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A peaceful visit to the annual Brindlewood Bay Whaling Museum fundraiser has taken a turn for the worse when one of the volunteers turns up dead. Fortunately we have a team of little old lady detectives on the case... and they're pretty sure it wasn't an accident at all. (The harpoon stuck in his back is a pretty big clue.)
This week we're playing a game of Brindlewood Bay, a cozy mystery with a few dark twists. I'm running this game, along with some excellent role-players on the team who have taken well to mystery solving. Here is our party of little old ladies:
— Joan as Louisa, resident gardener who loves getting her hands dirty and has seen absolutely every episode of MacGyver. Always carries her Swiss Army knife (the TSA hates her).
— Matt as Ludmilla, an ex-powerlifter who has retired to a peaceful life in Brindlewood Bay. She keeps an indeterminate number of cats (and is never seen anywhere without at least one of them).
— Mitch as Bordy, a collector of all things, who has never seen a bauble she didn't want to add to her collection. She's also been getting mysterious messages on her answering machine lately, but it's probably nothing.
If you enjoy our game, you can give it a try yourself! You can pick up the Brindlewood Bay rulebook from from The Gauntlet, including the Nephews in Peril supplement which includes the adventure we're playing here! The whole thing is a little bit Murder, She Wrote and a little bit X-Files, and a whole lot of roleplaying. We had a lot of fun with it, so check the game out!
Music from this episode is "Villainous Treachery" by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.
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[Music]
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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Tavern Watch plays.
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This week we're playing Brendlewood Bay, a cozy little murder mystery in which
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our cute old lady detectives solve murders in a quaint small town that is
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definitely not suspicious or weird in any way at all whatsoever. Uh, I'm going to start by introducing asking our
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players to introduce themselves and their characters. Let's start with you, Joan. Who are you playing? I'm playing
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Louisa Margro, a gardening enthusiast who likes outdoors type stuff.
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Okay. And Matt, who are you playing today? I'm playing Lud Miller Portoa Gordon.
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Uh, technically her maiden name is Shamway. No, other way around. Sorry. Uh, married name is Shame. Uh, she is
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formerly a Soviet weightlifter who moved to the United States when she couldn't participate in the Olympics. uh ended up
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marrying uh a nice accountant and working as a nurse for 30 years before
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retiring. And now she just loves cats, has many cats, likes to wear a wears
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what looks like a fur coat at first, and you realize it's actually a fur coat made from a bear. Uh so like a it's like a spirit hood but
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with an actual bear head on it. And and she's quite large even for an old lady, but she's still has the spirit of a
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little old lady in that she interferes with everything and doesn't care. Uh okay. So Mitch, who are you playing?
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I am playing Bordy and I, you know, little little bit about Bordy. She just
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kind of loves to uh collect things. So, you know, I'm a little bit of a wanderer. Um I I stick with stick with
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the you know, the other mavens here, but I also kind of, you know, make sure I don't want to miss the small details
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because you never know when a little object might come in handy. And uh Mitch, why don't you give us a
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recap of what happened last episode? Sure. Um, all of us mavens came here to,
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you know, kind of retire, honestly. A little seaside village, uh, looking to relax. Um, we, uh, were part of the
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what, Murder Maven's uh, book club. Murder Maven's Mystery Book Club. Yeah, mystery book. Yes. Thank you. Uh, so we
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loved reading about mysteries and and you know, uh, getting together and talking about it. Uh but we also happen
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to stumble into a murder mystery uh at one point when you know Ludm Miller went to take her cats to the vet and stumbled
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upon a very dead, very smooshed uh veterinarian uh rip. Uh and so, you
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know, we kind of we sprang into action there. Um we did a little investigating, we did a little bit of talking uh and we
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solved that crime. And so, you know, we're a little bit of uh mini local celebs right now. Um and that that's,
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you know, kind of the backstory there. So, we fast forward a little bit to last session where we're at uh a vol uh a
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fundraising event at the you know, whailing museum. Uh doing our little bit of just kind of smooing, poking around,
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seeing what's going on. Uh and we kind of found some little clues uh cluing us
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into why there are, you know, a couple murders in this town. We stumbled upon one. Apparently, it's just kind of a
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thing that happens here. So, we are, you know, trying to figure out what's going on there. And wouldn't you know it, we
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stumbled into our own murder mystery again because as we were exploring some of this uh fine whale decor, we heard a
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scream and someone pronounced that their cousin had been murdered. Very suspicious. Um, so yes, we come
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into this as our our group, our murder mavens have been smoozing at the museum
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fundraiser and a scream cut through the air as someone said, "My cousin, my
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cousin has been murdered." Uh you were off in a side room with these you were
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examining some drawings and uh the museum had been clearing out as the
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fundraiser wrapped up. But you do hear kind of hubbhub from the lobby area.
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Let's go see what's going on in the lobby. Let's all go to the lobby and find ourselves a
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Let's all go to the lobby. Let's all go to the lobby. Let's not get copyright.
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Um, so in in the lobby you see um a
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redheaded woman whom you had you'd spotted her in the crowd before, but you
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hadn't talked to her. Um, just crying into Catherine's uh Catherine's shoulder
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and Catherine is kind of like I don't know what to do with this. Uh whereas
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George Pard, the museum owner, is kind of patting his forehead with a
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handkerchief. His uh accidentally sort of disrupting the comb over of his hair.
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Someone Someone must He's uh um just in
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the door to one of the other exhibit halls looking in. Someone must call the police. Um um everyone stay calm. We're
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going to get the I'm I'm sure this is fine. I'm sure it's just a an accident. Certainly.
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Certainly. Nothing. Nothing. And as he's saying this, uh, the woman with
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Catherine says accident. My cousin has been murdered.
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They're there. We'll figure we'll we'll figure this out, young lady. Catherine is the person who was the
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Catherine. Katherine is the curator of the move and she's one saying your cousin's been murdered.
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Uh, no. She is uh sort of there's a young woman with her who is kind of
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crying into her shoulder and Katherine looks a little befuddled as to why she is the person why someone is crying on
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her good shirt. Uh do do we see the murder victim?
