Mayday Plays - 👻 ORPHEUS, Book 2: Crusade of Ashes - Chapter 2: "Riddles & Enigmas"

Episode Date: September 9, 2023

Crucible 12 digs through the rubble of Orpheus to try and find a lead that will clear their name. Nakoa's shadow reveals itself, and the team heads out of state. We've got merch! https://ko-fi.com/maydayrp (t-shirts and stickers) Thanks for checking out our channel! We offer a bunch of art, music, and behind-the-screen access including Vegas By Night 1-on-1 sessions on our Patreon; https://www.patreon.com/maydayrp including access to our discord server! We started as a podcast! Listen to us @: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mayday-plays/id1537347277 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vdTgXoqpSpMssSP9Vka3Z?si=73ec867215744a01 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mayday-roleplay Here are some of our other socials; Twitter: https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/ Website: https://maydayroleplay.com/ Thanks for your support! Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/maydayroleplay

Good morning, good afternoon, and good day folks. The team has broken me. Allow me to welcome you to another episode of Orpheus. I am Vince, your host and story teller for this campaign. Players, please introduce yourselves. I'm Amanda, I am playing Mia. I am Caleb, and I am playing Collette. I forgot I was second now. Oh I'm Eli and I'm playing the color I'm love and I'm playing Logan and I love causing problems with my name change I'm Sergio. I'm playing LeVinia and we know our ABCs. I'm Zach and I'm playing Vim and either way you slice it. I'm always right.

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We'd also like to offer our sincerest and most heartfelt thanks to our operator-level patrons, Outstownson, Bimblewart, Cameron S, Jonathan M, Adrian K, OGPAN Ren, and WTF again. We very much appreciate you. Before we begin, does anybody have anything they would like to announce? No? Okay, beautiful. Well, without further ado, let's get to work. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it.

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I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not sure if I can do it. I'm not to get the I Need to cling on the tip That's left right that was a definite quick Okay To get this party started episode two of Crusade of Ashes, let's get our favorite Lev to hit us with the recap, please and thank you. All right. Okay, so I've been surrounded by people this entire time and having an emotional reaction to things is not allowed,

but I'm alone for like five minutes before we leave. So here we go, it's time for a mental health, stream of consciousness, so this out of my brain and out of my mouth that I can just focus on doing really cool ghost shit. Oh, okay. Adder's dead. I don't know if I'm feeling how I'm supposed to feel about it. I don't even know how to describe the feeling.

It's not sad. I mean, at least not entirely. I think it's missing what he could have been. Like, I'm mourning a future I was never gonna get anyway. So that's a really fun background emotion to have while shit is hitting the international fan. Orfius is gone. Kate is missing.

We're pretty sure the fucking government isn't on it because Taylor on Squid also got torched, but who was spared? Oh, just the militant dipshit's over at next world. Cross turned on Levinio that they're there's doppelgangers and Jason's and Fetchy's and I- I just want to go back to sleep. Oh speaking of which, where a ghost down, Mia can't sleep with a capital S so she's stuck in the meat sack. I mean, there's always like drugs and ice baths and shit, but baby does that feel dangerous. Especially when not a single one of us is any kind of scientist.

Although it's Koa's connections, we might be able to find one. I mean, we already owe Madame Batu, probably our entire asses. Koa's hot sugar mommy gave us a place to rest and a fucking suitcase of $10,000, like it was just nothing. Like, ma'am, at a car and a townhouse and fucking Aspen, I mean, who the fuck is this woman? And how does Koa know her and why is she protecting us?

And why is her weed so good? I found out Kullock can't make eggs. Gotta sit your more than eggs, but damn, what a non-existent base to start from. I mean, I did, I did like being able to cook for everyone, it felt kind of... homie. Something I didn't like fuck up or fail, finally. Nice picture pace for like five minutes, you know? I heard Vint and calls room last night and I, you know, I knew they slept together.

