Tavern Watch Plays Triangle Agency 2: An unintended (artistic) detour

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agency uh and he's like okay I mean maybe next time just just tell me I can
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pull it down we can fix it like he kind of w he's like this is a little too much drama for me and he just goes back
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behind the bar and when shareif uh goes away everyone around kind of uh everyone
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else kind of goes back to their drinks because if Sharie isn't concerned then that's about it um while they're doing
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that when sorry go ahead I was say while they're doing that and while that conversation's happening I think we
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scoop the bundle of wires and toss it into briefcase because it is so deep uh sure uh when this happens it actually
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just kind of disappears it is uh it is what's known as a minor anomaly um which is um kind of office right yeah kind of
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thoughts that have barely managed to come out of the lobby more likely they've been pulled from the lobby by a by whatever the major anomaly is and so
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it just kind of disappears into the briefcase um you can you can open the normal briefcase up and it's not in
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there okay uh but all the all the commotion uh outside kind of you see the
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door to the office which has been closed this whole time kind of open and you see a uh um kind of a lady in her mid-50s uh
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kind of poke her head out and she goes what is going on out here is everything okay okay I'm sorry that's my fault my
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friend here uh and Tad's going to kind of speak up and step over and say my friend lost his cat in a daylight
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savings related accident so he needs all the clocks wherever he goes to be accurate and it was my turn to check before we came in and I neglected that
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so um we were we we were just here uh trying to find out uh if there was any
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more information about uh the the owner and everything so everything's fine here we're all fine so would you say this is
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taking the blame for something didn't do uh yes okay give yourself one
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commentation I also need to note the one Liz got sorry about that uh so she's um
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so you do that and but At The Mention Of something about the owner she kind of looks at you kind of she kind of dares
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she says you guys cops no no you don't look like cops uh no we are just uh concerned parties from the neighborhood
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you know you can't be too careful when uh when these things start to pile up uh
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you you tend to be curious and you tend to want to you know see if something bigger is going on well I'll note that
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also when you say concerned citizens her she actually makes an angrier face when she thought you were cops said okay send
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you over here I know I know sorry Liz she's just like G okay okay sorry oh
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God we've been and she kind of points across the bar where there's a letter that's kind of um tacked up and
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somebody's written some things on it she's like we've got some complaints recently I'm sorry I just thought you
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were with the concerned citizens of caddy corner she say Okay um okay if nobody needs me
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and she just kind of starts to retreat back into the office uh well this is all going on Roger has back to the door
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where they came in and he's just kind of leaning against the wall um he digs in
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his dirty jacket pocket and pulls out a deck of playing cards which he seems to just be absent-mindedly shuffling as he
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watches the entire bar okay uh is there anything in specifically that you're
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looking for while you're doing this cuz I know you now have your gun out Loose Ends Loose Ends oh my
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God holy uh I know I'm sorry uh Roger is um like I said there you do end
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up uh because of uh Tad's quick thinking no actual Loose Ends get generated uh
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from this uh so I will knock those back down but um no you don't have to
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disappear anyone today yeah that's taking a turn yeah and you also and you
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also don't have to disappear the weird spider thing under the door so you just uh yeah you just kind
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of stand in there playing with your cards um any are you doing anything else while this is happening he he was
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originally going to make his way over to help but it seemed like they had the scenario under control so at this point
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he's more or less just playing point for them to exit it seems like they're doing okay uh what is doy doing during all
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this um she's going to require some water for the rock HX to drink cuz it
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looked like a thirsty little guy okay give just a second uh okay uh so you go
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I'm going to spend some chaos for once so you go up to the bar and as you're approaching the bar you're getting asked for some water and you suddenly realize
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you have never been in a bar you aren't sure what the protocol here is and
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you're just kind of dumbfounded um you are like you just kind of freeze up uh
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out of game explanation what's happening uh Joan as a character who has jumped through time from a pre-industrial
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society her reality is the newborn which means I can spend chaos to make her forget how to do or maybe have never
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known how to do an everyday thing and Joan now either needs to seek Assistance or an alternative path because she does
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not know how to get water from a bartender all right she is going to text
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Kyle he's always good for answers and so you just text Kyle how do
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I get water from a bartender yeah and there's and there's a pause and then the reply comes and it says is this a
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joke no like do I have to pay money or is it weird to ask for just water oh he
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replies order a drink too uh he replies with a couple laughing emojis he says uh
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you're usually fine unless it's fancy um maybe give him a dollar as a tip uh but you know they're there to serve you
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drinks so just just ask maybe give them a dollar or something um order a drink if you're feeling like it we're going to
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have to take you out more all right so she'll uh she'll
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she'll ask for the water as instructed shf kind of goes oh okay just a water