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Where is this cousin? Um so tell me tell me which direction y'all are going. Are you uh going for
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people or are you going for a possible murder victim? Murder victim.
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Okay. Are are all of you summary? I feel like the easiest way to find out where the murder victim is is to walk up
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to them and go, "Who's been murdered? Where what are you talking about?" I will do that. In my usual, you know,
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emotionally sensitive way. Who died? Where are the You said someone was dead. Where are they?
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This woman is uh she's got short red hair. She looks really familiar. Um her
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eyes are red. She's wiping tears. It's my cousin. My cousin
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has been volunteering here and now he's he's points to the scrimshaw exhibit. I
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don't He's in there. I'll go to the exhibit room.
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I will pat her very gently on her shoulder. They're there. They there. She just kind of stares up at you and
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confusing. He was He was just We were just talking earlier and
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What is his name? Edgar. Oh, my character knew who Edgar is.
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Edgar. Edgar. Yes. Edgar. Uh Edgar. Uh uh.
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Edgar. Oh my gosh, I am so bad at names, you guys. Nickerson. He was the oceanologist.
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Uh yes, he was a graduate student who was studying here for the summer. Um, so
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you I assume are all walking into the scrimshaw exhibit which uh cases all over the wall towering up with full of
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little scrimshaw carvings and little this and thats of sailing life. And
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in the middle of the exhibit, you see Edgar lying in a pool of blood with a
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harpoon sticking out of his side. Well, time to check for a pulse first of
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all. Um, okay. You you check I could look.
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Oh, yeah. That Let's use our skills here. Um, so go and have a look at the
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body. Go check for the pulse. Give me a roll on a meddling move, which is
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searching for a clue. Okay, so it's 2d6 plus something. 2d6. Uh, I'm going to say add reason.
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Okay. Four and four is eight plus one is uh so a nine is definitely a success. Um
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so uh you Edgar is very dead. Edgar is I mean we're not
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I just I look at Louisa and just kind of give the headshake of nope. I don't go I
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don't yell out oh he's stone dead. I just look at her and go this definitely not a living person. Louis is kind of eyes wide like we were
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just talking to this guy. What the heck? It would take Did I want to like Did is
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this person like laying on the ground with a harpoon sticking out of them? Are they like impaled on the harpoon? So,
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somebody threw this harpoon or shot it at them or something? Okay, that's that's not easy to do.
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Like like are there any harpoons missing from the exhibits in this room? Uh, there was a harpoon. Yeah, there was
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a harpoon display, but I don't remember what room it was in. Um, give me another meddling move to go look and see if
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there's a harpoon missing from a display somewhere here. That's I'm going to say this is again a 2d6 plus reason.
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Uh, it's 14 14. That's That's insane. Okay, so you go
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you've been to the museum before. You're sure there are some harpoons on display. You go and you look at the harpoon
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display and you can tell there was there were two harpoons in uh uh mount mounted
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on the wall, but there was a third one here that is gone. You
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I need to go make a cat be quiet. One sec. And um
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I one more one more thing there before we move on. Because you rolled over a
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12, you will find an additional void clue. The void clue
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in this case, I'm actually going to say that um uh Lemilla has found it while
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looking at the body. Literally, you're examining this harpoon and you see where
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the harpoon has lodged into the body. There is something else there.
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Okay. Uh, can I I can see what it is. I can't see what it is. Um, you kind of peer at it and it's it
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looks like a scrimshaw bone has been jabbed into his side.
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Okay. I don't I don't want to yell that out loud or anything. Um, so I'm going to stand up sort of like sidle over. Uh,
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yes to Bord because Louis is currently indisposed. Um,
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do you see that where the the harpoon is? There's there's like a piece of
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something there. Do you see that? A piece. Is that a scrimshaw? I I immediately like look up like perk up
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when I, you know, see, oh, it might even, you know, piece of bone scrimshaw something. Um, and I like turned my head
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toward wherever I had seen the one with the mask. I would like to go uh if I see something immediately when I look in
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that direction, I will go investigate. Um, otherwise I will probably still go close to investigate. See if my coin's
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still there. Uh, your coin is still there, but um,
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someone has jimmied open the case and the scrimshot you'd been looking for before looking at before has is gone.
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The whole thing's gone. the this one particular scrimshaw you'd been looking at, the case is still there, but you can
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tell someone's forced it open and gotten inside. Uh, so I guess relative to what's stuck
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in the person is is it like is a small fraction of it stuck inside uh Edgarwin
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or um the whole thing is gone, but I'm going to say it's not it wasn't huge,
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you know, it was a small piece of bone. So it's not like a giant tusk or anything like that. It's like a little
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fragment of bone with a little carving on it, maybe just a couple of inches long.
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Okay. And um the thing that was Yeah, we we just found the the void clue was not
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the full length of the thing that I the scrimshaw I saw, though. Or was it? I No, I'm I'm going to say the scrimshaw
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you saw was actually very small. Like some of them are large, some of them are small. And the one you saw with the mask on it, which is now missing, was a
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smaller scrimshaw. I think I'm making sense there. Yes. Okay. Uh I, you know, will at this
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point kind of go back to uh Lud Miller and uh Louisa and kind of explain what I
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saw earlier and uh I don't I Yeah. Um I will also compare it to whatever like
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now I'm going to try to get a closer look at the fragment that's stuck inside like near the harpoon.
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Okay. Are you in fact like poking at the body to pull this out? I'm going to try and back up and take up
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as much space as I can. Okay. Put on very round.
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Okay. Cuz if if someone's going to be poking at the body, I want to keep people from seeing them do it.
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I know cameras, but um and the crowd over there is kind of
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um it there's there's attempts to keep everyone calm. It seems to be the
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primary thing that's going on in the next room over. I'm going to say you are going to make a day move which is
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something you do when you're doing something risky. Uh which is again that's going to be
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another it's a 2d6. Every roll is 2d6 and give me 2d6 with composure because
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you are like poking your hand in a bloody wound. Okay. I'm triple checking. What did I
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gave myself presents? Okay. Uh I am going to ask one more thing. You know what? What are you afraid might
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happen if you fail to do this or if you lose your nerve trying to I am re sorry I am really worried that
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if I make one wrong move just a lot of blood is going to splirt out and uh you
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know like just like one or two but like a lot of blood and it's going to be kind of hard to uh hide that. Like I'm
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worried that it's really nice. And you're you're you're also so fashionably dressed. So I mean yes,
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that's a that's definitely something to worry about. So uh yes, give me a roll.
