Mayday Plays - Doomed to Repeat Ep. 1 - "Bang and Burn"

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

We run through the scenario “Last Things Last” by Brett Kramer with Shane Ivey. The agents begin their investigation into the program’s past by looking into the recently deceased Clyde Baughman. They learn, first hand, what happens when poor planning meets the unnatural. Little does the team know of the horrors they must endure and enact to survive… This episode contains profanity, violence, and references to drug/alcohol use. It also contains the topic of Covid-19. Published by arrangement with the Delta Green Partnership. The intellectual property known as Delta Green is a trademark and copyright owned by the Delta Green Partnership, who has licensed its use here. The contents of this podcast are © Mayday Roleplay, excepting those elements that are components of the Delta Green intellectual property. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SCpvb5HTmdHPjrkZkx4VuEGxlelHLzqK/view?usp=sharing CAST OF CHARACTERS • Aaron - Agent Samael • Allegra - Agent Tuck • Amanda - Agent Boomer • Caleb - Agent Merit • Eli - Agent Hyde • Zakiya - Agent Warp • Sergio - The Handler MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • Post Sound Supervision: Sergio Crego, Eli Hauschel • Mixed: Eli Hauschel • Original Music: Aaron A. Pabst • Soundstripe (soundstripe.com) DELTA GREEN LINKS • Delta Green (http://deltagreen.com/) • Last Things Last (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/175760/Delta-Green-Need-to-Know?term=last+things+last&cPath=1459_8165) MAYDAY ROLEPLAY LINKS • Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/) • Twitter (https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay7) • Mayday website (https://www.maydayroleplay.com/) • Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/maydayrp/)

Doom to Repeat is a Delta Green actual play podcast with violent themes and adult language. This episode contains the topic of COVID-19. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to Episode 1 of Doom to Repeat. I'm Sergio, your handler. I'm Erin A. Papps, and I'm Agent Samuel. I'm Allegra, I'm Agent Tuck. I'm Amanda Dominic, and I'm Agent Boomer. I'm Caleb, and I'll be playing Agent Merritt. I'm Eli, and I'll be playing Agent Hyde.

I'm Zacchia, and I'll be playing Agent Warp. Tonight we'll be playing through the scenario Last Things Last by Brett Kramer, with Shane Ivy. A Hot Tub Emporium in Michigan It's as ridiculous as it sounds. The program has never really had a central informational base, so now, given that everyone's cooped up and less likely to interfere, we're being tasked with basically finding the entire history of the program.

Decades, maybe even a century's worth of information. In the 50s they had a bit of intel stored up, but some researcher named Daniel Frice lost his shit and killed his entire team and burned all the archives. Honestly, I can't say I blame him. Not the killing, but the shit agency in the program. I mean, you saw what a wreck I was after New Jersey, and even if you didn't know why. I'm not saying I'd do the same thing, but it's not an impossible jump. Good thing is we're pretty low risk as far as operations go.

Bad news, it's an indefinite timeline, which I'm pretty sure you're gonna hate hearing when I call you later today. We've all been personally selected by the DO, which I guess is supposed to be an honor or something. I mean, it is. To be recognized as a capable agent means a lot, but anyway, we've been given cover identities as part of the CDC, so it won't seem suspicious that we're out and about.

There are six of us, three research and three security. Obviously, I'm security. Agent Hyde is too. She's a pilot, so we've got Transpo. She seems about as excited to be here as I am. Seems capable, though, the kind of person we'd get along with on the outside. Agent Merritt is our third security agent, and if I don't punch that pompous little shit by the end of this, it'll be a miracle.

I know it's only the first day, but still. I can't go to read on the oldest researcher, Agent Samuel. He's got a collar and looks like he performs exorcisms daily, but I'm also pretty sure he was swigging whiskey from a hit flask at 7 a.m. Not that those two things have to be mutually exclusive. Actually, it makes more sense that they aren't. Agent Warp is also extremely confusing. She's either very young or an immortal.

She's very particular and referred to the rest of us as humans, like she wasn't one, so I'm very interested to learn more about her. The only person I knew before this case was Agent Boomer. She's the last researcher. We were on the team together in New Jersey. She was the only person who made it out. Having her here is actually really comforting. I think you'd like her, she's a shit-kicker.

Our handler did mention that we're allowed to take leave, so I'll be home to you soon, even if it's just for a little bit. I didn't think I'd miss you so much so quickly. I mean, I went three years without seeing you every day, and now after two months together again, it just sucks. I don't have to tell you that, but it does. We're on our way to the first lead now, but I'll call you as soon as I can. Telling you all of this felt really good.

Maybe one day I can do it again for real. Give Jane some scritches for me, and please stay safe. I love you so much. H. Let's start with the three go-getters who piled out of the car. Agent Samuel, Boomer, and Hyde. You guys step out and you cross the street, and as you do, you take in Bauman's building.

It sits blocky and drab on an intersection of a declining working-class neighborhood. It's three stories, and it has a glass-enclosed foyer that seems to be the main entrance. At the moment, you're the only people on the street. What do you do? Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm just charging in the main front door.

I don't know if we got an apartment number or whatnot, but assuming that we did, I'm going straight for it. Wait, wait, wait, why don't you wait for security? I, like, turn back and look at Merritt, and I'll just, like, give him a wave. Like, come on. He's welcome to follow. Whenever it's convenient for him.

What are the three agents in the car doing? Well, I'm just shocked that they ran off like that, but I composed myself, and I look to... I think it's Tuck and Warp still in the car? Mm-hmm. Yep. I look to the both of them and say, well, I know it's not conventional what they just did,

but let's remember we're trying to get together as a team, and it will take some time, and then I'll leave the car, and I'll go to meet them in the front door in the lobby. I'm going to roll my eyes so hard, and then I'm going to get out, too. Yeah, I'll get out and walk towards the house. All right, so it sounds like everyone is entering the building,

correct? Yes. You enter through the front, and perhaps there was some glare on the glass, but you didn't quite realize that when you walked in, there is, in fact, standing by a row of mailbox slots, is an old woman, maybe in her 60s, wearing a pink moomoo.

She notices you guys enter kind of a little scattered, immediately kind of puts on her face mask, and by her feet is a little terrier that begins yapping at you, and kind of aggressively moving forward. Samayel, it sounds like you're kind of in the front. Do you do anything? I smile down at the dog,

and I just kind of whisper, good boy, don't mind us, ma'am, we're just hailing upstairs. She says nothing, and kind of, if anything, just paying more attention to the dog. Mitzi, will you stop it? Leave him alone, leave him alone, and she kind of walks towards the dog.

All right, well, I'll just continue on past then. As you all make your way through, she picks up the terrier, and is kind of through her mask, just kind of watching you guys enter silently. You enter this main area, there are apartments, you know that the apartment is 2B,

so it's probably upstairs. You see that there is a staircase, and there's also an elevator. Sergio, are there any second exits on the first floor outside of the front doors that we came through? If you take the time to look, you do see down the hallway, which kind of bends and curves

a little bit through the building. There is a back exit. Also, Sergio, really quickly, is there any kind of security cameras that I can see by the door and on the ceiling? As you look around, you don't immediately see any kind of security cameras now. Obviously, the doors are locked and such,

but it's pretty low tech around here. I'm going to move to hide and tuck before we move up the stairs at all, and I just point out the door at the end there that I had found, and I said, just in case we need a second mode of exit. Why don't I take the stairs up to the second floor and you guys can ride the elevator?

Is there a reason for that? Just be safe. Check it out. Sure, you know better than me. We shouldn't go anywhere alone. I'll take the stairs with you. Sure. Well, then I suppose we're on the elevator team, gang.

Elevator it is. Hop in. Nothing scary's ever happened in an elevator before. That's why I'm taking the stairs. So warp and hide, you go through the staircase entrance, you begin climbing, nothing out of the ordinary in the staircase. The elevator door opens, for those of you,

the four of you that are staying waiting for the elevator. The elevator door creaks open, revealing a small cramped interior that would not have fit six comfortably. Four, it's still pretty uncomfortable, but you move in. Boomer, as you step in, this is even for four people, this is a tight space.

You guys are basically shoulder to shoulder. You don't feel comfortable as these doors close. I'm going to kind of like move my way to a corner and just repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly press the button to get to the second floor. The door closes and you begin going up. It's a slow creak as it goes up. Agent Boomer, can you please give me a sanity check

as I feel that your disorder is being triggered right now? I got a 94. You are not going to lose any sanity, but your disorder is kicking in. What does it look like to the other three agents as this disorder kicks in? Kind of, I'm starting with my hands, I'm really snapping my fingers,

twitching my clenching, my fists repeatedly, and I'm really, when I'm talking, pushing that button, I'm almost bending my finger back, and you're saying how hard I'm trying to get that to the second floor. I'm trying to will it to happen. The other agents, you guys see this almost in a comical fashion.

Agent Boomer is just desperately pressing this button and seems extremely uncomfortable. I'm going to press my way back against the other two and try and give her space and make sure that she has the clearest shot out the door, even if I'm pushing the other two back a little. Eventually, the elevator door does creak open, and I assume Boomer comes piling out of the...

Just push, bye, get out of my way. You step through just as a warp and hide have made their way to the second floor, and Agent Hyde and warp, you do notice Boomer almost like in a huff, kind of running out of the elevator. Everything all right? Like you saw a ghost? No, it's just, it's a little hot.

What room is, what room were we supposed to go? 2B. 2B. I'll give her the key so she can get a little space. I just take the key and I just rush as quickly as I possibly can to 2B. It's easy enough to find. It's about halfway between you and the elevator.

You, I assume you're unlocking the door going in? Yes, I am. Okay. Door unlocks, and you are kind of immediately greeted with the stale patina of cigarette smell. It's just kind of heavy in the apartment. It's pitch black inside the apartment. With the light coming in from the hallway,

you can tell that the curtains are drawn and shut, and the lights are all off. I'm going straight for the window, open the blinds. I'm going to flick on the lights. All right. Boomer, you can find the light switch easy enough. It does in fact turn on. The lights are really insufficient

and kind of depressing and overhead. So when Agent Warp opens the curtains, it's kind of a relief to get some natural light in. What you see is very Spartan and grim apartment. The interior is small, and there is scant evidence that anyone actually lived here. You're standing in the living room, but you can see that to the right of you is a kitchen,

and to the left, there seems to be a bathroom and two bedrooms. All right, nerds. Bang and burn. Find the shit and let's go. Wow, so kind. Did Agent Mallory say where the body was found? She did not. All right, well in that case,

I got when I searched around the bedroom. Semi-L heading to the bedroom. Are there any computers in the living room or like security cameras or anything that would pick up my, like I would pick up? The only thing that tickles your tech sense is a squat television that sits by a worn out couch. Okay.

Yeah, I'm going to go to the bedroom and take a look there. Can I check the bathroom and the medicine cabinet? Sure. You said there were two bedrooms, correct? There are two bedrooms. Yes, one to the left and one to the right. Okay, I will check whichever one's not being checked. I'm not sure.

I got left. Okay, I'll go right. Okay. I'll follow Agent Warp into the right bedroom. I just want to, as soon as everyone's inside of the apartment, I want to shut the door behind us, make sure the keys on one of us, and then stand watch by the door.

So let me start with Merit, since you are kind of the most stationary of the group. What you see in this living room is a well-worn couch that faces this old squat television. On the adjacent coffee table are a stack of mostly completed crossword puzzle books, issues of sports illustrated and reader's digest, and there is a box of prepackaged donuts

that still seem to be sitting on that table. Agent Merit, while you are standing there, you notice that just inside the door, there is a key hook that holds two sets of keys. You can notice that the first set contains two keys. One of them seems to be a car key, and then there is a second ring that contains two brass keys and a pendant,

and the words our getaway form a heart shape that surrounds a photo of a man and a woman in their early 50s hugging in front of a cabin in the woods. So this is what you kind of notice while you're standing around. Okay, I'm going to take both keys and put them in my jacket pocket, or the pocket of my coat, and then did I see if there was a garage to this apartment?

You did not see that there was a garage. You assumed that maybe the back area has a parking lot or something. Okay. In the meantime, hi, you head to the bathroom, and what you see is a bathroom that looks to be in a somewhat disturbed state.

What is your forensics? Do you have any forensics? One second. I don't think I do. Okay. Um, you know, just kind of looking around, you notice that there's a broken towel rack that's on the floor,

the shower door seems to be cracked, and there's a few fragments of broken ceramic toothbrush holder that's kind of swept on the floor. You also, I think you would have the experience to know that there are faint traces of the smell of corpse or of death. You know, even without a high forensics, you can probably deduce this is where Baumann died.

Lovely. I do want to check his medicine cabinet to see if there's anything interesting in there. Yeah, you open it up and beside some heart medicine and some vitamins and things like that, nothing really stands out to you. Cool. I'll walk out and I'll see Meredith

and I'll just look at him and be like, well, I found where he died. Oh, perfect. We should probably do some looking over that. I found something as well. I think I found a second location. Go ahead and take a look at this, and I take out the getaway keys

and I pass them over to Hyde. What do you think? Maybe a drop off or maybe truly is just a vacation spot. Either way, it's something we can look into. Secondary location, yeah, sure. Agent Warp and Tuck, you guys walk into the right bedroom. And what you see is, again, a very spartan room. There's nothing on the walls.

It holds a queen-size bed and there is a dresser on top of which rests photographs of a man and a woman at varying ages, mostly in their 50s. There are high school graduation pictures of two children, a man or a boy and a girl. And there's a few photos of a young child, you assume a grandchild.