I mean, Collette told me. Not that it's any of my business. But I thought it was just like a one-time thing, you know, I guess, but I mean, the world is kind of ending. The world's kind of ending, and maybe the FBI is gonna arrest me and my uncle's dead, and everything that gave me purpose after I got fired has literally been brought tumbling down, and... Nope, no, no, there's no and. That's the important stuff.

So I'm gonna give Cole some space to figure all of that out. Plus, Livinia, because, because that's a lot, and they need space to do that. And like, three ghosts involved in anything is a lot. And not that I'm even involved. I don't know what I'm saying. I, God, I just, I sound ridiculous. Like, if I really care about Collette, I should just be happy.

If she's finding someone to connect with, it makes her feel safe. And she's bad, so... So now we are all apart. Ben's hitting the books. Mia is going to see her majesty, gross, and Collette's going to go see Agent Hall from the DEA, even though she is literally wanted by the US government. Although there's probably no one better to have than Viv with her, so that's good. Cohen and I are going to make a run at Orpheus, so I can battery pack her while she for bodes.

And you're going to watch her back around whatever's gobbling orpheus right now. This is how we're going to find Kate. All of this is how we're going to start finding a way forward. I mean, shit might be bad, but the team, the team feels strong. We can do this. Amazing. As always, thank you so much. So, without further ado, let's jump back into it. We're going to pick up with Koa and Logan, heading to Orrifius headquarters in Aurora. What is the plan? What are we doing?

Um, I think we're at least going to park a few blocks away and probably walk our way towards Orrifius building. Yeah, probably staying further away. It's a bad idea if my body's just going to be out in the backseat. Yeah,. Yeah, so that's a question. Are you zeroing out in the back seat, in the trunk, what's your plan? I think the most logical thing for Logan is to crawl into the back and just like put a blanket over their head to kind of mask that it's a person back there. I think I'm just going to leave a little opening by their mouth, keep the keys in their hand.

Let's do this. I'm assuming do you all I do kind of like a dry buy of the scene before you decide on your approach? Sure, yeah. Okay. Quietly, I don't know. your approach? Sure, yeah. Okay. Quietly. I don't know. Regardless, the first scene, you know, is that the the the outer perimeter for what is now one of the largest crime scenes in the country, uh, goes out a few blocks. Uh, this is a very large scene at this point. a few blocks. This is a very large scene at this point. Pretty much the immediate perimeter around the now ruined that was one Swerfius headquarters out to a couple intersections. So it is the

outer perimeter is manned by local cops and then you can see the bureau, you can see the ATF, you can see all sorts of federal agencies and honestly both county, city, police departments as well as police from neighboring counties and towns all kind of gathered to help begin processing this scene. You see you know crime scene technicians and their full get up with the white, you know, Tyvex coveralls and the boots and the masks going, you know, digging through the rubble, it's obvious at this point one of the first things they're doing

is looking for survivors, there's cadaver dogs, there's canine antlers looking for bodies, it's grim. It is a grim sight, there's still smoke, there's black, smoke kind of issuing from the rubble at this point. So you park as far away as you can manage and then log in with that in mind you you zero out and you and coa begin your approach. What's the so we're just walking up. But then, if I remember correctly, we had mentioned that it would be nice to get a nice vantage point.

So maybe you could find a tall building or something. Yeah. Anywhere that I can get in close enough proximity to use for vote, because I know I need to be somewhat close to the area. Are there any like office buildings or anything on either side? Let's take a look. Let me look that up for you. Like a parking garage or something maybe? Cause I know we had an orpious parking garage when I'm sure that's buried under everything. We did, yep. So that was part of the campus and so that was kind of, I did misspeak, we are in Arvada, Colorado, not Aurora, Aurora is kind of more on the north, eastern side of Denver. So kind of immediately where you are right across the way, there's like the downside is that this is still kind of an

end development area of the city, and so you've got like a Wendy's, you've got a market, a supermarket, you've got a tire center, there's a school, so you can, I mean, it's not necessarily high up, you could probably get on the roof one of the neighboring buildings and kind of look down in the city. Okay, and yeah, that's probably the safer thing to do is not be directly on the building, but if we can do it nearby. Easy enough. Yeah, so being ethereal at this point in Corporeal, you're more than able to kind of pass through and up to the roof. And you are now looking down at this, this, for lack of a better term, a poca-liptic sight. Yeah. Can I use dead eyes to see if I see anyone around?