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and he fills it up with a little you know the little gun behind the bar and gives you a thing of water yeah it's for my friend's pet sorry sorry oh did did
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you guys bring an animal in the bar it's like service animals all place did we bring him in I don't know if we left him
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in the car or not uh I tried to hide him in the backpack that I carry around but he's been poking his nose out um but he
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he is in fact he's a service HX um he he helps me uh to be able to navigate uh
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with my lack of depth perception um he'll he'll just give a chirp if I'm about to walk into something so yeah
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he's he's a service animal he's all set how long have we been in this bar um
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so far you've had time to walk in get a couple drinks um visit the bathroom leave the bathroom
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and punch a clock maybe like 5 to 10 minute stops we are speed running getting kicked out of this place I
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surprised we haven't yeah you guys are wildly on just rolling here oh man but
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uh but you're doing it very well uh okay so what's uh all right so you've gotten
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the attention off of you for the moment and you've taken care of the weird Spider wire thing in the bathroom very
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good uh is there anything else you guys want to do while you're here in the bar I mean I got what I needed so I think I
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just I I personally will pay my tab and thank you very much for your time your bars uh very deserv it of your title uh
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and uh you have a wonderful day and I'll just kind of wander out whether anybody follows me or not is it's IMM material
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all righty and Sh just kind of smiles he says thanks uh he said uh did you guys uh you you guys take care of the weird
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spider in there saw you kind of saw your friend kind of jump back out uh yeah you know we'll take it out of here uh we'll
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bring it to the local Zoo uh that's what you should always do with any animal that you find where you're not sure if it belongs or will hurt someone uh just
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bring it over to the zoo I'll take care of that for you are you a zookeeper all right sure um only only on
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Sunday mornings I'm I'm just curious are you actually wearing like a zoo uniform
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through all of this no no just the back okay yeah I guess if anybody checks he did Park the zoo uniform the zoo van in
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the parking lot next door but it's not like Sharie can see that out the window is going to follow out and just say make
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sure you keep your clocks up to date so when you call the zoo you'll know they're open um so what's this flyer about the
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concerned citizens of caddy Corner okay yeah so you can find uh like I said they
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um somebody has kind of it's kind of laying on top of the trash can but the trash can needs to go out but you can kind of fish it out and look at it it's
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written on very nice high quality linen paper in very precisely littered handwriting and it says Dear neighbors I
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know many of you are also concerned about the nightly disturbances in this neighborhood I'm sure you are all
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hardworking people who wish to sleep at night without constant interruptions from those who cannot respect the Peace
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of those around them if you are interested in learning more about the newly formed concerned citizens of caddy
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Corner please reach out to me by leaving a note in my mailbox at 227 ashran Place
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Tranquility now K Renfield Renfield all right I will take that with with me okay
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yeah um no one no one's going to object that you fish fish this letter out of the trash so okay do everyone else kind
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of filing out of the bar or I would be before we go while while there's all
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of this commotion taking place that has everyone looking somewhere else I would like to try and use an anomaly ability
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called negatives which is I can inspect the place where something once was and
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on a success I can see the Lost history of the place I am in I am inspecting so
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something was removed or so I I kind of want to inch over towards that section
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of the bar and like put my hand on it and focus on anything that's gone obviously Tony is gone but is there
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anything else strange that has uh come and gone or is missing here anything
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else that's gone over there H um I will roll I assume
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yeah go ahead and roll I would say Tony Tony's absence is the most uh the most obvious one that's enough to let you do it I'd say oh boy I rolled a single
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three oh no that means a failure because I don't have any points in attentiveness
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uh yes that becomes a burnout uh so it actually generates a total of six chaos for me thank you very much uh and you
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fail at your ability which does something interesting uh I rolled I rolled four
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fours oh those aren't helpful right now uh no they aren't so on a negative uh a
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negative failure it says there's too much loss you become overwhelmed by the history of the location you're in and received one harm in addition to any
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Loose Ends caused by your visible painful reaction so we'll handle the harm first harm uh can be one harm in
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this game is enough to kill a normal human and despite your despite your Supernatural Powers you are normal
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humans if you die your life insurance policy will resurrect you in the break room if your nearest to agency Branch
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but uh oh that's terrible you will also die um and it will probably create Loose
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Ends when you die in the bar um but you can prevent harm one for one by spending
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any quality assurance so would you like to spend one quality assurance or would you like to visibly and painfully
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die wow I think I would like to spend a quality assurance I'll spend a quality
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assurance in presence yeah so I I touch the bar and I probably
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look genuinely very upset for a moment before just taking a breath and yeah I I
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think you get the together you don't you don't really you see basically the entire history of the bar you see and
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it's not necessarily that it's all bad it's just there's so much of it your mind is filled with every object on this
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half of the bar that has been here and left every Patron who sat on the side near the door you feel their loss Tony
