Tavern Watch plays Triangle Agency, episode 2: The best birthday party you never had

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Hello and welcome back to another
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episode of Tavern Watch Plays. This is
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episode two of our second triangle
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agency game. Uh clocking in for the best
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job of the rest of your life. Uh is our
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crew of reality uh reality holding
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together agents. Uh I don't know. It's
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hard to it's hard to say it concisely.
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Let's let them tell you about it. Uh
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starting from the top. Uh Chris, say
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hello. Tell us who you're playing.
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>> Yes. Hello. I'm Chris. I'm playing
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Roger. He takes care of problems. Not
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ominous at all. Uh, next up, uh, Eric.
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>> I'm Eric and I'm playing Tad. Um, and I
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listen to people's problems. Uh, I don't
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always have an answer, but I always have
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sympathetic ear.
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>> All right. Uh, next up, Joan.
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>> I'm playing Doy, a spa space bending
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intern who likes to go places where she
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isn't expected.
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>> That is, uh, definitely the case here.
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Uh, next up, Liz. Hello, I am Liz and I
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am playing Louisa. Louisa's with public
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relations and she also solves problems,
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but mostly by making you think that
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there was never a problem in the first
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place. Why would you even think that
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everything is fine here?
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>> There are no problems. There are only
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solutions waiting to happen. Uh, and
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last but not least, Nick.
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>> Hi, I'm Nick and I'm playing Case, a
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trainy agent who looks up different
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possible solutions uh to problem
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>> with time travel powers. Okay, so uh
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just to do give a little quick recap of
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where everyone was. Uh there was a uh
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anomalous incident where some people uh
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two contractors and a building inspector
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who were working on the uh a prominade
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renovation for the Wuhan Baxter
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corporate headquarters in beautiful
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downtown Tian City had gone built had
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gone missing for a few days. Uh when
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they reappeared, they were calm and
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unresponsive, but paramedics on the
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scenes uh determined that they had no
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bones. And this struck the agency as
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perhaps a sign of anomalous activity. Uh
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our crew h after uh inspecting the uh
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floor plans of the uh the building where
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this incident took place went to the
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hospital and thanks to some quick
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thinking and a name tag that makes her
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appear to be a doctor. Uh Louisa caused
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a scene while Doy wore the name tag in
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and brought case with her to investigate
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the three people who uh were laying in a
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bed uh unresponsive. uh staring at the
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ceiling, seemingly alive, uh but with no
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pulse, uh no bones, and as case
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discovered through some notes on the
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computer, uh abruptly jostling them
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seems to cause these people to leak
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pizza sauce. And that's where we left
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it.
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>> I don't like it. I don't like it.
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>> Uh what would you all like to do next?
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uh Case while he's looking at these
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notes wants to see if he can print out a
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copy of it and as he does so just makes
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a remark, man. This guy's a real pizza
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work.
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>> Oh my god. Okay, I'll give you a credit
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for a pizza pun there. That's one. Let's
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go.
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>> That's one pun.
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>> All right, remember your team gets three
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puns before we start accumulating
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demerits. Uh but Case has used the
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team's first
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>> team wise. Oh yeah.
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>> Yeah. No, go ahead and use them up. You
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want to get those while they're on the
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table.
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>> Um,
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>> we get we get uh commendations for the
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first three.
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>> Yes.
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>> Just don't do a fourth.
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>> After that, the bit is tired. The agency
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hates it when the bit is tired.
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>> I thought it was free for agent. That's
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my bad.
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>> That's how I read it, too. So, don't
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feel bad.
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>> Yeah, it's some it's some wording. Yeah,
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we since since it's se it's just the
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wording of each each agent versus the a
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versus an agent. So, uh everybody can
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still do the Riker thing and sit
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backwards in a chair for uh bonus comps,
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but uh uh the team get the team gets
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three.
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>> It's very indignified. Luis is not
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sitting backwards in a chair.
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>> It's extremely 90s, dude. It's radical.
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>> Also, she's, you know, she's wearing a
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very neat pencil skirt and that just
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Wow, that's even more undignified. H I
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don't even know if Rker could sit
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backwards in a chair in a pizza skirt.
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H okay.
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Uh I think at this point I am actually
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going to before I find out what you were
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going to do. Um last I remember uh
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Grumbles, the rock hierax that Tad is
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responsible for caring for had eaten
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some saltines. Is that correct? He was
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uh eating some of the emergency snacks.
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I'm sure the nurses were cooing over how
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cute he is once you explained what he
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is.
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Um, I'm actually going to use some of
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the chaos that I built up right off the
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bat from the last one to use your
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reality trigger. Um,
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>> could you read Tad's reality trigger for
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us?
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>> The GMU's reality trigger. It put your
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dependent in need of attention. If you
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ignore it, your dependent will throw a
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fit now and demand your time later. the
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relationship who has the least
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camaraderie with your dependent losses
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when connect.
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>> Uh yeah, I think uh I think that he
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wants some uh I I think that he not only
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wants attentions, he wants he wants some
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of that some of that juice that you
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allegedly had for him since he's on his
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no water diet for the people at home. Um
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he is like he stopped being peaceful. He
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stopped chewing on his saltines. He is
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like pawing at your pockets and at the
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bags and even at the carrier um which
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previously said um donor organs. um to
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he he wants his juice. He needs his
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juice now.
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>> I think he he definitely needs a little
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bit of attention. It's been a rough day
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for him. Um the smells of the city hall
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apartment, uh the mustiness, the dust,
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uh having to go in his carrier and have
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his privacy screen closed, he's not
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happy about it. So, um I think it's it
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is time for a little bit of tablet time.
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Um, I do have a a tablet that I bring
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around and it has some of those apps
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where the um the cats have to bat at the
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fish going across.
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>> Oh yeah, my cats love those.
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>> He's terrible at it because he's uh
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relative of an elephant. And so Hyraxes
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have these big enormous paws with toes
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the size of grapes. And so he just
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nothing he does has any effect on it.
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But I will um at the risk of being one
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of those caretakers, I'll take out the
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iPad and try to see if I can get him to
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calm down the uh game.
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>> Is that actually true? Are rockaraxes
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related to elephants?
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>> Yes, they are.
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>> Wow, they don't. I'm learning something
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new today. Okay.
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>> They look like fuzzy little groundhogs,
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but they have tusks and they have big
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huge elephant feet. Yeah, I think
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because of this um I think the juice is
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fine, but when you pull out the tablet
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or sir, no Wi-Fi devices on this floor,
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we're going to have to ask you to uh go
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downstairs to the to the second floor
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lobby if you need um your tablet for
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your for your for your Hyrax for your
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emotional support. Hierrax.
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>> All right. Well, come on, Grumbles. I
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think we've probably been as helpful as
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we can. And I guess I'll try to try to
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coax him to get back into the um I'll
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I'll put the tablet into his carrier
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with him and
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>> Okay.
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>> head out to the elevators.
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>> Okay. So, you're heading downstairs. Uh
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Roger still watching the cops, I think.
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Uh Lisa, you've been distracting the
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cops this whole time with a Saab story.
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Um you But you are starting to run out
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of things to say.
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>> Um to the team to the team inside
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>> Yeah. to the team inside the room of Doy
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and Case. probably only have another
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couple minutes before uh Louis's
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distraction wears off and someone is
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going to notice you in there. If there
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is anything you need to do in the
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hospital room, I suggest you do it now.
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>> Okay. Thank you.
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>> I just wanted to take the notes and go
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and then we can bounce.
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>> Okay. Doy, was there anything else you
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needed?
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>> Nope. I'm good.
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>> All right. Uh Doy, does your shortcut
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work in reverse?
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>> I do not believe so. I'm not moving.
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>> Oh boy.
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>> Uh let's see. Yep. Uh this shortcut
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disappears. little little window. Maybe
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wave at uh at Louisa.
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>> Yeah, the it's one of those um it's a
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door that has like a vertical like a
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vertical slit window in it.
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>> Um you know, so they can just kind of
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peek in and make sure nothing looks like
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out of the ordinary.
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>> Um Okay. So, are you going to
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>> uh peer through it and wave and give a
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thumbs up because I I heard that thumbs
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up is a sign for good stuff.
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Uh Louisa, you see Doy walk up to the
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window and give you a very enthusiastic
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thumbs up. She's making sure her form is
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correct. She's got it. Um
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>> I will start kind of wrapping this up
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with the officer like, "Oh, thank you so
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much for listening to me. I I just
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appreciate it's been so hard."
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>> Real quick before Louisa walks away, so
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case and we know that the shortcut is
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only one way, right?
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>> Yes.