There's also a ceramic paperweight of a child's handprint with the name Cassie, age four, crudely painted. On it. Can I go over to the photos and take them out of the frames and see if there's any date on the back, location on the back, names on the back, anything like that? Yeah, give me a luck roll. Don't be assholes.

I have to do it or they're assholes. 24. That works. So yeah, I told you. You start taking the photos out. Some of them do, some of them don't. You can see that some of the photos, there's kind of a classic photo of a man

and a woman, what looks to be like a cruise ship. You know how sometimes they take photos of you on cruise ships and stuff like that. They're dressed in bathing suits and such. And it does say 92 on it. You can assume that's the year that they went on this cruise. The children seem to have graduated in the 80s. That's about the most in terms of dates

that you can get from these photos. At this point, you're starting to assume that this man, this older man, is probably Clyde Bowman and his wife, Marlene. Not to check, definitely in the dresser, but also maybe behind it and under the bed. Sure. We'll say that you toss the bedroom,

you look in the closet, you look in the dressers. You do find clothing that seems to belong to an older gentleman, suits and kind of out of fashion boxer briefs and things like that. But you check behind the dresser and nothing really stands out. There's really not a lot here. This is a boring man.

Agent Samuel and Agent Boomer, you step into the bedroom on the left. When you walk in, really the only thing of note in terms of furniture is a desk, like a big wooden desk. But kind of strewn all over the desk and in various boxes, the kinds of printer boxes you might get from an office or something,

are papers, lots of paperwork. I'll go up and I'll check the papers and look and see if it's anything pertaining to the program. I'm going to look in the drawers of the desk, but also any kind of drawer, I'm going to tap above to feel like if there's anything either taped, just anything of interest around the desk as well.

Very clever. You do do that and there does not seem to be anything hidden until you do get to the last drawer and you find that there's a fake floor, a fake bottom to it. And when you lift it, you do see kind of little snub-nosed revolver

that seems to have been hidden under the desk. Do you take that? Yeah, I'm going to take it. You pick it up. Do you examine it at all or just cut it? I'm going to go ahead and just take a moment and kind of look around it and then I'm going to nod towards,

I will, I'm going to actually bring this to Sam I.L.'s attention. I'll be like, hey, look at this. And I'm going to hold it, but like with my thumb and like pointer fingers, like so I don't put too much in my DNA. Do you not like guns? Go out and give it to one of those assholes outside.

I'm not ahead. Get in here. I'll come over. On top of that, everyone, everyone can obviously hear what's going on. I think Merritt looks at you hide before you leave. Like, thank you for owning that nickname before you walk in there.

I knew it would be you since it's... What's that? You're like, hey, what do you make of this? What do you make of this? And I'm going to like pass her the gun and I'm going to go back to the desk. I'll take the pistol and I'll look at it. I'll see if there's any bullets inside of it

or if it's been fired or discharged recently. You look, it is fully loaded. The one thing of note is that the serial number is scratched off. Agent Samuel, you have been taking the time to kind of look through this desk and you start realizing that there doesn't appear to be anything

belonging to the program. But there are at least six cardboard boxes full of, and the desk is full of it too, what appears to be accounting ledgers and records that Baumann kept, possibly all the way back to the early 90s. You suspect that to truly understand what is here, it's going to take you some time.

It's going to take a lot of time and maybe having everyone help would save some time. I turn around and say, we're going to want to grab and tag all these boxes. I'm going to be like, yep, but I'm going to just start collecting a box and try to shove as much like documents into it

so we can carry it out. Being somewhat bored by the other room, I think Agent Warp would kind of already just be silently standing in the room by the time he says that. Just go dive toward the boxes and start going in. Okay, so we'll say it takes about 15, 20 minutes to just kind of collect everything

that is in this room. You have about six cardboard boxes full of these ledgers and paperwork. Anything else you want to do? Can I go check out the kitchen? Sure. That's the only place you haven't looked yet, right? Yeah.

So while they're compiling everything, you step into the kitchen. The adjoining kitchen is devoid of life if you don't count the roaches. There's a smattering of cans and pans and boxes. Hanging on the refrigerator is the really only human touch. There's a crudely drawn human figure entitled Grandpa signed Cassie.

And there are two gold stars in the bottom corner. I'll kind of look at it and flip it over and leave it hanging up there. I'll just check under the sink and I'll just, you know, do the cursory like once over of everything. Sure. Yeah, you look through. And although there is some remaining random food items

and like I said, other things, it's pretty much just empty. I think maybe Merritt is taking into effect her investigative skills and sort of silently watching from the door trying to see Tuck's process. And then he speaks up as you're going through the sink. Did you happen to find anything in the other room? In the room, Warp and I went in.

No, there's just old pictures, old clothes. As she said, he's a very boring man and she's not wrong. Well, you have to be boring in a business like this. Otherwise, you invite danger, right? Tuck just stares at him. Me and Hyde seem to have found a second location that I think we could check out. Maybe there's more information there as well.

Great. We'll do some research and find out if he and the wife had any other properties, I guess. So at this point, the three researchers are standing in the living room with a bunch of boxes. Hyde is helping them. What would you guys like to do? Did anybody check under the bed in the mattress?

We'll say that they did a thorough scan of the room and did not find anything out of the ordinary. What about the living room in the couch? Like in the sea cushions under that as well? We can assume that, yes, you guys had the time, no rush to look through it all and nothing seems to stand out in the living room. OK.

Besides that, box of donuts. On a hunch, I open up the box of donuts and I can see what's inside. There's about four powdered donuts. They look pretty good. Yep. Would not eat one of those. Wouldn't recommend it.

Hyde, did I hear you say that you found where he died? Yeah, the bathroom smells deathy. Great. Deathy. It's unfortunate. Does anybody, did we find out anything about this wife, Marlene? They went on a cruise in 92. But we don't know where she is.

They seem to enjoy vacation. But why wouldn't Marlene be here? I don't think she has been here. There's no clothes for a woman. I mean, there's no woman's touch here, I guess. I don't know what that means entirely, but. And does that not strike you as strange? Well, perhaps it's a falling out,

or she could be with their son, Michael. You guys would know from reading the dossier in Bowman that her name had both a birth date and a death date next to it. Well, there you go. Well, that's why she died. She's not here. Yeah, that makes sense. But listen, 50-year-old man, at least, a heart attack.

I don't smell anything unusual here. I think we're done here. Perhaps it was the donuts. Shunt food. It'll get you. And there was kind of donut. No one eats mine. Is there anything fishy with these boxes we're sifting through?

Is it just a lot of records? Just from, you know, the cursory glance that you have all given it, it seems to be mostly, again, accounting ledgers, records, specifically pertaining to Bowman and his life. He seemed to take meticulous, you know, count of everything he spent money on. Mary said something about a second location. Yes, they seem to have a cabin.

I'd assume it's somewhere in Lansing, but who knows. But they have a getaway key. I had handed it to Hyde. Well, without an address, what good is it to us? Well, I was figuring since we have a technological expert, perhaps you could find a location somewhere nearby. I don't know. But it's elite nonetheless.

It's the second location we could see, or it's more evidence that he misses his wife. Either way, he has a second property and a car I should note as well. There's a car in the parking lot, I'm assuming. He had a car key hung up on the key spot just there. Yeah. Can't hurt to check it out. Judging by the boxes that we're all carrying,

most likely we can probably find this guy's address. And speaking since these boxes are not getting any lighter, I was like, is everyone OK if we just can get out? Well, that's Modiona. Yes. I would like to propose, though, maybe we should take some shifts and going out to the car. It might look a little suspicious

if all of us leave his apartment with all of his earthly possessions and boxes. So maybe we space it out between five minutes and then eventually meet up in the car. It'll also give us the time for anyone else to have some last-minute investigations or anything of that sort. That's a good point.

Nah, start over. Like, that's the first person. Do we need to search his actual car? I mean, can we just go out back and search that really quick? Would there be a map or something in there? I don't know how old school this guy is. I think that's viable. I absolutely think we should take that key

and investigate in the parking lot, maybe split up two of us, a partner pair, and see how that goes about. What do you say, Warp? I could accompany you. Sure. Do you have car keys or the knowledge of how to break into a car? I do have the car keys

and we should avoid breaking into cars, just as a precedent. That's fine. That's fine. Let's go. I'll take Warp's box and follow Sam at El. Okay, so give me a trajectory of where everyone's going. Sounds like Warp and Merritt are heading to the back part of the building.

And Sam went to the car. Sam and El and Tuck are both going out. You're just using the elevator and such? Actually, this time I'm going to take the stairs. I don't want to ride that elevator again. Okay, who's going with Sam and El? I will. I'll take two boxes and start down. And then the other two agents?

I was out the door, but I kind of heard what Warp said and I'm very intrigued by this car. But I'm going to go to our car first because I have two boxes. I'm assuming they're kind of heavy with all this paperwork. So I'm going to go drop it off at our car. And then I'll just...

I'm going to hang back. Hi, you're going to hang out in the apartment? Yeah, and then I'm going to take that gun that doesn't have a serial number and I'm going to pocket it. Copy that. So the first one out the door is Agent Boomer. Boomer, I assume you just kind of beeline it

to the staircase and keep going down. Sam and El and Tuck, can you guys give me both alertness checks? Fail, 98. A success, 40. As you're making your way to the stairs, you notice that same little old lady wearing the pink Moomoo holding the terrier

is at her front door. She seemed to have taken her time getting back to her apartment. And she is kind of watching as one, two, three, four, five, six people begin filing out of this apartment. And you are kind of passing her on the way to your, to the stairs. I stop and I say,

oh, nothing, nothing to be worried, ma'am. We're all from, from Mr. Bauman's church over there and we're just grabbing some stuff for his, for his son. It was just some papers, records and stuff. Nothing to worry about. Make a persuade check, Sam and El. That's a 41, which is a persuade,

persuade, persuade. That is a fail. Okay. She looks at you guys funny and says, it's none of my business. And she kind of unlocks her door and quickly kind of walks into the apartment and closes it. You eventually all kind of make your way

out of the apartment. Those of you heading to the car, you can take the boxes back to the car and really run into no one else. Agent Merritt and Warp, you head outside where you see a small parking lot that seems to be kind of connected to two buildings. So it kind of is where many people park.

But you have a car that has, or excuse me, you have a key that has a clicker on it. I'm going to click it like a million times. Okay. Eventually one of the cars in the corner begins to beep and you walk over and you see it's a blue Ford Taurus. Pretty beat up.

You open the door, look inside. Again, a patina of cigarette smoke hits you. This time a little harder because you can actually see a bunch of old cigarettes kind of put out in the ashtray of the car. But just kind of searching through it quickly. Nothing really stands out. There's some junk food wrappers and such.

But besides some registration, a secondary ID, you really don't see anything else. Could I pop the trunk? Sure. You do so and there is a spare tire. There's the tire iron. But that's about it. It's an empty trunk.

You know what, Warp? It's a little disconcerting to me that his son has not come to pick all these things up. I mean, no, he probably does know that he's died, but I mean, if this man didn't leave a whole lot of things behind, there might not be, he probably doesn't see the value in it. Yes.

But when you get involved with things like automobiles, you think even a couple thousand dollars, you could get off a Ford like this. I mean, I assume you could sell it, right? At the very least, even if you have a, let's say they have a troubled relationship, you'd at least come back to get your money's worth off of the emotional damage, right?

I don't know. No matter how troubled Warp, they mentioned the granddaughter's pictures and things up in the apartment. You imagine that if the granddaughter is close with grandfather, you'd assume the son follows, right? I don't know.

I'm just musing more than anything, but thank you for being a sounding boy. No, that's true. At the same time, I don't know if this is a residence that everyone is aware of, if that makes sense? Very true. Very true.

It's getting to be about 10, 15. You guys have been here for about an hour. Eventually Warp and Merit make their way back to the truck or to the suburban. You guys are all together. What would you like to do now? Can I go back upstairs to that woman's apartment? Sure, if you'd like.

I'm gonna take care of her. I'm gonna go knock on the door. Okay. Agent Hyde, you've been in the apartment for a few minutes. Are you doing anything in the meantime? No, not really, because I guess there's nothing else to really investigate.

So I assume you'll just head back to the car? Yeah, I'll close the door and stuff and lock it up. You do pass Agent Tuck. She's coming back up the stairs and heading to another person's apartment. I'll toaster the keys. Yes. Don't leave without me.

I swear to God. Promise. I promise I won't leave without you. Thank you for the keys. All right. If you're wanting them, just go down the stairs. Drone married out for some music. You walk up to the front door to apartment 2D

and I assume you knock on the door? Yeah. Okay. You knock and a moment passes and then you hear the old woman's voice say, can I help you? Yes, ma'am. As my friend said,

we're from Mr. Baumann's church and I just wanted to ask you a couple questions. We can talk through the door if you're more comfortable that way. I know it's a weird time. Yes. I prefer that. You guys don't look like you're from the church. Yes, ma'am.

We've tried to spruce ourselves up. Everyone's, you know, no one knows what to wear anymore. No one goes out anymore. So we're all a little scatterbrained. My cousin calls it COVID brain. Isn't that funny? You hear no laughter coming from the other side of the door. Yes.

Anyway, I, we're all just shocked by the loss of Mr. Baumann. He was a, he was an active member of the church. And I just, I just wanted to know if you were around the day he died, if you heard anything, his son, his son's kind of distraught. And I think it would just be a comfort for him to know that someone maybe heard something or was around. Go ahead and make a persuade check. Okay.

Come on. Big money. Ooh, a 12. That's a point. Yay. Nice. The door cracks open just a little bit. And you can see that she, she wants to talk to you.

