Mayday Plays - Orpheus Book 1, Ch. 7 - "Stalks of Pigmentation"

Episode Date: January 17, 2022

Crucible 12 takes on organized crime. Note: There were some audio issues in the first minutes of the stream. The problems resolve just after the recap....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, good morning. Good afternoon and good day folks. Allow me to welcome you to another episode of Orpheus of Vince, your host and storyteller for this campaign. Joining me, as always, are Aaron as Abner Abernathy, who's saying hello. There he is. Oh, yeah. All right. All right. All right, bro. As Logan Rio Mercado. What's up? Amanda as Mia Castillo Bennett. Hi. Caleb as Colette Sawyer. Good morning. Eli as Nicola Colannick. Hey, good morning. Sergio as Lavinia Eileen Dolls. What's up? And Vivian as, or, and Vivian, Zacchia, the same person now. Zacchia as Vivian. 5158. Please say hello. Happy Halloween. Hey, first new game of the new year. Happy new year, everybody. Glad to have you back with us. Hope
Starting point is 00:00:51 you enjoyed your holiday break. If you had one, if not, hope you enjoyed it anyway. Here's to hopefully a marginally better 2022. Fingers crossed. Let's see. Before we begin, please keep in mind this actual play is intended for mature audiences. It contains elements of supernatural horror, violence, adult language, sexual situations within your heart, substance abuse, and more. We are getting into a particularly dark scenario. There will be elements of violence, stalking, that kind of thing. So please keep that in mind. If any of those are troubling, you know, we recommend that maybe tune this one out. But however, just know that before we actually delved into this scenario, before I even started developing it, we went through safety checklists
Starting point is 00:01:34 to everybody here and make sure they were good to go. Double check to ensure this wasn't going to be too troubling for the players, because obviously we don't want to make them uncomfortable. So we are good to go for the most part. We'll see what happens. But viewer and listener discretion is advised. Music in this episode is always to be brought to you by the phenomenal folks at Cryo Chamber and Epidemic Sound. For more information, visit cryochamber.bandcamp.com and epidemicsound.com. If you like what we're doing here, made a role play, obligatory plug for the Patreon folks. Head us up. I know, Serge, if you want to kind of talk about some of the things you've been doing recently with like the giving away free months and stuff
Starting point is 00:02:11 like that. Yeah, we are certainly trying to ramp up our Patreon posts, stuff like scenario guides to some of the scenarios that we've recorded and that are original, certainly for Orpheus and certainly for Doom to repeat. We have some of Zach's amazing art hidden for you to access and a bunch of other stuff. We're starting to do some patron only streams, patron only one shots, patron only video viewing parties. So we're trying to ramp all that up for this year. Definitely check all of that out. And yeah, you know, if you guys, I think for the that'll be in the month of May, I think we'll probably have some kind of giveaway for some some Patreon slots. So for sure. Yeah, so why are we doing it in May? Oh, we can, we can, we can have the
Starting point is 00:03:14 I will say having been on the inside and seen some of the contents would be coming out. For those who are Patreon patrons or for those who are maybe considering it, you got a lot to look forward to. You know, Sergio has got some phenomenal Delta Greens videos getting ready to come out for our patrons. I'll be releasing my storyteller notes for Orpheus for those sessions and a little bit more in depth and they're kind of depart from the pre written material. So a lot of good stuff and honestly, the discord alone is worth the price of the mission. And you get that at $2 a month. So we got some great people in there. It really is a good time. So consider it, you know, if you got it, if you don't, that's fine. Continue to
Starting point is 00:03:48 support share like and all that on social media. Before we begin, does anybody else have anything else you'd like to announce? I do. Yes, please. Next week, Saturday, come back here to Mayday at 2 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. We'll be hosting a charity event for the Trevor Project. Yes. Ben from Neverknot DM will be running a group of creators from the TKRPG space through their world of Syndra. It's going to be a fun time. Proceeds go to, of course, supporting the Trevor Project. It also helps support us as we're going to the story, give us advantages, give us disadvantages, help us out along at the story. At the same time, there'll be a lot of prize giveaways. We have a bunch of bunch of bunch of bunch of stuff, including a copy of FizzBang's Treasury of Dragons
Starting point is 00:04:34 that was given to us by D&D Beyond, as well as Dungeon and Glitch merchandise and etc. So please join us. It's going to be a fun time. Sounds like a good time. That's awesome. Yeah, I mean it's a tune in. That's going to be fun. The hell yeah. Well, awesome. Glad you're getting to do that and clean line. That's a sense of gently. Anybody else? Yeah, I just wanted to speak up about a Deadlands campaign that I'm a part of with Sherry Smith 2012 on Twitter. She's conglomerated all these fantastic players from the TTRPG family on Twitter, and we put together this wonderful campaign that's coming out piece by piece. The first episode is available now, but this coming Wednesday will be my first episode I'm featured in, and it'll premiere on her YouTube
Starting point is 00:05:22 channel, and she'll be posting a lot about it on Twitter as well. So look out for that if you want to see me play some Cowboys. Love that. Yeah, watch the first episode. It was good stuff. So if you like the weird West, if you like Savage Worlds, you definitely need to check it out. Um, with that, I think we can get to work. So, Sergio, Sergio, Lavinia, Sergio. That was going to be my sister's name, but no, they changed it. Sergio, my friend, if you would take it away with the recap. Sure. Note to self, don't bother Cross with any more updates. If you want something from me, I'm sure he'll make it perfectly clear. We were given another two weeks of downtime after our zoo job,
Starting point is 00:06:14 and in that time, ingratiating myself into Crucible 12 has become easier. In the beginning, I could tell they were repulsed by me. Perhaps I came on too strong. I'm not a bad person. I just died that way. My revised tactics seem to be more efficient. Combined with Abner's bumbling approach to leadership, I think they're coming to trust me. In time, I believe I can shape all of them into their best versions. Logan and Colette organized a get together and spent most of it complaining about work. The living are so full of fear. I see it now, and it manifests in the most unusual ways. Logan's eagerness to prove themselves, Colette's tortured, artistic process. Their fear is a useful tool in their manipulation,
Starting point is 00:07:07 but nonetheless, I still feel touched that they included me. Nikoa has also shown a willingness to collaborate. She introduced me to her patron, a madam butu. They offered to help me find a mouth of it, and, well, after my awkward encounter with Jerome, I figured why not. Butu had no request of me, but if she's anything like Cross, they'll come a hefty price. But that game is a lot riskier for the living. I didn't get a chance to spend much time with Viv, but I heard she spent most of it honing her skills as a poltergeist. That one is fashioning themselves into a weapon, and I suspect it will only take a small push in the right direction to cause a lot of devastation. Mia also spent
Starting point is 00:07:51 some of her time away from the Crucible, but she surprised me during our job at the Zoo. She offered me a riddle. I took it as a kind of truce. It was a trifle, but it's the thought that counts. Speaking of riddles, I have a new one to contend with. The old fart, Abernathy, has Cross aligned, and is actively attempting to undermine me. No doubt he is intimidated by me and sees the murder of that lacky Chad as somehow my fault. If Lavinia were alive, I know what she'd do. The plans she would enact to destroy his life, like so many of the men that Cross her before. But a complication has arisen in the form of Colette. Kind. Creative. Herding. Lavinia would be helpless against her influence. Moved by her empathy. Maybe even moved enough
Starting point is 00:08:56 to forgive Adnor. But here lies the crux of my riddle. I am not Lavinia. You see, it's a theory I dare not say out loud to the others. It formed as I studied our first specter, Chris Allen, the city electrician. He followed a set pattern, reenacting those tragic last moments of his life, never deviating unless the parameters around him were altered. In programming terms, he was like a bot. An NPC in a game. Unable to change. I wonder how I'm any different. How am I not just a manifestation of pure instinct? Emotions running on inertia. My consciousness simply is a byproduct of a sod. Lavinia wasn't static. She could change. She could grow. But I fear forgiveness is a concept maybe only for the living. Sometimes I wish I could share these thoughts with the others,
Starting point is 00:09:58 with Nikola and Viv especially. I want to tell them that I I know what we are. I want to scream at Viv and remind her she doesn't have to get revenge. We're above such earthly desires now. I want to shake Nikola out of her stupor and remind her what it's like to not be so tired all the time. But even if I did, I don't think they'd be able to do much about it. Because they are like me. Small as an ant, big as a whale. Dancing to the music though we can't hear. And from us you can't run. What are we? Shadows. I've made it to the finish line and perhaps my purpose is to help everyone catch up. Maybe that's my tether. When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
Starting point is 00:10:56 I shouldn't be here and when I really think about it, I'm not. But who cares to hear the lament of a ghost? That's it. God damn. Yeah, take an extra experience point there. Yeah. All right, well before we get too deep into it. We lost Caleb. We lost Caleb. Sorry, welcome back. So I believe you all had a Halloween party before this round. Yes. About that. Yes. Before it was yours. Okay, I forgot everything we wanted to do. Well, there were talks of haunting a haunted house. That's right. Okay. I don't know if we decided that was mean or
Starting point is 00:11:57 not. I think as long as we don't scare anyone to death, I think that's fine, right? Yeah. We just felt confident. We find like a frat party or something and then we have our way with it. I'm down to scare frat boys. Yes. Yes. I think one frat party please. Okay. Are there colleges in the world we're at? There are indeed. Okay. Yep. So I think maybe we tarry one of those.
Starting point is 00:12:38 How do we call in the grown-ups on Logan is saying this out loud? How do we call in the grown-ups on this? Because like we're technically grown-ups, but like they're mature and do we need maturity to to get into a frat party? I think well, no, but like we wanted them to come. That was like the point was that we all were in the frat like at the not the frat party, the Halloween party. Right. I mean, we don't have to. I just feel bad if we left them out twice. And like I know the first time was my fault that we left them out, but oh, we were going to invite them make it sound boring or something they're not interested in. And then if they opt in, they're in and then if they don't, then that's fine.
Starting point is 00:13:21 Amazing. Cool. So we so we let what Abner and Nikola know about it and just really downplay it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's the best course of action. So who is here? Is it is it just? Where are you? My apartment again. Okay, cool. Logan, LaVinia, Viv, Collette, you're here for the Halloween party. Yes. Okay. Okay, cool. So one of you G points to Logan or Collette has to call
Starting point is 00:14:10 Nikola first, I think. Koa likes her better right now, Call. It's on you. I'm a dead person. So what do I tell her we're doing? Like how how much of the truth are we telling her? There's an event. Okay. With some young people. Good. We are young. It's gonna be a lot of drinking. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of drinking. It's gonna be loud. Yeah. We'll bring her smokes. She loves those. Yeah. Right. There will be smoking there. Yeah, there will be who knows what kind of smoking. Do I mention AB? Do I tell her Abner's coming?
Starting point is 00:14:54 We're all we're some of us getting together. Yeah. Yeah, this will be fine. Specifics aren't important. Is it a costume thing? Are we wearing costumes? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Come in costume. For sure. Definitely come in costume. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. Who's calling Mia? She's also second scariest. Probably you. Fair. Fair. Super fair. Super fair. Vin, do you want to call Abner? Sure. Yes, I can do that. Cool. You also manifest to use the phone. Okay. Okay. You spend vitality to make this dumb call. It's before our mission. It's fine. If you want, Vin, I could just I could make the call and put it on speaker for you or something.
Starting point is 00:15:56 So you don't have to manifest. No, I'll I'll I can go see him in person in the office. Oh, cool. Okay. So I think with Mia, we have to tell her she can invite her cop. Is it the duchess? Her majesty? Whatever? What does she call her? Majesty. It's majesty. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Okay. Good. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is a party and that is a cop. Hold on. Ooh, that's a very good point. Good catch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe not. So it's an office only. It's a, you know, office group only. Well, who's specific? Do you say we want to Kate that we probably didn't have Kate. They never mind. That's a bad idea. As soon as I said it, I was like, never mind,
Starting point is 00:16:42 man. Yeah. Okay. So we rendezvous or I don't know, Logan, do you have costumes? I have what I was going to wear, which is my old firefighter uniform, except probably not all of it. That's real inventive. It's clever. Fuck you. I have, I have something in my disposal. I'm not going to go out and get something else. Yeah. I totally get it. You're going to like it when you see it. Yeah. Why would you want to be creative? I get it. All right, artist. What are you going to be? I don't know. Oh, you don't know? I was, well, I'm going to do something. I'll tell you that much. I was thinking maybe one of you, but I haven't decided who yet. Maybe Abner. I could, maybe I just come as a can of beans or that fucking mountain he loves that much.
Starting point is 00:17:35 Yeah, that's how you get him to like, join us. What does that mean? He might look at you weird, though, if you had dressed like that mountain. Yeah. He does always come to that misty look when he looks at those pictures. I really liked Mount Rainier when I was in fourth grade, but he really likes Mount Rainier. What would that costume look? Do you just buy a t-shirt or like a poster and just put it on? Just, I was thinking like paper mache. Like, okay, but like this isn't like two days, right? Are you going to make a mountain in two days? You buy some chicken wire and you cover yourself with paper mache. You do have to sleep still. But it's like a party though. You also have to like be able to like.
Starting point is 00:18:23 We're overthinking this. I'm going to be drunk anyway. It'll be no big deal. We call. We go. I'm very cold. How do each of you, do you all like go with us or are you out? I'm probably going to stay. You guys are calling me? Yeah, no, someone has to actually visit. I'm a dead person. Yeah. I know I say this a lot, but I'm a dead person. I'm going to go see Oa in person the next day and invite her personally. Make sure I say all the things that we mentioned before. I'm very convincing. I could roll.
Starting point is 00:19:11 No, yeah, I want to. I feel like I would know you're lying the whole time. The entire time that she's describing the party to you, it sounds like there's going to be 12,000 more terrible things behind it. Okay, so everybody will say everybody rallies up. Everybody meets up. Levinia, you go to Orpheus, of course, to. Yeah, I manifest and I also make sure that a few people see me before I approach Adder's office. And I'll just, you know, I'll walk in, pretend like nothing's happened, and invite him to the party.