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>> Yeah. Um, if you wanted to get it, if
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you wanted to open a shortcut to
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somewhere else, that would be the other
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way out. But yeah, after two people went
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through this shortcut, it closed.
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>> Okay. Um, Case is right behind Doy and
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Doy get after Doy gives the thumbs up,
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Case looks at Louisa and puts his hand
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to his forehead and like pantomimes
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falling backwards like faint trying to
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say faint so we can get out of here. Get
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the cops away from the door.
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>> Okay, I will give it a go. I will just
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be uh doing my fake crying thing and
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I'll just kind of uh sort of slump
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backwards
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hoping someone will catch me.
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>> Uh yeah, I think so you've been talking
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to So there were two cops. Uh one was
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like I said a short stocky woman uh with
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kind of long curly hair. Um, and then
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there's been her her her
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partner is a taller kind of a just a
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lanky uh lanky looking guy who hasn't
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said a word thus far. Um, but he's got
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good reflexes. When you start to faint,
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he's like, "Whoa, who will there?" And
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like catches you to keep you from like
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smacking your head into the wall. And
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the two of them are immediately like
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gathered around you like, "Are are you
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okay, honey? Do you need some water?"
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Um,
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>> well, it's, you know, I've I've
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forgotten to have lunch and maybe that's
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just maybe it's just a maybe I should
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just go sit down. Maybe the cafeteria.
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Huh? Oh, thank you so much so much.
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That's
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>> Yeah. The uh the woman looks up at the
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talking. She says, "Uh, come on, Lar Ro.
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Get take this lady to the cafeteria. Get
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her uh get her some jello or something.
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back.
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>> Uh DY and Case, this is your chance to
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uh make an escape while uh Detective Lar
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Ro is walking Louisa to the elevator to
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go to the cafeteria.
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>> Yeah, I just want to slip out the door
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and see if we can just go the other way.
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>> Yeah, keep out of their field of vision
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if possible. Yeah, I think uh uh I think
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it's fine because they they knew you
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went in there because they saw you go
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in, which is interesting because they
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saw you go in and then they didn't see
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you leave uh because of your shortcut
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magic.
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>> Oh, you had to walk back out.
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>> They might not have seen me leave
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because Louisa was distracting them, but
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I did walk out the front door.
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>> Yeah. Oh, that's it's a good thing they
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weren't paying attention actually then
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because they would see you walk in, walk
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out, and then walk out again. Mhm.
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>> That would definitely that would
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probably create a loose end because that
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is anomalous activity. Um I don't Yeah,
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I don't think you'll have any issues uh
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getting past uh getting around these
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cops. Um Agent Kby uh or Detective
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Carby, excuse me, the uh the female
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officer is watching uh Lar Ro and Louisa
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just to make sure that Louisa doesn't
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like pass out again on the way to the
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elevator. Um but then she's going to uh
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resume her post at the door. Um, what
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are So, you can regroup with uh Roger at
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this point. Uh, Tad is nowhere to be
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seen.
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>> Uh, does anyone know where he went?
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>> Uh, I guess so. Roger, you would have
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been there when Grumbles started
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throwing a fit.
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Tad had to take him downstairs for juice
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and tablet time.
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>> Yeah. So, uh, I guess as everybody gets
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over to where Roger was, he's like,
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"Well, like what did you guys figure
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out?" Uh, I don't know how to say this,
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but I think he's a pizza.
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And then I produce some notes and just
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show everybody.
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>> Now, were they like breathing and other
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stuff that made it look made them look
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alive like
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>> uh things like that?
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>> They appeared to be breathing.
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>> This is not a pun. Were they kneading
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instead? I'm kidding.
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>> You're right. That is not a pun. Uh, so
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they appeared to be breathing. Their
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eyes were open. They were staring at the
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ceiling. However, they were
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unresponsive. They had no pulse. And I
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don't believe either of you tried to
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touch them.
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>> No. The horrors.
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>> The horrors. No one wants to touch the
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pizza horror. I don't get it.
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>> So, so they have no bones and they have
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pizza sauce for blood.
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>> No. Pizza sauce leaked out when they
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were moved abruptly. We don't know
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whether they bleed pizza sauce specific.
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>> So, are we saying that they've turned
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into human calzones? I don't know what a
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Kelzone is, but
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>> uh think of a folded over slice of pizza
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that's sealed.
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>> A pop-tart.
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>> What if like their hearts turn to pizza
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or to tomatoes? Tomato sauce.
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>> Well, then I guess we figured out
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dinner.
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>> No, thank you.
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>> That's also That's also not a pun.
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>> No,
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no, it's not.
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>> No, it's disturb. It's disturbing.
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>> It's I guess it's not cannibalism
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anymore if they're pizza. I don't know.
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Anyway, what would you all like to do
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that's not threaten to eat the patients?
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>> We should probably take the elevator
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downstairs and group up together. Good
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plan.
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>> This point's finding Tad and Louis.
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>> Yeah, I think they've sent uh So, I
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think they've sent Tad down to a second
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floor waiting room. Uh they picked the
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second floor cuz that is where uh second
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floor connects through an overpass to
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the parking garage. Uh so, I guess they
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just assume that he came in a larger
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vehicle because he had a uh because he
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had a rock hyrax and a carrier. Um, you
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can all regroup, make your way back to
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your uh 2026 bright blue Honda Odyssey.
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Uh, this this episode sponsored by
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Honda. Um, and where where would you
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like to go next?
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>> Good job, Louisa. Thank you for helping
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us get out. Superb.
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>> I'm glad I could help.
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>> Well, do we go take a look now?
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>> Yeah, I think at this
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>> Oh, I think we have to.
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>> Best.
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>> Are we uh are we heading to Wuhan
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Baxter?
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>> Yep.
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>> All righty. Uh so as mentioned unlike
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the uh triangle agency corporate
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headquarters which does not strictly
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exist uh the Wuhan Baxter headquarters
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is a uh a skyscraper that has been
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around since 1922 and steadfastly does
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exist a prominent site in turn city
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skyline
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uh 66 stories tall uh not counting the
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lobby and the prominade added in the
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80s. Uh the uh as you uh park in some
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public street parking and head for the
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entrance, um you enter into a glass and
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marble lobby. Uh there are uh there's
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kind of a wide a desk that is kind of a
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large wraparound marble slab desk where
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there is a security officer uh and a
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receptionist.
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Uh there are elevators that lead up uh
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into uh Wuhan Baxter HQ. Uh those appear
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to have uh uh key card uh locks or key
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card security uh next to them. Uh
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there's also a couple of signs uh for
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public access. There is what appears to
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be a uh well not appears to be. There
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are signs. One is the security office.
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That one is locked. There's also a
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leasing office for people who are
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interested in opening a business in the
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prominade below. And last but not least,
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there are a couple of very uh elaborate
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looking escalators that lead down into
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the prominade underneath the Wuhan
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Backter HQ. So, you are in the lobby. Uh
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all five of you. Um there there's
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actually another person here inside the
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HQ with you. Um there is a guy in um he
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he honestly kind of looks like a tourist
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and you're not sure what he's doing in
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Wuhan Baxter HQ. He doesn't look like
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somebody who's here to work. Um kind of
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a pudgy uh just kind of a short pudgy
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guy in a uh very loud Italian or not
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Italian and a very loud Hawaiian shirt.
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>> Uh and chinos.
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>> Um just kind of standing around staring
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into the middle distance. Um, maybe
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taking in the architecture, maybe
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stunned by the size of this building
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that mysteriously grew 22 floors since
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the last time I talked about it. Um,
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because the previous one was a typo. Um,
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security
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>> wasn't crazy.
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>> Yeah, nobody seems to be taking note of
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him. Um, but it's just the five of you,
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this random guy, and a receptionist and
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security officer. The security officer
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is monitoring a bank of CCTVs.
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Um, and the receptionist kind of looks
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up at you when you all come in, but
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doesn't really say anything unless one
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of you approaches her. So, what are what
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would you all like to do?
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>> So, is the whole prominade closed for
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remodeling or is there still any kind of
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food court situation?
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>> Uh, you'd have to go down to check for
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sure, but you think you can see Nope.
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Who am I kidding? They do the string
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renovations. There is a sign prominently
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posted at the top of the escalators. It
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said prominade open during renovations.
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>> Yeah, jackpot.
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>> Yeah, I've been in I've been in malls
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that are renovating. I know what this
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looks like.
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>> Well, why don't we just go take a look
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if it's open and we don't have to get
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permission.
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>> That makes sense. I'm I'm side eyeing
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Hawaiian shirt guy. Just
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>> Okay.