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Okay. One of these dice is tiny because it's a tiny um four and four plus you said composure
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one. So nine. Yes. Uh nine is a success. So you very
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del I mean you're used to digging around and collecting little little bobbles and finding treasures on the seashore. This
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is kind of like this. You just keep telling yourself this is it's kind of like that. This is really this is just the same. It's you know just imagine
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you're digging for shells in this definitely sea water. Not this. Uh
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totally totally fine. Um you poke at the wound. It's squishy. Uh, but you you get
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in with your little hands and pluck out. This bit of bone, this tiny bit of white
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whale bone that has a little etched drawing of a mask on it that is now
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blood dripping down it. The little grooves that were carved are now dark
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with blood. Um, I'm gonna pocket it.
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Okay. I I am going to say that you do manage to
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successfully pocket it without ruining your clothes, but uh you do have some blood on your hands.
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I'm I mean I was Look, if anyone asks, I knew Edwin. Um I wasn't in this room.
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Maybe get his name correct if you're going to tell people you knew him. I he we go way back. It's fine. I knew
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Edwin. I was not in this room when he died. And uh his cousin, you know, she
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was convinced he was murdered. So I think that's kind of tacit approval to
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investigate the body like if anyone asks. But I don't think uh so you were in here doing this. You
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hear a voice uh a voice uh from the lobby. Calm down. This is not a voice
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you that of any of the guests. Calm down. Calm down, everyone. I'm going to need to talk to all of you. Just remain
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calm and do not mess with the crime scene. All of you stay here in the
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lobby. It's going to be when they come in and we're already in the crime scene. Yeah. Yeah. So, um you do know this
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person. This is Sam Cooper, a sheriff's deputy. Um, and she's not looking very
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happy about this. She's not looking very happy about it at all. And
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um, you three, have you already,
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you're doing this again? I was just trying to determine if he was alive so we could give him medical care,
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which could not just I figured out where the harpoon came from. Yeah. Just just trying to figure out
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what they were if they were alive is what you did last time with the veterinarian. And should I not do that? I find of an
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injured person. I just leave them there. Okay. Okay. Yes. Yeah. You should not leave. You should always try to help an
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injured person. Yes. Of course. Of course, ma'am. But
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you're looking I have um give me a
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a meddling move with presence as you say that.
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Well, that's a two and a four. So, that's a six and I don't have any bonus.
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Uh so, a six is a failure. But, uh since this is our first I think this may be
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our first failed roll. We haven't done a lot of rolls. One thing you can do is you can put on a crown in this game. Uh
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there are a couple of different kinds of crowns and basically putting one on can
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turn a role into like the next level up. So it can turn a failure into a success,
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a success into like an extreme success, that sort of thing. Uh, Matt, if you
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would like to put on a crown, there's the crown of the queen and the crown of the white that you could use to make
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this role a success. It's up to you as to whether you think it's important enough or interesting enough to do that.
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And when you put on these crowns, you would just each one has a different kind of thing where it's like, okay, how
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would this memory or thing kind of inspire you or help you fill fulfill the
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things that's going to do? It's you're going to kind of go you kind of give a little flashback scene or scene of how something has helped you here if that
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makes sense. Uh I'm going to try a flashback showing how you were an imperfect mother. Uh and
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it flashes back to me in a hospital actually wearing uh you know the horrible little paper
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gown that they make you wear. Uh and my husband was holding my hand and
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we were finding out that I would not have children that I could not. Um, and
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of course I was very sad and you could tell I was very sad because I said oh and didn't say anything else. And then
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it cuts to the first cat that I got, which was like a little sick cat that
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was outside our house kind of living feral in the trellis and how I brought the cat in and told it that I would take
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care of it. And that was, you know, how it started with all the cats. And then I
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to me the the way I felt in that room the the the way I felt like a failure
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has always pushed me to never fail again to not do that again. So I'm sincere
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when I say she seems tense. I am trying to help her. I do not want her to to be tense and irritable and upset because
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I've been that in my life and it has never worked. Whereas, you know, if you just hold a kitten and you pet it for a
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little while and it'll like butts you with its head, you'll feel better. Maybe I should hinder the cat.
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Yeah, I'll Basar like kind of comes out cuz stuff is happening. And I will like I'll basically go here.
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Oh. Oh, I Oh, hello Balthasar.
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And he's like he's whacking her with his head. Like he isn't just He's doing it pretty hard. Not hard enough to hurt
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her, but significant. Like whoa. He's very excited about this.
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She's She's trying to pet him and calm him down. He like He starts immediately kneading
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into her. And of course, of course, the claws are going in, so it's a little uncomfortable, but he's not doing it to
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hurt her. She's She's wearing her deputy's uniform. She has like a a jacket on.
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It's probably fine. Oh. Oh, okay. Little Kai. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Are you just
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Well, it was it was my day off. This is my only day off in the past three weeks.
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And I'm sorry. I I did not want to have to take my day off and then come in here
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and see dead men. No, it is bad. But you will you will figure I believe in you.
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Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. I I do appreciate it. I do appreciate your help. I do appreciate it. Um, she just,
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you know, that's kind of like she just stops for a minute like this is such a a
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not the thread that she was thinking about all of this. Uh, so you hand it to her and she does
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kind of automatically. Yeah. It's like on a handoff
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grab the cat back and takes the candy and and sucks on it. Uh, so this this does not look,
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you know, no, it's very bad. Someone harpooned him. He isn't He is not alive.