She wants to say something, but she doesn't want to obviously open the door and kind of get too close. So through this crack, you can see her head kind of poking through. And she says, I'll take like a step back to be respectful. So she has a lot of space. It was a terrible shame that Paul, Mr. Bowman died. He wasn't found, he wasn't found for two days. Did you know that?

No, I didn't know that. That's horrible. Yeah. It's really, really kind of sunk up the place, but I, I didn't hear anything. When I asked the EMTs that got here, they said he might have died from a heart attack. That, that's, that's what I know. He kept to himself. So I, I don't know what else it could have been.

Did he ever have people over? I mean, I know no one has people over right now, but he, well, we just know he was really lonely after the passing of his wife. And I was just wondering if he had friends or acquaintances or work partners or just, just anything that, that might bring his son a little bit of, little bit of peace. I know he's with the Lord now. So that's, that's something, but. Well, I, I'm no snoop or nothing, but I never noticed anybody coming over to his place.

It was usually just him after his wife died. I, I don't think he really had many visitors. What about his granddaughter? I saw, I saw a few, a few pictures and a few drawings. It seemed really sweet. They seemed close. Do you know anything about her? Oh, what was her name?

Cassie, right? Yeah, that was the, that was, she signed one of her drawings. Clyde always talked about her, but I, I never got to meet her myself. It seems like him and his, his children might've had a, I don't know. Again, I don't want to gossip, but I don't know if they really got along in these last few years. Yeah, it seems like they're having a little bit of a rough patch in the family. That's mostly why I'm here, just to see what we can do to, to mend those, those hearts. You know, it's so hard to lose someone, especially now.

Oh, well, God bless you for doing that. What's your name, honey? I'm Kate. Okay, Kate, I'll remember you, Kate. And what was your name? I'm so sorry I didn't ask. My, you can call me Mrs. Janowitz. Mrs. Janowitz, thank you so much for talking to me.

I really appreciate it. God bless you, keep you safe and all that. Yeah, God bless you too, darling. All right, take, take it easy now. You too. All righty, and she goes to close the door. I'll walk away and just kind of like shutter and try and get whatever persona I just was in off of me. And, uh, and walk down to the, down to the car and try and be a normal person again.

When she gets back in the car, I look at her and I nod and I take a sip from my flask and I say, you do the church bit? Yeah. You raise your voice two cents and act like a good little church girl, someone named Kate or something like that. Yeah. Sounds about right. It's real gross.

Sorry. I mean, I know you're a dude. No, don't apologize. I know five people like that and they all suck. It's kind of a comfort, I guess. Steering into the right stereotype. That was scarily accurate, Samuel. I've seen this movie before.

She didn't know much, unfortunately, though. Said he wasn't found for two days. She didn't hear anything. The kids and him aren't on good terms, so. That, uh, that measures up. That is something me and Warp are you working on as a theory? Well, theory is proven or as proven as it can be by a 50 year old woman named Mrs. Janowitz. I have found that 50 year old women named Mrs. Janowitz are the peak form of information

in a town like this. That's a good point. She did say she wasn't a snoop, so she was absolutely a snoop. Yes. His relationship with his children aside. We haven't seen Jack shit about this guy, Daniel Thrice. Now, it could be that we find something in these papers that points us in the right direction, but I would say that this trip was all in all a waste of time because it seems like we've come

away with nothing. I don't see anything supernatural about his, his death. I mean, he was a 50 year old man, smoker, eight like shit. Hard the tag. I mean, that just makes sense. I don't see anything unusual in that. Well, sometimes I think the best thing we can do is wait things out. We've, we've got a lot of boxes of information.

We've also got a second location. I'm not ready to throw this out completely, especially if he was with the agency. He could just be an exceptional agent. I hate agreeing with Merritt, but I agree with Merritt. Thank you. Don't thank me. So where does that send us next? To Starbucks.

Okay. Well, we'll hit Starbucks, but boom. Thank you. If you can find anything about this cabin or whatever. Can I get that? I'm going to just kind of turn in the car. I'm like, wait, who has the keys really quick? The car?

Height has them. I'm in the, I'm in the driver's seat. I've just been on the wheel of the car the whole time. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me get clarification. I mean, the keys to the secondary location really quick. I also have the keys. Height is the key master.

Okay. Keys for days. You want this? Do you mind? I just want to take the keys and I'm going to just make note if anything sticks out really quick about them. In particular. And I'll just pass her one of the laptops.

My, my thought also with this second location, there's a possibility that whatever is within these boxes could have some information if he truly did work for the IRS. I'm sure he keeps all of his files on hand. So maybe we have an address somewhere within there and then we can connect the keys with the address and work that way. So perhaps, and if anyone is opposed, please let me know. Perhaps we bed down for the day. I found a Radisson over by the Capitol that seats 80 a night.

And I think we could get a room out, put on some, some dinner, get some takeout. I assume postmates deliver still. And then we can go through this research and have something clear headed for the next morning. Mayor, it's barely 1030. We have all day ahead of us. I think research is, is going to take a while and I know that eventually we'll have to sleep. We won't even be able to check into a room right now. We're better off staying here and going through files.

Look, how about we go park in a Starbucks parking lot? That works as well. We can't go in. We can't go in, but they'll have internet. Boomer can get coffee. Hyde can get tea and we can look through all this shit. The room is beneficial because we won't draw any eyes to anyone who is out here without a mask. But we can't even check into a room yet.

It's 10 in the morning. And why don't we go to this? Well, okay, we're trying to figure out where the cabin is exactly, but should we not prioritize that since we do have a plane? Well, that's I think our next step, but we need to. I like, I like where this is going. We just want to fly, dude. Are you suggesting we sleep in the plane?

I mean, why not? I mean, not to add more to this really quick, but is there a green box nearby that we could do? We also need to check out. I just need to get just to cover all our bases. Because that's a good point. Good thinking. How would you be able to know if there was a green box nearby?

We do have a list, but we'd have to access the server boomer if you're comfortable doing so. We have to go get internet first then and regardless. So it sounds like Starbucks is the way to go. Starbucks, green box, maybe a plane and a cabin. Not necessarily in that order. I just want to make sure I have this correct. We're about to access the most highly encrypted server in the world from a Starbucks. Yeah, but boomer designed it.

So it's the most highly encrypted server in the world that no one else but boomer can get into. I just wanted to say that that sounds incredible. This is a story. Look, babe, I'm going to tell you something real quick, and I think I'm going to blow your mind. What's really cool about these little little fobs that Warped Drive and San Miguel have? You know what? I'll say this.

We'll be able to get in and out, upload, and no one will fucking know. That's how cool this fucking highway of like super security. Oh my god. You know what? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm getting I'm getting a trust. No, don't care. Let's try an hour.

I mean, boomer, if you if you have any notes to any of this, I'd love to give it a read. Notes. Do you want me to break down how this thing works in layman's terms? Take your time in terms of getting it to me. But I love a good read. So you guys begin heading down the road to the closest Starbucks we'll assume, and Agent Boomer continues. Okay.

So I'm going to pull out my little key fob really quick. All right. So this little guy just for my computer illiterate people here has basically its own software. I can literally go into any computer. I can go into your grandma's computer. I can pretty much figure this out with your fucking iPhone. Anyways, I can literally type in my password that has to change weekly, get into another password.

All right. So basically get through the two doors. Okay. Now I'm in. Understand because of how this damn thing works, you can't find me. I'll be looking like I'm from Kuwait. That could be from Russia. Now, why do you think I can't find you?

How does it work that I can't find you? Okay. Imagine like me fucking with you by throwing out all these locations. You're like, oh wait, who's here? Oh no, wait, you can't find me because now I'm in Timbuk fucking too. This thing pops and skips like it's son of the fucking hedgehog and you can't track me. And when you think you've got me, a little fuck you will be right there because I've already been gone 10 minutes ago.

So that's how this thing works. And if shit goes south, you just push this little button. And after five seconds, it explodes. So make sure after five seconds, you let go. That's terrifying. I love it. I know. Physically explodes.

Physically really explodes. Did they debrief you on the ship before they give it to you? Not about the the explosion part. It's not going to take out the whole car or anything like that, but I highly recommend if you're going to hold that thing down, you let go because you're going to lose some fingers. Hey, in theory, this could work as a cyanide pill as well. Okay.

Okay. Well, rolling right along. Say agent boomer, are you the quiet kind of drunk? And I just hold my flask out to her. She's not. Don't start on this road, dude. I'm going to take. Take a little sip and I'll hand it back.

Boomer, it's 10 30. We need you. We eventually find ourselves in front of a Starbucks. You guys get the drinks that you wanted through the mobile pickup order, and you're now all sitting in the car. I'm going to go ahead and take our laptop, and I'm going to use our keep up login and try to find the nearest location for a green box. Well, she's doing that.

I'm going to be thumbing through whatever we're calling box one of six. Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take another one. I'll have them like pass it up like a brigade from the back. Same. Okay. So basically everyone in the car is assisting. I'm not.

I'm going to get out of the car. I'm going to sit on the back and I'm going to like go through my regular phone. I'm going to look to the rest and say, now I understand we can't check in yet, but should I go about getting us a room for the night while you all are working on this? Do what you want. Okay, that's one for pro. Everyone else a room for tonight,

unless you'd like to sleep in whatever green box boomer finds. I raised my hand and be like, yeah, please get me a room. Single room. A room just for you. Yes. Six single rooms. I don't want to share rooms. No, let's have a discussion about this,

but single rooms would mean we're blowing $600. That's nearly a fourth of our budget in one night. I'll put my I'll put my card down. I'll cover my room. Okay, but I am not going to be held responsible when Mallory is not okay with this. I'm just saying. For the rest of us, I'm getting us two rooms. Only.

For everyone. Two to a room. Yes, so three. Yes, three rooms, but since boomer has taken their own, I suppose warp you would get the third. I can't sleep in the same room as a woman. Okay. And you're bunking up with Mary then.

Have fun with that. I suppose we'll have a night of religion and and quiet conversation. Guess it's me and hide then. While he's doing that, I'm going to get out and like kind of nod to hide. We're bunking up tonight, dude. Cool. Just thought I should forewarn you. Warp and boomer got their own rooms.

And the boys get to have fun together. I'm hoping we're next to them to hear that shit go down. Because if Sam and El doesn't kill Merritt overnight, I will be surprised. Well, it would be a fight to the finish, though. I got five bucks on Sam and El. I have five bucks on Merritt. He's got the skill. You're on.

Sam and El's feral. Sam and El's fucking feral. He won't quit. He's not on his side. Do you see the way he takes notes? That's a contender. That's a fair point. Merritt might have already noticed some some some weaknesses to exploit.

If he hasn't figured out all of our weaknesses by now, he's not the Batman I expect him to be. Why does he get to be a superhero? That sucks. That'll make the rules. I'm going to I'm going to walk a few paces away from her and try and call my wife. Amongst the three of you, what is your accounting percentage skill? Big fat 20 or 10, 10 rather.

Sorry. I'm zero. So let's start with Boomer first. So Boomer, before you start assisting, you get on to the internet. You follow the procedures that you've been told. One thing you notice is it does take a lot longer than the normal internet. It's it's quite slow. It's reminding you of the old dial-up days.

But you do eventually type in a password using this encrypted operating system. You get into a very basic looking server. You notice immediately that there's about close to maybe 30 folders. And these folders are all just about a string of 12 random numbers. You are just kind of looking through them and you just can't make heads or tails of why. I mean, they're not even in any kind of numerical order either. It's just like, you know, 12 random numbers, 12 random numbers for these folders. And then at the bottom, you do see a single text file labeled GB.

You open that file. I will I will open the green box file. Okay. What you see is just a series of addresses. And some of them have little little codes, you know, 2567 next to it indicating maybe it's some kind of access code. I'll say it's easy enough. After about four or five minutes, you do eventually see a Michigan address in Detroit.

So it seems like at least within Michigan, the closest green box is probably in Detroit City. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going. Is there like a piece of paper? Like I'm assuming in the car. Well, wait, I take that back. There's a box. Fuck ton.

All right. I'm going to take a piece of paper nearby from a box, flip it over. And in my laptop bag, I can we presume I would have a pen and all that? Sure. All right. I'm going to go ahead and write down the Detroit address. I'm going to actually write that on a piece of paper and not like copy it onto the computer whatsoever. Copy that.

You eventually do that. You save the paper and then you go to helping the other researchers. You guys suspect that between the three of you, it's going to legitimately take like three hours to go through all of this stuff. And so once you come to understand that, are you guys going to sit in this parking lot for the next three hours or are you going to spend an hour and then make a decision because it's going to take a while to go through all this? Why the hell not?

Just get it done. Look, we were brought here to literally read documents and sort this shit. So I'm going to read documents and sort this shit. Am I in the car during this conversation? Yeah. And I'll also say, Agent Meredith, you have also found the Radisson. You've made the hotel room appointments. They do mention there is a cancellation fee, but you are in the room when everybody mentions

we've got about three hours before we know heads or tails of what's going on with this paperwork. OK, I'm with you, Samayel, in that we should knock this out. But perhaps we should find a better parking lot first or a better location. I just don't like being out in the open like this, perhaps. I mean, you can keep driving, but I'm going to keep reading. It's up to you. OK, very collaborative in that discussion. Thank you.

I'll tell Hyde then. I'll go talk with Hyde. I will speak with Hyde. Excuse me. Can I step out of the car and I go to Hyde? Hyde, I had a question for you. Samayel couldn't give me a straight answer, but maybe you can. What do you think about finding a secondary location for us to park so that they can research

thinking somewhere like National Park or somewhere at least remote compared to this location? Yeah, we should go. We've been here for a little too long. Yeah, perfect. We'll say that makes sense. Everybody eventually gets back into the suburban and you guys begin moving. It's getting close to 11.45 ish, getting close to noon. You do eventually find most of the city is empty anyway.