Starting point is 00:20:03 It's going to be a lovely time. You're welcome to come. Say it again. I didn't quite hear you. Like with hats and stuff and costumes and drinking and other things. You don't have to go if you don't want to. I know you're very busy with all this research you've been doing lately. No, I think I'll be there. Excellent. Well, I look forward to seeing you. I think we can leave it at that. Okay, so where are you going? You're going to a fraternity. Okay, we got to pick a college, guys. There's University of Colorado Boulder, there's University of Denver, University of Colorado Denver, MSU Denver, and 20 more colleges on top of that. Between the springs and Denver, you've got a shit ton of colleges. Let's go fuck up the
Starting point is 00:21:03 University of Colorado. Hashtag go use. And we'll find the most alpha, gamma, kappa I was going to try to find one, but that was a Google rabbit hole. I wasn't prepared to go down. Yeah, no, definitely not. I'll start getting emails as a 36 year old male. Yeah, no, so you find, I mean, you walk down fraternity row and holy cow, it's parties left and right fraternities, sororities, co-ed, it's all, it's, it is as the kids say, a popping off. All right, so I think this is manifested. Yeah, I'm not manifested. Skims, but not manifested. So you're okay, so I got to write this shit down. All right, so Logan is skimmed, not manifested. We're all haunting the party. I drove my car, I parked it,
Starting point is 00:22:08 and I'm sleeping in my car. So there's a passed out person dressed as a firefighter in their car outside this party. Oh my God. I'm not regretting it yet, I promise. So I'm not in front of the party. I'm like, sure, around the corner or like up the hill. Yeah, no, I got you. I got you. Are you in the front seat? You put yourself in the trunk. That's a good idea. Oh, sure. Yeah, that's great. I don't know how Jason Carl kept a straight face the entire time through his entire play of LA by night. I don't know. I'm trying to be more like Jason Carl Robb. So all right, Kola, LaVinia, you are not manifested. Who else is manifested or not manifested? I will not manifest.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Okay. And then obviously, so Mia and Abner, you're going to be in your meat suits, right? Wait, I was going to say, did anyone reach out to a Kola? I for sure called you. Yeah. Okay, you did call me. I was like, hey, yeah, you, I think I make a specific point to say you can't bring the cop because we are going to a party and I, you know, but, but also like, okay, we're gonna, it's like a bonding experience, dude. Like all, all seven of us are like, so everybody's fighting. So we're getting, so you all are getting messed up at a frat party in public. I didn't say it was a frat party. I just said it was a gathering of lots of people and lots of music and lots of drinking. All right, hold on. I'm just, I'll be there. Just don't tear it up,
Starting point is 00:23:55 literally. Okay. If you want to go ghost, gotta drop by Orpheus first, but I can pick you up. You will not be able to use company resources to a fucking frat party on Halloween. Okay, try. That's fine. This game is bullshit. Collette, are you going to skim? No, I'm a whole ass person. I need to make a distinction about looking like a firefighter, because it's not the full firefighter outfit. It's, it's the pants and the jackets tied around my waist, but like just like really tight, short crop top, sleeveless, short, tight crop top to show off abs and also arms. That's what they would know. Vince, I understand that you just said no.
Starting point is 00:24:54 Is there any chance I can like manipulate the system to be a ghost form? Because I don't see how else Amdur is going to do this. Right. So, so the issue is you'd be out for at least probably a week because it takes time to put someone under and then bring them back out. So I mean, listen, if you want to try to work your, use your status, we could definitely, Can I, can I, because I kind of been living in that state anyway. That's, that's true. Like I was there like the whole last game. You were down. But if you want me to make a roll, yeah, let's do a status roll. I'll do that. Let's do status plus manipulation. Oh, that'll be your poll. That's a thank you for your generosity. Absolutely. I'm nothing if not generous.
Starting point is 00:25:59 Nine dice. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Yeah. I have five manipulation and four status. Mother. Okay. I know I've asked this a million times, but and I should know this by now. It's a D 10. With a difficulty yet to roll above a six to get a success. Let's see after all above a six. That is a surprisingly bad roll, but I still get four successes. Yeah. Okay. With that, yeah, you, you manage to talk and, and cajole one of the sciences and to put me under and you, you go to sleep, you go zero. I think, I think the way that works is the guy is just so sick of talking to Abner that he's just like, all right, fine.
Starting point is 00:26:54 Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So yeah, you are easily able to manipulate someone into, into throwing you under, especially when you start pulling, pulling rank, so to speak. But yeah, you, you are, you're put under, you're able to manifest. We need to have some kind of signal like, you know, Viv take control of the DJ system and play a song or something to let us know it's time. And it sounds great. Okay. Okay. Okay. So when you hear, um, what's the body's at the floor? The body's at the floor is good. I was going to say soldier boy, but that's better. I'm going to go put my swag on. Yes. Put my swag on. Yeah. I think so. Oh, this is Colorado.
Starting point is 00:27:49 What are the odds that the DJ has swag surf on their playlist? Oh, I think you're muted. Let's, let's institute a Delta green, look, roll, roll a D 100 to see what happens. He wasn't muted. He was just internal. Yep. That's a success. So yeah, he's got, he's got it. What a swag surf on his swag surf. We're going to mix it with let the body sit before because I think that's going to sound great. Brad. And when you hear that mashup, I suppose go ape shit. What happens when I play the song? Well, I am going to do my thing, which is I'll probably take over somebody's body and start having like ride and flip around all over the room like a maniac.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Just be creepy and wail, but like in a creepy way, not like super scary way, just like, hey, there's monsters in the closet or some shit. I don't know. Abner, make the like the lights turn on and off and stuff. I'm already the house. I'm going to be, um, Logan, you said monsters in the closet. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to start fucking with the closet. I assume this is like the coat check coats everywhere. Yes. Cool. Nicola. What are you going to do? Yeah. I'm just, I'll pull a cigarette out and light a cigarette.
Starting point is 00:29:28 Looking to somebody's future and tell them something bad about it. Oh, tell someone when they're going to die. You don't even have to. It doesn't have to be real. It's almost too much. No, tell someone when they'll be born, find a drunk person and tell them their new birthday and just let that play. Or just manifest in front of somebody, you know? Is that I'm all for a little team bonding exercise, but please don't do anything that's going to get this in the papers. As long as we're not seen, it's fine. Can't argue with that logic. Oh, I'm in physical form. Yeah. He is just, oh God. I'm by the whatever fret bar and in my costume that says God,
Starting point is 00:30:22 that's just right there. That's my costume is just that drinking. And then if anyone's smoking, I'm just kind of like whatever. I'm like, if anyone approaches me, I'll tell them gruesome stories of my war times. If not, I'm just kind of just making sure they don't burn the house down. So there are a couple of comments of what's the boomer doing here kind of thing. Boomer, hold on. No, no, no, no, no, no. I ain't no boomer. That's a different campaign. I know, but there are a couple of guys who I would say that would check them. They're trying to holler. So what's what's me as a reaction? Because this is a drunk frat party. Okay, wait, how's that supposed to impress me?
Starting point is 00:31:12 That's it. That's the best you got. Get the fuck out of here. You soon find yourself alone in a corner of the Do better. I'll just say, why don't we like do better? That's like whatever. And I'm just going to go back to drink a beer. So who's so we'll set the scene. Who is where? Collette has moved from the first floor pretty much immediately to the second floor because before she was sober, she used to steal drugs at house parties. Right. Now she can't do that. So she's instead trying to steal the most valuable thing this front house has. Awesome. And she's
Starting point is 00:31:56 dressed as a very slutty Salvador Dali. Beautiful. You actually find a Rolex, one of these douchey fat boys whose parents probably have more money than you know what to do with who probably have a hall named after them just so we could get in. Clearly, I like fraternities. You lift a Rolex, it's nice. Beautiful. Who else? Where else is everybody? I'm just in the middle of the dance floor waiting for my cue. I'm everywhere. So you possess the house, correct? Yes, Vitality. Let's do this. Okay, here we go. It's a scotch. It's a scotch. We attract Hellhounds because of this. I'd say you'd need to spend this is a larger house. So you would need to spend five Vitality. Yeah, and then go ahead and roll your, actually, yeah, no dice rolls required. So for
Starting point is 00:33:09 five Vitality, you are in the house. Logan is floating around tripod. What'd you say? Nothing. Oh, no. You are very low on my end. I don't know if you got super quiet all of a sudden. Carry on. Oh, there you are. Beautiful. Beautiful. So, Logan, you are, this is where it gets odd. You're getting lux. I'm not manifested though. I know. What? Oh, that's right. Guys have seen so much death. There's like a little group of three that are smoking something and one like this smack in his body is like. I'm gonna go up and like am I am I about on par with height with them? Yes. Yep. I'm gonna get just about nose to nose with one of them and just keep staring in his eyes
Starting point is 00:34:28 and slowly just manifest like the smallest amount I can. So it looks like I'm on fire a little bit like instead of the the drowny version, it's a lot of like smokey wispy charred. Not fully, just like the barest hint of it and then I'll stop it. He is frozen and his eyes and his buddies are, you notice her bloodshot. They are frozen and you smell the scent of urine as one pisses himself. Yes. But they don't move. They are, they are, they are, they have gone past fight and flight and they are in straight up freeze. Freeze. Yeah. Happy Halloween. They book it out of the house. Good. Good. I think Logan immediately feels a little bit guilty about it. Yeah. Yeah. Lavinia, Lavinia sees that and goes over and probably says to Logan,
Starting point is 00:35:36 I think it was pigment that they were on. Oh, yeah. That's why they could see you. Right. I forgot that's a thing. Yeah. It's a hell of a drug. Did you, have you, have you used it? Oh, yes. You could say that. At least when I was alive. Could you see like, you know? Yeah. I saw a lot. Wow. I think it's why I'm a hue, actually, as opposed to a regular ghost. That makes sense. Does it like, I don't know. I can't get a read on how you feel about it. Well, when you're on it, it's amazing, but I'm a shell of a ghost. So I don't know. I guess it has its drawbacks that I wasn't aware of. Is it worth it? Probably not.
Starting point is 00:36:38 Probably not. Well, it's good you're here, at least anyway. Thank you. I'm looking forward to, uh, letting this, getting this show on the road. Oh, yeah. I feel really bad about making that guy pee himself, but it was kind of funny. There's going to be a lot of piss on the floor when we're done with tonight. I don't think that would have changed, even if we weren't here. Can Viv start the mashup right after there's going to be a lot of piss on the floor? Yeah. Yeah. You are, you manage to take control of the, I'll say just, you don't even need to
Starting point is 00:37:22 spend vitality. You take control of the DJ booth and the DJ kind of, who goes by the name DJ Bluntz. Yes, well made y'all. Kind of like hands up, like he's like wondering what's going on as he sees his mouse moving and shit and all of a sudden the bodies at the floor and swags start playing at the same time. Oh, and it's not mixed well. It's literally two songs playing at the same time. There's a lot of booze. There's a lot of booze going on, like and get the fuck off the stage kind of thing. But yeah, the signal has been as the music kicks in. Lavinia is going to find the most blonde bimbo that she could find the one that seems like, you know, she's, she's head of her
Starting point is 00:38:09 fraternity or sorority. Excuse me. I always get them mixed up and I will attempt to inhabit her for the scene. So I think I'm going to have to spend two vitality. So well, actually, so with your vitality, vitality expenditure drives the extent of control. The successes drive how long you actually manage. Oh, okay, okay, gotcha. So yeah, two vitality to enjoy full control of the target's body. Yep. And then what do I need to roll? So you will roll charisma plus leadership. The willpower is a difficulty, but she's blasted. So difficulty probably isn't going to be high. So we'll say that we'll say difficulty five. Yeah. All right. It's not a complete failure.
Starting point is 00:39:00 That's three successes with two nines and a 10. Got it for the scene. So yeah, you you easily. I think what I'll do is like I manifest her and like her friends are talking to her. If she's got a drink or a hand, I'll just throw the drink in one of her friends hands or face and then I'll just start like writhing like a maniac on the dance floor, like screaming like a banshee as if, you know, I'm being torn apart by some invisible, you know, foe or something. Yeah, there's there's like a wide swath given to this flailing female sorority sister. And people are like, what's going on? Oh, my God. It's chaos. Absolute chaos. Yeah. Okay. Who's what's Nikola doing all this? I'm just curious.
Starting point is 00:39:55 I think Nikola at the beginning of it is just looking was probably standing next to me at the whole time and just looking at the crowd. But once everything starts going off, just the emotional feeling of people getting scared and all this energy, she finally just puts a cigarette in her mouth and walks outside. Okay, okay. You won't get any spite for this excursion. That's good. Adler, what do you do being in control of the house? So you're here me out. I'm going to hear you out. I'm going to go from like bedroom to bedroom in the frat house, whichever one's like occupied. And I'm just going to start like kind of flickering the lights to like, whoever's in there. Okay, that's like my overture. Okay. And if there's like,
Starting point is 00:40:44 if there's like, like, like speakers, like at the outlets or whatever, I'll try to like, I don't know, crank some coil wine through them, just be generally spooky. Okay. But then when I'm sorry, do I go ahead? Yeah. Oh, I was happy to roll for cock blocking. But but when when Lavinia starts writhing on the floor or whatever, is there any way that I can like, turn the breaker off? Yeah, I'll say that's relatively easy. I won't even make you roll for that. Yeah, all of a sudden, as soon as Lavinia begins to ride and throw this this poor girl's body around the power cuts, and everything goes dark and goes silent. Except for the screams. Yes. While it's dark and silent, can I sort of wander around the building turning on as many
Starting point is 00:41:40 faucets as I can find? Are we going to wet bandit this? Is that what's going to happen? Yeah. Are we going to end it? Home Alone? Home Alone. Yeah. I have not seen Home Alone. What? I don't like Christmas movies. It's barely a Christmas movie. It's like a, it's a child murdering two old men. It's die hard for kids. It's a group of burglars who leave a calling card by clogging the drains and then turning on all the faucets in the house they rob. So they call themselves the wet bandits. Are you clogging the drains Colette? Hell yeah. Yeah. We're trying to get the water to run. We are wet banditing this. And I'm starting on the second floor. So it starts to fall over the bandit into the foyer. Holy shit. Okay. Got it. So Mia, do you do you expel at this
Starting point is 00:42:40 point? I would stick around for a little bit to watch the chaos because I'm just like now I'm in that like these dumb asses. I think it's funny, but I do want to check on Nicola because I was just like wait because they left. I want to make sure that they're okay. We'll say before that happens, Koa, you wanted to foreboat a little bit. Yeah, fuck it. Are you going to, are you going future past? What's the plan? Let's go in the future. Let's do a week into the future. Oh, okay. All right. Love it. So go ahead and roll perception plus empathy. Difficulty is six. So that's two vitality as well. The house is just shut down. My God, we spoke all over police tape all over it. That's five successes. Beautiful. Okay. Are you focusing on any question or idea in particular?