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I have never I've never had a murder victim that was harpooned. So, this is a
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first that I did not really want. Um,
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so you're here. You're here. You tell me who who is this kid? Do you know who this is? I know his name is Edgar
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Nicholson because he was telling us about a boat that was a very old boat
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that apparently there was a whale that had tentacles. I I he was talking about
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it and we listened because you don't want to be rude to the man. He seems very invested in what he's doing. Uh and
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then he left to go do something else. Uh Louisa Louisa, you work you work here
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sometimes. You knew more about him. Um yeah, he's a graduate student. He was
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volunteering. He did. He said he had to do something and then he rushed out in a bit of a
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hurry and that was the last time we saw him. So Sam has pulled out a notebook and is
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taking some notes. Uh apparently the little redhead girl out there is his cousin. She said she
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yelled, she screamed something and we came running because you know someone's screaming. You do you want to help? And
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she said her cousin had been murdered and we were like what what are you talking about? and she pointed this way.
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So, we came in to see if he was okay, and he was not. Uh, yes. Well, definitely not. I've
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asked everyone to stay here so that I can question them and hopefully figure
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something out. This is not an everyday kind of crime.
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Now, I thought I was coming here to live in a small town and it would be quiet and there would not be murders every
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couple of weeks. Uh, do you do you know anyone who might have
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been, you know, strong enough to harpoon someone? Are you talking to uh Sam
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to the to the Yeah, the sheriff? The deputy? Umut? Yeah. You know, I haven't interviewed everyone
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yet, but this this does not seem like a group of, you know, we've got we've got
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a Yes, this is not a brrawy group of people. We've got some a couple of
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interns. We've got Miss Burko, the curator. We've got uh Mr. Abslam, who is
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uh he Yes. Yes. That's That's a good way to put it. Yes. Um the museum owner, he is
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very nervous, but he does not look like he has the throwing arm for a harpoon.
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Um it could be a stabbing kind of thing.
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Uh, we do have a a gentleman outside who's
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making a bit of a fuss with one of the other officers. Uh, I don't I haven't figured that one out yet. So, yes, we
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don't uh I don't have anyone that definitely that looks like Oh, that's the murderer. I we I do not have that.
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But this uh does not does not look like an accident. So, uh we're going to keep everyone here. We're going to question
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everybody and uh gosh, I hope I hope we can figure something out and uh go home
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and not have another murder this week. That'd be that'd be a great day. It's true. I wonder when you say Oh, go go go go go for it.
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I'm actually going to wait. I'm going to like kind of move back a little bit and let her take over the crime scene and
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just kind of like not leave because you don't leave, but move back and just
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towards Louisa and you so I can talk to you guys without necessarily being overheard. was man here. Uh I remember
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when I was looking for cats, by the way, many cats on boats. Was very happy to find um there there was a man here who
26:45
was apparently a teacher at the community college, a maritime history
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teacher. Um you said that the the boy was he a part-time at the community college or
26:56
did I miss here? Uh he's a graduate student and he's down here studying uh
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for the summer for some, you know, extracurricular stuff, volunteering at the museum, studying at the community college, which has a very well-renowned
27:09
maritime history program. Perhaps he knew this uh this young man,
27:14
this professor. He did not me very much. Uh he he was very much not interested in in what I
27:21
was saying. Uh, I asked if they had any real books and he pointed out when the
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book I was looking at with the cats was a real book and not a reproduction, but
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he did not seem particularly interested in my my opinions, so I left him alone. Uh, this Liz, this is a question for
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you. Do we know anything about the other uh murders that have been happening in the town? Like, how much do we know
27:44
about those? Um, I would say other Okay. I I keep joking about how Google a lot
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of murders, but it's uh it's statistically a lot of murders, but it's not like there's a murder every other
27:56
day. Yeah. It's like if you had two a nickel for every time someone was murdered, you'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot. It's still weird that
28:02
when when when the when the deputy was because it it was just it was just a
28:08
couple of weeks ago that there was this accident with the veterinarian and it's like now she's back and you're here.
28:14
Let's just Could we Yeah. It's not like this be a thing. We don't want this to be a thing. We don't want
28:19
this to be a weekly TV show. It's you know, if you've watched Murder She Wrote, every episode in the small
28:25
town of Cabbat Cove, someone dies terribly. And uh yeah, it's like Father Brown. Father
28:31
Brown. This is what I thought was happening here, especially when the the one person said like, I don't want another murder this week. I I wasn't sure if that was
28:38
literal. I it's it's a it's literal only in the only in the sense that okay you
28:44
actually did have a murder a couple weeks ago with uh and of course you
28:49
three were right there too. It's it does look a little suspicious, huh? Um
28:55
particularly with your your bloody hands, but uh it's probably fine. I knew the victim, so it's okay. Uh at
29:02
this point then I guess um you know I would kind of mumble to uh LM Miller and
29:08
Louisa like should we try to you know work together like with with the deputy
29:14
on this or do you want to you want to see what we can find on her own cuz I think I already found something and I
29:21
kind of pull the thing out of my pocket a little bit. Uh you know just just like a hair and then I put it back in. Um,
29:27
and you know, I'm like, I think the uh experience the other night. Let her do her police work and we will
29:35
do what we do. There's no reason to bother her unless we actually find something. Okay, I'm down for And by find
29:42
something, you mean solve it? Well, you know, at least find if we if we find another body and this body has
29:47
got a harpoon gun, you know, there's there are reasons to break in besides actually solving everything.
29:53
Good point. I don't think we should be the first people to tell her about a dead body and also be around that body
29:58
at the same time cuz that would make three and that'd be a little suspicious for us. Fair enough.
30:03
But I'm down for Yeah, let's let's just casually walk away.
30:09
Casually walk away. Are are you uh Brody? No, I keep saying that wrong. I'm
30:16
sorry. It's okay. I'm doing names wrongly. So it works.