So you find like a park or you find some kind of open area that doesn't have a lot of traffic. You park, you turn on the AC. It's around this time that this heavy cloud coverage has started to threaten and a little bit a little bit more droplets of rain are hitting the car. Droplets of rain are hitting the car and it's kind of very slowly starting to rain. The next three... Did I manage to pick up one of my wife earlier? Oh, yes.

Yeah. Okay, good. That's all I wanted to know. Yes, we'll say that you do get a hold of her. She's kind of in the middle of some work, but she's happy to hear from you and she wants to know what's going on. I don't tell her much, but I try. She's happy to hear your voice.

I'm happy to hear her voice. And I get really sad when I get back in the car. So the next kind of three hours pass uneventfully as you guys begin looking through this research paper or these papers, I'm going to assume that you guys are either feeling hungry or you consider getting lunch going in some way. But as you think about that, the three researchers finish this looking through this stuff. And what you can make is that Bowman did in fact keep very, very specific records of his expenditures.

There are obvious expenses like renters insurance and the payment on his car, purchases made to his family. But you begin to notice that there is evidence that Bowman does in fact own a property. You see payments to lumber yards. You see payments to contractors to build something on a piece of property. And you're noticing that anything to do with this property, the address has been meticulously removed from all of these, all this paperwork. And it isn't until you finally come across a photocopy of a deed that you get not a not

an address, but a set of coordinates. And after about three hours, it's about 2 p.m. And you suspect that this is the closest you're going to get to making heads or tails of what this secondary location is, this set of coordinates. I think we got that address. Tell me it's out of state. I don't know. It's coordinates.

I don't know how to read that here. Boomer, you know how to look that up. Yes, I do. Boomer looking it up on your phone as you currently don't have internet access. But you look it up on your phone and Google Maps takes you to what looks to be a one acre property that is about two and a half hours north in the upper peninsula of Michigan. It's a much more wooded green area on the map. Is it anywhere near the lakes?

It's definitely closer to the west side, which would be closer to the sum of the water. But it's kind of still in the middle of the peninsula. Gotcha. Are we talking like near Detroit, Warren, Flint? That's where I'm trying to figure out. No, so Detroit would be to the east. Okay. And where this is sending you is northwest, about two and a half hours.

Gotcha. We can make it there before sundown. I say let's do it. Yes, I think it's a good idea. I don't think we should bet down there. Could be a location, could be too close to any sort of geometry if I can put it that way. But I think it's a good idea to check out at least. Do you want to check into our hotel first so we get our keys?

If you don't mind, I was going to offer to do it myself in case no one else wanted to. But that would help tremendously. Thank you, Boomer. All right. So with no objections, you guys make your way to the Radisson and Lansing. Fantastic exception. Agent Merritt is the only person who volunteers to jump out and get all of the necessary paperwork signed.

You slide the credit card and you now have rooms for this evening. Do you just do one evening, Agent Merritt? Right now, and then we can extend if we need to extend. I'm sure they're not staffed or filled up too bad. And then I come back out with muffins as well. OK. I'm going to take a muffin. I mean, they're free muffins.

We're going to get some muffins. Yes. Yes. Merritt jumps in with his muffins. You guys peel off and you begin heading north. It's about a two and a half hour drive that leads to the upper peninsula of Michigan. You eventually can tell within the GPS that you are heading to a town called Messick, M-E-S-I-C-K.

At least that's the closest town to where you are heading. With this long amount of time, is there anything that you guys want to do for the next two and a half hours? Once we start driving and knowing that we're through all of the paperwork there, paperwork goes away, Bible comes out, sipping on my flask while I read and we roll. I'm playing reggae music a little bit too loud. I'm just kind of zoning out as I'm driving us up to Messick. Where's Agent Tuck?

Are they sitting next to me or are they behind me? I probably gave up the front seat and climbed in the middle. OK. I'm going to kind of just like every now and then just kind of talk to Tuck just to pass the time. Yeah. Just kind of, I mean, how personal are you getting? I mean, we're going to talk about how shitty 2020 is this year. I'm pissed about Kobe.

We're going to talk about murder hornets, fucking of what we think of the government, particularly the administration, that kind of thing. We're not going too deep. We're just kind of ranting about 2020. Yeah. Is that your ketchup? Yeah, like a good ketchup.

It's probably been a couple of months since we've had a minute to talk. So we won't go in anything personal because it makes the company, but I think that at one point I would pause it to the group just as I know we're starting to get close. I would just sort of speak out loud like he's thinking and it became words. But you know, it's really interesting. Don't you think an agent with kids, with a family, with Cran children? I mean, how do you juggle all that? Comes with the territory.

It's kind of life, man. Yes, absolutely. But I don't know. I think when you take on that sort of responsibility, you have to put these things aside, right? At least that's my feeling. I don't know that I could do it. I don't know that I could come back like that, not take everything with me. When you see the shit that you see in this program, how the fuck can you just walk away from that in good faith?

Because I could never bring someone else into it. You don't bring them into it. You do. You protect them from it. It's a matter of psychology. No matter what you do, a part of you is going to share that, whether they know explicitly where it comes from. Obviously, it's affected this man. He's not talking with Michael.

He's not seeing Cassie. These are memories he had that he carried into his death, but they're not people, you know. There has to be a reason why. We all make sacrifices. Yes. You need a reason to fight. They're the reason to fight. Are you married?

I'm married. I'm married. Are you married? I'm sorry? Are you married? No. No. But even if I was, I want to tell you.

Dating anybody, seeing anybody. I'm not. And again, if I was, I wouldn't be calling this dog. Not even like an Instagram slide into the DM type thing. You're not even chatting someone up? No. I'm not. Really?

No. I have a dog. That makes sense. That's as close as I get to connecting. What's your dog's name? Samson. That's not his name. That is his name, Samson.

He's a post-interior. He's my life. And I don't project whatever I have in this onto a dog. And if I do, I'd be terrible. But that's what I'm saying, is I think it's interesting that this man was so quick to go on cruises, to have another life, to have a cabin. It's interesting to me because I don't know.

It's something I didn't think you could do. This can't be all there is, or you'll lose yourself. I don't know. I think it has to be both ways. And that's the interesting part of it. I mean, at the end of the day, we're people. You just got to find the balance. Right.

Take all the creepy, stressful work feelings and put them in a box. And then put all the other feelings in another box. And then just keep the boxes very far apart. Listen, Agent Mary, some people weren't meant to be happy and were those people. Accept it. Move on.

We can be happy. In one box, I'm super happy. What's with the other box? We don't... That's a different box. I'm sorry, but you put your literal feelings in a box? Yes. Is that not...

I mean, sometimes it's not a box. Sometimes it's a room. It doesn't have to stay a box. But I mean, like, cube is sort of the theme for me. I think that maybe we should just take a break from talking now. That would be wise, yes. I'm just... Wow.

During this travel, it's about 3 p.m. You have another about an hour and a half. And, Agent Boomer, your personal cell phone begins to ring. Oh, okay. I'm going to... I'm going to pick it up. You can see that it is your fiance. Hey, babe, what's up?

Hey, Maxine, where are you going to chill for lunch today? Oh, my God, I'm such a dick. I thought... I'm so sorry. I did the nurse not reach out to you at all? No, it's been crazy in here today. I really didn't get a chance to talk to anyone. What's going on?

Are you okay? No, no, no. Everything's totally fine. Totally fine. Okay, so I'm going to tell you something and you can't tell. You can't tell. You can't tell my sister and you can't tell. I'm looking around the card.

I realize I can't... I don't want to say the names out loud. Like, you can't tell anybody. Okay, what's going on? Are you all right? You're scaring me. No, everything's... If I...

All right, so I actually got a phone call about some major, major government contracts and... Honey, this could... This could be... I'm talking... This could be the game changer. So I thought... I left like some food at the nurse's stand with a note.

I'm so sorry. I'll yell at them when they come back. That's... I am heading to DC right now. And what we're trying to do is we're possibly trying to use some of our software to help, especially with COVID and everything. Like, I don't...

Don't tell anyone else their stuff. But long story short, if we can nail this down, we can really help change things so much. And also, we can set ourselves up for life. So I'm so sorry. I can't believe that this happened, but I'm trying to get back to you very soon, probably within the next three to four days.

If not, I will update you ASAP. Oh, my God. Wow, this is also sudden. I mean, that... It's great news though, right? This is like, I'm about to lose my shit. I can't believe this. But like I said, we're going to keep this.

Don't tell anybody though. Okay, yeah, I won't. I'm very happy for you, Maxine. I just... I don't know, I'm just... I'm having a really bad day. There's a lot of cases coming in today. What's going on?

It would have been nice to have you here. Yeah, it just would have been nice to have you here. I know. This is good. This is good news. I'm not going to be a spoiled sport. I'm happy for you, okay? No, I would not do this without you.

This is like, I want to make sure that we get... We're taking care of each other for everything. So, but tell me about your day. Okay, I'm so sorry. I will. Absolutely. Love you. All right.

All right, I love you. I'll talk to you later. Bye. Muah, bye. You did not handle that well. This is the boxes are super close. This is what I was talking about. They're very close.

You know what? I'm just going to say this, y'all. Who here in this car has gotten laid in the last 48 hours? Me. Thank you. Everyone else? They're asking the priest. We need to hide.

Thank you. You're not the only one getting some. Thank you. How is this vital to the mission? How is this vital to the mission? It's not, it's really not. It's just a little bit of bragging, honestly. It's a fucking flex.

Let's just say it what it is. Lord give me strength. Padre, do not judge. Yeah, you got two lesbians on the car. It won't end well. No one's, no one's judging anybody. Eventually the GPS leads you to an exit ramp, which leads to an off-road.

You spend about 10 or 15 minutes driving through fairly dense wooded areas. This part of Michigan is deep forest and much more mountainous, as opposed to kind of the more flatlands of Lansing. You are passing homes every couple of minutes. You assume every home in this area is pretty isolated with a couple of acres each. And eventually around 430, you pull up to the address.

You stop the car and kind of take in the location. On about a one acre piece of land, there stands a one-story cabin constructed of wood. You can see that there are power lines running to it, so you suspect it's connected to the local power grid. You can see that there are two smaller structures in the backyard. What do you do?

Well, I would like to propose a game plan to all of you. I'm thinking that maybe two of the security team could- I get out of the car. See you. Sorry about that. God damn it. I'll get out with him. Well-

Next time, Merritt. Merritt, you still haven't figured this shit out with him? No, I just- I won't be apologetic when he dies. And I get out of the car as well. And I start to walk the acre in perimeter. I hope that- I actually looked at Tuck before I start to walk the perimeter as my door's open. I look at her.

Would you mind to accompany me on a walk around the perimeter? Unless you'd like me to take one of the research teams. No, I'll go with you. Hyde, you got the three egg heads? Two egg heads. There's three of them. I got it. Yes, well, one axe of his own volition.

I go after Samuel. No, I'm not going anywhere. I just got out of the car to piss him off. Terrible. Then I'm just going to put my hand on your shoulder and it's like, I got- That's the one I'm worried about. Thanks, Hyde. Okay.

I take Merritt's shoulders and I turn him and I push him toward the perimeter. So he doesn't start leaking the sand. Perfect. Okay. Let's take- So Merritt and Tuck, you guys begin walking the perimeter of the property. The four others, what are you guys doing? Shall we go in the house?

We shall. I'm going to let them take lead, but I'm going to follow. Sure. So the folks walking the perimeter, Merritt and Tuck, you guys, again, this log cabin has looks to be a couple of rooms, not very big. It's actually quite small. You suspect there's maybe at most one bedroom in this thing. But as you walk around the back, you can see that there is two small structures.

One seems to be an outhouse and one seems to be a kind of utility shed. And you also notice that there's kind of closer to the tree line farther from the house. There's what looks to be a little hole in the ground. There's almost like a shallow pit kind of close to the woods. There's also a tree in the middle of the yard. That's what you immediately notice kind of just walking around the space. The other four of you walk up to the front door and I assume you're using the keys that you have. They in fact work and the door unlocks.

Does everybody walk in? I'm going to be last to walk in. Just kind of give a quick sweep around the area. Gotcha. Uh, the cabin interior is quiet and there's more than a few cobwebs that are illuminated with the sunlight that's kind of coming in through the windows. There's some second hand furniture and there's a rustic decor that makes you think that Bowman probably had some help in decorating.

You can sense a woman's touch here. You stand in the living room but you can see that there's an open kitchen and there's also a bedroom. You immediately notice that the living room is in a somewhat disheveled state. There's a sleeping bag that is crumpled in the corner by the couch. There are cans of ravioli that are open with flies kind of coming in and out of them on the coffee table and there's a chair where the TV might usually be. Proped up on the chair is a corkboard. Does everyone kind of continue looking around this area?

Does everyone split off? As soon as I see the corkboard, I hone right in on it, walk up to it and see what's on it. All right, everyone else? I'm gonna go sweep through the the rooms and stuff to make sure it's secure before anybody really proceeds. Gotcha. Um, so a warp and boomer, what are you guys doing? If you're getting the corkboard, I'll try to get the kitchen.

Okay. And I'm going to follow hide to the bedroom and I'm going to kind of like wait in the doorway until she gives me the all clear so I can go ahead and investigate. Agent Samuel, you walk up to this corkboard. It's 18 by 24 inches and it has several no cards, napkins, newspaper clippings and other kind of random papers pinned to it. It it's like a stereotypical conspiracy board complete with red string connecting a few of these cards.