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uh Tony's the grief and loss around Tony's absence you feel it viscerally um
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and just like you make this pained face and Sharie is kind of looking at like are you okay lady do you do you need
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something do you need like a he's like I got look like I got a couple Advil around here or
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something I'm I'm fine sometimes you know tragedy just hits you and she'll
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take like a big Swig of her drink she doesn't really need a drink drink but for appearance's sake he says yeah I get
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it I mean Jack Jackie hasn't been taking it well either uh you know you on a bar
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with your husband for 20 years he passes away unexpectedly in the middle of the night yeah no one you don't get over
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that I get it and he kind of nods at you uh I would also note however that you feel yourself receive a demerit for
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lying that was completely true sometimes you do feel tragedy yeah exquisitly like
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when you touch a bar and you see the history of everything you didn't hear you didn't
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say it was you feeling it I guess so even though it really was so really
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you kind of told the truth okay you don't get it Demar
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you're yeah talk right back out of it and that is what I am here for I do it
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professionally talk about RP wow you're really into it all right um
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is anybody else doing anything before you all apparently leave Two Jacks um actually Roger before they go to leave
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does have a question for the bartender um so he he kind of wanders back over to
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the bar before they go to leave and he says you know you guys said that you had this uh this issue with you know the the
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the local group and too much noise anybody else giv you guys guys a hard time around here and he kind of he says
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you know that's he says you know this place is and he kind of nods he says well we've had like a bunch of uh
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because we've been getting a bunch of anonymous noise complaints that's uh you know don't they've been trying to
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they've been trying to fix the stereo system uh now now it doesn't even work at all so that's why he kind of gestures
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out he say that's why everything's canceled right now stereo is completely broke and he says but you know that's um
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yeah we've had a lot of people coming down from the city because of noise complaints cops even just like you know minor elected officials uh I mean we're
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all within regulations but somebody's not happy he kind of laughs he says but you know outside of the noise complaints
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like everybody loves this place we're kind of the we're kind of the heart I mean other than people doing their
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laundry at the laundry Cade we're kind of the heart of the neighborhood uh everybody comes into Two Jacks or they used to now it's kind of
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boring okay just you know sometimes there's just the troublemakers in the neighborhood you know and
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I I hate people like that CU yeah I this isn't this isn't really the neighborhood that gets kind of like you know you
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don't we don't get a lot of hoodlums caddy caty corner is kind of small we're all we're all like a big family here um
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and you know not a lot of new people moving in so this is uh we're pretty pretty tight-knit place but uh so I
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wouldn't you know if you're asking if the bar has enemies no I I don't think we do well that's good to know hey man I
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I I hope things like pick up for you guys hey same and uh I hope you you guys
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do whatever you're doing here are you guys are from the zoo is that what the guy said yeah I mean he is you know
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we're just like a group of group of friends you know we're just kind of looking into things kind of kind of
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doing that like amateur you know Tik Tock thing oh okay the Tik Tock all
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right all right all right all right I get it I get it yeah okay um I mean as long as you guys didn't do anything
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weird in here no we wouldn't do that no nothing at all just kind of waves and starts
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heading back to the door okay uh and he's just he's cleaning the bar he's very diligent cleaning the
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bar and uh then the door closes behind you as you leave TJX Tavern when we all get in the van I'm going to explain
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everything I learned from the painting uh the whole they definitely he was
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playing with the sound system uh he kept going outside uh kept essentially reacting like it was too loud trying to
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figure out how to get it lowered and then eventually was wrapped up by a bunch of uh wires and then seemed that
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he was in horrific excruciating pain or Terror uh before he died um so it wasn't
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definitely a heart attack and I kind of point at the uh the leftover spider thing and then I point I assuming that
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we're all sharing information I would also point at the concerned Citizens
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Brigade and say think we have a pretty good things I point to the point with noise complaint um I'm wondering if look
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there's an address I'm wondering if sad person has manifested an anomaly uh that doesn't quite like loud
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noises and I could I want to I want to and this is where the GM I would like a little help the the other uh uh people
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that died what were who were they what were they again uh there was a woman who was using metal working tools and
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someone the laundry Cade in the laundry Cade an arcade with loud noises yep you're uh the lady who was um the lady
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who was killed was on the outskirts of town or on the outskirts of the neighborhood next to her metal working tools and yes a uh a customer at the
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laundro Cade died they found him uh in the center of the arcade
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section that's a lead yeah if you're if you're looking for further investigation you can actually see the lro Cade from
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Two Jacks it's kind of kind of caddy Corner in Caddy Corners five 4 three all
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right so you guys have all left the tavern you've gotten back to the car and you are comparing notes uh as you're
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sitting in the zoo branded minivan um you kind of it almost looks it starts to
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get uh dark almost like when uh you know like clouds are passed over the Sun but you look outside and you realize that uh