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>> clocking him.
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>> Is he Well, is he's just standing there.
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He's not doing anything.
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>> He is staring unblinking into the middle
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distance. And then as you all
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>> And then as you all are deciding what
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you would like to do, uh he abruptly
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turns around and goes to walk out the
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front door of the building.
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>> Okay.
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>> Not unsightly.
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>> I'm going to follow him.
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>> Okay. Uh it sounded like everyone else
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was going to go down to the proomenade.
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Um, so we'll describe the prominade and
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then Roger, we'll get back to you and
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the guy you're following in just a
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second.
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>> Okay.
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>> So, as you ride down the escalator into
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the prominade, it is this beautiful
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building with like or this beautiful
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floor that they added underneath and it
19:05
looked like it was, you know, like
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shopping center and it looked like they
19:08
maybe tried to go for like an art deco
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look. It was probably supposed to be
19:12
really luxurious when it opened in the
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80s. Um, but if you've ever been in a
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dying mall, it's just kind of sad.
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>> Um, a lot of the places that should have
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restaurants or should have stores or
19:24
should have something are just
19:25
shuttered, like metal shutters covering
19:27
them up. Um, in fact, there only seem to
19:30
be, as you can quickly tell from
19:32
assessing it, two places that are open.
19:35
Uh, one is a place that advertises
19:38
itself as Copy Town and across from Copy
19:41
Town and honestly smelling pretty
19:44
delicious is a place where the sign
19:46
reads Brad's Chicken and Fish. So, you
19:50
thought, huh, maybe there'd be more down
19:52
here to look at. Nope. Copy Town and
19:55
Brad's Chicken and Fish. So, while you
19:57
guys think about those options, we'll
19:59
cut to Roger. Roger, you follow the guy
20:02
in the Hawaiian shirt outside. Uh, how
20:04
closely are you tailing this guy?
20:06
>> Oh, probably, you know, 20 30 feet back.
20:09
Not I'm not like on his butt or
20:11
anything.
20:13
>> Okay. Uh, he doesn't notice you at any
20:17
at any point. Um, he walks to the uh he
20:22
walks to uh the the closest alley.
20:25
There's an alleyway uh between Wuhan
20:27
Baxter and the next building that runs
20:28
back behind it. Um, and he walks to the
20:31
corner and turns and starts to wake his
20:32
make his way down that alleyway. Oh,
20:35
Roger stops at the corner and pulls out
20:38
his deck of cards. Um, but he just peaks
20:42
around the edge of the corner. He's not
20:44
just going to like walk around the edge
20:46
and be like, "Yo." Okay. Uh you peek
20:49
down the corner and you see a uh a pair
20:52
like a a set of like those big uh like
20:55
commercial dumpsters um on on wheels uh
20:59
but in the alley. Um and as you watch uh
21:04
the guy in the white shirt walks up to
21:06
the first dumpster uh lays down on his
21:09
stomach and then army crawls underneath
21:11
the dumpster. Huh. Okay. We're going to
21:15
we're going to watch this for a minute
21:16
and see what happens next before we go
21:18
anywhere.
21:20
>> Okay. Um so you're watching this down
21:23
the alley. Um and so you're standing
21:26
like back at the corner, right? You're
21:28
not like observing up close or Okay. Um
21:33
probably the most obvious thing you see
21:36
is a uh you see a pair of rats uh make
21:39
their way up the alley and they also
21:42
disappear underneath the dumpster. And
21:44
if you wait long enough, uh, one of them
21:46
will come out with what appears to be a
21:48
hunk of bread or dough or that guy's
21:51
arm, um, in its mouth, and it scurries
21:54
away to whatever little bolt hole it
21:56
came out of. Weird. All right, time to
21:59
go take a look and see what's going on.
22:02
Okay. Uh, so tell me how tell me what
22:07
you're doing. Oh, so Raj is going to
22:09
slowly make his way down the alley to
22:12
where these dumpsters are. And um he's
22:15
going to circle around the one that the
22:18
guy and the rats went under to try and
22:21
see if there's anything that stands out
22:23
just from looking at it from right
22:25
there.
22:26
>> Okay. Uh like about the dumpster itself.
22:29
>> Yeah. Yeah. Um seems to be a perfectly
22:32
ordinary dumpster as far as you can
22:33
tell. Um, I think when you get close,
22:36
you startle the other rat and spook it.
22:38
Uh, and it goes running off without
22:40
anything in its mouth. Uh, so, so as far
22:42
as you know, it should just be you and
22:44
the guy under the dumpster.
22:45
>> Uh, Roger puts his foot up against the
22:47
dumpster and shoves it as hard as he can
22:50
with his foot to see if he can move it.
22:52
>> Uh, I don't think Roger is Roger strong
22:55
enough to move a dumpster by himself.
22:57
>> I mean, they're on wheels. if they're
22:59
unlocked and they're not completely
23:00
full, you can push
23:02
>> them. Well, the mall dump dumpster that
23:04
I had was definitely not movable, but it
23:06
also didn't have a space beneath it. So,
23:08
I'm thinking have the space. It's got to
23:10
have wheels.
23:11
>> Yeah, it has wheels. Um, it is locked uh
23:14
at this time. If you would like to
23:16
change that, that would be a uh a call
23:19
to the agency, I think.
23:20
>> Well, what happens if he kicks? It makes
23:24
>> clang.
23:26
It makes a very loud clanging noise. You
23:29
look like somebody who's just mad and
23:30
kicked and just kicked a dumpster.
23:32
>> Oh, it it do be like that sometimes.
23:35
>> Uh I guess
23:36
>> a dumpster.
23:37
>> I guess when he kicks the dumpster and
23:39
nothing nothing happens other than a big
23:41
clang, it's it's time to try and look
23:42
under the dumpster.
23:43
>> Yeah, the guy does not like come out or
23:45
anything. Um so you you you get down on
23:50
what would be eye level with this guy.
23:53
Um, unnervingly enough, you do
23:55
immediately make eye contact with him.
23:57
Um, but you're not sure he's really all
24:02
there. Um, and in fact, if you watch,
24:05
um, so I mentioned that the thing that
24:08
the first rat ran off with did look like
24:10
almost like you'd pulled off like a bit
24:11
of a pizza crust, right?
24:13
>> Mhm. So, this guy uh part of his arm uh
24:18
is in fact leaking a substance that does
24:20
appear to be uh pizza sauce. Um but
24:25
what's weirder is that his head is kind
24:27
of like up against the wall of the Wuhan
24:29
Baxter building, like underneath the uh
24:31
dumpster. And you can kind of see at
24:35
first you think like, oh, he's like
24:37
leaning his head against the building.
24:38
That's why it looks like that. Um, and
24:41
what you realize is you're actually
24:42
seeing like tiny tendrils of dough um,
24:46
like peel off his head and slither into
24:49
extremely tiny cracks in the building's
24:51
foundation. Almost like he's unmaking
24:54
himself one tiny strand at a time.
24:56
>> Gross. That's That's just nasty. Uh
25:00
Roger almost falls backwards when he
25:02
notices this and manages to not fall
25:04
onto the ground in front of the uh
25:06
creepy uh you know uh weirdly almost
25:12
Last of Us type thing going on here
25:14
except for pizza.
25:16
>> Uh and as he scrambles backwards he
25:19
yells, "What a [ __ ] weirdo." We ei d
25:24
o u g h. Oh my god.
25:28
and he scrambles back inside to find the
25:30
others and let them know what we miss.
25:33
>> Here's your here's your commendation for
25:36
a pun. All right.
25:41
Uh he doesn't like he in no way reacts
25:45
to you. He is, as far as you know,
25:47
continuing to unravel himself down there
25:49
under the dumpster. And you run back
25:52
inside and join everyone downstairs
25:55
um under the uh in the prominade. Uh
26:00
everyone who is down in the prominade,
26:02
Roger has arrived in a hurry looking
26:04
kind of freaked out. Yeah. So, uh weird
26:08
guy uh left and and turned into pizza.
26:11
>> What? Turned what?
26:13
>> Yep. f followed him outside and he
26:17
climbed under a dumpster and then a rat
26:21
ran off with part of his arm and when I
26:24
looked he was merging pizza dough head
26:28
into the wall.
26:30
>> Um
26:30
>> it sounds like that was an awful lot to
26:33
have to go through. I'm so sorry that
26:34
you had to see that. Is there any is
26:37
there any feelings that before we before
26:38
we figure out what we're going to do
26:39
next, is there anything that this is
26:41
triggered in you? Is there anything else
26:42
you want to get off your chest before
26:44
you? Just anything about experience.