You notice that there are candles lining the chair and extra index cards and string that are laid out almost ritualistically. The whole scene kind of reminds you of like a makeshift altar. This was a very important thing to who you assume is Clyde Bowman who built this. I'm going to share with you all what it looks like. We're not going to be able to go into extreme detail into you guys kind of sit down and look at it and parcel everything out, but you can at least see what it kind of looks like. There's tons of scribblings, looks to be somebody's handwriting on various different

things. There are numerous names and aliases, dates and things like that and it's quite a lot to take in at first. While you are kind of looking it over, Agent Sam, Agent Boomer and Hyde, you guys walk into the bedroom and it is all clear. The best that you see is a big log or wooden bed that has this kind of nice native kind of print and there is looking around, nothing really stands out except when you kind of instinctively look under the bed, you see that there is a footlocker under the bed.

You pull it out, you notice immediately that it's very old. I think that Agent Hyde would be able to tell that it's probably somewhere around Vietnam era of like a military footlocker. Do you pop it open? I was going to say, can I pop that open or is there like a lock on it? There does not seem to be any kind of formal lock. Looks like you can open it if you wanted to. Open it.

So Agent Boomer, you with Agent Hyde's permission begin opening the footlocker and inside are a bunch of random things. The first thing you notice is that on top of everything, there is a sealed white envelope marked with a triangle in green ink. You open it up and you can feel that there's probably a letter or a piece of paper inside, but in the footlocker are a number of things. We'll get back to you. Agent Warp, you go to the kitchen, you begin looking around.

What are you specifically doing? Mostly, I'm not looking for anything too specific because there isn't much to the kitchen, but I guess if there's some sort of alter-esque thing happening, I'm looking for weird things in the refrigerator or yeah, honestly, meat that shouldn't be there. We'll start with that. Okay. So you're trying to look for the inconsistencies. You begin looking around opening cabinets and eventually you get to the cabinet that is

underneath the sink. You open it up and you look and you don't have a lot of experience in plumbing, but you notice that the tube that comes out of the sink just kind of ends and then you notice that there's another tube like in the wall, but that tube seems to be full of cement or concrete or something. It's been filled. All right. Okay.

So whoever this getaway is not a getaway anymore. Safe to assume. But why? Okay, that's fine. Okay, I'm going to go see what Sam is up to. Okay. Meredith and Tuck, what would you guys like to do while you're outside? I don't know about you, Tech, but I'm probably most interested in whatever that pit is.

I'll follow the pit for now. All right. You walk past the outhouse, you walk past the shed, you walk past the tree. As you are walking past the tree, it is very obvious to see that there is a chain of some kind wrapped around the tree just kind of once and attached to the chain. You notice immediately is a dog. It looks like a like a rottweiler, but it's not moving.

And as you get a little closer, you realize it's probably dead. Maybe it was his. Hit? His. His. Probably. I'll go up to it and kind of whistle as I get closer and just see if there's anything. Yeah, you can give a few whistles, kind of crouch down to get a better look.

It is, in fact, a dead dog. Using your forensics abilities, it doesn't seem to be horribly decomposed. It looks like it's maybe been here a month or so, which out in the open is obviously going to be quite decomposed, but you still see a lot of skin. There's a, you know, it seems to be basically composed still, but you suspect you already see like there's ants and stuff kind of crawling all around it and stuff. Agent Merid, you walk over to this shallow pit and you can see that there is a hatch for a septic tank that is padlocked from the outside.

There is earth kind of piled around the hatch, which indicates that it's probably stood exposed like this for a little while. I turn back to Tuck and I say to her, you don't suppose this is the second key, do you? Only one way to find out. Agent Tuck and Merid, let me have you both make intelligence checks. Just intelligence times five. Success. Success.

It's both around the same time that you both realize that if this is, in fact, a septic tank, it's unusual that the hatch is exposed like this. It would usually be buried much deeper underground. And it's strange that a house that has a septic tank also has an outhouse. I was just about to say that. Yeah, they're not really adding up. On that, on that realization, I'm going to go straight for the outhouse and kind of push the door open a little cautiously.

I'll stay over by the pit waiting for her to confirm. What is your forensics, Agent Tuck? My forensics is a 37. You can tell that this is a functioning outhouse, but judging from the kind of lack of intensity of smells, you assume it's probably been several weeks, if not months, that someone has used this outhouse. Oh, this is going to be disgusting. And I'll go in and I'll shine my flashlight down into.

Yeah, you see what you expect, but it's kind of dried. And there's not as much liquid or anything that you would expect from an outhouse. I'll go back out and say, we need to check the septic tank. The outhouse is what it's supposed to be, but. A reasonable amount of shit, here's the thing. Perfect. A reasonable amount of shit, yeah. So I'm thinking the same thing you're thinking.

I'm thinking maybe this is a green box of some sorts. We should go meet the others, right? Yeah, let's check out this. Let's check out this last storage locker. Just you're absolutely right. I'm getting ahead of myself. Good catch. As you are making your way back to the house, you stop first at the shed.

And inside you find a small wooden shed that has several tools. Things to shear tree limbs and power tools. And there are most noticeably four, five gallon tanks of gasoline, and they all seem to be full. But there's no machinery besides the power tools? No, you do see a small water pump that is probably supplying water to the cabin, but no generator or anything like that. Was there something like a tractor or like a riding mower that we saw?

Nothing big like that. Inside the shed, there is one or two gas-powered tools, weed-whackers, things like that. But not nearly that much gas. No, cool. So back in the house, we're going to assume that you guys will head back to the house. Agent Sam, is there anything you want to do as you are kind of taking in this board? Agent Boomer.

Ansel Incorporated, you know it? Technology company. Oh, hold on. Google that. You Google the name. There's a few results, but you seem to find the website of a technology firm of some kind. Ansel Incorporated. And like all of these tech companies, it's a little hard to discern,

but you assume from the nice layout of their website that probably military, probably, you know, intelligence, something like that. Okay, I'm going to kind of go into the doorway so I'm not like shouting across really quick. I would be like, uh, tech firm, very nice website, but it looks like a bullshit front for probably the same shit that we're doing. Just heads up and then I'm going to go back into the room. Come take pictures of this for me when you get a chance. Will do.

So Agent Boomer, you and Hyde are kind of piecing together what you find in this locker. Yes. I will send you guys an exact list, but I'll read it out to you now what you see. So the first thing you notice is that there is real to real tapes that are inside a tape player. And they are labeled with FBI evidence tags. FBI evidence tags are dated August 15th, 1972 to September 29th, 1972. 21 hours total is written out. So it's an actual reel to reel that you can play.

The next thing is a cardboard box that when you look inside, it contains a neatly folded, but very bloody man's suit. There is an annotated copy of a dissertation of some kind. And the title is Sky Devils. Archetypal figures in Native American mythology by Karen Barr. And it's not too thick, but it's something you suspect you could probably read in a day or so if you kind of plowed through it. The next thing you notice is that there are three tear gas grenades.

Agent Hyde, you can immediately recognize that these tear gas grenades are at least 20 years old, according to their design. There is a large knife that once you pick it up, you realize it's probably made of iron because the metal part of it is quite heavy. But the handle is made of bone. In fact, it's quite obviously like a human femur or something. Doesn't even look that old, at least the handle doesn't. What does stand out about the knife beyond the bone handle

is that there is this set of strange carvings actually on the blade. They look like check marks kind of along a line. There's some dotted circles and things like that, but you don't immediately know what this is. There is a leather pouch and there's also a little glass sphere inside. It's like a little bead. And those are the things you find inside. Well, shit, this ain't good stuff.

At this point, Merid and Tuck, you guys step in and you see that there is some work already being done and there are some things to see. So, Tuck, do you know, like I was about to say, you've probably been down this rodeo more times than I have. Take a look at what's in the box. I'm going to just show her and step back. I'll look in the box. Yeah, you see the same things that I just pointed out.

There's a book. There's some tear gas grenades. There's a strange knife that has a bone handle, a little glass bead, a little leather pouch and the thing. Yep, bloody suit. And the thing that probably stands out to you as an FBI agent is that there are real-to-real tapes with these FBI evidence tags on them. And those dates were August 15th, 72 to September 29th, 72?

Yes, ma'am. Okay. Well, this is a lot of information. Tuck, I am not watching these fucking tapes alone. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. You don't have to do it this time.

Thank you. Thank you. You did it in that last time. Damn right. Anyone know anything about the Meadowbrook, New Jersey? Yeah, what about it? It's on this board. What?

Agent Tuck, you step into the living room where you see Agent Samuel like kind of sitting Indian style, just kind of, you know, engrossed in this. What looks to be a classic conspiracy board. And as you approach, he points out that in fact, in the bottom corner, there is what looks to be a news article. Arthur Donnelly, have you ever heard of him? We met. Yeah.

What, really? Long time ago. Where? Why? Around. All right. Well, I mean, look, you can see the article for yourself. Yeah, I'm reading it now.

The article basically goes into detail about what you, Agent Tuck, know are the last events that occurred in the home, the home that you and Agent Boomer visited. It goes into detail about the death of Chief Police Michael Buffington and all of the strange occurrences that happened in that house. And the article ends with describing the fact that the local communities decided to bulldoze the home and make it a park. They made it a park. That's hilarious.

Why is that funny? Uh, weird shit happened in that house. I'm surprised. You were there? What? You were there. Maybe. No, you were there.

I can hear it. But why is it on this board is the question. Why is it tagged underneath Ansel Incorporated? Look at this. You see this? This is obviously a floor plan right here. Either that or it's some sort of security hierarchy. There's not a line to it.

It's a Gavin Ross. If I can speak a little quick, it seems as though our man Clyde was speaking with your friend, Donnelly. Tuck, won't call me back. So maybe this is in connection with him discovering why he's not having his calls returned. Yeah, Donnelly said. Some sort of conversation. And forgive me, but this everything on this cork bird looks to be information about the program.

No wonder this is a cleaner job. This is this is his investigation into our organization. Correct? Yeah, looks like a look at the top left corner. There's our first mention of Daniel Price that we've seen so far. Problem is, it's not have it doesn't have any connections to other nodes. Well, I believe he hasn't found anything. Maybe yes, a case file.

Maybe that's a black chamber. So for the audience to understand what's happening, Agent Samuel, could you at least describe what are the kind of maybe three or four main things that you guys are looking at here? Yeah, so we're looking at this cork board and posted on it. We're noticing first there's a business card for a corporation called Ansel Incorporated connected to a piece of paper that appears to have some sort of D zero D one. It's either a floor plan or some sort of security clearance

connected to a number of names. And in the top left hand corner of the cork board, we are seen written on a postcard. The first reference we have found to a Mr. Daniel Price, which is posted also with a reference to something called black chamber. There's a number of things on the board, but that's what stands out right away. It looks like he was trying to break it down. Like he was trying to find clearance levels and connections to exactly how the organization works.

Let's go back real quick to Agent Boomer and Hyde. You guys have kind of gotten an understanding of what is happening in this footlocker. What is left agent Hyde is this white envelope that seems to contain a letter inside of it. I'll grab it and open up the envelope. Okay. You see that there is a letter, and I will share that with you now. You wouldn't mind Agent Hyde reading aloud what the letter says. To whom it may concern, if you're reading this note, I can assume I have died or become incapacitated before I had the courage to complete my final mission.

You will find about 20 gallons of gas in the shed behind this cabin. Pour it into the septic tank beside the cabin and ignite it. You'll be happier if you didn't look inside. Please make sure that the remains are kept for my children. I'm so sorry, God, please forgive me. Cly Bowman. Is this read out to all of us or is this in the other room? At the moment, only Hyde has read this.

Okay, perfect. So what would you like to do, Agent Hyde? I'm just going to fold the letter for a second. I'm not going to say anything quite yet, because I want to figure out what that all meant. We're like, why? Agent Boomer, what are you doing? I'm going to be like, Hyde, can you give me your arm strength really quick, because I'm just going to take one end of the foot locker,

motion for her, and like, let's just put this in the trunk of the car, because we're going to need to file this stuff. Oh, sure. I'm going to just put the letter in my back pocket and help her out. Okay. So those of you who are in the living room, you see Agent Boomer and Hyde carrying a foot locker, and they begin moving out the front door and moving to the car. Hey, Hyde, hold on just a second. Can we get those, can we get those keys from you? Uh, sure. I hand it to Tuck.

I'm not even going to look at Merritt. I'm just going to go back in the backyard and... Yeah, I pick up and follow as soon as Tuck starts. Okay, wait, wait, wait. Where, where are both of you going? I speak to Tuck and Merritt as well as Boomer. Uh, I'm going to go ahead out. I'm just going to quickly, like, put this in the car. There's just too much stuff to go through, and I just figured let's just go ahead and take it so we can file away.

We found a septic tank out to the north of the property. It's been sealed off, though. It doesn't look like it's being used for its actual purpose, considering there's also an outhouse. We think the second key probably opens the lock. I'm going to make sure we don't go as far as going into it yet, but we just want to make sure we can open it if we can. Do you mind if I join you? Of course not, Warp. Come along.