Starting point is 00:43:51 No, just a general casual look into the future. Okay. I'm trying to keep my mind off of how I'm feeling right now. Okay. You close your eyes and you focus and you're back home and you know it's the holidays. It's almost like the last time you forebode and you saw into the future. You smell that cooked meat. You hear the laughter and sounds of conversation among your family members having gathered and you realize you're at the head of a table and your family is on both sides of you. Your mother is at the far end and everybody's talking. Everybody's enjoying themselves. You blink and all of them are lying on the table, their eyes staring lifelessly at you, blood pulling from the bull holes in their bodies.
Starting point is 00:45:02 And you see the reapers standing behind them. Then you come to. Well, fuck, that's even worse than how I'm feeling now. God damn it. Well, say Mia, you step out just as she's coming back to consciousness. I just look irritated. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. I just don't feel like participating in this bullshit that they're doing right now. Right. Yeah. Sorry. What's going on? What's going on? A couple of weeks ago, not a couple of weeks ago, a month ago, I was kind of fucking around looking into some stuff and I saw something. And every now and again, it just keeps kind of
Starting point is 00:46:07 popping up. It's just recurring. I don't know what it means, but it just doesn't feel good. Wait, what? Wait, what is it? What do you keep saying? There's these, I keep seeing these beings, but I'm not supposed to see memories when I look into the future. That's not how that works. I'm supposed to see imprints of things. But every time I keep coming back to this one point, it's always something I've already experienced, but in the future, that just doesn't make sense. Like spending time with family and the holidays and being together. I don't know why, but something bad's going to happen. And I just can't figure out what it is anyways. But it's fine. It's not anything we should worry about
Starting point is 00:47:12 right now. What are you doing? Wait, right this second or in life in general? I'm trying to like this second technically, but you know, you've got something existential going on. Well, not seeing the past in the future and that's a riddle. Where's the video when you need her? Great. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm still thinking about that. Are you sure it's the past? Are you sure you're just not seeing the future again? Like that could be like it's similar, but do you get where I'm going? It's just that I'm projecting forward, not back. And the experiences that I'm experiencing is something that I would technically would have experienced in the past. I'm not, you know, I'm not a lot. What do you mean? If you want, you know, I can call, I can
Starting point is 00:48:19 have someone take a look into, you said it was your family? I don't know if it's intrinsically involved with my family, but it's just the reoccurring event at time. It's the holidays. It's like Christmas, Thanksgiving, something like that, which is on the way. I think that's what it is. I don't think it's intrinsically involved with specifically my family, but whatever's going to happen is going to happen soon, especially since today's the last day of October. I wish we were kind of in the office right now. I never thought I'd say that, but like I could write my notes. Okay. I actually want to go into this deeper. Yeah, that's a crap party. I'm like, okay, I, we're not, we got a table this right now,
Starting point is 00:49:17 but we're not dismissing it. We're going to come back to this. Okay. And, but think of that offer. I said, I can have someone at least check in on them like discreetly. Ah, this crap. Okay. Tomorrow, we'll just, if you can remind me, we'll talk about this more. I mean, fine, we'll talk about him later. Well, again, all the people are running. Well, were you doing anything else? I think you wanted to do something with the coats, right? Yeah, I have two things. I want to find wherever Colette made the water run and type, we know what you did, smiley face, not type, write that. So the water turns red. And then I want to go to the coat pile, wherever people's like scarves and things are,
Starting point is 00:50:05 and I'm just going to start throwing them to people that it looks like they belong to, because I don't know who these coats belong to. So I'm just going to start shuffling and just throwing them at people as they walk, as they run away. Yeah, I'm not even going to make you roll vitality or make any kind of role or anything like that. Like it's just, it's happening for, just for shits and giggles though, for, you know, using your spite a little bit, some of your stains to write that in blood. Go ahead and just roll your spite rating. Okay, yeah, that's fine. That's two successes. Okay, all right, you don't gain any from that. Sorry, three successes. Okay, all right, you're good. Yep. Okay. Yeah, so you should be good.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Yeah, let's see. Yeah. Yep, you're okay. Okay. So that's happening. And all these half-naked people are now running around in the October Denver weather, which is fucking, it can be cold. No coats. It's chaos. It's absolute fucking chaos. Who else is doing what? I'd like to start taking the batteries out of anything I can find. I mean, I think at this point that people are running out of the house, she's screaming and wailing. You hear sirens, campus police is on their way. I think I'll just have her run out into like the, you know, the main front yard, and then I'll like pull out of her so that she just starts acting even more strange and she's like, something was just inside of me, you know,
Starting point is 00:52:01 kind of thing. She's freaking out. Yeah. Yeah. For a second there, I thought you were gonna say, run her into traffic. No, she's not high enough for that. Yeah, right. Just you. Abner, what else do you do in the house? Are you kind of? Yeah. So after everybody starts running out of the house, and it's cleared out like enough, Abner's gonna into the kitchen, and he's gonna open the pantry, and he's just gonna start sealing all of their beans. Okay. Wait, are they rolling out of the house? Like Chef Boyardine? No. Like, how are you getting them out? Are you like, are you now in manifested spirit? Yeah, and all in your life. Yeah, all manifested. You're gonna be like rolling beans, cupped in my shirt, and then before the police show up, I'm just gonna try the run out.
Starting point is 00:53:00 Okay. I'm gonna go to Logan's car, actually. Oh, God. It's far enough away that I don't start screaming because there are these floating cans of fucking beans. Oh, no, you're manifested. So you're good. Never mind. You're good. There's this strange man. I think it's worse if there's a strange man carrying beans. Can I just make sure that my hair is hanging over my face so that people don't like see that shirt. Absolutely. Logan, was there anything else you wanted to do? I think Logan was starting to try and find like a super alpha, like just asshole, frat guy. And then a little bit of what Kate was saying about like feeling people's fear and their emotions and everything comes back to her. And it's it like the knowledge of it kind of slams into her like a
Starting point is 00:53:48 bus and like all the feelings are kind of like settling weird on her. So I think she's still going to do it. But it's I don't think it's going to have the effect that she wants. Can I can I can I like out of out of Logan's over here? This is me. Can I can I try to do the annoy whale? Yes. So that's a zero vitality. Yeah. But potentially it work in the opposite way. I mean it if I don't do it. Okay. Sure. Yeah. So well it's a zero vitality expenditure to do that. So just roll your manipulation plus empathy. That is none successes. Got it. Still. Yep. Yep. He takes off. He's he's terrified. And then I think I just try to find Colette and say there's there's sirens we should probably go. Come on. It's just campus police. They come in little golf carts.
Starting point is 00:54:55 What are they going to do? You aren't part of this campus though. Okay. All right. We'll go. I mean you can do what you want. You're a grown person but no no let's get back to your car. You were right. You do look good. Yeah I know. You scare the shit out of that guy though. It was just pee. Maybe shit next time. Everybody take a spy point. Yeah except for Nicola and Mia knows that the square is at the circle. That is still battery. Okay. So it's pretty hateful bro. It's pretty spiteful. And you know you didn't steal the kids Rolex but that is and also wet band. Was it wet band? They're frat kids. I mean they deserved it. You're not wrong. I don't know what they did but they fucking did it. Yeah and as make better choices. This Crucible 12 races
Starting point is 00:56:06 off into the Denver night. Campus police screaming up to the fraternity house behind them. Your Halloween party comes to a I'm guessing comes to a close unless you all wanted to do something after that. Look at this. I'm just gonna let the beans kind of out in their front seat. Can you put them in the trunk because I think to let's gonna sit. Look at this. Mia has to sit in the back. So like oh I could I could I could I think I would have brought my truck. Okay I'll go with me. Well as we're leaving every like I'm going to Waffle House. Anyone else wants to join me and I'm just gonna anyone wants to hop in. Let's go after party at Waffle House. Get in losers. We're getting waffles. Car full of beans. My dead friends in a waffle house. I'm gonna rip cord back.
Starting point is 00:57:06 All right. So you take the level of bashing damage. You need to rip cord back when you're standing right there. Well I probably leave like I probably rip cord back a little sooner than being right there. Okay. So yeah your your night comes to a close. It was a resounding success. That was pretty fun. I feel a little guilty but that was pretty fun. We did so good. We just traumatized people for life. It feels so good. To be fair they're probably traumatizing themselves. Exactly. I mean sure. Yeah. Now if anyone at Orpheus headquarters mentioned this we deny deny deny right. Oh I think that's it. We went to Waffle House. Exactly. I hope you guys are better actors than that because they'll find that. Just relax. We're
Starting point is 00:58:00 gonna be fine. We're like the animal house of Orpheus. They hate us but they gotta love us. This is not the craziest thing. We're like lovable scamps. We'll be fine. And like not molesty. Right. I did not molest anyone tonight. No. Where did you get that? Is this because I was inside the house. You said animal house. Did anyone not like do you not remember a couple of scenes. Not seen animals. I thought that was the book where the animals overthrow the farm. That was animal farm. Animal farm. Okay. I also didn't read that. This is all happening as I'm digging into Waffle's drinking coffee by the way. And I do have a joint there because it's the Waffle House. They don't care. As long as you supply them some they don't care. So that's what I'm doing. I'm
Starting point is 00:58:47 gonna be like no that's animal farm. The animal house is like this comedy where the frat house and they do all kinds of shit. But it gets kind of questionable many times. Logan's on their fifth apple juice. Nice. Okay. Keep them coming. Yeah. And then everyone's looking blank. I'm like I'm not a boomer. I'm actually a millennium. Jesus Christ. Kids. Look at that movie come out. Like 1990. In the 70s. In the 70s. Oh. In the 90s. And I definitely wasn't. It's not helping your case. Well no. It's just that's like my dad liked it. Didn't it. VHS blockbuster anybody. No. I was worried about your case. I'm with you Mia. I was the one who said it.
Starting point is 00:59:34 Thank you. Coffee. Dink. Dink. Great. Okay. Okay. There are four ghosts in this Waffle House that we're talking to like they're real with three real people. It's so nice to be fair. It's Waffle House. They sound like to know that Waffle House transcends life and death like it makes so much of course. These are the pillars between moral and this episode not brought to you by Waffle House but maybe. Unless they're into it. Unless they're into it. Check out somebody role play. With that. Well fade to black. Kind of like that show I'm a scene at the end of Avengers. Like we saved the world just like them. Yep. Yep. And when we pick back up it is
Starting point is 01:00:28 it is Wednesday November 7th 2018. The day before you all received a text message from Kate for those of you with phones and with instructions to let your dearly departed crystal mates know but it's an address for a Motel 6 near Denver International Airport and a time 9 30 p.m. No further information. 9 30 p.m. PM. Like she doesn't even say meet me here at this time. It's just link location. Yep. How clandestine. What do we do? I'm going. Yeah. After hours a little after work extracurricular shower made myself look a little bit decent. Okay. Go down. Is this the next day or like this is about a week. I think about a week later. Okay. Cool. So it was the same night.
Starting point is 01:01:37 Yeah. Do you want to be out? Do you want to be sleeping Abner or do you want to be back in the flesh? It's not going to like harm me to stay sleeping. Is it? No. I'm just going to stay like that. Okay. I like being like this. Okay. Excellent. All right. So yeah, you all proceed to this shoddy Motel 6 near DIA and when you get to the room there's a room number and when you get there knock on the door it is Kate who answers. Come on in. Have a seat. Quite an unusual meeting place, Kate. Is there a reason for this? Yeah. This one's off the books. Oh, shit. Is that like a but you're telling us it's still so it's technically kind of on the how does that never mind? Does it matter? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Me. Different book. That kind of
Starting point is 01:02:38 didn't actually shut up. Different book. There's going to be no record of this one. But we're going to get there. You're going to get there. Oh, no dossier. So if you're going to take notes make sure you get rid of them when you're done. All right. How much of an extra pay are we getting because this I'm asking because I'm trying to figure out how fucked we are. Maybe about a grand more. What are we talking about here? This is a fumigation run. Your target is a man by the name of Coleman David Shaw. You need to neutralize him.
Starting point is 01:03:23 Is he alive? Yeah, he's location. Last no look. Oh, good. All right. This is what we have Coleman Shaw 45 years of age is suspecting pigment user and dealer started stalking a Miss Alana Blair 44 about three months ago, August 2018. Miss Blair says that she met Mr. Shaw on a nightclub here in Denver. Inhale during their conversation. Mr. Shaw mentioned he was looking for investors for his club. Inhale probably to launder drug money from pigment sales at the nightclub. He was immediately attracted to her over the next several weeks. He continued to proclaim his love for sending her gifts and messages. She refused his offers of affection. Turns out
Starting point is 01:04:06 Miss Blair's husband died a little over a year ago. He took the rejection badly became threatening violent. Miss Blair sustained repeated vandalism to her home in her vehicle. Mr. Shaw and his buyers have been stalking her constantly. Authorities looked into it, but the mostly did was give a restraining order against Mr. Shaw. Shaw is 45 years old, white male. He's been investigated for numerous drug and fraud related offenses, but never convicted. He is a known pigment addict, believed to have several men in his employ. He considers himself the drug lord of Denver. He has a residence at 18 Bewell Mansion Parkway in Cherry Hills Village here in Denver, just south of the city. Cherry Hills. For those of you not from around here, that's kind of the
Starting point is 01:04:56 hoity, toyty, wealthy section of the city where all the more affluent residents live. We did some initial reconnaissance on his residence. It's a large multi-acre secluded lot. His home is at the end of a cul-de-sac. There's a kill zone of about 100 yards surrounding the house. A group of four attack dogs at full run of the grounds, two levels in a basement, five full bathrooms, eight bedrooms, 10 bodyguards at the house at any given time. Are we to leave the anyone else we might find on the scene unharmed or can we go a little nuts? Limit collateral damage as much as possible. Your mission is solely to ensure Mr. Shaw no longer bothers Ms. Blair. How you accomplish that is up to you.