Yeah, absolutely, Kim. Looking around, you don't notice anyone that isn't living of present company excluded, of course. It's really just you all. Okay. What do you need for me? I can... I'll just kind of watch your back, I guess.

Leave for Vogue and... That's part of it. I will need some vitality, though, because I need to just have enough to give and then have a little extra in case we attract anything because this vitality expenditure comes with people looking. Yeah, I know. Can I before we get any started?

Can I just look at Logan for five seconds and just get a general vibe check on how Logan's doing? Yeah, I'm in love with them since everything has happened. A five check, sure. Let's see what we can roll here. Definitely empathy is going to be part of it. So let's do perception plus empathy. Are you trying to mask anything they're Logan? Logan's trying to seem completely normal and in control and is trying not to seem like they're absolutely losing their shit. Awesome, so in your case, let's go ahead and do manipulation.

Plus, let's all to do empathy. We just have to start adding vibe checks to all of our games. Yeah, always going to be a vibe check. That's three successes. Three successes, OK? I had three successes, but one of them got taken away by a one, so I have two. Yeah.

OK. What is Coa's see there, Logan? Coa probably sees some bags under Logan's eyes. They're looking a little, they're a little bruised, there's kind of like some like sizable bruise kind of forming on their forearm from when they snapped back into their body earlier. Their eyes are a little red but like they also smoked some of my embattu was really good weed so like maybe that's why not before left, but at some point it happened.

Yeah, that's probably what you tell Logan's, Logan's trying to keep their face pretty neutral, but looking down on the, on the, like destruction site is probably, they're probably not keeping it up as well as they hoped they were. Cool. I think I'll just hold out my hands to Logan. Yeah. How much do you need?

Passion. All of it. I'm just going to be happy. I'm going sure. All of it. I'm just wondering what I'm doing. I'm here. Also, um, so this one, how much vitality are you going to be for what we need to accomplish for this?

Ah, okay. So that's entirely up to you. I will say And I believe that at the exchange is One by Talieby for a set up amount of time Right, yeah, yeah, yep. So for you how far back are what's what's the kind of what's the vibe that you're that you're looking to get here with your forebode? Well, I definitely... It's been like 48 hours, right? So it hasn't been a long time.

Yeah, but like, this was something that was just planned in a day. Yeah, it's an execute. This was an execute. It was an execute whom I don't even think a week. Hardly wants to go back a whole year. I'm not against that actually because Something has some of the stuff things been going on while we've been just going out our own shenanigans Adderne that we can kind of try to spot or something maybe maybe this one I'm hoping I would say what yeah

What's gonna happen is you're unfortunately going to be limited to that area. So it'll be a year in either direction limited to that area if you spent up to four vitality. If you did two vitality, that would cover up to one week. So you'd be able to cover immediately before the attack, immediately after. You'd be able to cover that immediate piece of it.

Okay. I'm pretty good on vitality. So go however much you want to go. And then I can give you several if you need. We'll be doing for it some month. So that could be anything that's leading up until this point. So I'll do the split the difference, do a more vitality. Yeah. Okay. So that'll be actually three. So three is for a month,

four is for a year. So three vitality and then the number of successes you're going to want to go for, probably you're going to want to aim for either four to five successes. I mean, I know that I can, if I see somebody, I can do something. So I feel like everybody's got some way of sharing abilities or giving. Logan's, Logan's whale can give me a wider yeah that's really the possibility of effect yeah. So for one vitality you can double the range area of effect. Yep. I'll for sure amplify. Okay. I'll say you know what I'll do this. I'm going to house full list. For every vitality, you expend that adds a success. Oh, shit. Okay. How many do you need again? I mean, I want to get five. I'm gonna get five successes as my goals. Okay, do we have to do we have to roll after I see how many I spent or before? Oh, go ahead, go ahead.