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your parking space seems to have been barricaded with you in it there is now a barricade the size of the minivan made
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out of tightly Tangled wires uh currently blocking you into your spot
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what would you all like to do check a briefcase I know short in full transparency I am spending two chaos to
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do a special effect that this anomaly has I think Joan said something yes what
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was that Jan yep I know a shortcut I'm going to get us around it okay that sounds like one of your manifold Powers
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correct it is all right so let's see manifold I know a shortcut whenever you
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want to get somewhere in a hurry say the phrase I know a shortcut then describe a short path to the discussed locations so
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please describe the short path out of this blockade of wires okay so so I was watching somebody
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else do it and they were trying to back out of a really tight parking space and so they turn the turn the wheel this way
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and turn the wheel that way so you got to do it like to the left and then to the right and then to the left and to the right
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okay okay all right let's the lady who does not know how to drive is now telling you how to drive your car so
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anyway go ahead go ahead and roll um this is a roll initiative do you have any uh QA in initiative I do not and I
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only rolled one so okay so that rolls uh that the burnout makes that a uh turns
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that to a non-3 uh which means I get six chaos bringing me to a total of 11 for
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full disclosure um I will tell you that at this point uh at 11 11 is past one of
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the thresholds that is bad um I am now the anomaly is now capable of just outright killing a mundane person uh
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just so you know uh the other thing is that you get the failure effect if I know a shortcut on a failure your
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shortcut leads somewhere very inconvenient instead of the desired location and it is persistent and visible to everyone on both ends uh I
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think what happens is this uh who who's driving again um Tad right Tad's gonna
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drive yeah Tad's driving so you hear doy describe as improbable as it is this thing where you just turn the wheel very
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rapidly and you can push your way through the through the wires um as you attempt to do that you think
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you're making some Headway you're turning left you're turning right as you're backing out it feels weird but it's working um one of the wires almost
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snakes through like a small crack in the car and as you think you're backing out
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you're like I got it it it just kind of touches your foot um the entire car is
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filled with the most deafening sound that you've ever heard and for just a
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split second all of you in the car except maybe Louisa for reasons that she can touch on uh feel your heart stop and
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you can't breathe for just a second and then it's like this this noise finally
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stops and you feel your heart jump back to life you got gas the breath you didn't realize you weren't able to take
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um and you know you shouldn't drive distracted especially on company policy
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um in attempting to back out your car has now uh manifested itself outside the
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station convenience store um and you're going to have some issues moving that car because there is this pile of metal
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out front of it that if you're being generous could pass for an art sculpture except now uh your car is on top of it
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and it is jutting through your fuel tank oh well that didn't work the van is now
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leaking you you you made it out of the wires but you experience the downside of corrupt effect and uh your van is
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probably inoperable for the time being you are now on foot uh but as I said you are now outside of the station
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convenience store which is probably one of the only uh you you you saw a sign a
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flyer for it back at the uh bar a block party yeah they were going to have a block party outside in a new metal
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sculpture by Billy party till dusk uh but uh not today the station convenience
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store was once attached to an actual gas station because you know there was the highway was going to come through and
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they were going to have one of those big truck plazas with a store attached to it and uh then the station never really
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opened um and the store kind of grew to fill most of it and it is as far as you can tell a large uh a a large
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convenience store with a very large parking lot and a as I said a metal sculpture that your van is now parked on
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what would you guys like to do I mean if we can just get out of this and start walking over I mean why wouldn't we yeah
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yeah you can hop out of the car did anybody see our van appear on top of
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this sculpture um unless so here's what I'll say unless you want to ask the agency to
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alter reality in a way that made it so that the guy behind the board high
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schooler behind the counter inside the station didn't see it then yes he will have seen you um
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Point ofy okay um so no this will be a uh this will be a role to right oh yeah
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yeah so um to ask the agency um with something uh this sounds like subtlty
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working quietly avoiding necessary attention yes so what this will require though to so for more complex things I
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the index which was really just this clock is now the right time for something like this you need to come up with a plausible however improbable
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change of events that caus this high schooler to not look out the window and then ask the agency for the change in Ro
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um see and they were definitely looking on something on Tik Tok on their phone
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that makes sense I don't think we need to get any weirder than that yeah because you uh yeah because you can so
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you can't directly alter it but you can make the Tik Tok on his phone suddenly way more interesting whatever he was
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watching uh okay roll 64 with subtlety which you have and I got zero successes
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so um I'm spending some of these quality assurances co go for it uh one one alone
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will make it a success spend one did I have to spend one to ask the agency I can't remember ype asking the agency is
