already talked to all of them so he's making
moves to try to distance himself from her why
he would be staying in this apartment is the
thing that's not on his computer and at some
point if you look in his browser history how
to deal with multiple spider bites is something
that he's looked up a few times. You found out
that Tiffany was having an affair. You do wonder
if maybe the affair wasn't the problem. It was
the cultish moves of her friends and her, so.
Maybe the affair was a relief. Yeah. Thank God.
I don't have to pay as much. Yeah. She gets remarried.
I don't have to pay anything. Right. Spiders
can eat him. Spiders can eat him, exactly. Good
Lord. Okay, so we're looking at all of this info.
Clearly, and I turn to Robin, I'm like, all right,
he's aware the spiders are a problem, at least.
It seems like maybe the husbands are innocent
or unwilling participants in all of this. Innocent.
Yeah, quote unquote. I mean, it does seem obvious
at least a couple of them are not. Willing participants,
but at the same time, innocent. Innocent. Definitely.
Look, it's early in the morning. Yeah. Still
getting over the smell of poop in the air. It's
Fresno. So much cow. Not used to it yet. There's
a lot of cow. Respect to the cow is just yuck.
But this does beg the question, can we possibly
enlist? Because it doesn't seem like Norman.
is a spider person on, like, his buddy. You're
Norman. God damn it. I literally wrote down Norman
four times in my notes as well. So it's not just,
it's not just this one slip of the tongue. We've
been following this guy. I wrote, like, I was
like, oh, Norman is Limburg. Well, Roderick and
Norman are very close. You know, Norman's the
short nickname for Roderick. Right. Totally the
same name. To be fair, Omar and Norman have the
similar letters. They do. Normar. Oh, no, they're
connected. We've missed this connection the whole
time. Oh, no. It's my brother. You're in the
MCU. Nilbog is goblet spelled backwards. So Roderick
doesn't seem to be a spider person, unlike Omar.
Unlike, unlike Pete. God damn it. Pete's the
spider person. So taking it all back, this husband
seems to be not a spider person, unlike that
other husband that we saw at Bree's house. Right.
And we are, we followed Omar, not Roderick. We're
at Omar's office. Did we screw this whole thing
up? We've missed it all. We've been calling Omar
because that was the whole thing. Oh, I said
Roderick. But you just said Roderick now. I know,
I just said Roderick now. Too many goddamn NPCs.
We're all confused. We just need to record each
of us saying all of the names so that he can
just insert them and paste them in as necessary.
Just use this clip of me saying, Well, this husband.
Yeah, no, I can make that work. This husband.
This husband does not seem to be spider person
infected, or at least not as far along as Bree's
husband was. You're right. Correct. Correct.
I wonder if there's a way. I just want to say
one sentence normally. All right. I wonder if
there is a cure. Perhaps this is something we
can, whether it exists or not, suggest to Omar
to get him on our side if we want to go that
route. Man, it wasn't even worth saying that
out loud. Whatever, I got it. I got it out. That's
actually not a bad thing. Yeah, that's a great
idea. Like, if we approach him and say, hey,
it's possible that we can not only, like, I see
that you might have some atrophy from your spider
bite, and there's something I can do about that.
Not to mention, if we can do some research and
see if there's some way to unspiderfy people.
It's called fire. That also seems like a really
good thing. Without fire yet. We can use fire
on the babies. I'm less inclined to use fire
on the victims. I don't know. Obviously, he's
not very loyal to his wife if he's looking at
how quickly he can move all his assets off and
not pay her a dime, you know? Why couldn't she
have just joined a book club? I mean, I feel
like once your wife starts, like... Oh, am I
the asshole? My wife joined a spider cult. I
would like a divorce and also not to pay her
alimony starts to seem like. Yeah, it's such
seem plausible. Reasonable search. I mean, it's
possible that everybody's here. Yes, but he is
at least still trying to look out for the kids.
So I'm voting not the asshole pending further
information. So I guess that leaves the question
before I jump to the other two. Do you all just
want to sit there and kind of continue surveillance?
Or what's your next move now that you have all
this information? I'd say, well, something interesting
could happen if we wait for like a little more.
But let's check in with the other team since
they don't have a ride. True. I am thinking,
well. Technically, we don't know if they're dead
or, you know, whatever. I feel like checking
in, but then it's like, if we can figure out
a way to maybe get him away from the others to
approach him, but also Norman and I are not the
people who you want to have like... Talking.
Well, I think we're okay at talking, but also
if things go beyond talking. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty
much by the skin of my teeth have I survived
any conversation. Yeah. Norman's not a talker.
Come back and get Wanda right now. I mean, I'm
actually incredibly persuasive. Well, yeah. Notice
I said Norman. Just Norman. Yes. It's just that
literally all of my, like, fighty skills are
one to two points above minimum. From me failing
them before. Yeah. And if you get hurt, I can't
do anything. So you call the other team up to
see what their status is. Meanwhile, you all
are in the hallway. This thing is ramming its
body up against the door. And then all of a sudden
you notice that the doorknob starts to turn and
starts to swing open. No, you gave spiders opposable
thumbs. It's not okay. I veto this. It starts
to open the door up and this is where we're going
to end this episode. Reverse lock pick. That
was my thinking. Thank you all so much. I'm having
a lot of fun with this game. I am. Because anytime
I can get back, because Mac's a horror aficionado,
anytime I can get her squeamish, I feel like
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