Well, I have a hide pool, so if you want to just give me a couple extra just to make sure that we succeed that pool. I'll like to. Okay, that works. Yeah, perception plus empathy. Yeah. Kitty-Kill. Hello. Hello, Ed.

Maybe something. That's a big old pool. Big old pool is my baby. Where's Lewis? He's out of the room. Okay, I got four successes. And then plus my two from Vitality's meant. All right. Yeah, that's six. Okay. And I'm also going to give Koea another vitality so that she's up three more. Okay.

Beautiful. Okay. So the first thing you notice Koea about this is that whatever has transpired here at Orpheus Headquarters is very much like an emotional and psychic black hole. You and your perception are essentially sucked in and confined to the immediate future, sraring this event simply because of the amount of pure, unadulterated evil that has occurred here and that has unfortunately tainted the ground here and the events here. And it's almost like this impossible gravitational pull that is keeping you rooted to this spot.

And you are back to two nights ago and you're seeing various staffers, people you know, people you you've seen in passing, but maybe not having necessarily met, begin to arrive for the Thanksgiving party, for the annual Thanksgiving party here at the headquarters. Where are we looking? What are we looking for? It's almost like a tape, you know, and only you actually like even move around if you want to. I'm I'm looking for cross. I'm looking for notable people that aren't from Orpheus and I'm definitely looking for Kate because I need to know what happened to Kate during these events. As well as any other people who might have survived and confirming anybody for sure being dead. who might have survived and confirming anybody for sure being dead.

Okay. The main goals for right now. Do you know the party begins at roughly 730 and you're able to tell that by, you know, getting them close to people who are there or were there, seeing the times on their watches, seeing the clocks on the walls. It's all very sharp. It's almost like a lucid dream in a lot of ways. When you're alive, the closest analogy you can probably compare to is lucid dreaming, where you have some form of control over your placement inside this vision. And the first thing you become aware of is that there is someone inhabiting the building. You don't know who, but at least two people, are inside the Orpheus headquarters building.

You see people that you knew, Rob Lergent, the facility manager, you see Tyler Ford, the head of security, you see Jerome Leruce, but they're wearing suicide alertness or whit's plus empathy. Two successes. Actually, no, I'm sorry. Three successes. It's tough to tell with some of the others, but you know for a fact that looking at Jerome, it's as if his entire personality has changed and he is someone completely different and you know immediately that he's being skin-ridden and that someone is controlling him and like we control the others as well. You see them armed, and you see Sylvia Margolis, one of the members of the security team, walk into the security room and kill the staff there,

opening fire on them while they're seated, and then you see the attack on the recreation hall. You see horrors unleashed to devastating effect. On everyone gathered, you hear screaming, you see running, you see the facility locked down, possibly by the people possessing the building, fire doors being closed and locked, no one being able to escape. You see two individuals that you don't recognize. Definitely a military from the looks of it, or former military.

Wiring the load bearing structures in the nursery and sub-basement three with explosives. You see the attack growing more and more horrible as time goes on until finally you see the swarm descending on the site like a black cloud 20 specters arrive and begin reaping the souls of the dead, killing the living. Any sort of rational response that could have been formed in this time is now over. There is no organized resistance. There's simply fleeting attempts at survival. People trying to escape and finding themselves pushed into the waiting arms of a specter. Sometimes multiple specters or into the kill zone of

a booby trap left by these mercenaries. By the time nine o'clock rolls around, these next-world mercenaries are making their way through the facility. Some are possessing bodies, others are using what looks like storm-wending to teleport anywhere in the compound they need to go. Finally, the building goes up. It appears as if those who are possessing the bodies of those wearing the suicide vests,

that the vests themselves were triggered to detonate as soon as those spirits departed those forms. And when those vests went, so did the explosives, throughout the rest of the facility. But then by just before 930, it appears all of Next World has left has left and Law Enforcement has begun to respond. You see the initial response, you see them trying to coordinate off, figure out what has been happening, FBI responding. But at 2.30 in the morning, there's another group that arrives, and they're not living. They're at least not in any sort of corporeal form, but they enter the ruins of Orpheus.