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just a kind of a generic thing you can all do but you can spend QA to make it succeed I will one okay so I will get
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success uh I'll get five chaos and you succeed uh you you can look through the
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window and w and you can see the kid behind the window and he is just enraptured by whatever is on his phone
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the agency has manifested the most interesting video in the world uh right here for this kid to look at and so no
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he did not see your van appear out of nowhere on his pretended a part of the
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sculpture or something be okay so you uh
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so you guys you may need to call your insurance company about this this um I
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don't know if you're going to travel with this yeah this is going to come out of my Zoo paycheck five years and Tad's
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going to rip off a piece of lined notebook paper and write art on it in big letters and just kind of leave it
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laying on the pile of metal art okay yeah that's how you make art
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that's what art just it has been done you put it in a
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gallery it becomes art okay so you you all have turned seemed like a bad
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situation into impromptu art uh these people should be think um like Joe
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wanted to walk somewhere where you the only other you have is and you
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also have uh K renfield's address in the laundry cage right there right uh yeah the laundry cage is kind
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of a short hike back in the direction you were oh we ended up far okay yeah
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the the lro Cade is kind of so like there's kind of a Central Square in Caddy corners and the Cade and Two Jacks are kind of across from each other this
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thing is almost on the outskirts of this little neighborhood because it was said it was supposed to service the highway
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um but so it's almost like it it shot you out to the edge of town instead of
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uh just across to the to the lro Cade nice nice but it's this neighborhood is
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small it's walkable it's you know uh walkable American cities could never so
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you can you can get your way over there very easily Louisa makes sure her sunglasses and gloves and the scarf
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covering her head are all you know perfect and Immaculate okay so you can easily find
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the catty quar lro Cade because it is as I said it it it was easy to spot in Two
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Jacks because there a particularly garish shade of teal um and it say catty
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corderro Kade off the top um and you know inside you can see like I said you
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can see um the machines you can see a uh camera above the front door next to a
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sign that says smile you're under surveillance um and you can see through the front windows in the very back the
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back half of the building is in fact an arcade so uh you guys can walk into the
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lro Cade uh it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like laundromat the front arcade in the back uh there's a couple
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there's a uh one one person here doing laundry and one person who looks like she's working on a broken laundry
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machine um there is a bulletin board next to the entrance with a bunch of things pinned to it um and yeah what do
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you guys want to do I will remind you by the way there is an optional uh Commendation for receiving the top score
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in pin drop 10 count them 10 commendations I I just I just wanted a
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clarification the laer Kade is basically the mullet of business it is it is
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business in the front and a party in the back and it shells out a lot of
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quarters yeah would absolutely a very well-used uh quarter changing machine in the
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corner I would like to examine the bulletin board to see what's what's going on there what have people posted
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anything of note sure um so you find three uh you find kind of three
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different things um most so a lot of these are little individual notes uh
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then there are some flyers the individual notes are kind of like um there's some are little tributes to
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Manny Navaro um there's one of the Flyers as an ad for two Jack's tavern
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but of course everything is exed through and written with canceled there's one of those tear off sheets near the ones where you can tear the little papers at
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the bottom uh for a 10% discount at the station convenience store and it says having trouble with your stereo or
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smartphone we've got headphones repair kits and More in stock and then one that's kind of a skew is a signup sheet
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for the concerned citizens of caddy Corner a neighborhood betterment association there is one name on the
30:25
list it is K Renfield there are a few other names on the list but then all of them have been crossed off later and uh
30:32
none of your victim's names are on the list um there's also a note on the same paper as the caddy Corner note that Joan
30:39
fished out um next to the signup sheet it says please keep your noise to a minimum between the hours of 10 p.m. and
30:45
7:00 a.m. some of us are trying to sleep thank you with three exclamation points
30:51
uh can I use my initial requisition the rubber duck tell us about your initial
30:56
requisition so the rubber duck duck the squeaker within this bath toy fortells great possibility once permission you
31:03
may describe an outcome to this pocket sized duck toy the toy will speak back
31:08
your GM will tell you the three steps you must take to achieve that outcome any outcome you request becomes possible
31:14
no matter how improbable it seems if you ask the rubber duck about anomalies directly it will melt into a useless
31:21
lump instead so you can't ask me how do I find the anomaly but you can ask me a
31:26
desired outcome and I give you the three steps to get there okay yeah you can pull your rubber duck out and talk to it
31:32
uh ask it about your desired outcome uh so ask or describe the thing says describe oh describe yeah sorry okay so
31:40
I'll pull out it's a very small duck um it fits in the like the like a quarter
31:46
of my palm uh I'll squeak it just a little bit and I will say we will
31:53
successfully go where we need to sucessfully go where you need to interesting oh that doesn't count I'm
32:01
just thinking that doesn't count as asking about the anomaly directly I kind of feels like it though um it's up to
32:08
you I realize I am skirting the line but I yeah that that feels like you're very
32:13
vaguely skirting the line of where's the anomaly I mean it was my bad I meant to
32:19
I didn't realize how far we got jettisoned away from the laer Kade and I think we needed to go to the uh other
32:26
person's place and I'm to try to get back there okay um do you want to reward
32:32
your request for the duck H okay I will or give it a different request I mean if