Starting point is 01:05:50 Who's requesting our services? Is it Blair? We suspect she may be a pigment user as well, but she is not the objective. When you reiterate, you are not to investigate Ms. Blair. You are to investigate Mr. Shaw. Do we have access to any of our inventory or is that also off the books? I can likely get you some equipment if you need it. If that's the case, can we also get some kind of knockout gas or can a server we could possibly use smoke grenades and distractions like that? We don't have anything like that in our inventory. This is a next world. I know how to make it.
Starting point is 01:06:41 Lesson previous missions undertaken by other cruisers will suggest that pigment may affect a person's ability to perceive the dead. Take the opportunity to record any interactions between Shaw and his men with you or any other ghosts. Make sure to protect your identities and if you can secure a sample, do so. If you can collect any information of the pigment. If you can find any information on the pigment trade, particularly Mr. Shaw's involvement in it, feel free to collect and record that as well. There may be a bonus in it. Is that a priority?
Starting point is 01:07:19 Secondary objective. Listen, Shaw may be responsible for a number of violent crimes, including murder. He's been investigated for at least five women going missing. Nothing stuck. This isn't a good guy. Do we have a list of those victims? Yes. Good. Question really quick. What did you just say before? Because you got cut off. You're like
Starting point is 01:07:43 something with his men. Like, you know, never mind, forget it. No, no, no, yeah. So they can perceive, they can potentially perceive ghosts. If they're all using pigment based on the information we've seen, if you're in your body out of it, they may be able to perceive you. Yes, men are heavily armed. A lot of them have former military experience. There's, like I said, 10 bodyguards, five on the day shift, five at night, four attack dogs on the grounds. Camera is probably all around the perimeter of the house. He's got a arsenal of
Starting point is 01:08:15 weapons in the home, a panic room in his basement. Do we have any intel on the bodyguards? Names. No names, but we know they're with a Vora security group. Do we know if the cameras are like those cameras you gave us? No, no, they're not Corellum. Okay. All right. Well, that feels pretty clean cut.
Starting point is 01:08:49 Right. Oh, what's the timeline? What's the timeline? Or yeah, what's the, yeah, timeline. As long as you need. What, what happens if this goes wrong? What happens if one of us gets hurt? We'll take care of you. Not like, not like, just take care of you. We will make sure that you receive treatment and...
Starting point is 01:09:19 You might want, you might want to work on that delivery. We have doctors and surgeons on staff. Yeah, we're fine. Okay. I think maybe it would be prudent for everyone to be knocked out. You know what I mean? I mean, not you, Logan. I don't know what you mean. Ghosts, be ghosts.
Starting point is 01:09:47 Oh, yeah, that's not what I thought you said. Are we discussing this with K here or that's where I'm like, do we weigh or are we leaving? Discussing our plans. I'm here to answer whatever any other questions we've got. We don't, we don't have to kill anybody though, right? If we can find... No, we are not telling you that you have to kill this man. What we're telling you is you have to make sure he no longer represents a threat to Ms. Blair. We can.
Starting point is 01:10:18 If it comes to that, you're not going to be... As long as you do your job right, there's not going to be any repercussions. We're not going to turn you into the police. Didn't have a concern. That's why this is off the books. You look like you saw a ghost there, Ms. Colette. I mean, it's just a lot to take in. That's all. There's a lot of ways.
Starting point is 01:10:48 Listen, this is not a... Oh, go ahead. There's a lot of ways to skin a cat, Colette. We don't have to kill this man. We can incriminate him. We can find ways to... Hell, if our Halloween party is any indication, we can find some way to scare him out of town. We can literally skin the cat. We're not hurting a cat. Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. That is not the mission.
Starting point is 01:11:19 What was that about a Halloween party? We had a gathering at the Logan's apartment where we were... We just group bonding exercise. Okay. We're very innovative. If he's... I'm going to look at Nicole and be like, these guys suck. Colette, you want something?
Starting point is 01:11:41 If he's doing what he's doing to Hearthen, he deserves whatever he gets. This isn't a good man, ladies and gentlemen, folks. This is not a good guy. What are the names of the five victims really quick? Six. Six, pardon me. Ms. Blair being the sixth, the other five where you got paper. Yep. Tara Fleming, Alexis Abbott.
Starting point is 01:12:08 Jill Rivera, Lynn Baldwin, Trisha Clark. So if he likes picking on women. Yeah. So for anyone who's at all concerned, I need you to think of Tara, Alexis, Jill, Lynn, and Trisha. I'm sure they didn't get a choice. Okay, good. And I think we're all on the same page now. Logan's been pacing around, but they're going to stop and just like lean their hip against Colette's chair.
Starting point is 01:12:49 You all are on vacation. You'll be paid in cash when this is done. Very good. We still need to discuss how we're going to approach this. Recon, we can't go in blind. We need information. We don't have the time. We don't have a deadline.
Starting point is 01:13:08 We take a couple of days, far away, recon in. Abernathy should probably see if you can even sneak into the basement since you can possess houses. Not from personal experience. Yeah, I don't care. Just do that. Do it, but be smart. Don't be can of beans. Right?
Starting point is 01:13:27 Be the stairs. Be look around. This man, there's a reason he hasn't been charged with anything. He has some pretty powerful attorneys on his side. Albert Wilson and Gray. If we get sued, we will lose. What's that? Do we know that name on like any other besides?
Starting point is 01:13:50 You've probably seen commercials and ads for them. They are. They are probably one of the most prominent attorney firms in Colorado. Never mind Denver. Well, it's specialized in criminal defense. We can't go the legal route then. Well, I think we ought to try the illegal. Maybe we act like we're in the business for some pigment and get on his radar.
Starting point is 01:14:19 And maybe one of us plays distraction, plays new toy and draws them out. If he thinks he's hunting us. That's interesting. The honey pot. Yeah. He does have a history of this. He's prone to it. Well, I think we need some information about him before we delve into that.
Starting point is 01:14:44 Yeah. Sid, let's read because that could definitely work. That could really work. And if we can, we can actually make some homemade chloroform. We can do a couple of things actually with bleach and we can, if you are good, we can go ahead and neutralize other people and we could take our guy and get him out of there. So there's no cameras, no witnesses and handle what we got to handle. Listen, this is Kate talking to you, not your supervisor or your project leader.
Starting point is 01:15:20 This is Kate. Don't put yourselves at any unnecessary risk. If you have to kill this guy to get the job done, you just fucking do it. Don't fuck around. So far, sniper, far away. Less mess? I mean, if you can get a long gun. I mean, do we have one?
Starting point is 01:15:40 Does that seem to be a bit of one? I certainly don't. Wait, I have connections. Viv, can you make a, can you be a long gun? Can you make your arm a long gun? Like a sniper rifle? I just, I... I know you just learned that, but...
Starting point is 01:15:52 Probably. I mean, I also could just, I also could just get us a gun. If we'd need a long gun, I have. We could just... I can also just emulate him alive. I'm gonna see about that. All right. Who are our skin writers in the group?
Starting point is 01:16:08 Zinnia. A suicide, not an option. Wait, why'd you say? A suicide, not an option. Okay. Yeah. Don't leave a trail. Or do your homework.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Guarantee this guy isn't in bed with good people. Probably a lot of people who want him dead. Let's start with what Mia suggested, which is we find out more about him, his patterns, and then we make a decision. But whatever the decision is, it needs to be as simple as possible, because the more of the moving parts,
Starting point is 01:16:46 the more of the chance for mistakes. Yes. You'll have complete authority in the field to do what you need to do. You don't need to check back in with me. Can we get a nearby house, or is there any vacant homes, or anything that we can use as a stakeout,
Starting point is 01:17:00 or just a place nearby where we can keep watch? That'll be on you. Great. Are there any surrounding woods? Like we said, based on our recon, there's about a kill zone of 100 yards surrounding the residence. Okay.
Starting point is 01:17:20 What does that mean for non-military people? What does it kill zone roughly? So, they'll shoot you 100 yards out. You can just see for 100 yards all around. You can see for 100 yards. Yeah, it's wide open, no cover, no concealment, nothing. I apologize. That's there for a reason, though.
Starting point is 01:17:38 Kate, are there any vacant houses in the neighborhood? No. Are there any people out of town? I guess you wouldn't know that. I don't. But it's not a bad idea. I mean, it's a fancy neighborhood. People go on vacation all the time.
Starting point is 01:17:53 I mean, you can also just be out of your body and hang out. True. Could also be construction crews that need to go check the pavement. Are there any potholes, electrical, and the lights, street lights, stop signs? Just remember, not only think outside the box, think outside the flesh, okay?
Starting point is 01:18:17 I know, I just did. You are not limited by your physical forms. Yep. I think we can start by reconnoitering the area and then go from there. Well, unless you all have anything else, I am going to excuse myself. Thank you, Kate. Well, gee, thanks, Kate. Kate, really quickly, can I add an addendum to this thing if it pulls off successfully?
Starting point is 01:18:51 Sure. I would like to request that I can come in in sweats for work from now on when I please, too. No, but thanks for asking. Fine. Friday, yeah, I'll take it. Thank you. We'll put the office logo on it. It'll be really nice.
Starting point is 01:19:16 There you go. They have a dress code on you guys? Everyone has a dress code. Oh, fuck. I just don't enforce it. I don't give a shit. Sorry, the cool supervisor. Let's don't wear fucking sweats to business meetings on Monday.
Starting point is 01:19:33 I'm not a dumbass. I am. I just don't, I just, uh, fuck, yeah, they are. They coldies it. Well, I think we can get to work here. Are you all right with this? Well, we'll make it right. Yeah, well, you've been quiet.
Starting point is 01:19:57 You've been quiet. Are you all right with this? I'm fine. Do whatever you want me to do, Kate. It's never been a problem. All right, good luck. Do me a favor. Fuck him up.
Starting point is 01:20:17 Good. Yes, ma'am. And she leaves. I'm going to wait till I'm going to, anyone else get the feeling that Kate is personally attached to this? It's a bit strange. I don't think it matters. I think it's just a very unsettling situation now, isn't it?
Starting point is 01:20:41 He's a piece of shit who wouldn't want somebody like this dead. I don't blame her. Nope, I'm in. Just think of him like a really old frat guy. You don't need to convince us anymore, Abner. I think we're all in the same boat. I'm going to go to, oh, go ahead. No, you're good.
Starting point is 01:21:08 I think you're about to say what I was going to say. So, Abner, do you have an order of solutions? Because I may have a couple. You're the private investigator. I'd love to hear what you think we should do. You're a great leader. Okay. Embowering is his subordinate.
Starting point is 01:21:36 Oh, then tell him not to do it in that tone, because it sounds nuts like something at all. I'm going to go to, but he'll be like, there are 10 guards and some dogs. We can technically use one of them or commit suicide. So we can definitely jump in if need be. But before we do anything like that, we should probably greet Pawn as much as possible.
Starting point is 01:22:02 Absolutely. I mean, personally, I think we should keep it as simple as possible. The moment the man leaves the house, we have him walking to traffic or something, and that takes care of that. I really think we overcomplicate things. Well, we can't just have him commit suicide out of nowhere. We got to make it look good.
Starting point is 01:22:20 Also, if he walks into traffic, there's a chance he'll survive. I was thinking I have some old contacts from when I used to tour and everything. I used to have people who would get me some things, but I can have them look into this guy, get some cursory exterior information who he works with, who he talks with, who he does business through for the pigment, and set something up on the peripheral to find out
Starting point is 01:22:50 who is it that wants him dead and where he shits, where he eats. Okay. It would be useful if we used that to get him out of his house, kind of allure him to a potential... Well, we know he leaves his house to go to the club. So we start with enemies that might be there? Well, we need to know what clubs are crowded places. Well, he has his own club.
Starting point is 01:23:18 Yes, he has his own club, but you have two skin writers, and you have people who take over the club. We could get a meeting with him there. I think we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves. I think we can start simply by... Let's start with a simple stake out of the house, and maybe we send a couple of you hip kids down to that club. They just kind of scope things out.
Starting point is 01:23:48 I think we start nice, and let's gather all the information we can before we make any hard plans. I don't think he needs to see any of our faces. I'd rather he didn't, actually. He's not going to notice. He's not going to know. I'm an old man.
Starting point is 01:24:02 I don't know if you noticed. I don't know what clubs are like these days, but I don't think he's going to notice you in there, right? No, I'm not saying in that sense. I'm saying in the sense of us making a meeting with him. Well, you don't have to speak to him. That seems dumb. I don't think we should see.
Starting point is 01:24:17 I don't think he should see our face. I mean, he might see it if he has pigment anyway, but I'd like to limit that. It would guarantee getting up close to him. Less mistakes like Levinio was saying. It's also not real, man. We'd also get him out of that house if we could get him into the club,
Starting point is 01:24:34 private meeting in his office. It's a smaller room. Why don't we just scope him out a little bit before we put anyone in front of him? Done. I'm sorry. No, I want to really quickly. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 01:24:52 If you want, I think we could do one of us, that it could be a security guard. Can we jump? We could jump into dogs, right? We could jump into dogs. I'll get back to you on that. Because if possible, I could jump into the dog
Starting point is 01:25:10 and just do surveillance and recon that way. Yeah. Could lead all the rest of the dogs off. You're a curious dog. We also have the pouch rats. Yeah, Nicole, I think you may have insinuated in our discord that you had a thought about what we could do with them.