26:46
>> Yes. I'd like to go home now. So, let's
26:50
finish this.
26:52
Uh Tad, were you attempting to unbburden
26:55
uh Roger?
26:56
>> A little of the uh the trauma. Yeah.
26:59
>> Yeah. All right. I'll give you a dot for
27:01
that. All righty.
27:03
All right. So, now you're we've unsplit
27:06
the party. What would you uh what would
27:09
you like to do? Um
27:10
>> well, oh I will note that uh yes, both
27:13
Copy Town and Brad's Chicken and Fish
27:15
are open.
27:15
>> Okay. Um where in this building would
27:20
the Zabarro have been?
27:23
>> We do have the floor plans we could link
27:25
up or pull out and then start.
27:28
>> Is this an accessible part of the
27:30
building where the Zabarro would have
27:32
been?
27:33
>> Uh yes. So you can pull out your floor
27:35
plans and you can compare it to what's
27:37
uh open there. You can be like, "Okay,
27:39
Brad's Chicken and Fish is where the can
27:42
where the Canadian barbecue place used
27:44
to be, and that one's closed, and that
27:46
one's closed, and that one's closed, and
27:49
where the Zabaro should be is a blank
27:52
wall."
27:53
>> Interesting.
27:55
>> Looks for all
27:57
>> Mhm. Uh um the location of the dumpster
28:01
outside. Logistically, where does it
28:04
relate um in this space to to the
28:09
restaurant in question?
28:11
>> Uh so it's it's not like directly above
28:15
the Zabaro or anything. It's kind of
28:17
hard to place it because it is up a it's
28:18
like basically up a floor and off to
28:20
it's actually behind the building.
28:22
>> Um probably
28:24
>> distance involved.
28:25
>> Yeah, there's some distance involved.
28:26
The uh the thing that Roger saw the uh
28:29
dough worms kind of doing was basically
28:32
sinking into holes in the foundation,
28:34
like the smallest, tiniest cracks. So,
28:37
um if they can find their way through
28:38
there, they can find their way anywhere
28:40
underneath the building.
28:41
>> Mhm.
28:42
>> Well, that's not a hint at all. Uh
28:45
>> I mean, you already know there's a subb.
28:47
It's not really a hint.
28:50
>> Well,
28:51
let's go look at this wall. I want to
28:53
tap on it.
28:54
>> Okay. You want to tap on the wall. Um,
28:57
it is for all intents and purposes uh
29:00
almost like there were it's really good
29:02
craftsmanship. It looks like there was
29:05
never anything here. It looks like this
29:07
was supposed to be a blank wall all
29:08
along.
29:10
>> Uh, you know, uh, because you're
29:12
informed that yes, there was this borrow
29:14
here at one point. Um, but it is not
29:17
there now. Um, and this wall seems
29:20
fairly solid. It's not like a
29:21
illusionary wall or anything. Can we
29:23
find where uh the Sabaros had a door or
29:28
an entryway leading into the back room
29:31
of it along where this wall would have
29:33
been that's been closed off. Maybe see
29:35
if it's more hollow there.
29:37
>> Uh so where that would be would be in
29:40
the subb
29:42
because of a because they could because
29:43
they could not expand horizontally
29:45
enough to actually have a back rooms. Uh
29:47
the back room of this uh of this place
29:49
is the subb that runs underneath all the
29:51
all the uh businesses.
29:53
>> We're gonna have to go down.
29:54
>> Yeah, seems like seems like that's where
29:56
the action
29:58
>> that's where the action
29:59
>> I'd like to try something.
30:02
>> Okay,
30:03
>> that probably also involves splitting
30:05
the party. We love
30:07
>> the party.
30:08
Uh, I would like to try to use my
30:11
ability unbound
30:14
to walk through this wall and see what
30:16
is on the other side.
30:20
>> Uh, tell me how unbound works. I say
30:22
looking through the book.
30:22
>> So, unbound. If something is in your way
30:26
or holding you back, relax your body and
30:29
roll subtlety on a success, you pass
30:32
directly through it. You become
30:34
intangible and can move easily through
30:36
walls, chains, and other obstructions
30:37
for 1 hour.
30:39
>> Does this sound like something I could
30:41
use in this situation?
30:42
>> Uh, yeah. If this wall does seem to be
30:45
in your way,
30:47
>> stupid walls.
30:50
>> All right. So, relax your body and then
30:53
pick up your 64 and let's make a roll.
30:56
>> It's going to go great.
30:57
>> Does Louisa have any points in subtlety
31:00
right now?
31:00
>> Oh, I do.
31:02
>> Okay. So, no burnout.
31:03
>> I rolled zero threes.
31:06
>> No threes, huh? Uh, okay.
31:09
>> I'm All of these dice are going to jail.
31:11
I'm going to use one of my QAs.
31:16
>> Oh, man. That's so many d4s straight
31:18
into dice jail. Holy cow.
31:20
>> Uhhuh. I I rolled I rolled four ones and
31:24
two fours.
31:25
>> Okay. Yeah. So, uh
31:28
>> I'm going to burn a QA.
31:30
>> Okay. So, I have a success. One success
31:32
and I will get five chaos, which I like.
31:35
Thank you.
31:37
>> I hate it, but I don't want to burn all
31:39
of my QA.
31:40
>> Well, I was like, the alternative is you
31:42
just fail and I get six chaos, which
31:45
seems worse.
31:46
>> Yeah, I don't like either of them. Um,
31:51
>> that's okay. So,
31:53
>> so yes, I come I I touch the wall and I
31:57
close my eyes and I focus and then I
32:00
walk through it.
32:02
>> All right. So, let's see. Louisa's
32:04
absence power says that on a success,
32:07
you pass directly through it. You are
32:08
intangible, but you are not invisible or
32:11
inaudible or anything like that. You're
32:12
just not solid right now. Is that is
32:15
that the gist of it?
32:16
>> That's that's how I get it. Maybe I
32:19
should have asked first if anyone is
32:20
watching our strange group of people.
32:22
>> Yeah. Do we have any bystanders there?
32:24
>> Uh you don't
32:26
>> It's probably too busy there.
32:28
>> Yeah, it's not really busy right now,
32:30
but what you do notice as you look
32:31
around is that there are a number of
32:33
CCTV cameras everywhere
32:35
>> in WBHQ.
32:37
>> Oh, we do know someone's watching
32:40
>> as uh as Louisa goes straight through
32:42
the wall.
32:44
Uh so now we're going to so now we're
32:46
going to split the party and two things
32:48
are going to happen at once. Uh first
32:51
thing for the people uh for Louisa
32:53
inside you passed through into
32:57
um so like it it you you were in a mall.
33:00
I mean it's not a great mall. It's a
33:02
dying mall but you passed through it and
33:04
it it was a mall. It was you know a
33:06
normal place for people to exist. You
33:08
pass through into the dining room of the
33:12
abandoned sparrow.
33:14
>> Uh you pass through on a side that no
33:16
one has come in since this was open. Uh
33:18
on the inside you can easily tell this
33:20
wall was not here before because you can
33:21
see where the door should have been.
33:23
>> Mhm.
33:24
>> Um you walk in and you see uh so there's
33:28
probably
33:29
a dozen Yeah, there's a dozen tables. Uh
33:32
half of them are occupied uh with people
33:35
sitting at the tables. Um, and then
33:40
>> surprise. Um, and there is a one of
33:43
those double hung kitchen doors on the
33:44
opposite wall. Um, there is a dining
33:47
there's a counter where you would place
33:49
your order. There is a menu that has not
33:51
been updated since 198 or 1997. Uh,
33:54
cashier standing a person standing
33:56
behind the cashier's desk. Um, as you
33:59
walk in uh to the Sparrow, the six or
34:04
there there's six or so people with the
34:06
tables. It's about half occupied. All of
34:08
them slowly turn turn their heads to
34:10
face you. None of them are blinking.
34:12
None of them are breathing. And the last
34:14
thing you notice above above the uh
34:18
above the door to the kitchen uh a there
34:21
is a decorative frame uh that appears
34:24
from here to have been made of cracked
34:26
and sharpened bones in stabbed into the
34:30
wall around a very uh like a very like
34:35
80s9s like text art clip art sign that
34:39
says reopening soon.
34:43
Now, for the people outside,
34:45
Louisa disappears through the wall of
34:47
the Sparrow. Approximately 60 seconds
34:49
later, uh, you see six people coming
34:52
down the escalator. Um, jarringly, these
34:55
people appear to be carrying heavy
34:57
weapons and wearing what appears to be
34:59
tactical armor. Uh, and they have their
35:02
eyes locked on all of you. What do you
35:04
do?