32:37
you want to steal a bunch of commendations from the rest of your team you can ask it how to win it pin drop I get all of the I get all of the I
32:46
get the highest score in pin drop okay uh the duck squeaks when you say that
32:52
and then does it does it actually speak to you when it tells you things it's a little high Peach squeak High pitch
32:58
squeaker voice uh Chris has put a fantastic picture of a rubber duck and a cowboy
33:03
hat in the chat and I think this is appropriate I'm assuming that the duck speaking is you yeah I I meant like is
33:10
it is it audible to everyone else but oh uh it probably is just squeaking okay so
33:16
to everyone else he describes this to the duck and the duck goes uh but what you uh hear is uh three
33:26
directions stage one collect all the the powerups stage two win the break dance
33:32
competition with your powerups step three solve the pattern on the high score high score screen and then it is
33:39
silent thank you duck oh no sorry I say I've named the duck thank you
33:45
puddles puddles quacks and then is silent right thank you for the duck
33:50
noise okay what do you all want to do I mean so games aside it seems like the uh
33:57
is there a the person writing the uh that wrote the please keep it down note
34:03
or there was no signature or was there there was no signature on the Note but it was written on the same paper as the
34:10
signup sheet and it was on the same paper as Jones letter and K renfield's
34:15
name appears on both the letter Joan has and the signup sheet on the bulletin board seems likely and the only name on
34:22
the B board yeah I think we need to go there now after winning at Pin drop okay
34:30
uh it sounds like case wants to win this pin drop game excuse me so you head to the back and there are uh there are a
34:38
number of machines back there many of which seem to be unplugged at the moment um two pinball machines a claw machines
34:45
and six very obscure arcade games uh one of the pinball machines is working and
34:50
pin drop is working um although right now it is cycling between two screens
34:56
one of them reads and in you know this is all it says it says congratulations Manny on the new
35:03
high score you may remember that Manny novaro is the person who died and then it Cycles to the high score list which I
35:09
have dropped a picture of in chat for people who are listening to the audio uh the initials on the screen spell out
35:16
some of us are trying to sleep and then there are a number of scores on the right hand side the order of which
35:22
doesn't actually make any sense h i I do have a question here
35:28
how loud of a game is this I'm making some assumptions that it may be a little bit loud uh so pin drop at the time just
35:37
cycling between these two screens is not loud but yes if you uh if you start playing it it will it will make arcade
35:42
game type noises case is gonna crack his fingers it's time to make a noise
35:49
complaint all right uh so you drop a quarter in the pin drop machine because this machine's old enough that it only
35:56
takes one quarter bless uh and you start playing pin I was going to get some quarters for him oh maybe
36:03
you have to do that he probably do you have any quarters on you case no I'm poor no that's Roger I'll get i'll get
36:10
that's very helpful of you uh in fact that sounds uh that's very nice of you so you go and you get him some quarters
36:17
you do not fail at using the change machine I'm very proud of you oh okay uh
36:22
but you bring back the quarters uh and you can start playing the game does it doesn't strike you as overly loud it I
36:30
mean it honestly strikes you as just a it's just like a normal arcade machine
36:35
um and but thanks to your tips from the duck and your memory of how old arcade games work um you're pretty easily able
36:43
to get through the I said it's the first the first stage of pin drop is like a Pac-Man game and then the second one is
36:48
watching 8 bit characters do break dance inspired fight scenes using the powerups that you got in the Pac-Man stage uh you
36:54
pretty easily get to the highest score screen and it says congratulations high score input your initials what three
37:00
initials would you like to put in uh instead of at the risk of getting in
37:07
trouble um I just will put icw icw all right uh okay so that uh
37:17
registers as a score of 9,323 and gives you the second place
37:24
score and the message says congratulations try again to beat Manny's high score uh so his high score
37:30
is in there normally and it has kind of broken up this message says some of us are trying to
37:36
sleep oh no no no no no no absolutely not I'm going to yell at this machine that is cheating I got that high score
37:42
for sure this isn't I'm like aside I'm making a bit of
37:47
a scene like this is not the game is cheating yeah it absolutely should have your uh your score was absolutely over
37:54
191 513 but then when when you put in your initials the score it registered did not have anything to do with your uh
38:01
um with your actual score seemingly and then as you're yelling at this machine
38:06
you guys are standing back there presumably with him or somewhere out the LA roade um you realize that you don't
38:12
hear the sounds of the washing machines anymore out front and you realize that you don't hear the sounds suddenly of
38:19
the pin drop machine and then you realize you can see case yelling at the pin drop machine but you can't hear a
38:25
word he's saying and normally you know when it's completely silent you can hear the sound of your own breath or the
38:30
sound of your own heart or your blood in your veins and you realize you can't hear any of that you can put your hand
38:35
on your chest again except maybe Louisa and feel your heart beating but you hear
38:40
no sounds whatsoever uh the anomaly has used five chaos to expand its domain to
38:47
include the lro Cade and it is now deathly silent inside this building make
38:52
a hand gesture that we should leave thumbs up on that one okay uh as you go
38:59
to leave there is once again a uh you you go to open the door and then once
39:04
again a barricade of those wires like you try to push the door out and a barricade just blocks the door um
39:11
keeping you from pushing your way out of the lro Cade what would you like to do this is me again spending more
39:16
chaos I look at everybody and just kind of do a shrug motion I don't have anything for this I okay so this is
39:24
going to be up to the GM I've got an anomaly that might help
39:29
us get around it but I think it relies on me
39:34
speaking actually saying I suppose the first question is is there a back door we can check there has to be more than
39:41
one entry to this place uh yeah there is probably I mean it's a safe assumption
39:46
that there's probably a back door through an office maybe um yeah yeah a
39:54
there's a back yes uh what you have found is it is it has wrapped the entire building which also means you all should
40:00
probably deal with this soon before anyone outside sees it hey Phil uhuh
40:07
would would the cage be considered a mundane object is it uh let's see I know there's
40:15
some guidance here on what mundane means uh I'm going to say not right now
40:21
because it is a manifestation of anomalous Powers uh if you can defuse it
40:28
in some way um then it would be uh then the the actual wires you could clean
40:34
those up uh but an the the guideline is everything nonanomalous is considered
40:40
mundane and this is a direct expression of the anomaly attempting to hinder you okay makes sense yep how far outside of
40:47
the building is it is it right in the door uh it's like someone it's like if someone uh like came and wrapped it
40:54
around the building um it you can push the door open maybe like an inch or two against the wires um you're being very
41:00
careful not to touch them after last time um and there's no sound of you struggling with the uh with the door so
41:07
no one really notices we inside right away but you know eventually that L
41:12
eventually that guy's going to finish his laundry and try to leave and or eventually they'll notice they can't hear any sounds can the um so there's
41:20
one person doing La yep uh like I said there were when you came in there's one person doing laundry and there was
41:25
another one a uh an a a lady who was working on a a um broken or unplugged
41:31
you're not quite sure washing machine those are the only people we've seen that's it those are the only two people in the lro Cade besides the six of you
41:38
all right I think it's nap time I think they need to go to they need to go to sleep they need to go to sleep so that
41:44