Starting point is 01:25:27 Oh, yeah. Well, I assume we could probably bring the rats into Scout or Recon or keep track of them. But we'd have to have some kind of control over them, right? Yeah, I got it. That's fine. Can you talk to the rat to go? No.
Starting point is 01:25:43 You can't talk to rats. But you can influence them and train them to do things. I think in a couple of weeks, it's fine. Do you guys want me to put in some calls and see what I can find out about this guy from afar? While we're doing our recon,
Starting point is 01:25:59 yes. I have a theory. Logic tells me that this Alana Blair might be related to Kate in some way. But that's as far as I think we might need to go. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:26:17 That's none of our business. Just talking out loud. Okay, do we want to have maybe... Mia, you seem like a good fit for staking out the mansion. Do you want to do that? No problem.
Starting point is 01:26:35 Can you do like... Can you just stick to the car or the binoculars for a night and see how it goes? They might find it a little sus but I'm sure we can find a way to... I got my ways, yes. Yeah, you do you.
Starting point is 01:26:51 I'm sure you can handle it. Maybe... I hate to put you out there, but Logan and Colette, can you check the club out? Yeah. Got muscle? Got connections? You seem like some hippie on kids.
Starting point is 01:27:07 I think that... Yeah. Yeah? She's got the words. I've got the muscle, be fine. And the rest of... I don't know what the rest of us are going to do. I could do some digging around on the internet, try to see if I can...
Starting point is 01:27:29 I don't know, do another form of recon, just trying to understand this... this shaw a little bit better. Maybe his history, where he's going, where he's been. Yes. And Nikoa, I'm guessing you can do... Old Reliable.
Starting point is 01:27:49 Always, always helps. I mean, I can. You would have to send me somewhere for me to do that. That's right. How close... How close to the house would you have to be? I need to be in the relative proximity. I also have to have a question to ask.
Starting point is 01:28:07 So if you have a question for me in a place to... Well, can you... You can look back and forward, right? Looking back might be at the club, where these... I imagine he's lowering most of these women in at the club, right?
Starting point is 01:28:27 That's an excellent question. If they're pigment users too, it's wherever he sells. I mean, it could be multiple places. There's a lot of good information. If you can look back in the club, I feel like there's a lot of good information you can get that way.
Starting point is 01:28:45 Sure. Then I'll go with the two to the club. Cool. Does someone want to go with Mia so she's not by herself? I'll go with Mia. I can grab a laptop. Okay. Vivian, where do you think you're going to slide? I feel like covering
Starting point is 01:29:03 your six at the club might be a good idea. It shouldn't come to violence. I don't want it to, but if it does, it might be helpful. Vivian, you just got to remember that there's going to be people there that can see you. You just got to be a little careful.
Starting point is 01:29:19 Which is why I wanted to ask something. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. You can also manifest and just look real too. That's what I was going to say. You should probably... That should be your default position here. Okay.
Starting point is 01:29:37 I'll bottle-grill it up. I don't know what that means. You don't have to. Great. Before we kind of make our ways and separate, Lavinia is going to casually pull Colette to the side
Starting point is 01:30:01 and try her best to not make it look like anything. Just kind of like a casual thing. She's just going to say if you start feeling triggered by anything, we are going to be in the close proximity
Starting point is 01:30:17 of a lot of drug use. Just tell someone or walk away. Take a break. Alright? Yeah, I can do that. Thanks, Finn. Take care of yourself. I will. Also, before we go,
Starting point is 01:30:35 I also want to talk to Lavinia about something really quick. I guess I'll pull her off to the side as well because I don't want to be out forward with it. You know what pigment feels like. Don't you, Lavinia? Is there any way
Starting point is 01:30:51 you could express how that feels to me so that I may be able to emulate it in the field? I think in a pinch, being able to recreate how pigment might feel might get us out of a pinch
Starting point is 01:31:07 if we need to, especially involving pigment users. You have that ability? Whale is an ability to manipulate emotions. So I should be able to manipulate the emotional feeling of this drug.
Starting point is 01:31:23 And I need to know how it feels so I can get Logan out of it as well. Lavinia will describe it mostly like heroin. Extremely calming. You know, kind of a body high. But with the added mixture of being able to see spirits,
Starting point is 01:31:41 there's this, you know, kind of weird clashing vibe that feels nice. So yeah, I'll describe it as best that I can. So you've got a long, kind of a long line. You do know that there's three primary methods
Starting point is 01:31:57 of imbibing. There is smoking. There is popping it in pill form and then there's injecting directly in the bloodstream. And so the method of ingestion drives the effect. So
Starting point is 01:32:13 smoking it is kind of just it's kind of like a trippy high. They can see ghosts, but they often mistake them for errant memories that are coming up as a result of the drug use. There is the pill form,
Starting point is 01:32:30 which is, it's almost kind of like a molly type. It's an ecstatic state. There's, you know, they're sedated. There's sexually aroused. There's synesthesia to an extent. Tasting colors, smelling music, hearing tactile stimuli, contributing to kind of the hallucinogenic
Starting point is 01:32:46 effect of the drug. Then there is injecting, just like heroin. And that's similar to barbiturates. And yeah, from what you can tell, you can see here and speak with ghosts when you injected and project. So, yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:06 And I'm not a pussy, so I would inject it. Okay. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead, Logan. I was also going to go talk to Colette. Oh, go for it. I was thinking, like, if you want, we can make it a whole,
Starting point is 01:33:27 a whole thing. I know it's like, I know it's going to be rough, but maybe if you come, you can, like, come get ready at my place and, like, Viv can come get ready, too, and we can, I mean, I don't know how much Viv can get ready, but she can be there and we can all hang out. And then maybe after, we can all, like,
Starting point is 01:33:43 have a sleepover and not be alone. Yeah. Yeah, I think I need that right now. If that's okay with you, I don't want to. I want that, please. That sounds very fun. Okay. We can do your whole queer house thing.
Starting point is 01:33:59 We'll do it. It's not a queer house. It's just a house where we all happen to be queer. It's not... I looked up when I heard queer house and they said it a little too loudly, and I'm like, what the fuck? What you need is a really shitty
Starting point is 01:34:15 goodwill couch and a pride flag and you're set. Okay, well, I don't have the pride flag, but... you know. It'll be fun. Oh. I can draw one on the wall. It'll be made of blood.
Starting point is 01:34:31 It'll be kind of cool. Can you do, like, varying shades of blood so it can be, like, the lesbian pride flag? I mean, if I, I guess if I time it out, it could be, like, that toast art, right? Kyle, if you want to make, like, a mural next to it, you're welcome to paint with my house.
Starting point is 01:34:47 This is the bad side of performance art. No, thank you. Good. Great. I wasn't sure if that was a thing you'd want. I'm not friends with a lot of artists. I think it's just you. You can keep your blood toast. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:35:03 Okay. And I think that'll be a good place to take a break for a little bit. Yeah. With our way ahead. And yeah, this is going to be interesting. So what do you think? 10 minutes? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:35:19 51. All right. See you soon. We're back. Let's jump right back into this. All right. So I think we've got our way ahead. So who is going to do what? Well, I think we said that already. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:35:35 Mia and I are going in, I guess, Mia's car to surveil the house. Okay. And I guess I'll be there too. Okay. You can hang out in the car. Literally.
Starting point is 01:35:51 Probably not taking my truck because it is a it is a big all right. So maybe we take a company car. Oh, I wrote it down. I got a Yes, I did. Ford F-150.
Starting point is 01:36:07 Get the fuck out of here. It's a Ford F-150 Raptor code. I know. Is it in that blue color? It seems orange. No, I think code orange. It's like a nice, bright yellow
Starting point is 01:36:23 orange. That probably won't that probably won't look too out of place in our wealthy Denver neighborhood. You guys are going to be 100 yards away from the snipers anyways. You'll be fine.
Starting point is 01:36:39 I have the truck. Everyone's making fun of my truck. It's a bad ass truck. It's the orange of it all. I'm going to the club with them. Club got all right. So let's start with the house. Definitely.
Starting point is 01:36:55 What time do you guys do? Do you all play on getting there? I mean, let's do it early. Right? So at this point, it's probably 10, 30, 11 o'clock at night. Yeah. Well, I feel like as far as the house goes, I mean, it seems like he's going to be there during the day and at the club at night.
Starting point is 01:37:11 But I mean, we probably want to check the house out at night. Well, if we're, if none of us are in flesh form, unless Mia is in her body, give me a couple hours of rest, but we should get there at four or five in the morning, maybe. So you all will separate for the night, get some rest, kind of
Starting point is 01:37:27 rest up and then get an early start on those surveillance. Got it. Yeah. And for the clubgoers, are you going to, are you going to go on like a Thursday or are you going to go, are you going to wait to Friday? What's the plan for that? She probably goes Friday. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:37:43 I think realizing that Niko is coming with us, I'm going to find her and say, hey, we're all getting ready together. Do you want to come with us? Sure. Cool. Where, where would I meet you?
Starting point is 01:37:59 My place. I can pick you up. You can come from work in your Jeep. You can just like, okay. So that'll be Friday. So we'll pick up with early Thursday morning. So four or five again,
Starting point is 01:38:15 Mia, Lavinia and Abner, you head out to the Cherry Hills Village neighborhood in Denver. And it is very clearly affluent. These are houses that are absolutely sprawling. It costs way too much money. There is way too much money period in this neighborhood.
Starting point is 01:38:31 And Shaw's mansion is no different, very modern, very, you know, a lot of, a lot of glass, a lot of plate glass windows, just wide open vistas and views. Whole house seems to be surrounded by wrought iron fencing. It's tough to get close
Starting point is 01:38:47 though, because you notice that you pull off of Buell mansion, the road that the house sits on. And it's kind of like a long driveway that terminates at a gate and then through the compound and then back to the house. So you kind of need
Starting point is 01:39:03 to come off the main road if you want to conduct any kind of surveillance. Which will also potentially expose you. Right. Is it like the kind, is it nice enough that it's like right against like the hill?
Starting point is 01:39:19 So there is no hill. It's kind of so there is housing back behind the mansion, behind the Shaw mansion. There is some there is some distance, so it'd be tough to make out details. But a lot of that foliage has been cleared from around
Starting point is 01:39:35 the house. Well, I mean, at the very least what we need to know is when he comes and goes and establish some kind of pattern. So I mean, if we can't see the home, I don't know if that's a terrible thing. Right.
Starting point is 01:39:51 I see your point. We can start there for now. And if one of us wants to creep in, we can attempt that. Yes. Okay. Yeah, let's do that. And while we're waiting, Lavinia has borrowed a work laptop, has manifested
Starting point is 01:40:07 and is using it trying to find out what she can specifically about Shaw's criminal record. And she's kind of trying to put together a picture of why he is a very flagrant drug
Starting point is 01:40:23 seller but is not like, where's the FBI, where's why is he yet to be prosecuted if it's really if it really is just all about his lawyers. Got it. Okay. So go ahead and roll intelligence
Starting point is 01:40:39 plus let's do computer investigation. Okay. So let's see intelligence and investigation. Okay.
Starting point is 01:40:55 And Mia, you've probably got access to some databases and stuff as well through your private investigators license. Private investigators, yes, and I also have from my detective's license, I have contacts as well. That's right. Okay. How many successes there?
Starting point is 01:41:11 So I rolled an eight, a three and a one, unfortunately. So that's zero successes. No successes. Yeah. It's tough. A lot of Google rabbit holes. It's tough to find really anything. You find a bunch of public facing stuff, but nothing that really
Starting point is 01:41:27 kind of digs into the details of what it is you're specifically looking for. Yeah, the son of a bitch has hit it himself well. Yeah, yeah, no social media profile to speak of. Looks like he, you know, stays pretty below the radar. Kind of
Starting point is 01:41:51 I have two points in law. I really am curious if like could doing a little research online just like Googling these questions could LaVinia get a better understanding that like if we were to incriminate him somehow, like what would it require for like the fucking FBI
Starting point is 01:42:09 to show up at his house or like have a more legitimate you know arresting of this man? Okay. If you want to roll roll wits plus law how are your wits?
Starting point is 01:42:25 What's higher? You can see your wits. My wits is at a three. My law is at a two. So good. That's a good dice poll. Yeah, go ahead and roll that. Okay, so roll both of them, right? Yep. Yeah, you pull them together and roll that. Okay. What's in law? Wow. Two
Starting point is 01:42:43 a five, two, three is a two and a four. So nothing. No success. Oh, man. Oh, no. I'm gonna stop now. Okay. Yeah, LaVinia. Just this is your your head's kind of racing. Yeah, all the possibilities
Starting point is 01:42:59 and potential here. It's hard to hard to drill down and focus on one particular particular course of action. But I will say during the day, especially getting there early, you do notice that two Cadillac Escalades pull up the drive into the residence
Starting point is 01:43:15 at about six and depart again at seven. Six a.m. seven a.m. Okay. Two white two Cadillacs. That's interesting. I guess it's just all the security. Guard change, maybe.
Starting point is 01:43:31 Oh, probably guard change. That would explain the six a.m. seven a.m. It's a short time frame. But also like marking it down pad if any how many people are in the vehicle. I don't think we can see that's the problem.
Starting point is 01:43:47 We can somebody roll not some. Oh, somebody real quick roll perception plus alertness. Someone other than me. I got that. What do you do because I got one. Damn. That is two
Starting point is 01:44:07 successes. Wait, no. Wait, I'm sorry. No, one success. One success. I will say you're not able to actually know the license plate numbers, but you do notice that the license plates are different on each on the vehicle. So the two vehicles that enter are not the two vehicles I leave. Well, that sounds like it.
Starting point is 01:44:23 That's that sounds like a guard change for sure. That sounds like the security company swapping out personnel. There's an hour of the day where all of the guards are there and then the rest of the time it's just what five and five like ten five and five. Yeah. Yeah. So based on
Starting point is 01:44:41 doing. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. I was going to say, what would they be doing in there for a whole hour? You know what these people think that'd be pretty fast. We're exchanging magazines or something. I don't know. Gun magazines. I mean, I was making a weird sex joke.