And if you follow them, you see that they go into the data vault. And they use a horror that looks like which is an imbist to fry all of the data there to slag. And very quickly, they're gone. They didn't take the data. They destroyed the data. Data destroyed the data. I would take the data first. You're the government. You don't need to take anyone else's data. You've already taken it. They're only there for maybe a half hour. They're gone before three. And then the building is exploded after that or before it's already happened. Yeah. So they were able to essentially pass through the rubble into some of the parts of the building they were still relatively intact and ensure that from what you can tell the job was done.

But they're not a next world. They look... they don't look the same as the next world group, but they're still something to them. Some kind of paramilitary or military affiliation maybe. No survivors. None that you could tell. But if you're looking specifically for Kate, you do recall in the chaos,

Kate organizing some form of resistance before it looks like she made it out of the building. Jesser or others, small group of others. Then whoever else may have been on assignment at the time, maybe survived, but you do remember hearing yesterday that there were some cursables that were killed in the field. Do I know the direction in which Kate might have gone at the very least? You try to pull back, and it's as if something black and dark, and with just this incredible gravitational pull

is keeping you rooted to that spot and you can't follow. It's as if you are being made to bear witness to what has taken place here. And it is awful. And it is awful. Can I move a couple days ahead? Yeah. Anybody comes next before, you know, even now.

Yeah. So you would see this, this group of the second group, this mysterious second group that destroyed the data. They came and went under the nose of the law enforcement that had gathered there, but in the perceived and the subsequent few days and hours that you're kind of moving around this vision, it's strictly law enforcement at this point. There does seem to be some government mainly in the form of like supervisor FBI types. In fact, you see this James Ormond, the lead FBI agent leading the response there. A lot of suits, a lot of the Colorado governors on hand to see what exactly happened and kind of see the site for himself. But apart from that, nothing that stands out to you as well,

but apart from that, nothing that stands out to you as well, more unusual than normal. Is there anything in the week's prior, anybody of note that comes through maybe Cross, for instance, as we know that he's somebody who's involved, but anybody who's not necessarily from Orpheus. Anything else? Yeah, you do see cross coming and going. Not frequently. Probably once or twice a week, he'll arrive in a, um, blacked out SUV with a driver. He will be dropped off. It looks like he's there to attend the meetings. And then once the meetings have concluded, he departs.

and then once the meetings have concluded, he departs. It appears. Yeah, he doesn't say anything in the outside, in the open, when he's not in a meeting, that a private conversation, he had on a phone, on premise. Not from what you can tell. Yeah, it appears strictly, it appears a lot of is that the meetings have had to do with funding. But the fact that Orpheus is kind of like what Abner had discovered before, that Orpheus is

hemorrhaging money through its operations, it is extra, and I don't think Abner actually would have passed this on anybody. So this is probably the first time you're hearing any of this, Koa, that Orpheus group is hemorrhaging money. It is not bringing in a profit. It takes on too much pro bono work and the cost of maintaining sleepers and maintaining training facilities and maintaining this building itself is astronomical. And it is only through benefactors like Madame Batu

and Mr. Cross that this place has kept a float. And it isn't so much as blatantly stated in these meetings, but the implication is that Mr. Cross very much has the board of directors for Rurfius by the proverbial testicles, but they will do exactly what he says and what he requests when he does so because he's keeping the money coming.