we can do what we got to do all right what are you using as sand in this case again like the the AFF effect is
41:50
literally just packets of sugar like for flavor purposes okay it's something he carries with him I think at this point
41:56
yeah it's fair I was going to say say if you desperately needed something I guess you could grab like some powder detergent too okay uh natural three
42:03
threes natural 33s is a tendence which is this game's equivalent of a crit uh
42:08
so there are some special effects in addition to getting what you wanted on a trendence uh you've rolled three threes
42:15
the roll is Success no chaos is created and you may choose an additional effect from the tricc Sant chart uh you may
42:21
choose all hands add any number of Threes to the roll Circle back replenish any three spent quality assurances or
42:28
employee of the moment receive three commendations we all work together to make trendence happen in the moment of
42:34
your success you are psychically connected to every employee of the agency as you borrow our combined power
42:41
everyone can see what you're doing and celebrating your Victory put on a show you'll be sure to hear about your triced moment by the water cooler
42:48
tomorrow so uh well the first things first is I'm putting uh both people to sleep that's just the thing that happens
42:55
um I think I want the accommodations dang it okay uh yeah so you got three
43:01
threes you can actually put them to sleep uh Target both of them and make them sleep for an hour yep and you can
43:08
get your three commendations the agency is very proud of you and then I I I
43:13
motion over it's like okay well you know no loose ends and then I'll see this way you guys can use your powers with
43:19
impunity essentially right now go forth right don't your definition your definition of no lose sense and my
43:25
definition of no lose sense are two completely different things they can't see what's going on they're not loose ens and you know dang well about that
43:33
thank you I mean in the end in the end no one Witnesses anomalous Powers how you get
43:39
there I am I am useful all right so does anybody have anything that like this is
43:44
above above table talk um does anybody have anything in their power sets that
43:50
can interact with this cuz I have a long shot that I can try but I want other people to do things so who has what what
43:57
can you do let's talk about it yeah can change gravity in the room by 90° I
44:02
didn't even know that was an option the manifold I could potentially I could
44:10
walk through this barrier but uh the on a failure it's very bad and it's uh I
44:19
couldn't bring everyone even if I have a super duper success okay uh Eric Chris
44:25
Nick I shoot things so um it it's not a mundane object and
44:30
it's not a person um it hasn't tried to attack me like it when something tries
44:36
to hurt you is a uh is a yeah before I
44:41
can do it that's what has to happen uh and then I I don't think I'm G to get anywhere threatening it so not for me
44:48
now here's what I'll say though about Quick Draw you know what happens when someone touches these wires I was just
44:53
going to say that I was exactly going to say wanted to you could you can reach your hand maybe an inch through the
44:59
crack in the door and try to touch it and then try to Quick Draw it there's
45:04
nothing that says that it's not trying to hurt you because you did something dumb that's fair otherwise that's the way you guys
45:11
want to go I'll also note that it's a laundromat it's got big plate glass windows you could easily shoot out a
45:17
window if you wanted to those are mundane objects oh hang on so is it only in front of the it's w it's wrapped
45:25
entire building is what Phil said yeah it's wrapped it's wrapped around the building but it's not it's not like
45:30
floor to ceiling it's just like average person height so like if as an example
45:36
like if Chris wanted to try to shoot the window out instead of hurting him trying to hurt himself um then you guys could
45:43
try to go over it and that would be fine or if you wanted to um there are an
45:49
there are a number of approaches here I think so so I'll say that uh oh No Just
45:54
I can use overclock again because it's the only thing that doesn't require me to say something or like it doesn't have
46:00
an audio cue my other two abilities have an audio cue that needs to be heard or said so okay so I'll support this thing
46:09
this thing has a sentience we assume right uh the wires themselves do not
46:14
seem sensient in the way that the wire spider uh in the bathroom was but there
46:20
is well is there a presence controlling this I guess is the S and it it knows we're here it sees us the yes the
46:27
anomaly knows you are here and this is and it is attempting to directly impede you it is not like present like looking
46:33
through the window at you but it it's aware of your presence well since it's aware of our presence then if unless
46:39
anybody wants to try something I'm going to try a long shot and I would like to roll presents uh to Institute a
46:46
nightmare um because this thing is sentient and watching us I want to
46:52
become its worst nightmare I want it to abandon this territory wow yeah project yourself into something Larger than Life
46:59
pick a mind and wrap its shadow around yourself role presence on a success you may adopt an eler form and appears that
47:05
form to your target the form can be terrifying beautiful or mundane and they believe it's your true form uh I roll so
47:12
I have zero in presence uh which means I subtract one right like no matter what I get because I got four3 yes uh yes the
47:19
fourth three will become a it it essentially goes away and generates one chaos no matter what um so you roll
47:27
three a not a a called a dirty Tri sentence in a dirty Tri sentence yep
47:34
okay so three chaoses generated and you have three threes to do what you want to with this nightmare I adop aner I want
47:41
to become its worst fear what is this anomaly's worst fear what is this thing's worst fear okay um is it like a
47:49
marching a band just a second oh man that kind of sounds like it is it um I
47:57
think what yeah its worst fear it's what it hates is noise what it hates is
48:02
uncontrollable noise especially uncontrollable electronic noise I think to the anomaly you appear as like a
48:10
mid90s electronic alarm clock beeping unable to be shut off uh I don't think
48:17
anyone else no they all see it else they see it just your target yeah no it's
48:23
it's just your target so like no one sees you do this yeah yeah to the anomaly you appear to be its worst
48:29
nightmare which is uncontrollable electronic noise and it
48:35
just and it has no clue how you're doing this inside of its domain and the rest
48:41
of you watch as those wires just Slither into the ground and around the corner of
48:46
the building and they are gone it is still dead silent in here this is still part of its domain but somehow uh Terren
48:54
made noise in its domain and that terrified it um yeah you you get what
48:59
you want you scare it away oh man I love
49:05
this dream is so good um dream is flat out one of my favorites yeah and I and I
49:12
at that point Terence puts on a very large grin and opens the door and does
49:17
the sweeping bow of we may leave what does everybody else think about this because all you saw was Terren kind of
49:24
well no my power manifested which means my eyes went very red and My Shadow took on
49:31
the form of my true form so it looked like yeah it briefly looked like your
49:36
true form and then the shadow that the wires were casting through the window like wrapped around
49:41
you because that's part of using nightmar as you wrap the Shadows of the Mind around you and that's the closest
49:47
manifestation of it so yeah he did some freaky Shadow stuff his eyes turned real red and then the wires essentially gave
49:53
up and laugh so did sound return uh no it is still silent here okay Roger like
50:01
Roger just like gives him like lifted eyebrows and then just kind of shrugs and steps out like when when you are the
50:10
gravedigger and you are dealing with problems and making things go away you see weird stuff all the time well to be
50:17
fair you've seen stuff to be fair you didn't see a whole lot of weird stuff um but as we're walking out I point to the
50:25
uh letter that or the like the person's name and the address and like that's
50:30
where we need to go uh yeah and as you guys start walking
50:36
that way um which you can uh you you can check the street names this is not a big town you can find it maybe like 30
50:42
minutes of walking um as soon as you leave the lro Cade parking lot you can you can hear sounds again you can make
50:49
noises again you can talk um so sounds like you guys want to walk over to 227