30:22
It's like my brain wants to say birdie or brody and it's like shoved in between
30:28
those two things and I keep going back and forth and hitting the wrong one. Bordy. Um, are you are you doing
30:35
anything about your bloody hands? Uh, is there a drinking fountain in this
30:40
room? Uh, I will say sure there's a drinking fountain. Well, just maybe just around the corner from
30:45
the exhibit. As I'm totally casually making my way out of the I'm gonna uh
30:51
lean over to have a drink of water. And as I'm pretending to drink the water and
30:56
maybe drinking the water for real, I'm going to wash my hand off that way. Okay. Okay. I will I will say that yes,
31:03
you managed to do this. It's not a huge problem. You didn't Yeah. Yeah. We'll
31:09
say we'll say that works and move on. Uh are you going back out into the lobby or
31:14
what is everyone doing? I I mean, you should probably Yeah, you should probably look around to see who
31:21
else is like still here. Did anybody leave? Um I know that she said that they were keeping people here. So,
31:27
I want to go back to the cousin at like and it doesn't have to be at the same time. We can do it altogether. But I
31:32
would like to go back to the cousin and see why she was so convinced it was murder outside of I mean or
31:37
she saw the probably that you know I mean I guess it is pretty obvious that it's murder but uh does she
31:44
I guess if she has any do we know did she did we ask her about that at all if she had any
31:51
you have not really talked to her except for that uh brief conversation with Lud Miller asking I didn't think so and that's that's what
31:57
I would like to do now that I have confirmed it's a murder and it's my good friend Edwin.
32:04
Uh, yes. That's going to go over. Awesome. So, um, this young woman has calmed down a
32:11
little bit. And as you are all of you going to do this together? Um, I can take it. Maybe.
32:17
That's a good idea. Sorry. What did you say we were doing? Talking to the uh the the victim's
32:22
cousin. Okay. Okay. Um, so yes, you go out there.
32:28
She's still with Catherine. They found uh there's like a folding a couple of
32:33
folding chairs on the side that have been pulled out. And uh this woman is sitting down. She has uh red hair and
32:42
uh she's she's nicely dressed. Everyone here is pretty nicely dressed. Kind of a uh she looks really familiar because
32:49
actually she looks quite a lot like Edgar, her cousin. Um she does seem to
32:54
be calmed down a little. She's holding a glass of water and just kind of has one of those sort of 10,000 yard stairs out
33:01
uh out into nothingness. Um so yeah. So has she already talked to the deputy or
33:08
she are we in line to talk to her? So the deputy still uh is looking at the
33:14
body is where you left the deputy. So you do you do not know if the deputy talked to her on the way in. Um
33:21
all right. But she's not in here right now. She's not in here right now. for asking questions.
33:26
Okay. She is not. So, yeah. Um, what I want to ask her is
33:32
um like how how long it had been since she last saw like try to get the
33:37
timeline of when um when she last saw Edgar and then when
33:43
we talked to Edgar and then when she went in and found him like that. Okay. So, you you go and introduce
33:50
yourself, I assume. And her name is Audrey. Audrey Nickerson. Um, she's very
33:57
distraught. I I saw him earlier, but he's been so busy uh doing things around around the
34:05
the exhibit, I suppose. Uh, I I saw him maybe an hour after this started and we
34:13
we talked a little bit and then he had to had to rush off to I whatever he's
34:20
been doing. I'm not. We were That's what he told us too that he had
34:25
somewhere somewhere urgent to be. You didn't have like an appointment to meet
34:30
him in that room. No. No, I didn't. We had such to go look for him.
34:37
Well, I hadn't I hadn't seen him in some time. I I wasn't sure where he'd gotten off to,
34:43
and with everything calming down, I figured he would be out here, but he isn't. We were going to go for a walk on
34:50
the beach. We always uh we always we he's been off at university and we
34:56
haven't done that in a long time, but we used to walk on the beach and uh we
35:04
could we were so alike, you know, we would hear we could hear the whales singing beneath the waves. No one else
35:10
said they could, but Edgar and I we always could. And now now I I guess
35:20
has he been talking to anyone strange lately or angry at anyone?
35:27
Not that I know of. I mean, he's been in town for a couple of weeks to do uh to study at the university, to study at the
35:34
the community college and at the at the museum. But no, how could anyone no one
35:41
could dislike Edgar? What a Well, I mean, it's not that unusual a question to ask when you find someone
35:47
dead. Like, you need to figure out someone who would do it. And if that was someone is a way is a much bigger
35:53
motivation. We're not trying to like impugn him or you would would you see anything else on
35:59
your walks on the the beach? Was there anything else that you heard or saw? I
36:04
mean, seeing, you know, something or hearing something like whale sounds that no one else says they can hear or seeing
36:11
something like the, you know, brightness of the sun or moon blot out before your
36:17
eyes? Things happen on beaches. Um, so did anything happen outside of that?
36:24
I mean, usually just go to Usually we would just go and collect shells. You know, there are so many interesting
36:30
shiny things you can Oh my gosh. Yes, there are so many interesting tiny things you can find in the sand and
36:37
and but it was always the whale song that drew us there. I think I don't know
36:42
if everyone jokes with us that they can't hear it or not. I wondered sometimes if maybe it's a big joke that
36:48
everyone just says they can't hear it, but if you go out to the beach and you stare at the ocean, you can just you can
36:56
feel the whales singing. You can just feel it. Feel their presence out there.
37:02
Sorrowful songs beneath the waves. That's Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know
37:08
anyone who would have wanted to hurt my cousin. I can't imagine. It sounds like he didn't deserve it, but
37:15
we'll let you know when we finish this investigation. I think we'll let you know if he deserves it.
37:22
Is that what you're saying? Yes. We'll come back and let you know. Maybe he was bad. Um, well, Audrey is a little
37:30
traumatized. She didn't pick that up, so you're you're fine. We will we will let you know if we find
37:36
out anything. Thank you. Thank you. She's just clutching this glass of water she's
37:41
holding with both hands like hanging on to something here because this was not
37:46
the day she expected to have. Um, I'm going to go back over to that original display with the books.
37:52
Mhm. M and specifically to the one that was I was told was an authentic book because
37:59
there's repress on. Is it still there? It is. Okay. I'm going to start like if I think
38:05
I can get away with it. I'm going to start like turning pages gingerly to see if there's anything about giant whales
38:11
eating people. I mean um or anything about having cats to keep giant whales away from them or
38:17
something. I mean cats to keep giant whales. Um, give me a
38:23
day move, which is again it's a just a move when you're doing something a little risky or something you're maybe
38:29
afraid of something bad will happen. Tell me what you think bad might happen if you if you don't manage to
38:36
successfully do this or successfully quietly do this where no one notices.