Starting point is 01:44:59 I don't know. I mean, I was going to ignore it, but it's OK. But it was actually kind of funny. Well, thank you. Don't feel bad. Can you
Starting point is 01:45:19 gosh, I know I might I know I said this a couple of times, but in this might be eager beaver. But is there a way you can I don't know if someone of those drivers jump in, can we just skin ride them, see what's up get a little lay of the
Starting point is 01:45:35 inside. Hmm. That might alert them that they're being watched because I imagine they can tell, right? If you pop out of someone, it's not like they don't know. The concern is that they take or they might take pigment.
Starting point is 01:45:51 So they might see us. But if we're inside them, that's different, though. Yes. And I yeah, I would not be visible if I was inside them, but I have to get within touching distance. I'm pretty sure. So I'd have to like reach into
Starting point is 01:46:07 the car as it's driving. It's a challenge. It will be to have an easier time of me getting into the house because I can be in something where no one's going to notice. I might be able to if you can get
Starting point is 01:46:23 to the house. We could well, Mia's not in her Spectre form, but LaVinia could try to get close enough to get into one of the guards. But again, what are we accomplishing by doing this? Well, it's really fun.
Starting point is 01:46:39 Yes, but what are we going to learn? It's definitely worthwhile to know what's going on in the house. OK. Remember, we don't know because I know Kate brought up the fact that there's a safe room in the basement, but we don't know
Starting point is 01:46:55 if there's another room. If there's a weapons room. We don't know if he even has like innocent people in there. There's a weapons room. It would be nice to be able to disable the safe room as well. Like if he was unable to.
Starting point is 01:47:11 Exactly. Incriminating in the house we can see. Oh, I'm sure there's going to be something incriminating. Hmm. Are we here to collect evidence? Are we here to take or are we trying to unalive a guy?
Starting point is 01:47:29 Yeah, I think we're here right now. Right now we're just collecting evidence, but hopefully hopefully the last thing later if we're lucky. Because from my understanding, it was unalive first evidence Well, the only objective
Starting point is 01:47:45 is to unalive him, as you say. But unalive him and then make sure that unalive shot isn't a problem. That's the important part. Also,
Starting point is 01:48:01 we want information about the pigment if we can get it. Yes, if we can. Exactly. I don't know. It's just part of me. I'm trying to get us moving along
Starting point is 01:48:17 because I'm following the mission objective that was laid for me. Well, we're not pressed for time. That said, Vince, is there like a manhole cover or anything
Starting point is 01:48:33 around like the... There is a storm that's a sewer grate like in the sidewalk. We're trying to get in the house that way. Like Pennywise, like Pennywise-sized storm grate. Pennywise-sized.
Starting point is 01:48:49 Don't forget, you're out of your body so you could get in. I want to see if there's a way on a subterranean route to get it closer in towards the property. Let's do this. Let's make a roll.
Starting point is 01:49:05 What do we want to do here? I'm trying to think. Let's do WETS Plus Survival. Oh. Okay, that's not horrible. Okay.
Starting point is 01:49:25 Ooh, two successes and a one. So one success. Yeah, you get down there because it's a labyrinth of sewer drains and pipes that most people probably couldn't fit in.
Starting point is 01:49:41 It's mainly for storm runoff and that kind of thing, especially once the snow pack starts melting and everything. You could potentially navigate it, but with all the houses in the area, it's tough to tell what goes where. You lose your bearing pretty quickly.
Starting point is 01:49:57 Okay. So that's not going to work. Team Surveillance, while the surveillance is going on, what is Team Raver, Team Clubgoer? Whatever team name you want. Team Raver.
Starting point is 01:50:15 What are you all playing on doing during this day? If you want to go to Friday night, you've got all Thursday and Friday to kind of game plan or I don't want to neglect you all. I wanted to give a call to, I know that
Starting point is 01:50:31 she used to have someone that got her drugs. And I'm sure she did not lose that number. I think she'd put in a call to see if they can start looking into Oh God, what's his name? I'm sorry. Who are we killing?
Starting point is 01:50:49 Into Shaw and see about you know, she'd call asking for information on this guy, saying that she heard I could score or something and if that contact could get, collect any information or perhaps a meeting
Starting point is 01:51:05 anything they can give me on Shaw. Do you have any specific contact in mind? Or I mean We can wait. Yeah, I mean she probably would have someone that's within the art scene that used to tour with her.
Starting point is 01:51:21 That was just really adept it used to be in the business and then now the business is scoring drugs. In Colorado, so Colorado based. Yeah, I think they would have traveled with me but they know about
Starting point is 01:51:37 this area enough. I don't know. It's up to you. All right. Yeah. We'll roll with it. So you do make some phone calls and they're able to put you in touch with somebody local. They're willing to procure pigment for you if need be. But the
Starting point is 01:51:53 main thing you get is to stay away from Shaw. He's bad news. Okay. He doesn't deal himself. He doesn't hold himself but he does have a network of dealers that work for him and he does not fuck around. Okay. There are
Starting point is 01:52:11 suspicions in the community that he may have connections down south and nobody wants anything to do with that. So none of them are even willing to give me a meeting or anything like that. Nobody that knows him that well and nobody who wants to know him that well
Starting point is 01:52:29 and where you come from, you know down south means Mexico. Okay. What's everybody else going to do? I think Logan spends part of the day like working out to like
Starting point is 01:52:53 get ready to beat ass if they have to. Yeah, totally. But also I think they pull their computer out and do some research about terraflaming Alexis Abed, Jerovera, Lynn Baldwin and Trisha Clark just to like
Starting point is 01:53:11 know about them, I guess. Absolutely. Do you have anything in investigation? Probably not. Nope, nothing. Okay. So I won't make your role for it. What I will say is just by Googling they are missing person cases
Starting point is 01:53:27 in Colorado and it's been within the past probably five years that they've gone missing sporadically. There's no like clear pattern. Like it's not like one year on the dot. It's, you know, pretty sporadic. There's not like a clear
Starting point is 01:53:43 pattern to it. Okay. But yeah, it would say the five of them have gone missing at various points over the past five years. Is there any like last scene at the missing person you know reports? Because I know some,
Starting point is 01:53:59 but that's mostly for kids that I see it on. Yeah, no. Like house parties somewhere at house parties, somewhere at clubs. Yeah. Okay. And the common denominator among them is that they were involved in the nightlife in Denver. Okay.
Starting point is 01:54:15 And the springs. Some of them are actually from Colorado Springs. Is there anything you do kind of during this time? Yeah. What are the odds that inhale is a place that I've either picked up or dropped off something before? Because you, you weren't like entirely
Starting point is 01:54:37 above board, right? There was some under the table stuff. Yeah. Like at least 40% under the board. Under the table. There we go. Yeah. You've made some deliveries. Okay. So would I be familiar with like the exits and... Yes.
Starting point is 01:54:53 Okay. I'd say yeah. I'd say you have a general idea as to the main way in and the main way out and emergency exit. Anything more in depth than that? It's been so long you'd have to re-familiarize yourself with the terrain. Okay. Cool. That's a lot. Actually, if I
Starting point is 01:55:09 can, I just have one question again really quick. Do you really think we're going to need guns for this? Probably not the club, right? It just feels like... We probably shouldn't even try to bring guns to the club. That seems like a bad idea.
Starting point is 01:55:27 Yeah. That sounds like more smoke than what we need. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure because if you... No. I was mostly just thinking because you did that, that cool thing. Your arm was like a sword. Yeah. And I was wondering if you could make your arm a sniper rifle and then we could just shoot him from a distance and then we'd be done with it
Starting point is 01:55:43 and no one would have to be up close to him. You know. I have that in my back pocket if we need it, but I just wanted to make sure if that was a part of you feeling safe in the clubs to be strapped in the club in general. No. Okay. I don't really like guns anyway, so it's like...
Starting point is 01:55:59 Okay, good. Forget it. Great. Good luck. Thanks. I'm going to be back in like... I don't know, like 12 hours. I don't know why I said good luck to you. Yeah. I'm not attempting to do anything. I'm just going to go...
Starting point is 01:56:17 It's a stressful time. You can hang out if you want to here also. I wasn't trying to kick you out. You're welcome to just chill here, but also if you have things to do, you can... I literally have nothing else to do. I'm just going to sit in my basement. So this is good. I will be here.
Starting point is 01:56:33 Cool. Okay. I will play music. You don't have to. That was just an option for you. Okay. That's... Honestly, I haven't really had friends since I was like... with a bunch of firefighters 24-7, so I think
Starting point is 01:56:51 I've forgotten how to talk to people a little bit. I'm going to be honest with you. That's clear. But I've been hiding... I've been hiding in a parking garage for a year. So that's where I'm coming from. So we're about the same.
Starting point is 01:57:07 Great. I used to be really good at talking to people, and then it just all went out the window. Completely. And being able to turn into a ghost will be that I'm going to play any song. Press play on whatever is happening on the Bluetooth speaker immediately.
Starting point is 01:57:23 Love it. And just sit in your living room for 12 hours. Koa, do you do anything during this time? I think the most important thing during that time would to try to get Logan familiar with how
Starting point is 01:57:41 pigment feels like because I think it's important to have that... I had a curiosity. Do you reach out to Matt and Baht too at all? No. Yeah, I feel like I should touch base with her.
Starting point is 01:57:57 I promise I would be more communicative. And so, yeah, you call her. You can probably borrow a phone from any one of the living. And when you... Because you're dead. You're a ghost. You're a ghost.
Starting point is 01:58:13 Just a quick reminder. Just in case. When she picks up. Hello. Hello. It's Koa. I'm just calling. You're calling me.
Starting point is 01:58:29 This is new. Well, I did make a promise to be more communicative. So here is me trying. Is this difficult for you in your state? No. It's no trouble at all.
Starting point is 01:58:45 Well, don't weigh yourself out too much. I don't. Just a call. Any... I just wanted to call. We're about to do a... a mission and stuff like that.
Starting point is 01:59:01 So I just wanted to check in before I have to go off and do that. Anything interesting? It's just involving a man named Shah. He's a seedy individual.
Starting point is 01:59:21 I assume you would probably know about the case if you were to dig deep. No. I forgot his first name. Colman David. Colman. Colman Shah.
Starting point is 01:59:37 Oh. Mr. Shah. Yes. Are you familiar with him? One could say he is a competitor. He... hasn't proven anything, but rumor has it
Starting point is 01:59:55 that he uses his medical and recreational dispensaries to launder money for less savoury individuals. Hmm. That's interesting. Well,
Starting point is 02:00:17 fortunately for you, if all goes well, Mr. Cross might not have a problem as you fear him. Oh, I'm not too particularly concerned about him. I refuse to do business with him. He is particularly unsavory and unscrupulous individual.
Starting point is 02:00:33 But do be careful. If he's in business with who some of us in the community believe he is in business with, then it could be problematic. Who would he be in business with? Is Shah
Starting point is 02:00:51 not the big fish in the funk? He likes to think that he is. But this is just speculation. My darling, please don't take this as gospel. But, well, marijuana dispensaries
Starting point is 02:01:07 are a cash-only business. You know this. They can't store their money in banks. And so, as a cash business, it is a fantastic opportunity. And also a fantastic way to distribute other illicit substances
Starting point is 02:01:23 that are not necessarily legalized by the state or the federal law enforcement system. He may have patrons in the south. Yeah,
Starting point is 02:01:39 okay. Patrons in the south, like, people he's working for? Oh, I don't know. I've never done business with them. And I never will. But,
Starting point is 02:01:55 if you have time, you're working with Ms. Kassim working with Ms. Castillo Bennett, correct? Yes,
Starting point is 02:02:11 she's a part of the Crucible. I believe she has a background in law enforcement. Ask her about the federation. Okay. Do be careful, my darling. Of course. I have enough people behind me. Everything will be fine.
Starting point is 02:02:33 It's a simple job. Good. You also tell me all about it when you're done. I will be sure to stop by as soon as I am. I'll see you later. I'll talk to you later. She hangs up. Cool. Yeah, I will share that with everybody.
Starting point is 02:02:57 So, yeah, I will tell them how I know that information. I will just tell them about the information. Possibly laundering money and other things through a weed business? Is that the gist? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 02:03:13 So, he's a string of dispensary. So, as far as Madem Batu knows, he does have a number of medical and recreational dispensaries in Colorado. They are cash-only businesses. So, the ability to launder money is
Starting point is 02:03:29 a phenomenal opportunity. I have an idea if we want to cut right back to the group. Let's do it. Yeah, as long as the team, the club team doesn't have anything else. Good to go? Okay.
Starting point is 02:03:49 It's getting ready. Cool. It's not that hard as a former computer expert to try and hack into the security system of this home and start recording and surveilling from that perspective. We can certainly try.
Starting point is 02:04:07 Yeah, absolutely. It's pretty hard. I mean, I know that there are literal cases of people hacking into people's ring cameras and shit like that. So, most basic commercial off-the-shelf stuff, like where people forget to change
Starting point is 02:04:23 the stock password totally. You know immediately this is a professional installed professionally monitored system. If it's a professional monitor system then my assumption isn't correct me if I'm wrong is that I could theoretically
Starting point is 02:04:39 go to whatever the control box is and possibly tap into it that way. You could. That would require me getting a lot closer to the house, possibly inside the house. It would. Correct. I'm wrong, Aaron. That seems like it's a pretty
Starting point is 02:04:55 if you've got access to a junction box you can. Yeah, that thing's definitely not connected to the internet though. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so you'd have to be like inside that inside the house inside the house. Well,
Starting point is 02:05:13 I could jump into a dog and then go into the house and then jump into the home. How about one of you cause a distraction on one of the gates, the east gate or something like that or the east you know fence
Starting point is 02:05:29 and while all of these pigment using guys are a little distracted I can try to get into the house and get to the security system. I'm dead so I don't care if I got an idea. I got an idea. So I have, because
Starting point is 02:05:45 it is my truck, I have tools and stuff back there I can either go in and pretend to be a repair person or and I got lost and I'm thinking I'm supposed to be doing that here. Sure, if you just want to distract them cause they're not going to let you in for sure
Starting point is 02:06:01 but they will probably talk to you and be distracted by you. A couple things. One, we can't be seen going into the house cause we can't let Orpheus get sued. Duh. Technically, I don't even know if Orpheus has acknowledged
Starting point is 02:06:17 that I worked for them but I was going to suggest as an alternative that I could just, what if what if the puppies just got loose what if you know an enterprising old man
Starting point is 02:06:33 hopped into a gate and opened it and I like that idea too. Caleb, do you have something to say? Yeah, I just had a clarification question. I'm sorry if this derails but if they are on pigment they can see us or if they have taken pigment
Starting point is 02:06:49 they can see us. On it. They have to be high and under the influence of pigment. Yeah, I mean there's a lower chance that they would be on pigment then while working. For security guards then. Yeah, that's true. Still though. I think it's worth the risk.