I don't want to be anywhere near that. That's completely all right. I didn't wait for that. I just went straight back to it and started unlocking it. So, Agent Boomer and Hyde, you put the trunk into the back of the car. The car is quite full at this point. You've got all of your luggage. You've got this big locker, and you also have about six boxes full of cardboard, excuse me, full of paperwork. So, it's quite cramped at this point. I'm sorry. Did we go through all those boxes pretty thoroughly earlier? You feel like you have done your due diligence to make sense of Bowman's paperwork,

and it seems like the only thing that really stood out was the coordinates for this home. Honestly, I'm just going to probably take maybe two of those junk boxes out to at least make some space in the car. And where are you going to put those boxes? I'll bring them into the cabin, into the living room for now. Okay. So, Merritt, Tuck and Warp, you guys walk out. We'll say that Tuck, you get to the door first, and you begin unlocking it. It's now about, we'll say, 5.30. Sun is kind of getting low in the sky.

Now that you see it, now that the clouds have cleared, you unlock the latch, open it up. There's not quite enough sunlight to let you see perfectly inside, but you can see that there is an interior. It's very large. It's about two meters deep and two meters wide, about three meters long from the interior. It's dark and a little damp. You can see just kind of a little bit of like a pool of water that seems to trail into the darkness. I'll pull out a flashlight. You pull out the flashlight, and as you are starting to examine it, what immediately happens is you hear sobbing, soft.

What the fuck? Nope. And as soon as you, as soon as you can hear it, it begins changing, and it's, she says, Help me. No. Can you help me, please? I'm going to fumble with the flashlight and try and get it on quicker. There's a person down the hall.

You can, sounds like there's somebody down there. Tuck, I know. Can you take my way down there? We're back. Tuck, I know what you're thinking right now, but could we just shut that? We need to know who's in there. There's a person in there. Yes. Help me, please. I'm so scared, please. I just need to get out, please.

I'm going to take like a step back and then put the flashlight in there. Let's do this correctly. Let's shut it right now and lock it, and let's make sure we're following procedure. Yes. There's a person in there. Agent Merritt, as you are arguing this, Agent Tuck, I assume, is going to go through with the idea. So, Agent Tuck, what are you doing? Are you sticking your head in and pointing the- I'm not going to stick my head in. I'm going to angle myself to try and get the, like, the longest view of it.

Okay. Have my flashlight not in. You're doing, yeah, you're doing your best, but you're just, everywhere you're looking, you just see kind of like a larger puddle of water. You don't currently see anybody in there. And it's just continuing. This woman just sounds more and more desperate. She's saying she can't move. She's saying she needs water. She's hungry. Please, please help. Can I, unless Tuck is doing something first, can I attempt to shut the septic? No. Upon seeing that, I'm going to back up. Upon seeing the, like, I can't see an actual person

and knowing what we know from New Jersey, I'm going to back the fuck up. Agent Merritt, you slam the top down and kind of closed the- We can't just leave the person down there. There's someone down there. Yes, we can. You need to understand that we have no idea what we just saw. You both need to take a deep breath and understand that we are not in the business of saving people. As you are having this argument, Agent Hyde is walking up. What's going on? What are you doing? What's going on? There's a voice in, in the septic tank.

At this point, you can hear a thaw, a very soft, there's- There's someone down there and for some reason we're not letting them out. We don't know what is down there. There was no one in there. I go in my back pocket. I pull out the note. I found this letter from Bowman. It's said to not go in the septic tank. It says to blow it up with gasoline. Good thing we saw that earlier. What did you find down there? Well, do you hear the knocking? I hear the knock. It just sounds like a, like there's a woman locked in a septic tank.

I'm going to try to- I'm going to try and stop her. If she's going towards it, I'm going to try and stop her. Yeah. Okay. You can, you can make a contested check. It's going to be great. She's not super strong. All right. But we'll do it. Let's do a strength times five check. Can I just put my hand at my belt where my service pistol is? Sure. It's really bad. It's an 86, which is a failure.

Mine is worse than 89. What? I'm mostly just going to try and block her more than anything. Not necessarily like hold her, but just block and, and try and get her to look me in the face when I explain warp. There was no one in there. I looked around. There's just a puddle. It, it's just a puddle. It's sometimes things, sometimes things pretend to need help

and they're lying and you have to just see past it. Agent warp, you can still hear the someone is banging on the inside of that septic tank. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's a lie. Warp. It's okay. Listen, tuck, hide. Can you watch over warp? I'm going to go get the others. We can have a conversation about this out here. Understood? We should have the conversation inside.

Perfect. That's even better. Let's make sure that this lock is secure and let's move back to the house. We can have the conversation. Maybe me and hide can go into the shed and, and retrieve the gasoline just in case. This is crazy. The team makes their way back into the home. You grab the canisters of gas.

Agent semi-l, you see everyone kind of make their way back. Agent boomer, you're also seeing this. And they're also carrying four or five gallon gasoline tanks. What the hell's going on? Question. Nothing good. What do you mean? Nothing good. There's a septic tank. You, you, you stay.

All of you stay. May you stay? Yes. There's what's going on. A septic tank out back. And we thought we had, we do. There is an entity down there. I haven't confirmed anything.

We haven't confirmed anything. But it was asking for help. And obviously we're not going to give it that. But there was also a letter given to us by Hyde that she had found within the house that warned us against going down there and warned us to light the thing on fire with this. Like, tell me exactly what this thing.

What, first of all, what did you see? Second of all, what did it say? I think Tuck can speak to that. I was, it was asking for help. It said it couldn't move. It was hungry. It was thirsty. It was just, it was asking.

It wanted, it obviously wanted us to come in. And I've been on enough of these cases to know not to do that. Hell no. You didn't see anything. No. But you didn't see anyone. There's a puddle. That's it.

Huh. What? I've seen worse than that. What is it? Let me add it. You're not going to get rid of that thing with gasoline. Let me add it. I'm sorry, that's, it's a person.

I don't, I understand. Actually, I don't understand. But if we don't know that it's not a person and we, then we don't know that it is, I just, I just think it's worth giving a second. Warp drive. No, no, no. This, I don't, this is your first rodeo?

Boo, I'm telling you. Do not fuck with this kind of shit. Agent Warp, I assure you, if it's a person, I'll be able to discern the difference. But if it's something that can be heard, but not seen, let me tell you that I will have the relevant knowledge and experience to deal with it. Now let me add it.

Why take the chance? I'm sorry, I don't mean to overstep. This is a cleaner mission. We were hired to take care of any loose end, and human or not. Agent Merritt, do you want someone stumbling onto that thing? No. Do you want somebody walking into that?

Who knows what the fuck that thing's gonna do? Now if we leave here and if we don't deal with it, that, that blood is on us. Fine, let the man go into the hole. I'm gonna say it again, let me add it. Let him add it. Absolutely, let the man into the hole. There we go.

Let him do it. I'll be the first to lock after you. I don't think that's a good idea. Exactly, it's not. Okay, compromise. Sam, you don't go in, but we let you talk to it. I don't need to go in, I just need to speak to it. Nobody comes with me?

Nope. Okay, one person comes with me. How about that? No, we all go if this is the plan. Agent Merritt, if something goes wrong and we're all there, then we all are fucked. Yes, well, we're fucked either way. My point is that if we blow it from sky high,

if we do exactly what the agent who knows what to say- We'll do absolutely nothing to get rid of it. Trust me. Okay, if you can't stand to listen to my entire point, then don't even try to act like you're a part of this team. Die in that fucking hole then. Look, look, look. Well, that's not-

You're both tense. There's a lot of weird shit going on. And I'm- I'm not having fun. No one's having fun. This job isn't about having fun, but we need to do something. And if the father has some kind of experience with this, we need to let him at it.

We can create a daisy chain of people if that makes you feel better, Merritt. I'm sorry, but the person that has the most experience is the one that wrote that letter. I'm just saying. I disagree. Fine. Look, I'll go with him.

Sam can stand closest to it. I'll stand next closest. Doc, you know that's dumb. You know that's dumb. What are you doing? I know that's dumb. Then don't do the dumb move, okay? Homeboy, let him walk in.

And if shit goes south, we either light the bitch on fire and let him burn. Sorry, bro. You want to go in. That's fine. That's you. My ass is going to be good couple feet away near the car. We're just going to take out the yarn

that she's already made in her bag. We just tie it to a phone. Turn on the flashlight. Swing it around a few times. Let's try that. What does that do? All right. That's what we do.

It gives us a visual without someone going down into it. That way, if we see whatever is down there. Sure. Then we can make whatever decisions we need to. If the thing takes the phone, it'll take the phone and some string and that's it. Why not? Put video function on it.

See if we can get a video of whatever it is. We're not the fucking goonies. These are different. All right, fine. Let's just do it. That's fine. That's fine. Can I speak quickly?

Before we do any of this, can we document everything we found in this place first? Get it digitized and up to the server. I'm comfortable if we even split up to do so. But that's what we came here to do is clean this site. Then we burn the place. Then we can go into whatever the hell you like. Let me go to the car and I'll take out my laptop

and I'll start doing that. If anyone wants to follow me. Thank you, Boomer. Great. I got you all on that. Someone stay with Boomer. I think I will. I'll stay with Agent Boomer.

I don't want to be a part of this. Thank you. So, Agent Semi-L and who else is going out to the septic tank? I am. I'm not leaving alone. Warp. This string. Tuck and hide, I assume.

Yeah, I'll go. Okay, I'm going to miss you guys for that. The four of you walk out and you are standing in front of the tank. You know that it's just a matter of unlatching it and then swinging it open. Okay, before we open it, I will take out the string. Does anyone want to volunteer their phone? I'm not going to use the damn thing anyway.

Perfect. And a tour. I tie the string around the phone enough times and then I FaceTime my phone. Okay. Nice. And then get a good like 10, 12 feet. And then say, okay, we're good.

Okay. I'm going to pull my service pistol. And just have it. So who is who is lowering this phone into the hole? I'll do it. How far away from the hole are you people? 10 to 12 feet. I don't think you can be 10 to 12 feet from the hole

and be working on getting it down to the hole. There has to be at least one person opening it and one person kind of guiding the phone in. I am not afraid. I will lower it. Who's opening the hatch? I can keep it open once it's open, but I don't know how heavy that door is.

I'm lowering the phone. I'm going to keep an arm's reach of warp so I can jerk her back as something happens. Agent Semi-L, you begin releasing the string down and the phone kind of dangles down into the darkness. As that happens, I make sure the reach into my down past my collar. I grab the chain underneath, pull the crucifix out,

flick it out so it's hanging in the open. Okay. Agent warp, you are FaceTiming with the phone and you can see that it is kind of dangling around, seeing from side to side. There is a far end to this septic tank that kind of just falls into darkness and even with the flash on,

you're kind of having a hard time seeing anything, but you can all hear the soft whimpering of a woman who says, Help me please, please help me out. Young lady, what is your name? My name's Marlene. Marlene. Please, I'm so scared. Can you help me out?

Marlene, I'm Father Jones. How long have you been in this tank? I've lost track of time. I think at least a couple weeks, I think. And I keep talking to whatever it is as I'm lowering it down and I just look back to warp to tell me if she does or does not see anything. I can't see anything still, right?

Yeah, Agent Warb, you noticed that there is something on the far end, but again, it's just not illuminated. It would have to be closer. All right, you're gonna have to start, I start making like swinging motions. Maybe try to like swing it in a specific direction. Do as she instructs. Yeah, you're able to control it surprisingly well

and you know, you can kind of pan it around. It's not so much that you're not in looking in the right direction. It's that the septic tank is deep enough that it just falls into total pitch black. And every once in a while, the light will kind of illuminate a little something. But you just, you know, when you take a flash and something is far away,

it just kind of illuminates the foreground. So you're just having a hard time really seeing any details into the deep septic tank. I hold out. I put one hand behind me towards Agent Warp and talk and just say flashlight. I'll toss in mine. Like my tactical flashlight, not my phone.

Okay, and what do you do with the flashlight? I jump down. All right, so, Samuel, give me a dex check, please. Dex times five. God bless America. Jesus. Dex times five. No, we're fucking dead.

I failed. I failed with a 90. Yeah, you. You guys see Agent Samuel dive into the septic tank. Those of you that are closest can kind of immediately look in and you see that he has basically fallen on his side. Samuel, make a, make a luck roll real quick. Oh, shit.

Fuck. What on God's green earth are you doing? I succeed with a 10. You feel like if you had, though you basically fell on your side, if you had fallen in any other way, you could have probably broken something from just not landing properly. But you kind of half on the floor. What do you do?

You immediately stand up. You flash the flashlight. What do you do? I calmly rise to my feet and I flick the flashlight up deeper into the septic tank and say, all right, Marlene, talk to me. You point the flashlight and now you can see better with this, with this light. And you can see that just kind of deeper into the septic tank. It ends about 10 feet in.

And in the corner is what looks to be the body of a person. They are in a kind of fetal position sitting on their feet. What you see is a small, somewhat misshapen nude woman in her looks to be in her fifties, but her flesh is like a gray blue and she looks at you and begins to stand. And you can see that the majority of her hair has been torn out from her head. And as she's kind of stumbling towards you, she says, oh my God, thank you. Thank you so much. You have to get me out of here.

And as she approaches, you can see that her hands are completely covered in blood. The flesh seemingly stripped from the constant clawing on the walls that she must have done. Marlene, stop right there. Calm down. Take a deep breath. She does not stop in her feet and lower legs. You can see are swollen from just kind of being immersed in water. And the skin is kind of half-slawing off as she approaches you.

It's just kind of jiggling in a gross way. I need you to make a sanity check, please. 20, that's a success. You are able to, you do lose one point of sanity from just the very, very obvious corpse that is approaching you. And she does not relent. She, in fact, goes in to bear hug you. She just keeps saying, please help me, please, please get me out of here.