38:41
It's a really old book, right? Yeah, it is. Either I'll be caught, which would be bad, or I'll hurt it, which would also
38:48
be bad. So those are the two things I can think of. Yes. So okay, it's uh like it's the book
38:54
is kind of there's a piece of plexiglass over it, but you can sort of reach behind it and delicately
39:01
flip to the next page. Uh so give me give me a rule again. 2d6. Let's do that
39:07
with um composure or reason. You can pick.
39:12
Same stat either way. Okay. Well, that's a six and a five. Uh, so plus the one that's 12.
39:19
Uh, that's a 12. That's a real good roll. That is a real good roll. So you
39:24
very gingerly, just very delicately. I mean, you're used to working with your
39:31
with your cats, your animals, and sometimes they're hurt. Sometimes they're very small. You have to be very
39:37
careful with them sometimes. I mean, sometimes they surprise you when you think they're doing something that's
39:43
going to terribly injure them, and they're totally fine, but sometimes you have to be delicate. So, you
39:50
you go and reach this book and the touch the pages like it's the tiniest tiniest
39:57
feral kitten you have ever seen and that it needs help. And you're just carefully
40:02
turning the page. And you do it again and again and okay, what what what exactly were you
40:09
looking for again? Give me Well, obviously the sarcastic thing about the cat cuz it's just, you know, cats are always going to be on my mind.
40:15
But in all sincerity, he showed us that picture of the whale with the human eye eating a person. And this book's a
40:23
genuine. It's a real book from the time period. It's not It's not a fake. So, I'm just looking to
40:30
see if there's anything about anything like where the person draws a whale with a human feature or draws a whale eating
40:38
a person or with a human eye or anything that would tie into what we've already seen and heard. Maybe that boat. Um, oh,
40:45
whose name unfortunately I didn't write down when I was writing down other things. The deep reaver.
40:51
Deep rever like you know, anything like related to that. Um, I'm sorry. I've
40:56
still got the whale shape-shifting thing in my head here. I'm still thinking it's it's whale werewolves. Uh but that that's where I'm going. I'm
41:04
looking to see anything that correlates with any of the stuff we've already heard. Uh so you you flip through this and uh
41:11
you find some interesting things, but you don't um lots lots more sort of eerie whale
41:18
drawings, a number of other cats. Um and you think, uh this has been a waste of
41:24
time. I mean, this is an interesting book, but look, I'm over here looking at pictures of cats and maybe maybe I
41:31
should be doing something else. And then you turn one more page and there's something there's something shoved
41:38
between the pages in this book. You carefully pull it out. It's not the same
41:43
age of the book. It's not the age of the book at all. It's a modern envelope,
41:48
totally empty. It's from the National Museum Commission is its return address and it's marked urgent.
41:55
But there's nothing in it. Just the Nothing in it. Who is it addressed to? Is it addressed to the museum? Is it addressed to a
42:02
specific person? It's addressed to the museum, not addressed to a specific person. All right. I've got it now.
42:08
Uh, yes, you do. And I'll say as you walk away from this exhibit, you did
42:14
anyone go with Ludmila? I'm guess probably Lilla would have forgotten to
42:20
say they were she was doing anything just gone and people would have been like oh L.
42:26
Okay. Mhm. So as you walk back to the rest of
42:31
the uh uh potential suspects, you walk under that great whale skeleton. As you
42:39
walk under it, you hear a creek. You know, you were thinking earlier about it falling, and you look up. It hasn't
42:46
fallen, but it's moved. The great skull seems like it has turned and like it's
42:52
staring directly at you. The dark empty eye sockets, it shifts and then it
42:57
stops. It's in a different position than it was before. But as you stare at it, you're like, "No, was it was it always
43:03
like this? Maybe it was always staring down like that." You shake your head and I'm kind of trying to shake this away
43:10
and you're not sure. Uh, you're not sure. Was it like this before? Did it? You couldn't have seen
43:17
it move. You could That couldn't be. That's it. Well, I'm Russian, so I am deeply
43:22
suspicious of this whale now. I was suspicious of you before, whale,
43:27
but now I am deeply. Well, no, whales. Um, so, uh, Louisa or
43:34
Bordy, is there anything else you're doing right now? There are quite a few people still sort of milling about in
43:40
the lobby. Not sure what to do now. I am curious about money bags. The
43:47
Okay. uh moneybags is Cornelius Abslam
43:53
and he is um he has this sort of watery smile and you see he's in the lobby uh
44:03
talking to uh Catherine Katherine Burko the curator.
44:08
I would like to just kind of get as close as I can to listen in and uh we'll
44:14
go yeah go from there. Um, so he's he's here with Katherine. Katherine's a
44:19
little shaken up because one, a pool of blood on the floor of the museum that
44:26
she is curating a historic harpoon covered in blood that is not historic
44:32
blood. That is not that's really not okay. Um,
44:38
and uh, so Cornelius is like, we're all right, everyone. everyone. It's really
44:45
quite fine. Now, just just take a deep breath, Dr. Burko. It's going to be
44:50
fine. I You were just earlier this evening telling me about your grandmother. Why don't we and he's just
44:58
just very kind of trying to keep up this sort of small talk like everything is normal and this is definitely let's
45:06
just, you know, let's just have a little conversation here. just trying to keep trying to keep things normal and
45:12
non-murderous. I think he's doing it a little too casually. Um, are they they hitting
45:20
anywhere in particular? Is does he have anything on him that kind of stands out to me? Like a, you know, pocket watch, a
45:28
necklace, a gigantic knife, like something ritualistic.