35:04
>> I just keep walking.
35:08
>> Okay. So, this this ability um when I
35:13
would give someone directions or fleeing
35:15
from a pursuer or know where someone is
35:17
going, I may attempt to trap them in a
35:20
maze or endless hallway. Tie a knot and
35:22
roll persistence.
35:24
>> Okay. Uh A. What are you tying a knot
35:26
in? And then B. Let's get that roll.
35:30
>> Uh I keep some string in my pocket.
35:32
>> Okay.
35:34
>> Convoluted knot.
35:35
>> Uh so roll 64. And do you have any
35:38
points of persistence?
35:40
>> I do not.
35:41
>> Okay. So, this will automatically be
35:43
rolling with burnout. Uh burnout means
35:45
that if there are su that if there are
35:47
successes, I get to take some of them
35:49
away before we see how you did. So, go
35:52
ahead and roll that 64.
35:54
>> Ouch. I only got one.
35:56
>> Uh, okay. Uh, let me see how I think
36:00
that one gets automatically lost. I'm
36:02
checking here to see how much burned out
36:04
you actually have. Okay. For each count
36:06
of burnout,
36:08
there we go. One of your qualities has
36:10
no QAS. You have burnout. We're rolling
36:13
with that quality. Burnout burns one die
36:15
showing a three.
36:16
>> Uh, okay. So, you had one success, but
36:18
that one success goes away
36:20
>> and reduces it to zero successes.
36:23
>> Uh, and I get So, first I get six chaos.
36:26
Yeah.
36:27
>> Yeah. On a failure, I speed them
36:29
immediately on along to their
36:30
destination. They reach their target or
36:33
catch you immediately.
36:34
>> Okay. Uh so you are attempting to walk
36:36
away from a pursuer. Um Doby the one of
36:40
the ARC team members, the uh Wuhan
36:42
Baxter asset recovery and containment
36:44
team has like he peels off from the
36:47
group and is immediately there
36:48
attempting to put you in handcuffs. The
36:49
other for the other of you uh standing
36:51
outside this borrow, they are point
36:54
blank range with weapons trained on you.
36:56
What do you do?
36:57
>> I think I just confidently failed as
36:59
well.
37:00
>> You definitely confidently failed. Yes.
37:04
Um, who does it look like? Somebody's in
37:06
charge.
37:08
>> Um, not that you can tell from looking
37:10
at them. They are moving as a uh they
37:13
are moving as a pretty like organized
37:15
unit.
37:16
>> How many are there? Stop.
37:18
>> Uh, there is one for each of you and one
37:21
for the lady who's missing. So, five.
37:24
So, one of them one of them peeled off
37:25
to get Doy as she attempted to walk
37:27
away. Uh, so that leaves uh
37:30
>> I was attempting to make make all of
37:32
them get lost. So,
37:33
>> yes. Uh, so one for Roger, case Luis
37:36
Antad, four of them on you and one on
37:38
Doy.
37:39
>> Okay. Um, so as they get closer, Roger
37:43
holds a hand up and he's like, "Hey,
37:45
hey, hey, hey, hey. What are you doing?
37:47
We're in the middle of an investigation
37:49
here." And as he's he's saying that,
37:52
he's um as he holds up his hand, he kind
37:57
of flashes his deck of cards in the
37:59
process. Um, what he is doing is I have
38:03
an ability called open carry and uh, on
38:06
a success a target you are focusing on
38:08
is intimidated enough to do what you
38:10
want. However, the GM gets to choose a
38:12
consequence from the following. I'm not
38:15
going to read them yet because depending
38:16
on what I roll, I may get to get rid of
38:18
them.
38:19
>> All right. Uh, so go ahead and roll
38:21
presents. Do you have any points in
38:23
presents right now?
38:24
>> I have three points in presents right
38:25
now.
38:26
>> No burnout for you.
38:27
>> I got four threes. Great. And then I can
38:31
use two of those to flip the other two,
38:33
right?
38:34
>> Uh yes.
38:36
>> So, we're going to go with six threes.
38:39
>> Okay.
38:40
>> And uh so for there's what four of them
38:44
here and the fifth one has left. I want
38:47
to make sure that this is correct.
38:48
>> Yeah. The fifth one is probably like
38:50
five or six feet away. Um attempting to
38:53
arrest Daddy. Like he's got his gun
38:55
behind her like, "Man, stop."
38:57
>> Okay. They're all close enough that they
38:59
should be able to um they should be able
39:01
to see this uh and get hit with this. So
39:04
So all five
39:06
>> Mhm.
39:06
>> Um they
39:10
you know what they can they can have one
39:12
of the consequences. That's fine. With
39:14
the exception of the one arresting Doy.
39:17
>> Okay. So, uh, of the five, they can all
39:22
either remember my face, contact the
39:25
authorities, react with extreme fear, or
39:28
seek retribution. They have to pick one
39:31
of those. As for the one that's
39:34
arresting Doy, one of those is gone,
39:36
too. Okay. Uh, give me So, the one
39:41
arresting Do Okay. So, they get they get
39:43
to pick a reaction. What was the What
39:45
was different about the one arresting
39:46
Doy? Sorry. I get to remove an option
39:49
from them. So I'm removing contact the
39:51
authorities from them.
39:53
>> Okay. So remember your face, react with
39:56
fear, or seek retribution.
39:59
>> Okay. Okay. So I see 63s. So 63s is
40:04
Okay, I see what you're doing. All
40:05
right. Six threes can be five targets
40:07
and all potential consequences or Yeah.
40:11
>> Yeah.
40:11
>> Uh okay. Sorry. I need to look up the
40:14
rules for harm.
40:17
Uh,
40:19
Joe cut this part out of the podcast.
40:22
I haven't had to actually do harm to
40:24
anyone before
40:26
cuz the last one didn't want to harm
40:28
you. Does anybody know off how this
40:31
works? Harm. There we go. Uh, all right.
40:34
So, when when you or someone else takes
40:36
an amount of harm that cause serious
40:37
injury or death, that damage is called
40:39
harm. Harm comes in various amounts.
40:40
Here's a key to keep on hand. One harm,
40:42
enough force to kill an average human.
40:44
Two plus harm, worse. Uh, okay. So, I
40:48
think you hold up your gun and your your
40:50
your deck of cards, your capital G gun,
40:54
and you attempt to say that you're in
40:56
the midst of an investigation, and I
40:58
think one of the guys just goes, "He's
40:59
got a gun. Fire." And all of them open
41:01
fire on you.
41:03
>> Oh, no. Oh,
41:05
>> um, everyone. So, let's see. How does
41:09
harm work with you guys? Uh when you're
41:12
intense dangerous when you use your
41:13
anomaly powers or ask the agency to help
41:15
before you are harmed. When harmed and a
41:17
so this will this will be one harm for
41:19
each of you because does a bullet fired
41:21
from a gun. Uh when harmed an agent can
41:24
automatically spend one QA per harm to
41:27
ignore the effects of the harm. The
41:29
specific quality doesn't matter. The
41:31
effect still happens to you and
41:32
onlookers will see it happen but the
41:34
agency transports the results of the
41:36
harm somewhere else. Um, if you do not
41:41
uh choose to activate benefit one of
41:43
your life insurance policy or you don't
41:45
have any QAs remaining, you die. So,
41:49
what would each of you who gets fired on
41:51
like to do?
41:52
>> I will spend a QA from empathy.
41:55
>> Okay.
41:55
>> Yeah, I don't want to die. I'm going to
41:56
use a professionalism QA.
41:59
>> Okay.
41:59
>> Kind of want to see what happens if I
42:01
die, but I'll spend a persistence QA. Uh
42:04
well the good news is there is a continu
42:06
there is a second part of your life
42:07
insurance policy on the off chance you
42:09
die but we'll get to that when we get to
42:10
it. And Roger
42:12
>> uh subtlety QA.
42:15
>> Okay. Uh anybody who actually sees
42:17
what's happening uh would see you all
42:19
would see the arc team open fire on the
42:22
on the four of you. Um and then the
42:24
bullets just kind of pass through you.
42:28
Um you you're not wounded, they're just
42:31
gone. The Ark team is momentarily
42:33
confused. We're gonna jump back inside
42:35
at this point and we're gonna talk to
42:37
Louisa. Louisa, on the other side of
42:39
that wall that you just came through,
42:42
>> uh, audible automatic gunfire
42:45
>> and but escalated. That escalated so
42:50
quickly.
42:50
>> That escalated very quickly, but you
42:53
don't really have a chance to react
42:55
because something happens to you inside.