Okay. Anybody else have known anybody that is not a usual staff member? Go ahead and I'm gonna ask you to make another, staff member, go ahead and I'm going to ask you to make another, uh, let's go with perception plus a let's do alertness. No successes. Bomber. Oh Oh shit. Okay. Yeah, nothing, nothing unfortunately this stands out.

Okay. I- Koeh- Koeh is dead, but has Koeh ever witnessed something like what they saw at Orpheus headquarters, like in this vision? Have they ever witnessed anything like that before? I mean, they've seen horrible things, but have they seen active acts of blatant murder

not acts of murder. Yeah And you saw that and then if this is probably fucking with your ability just enough to make it tough to focus. I mean, you're seeing people that you worked with begging for their lives and you're seeing Tough to focus. I mean you're seeing people that you worked with baying for their lives and you're seeing their lives brutally ended both either by these active shooters or by the reapers Coming through with those sides that you almost met your end on Where did those reapers go afterwards? They just disappeared. They didn't go anywhere. Did they stay?

They as disappeared, they didn't go anywhere, did they stay? They... you follow them out and it appears they kind of set up and watch the proceedings with law enforcement responding, they kind of wait. It looks like to see in the fetches at their sides waiting to see if any stragglers make their way out, but eventually they just turn and become one with the shadows, darkening around the facility as the fires begin to die down. And there's no indication that they're being led or wrangles or controlled. If they were, it looks like whatever leash they may have been on was absolutely cut as soon as they arrived at Orpheus headquarters because the bloodbath that you saw had no rhyme, reason, or control to it. And now they're just on their own.

Potentially. Would it be uncalled for to, like, couldn't Acouas see any license plates on these cars or all these license plates completely blank or some kind of weird thing that goes nowhere Oh, that's a good question. You know, it's Without focusing more. It's almost like have you ever been in a dream where you've tried to read something and it doesn't make sense It's illegible. It's kind of like that. It's tough. I Mean, I'm just thinking like we need some kind of hard evidence to follow. Like we need a license plate.

We need a name. We need a logo. We need something. Would we be able to see how Kate got out? Like if she took a car or if she was almost like that, take a car. It looks like they did take a car. That was an parking garage. Can Coach tell what kind of car it was?

Yeah, I'd say one out. It's probably, we'll go with one of the orpheus vehicles. It's one of the sedans that was in the motor pool. Those have trackers in them, so maybe Vennia. And Kross never came to the site at any point after Orpheus' destruction within that month. Well, so we were only two days after the destruction. I know, but for both goes both ways forward and back. Oh, it does. Oh, good point.

Yeah, so I'm trying to see if there's anything in the future that happens or anybody that shows up. Good point. It gets very blurry and very nebulous, but you do not see him. However, I will say when you did see him arrive, he was showing up in SUVs with government plates. Okay. Okay. Okay. If I did want to track the Orpheus vehicle,

what would Levinia know that she'd have to have access to probably Orpheus computers or something, huh? Yeah, you'd have to have access to like the digital ID associated with the tracker. It's all the software. Yeah. But I'll let you think about that. Give you a few minutes to kind of digest

and we will move on to Collette and Viv as you make your way to Castle Rock to meet with DEA, especially Joseph Hall at a Starbucks. Okay. What do you think we get there? Um, probably late morning or early afternoon? We got dropped off, right? We're not in a car. Good question. I believe I dropped them off.

Yeah, okay. Okay, so yeah, we'll say you were dropped off. Yep. Okay. Cool, so there's no way to exit. Just how I like it. Good. Well, you got Viv. Yeah. I was gonna say I think before they go in, uh, Viv, um, stops calling the way in and says, uh, you know, how to do this, right? You're talking to an agent. How to do this right you're talking to an agent? No, I have no idea how to do this. What was I supposed to have like a bookmark on like,

do they write a guide on this? Yes. I don't know what I'm doing this, but I think that's part of like half of my success here. Is that I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. You know walk in there, they're gonna think I'm some piece of shit artist who was like a contractor on one project for Orpheus and then fuck the pooch because she decided to love her clients and care about them more so than all of you. And then, you know, I