And now the three of you above can now see this nude woman hair missing from the majority of her head wrapping herself around Agent Samael. Samael, you are hit with the awful stench of a corpse. What is everyone doing? I return the hug. I'm pushing, I'm pushing warp out of the way and I'm giving her a look at the same time as I push her back. And I raise, I raise one hand above my head that says stop.

I need Agent Tuck and Hyde to make sanity checks as I'll say that that shove from warp does not let her get a good look on what's happening. Fuck, fail. Succeed. I got a three. Oh, nice. So you only lose one point of sanity, Agent Hyde, but Agent Tuck, I need you to roll a D8. Oh, a D8?

Dang it. Jesus. Y'all wish you could do the car now, huh? Yeah. God damn it. Okay, so you lose five sanity. If you'd like, you can choose to project that onto a bond or you will go temporarily insane. Can you remind me one more time what projecting onto a bond is?

I'm sorry. Yeah, of course. So what you can do right now is you can roll a D4 and the result you can subtract from how much sanity you lost right now. So even one would keep you from going temporarily insane. But the problem is, is you also have to subtract that D4 from your willpower and from your bond, one bond. So once the bond loses that connection, does that mean like we're no longer as close as we were

to those people? It basically represents that the relationship is completely ruined and is not really salvageable. I'll project onto a bond, yeah. Okay, which bond are you projecting onto? With Boomer. All right, go ahead and roll a D4. Two. Okay, so you could subtract that.

You only lose three sanity, but please subtract two willpower and two points from your relationship with Agent Boomer. All right. So the two of you see this awful sight of a corpse hugging Agent Semi-L and the smell hits you. Agent Tuck, you are, though you're half expecting it, you're just, it's just so gruesome to see and you really kind of have to hold yourself, to brace yourself and to take this in. At the top of the initiative is Hyde. You see this person clamoring on top of Semi-L, not attacking him, but seemingly trying to get

him to help. She looks up and notices you guys and she's kind of reaching up at you guys. What do you do, Agent Hyde? How far are they down into that septic tank? Into 10 foot drop. I mean, you could probably grab the top of Agent Semi-L's head. He's a pretty tall fellow, but there's at least three feet between you and them. I'm just going to have, I'm going to draw my gun and point it at Marlene and I look at Sam and

I'm going to say, it's time to go, man. Wait, Agent Warp, what are you doing? You have not currently seen what's happening. You've been pushed away. Yeah, I'm going to try to probably see what's going on because it sounds like something terrible. Here's what I'll say is you, the phone is actually still dangling and now that she has gotten closer, you have a much better view. So you can actually look at your phone and see what's happening and you see this absolutely

horrendous zombie or walking woman that seems alive, but is also clearly decomposing. And I need you to make a sanity check. Yeah, so that's a fail. All right, please, please roll a D8. Eight of them, not eight of them. There is a one night. You kind of steal yourself, but maybe it's just because of, you know, you're looking through a secondary thing, a phone.

It's just maybe not hitting you as much as it could. Are you doing anything after seeing this? I guess if everyone already has it, okay, we need to find a way to get them out. Definitely. I don't have anything. I'm just going to take out my drop spindle because I need a weapon in my life. Today, I don't know what to do with it. I'm just going to take it out and I'm going to put,

I'm going to share pictures of people know exactly what that looks like. But I'm going to stay close, holding the phone and with this out. Agent Tuck, what are you doing? I'm going to go up behind the hide and say, I can try and lure you down if you want to grab him. If we have to. I mean, you can lower me. It doesn't matter.

I don't want to. You got to get him out. I'll lure you. Okay, I'll, I'll, I'll have my pistol out in one hand and try and uh, like arm lock grab with hide and just start reaching down first. Same though. I think that you would be able to tell quickly that it would require both of your hands. There's no way that you can hold onto a gun.

You've got to use all your strength to kind of hang on to hide. I can hold the door and then you can hold on to hide. No, I'm going to close it upon realizing that I'm going to, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt for a round and just post up with her, uh, and my pistol and. All right. So Semi-L, what do you want to do? There is this old woman that is clearly rotting from the inside trying to get out.

She's kind of come within inches from you. The smell is awful. She seems pretty out of it and pretty desperate to get out. I wriggle one hand free. Raise it up, up above the air as if to grab onto someone's hand up above. And I just say, may the Lord Jesus Christ protect you and lead you to eternal life as I proceed to spout in Latin va de retro sitana. You begin doing that.

It is the woman's turn. She has a very good grip on your kind of waist and she's just saying over and over again. Please, please just help me get me out of here. Hyde, what are you doing? He's got his hand up in the air. You feel like you could reach. I look at, I look at Tuck and be like, pull me as hard as you fucking can as I reach down and grab Samuel's hand and just try to pull him up as hard and as fast as I can.

Try to pull him out. Go ahead and make a strength times five check. I succeed. Okay. It takes some effort because Semi-L is a big guy, but you've got Tuck there. And once he's kind of half out of it, Tuck joins and grabs on and begins pulling him out. What happens is that Marlene is holding on fast to him and Marlene also flops out. So now we are in the backyard with Marlene hanging on to Agent Semi-L.

At the top of the initiative, she, well, it's Semi-L's turn if you want to do something. Wait, I haven't. Oh, no, it's my turn. I was helping her. Go ahead. Go ahead, Tuck. You go. Go ahead, Tuck.

You can go. I did it. We'll say that. Does it count as my turn if I helped? No. No. I'm going to shout. Marlene, get your ass back here.

Marlene, what is your dexterity? That's a 12. And then Boomer, what's your dexterity? Also a 12. Okay. And then I'm just going to keep my gun trained on her. Got it. Semi-L, what are you doing?

You're on the floor. This woman is letting go of you. I just, I whisper, seeing that Agent Hyde has a gun ready, I just say, put it down. And I continue as I go through the rites of exorcism. All right. Marlene, who has flopped onto the ground, let's go of you. And just kind of almost like in an ashamed fashion. Just kind of wraps herself up into a fetal position on the floor.

And she's just kind of looking at you all. She just is saying softly, thank you. Thank you. She just kind of starts sobbing to herself slowly. And that's what she does for her turn. Hyde, warp, what are you guys doing? We're going to spread to the front because there's other people with guns. I get to, I get to my feet with my gun drawn.

And I'm just going to unload a couple rounds into Marlene. Oh, fuck. Thank you. All right. So everyone, everyone needs to make sanity checks as Agent Hyde is firing on someone that appears to be in a state of living in some sense. Forte literally rolled in that 99. Oh, no.

So. Okay. So I'm going to stay agent warp. You believed, as far as you know, that this person was alive. So I'm going to ask you to roll a D eight. Okay, two. Who else succeeded or failed? Samo succeeds.

Tuck succeeds. I failed. Okay. You are going to roll a D six as you believe that this is probably a natural thing. I got a one. Nice. Okay. So just subtract one.

Um, Tuck and Samuel, make sure you put a check mark next to violence. You succeeded and you now have one point towards becoming adapted to violence. All right. So Hyde, you fire at this thing. Go ahead and give me a check. Uh, go ahead and make a firearms check. I succeed with a 32. Nice.

Nice. Nice. Go ahead and make your, do your damage. That's nine points of damage. Oh, wow. Bye. So a couple of shots, just go into the torso. You can all see that the flesh is just falling off of the bone as it gets struck.

It's a quite a gruesome scene. And the, the person, Marlene, lets out a horrifying kind of wail that at this point, boomer and merit, you can hear the gunshots and you can hear the sounds. It is agent warps turn first though. What are you doing? So she was running towards the front of the house and then probably after hearing the gunshots would stop for a second and then just keep running. Not so much to alert them, but to run away from what just happened.

So at the end of your turn warp, you have kind of made it to the front of the house where boomer and merit, you see agent warp kind of running away from something and you hear those gunshots. What are you guys doing? I'm going to grab merit. I'm going to be like, give me the fucking keys to the car. I'm, uh, I'm so sorry. I don't have them. Hi does.

Fucking kidding me. Oh my God. I don't, I don't keep the keys. I'm sorry. Okay, hold on. I'm going to run in here. I'm giving gasoline. God no.

Wait, Sergio question. Since I have a pretty high in science, am I capable of hot wiring a car since it's like electronic and all that kind of newer model type shit? You could, if you wanted, spend your turn popping the hood and seeing if you can make heads or tails of it. Yes. I won't pop it. Okay. You do so.

Go ahead and give me a luck roll. He's, he's giving me my battering. What's the plan here? I want to make this motherfucker into a battering ram because I get a feeling we're going to need something heavy. Okay. You keep doing that. I'm going to run, run over there.

Ten. Yes. You want to see it. You, you, you pop the hood and you do suspect that with some time you could probably do it. It's, it's not the one that's so advanced that it's like all electronics and stuff, but you suspected it's going to probably take you a little bit. I'll work on that. So you spend this round, yeah, working on that.

Agent Merritt, I assume you're running into the house. Yeah. First, I say to Warp, I say, please stay with Boomer, stay safe. I'm running after them. And then I go into the house and I grab two of the gas canisters as best as I can. And I'm sprinting out to the pit with them ready. Okay. We'll say that you're basically out the back door and on your way to the group.

Tuck and Samuel, it's your turn. What are you guys doing? I continue spouting going through the books of what I know to be effective in this sort of situation. I continue spouting the rights of exorcism in Latin. If I have any holy water on me, I'm not sure that I got it out of the car. I'll, I'll spray it. Otherwise I'm just going through all of the motions that I know for dealing with this kind

of situation. I'm not, I'm not going to shoot. I'm just going to, I'm going to hold an action to take a shot if she jumps it anyone. If she. Okay. So if she, if she appears aggressive in some way, you'll fire at her. If she's taking an attack or, or doing anything that I would perceive as violent,

I'll, I'll take a shot, but I'm just going to keep my gun trained on her for now. At the top of the initiative, it's Marlene's turn. She cries out in pain from the, from the three shots from Agent Hyde. And you're all just kind of tensely waiting to see what happens next. And she stops crying. You fucking idiot! You, you shouldn't kill me. Please, you can't kill me.

I, I, I know things. Clyde, he brought me back. He, he was some kind of sorcerer. He showed me things. I know things. I can help you. Isn't that why you're here? For, for secrets?

I know secrets. You're already dead. I know your name, Blake. Fade! Retrosetana! She continues. I know the names of those that took you in the night, Haley. Or how to kill the things you saw in the desert, Kona.

And I know what he wanted will never age, Gaze. And I need everyone who I just named to all sanity checks, please. I am so stressed. This is my stress. I'm so fucking stressed, I can't take it back. Not really, I'm fucking mother fuckers. I am unfazed and I succeed with a 34. I failed.

So you're the person that didn't pass my sanity check. I failed. Dammit. I'm so fucking mad. Okay, if you, if you fail, if you fail, you just lose one point of sanity. I crit-passed. You crit-passed, you do not lose any sanity. But you are all shaken by the fact that this complete stranger, who doesn't even appear to be alive,

is saying things that no one knows about you. It is Agent Heidstern, what are you doing? I'm popping another fucking cap in this bitch. I'm so stressed, this glove got real hot. Yes! Yes! I succeeded with a 30. Nice!

All right, and roll that damage. Seven points of damage. Another couple of shots fire into her and she stops talking. Kind of, you know, moves a little bit from the, from the, uh, the intensity of the shots. But you can see that she isn't dead. In fact, some of that flesh is kind of slowly beginning to piece itself back together. Oh, my fucking god. You just heard this person say this thing, what are you doing?

I would like to lie down. But most, pretty much everyone but boomers is out there. So I'm going to turn around and start. I'm just gonna, I don't even know. I don't really, I don't think she could go anywhere. I think she is, she's stuck there for a time. But we're gonna, in theory, move back towards where all of this is happening. So you like want to move, but you're kind of just standing there, unsure.

Merritt, you are running out and you see what's going on. You hear this woman yelling strange things to the others. You can make it in time, uh, or you can at least make it up to them, carrying the tanks. What are you doing? I'm gonna toss one tank at the feet of, uh, of Tuck there. The other, I'm gonna uncap completely and start dousing her completely as much as I can in that gasoline.

I don't care if my L's under there. I need her completely doused. You have not seen this absolutely horrific sight of a living corpse. I need you to make a sanity check, please. Okay. I got a 0-8, so I think I'm good. Okay. You are going to lose one point of sanity.

Gotcha. But you do successfully kind of start dumping this gasoline over this person who clearly has like six bullet holes in them, still conscious and is kind of reacting now to this gasoline. Agent Boomer, give me a, um, heavy machinery check. Ooh, 12. Damn. So what would maybe have taken someone else longer, you managed to quickly cut the cables you need to cut and, and, and kind of splice them together.

And sure enough, the car begins. What are you doing? Uh, well, I'll say that you basically used your turn successfully doing that. So are you now sitting in the car? My ass is sitting in the driver's seat. Oh, it's, let's just say it's like, vroom, vroom, like shit. Yeah, I'm getting that gas ready. Tuck and semial.

Same as nervous. Tuck, go ahead. Okay, sure. Um, so I, I, I, I kind of clearly see that what I'm doing is not going to be effective against a zombie. I would like to just take my time here, to just sit back and think through my knowledge and see if I know, have any piece of information in my brain about how to deal with this current situation aside from just setting it on fire.

Sure. Uh, make a, uh, make an occult roll. That would be a three. So I succeed. There is definitely something that reminds you of the many stories and the many myths of the undead, zombies, empty bodies that seem to have some kind of unnatural soul in them. Fire usually helps, um, destroying the body is important, is kind of the common knowledge when it comes to these sorts of things.