45:35
Um, well, why don't you give me uh let's see, give me another day move, which is
45:42
just a a d6 2d6 and add Well, you tell me exactly what you're trying to do to
45:49
investigate and we'll pick a stat based on that. Don't forget in crown of the void, too,
45:55
just in case. Yes. Like, are you trying to talk to him and find something out? Are you trying
46:01
to just stare at him unobtrusively? I'm trying. Yeah, I'm trying to kind of
46:06
like um give him the old uh optical pat down and see if I can find any just any
46:14
like smaller again like jewelry of any kind on uh that looks like he's wearing
46:20
or or anything um that looks like it doesn't uh naturally belong in whatever like suit or outfit
46:27
he's put together. Like, you know, it's an additional accessory. Mhm. Uh, so give me a meddling move. That's just a
46:34
d6 for searching for clues, conducting research, that kind of thing. So 2d6 or
46:39
two. Okay, two. It's always 2d6. Always two. Uh, well that's a four and a one plus uh what was this?
46:46
Reason. Uh, okay. So that's going to be six total, which is I think still a failure. Uh, so that is indeed a failure. You
46:53
could, however, put on a crown and bump that up to a success if you wanted to.
46:59
You will find on your character sheet there's a bunch of different crowns. And when you do put one on
47:04
Yeah. Well, if you do a crown of the void, and I know you I know you're tempted to go straight into those crowns
47:10
of the void. Uh you the crowns of the void have to be done in numerical order, top to bottom.
47:16
The crown of the queen can be done any also, if you check off all of the crowns
47:22
of the void, uh you have become lost to the void. So, it's like that's that's the basically
47:29
checking off all of the crowns of the void is your character is retired.
47:34
So, I will use a crown of the void. Oh, I'm So, why don't you read out what
47:41
this what this first crown of the void does? The first crown of the void. A shadow in the garden. Hereafter,
47:48
during cozy vignettes focused on you or cozy move scenes involving you, you must
47:53
also narrate how dark entities subtly reveal themselves in scene. Okay, so that's uh that's just you for
48:00
the rest of this game. Which is that may not be that abnormal
48:06
really. They gave me an easy one.
48:11
Uh so yes, that's a success. you. I kind of very very carefully try to subtly
48:18
look at this guy and see if there's anything unusual.
48:24
Um, you you look at him and you notice
48:30
that actually you're looking down at his feet and you see just not on him, but
48:40
behind him, there's a keychain that's kind of wedged under the chair he's
48:46
standing in front of that's like wedged under one of the foots, the the feet. That strikes you as a little unusual,
48:53
though. We weren't. Is it his? Is it someone else's? You don't know. Okay. Okay. Um, it's Sorry. It's under
49:00
uh the foot of the chair or It's It's under the foot uh the foot of a chair that he's standing in front of.
49:07
He does, however, notice you looking around while you're doing this because you had a success, but it's uh not like
49:13
a top tier success. It's a success with a complication. He notices you uh kind of peering at him and he's excuse me, I
49:22
don't think we've met. Hello. Hello, madame. I am Cornel. I'm Cornelius
49:28
Abselum and I have uh I suppose I am a patron of the museum.
49:34
Lovely to meet you, Cornell. My name is Bour. Ah, well, um, lovely to meet you as
49:41
well, Bordy. Uh, do do you come to the museum often?
49:48
It is uh quite a collection and he's looking every direction except the direction where the body is.
49:54
Yeah, there's uh a lot of bones here. Some fresher than others. I Yes. Yes, indeed. I I He's a little
50:05
He's a little flustered by this. Sorry. When you get you get to my age, you make day you make jokes about bones.
50:12
I just got old bones. Um, and I'm kind of using this as an opportunity to move closer to the chair, like I'm I'm
50:18
showing that I'm Okay. Um, and and Catherine, who was there kind of having this sort of
50:24
patronizing small talk with him, is kind of hiding a little smile behind her hands as she watches you just kind of uh
50:32
roll over this guy like this. Uh, but yeah, I So, I will move closer.
50:38
And uh, speaking of old bones, I could use a seat. Uh, do you mind moving aside there so I can
50:43
Oh. Oh, I am so sorry. Um, and he does and he moves away and sort of gently
50:50
pushes Catherine away as well, which is like, did you have to did you have to push to, you know, that kind of thing.
50:58
Okay. Yeah, this that guy, of course. And he like pulls the seat forward a little, which dislodges the
51:05
keychain that was under it. And here you go, my lady. Have a seat.
51:10
Thank you. Thank you so much. This is so much more comfortable. Is he reaching down for the keychain? He No, he's not.
51:16
Cuz if he's not, I kind of want to put my my foot down. So, it's uh if anyone
51:22
did try to take it, they would have to pull it like around my That is no problem. You can do that
51:28
without any single rolls. Hooray. Okay. Um that I mean that kind of puts me in a good position for now if
51:35
Okay. And so he'll he'll continue there trying to make small talk with you and with Catherine and with anyone who comes
51:43
by because it's totally normal day. Let's just be aggressively normal. Uh
51:49
what is everyone else doing right now though? Well, I was going to go and um see if
51:55
Catherine is doing all right, but looks like that's covered. So, I'm going to make sure that the sheriff knows which
52:02
display that harpoon came from. the deputy. Okay. Deputy story. Yes, it is. She is the deputy. Um, yes
52:09
indeed. Um, so you go and talk to Sam who is
52:15
examining the body and has been examining the room, taking notes in her notepad.
52:20
Um, when you walk in, she is on her cell phone and you hear, "Yes, Sheriff, I'm
52:28
looking." No, I haven't found anything yet. No, I just Sheriff, please. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Okay. We'll we'll talk
52:36
when I'm done. Bye. I take it he's not having a great night either.
52:41
Uh, no. A death a suspicious death requires a notable amount of paperwork,
52:49
which he does not enjoy filling out. So, he was hoping we could write this off as
52:56
a tragic accident, which I do not think is the case. She's
53:02
staring pointedly at the harpoon sticking out of this guy.
53:07
I tend to agree, especially since that harpoon came from a completely different room. Really? It did look like an old harpoon.
53:14
So, it was part of the exhibit. Someone took it. Yeah, that makes sense. Missing one over over there. I can show
53:20
you. Okay. So, she'll she'll follow you as you uh demonstrate where the harpoon
53:25
came from. Um, do you want to give me a meddling move to see if you notice
53:31
anything else while you are showing her around? And what are we adding to this?