42:57
>> Oh, great. Um, Louisa, do you want to
42:59
give the people a brief overview of who
43:03
your uh contacts are on your as part of
43:07
your reality?
43:08
>> Well, I mean, Louisa is a totally normal
43:12
normal person
43:14
>> who definitely
43:18
is not a century or so old and trying to
43:21
figure out how to live in the strange
43:23
world in which she now exists. Um, so,
43:27
so yes, I mean her contacts are mostly
43:29
people living in her neighborhood.
43:30
There's a local librarian named Nelly
43:33
that she's become friends with and has
43:35
really helped her learn modern
43:38
technology like uh what's a phone? What
43:42
is because she's had to she's had to get
43:45
back up on this to get in back into the
43:47
business world obviously. Um but yes,
43:51
most of her contacts are are in in the
43:54
neighborhood. And then she has uh
43:56
another compatriate from her previous uh
44:01
previous vampiric history which is
44:03
trying to convince her not to why are
44:07
you doing this whole why are you trying
44:09
to be
44:11
>> why are you trying to be like this when
44:12
you could just be out here eating people
44:14
and having good life? Uh, so yes, that's
44:17
pretty much that's pretty much her her
44:20
contacts. Uh, two two kind of normal
44:24
people and also a vampire. I
44:25
>> also have a very important question for
44:27
you. Um, how old is Louisa in actuality?
44:30
>> Um, you know, probably when the flood of
44:34
71 that came up earlier, probably when
44:37
that happened, she was maybe late 30s.
44:40
>> Okay. Oh, you're making me do math. That
44:43
was 50. So Louisa is approaching about
44:45
about 110 years old. Let's say we'll
44:47
round it off to 110. That's a nice
44:49
number.
44:50
>> Louisa, one second. You hear gunfire and
44:54
you whirl around, you know,
44:56
instinctually like people do. Um I think
44:59
maybe one bullet like you hear one like
45:01
embed itself into the wall and then all
45:03
of a sudden you are in
45:07
not the uh the bads full of uh not
45:11
people. You are in a bright, shiny,
45:14
brand new Sparrow.
45:16
>> Oh,
45:16
>> you are sitting at a table. You have
45:20
something unusual for you as a vampire.
45:22
You have a tall, fizzy beverage next to
45:24
you. You have a pizza in front of you. A
45:28
big a big What What's Louisa's favorite
45:31
pizza topping?
45:32
You know, it's it's no one ever thought
45:36
this was right, you know, back when
45:39
Louisa was alive and eating pizza, but
45:41
she does really love a pineapple pizza.
45:45
>> And it's been so long since she's been
45:46
able to eat pineapple.
45:48
>> That's exactly what's there. It smells
45:50
wonderful.
45:51
>> And and sitting across from you at this
45:53
table are Nelly, the local librarian who
45:56
helped you learn about the modern world,
45:57
and Marcus, the vampire, who normally is
46:00
kind of a friend of me. He's all smiles
46:01
today. And Cara, that uh that that young
46:04
kid from your neighborhood that you know
46:06
you've been trying to steer away from a
46:07
life of crime. All of them are sitting
46:09
across from you. Nelly is holding up a
46:11
banner that says happy 110th Louisa. And
46:14
all of them are singing happy birthday
46:16
to you. And all of them have jet black
46:20
featureless eyes. But the air is
46:22
suffused with pure joy.
46:25
>> So outside this borrow, what's happening
46:27
to you guys?
46:31
Well, are they are they still stunned
46:34
enough to where they're not firing
46:36
again?
46:37
>> Uh, not right this second, but they will
46:39
probably try again because the Ark team
46:41
has has uh they have backups. They have
46:43
backup solutions for these kinds of
46:45
things.
46:45
>> Is there a What's the nearest object to
46:48
us or set of objects?
46:50
>> Uh, what is something reasonable that
46:52
you think would be in a mall?
46:53
>> Well, if we're in a food court, I'd
46:54
assume tables and chairs.
46:56
>> Yep. Plenty of those.
46:58
>> Why? before I do something really dumb.
47:00
Why doesn't everyone else just give an
47:01
input?
47:04
>> Has that stopped anybody so far?
47:07
>> I don't want to make things worse.
47:10
>> Okay.
47:10
>> Oh, I'm making things worse. Like I say,
47:12
you may have you may have you may want
47:14
to say the stupid thing before Roger
47:15
starts killing people.
47:18
>> It's probably adjacent to what Roger's
47:20
going to do. So, Roger, go crazy.
47:22
>> Going crazy.
47:23
>> I can try something if uh if you guys
47:25
want a third option. Roger's about to
47:28
start murdering people, so speak now or
47:30
forever hold your peace.
47:31
>> Okay, I'm going to gar the gimbal.
47:33
>> Okay, what does that do?
47:35
>> Adjust your balance and roll
47:37
professionalism. On a success, you
47:39
change the orientation of gravity up to
47:42
90° in a direction of your choosing. If
47:45
you're in a room, it affects only that
47:46
room. If you're outside, it affects
47:48
everything within about 30 yards. Yeah,
47:50
I think this is uh so like this is kind
47:52
of a fairly big like lobby/ foodc court
47:55
area, but I don't think you got far
47:56
enough away that like you can't affect
47:58
everybody with this if you if you
48:00
succeed. So go ahead and guy that gimbal
48:03
roll 64. Do you have professionalism uh
48:05
points right now?
48:06
>> That I What do we got? Two successes.
48:10
>> Okay. Uh so two successes. Do you have
48:12
any I was going to say do you have any
48:13
QA points in professionalism?
48:15
>> Yes, I have one.
48:17
>> Okay. So no burnout. Uh, you have two
48:19
successes. Uh, are you going to leave it
48:21
there? I'm assuming.
48:22
>> Am I? Sorry.
48:23
>> Uh, are you going to leave it at two
48:25
successes?
48:26
>> Um, let's see. For each traditional
48:27
three,
48:28
>> so the first succession will change the
48:30
orientation of gravity up to 90°.
48:33
>> Yeah, for traditional three, I can
48:35
choose to exempt someone or a few other
48:38
things.
48:40
>> Yeah. Or make or make the range
48:41
infinite.
48:43
>> Yeah.
48:43
>> Or or make it for some one person go
48:46
further than 90°.
48:47
>> Yeah. I think there's a lot of people.
48:49
So, I'm going to exempt myself
48:53
and let's see.
48:56
>> Well, right now you've only got one
48:57
success and then one additional three.
48:59
So, right now you can exempt you can you
49:01
can exempt one person.
49:02
>> Yeah, I think I'm just going to exempt
49:04
myself um and and not spend that QA.
49:09
>> Okay. Uh
49:11
>> it all goes sideways.
49:13
>> Yep. You adjust your balance. You stay
49:15
perfectly fine. Uh, everyone else except
49:18
Louisa. Um, everyone outside the, uh,
49:22
the Sparro wall. Um, you go falling. Are
49:25
they falling towards or away from it? I
49:27
guess would be
49:28
>> towards the Sabarro wall. Yeah.
49:30
>> Okay. Uh, you all you all land in a pile
49:33
on the Zarro wall sideways. Um, this
49:36
does give an opening for someone else
49:38
who wants to do something though.
49:40
Uh I guess I guess the question for this
49:43
is um are we all in a pile together?
49:47
>> Uh yeah, I think you would be cuz like
49:49
you were so like you all were standing
49:50
the way I was picturing this is like you
49:52
all were kind of maybe standing a couple
49:53
feet back from the wall watching Louisa
49:55
do her trick. Um and then the team
49:58
appeared like directly behind you. So
50:01
when gravity orients itself towards this
50:03
borrow wall. Yeah. I think I think the
50:05
agents would fall and then the the arc
50:08
team would be on top of them.
50:10
>> Yeah.
50:10
>> Yeah. The
50:12
>> I I'm asking Stop. How many How many
50:15
living beings did Roger just touch?
50:19
>> Uh
50:20
>> Oh, no.
50:22
>> I I get a demerit for every living being
50:25
that I touch.
50:27
>> Uh okay. So, I'm going to roll a die
50:30
here because there's uh so there's not
50:33
but Tad Case uh Grumbles
50:38
um and the four agents. Yeah, I think
50:41
there's eight people you could
50:42
potentially have touched.
50:44
>> Well, it's the four agents and then the
50:46
one by Dy. So, yeah.
50:47
>> Yeah, the one by Dy, I think, fell
50:49
further away. He landed next to Doy.
50:51
>> Oh, okay.
50:52
>> On a slightly different wall. So, yeah.