Starting point is 02:07:05 I think let's pop a gate open, let the dogs slip out if we're lucky the guards chase after the dogs at least a few of them and that might make it a little easier. Can Lavinia make any kind of educated guess as to where
Starting point is 02:07:21 especially with her experience the security system would be located like where would she have to go to find it in a garage or downstairs area? So I would say based on your knowledge and what you know especially with what Kate was able to give you
Starting point is 02:07:37 based on their orifice's initial research is that it sounds like with the panic room being in the basement him spending a lot of time in the basement it is very likely that if there is like a security control center it's either in a separate building on the grounds or it's in the basement.
Starting point is 02:07:53 Okay, then when I get under the grounds I will look for a separate building or I will go to that secondary location you mentioned. Okay. Hey Mia. Yes. Do you have a gun?
Starting point is 02:08:11 Yes. I'm just asking in case things go south. Well, here's the thing I don't know if I like I packed it because I know it's definitely back at my house so you'd probably carry it with you everywhere.
Starting point is 02:08:27 Okay, that's what I figured. I have a couple and yeah, I have a couple. I'm not saying use it I'm just saying you know. Darling, I'm already five steps ahead of you. The only thing is though like
Starting point is 02:08:45 are you saying like do you want me to come in or do you want to stay out or just like No, I'm just saying if like shit really hits the fan don't shoot someone if they're running away. I'm going to leave you guys to it because y'all are like
Starting point is 02:09:01 in ghost form. I'm still breathing but if that fucker comes out and I see him well, we can't we can't just murder him in show discretion, show discretion if possible I can get out
Starting point is 02:09:17 Aaron I can stall I can stall if need be so therefore someone can get involved in hippity hopity into him. Okay, well, I don't see any flaws in this plan so let's just do it. All right, so Lavinia is bringing a hard drive
Starting point is 02:09:33 that she can cut so how do we make this the most useful like I've got a jack into their security system but there's got to be a way that we can like check it whenever we want is there a way that I can have like that You can bug it for sure
Starting point is 02:09:49 but if we have it's a question of if we have access to the equipment Sure, well let's just say that I bring the necessary you know like hard drive that can communicate with my laptop like via Wi-Fi or something but don't
Starting point is 02:10:05 do you need me to go in physically to know because it into the I I will need to manifest but I can at least get through the gate unmanifested you can hand me the lab the thing
Starting point is 02:10:21 will they see you on camera if you're manifested fuck you could okay here how about this I can't be I can't be invisible and carrying the thing Vince am I not able to
Starting point is 02:10:37 physically touch something but not be visible Vince you're muted darling you're muted didn't hear any of it yep you have to physically manifest it to manipulate it so then how are there like you were describing Abner carrying
Starting point is 02:10:53 a bunch of bean cans invisibly like I was manifest he was manifested but was he invisible was he invisible or not no no he was he was I was making a joke oh I see got you got you unfortunately yeah but what I was gonna say is well
Starting point is 02:11:09 if there's security cameras I could maybe hop well it depends on if they're like they're usually on like a gimbal thing yeah so if I can like hop in there and just like shift it around
Starting point is 02:11:25 and you know we don't know what the coverage is gonna you don't know what the coverage is gonna be there might not even be cameras where the security box is once you're that deep in the property yeah but like is he gonna have cameras on him
Starting point is 02:11:41 everywhere in the house I don't think so yes he's a drug dealer he probably will but again if there's enough of a distraction I might be able to I'm not very sneaky as well I'm not very sneaky I can have a flat tire if that helps
Starting point is 02:11:57 at this point to escalate pull out of the drive and begin driving down the road well that seems like it's good an opportunity is any go bring it okay I'll go
Starting point is 02:12:13 okay I'm going to Vince and I'm gonna try and see if I can find like the gate that houses the dogs and see if I can get them loose off the property okay got it so okay
Starting point is 02:12:29 you get to the gate controls and let's look at the rules for inhabit I think because it's a relatively small object you're not gonna have to worry about any sort of crazy expenditure let's do let's do one vitality
Starting point is 02:12:45 because it's the equivalent of a computer right it's gonna drive the gate so you inhabit it and then you want to be able to exert your will over it correct yes all right so let's do this is gonna be a tough one let's do stamina plus
Starting point is 02:13:01 um do you have anything in security nope all right do you have a plow about computer nope make a straight-up stamina roll
Starting point is 02:13:19 this is gonna go well all right look with my two dice one success holy nuts um you are able to crack the gate okay so I just want
Starting point is 02:13:39 to point something out too as a hue I can use one of my horrors without a the negative side effect I think I want to use shifting identity which is one of my stains and I want to just look like
Starting point is 02:13:55 worst case like a homeless person just like some derelict just somebody who was just trying to creep their way through towards whatever I can find where the security system is oh into the house
Starting point is 02:14:11 I think my first goal is to see if I can find a security like hut and if I can't then I will go towards the house all right go ahead you and Abner both make um perception plus awareness
Starting point is 02:14:27 rules 3 awareness okay I have one success two successes okay you do notice that the cameras are set up in regular intervals along the fence line
Starting point is 02:14:43 um the way the wrought iron fence is set up you kind of have these pillars at certain points these brick pillars and the cameras are set up there there's two at each interval one facing left one facing right so there's pretty much extensive coverage of the entire fence line
Starting point is 02:14:59 um at what point do you manifest uh Lavinia probably once I was actually through the gate and honestly I mean if I'm not manifested uh then I will probably remain invisible until
Starting point is 02:15:15 I can get to the security system for as long as possible I'll remain unmanifested okay yeah um you notice that there still seems to be at least one guard on the grounds you can see the dog still patrolling because it's not like the gate
Starting point is 02:15:31 is not right next to the house there's still a little bit of distance right um and the guard the dogs don't seem to have noticed at the fences that the gate is open yet um but you do like guard can I like rattle it a little bit you know like um we'll say
Starting point is 02:15:47 yeah you rattle it and then uh another guard exits the house and begins walking down the drive to the gate to to check it um and these guards they're dressed in like these black tactical pants uh black polos they are armed
Starting point is 02:16:03 uh with what looks to be um handguns unless you know weapons you probably wouldn't know what kind but um this is this is literally the episode from Sopranos where the FBI bugs his house right yeah right um
Starting point is 02:16:19 yeah you do me up but you can't see him from where you're at yeah damn it okay yeah so wait hold on point point of order if Levidia is carrying something into the house are you carrying something
Starting point is 02:16:35 I think I would have to be huh yeah your hard drive whatever well would be a hard drive whatever it is yeah if we're gonna if we're gonna try to tap into it then I'm gonna have to be so then yeah I think uh I will be trying to duck behind trees and
Starting point is 02:16:51 you know well you said it's a kill zone there's nothing yeah well let me ask you this so what is it you hope to do when you get inside because that'll drive what kind of equipment my intent my intention is simply to hack into the security system so that we can access whenever we want
Starting point is 02:17:07 okay got it okay so yeah you would need to you would need to hard hardwire your laptop right to it um in order to like it set up a backdoor so if I we're gonna be hand-waving a lot of the hackery shit sure of course
Starting point is 02:17:23 yeah uh if I go in through the gate but then try to go around the long way I don't I obviously don't want to be seen by the security guard that is currently walking it's just impossible daytime and it is it is wide open we might need to wait till night but we're
Starting point is 02:17:39 kind of already in the middle of this um we're going how about this how about this I remember in the episode of Sopranos they first went to go find a good spot so I will remain un manifested my entire
Starting point is 02:17:55 intention is to just look around the house find out where the security system is find out where the power is like I want to try to find out the weak points of this home unmanifested now we're thinking yeah all right yeah there we go so proud of you buddy all right
Starting point is 02:18:11 so you've got the ring of the fucking grounds you want to know why because you're invisible and you can walk through it yes um so because dad's get to it you've got the main man's house right and the house itself is three total you've got the basement got a
Starting point is 02:18:27 ground floor and you've got a second story there is a four car garage attack to the house there is a pool and there's a pool house but then there is also a second structure kind of off the main house that seems to be kind of like an
Starting point is 02:18:43 armory slash changeover area slash guard shack for the guard force um and that does seem to be where they monitor most of the camera feeds from so if I poke my head into that guard shack there are clearly monitors and is somebody like
Starting point is 02:18:59 they're looking at them and stuff yes correct all right is it one of the five or is it someone we haven't heard about before one of the five thank you from what you can tell you don't know how many left in that last convoy but so far
Starting point is 02:19:15 you've seen one guard walking the grounds one guard um going out to check the gate and now one guard inside the shack um and then where's the breaker for the house on the outside
Starting point is 02:19:31 it is on the outside and now the house itself if you check out the do you check out the rest of the house yeah I'll probably take the time okay so with the house itself um in the basement you've got one full bedroom
Starting point is 02:19:47 it appears to be the master bedroom in the basement uh one full bathroom a study and then off the main bedroom is the panoram and inside the panic room are a slew of weapons so the main
Starting point is 02:20:03 bedroom is actually in the bottom basement correct next to the panic room okay yep uh the first floor obviously is like the kitchen the living room the game room all the super swanky rich rooms that people have
Starting point is 02:20:19 like the great room the second living room I would assume that the panic room would have its own power wouldn't it does okay and is that like is the breaker for that within the panic room uh yes
Starting point is 02:20:35 or okay yeah because the whole point of the panic room is to be essentially self-sustaining and closed off right um the first floor there are four bedrooms and two bathrooms on the first floor and same on the second floor okay
Starting point is 02:20:51 anything I'm not thinking of gang I know where the power is we know where they're definitely monitoring so getting in there would not be easy mm-hmm all right um I think once I've looked through
Starting point is 02:21:07 the place uh is anybody currently home besides the guards nothing you can tell except for a maid there is a maid and then the pool house there's nobody in the pool house okay where's the maid
Starting point is 02:21:23 is there like a service uh like a servants entrance or something where the staff goes in and out yeah off the garage off the garage she could possibly be an access point to Sergio and all that
Starting point is 02:21:39 yeah okay I mean I think once I've done the survey I'll just return to the group and uh once we're all together I'll share what I know and honestly in my opinion it's it's seeming less and less like it's worth trying to stage anything at this mansion they just they've got
Starting point is 02:21:55 tight security we're better off targeting him when he's at the club or somewhere where he's more vulnerable mm-hmm but it was worth it to find that out get the truck Anthony do you have anything or do you want to reconvene or do you want to stay here
Starting point is 02:22:15 no I don't see why we would stay here at this point all right we can do we have that motel six room that we've designated as the okay we can go back to the motel yeah yeah why don't why don't we go there and wait for
Starting point is 02:22:31 the others we can we can talk about how the proceed here but let's see what they did up first yes uh nicole do you text or relay any of that information to Mia yes uh I want to ask Mia about the federation and then I do want to relay
Starting point is 02:22:47 that Homenshaw is laundering money through his dispensaries okay Mia as soon as she says the federation you know exactly who that is especially being from New Mexico that is the Sinaloa cartel oh shit
Starting point is 02:23:03 oh shit all trends like that okay I'll just say oh shit I'll even say you send a gift like that like yeah that is the Sinaloa cartel also known as the Sinaloa federation the federation the blood alliance
Starting point is 02:23:19 the guzman lorrea organization yeah the most powerful drug cartel max and probably in the world okay I'm also just so you know I'm going to reach out to my contact in Texas I'm not going to say everything at the moment but I will be telling like heads up
Starting point is 02:23:35 I'm noticing some similar activity that was in New Mexico is happening again in Colorado so are you trying to get them to dig up information for you just give them a heads up why not yeah I'm going to do I'm giving a heads up and I'm like find anything of importance please let me know
Starting point is 02:23:51 roll charisma plus either your because you're not really trying to manipulate them this is somebody you know when you've worked with I would say either try empathy
Starting point is 02:24:07 or you have dots and detectives license right I do yes let's do that okay just a charisma and detectives license
Starting point is 02:24:23 yep that'll be your pool okay well it's seven so that's hopefully that's pretty good okay I got it okay I have three successes
Starting point is 02:24:41 and one crit success beautiful okay alright so what they tell you is that Shaw has definitely been on the radar of the FBI and the DEA at various points in time this is a guy who they
Starting point is 02:24:59 suspect of being involved in at a minimum money laundering for some pretty bad some pretty bad actors but they also suspect he's had his hands in drug trafficking but they just can't get close to the guy he's clean
Starting point is 02:25:15 he's very good at compartmentalization and running a heavily compartmentalized operation and so very rarely especially because of who he's alleged to be in bed with very rarely do like with typical RICO cases you know racketeered influence and corrupt
Starting point is 02:25:31 organizations act like organized crime investigations typically it's like you bust PON number one and they flip on PON number two nobody flips on anybody in this organization in this hierarchy nobody's talking okay because they're terrified they suspect is because
Starting point is 02:25:47 they're terrified of who he works with that's the that's the organization I ran into in New Mexico I just want to clarify correct because that's what I'm assuming yeah that's what I thought and
Starting point is 02:26:03 with that the other thing is the Aurora Security Group is definitely not a they've looked into that as well because it looks like that was set up with Shaw's own money and a lot of the guys who work for them have either been dishonorably discharged or discharged under other than
Starting point is 02:26:19 honorable conditions and they're POS yeah they're not good they're not good folks one in particular the actual the CEO on the books Lorenzo Rivas
Starting point is 02:26:35 is former army and they believe has actually pulled hits for the cartel got it okay a lot of this is through rumor intelligence
Starting point is 02:26:55 and through human sources that either stopped cooperating or didn't show up to the next meeting if you know what I mean yeah I will tell a little just heads up be like
Starting point is 02:27:11 okay this please be very careful these are not to be fucked around I'm gonna be very emphasis on that and I'll say we're at the hotel we'll meet you at the motel six fuck okay all right