53:38
Uh, let's see. D6 or 2d6 plus uh reason
53:43
6 + 2 + 2 is 10. Okay, a 10 is a success. As you are
53:50
walking over there, you notice you notice um there's an odd indent in
53:59
the carpet that's only a few feet away in the body. You like you weren't really looking for anything, but as you walk
54:07
towards this other room, you notice there's you're not sure. just the the pattern the carpet is like disrupted
54:14
like something very hard has pressed against it or you're not sure.
54:20
Is there a display there earlier? Uh so the displays do not appear to be
54:25
moved. Uh Mitch out of character, did you tell everyone else about this uh
54:31
this display that you had found jimmied in the corner of the of the room of the exhibit? Uh
54:37
[Laughter] cuz you found uh the display case had
54:43
been opened where that uh scrimshaw that you'd noticed earlier was.
54:48
I don't think I actually had a chance to tell anyone about that because I went straight from that to trying to get it.
54:53
Uh that's fine. So, you do not think any of the displays have been moved.
55:00
Um but yes, there is one in the corner that was opened, but it's kind of subtle. This is not uh this is not over
55:06
where that one was. H what shape is the depression or the Yeah. the mark.
55:12
Um it's kind of it's kind of circular. You could see where it might have been like the the leg of something. I mean it
55:20
really does remind you of something like like if it had been a a cabinet or
55:26
something it had been sitting there and leave left an indent. Mhm. Maybe someone walking, but you don't.
55:33
It's It's odd, but it stands out to you as unusual. All right. Well, well, I will have to
55:38
file it away. Sorry. Who's gone? Yeah. So, um, no one no one appears to be jumping
55:45
forward, uh, I will say while y'all are, um, sort of looking around inside, you
55:52
do hear some shouting from outside, from out at the front door. I'll go look at that. And here you see
55:59
there are a couple of other uh beat cops out here just trying to make sure no one
56:04
leaves. They've blocked off the entrance with police tape. Um there's a young
56:11
man, his hair is must. He's wearing a neat suit that doesn't seem to fit him
56:16
very well and he's arguing with the police out here. Is he trying to get out of the building
56:22
or is he trying to get into the build? He's trying to get out. like they're they're out in front of the building and
56:28
they don't want him to leave yet. No, look, it's late and my my a a guy I knew
56:34
is dead and I want to go home and have a cup of tea and scream or something if
56:40
you could just let me leave. Young man, I wait for him to respond to
56:45
me. I mean, he's kind of he's really kind of getting up and going and he like it it takes a moment for it to click in
56:52
that someone has spoken to him and he turns and looks at you. What
56:58
were you raised in a were you raised in a barn? A man is dead. I know someone else killed him and you are
57:05
screaming to be let out as if you do not understand the situation. It is exactly because I understand the situation that
57:12
I want to go home and not be a suspect right now. You are.
57:18
Do you understand that? That you are making yourself a suspect with this. People are all seeing this.
57:23
Everyone can see you demanding that the police let you go while the rest of us have to stay here like you think you're
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somehow special about it. Do you do you not read? Have do you not understand how
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this looks? Like I look at everyone else here.
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Look at everyone else here. Are they coming up to yell at the policeman? Do you think the policemen want to be here?
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Like that this is their idea of a good time? You need to calm yourself. If you wish to leave, of course you do. We
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would all like to leave. I'm certainly don't want to be here with underneath the giant whale statue skeleton thing. I
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don't want to be here for that. Exactly. This place is creepy and all of the bones and
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we can't just leave just because we don't like it. There is a dead man and
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we must find out what happened. I would rather not think about being a
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dead man here is the whole point. Well, then go sit in a chair somewhere and not think about it. But if you keep
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doing this, um, they are going to they are going to target you because what else would they
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do? You are acting suspicious. Calm yourself. Give me a um let's see a meddling rule
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roll. Mddling rule with uh presence to kind of convince this guy.
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Not my forte, but well, you never know. The dice will tell the story for you.
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Yeah, that's a 10. A 10 is a success. And he just rubs his
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hand over his face, you know, just over his eyes. It's uh You're right. It doesn't help to
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yell at anyone. And he turns to the officers. I'm sorry. I just It's a
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stressful evening. And come come sit down. There's there's
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table over here. Come. It's not very far. I don't go very far. I just lead to the club. Well, there's there's there's not a
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whole lot of uh it's not a huge room right here up at the doors where he is. Um
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like I lead him back in to where the main part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, he just sort of
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slumps down in a in a chair just kind of collapsing there. You knew Edgar?
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Yes, I knew Edgar. I'm sorry. Edgar. Your name is what?
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Uh, I'm Chris. Chris. Uh, Kish Chadha.
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And, uh, Edgar and I had been Edgar and I were dating for a while. I'm like I
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like to have to sit myself down kind of across from him, not directly next to him. Do you want a peppermint?
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I Do you think that would help? I mean, it couldn't hurt. Okay. Okay.
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And he takes it and unwraps the little plastic wrapping and puts it in his mouth. Just
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Okay. Did you That definitely didn't hurt. When was the last time you saw Edgar before? Of course. What? What with the
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unpleasantness? Did Did you see him today? Did you speak to him at all? Did he say anything to you that you might be
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important? I came here because I was hoping to speak to him, but he's been busy all
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night. He's always taken his studies and his work very seriously. And I didn't
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have time to speak to him. He now he's Oh, God. Tell me what you can of him. Just Just
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tell me, you know, it might help you. just talk about what he was doing, what his work was, why you were, you know,
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why he was being difficult to speak to. Anything that you think would would make you feel a little bit better. Um, so he he does he starts talking
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about Edgar and his, you know, Edgar was charming. Edgar was just so enthusiastic
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about the things that he liked. he made. You know, uh, Kish is not actually very
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interested in whaling or the study of old bones, but Edgar could bring these
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old stories to life, and he was fascinating to spend time with him. And uh, but Edgar went off to school to
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study and left Kish behind, but Kish was hoping Edgar's back in town. Maybe they
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could talk. maybe they could do something because uh it's you know it's all hopes and dreams. But I am going to
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say that this conversation is where we're going to cut to another ostensible commercial break and call this the end
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of our episode. Hopefully when we come back we can figure out this mystery.
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