A lot of this is conjecture and theory from what you're reading, as you've never had necessarily any experience with this, but that's what your intuition tells you. So yeah, I step back and I just say, yep, burn it, just burn it, burn it. Tuck. Oh man, uh, well Tuck was ready to shoot it and then it said what it said to her, and she's going to freeze for a second and genuinely consider talking to this thing. Are you going to, are you going to suggest that they stop or are you just going to kind of watch? No, she's just going to kind of watch and eventually, like after, like after a few seconds,

haul back and kind of front kick it into the, back into the septic tank. Uh, you're going to front kick what back into the septic tank? She's currently on the floor. She's not actually standing or anything. Can I, can I like, okay. Here's a, here's a question. Is the septic tank, like even with the ground, like the door or do you have to like, Not really, like you'd have to make an effort to like throw her back in.

Then I thought it was like the floor was even with the door and. No, it's kind of sticking out of the ground a little bit. Then I will just, uh, I'm going to pick up the gas can and start really slowly pouring it on it. Like, like it's a concerted effort to do the thing that she knows she has to do. And not ask them to stop. Okay. On Marlene's turn, she's been shot maybe six times.

And she's not in a position to be able to do much of anything. And yet she suddenly moves with a speed and a ferocity that you would not expect from this. She stands and literally as she's standing, she kind of swings around and. Merit by the throat and then just kind of tears away at it. She successfully hits you and she deals you five points of damage and she just tears your throat and blood immediately starts to begin pouring down. Hi, it's your turn. Okay.

Seeing that, I need to find a way to ignite the gasoline that's been poured. Do we have anything? Do I have anything? I mean, I'll say if you think of any of your smokers or anything, you might have something. I'm so close. Like three people were down to smoke. One of us has got to have a lighter. That's true. All right, if you don't smoke, then I'll say you probably don't have a lighter.

Yeah, I don't. So Hyde, what do you do? The only thing I could probably do is try to fire a discharge of gun and try to ignite the gasoline since there's like fumes in the air and stuff like that. So I'm gonna I'm gonna pop off another shot towards Marlene to try to get her to get off Merit at the same time. So it is very obvious that Marlene is standing basically directly in front of Agent Merit. I will say that you can shoot at her specifically, but I'm gonna call this a called shot.

So you are aiming for one person in particular. I'm going to say you have a minus 20 to that role. And if you fail, you know that there's a chance you might hit Agent Merit. Oh, Jesus. Oh, Jesus. Fuck. Okay. I'd say this is going well.

It's always me. God damn it. I can't afford it. We can't afford it. Dude. I'm coming. You can't. All right.

Yeah, first. Oh. So you would have to roll under a 20 for your firearms to succeed on this. I'm gonna I'm gonna try. I'm gonna do the call shot. I'm gonna try it. Oh, bitch. Nice cuts.

Nice cuts. Yes. Thank God. Thank God. Add a 20. I got it at a 20. And that's my percentage. That's like right.

That's what you needed. That's what you needed to succeed. So you do successfully shoot her in the shoulder. Give me a luck roll. I failed the luck roll. I got an 80. What is this game? Okay.

So go ahead and roll your damage. What is the damage you do? I'm exhausted. You fire into her shoulder and the shoulder just like explodes. And a lot of the flesh kind of falls off of it. And now you can see it's just like a bone in a joint in that space where her shoulder was. She does not ignite and you do not hit Agent Merritt. But she has definitely taken some damage.

And she's really not looking very good. Agent Warp, what would you like to do? I'm gonna go and look for something to make fire inside since I'm already closest to the house. Yeah, go ahead and give me a search or an alertness roll, whichever you think is higher. It's okay because it's 70 and that's a fish. You run into the house and you're looking around and you're like, I mean, just about anything can be on fire if you try hard enough.

But I guess you can't find anything immediately. You waste the turn basically looking around. Agent Merritt, your throat is throbbing. You have this rotting corpse of a woman in front of you attacking you. What are you doing? I'm gonna try and break free from her grasp for sure. She actually does not have you grappled. She kind of grabbed onto your throat and they just kind of tore at the flesh.

So you are free to walk away from her if you'd like. Okay, yeah, then I'm gonna take a defensive, you know, a full, you know, 15 feet or even more to get away from her. I'm pulling my service pistol and I'm priming at her. I'm gonna turn to the others and say, the shed, look in the shed, try and find a lighter. If anyone has a lighter, come on. And then I turn and I shoot.

I'm trying to shoot her square on the head if I... Okay, if you'd like to make a cold shot, you'll have to do it at minus 20. Okay, at minus 20? Minus 20% to that fire arm roll, yeah. Yeah, I'll do that. Come on Merritt. So I have to get under a 15 instead of a 70. Yes.

And a 49 will do it. Oh, yes. The dice got on my head, dude. Fuck you, Marlene. A single fire rings out and those of you standing behind Marlene, see the back of her. And you can see that there is a clear hole and Marlene falls to her knees and then completely collapses.

We are basically out of initiative. I would like to turn to Sammel and I want to grab him and I want to like cock back. Like I'm going to punch him, but I'm going to stop and then I'm going to let him go and like kind of push him off and I'm just going to warn him. Don't ever put me in a compromising position ever again. And I walk off somewhere.

I haven't put you in any position. You made the choices you made and I made mine. Now Sergio, I'm sure, Sergio, I'm sure that I have a lighter. Sergio. Yeah, I think it would make sense that you would have a lighter. Yes. Uh, you're going to hear a bunch of, you're going to hear a bunch of car beep beeps and me like with it in with that fucking car.

And I'm just going to be like, So I don't know where comes charging the Blacks Bourbon. What are you talking about? Pattering Ram guys. That's what the whole point. You're about halfway between the house and the septic tank when you kind of stop and you see the scene and you see that there's not any kind of crazy action going on.

I'm going to roll out and be like, what the fuck happened? It happened. Merits hurt. Uh, do we have a first aid kit in the car? Shit. Yes. I have one in my luggage. Okay.

I'm going to run and go get a first aid kit and just start putting me a spore and an alcohol wipes all over his throat. Wrap that bitch up. If someone has a lighter, let's get that going. All right, really happening. Agent Sumi, I'll describe what you're doing. Um, I just, uh, I've, I assume it's kind of like the reusable Zippo type. So that I can, you know, flip it open, turn it on,

and then not being too terribly attached to the thing. I just drop it onto the corpse and walk away. Sure enough, it does kind of ignite and begin to burn. I'm going to allow everyone who has lost sanity to roll a D8. I roll a one. I got a one. Same. Wow.

I got a three. Well, anyone, any, whatever you rolled, you may add that to your sanity as in finally destroying this thing seems to have brought you a little bit of semblance of peace of mind. So there is this kind of silence as the fire begins to burn. Some of you are moving back into the house. Some of you are kind of checking in on agent merit. Uh, go ahead and roll a first aid check agent.

Don't be assholes. 19 success. Nice. Agent tuck or merit, which everyone you would prefer, roll a D4. Go for it, tuck. Four. Nice. So a total of four health is restored to you.

You are certainly feeling a lot better. Agent merit, the blood has stopped. And fortunately, you, you can tell that it's nothing more than like a flesh wound, but it's a nasty flesh wound. I mean, there's going to be scarring around his neck for a little while. I pour like alcohol wipes and Neosporin and just disinfect the shit out of it. I'm sorry. I know it doesn't feel good, but get the fuck over it.

No. Thank you. Yeah. She really got me there, huh? Holy shit. Oh my God. Can like boomer honk like the car horn like repeatedly to like signal everyone to get their fucking shit in the car.

Go in and get the cork board. Sure. Yeah. You grab the cork board. Is that the, that was the last thing of like importance that we, at least it's the last thing that you noticed that mattered. Yeah. And there was nothing like really in the septic tank aside from her, right?

Semi-L did not notice anything else. No. Can I do so? Can we close it? So can someone tell me what it is everyone's doing or what is the team doing? It's piling to the car. Piling to the car. I know that.

Yeah, I'm getting the passenger seat and slamming the door. I know that this is not exactly what everyone wants to hear immediately, but have we considered maybe burning this place down to the ground? It's a little barbaric, but it would mean we cleaned everything. That would be prudent, I think. Everyone go burn it. I'm staying in the driver's seat. Can I do one last like loop of the house?

Open cabinets, check for false backs. It's like one more go around just to make sure we didn't miss anything. I'll come with Tuck on that. Yeah, you do that and besides that footlocker and besides this court board, nothing really stands out to you. Agent Merritt and Tuck, give me intelligence checks. Intelligence times five. I succeed.

I super fail. OK, as you are walking back to the car, Agent Merritt, you look one more time back at the body. The flames are basically going out. Gasoline burns pretty quickly, and there is still a very noticeable, obvious corpse in the middle of this backyard. What do you think we put her inside the house and then dump the gasoline?

We need someone that's going to burn a little bit longer than gasoline. We lock up that septic tank, too. We make sure we leave it the way we left it and let them find the ashes. OK, so it sounds like Agent Merritt and Agent Tuck, you are putting gasoline inside the lodge, correct? Can I spread it around and put it on papers and put them on flammable planes? Just spread where the fire will be as much as possible.

Sure. I make sure I get the shed in the outhouse as well on one outside trip. We'll say that you guys are currently working on the inside of the house. The sun is very close to setting. You basically can't see it at this point when you're standing outside, but the sky is still illuminated. The other four agents, you guys are sitting inside the black suburban. Someone make an alertness roll.

Can I get it? Oh, I'll do it. I succeed. I fail. Agent High, you are the first to notice that there is a truck, a white truck that is coming down the road. It is slow and it is coming from the opposite direction that you came in from. But within about 30 seconds, it's going to basically make it to the house.

Are you doing anything? I look at boomers like we got company as I go and grab my gun. Just wait for a second before I get out. Sure. Eventually, the white truck comes to a stop. It's kind of just parked on the street away from the home. You see the headlights turn off. Somebody steps out and you see a man wearing.

He's got a big bushy beard. Looks to be in his like maybe forties. It's a little hard to tell because there's a lot of gray hair. He's got a beanie on black beanie. He's got the red and black plaid shirt on jeans and he's carrying a rifle. And he's just kind of standing by his truck looking around at the property. He sees that the lights are on. He looks and he notices the black suburban.

And he kind of starts making his way towards the suburban. I'm keeping my face forward to not kind of alert that we're kind of moving in the car. As I keep telling boomers like he's got a gun. He's walking towards the car. He basically goes halfway between the car and the lodge or the the log cabin. And he can see you guys with your windows up in the car. And he says hey there. I heard some gunshots.

Is everything all right? Do you do anything? It's a quick question. He's behind that car, correct? He is to your right. He is to your right behind me in front or in front. He is basically directly in line with your with the passenger window. Okay, so if I were to go forward.

So I'm going to hit this motherfucker, right? No, you would not. You would have to kind of re-angle the car to do that. Okay, well, I'm going to kind of just I'm going to move it into reverse. Because I'm not hitting that gas yet. But I'm just I'm getting ready to if I need to pivot us out of the way. Agent Warp is just going to say air B&B. He looks he sees the car kind of move a little bit as it pops into reverse.

And he notices that you guys are not addressing him at all. And he looks back to the cabin. Um, he it's it's at a moment that he doesn't really see Agent Tuck and Agent Merritt. Oh, thank God. But he looks back to you guys and he just kind of starts walking backwards to his to his truck. Is anybody going to say anything to this man? Or do you want to send the priest out to calm him down? I said we fucking get rid of this guy.

No witnesses. How are y'all not remembering this shit? You want to kill an innocent man? Well, if you got it, father. Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like to unleash demon women? Oh, I'm sorry. Giving me shit.

Do as you will. So is anyone in the car doing anything? Yeah, if they don't want me to go out, I'm just going to sit there. Okay. The man basically backs up to his car, jumps in, does a big U-turn and kind of peels off back in the direction that he came. A few moments later, Agent Merritt and Tuck kind of you guys finished the job. And who's who's lighting it up?

I'll do it. I've got a shitty ass lighter. Yeah, absolutely. I don't smoke. I don't roll down the window and say, hurry this shit up. We've been spotted. Fuck.

Fuck. Agent Tuck, you do so the fire trailing from where you lit it outside. It trails into the home. And before you know it, you can see the familiar light of fire inside the home, beginning to light up the entire place. Happy first mission, Merritt. Get the fuck in the car. Yeah, I'll see you in there.

Everyone jumps in. Call shot. Just so you know. No, I'm in. Sergio, just quick point of order. Was I able to make out the license plate on that car? I will say that you were able to make it out. Yes.

So you're in the driver's seat, Boomer. What are you doing? I'm hitting that gas. I'm getting the fuck out. I'm peeling us all out. And as I'm driving off, I'm going to just shout to everyone. This is why we don't deviate from the fucking plan. Jesus.

Fuck. It just like curse for like a good two minutes of just saying fuck. Fuck. And that's it for like a minute. We need to pull over and get this license plate off. Pull over. And I slammed on him, huffing. Agent Tuck, you step out and begin working on removing the license plate.

At this point, the sun has disappeared from the sky. And it is a beautiful, soft, blue, and strawberry red, a stark contrast to the way you're all feeling at the moment. And I think that's a good place to end our session today. As Bauman's cabin is engulfed in flames, the old tree by the septic tank is silhouetted by the fire. A shape, quadrupedal, rises shakily from the ground at the foot of the tree. It shakes off the dirt and the hundreds of ants that are slowly eating it from the inside. With an unnatural force, it snaps free from the rusting chains holding it to the tree.

Its dull gray canine eyes stare for a moment at the burning cabin. And the thing turns and trots into the forest, disappearing into the dark.