50:55
ashran M and prom what's her name yesi I promis by the way this was not a
51:02
uh World of Warcraft joke this it's 227 ashran and I did not name
51:08
it okay I definitely didn't notice that I didn't I noticed it last night went oh
51:13
this is extremely funny um I started and like I had a little map drawn up and I was going to name the other streets I'm
51:19
like no nobody's going to go to Winter Spring Drive uh so you guys find your
51:24
way to 227 ashran Drive you're walking down the street um it's a street that is
51:30
the biggest part of the street has been taken up by um cute little town homes um that you know they're probably old
51:36
they've been there a while some been renovated it's one of those neighborhoods where like they'd like to paint the outside of the town homes in
51:42
like cool vibrant colors that kind of neighborhood and then right in the middle of the neighborhood is 227 a
51:48
house that is flat white on the outside with black shutters and a black door and as you get closer to 227 you feel not
51:56
the silence you felt at the lro okay that was all-encompassing and a little weird but the closer you get to 227
52:03
ashon Drive the more like you talk and your voice kind of Echoes In your own
52:08
ears more than like other people have to ask you to speak up if you guys are talking to each other but you hear it just fine and yeah it's as you get
52:16
closer it's like as you get closer to the house Birds you don't hear Birds song you don't hear dogs barking you
52:23
don't hear cars in the distance even it's very very quiet as you get close to Asher D what would you all like to do
52:30
this is where I look to the other folks uh Roger as their walking is shuffling
52:36
his deck of cards he does not look like he uh where he looked very tired earlier
52:43
he is now extremely alert and awake um just any anything that looks out of
52:50
place you'll notice that he stops where he's shuffling at that point and very
52:57
like very specifically is eyeing what could be threats okay uh nobody out here
53:04
seems like an obvious threat there's um there's a guy mowing his lawn a couple houses down and as you get closer to
53:10
ashon drive the sound kind of goes from that ear splitting just kind
53:15
of it's like someone like as you get close to this condo like someone just takes the volume slatter just moves it
53:22
down uh I want to use my initial requisition okay what is your initial requisition intern the inherited name
53:30
tag I can write the name of someone I met today on a name tag and put it on my body non- agents will treat me as that
53:37
person as long as I keep the name tag on okay interesting okay who Who's name
53:42
would you like to put on it Jackie is it Jackson uh no the owner Jackie from the
53:48
uh from yeah Jackie from the bar uh who you did meet very briefly is let me get
53:54
the name here for you it is Jackie Williams Williams okay yeah so I'm going to wear that as I go up to Kate
54:01
renfield's door okay as you approach 227 ashon Drive uh you realize that there is
54:07
no doorbell um and the sound just gets duller as you get there um I assume
54:13
you're knocking on the door yeah without just walking up and staring at it uh okay um well I I don't even know about
54:19
doorbells probably so true you wouldn't know you're just used to knocking on doors um so you knock on the door a
54:27
there's no response and B you feel the sensation of your fist hitting the door but there is just no sound I try the
54:35
door is it unlocked uh is the door unlocked the door is hold on is the door
54:41
uh unlocked it is not it is not locked or it is not unlocked sorry that was yes
54:47
I realized that was the least clear sentence ever it is it is not unlocked it is
54:53
locked I would like to use the Unbound ability which is if something is in my
55:00
way or holding me back I can relax my body roll subtlety and pass directly
55:06
through it okay that sounds good this is definitely in your way uh go ahead and
55:12
roll subtlety which you do have so I and yes I have actual uh quality assurances
55:19
in this yes okay roll subtlety then that's exactly one three that's enough
55:25
I'm going to be I'm going to be content with my 1 three and uh I'm I'm just
55:31
going to stand at the door take a breath and my eyes go kind of red and like
55:36
filled with blood for a second and then I'm just going to walk calmly through the door okay and I will also note that
55:44
you can now do this for an hour excellent yeah on a success you
55:50
pass directly through it you become intangible and can move easily through walls chains and other obstructions for
55:55
1 hour you just walk right into 227 ashon drive
56:00
and I'm going to unlock the door from the inside well that is very thoughtful of you yes the door unlocks uh silently
56:08
and the door swings open everyone can now see the inside of the uh of the of
56:15
the uh the town home uh it's very sparsely decorated in here um is what
56:21
I'll say um there is it's almost like uh you know how if you go a neighborhood where there's a bunch of houses for sale
56:28
and they have one that's a model house and it's just kind of decorated but not really decorated it's it's for show um
56:34
this place almost looks like a house that's for show there is a table near the door that has a a big stack of
56:42
flyers and a neat pile of outgoing mail um and then there's just kind of generic
56:49
Furniture in neutral colors in the living room that you can see and there are the only sounds you can hear is a
56:56
white noise machine um it almost feels like the audible the audio version of
57:02
fog like it's pressing on you in the same way a thick fog does but it's sound or not sound it's white noise uh what
57:09
would you all like to do Tad's going to take out the notebook KS really quick and scribble on it and hold out to Lisa
57:14
and she says thanks she smiles and gives a thumbs up okay
57:20
uh the white noise machine is it plugged in or is it like battery op what's it
57:27
look like uh if you want to try to find it it's on a shelf in the living room it's one of those ones that just looks
57:32
like a little it's one of those little ones that you can like it's just like a little shelf thing it is plugged in um
57:38
you could unplug it if you wanted to I guess uh I'm going to contemplate unplugging it if someone else wants to do something I said go for it okay uh
57:46
you unplug the white noise machine and it stops making not
57:51
noise um you are all it goes from being silent in here to just being quiet and
57:57
kind of hard to hear yourself and I think as you're walking away from the machine you hear a voice in a back room uh kind of a pleasantly non-descript
58:03
voice make yourself comfortable I'll be right out in just a moment and then uh
58:08
like while while that voice was speaking you kind of felt the pressure of the the silence around you kind of lessen and
58:14
then as soon as it stops talking it's back again okay well they said make ourselves
58:21
comfortable I sit on the couch very room and proper and somehow I pull out a little uh espresso cup out of you don't
58:28
know where and I'm just sipping uh what are the rest you doing uh Roger holds up his hand like in the
58:34
shape of a gun and is like looking between everybody like who's got our one
58:40
shot gun that's true uh this is probably important who is carrying the normal briefcase and who is carrying the Ripple
58:46
gun I guess I feel like go ahead I feel like Louisa might have grabbed the briefcase but wouldn't be interested in
58:52
the gun I feel like the gun should thank you yeah almost I almost wonder you would be the one that would give the gun
58:57
to yeah I feel like I feel like that's your thing all right so uh he makes the
59:02
hand gesture and then Pats his side where it's it's sitting let's put it that way and I just kind of put a hand
59:09
hand out and down like you know calm like Vigilant but calm
59:16
type don't don't shoot her yet okay so uh as you guys kind of Mill around the living room uh a uh a lady walks out of
59:24
the back where she you assume the kitchen is she comes out with kind of a tray of uh snacks has a little shakery
59:30
board and she sets it down on the table and she says my gosh it's so H it's so nice to see people finally showing up
59:37
for the concerned citizens meeting um it's I've just been trying to get people
59:42
to uh you know just engage in an orderly and well- behaved neighborhood and just no one has been in oh I am so happy to
59:49
see the six of you here today uh and she extends a hand to uh to Terren since
59:55
you're sitting there and you're probably the closest one she says Hey Renfield it's a pleasure to meet
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