50:55
Um,
50:56
luckily for you though, I rolled a two.
50:58
So, I think you touch the agent who
51:00
falls on top of you. And then I think
51:01
you're like pulling your hands back to
51:03
try not to touch anybody else. And I
51:04
think you touched Grumbles.
51:06
>> I did not have I did not have Grumbles
51:08
enclosed in his uh carrier. I had him on
51:11
his leash so he wasn't he was out.
51:14
>> Uh, but yeah, I think you can try to
51:17
hurriedly uh pull yourself out from
51:19
under the uh from under the agent so you
51:21
don't touch anybody else. Um, this is
51:24
probably looking like that part in uh
51:26
that one the hotel room fight in
51:28
Inception
51:29
where now you all are just like from
51:31
Doy's perspective all of you are on the
51:33
wall treating it as the floor. Um, how
51:35
long does that last is another thing.
51:38
>> Uh, guy the gimbal lasts another roll.
51:43
>> Okay, you were all 90 degrees while
51:45
>> Yeah, until Dy makes another roll. Okay,
51:48
I want to grab one of the arc teams
51:51
cuffs and use it to cuff one to another
51:54
team member.
51:55
>> Um, okay. Are you going are you going to
51:59
attempt to use any kind of power to do
52:01
this? I don't really know if this is a
52:02
thing that you're
52:03
>> depends if I fail or not.
52:06
>> Um, well, some of that is going So, like
52:09
their handcuffs are secured to their
52:11
side. Um, so you would need their
52:13
handcuffs to not be locked basically,
52:16
>> which sounds Go ahead.
52:18
>> I just imagine that we're all in some
52:20
giant cuddle puddle, so they're like
52:21
right on top of me.
52:22
>> They are. Um, if you would like further,
52:25
so they might be a little more stunned
52:27
in theory.
52:28
>> They are. Um, but what I'm getting at is
52:30
that if you want if you want one of the
52:32
pairs of handcuffs to coincidentally be
52:34
open, that sounds like it's time to call
52:35
the agency because the the thing about
52:38
art each other.
52:39
>> What's that? the the handcuffs. The
52:41
handcuffs, they'll just swing through
52:42
each other indefinitely. I had a friend
52:44
who's a cop, as long as there's nothing
52:46
keeping them from closing, they'll
52:48
they'll just go right through and
52:50
ratchet shut and ratchet past each other
52:52
>> in a loop.
52:53
>> Do they leave them? They leave them open
52:55
like that, I guess. Well, it depends if
52:56
we're talking about standard cuffs or
52:58
wire like zip tie cuffs, which
53:01
>> yeah, I think they might actually be zip
53:03
tie cuffs because these guys are
53:04
essentially so arc teams, a little bit
53:06
about arc teams is that uh they are
53:08
essentially um a paramilitary corp. One
53:11
of Wuhan Baxter's globally recognized
53:13
fields is in private security. Um, these
53:17
guys are like unleash un unleashed in
53:20
places where they need to have some
53:22
really nasty wet work done without
53:24
anybody um asking questions. I think
53:27
Yeah, I think these are probably zip tie
53:28
cuffs that work or hinder my f or help
53:31
or hinder my f or my attempt.
53:34
>> Well, they can't be locked shut
53:36
>> for sure,
53:36
>> right? I I'd just have to work a little
53:39
harder to swing them through to each
53:41
agent.
53:41
>> Okay. Um, if you Yeah, I think you can
53:44
grab one and then you can probably do
53:46
one. If you want to do more than a
53:48
couple of the agents, that'd be pushing
53:49
it and then you're probably looking at
53:51
not having enough time because they're
53:52
going to be recovering pretty quickly,
53:54
too.
53:54
>> Usually, um, if they're carrying them,
53:56
they'll they'll store them in like a
53:58
pack
53:59
a whole bunch of them and you could just
54:01
toss them. It' be hard to grab just one
54:03
is what I'm
54:04
>> Okay, my point is that Nick probably
54:06
does not have time, even if he grabs all
54:07
of them, to handcuff the entire AR
54:09
before they react. Yeah, I just want to
54:11
cuff one to another. Just one. And
54:13
>> but if you wanted to grab a bunch and
54:15
toss them at
54:16
>> my I'll just do I'll grab a handful of
54:19
cuffs.
54:20
>> Okay. What is anybody else doing?
54:22
>> Roger's going to start killing people.
54:25
>> Shocked. All right. Gun.
54:27
>> Uh quick draw. When something tries to
54:30
hurt you, fire your gun and roll
54:31
initiative.
54:32
>> Oh, that might have been a good one from
54:34
when they shot you, but go ahead.
54:35
>> That's fine.
54:36
>> Uh falling on you probably counts.
54:38
>> Yeah. And they're they're going to try
54:40
to hurt you if they get up. So go ahead.
54:42
Roll initiative. Roll with initiative.
54:45
>> So So I should bring up
54:47
>> I rolled six threes.
54:50
>> Okay. Uh we app we appreciate your
54:53
extremely high number of successes. It's
54:55
not a trescendence, but the agency is
54:56
still proud of you.
54:58
>> Yeah. Uh you could say pretty much every
55:01
one of them is getting a card to the
55:02
face.
55:03
>> Yep. Uh, for each additional three, you
55:05
may choose an additional target to harm
55:07
or eliminate a target you've already
55:09
harmed with this ability.
55:11
>> Uh, so are you harming all six of them,
55:14
or are you making or excuse me, all of
55:16
them, or are you making some of them
55:17
disappear? Oh, you know, that's a good
55:20
question. Uh, I think that the one
55:23
that's closest to Roger that landed on
55:25
top of him, he vanishes.
55:29
He gets the double tap and the rest of
55:31
them all get hit once. Okay, so that's a
55:34
success. And one three taken care of to
55:36
make that guy completely vanish. And
55:38
then the other four take the equivalent
55:40
of a gunshot. Um, and one harm is enough
55:45
to kill a normal human. Um, and as well
55:49
trained as they are, um, they are normal
55:51
people. um everyone everyone else the
55:54
agents that were on you or near you or
55:57
uh handcuffed together um just abruptly
56:01
die.
56:03
>> Would would you consider that cleaning
56:05
cleaning up a problem?
56:06
>> Uh it's cleaning up this problem. Yes.
56:10
Um so I will give you your
56:12
>> create another problem. But
56:14
>> yeah, it it it will definitely be
56:15
creating another problem because again
56:17
all of that was on CCTV and there's not
56:19
just one Arc team. Uh, but we'll go back
56:22
to Louisa.
56:23
>> H
56:24
>> uh Louisa, what are you uh how are you
56:27
reacting to being in the most perfect
56:29
birthday party you've never had?
56:31
>> Yeah, I really I have not had a birthday
56:33
party in a very long time. You know, at
56:35
some point you just you stop counting.
56:38
Do I believe this illusion around me?
56:41
>> It feels absolutely real.
56:45
>> So So it is it is completely believable.
56:48
And I remember I was in this other place
56:51
and now I'm here.
56:53
>> I'm not.
56:54
>> Yeah. It didn't It didn't like wipe your
56:55
memory. Like you remember the bad You
56:57
remember the bad Sparrow and now you're
56:59
also experiencing the good Sparrow. So,
57:02
you are
57:03
>> I'm going to uh turn towards my
57:09
>> uh I'm I'm going to turn towards my
57:11
vampire friend of me, Marcus, and I'm
57:13
going to say, "Marcus, I've never seen
57:15
you smile like that in your entire
57:17
unlife. Whoever or whatever is doing
57:20
this, you need to work harder on your
57:23
illusions. This is This is lovely. I
57:26
admit it. But it's really not
57:29
compelling." So Marcus kind of frowns
57:32
slightly and you know what Marcus' voice
57:34
sounds like. He opens his mouth to reply
57:36
to you and what comes out instead of
57:39
Marcus's voice is what sounds like a uh
57:43
an imitation of a VHS tape. You know
57:46
that kind of warm like muffled sound the
57:48
VHS tapes have.
57:50
>> Um
57:51
>> Marcus says it almost kind of in a
57:53
confused tone. Welcome to Zabaro. What
57:55
can we get started for you today? Um,
57:58
and is it just do I see is this like the
58:01
entire restaurant full? Like the
58:02
restaurant I was in is the restaurant
58:04
I'm still in.
58:06
>> Uh, yeah. The six people who were there
58:08
who were sitting at the tables before
58:09
are still turned and watching watching
58:11
your birthday party.
58:12
>> Uhhuh.
58:13
>> And Cara and Nelly and Marcus are all
58:16
still at your table. Um.