Starting point is 02:27:29 cool oh if anyone's in the truck with me you're gonna notice how I'm getting very tense now probably ripping I'm not in a good space there's definitely like audible exclamations of fuck I'm cursing for like
Starting point is 02:27:45 I'm not happy I'm very upset right now and we'll say you all do eventually reconvene at the motel six this isn't a great room there's two queen beds and ostensibly a pullout couch that maybe provide some support
Starting point is 02:28:03 but other than that like yeah we're not you ain't getting held in points for this one so I'm gonna take a towel and put it on the bed like two towels and lay on that that's a good call that's a good call I thought so yeah but what did you guys
Starting point is 02:28:19 turn up anything anything good we haven't been yet but uh why did I think you've been clubstone art or at night
Starting point is 02:28:35 no early there's no early sick show blue are you there blue a daytime music venue I think LaVenia fills everyone
Starting point is 02:28:59 in on what she saw in the mansion and kind of a bust kind of a bust the only way this would work is if we basically if I and Mia use our skin writing ability to
Starting point is 02:29:15 control two of the guards that we think are important because if I'm sitting in the post house where we see the monitors and I don't tell anybody and I'm in that body then we can all sneak into the place without anyone saying anything or sounding an alarm
Starting point is 02:29:31 but the problem with that plan is that we would also have to grab any storage media that those cameras are connected to well that's easy I can do that that's easy unless it's
Starting point is 02:29:47 and there might be backup somewhere we don't know about there probably are backups but or I turn the camera so it's not facing the direction it needs to be facing to see you line spot would be quicker yeah on all the ceiling make a loop
Starting point is 02:30:03 I could make a loop I could just turn off the cameras I mean it's literally just one guard who's watching the cameras is there a reason why we have to kill him inside of his home and not in a busy place where nobody would notice
Starting point is 02:30:21 I'm just offering the only way that would make sense unless we wanted to somehow incriminate him or make it look like one of his buddies did it well if we're gonna kill him kill him which I'm in favor of
Starting point is 02:30:37 seems like his house is the best place to do it because anywhere else there could be casualties at a club well we gotta think of casualties of victims anyone nearby so if you don't want civilians to get hurt maybe the club's not the
Starting point is 02:30:53 best way but that's where we can get our two bodies that's where there's there's another thing we haven't considered and that's why we're after him in the first place he stalks people he goes after people he chases people down
Starting point is 02:31:09 that's not something you do with the big security detail because how else can you get off he'd go in light you don't only have a few people with him just to be safe so that he could do what he's setting out to do so if anything we could track down
Starting point is 02:31:25 Blair not look into her because I know how Kate was acting what if we give him a new target wait what if we got a new target though like you said it perfectly he likes to stalk that's what I was saying earlier which one of you beddies is a 10
Starting point is 02:31:41 I mean we're all a collection of like 12 I know that but who wants to go in there I mean I can go I don't feel comfortable about that at all I already have a reputation for doing drugs and
Starting point is 02:31:57 people know me people coming to town they know my name I mean I'd be an easy sell this is not enthusiastic yes no we're not going down this road hell no
Starting point is 02:32:13 you're going to be too nervous I'm going to be too nervous no it's not that you can't do it Colette I just don't see why I don't see a reason why we would do that right now to Lauren so that he's alone
Starting point is 02:32:29 well yeah but we're only going to the club for intel now anyway if we decide that we want to do it there then sure we'll consider it but this is all about seeing him let's also remember
Starting point is 02:32:45 let's also remember I just need to get close enough to get in his body and then I can just slice his throat with whatever he has on him I mean that's fine but I'm going to raise this again we can't just kill him without because we have to make sure
Starting point is 02:33:01 that if he's going to die we got to make sure it makes sense to whoever's investigating after the fact then I walk into the bathroom and slit my wrists but why would he kill himself we don't have any you know that's it's called the pressure there's a lot of pressure being a drug
Starting point is 02:33:17 I'm forgetting the guy has pissed off quite a bit of people making it look like an accident or something he didn't do himself would be easier what if we didn't even have to kill him what if he could make someone else do it for us okay
Starting point is 02:33:35 he's got a lot of really powerful friends that if he were to fall out of favor with or you could just jump into a lot of trouble this seems like we're over complicating thank you I think we're we haven't even gotten any intel about Sheth
Starting point is 02:33:53 we should we need information first which is the first time I've ever said that in my life alright so then what's the next move we go to the club we gather intel about Sheth and potentially any enemies that he might have
Starting point is 02:34:09 and then decide what to do after that can you guys look at the like dispensaries or whatever yes I was thinking the same thing and then like we'll have two ends of information I don't like being responsible these sucks check at least one of those out I think I need to
Starting point is 02:34:31 I think I need to do what Abernathy is doing and just go on ice really quick so is there anything you guys need from me in my physicality just to flex those biceps oh Mia does that she'll take off whatever jack she has put her on
Starting point is 02:34:51 boom and then the abshot thing of lifting it up and go uh is that good enough got plenty of material thank you oh god right click save as save as
Starting point is 02:35:11 for your eyes almost alright so can I go ice hi night hi night I'm gonna head out awesome yeah you are able to get on ice no problem we'll just say that it takes a few hours
Starting point is 02:35:31 but you're gonna be able to reconvene with the group exactly yeah I left the group in the motel and I'll meet them back up so you guys hit that nightclub see what you can find out and I guess we'll check out the dispensary angle
Starting point is 02:35:55 okay so what's that let's start with um let's start with the dispensary let's do that um so you're able to find a um medical dispensary in Denver proper
Starting point is 02:36:13 um and that belongs to to Shaw uh what's the game plan well we could we could either just go in there or we send someone in to try to make a buy that would it be that that would it be me
Starting point is 02:36:37 I mean there's a lot of older folks who need medical care so I'm actually struggling to decide whether Lavinia would be here or at the club um because if she's with you at the dispensary then it's just about like computers
Starting point is 02:36:53 trying to either do research or I just feel like I'm more useful at the club because I could attempt to get into one of the bodies of one of the guards but then what would I do is there potentially like information in the back at the dispensaries
Starting point is 02:37:15 that you could get there's like a computer that like has everyone's ID and stuff on it but like we're not looking for patrons yeah I think step one is either like Abner
Starting point is 02:37:31 I'll go in or Nikoa or Miyakan whoever I think if someone can just walk back in there unmanifested and see oh hey there's a bunch of pigment out on this counter the pigment counter you're a ghost you could do it
Starting point is 02:37:49 no I'll just go do it okay lots of weed there's no like back room or anything for like the VIP customers roll dispensaries
Starting point is 02:38:07 roll intelligence plus you've got law right I have a point in law yeah roll intelligence plus either investigation or law dispensaries are more like dip and dots stands than
Starting point is 02:38:23 shady places of business it's half candy well a six is a success yes then one success okay you don't know much about the dispensary business but you do know that
Starting point is 02:38:41 you know enough especially having you know read various stories in Colorado news about the legalization of marijuana that there is a dispensary and then there are also separate locations where it is either grown harvested packaged stored and then also where the money is stored
Starting point is 02:38:57 so like sometimes for the most part like it's literally people renting warehouses and they're keeping pallets of fucking cash like that's literally how they do in Colorado sometimes so the dispensary may not be the place it may be a matter of finding
Starting point is 02:39:13 out what other properties may be registered in the company's name interesting so can I just like hang out in the dispensary for a while and see if anyone comes in yeah absolutely for that sort of thing yep stake the
Starting point is 02:39:29 situation out yeah I mean I guess Lavinia could take the time to try to see those connections at least see what the paperwork looks like online of you know what what what are the money houses and the other connections
Starting point is 02:39:45 with this dispensary that's probably public information through the state huh might be that at least in California that stuff's public yeah role intelligence plus investigation okay intelligence
Starting point is 02:40:01 and investigation where are you there we go okay one success okay so you do find a couple of addresses for
Starting point is 02:40:19 well you don't find specifically addresses but you find the name of the overall LLC that the dispensary operates under yeah so you're able to find that piece of information but for you
Starting point is 02:40:35 you stay for a while and it's pretty typical pretty average commerce under the table and with your background in law and investigation in general you would know he doesn't want to be caught dealing other
Starting point is 02:40:51 substances on the grounds of his dispensary so we shut the whole operation down hmm right so wherever that's happening it's not okay it's not in the brick and mortar store right okay
Starting point is 02:41:07 well maybe we want to go oh god no no no maybe if uh Lavinia turns up other locations I mean we know that verdant trust is the LLC that's the problem is we have to that's all I'm really able to find at the moment
Starting point is 02:41:23 got it what's the uh what's the rest of the crew doing during this time that would be me and Nakoa right I think I'm going to the club yeah Nakoa's coming with us Mia is there any way you could get
Starting point is 02:41:47 an address from the name of an LLC I was thinking that I wanted to do it but I didn't know if it was like too much and I didn't know if I need to be in physical form or if I needed to pull that off and like go for it
Starting point is 02:42:03 no you can just manifest and access a computer she's thinking like like are you talking like are you talking accessing somebody else's computer or are you talking like just googling something like what are we thinking oh because I was because I heard Aaron talk about the dress
Starting point is 02:42:27 I thought we were talking about like Tiffany again or something address address physical address address not this time not going full 84
Starting point is 02:42:43 okay I was wondering like this isn't making sense okay so what about the address now like address okay what was the address I was just wondering if you had any like tricks for getting for working back doing a dress from the name of a company as well
Starting point is 02:42:59 I can ask around I can reach out and I have my license and I'm going to go ahead and see what I can pull up burning trust see what see what falls under that go for it roll roll yeah intelligence plus
Starting point is 02:43:15 either investigation or detective license to figure out how to use some of your contacts to do that I'm going to have detective license so he is six oh oh
Starting point is 02:43:35 I have one crit success and then crit three crit fails oh okay I have two negative two so I think I have negative two
Starting point is 02:43:51 we'll have to go back over the crit the crit rules excuse me double check here because that would be pretty bad I don't know if that's how it works maybe it's maybe it's there's a ghost
Starting point is 02:44:07 issue with me being cold that's okay no so every if you roll a one it's just a failure but that cancels out a single success right okay so that cancels out that and I had the other two were just like fours
Starting point is 02:44:23 so no success on this one yeah no success on this one should you forget information yeah you actually I don't know I kind of feel like we've hit a wall until we've seen a little bit of this club action
Starting point is 02:44:41 maybe I'm angry I'm not seeing it yes I'm frustrated I will say some of your contacts they'll get back to you we'll see what they can take out that's what I got dear yeah I got left on red what time of night is it deal thing
Starting point is 02:44:57 are you doing this towards the end of the day or yeah we want to go when it's popping not before 10 this is Friday we're gonna go to the club on Friday night so we skip ahead got it
Starting point is 02:45:15 I will say that oh go ahead Vince I want to make some social media posts about me going to the club before we go okay make it very clear on whatever accounts I have that that's what I'm doing today I'll even send a text message to my old assistant
Starting point is 02:45:31 and see if she can get the word out that that's where I'm gonna be okay you do field some phone calls from your dad okay ask it if you're okay yeah I'd shoo him away in fact I don't even take the call
Starting point is 02:45:47 fucking got it okay cool okay I will say that night as you all are kind of getting ready the the radio in the car suddenly comes to life
Starting point is 02:46:07 it's static and you hear it's tough to make out all the words but you hear radio free death Revis not what he seems careful
Starting point is 02:46:27 Revis Revis spelled R-E-V-I-S R-I-V-A-S isn't that the name of the CEO guy yeah yeah which CEO Lorenzo
Starting point is 02:46:45 um oh or a security group Lorenzo Revis the guy who's on paper is the CEO who's the CEO of the security that follows Shah yeah yeah basically hire
Starting point is 02:47:01 discharge POS's security guards so he hires like criminals and all kinds of shit just FYI so maybe he's the cartel contact maybe probably probably that or he's something more
Starting point is 02:47:17 that we're not aware of supernaturally wise so this is all on the phone while we're on the car oh yeah oh yeah yeah we're all just gonna be really cool about the fact that the radio told us a clue mm-hmm yeah I don't love that yep well has this not happened to you before
Starting point is 02:47:33 nope they don't talk to me directly I mean it's just kind of knowledgeable creepy radio station must not be ghosting hard enough this guy has to be like following us or something he knows intimate things about us
Starting point is 02:47:51 is it Chad? it happened before we don't know that you don't know about Chad oh we don't know about Chad sorry I mean I didn't say that he would have gotten real awkward in the car and he said that
Starting point is 02:48:07 what did you just say? so Revis is the CEO so it's Radio Freedeth is that like a DJ or is that what it's called? I'm still trying to figure out myself what exactly is happening but I'm assuming it's a specter that is
Starting point is 02:48:29 somehow able to communicate through the airwaves because really only the dead can hear it we're the ones choosing to follow us yeah he's mentioned this before and Abner spoke through the radio before
Starting point is 02:48:45 so maybe they're close I don't think it's that kind of a thing this time that'd be weird though because that would mean that someone physically like walked up to the car and got in your radio if someone's in my car get the fuck out
Starting point is 02:49:01 well that'll do it, that'll get them and I think that is a there's a great place to call it for now and while I you're on your way to the club we'll pick it back up we're really trying to delay the inevitable that's fun everybody take
Starting point is 02:49:25 three experience points for this session I'll add it to the tracker and of course Sergio you have the one extra from your recap beautifully done with that everyone thank you so much for joining us excited to see where this one goes a little bit darker but
Starting point is 02:49:41 the fun is still here so join us again in a week after next so the 22nd same place, same time, same channel as we continue this one so thanks again and see you around

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