58:17
>> Uhhuh.
58:18
>> But the the singing has stopped.
58:20
Nobody's really saying anything except
58:21
Marcus. If you if you don't respond
58:23
right away, he kind of leans in and
58:25
says, "Welcome to Zabarro. What can we
58:28
get started for you today?"
58:30
>> Well, you are certainly very invested in
58:34
surfing pizza.
58:36
>> Uh, so he answers and you it feels like
58:42
um if you've ever seen and I'm going to
58:44
do another pop culture reference here,
58:45
unfortunately. Uh, if you've ever seen
58:47
either a the way the junk bots talked in
58:50
the 1980s Transformers movie or the way
58:52
they made Bumblebee talk in the horrible
58:54
Michael Baywins, um, where it's like cut
58:56
up advertisements and other pieces of
58:58
video and audio that aren't a natural
59:01
voice, the not Marcus talks to you and
59:03
says, "We are here to serve you and and
59:06
make you happy. It is our purpose. We
59:08
like we want to make people happy."
59:11
>> And you thought Zabarro was going to be
59:13
the best way to do that. This is in a
59:15
Zabarro in 1997.
59:20
>> Zabarro is the nation's fastest growing
59:22
fast service pizza chain found in malls
59:24
across America, making families happy
59:26
since 1975. Would you like to invest in
59:29
a new franchise location?
59:32
>> Oh boy.
59:36
>> Well, you know, you do make that sound
59:37
very compelling. So, how would I invest
59:40
in a franchising opportunity? I mean I
59:42
there is some there's some real estate
59:44
in this mall. Perhaps that's the answer.
59:47
>> Uh as you say that the the illusion
59:51
fades.
59:53
>> Oh.
59:53
>> And like it just nothing fades. It's
59:56
just like gone. Um, and a there's kind
59:59
of a small one of one of the other
1:00:01
customers that was in the store when you
1:00:02
came in was a small hunched over like a
1:00:04
little old man with a cane and he like
1:00:06
shambles over and he sits across the
1:00:08
table from you and he like plops a
1:00:11
manila folder on the table in front of
1:00:13
you and he opens it and he says, "We
1:00:16
have here an investment plan covering
1:00:18
our plans for expansion. We will reopen
1:00:21
this tomorrow and to make everyone
1:00:23
happy." and he pushes documentation your
1:00:27
way assuming that you are in fact a
1:00:28
business person here to invest in
1:00:30
reopening the Sabarro. Um Louisa, what
1:00:33
you have on the table in front of you is
1:00:34
a detailed investment pitch explaining
1:00:37
the business plan for reopening the
1:00:39
Sabbarro and expanding it into other
1:00:41
locations. So outside the Sparrow,
1:00:47
uh what are you all uh So Roger just
1:00:49
killed a bunch of folks. Um, what's the
1:00:52
last thing you guys want to do before we
1:00:54
uh take a little break here and leave
1:00:56
people in suspense for episode 3?
1:00:58
>> Are we standing on the wall?
1:01:00
>> Uh, yes. You were all standing 90° off
1:01:02
uh offkilter except for Doy.
1:01:04
>> We should probably finish up and get out
1:01:06
of here.
1:01:08
>> Yeah,
1:01:08
>> we should see if they've got keys or
1:01:10
anything else that we can use.
1:01:11
>> Yeah, we need to figure out how to get
1:01:12
through this wall. Maybe go around the
1:01:15
through the basement like we were
1:01:16
talking the subb.
1:01:18
>> Yeah, I want to see if I could grab key
1:01:19
any keys. key card and maybe
1:01:22
>> okay
1:01:23
>> a sidearm.
1:01:24
>> Uh yeah, each of the so each of the uh
1:01:28
arc agents has a key card. Um and
1:01:32
obtaining a uh automatic weapon or a
1:01:34
smaller sidearm is also not an issue. Uh
1:01:37
so anybody anybody who wants those
1:01:38
things can get those things.
1:01:40
>> Um do we want to try to spend uh try to
1:01:44
ask the agency to help get rid of some
1:01:47
of these loose ends that we've just
1:01:48
left? Yeah, there are there are a number
1:01:51
of people who have just seen something
1:01:53
go down downstairs. Uh among them the
1:01:55
security guy upstairs at the desk. Um
1:01:58
and while the people in you haven't seen
1:02:00
anybody come out of copy town or out of
1:02:02
the chicken and fish shop. So they
1:02:03
presume presumably when they heard
1:02:05
gunshots they just took cover instead of
1:02:07
running out to see what was happening.
1:02:09
>> Do you want me to go take care of the
1:02:11
security guard?
1:02:12
>> Please stop killing people.
1:02:14
>> It's what I do. It's my job. It's what
1:02:17
the company pays me for. He's not wrong.
1:02:19
Uh, right now though,
1:02:21
>> right now though, you would have an
1:02:22
interesting thing in that you would have
1:02:23
to figure out how to get up the
1:02:25
escalators while operating at 90 degrees
1:02:27
off normal. Like essentially, you're
1:02:29
clinging on the escalator and it's kind
1:02:31
of carrying you upwards, but not like
1:02:34
you're used to,
1:02:36
or else you're trying to like stand on
1:02:38
the side of the escalator and scoot.
1:02:40
>> Can I ask the agency to break the
1:02:43
security camera so at least that guard
1:02:45
doesn't know what happened? That is a
1:02:48
POS. So,
1:02:50
>> one of the bullets ricocheted into the
1:02:52
into each of the cameras.
1:02:54
>> Oh, I like that. That also neatly
1:02:56
explains why none of them are in you
1:02:58
guys. Um, I like that. Yeah. Go ahead.
1:03:01
And so, we're going to have you go ahead
1:03:02
and roll. And then what what QA do you
1:03:06
feel like you'd be rolling with there?
1:03:09
>> Um,
1:03:10
>> I got to pull up the list because
1:03:12
there's nine of them.
1:03:12
>> Subt maybe.
1:03:14
>> Uh, let's see. Uh, Salty is avoiding
1:03:16
this unnecessary attention. I would also
1:03:20
say maybe attentiveness, showing
1:03:21
attention to detail because the bullets
1:03:23
didn't just disappear. You're saying
1:03:24
where the bullets went. Um,
1:03:26
>> yeah, I could do attentiveness, too.
1:03:28
>> Yeah, I think either of those is fine.
1:03:29
>> Okay.
1:03:30
>> Oh, remind me. I'm rolling. And then I'm
1:03:34
rolling as if it were um
1:03:36
>> Yeah, you roll you roll 64. Um, and then
1:03:39
whichever one of these whichever one of
1:03:41
the QAs you pick dictates whether or not
1:03:42
you have burnout or not. Um, you're
1:03:45
you're looking for one success.
1:03:48
>> I have three successes.
1:03:50
>> You have three successes. Uh, do you
1:03:52
have any QA points in the one that you
1:03:54
rolled?
1:03:55
>> I do.
1:03:56
>> Perfect. Uh, Joan, congratulations. Uh,
1:03:59
Doy has achieved triccendance. Uh,
1:04:02
transcendence is when exactly three
1:04:04
threes are rolled. Because, as we all
1:04:06
know, a triangle of triangles is the
1:04:08
most stable shape in reality. You
1:04:10
perfectly conduct the AY's power and
1:04:12
experience transcendence. Uh, in add so
1:04:15
you you rolled a success. Good job. Uh,
1:04:18
no chaos is created. Boo. And you also
1:04:21
get one of the following. You can add
1:04:24
any number of threes to the roll, which
1:04:26
doesn't really help in this case. You
1:04:28
can replenish any three QAs that you
1:04:30
have spent or you can receive three
1:04:32
commenations. What would you like for
1:04:34
your bonus?
1:04:35
>> H, I haven't spent a lot of QA so we
1:04:39
will go with commenation.
1:04:41
>> Okay. Uh, okay. So you replen you you've
1:04:45
received three commendations which I
1:04:47
will note on your sheet and in this
1:04:50
moment Doy uh literally the you are
1:04:53
psychically connected to every employee
1:04:56
of the agency and they watch as you
1:04:58
masterfully conduct the reality altering
1:05:01
powers of the agency to put a bullet in
1:05:04
every camera two minutes ago. So, the
1:05:07
anomalous activity of the falling and
1:05:09
Roger making people disappear and or
1:05:11
die. Um, they're like, there's still
1:05:13
bodies here. Maybe you should take care
1:05:15
of it. But the security guard upstairs,
1:05:17
none the wiser. And so, you guys get a
1:05:19
little moment here to breathe. Uh, and
1:05:22
that is where we will leave episode two.
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