was out of the company before I could do anything wrong. They're gonna look at me like they always do. It's ineffectual. And I think that's half the battle. Right. Right? I mean, you see my flavor here, right? Yeah, but just just do me a favor. Don't, you know, take anything they give you to drink or, you know, take a cigarette. I don't know what this guy is, but just don't... You think the DA is going to drug me? No, no, just your hands, if they get your fingerprints, just don't touch anything that isn't yours, you're not going to take out with you. Okay.

Where else have my fingers been that I should be worried about? I don't know, I don't know. And I don't need to know. Just keep your fingerprints to yourself. What are they going to do with my fingerprints, Ben? I don't know, but you just don't give them the chance to find out. Okay, okay. And maybe we should come up with like a signal, like a word, just in case. Just go back. What word do you want? come up with like a signal, like a word just in case. Just go back. What word do you want? I don't know.

Something that you would say organically. That I would say organically, that could be anything. The ship bird. That's a fun one. Ship bird, okay. Ship bird. Great. Shipbird. Great. Shipbird.

What? You know that things are going wrong, you're a ghost. You'll be like hovering two seconds above me. Yeah, but I don't know. It's nice to have something. Maybe I don't know. I don't know. I'm just trying to be prepared for every possible outcome.

Okay. Well, you know what? You can't help me refresh this. What all do we want to ask them? Because obviously I'm gonna go in, and like test the waters, see how bad this is, see how fucked we are, and have an understanding of like what they want out of us,

of course, so like, how bad is it? What do they want? Why do they want us? What do they have on us? What else? Yeah, I mean we want to know what they think and What they'd recommend for you what they want to do with you Honestly, if they if you're like this this informant person Maybe they're gonna try to get away out for you and maybe we can use those resources for the rest of the group Unless unless you want.

You want sort of your own way out of this? Well, that's like a complicated question, I guess. I'm also on your team, so if you tell me, that might come to you. Yeah, I'd kind of be telling you that I'm quitting, right? Yeah. Yeah. If I got to be honest, I mean, I'm not here for all of it. Yesterday, you all sort of spoke a whole lot like we were starting at Crusade or something.

And, you know, revenge was called out like four different times. I thought I was in a Bruce Willis movie. And that's all well and good, but I don't know. I don't know. Sometimes I look at all of you and I see how different we all are. I don't know if I was made for revenge. But I don't have an answer to all that. I'm not trying to get out of here.

I'm not trying to get away from all of you at all. I just want to all that. I'm not trying to get out of here. I'm not trying to get away from all of you at all. I just want you all safe And if I can help do that I will I Just what am I gonna do if like they asked me to sell out on you guys? Do do I go with it? Do we we go in on this plan of like a fake mold do I play double agent or? Somewhere Levinia is shaking her ass That's entirely up to you. There isn't a lot of information that you could give that is

an important. So I don't know shit like don't we kind of have to like prove or at least like offer something like we're trying to figure out the truth like you got to give us time or kind of leeway or something right most of the most of the like The shit that we've learned that has been that would go towards our innocence is not shit. We've talked about yet Is there something I could give this guy That might you know give us the reprieves you think I mean you could tell him we're on it, too. We're gonna ask us to stop being on it, but that's fine.

I mean, we think it's next world, right? Maybe we just point him in that direction. Do we sell up the Texan? What's a Shah? Do we give him Shaw? Could be good to just hand over a name even if it's not helpful. Yeah, even if it just gives us a little more time. I will say Shaw's dead. Do they know that? I don't think so. I mean cross. Cross. Oh, I'm sorry. Cross is the name I was thinking Ah, okay, Kristen. Yeah, yeah

Give him cross be something to look at while we figure out exactly what's going on Okay, okay cool cool cool, okay, shit bird Shit bird Alright, let's do this. Okay, do you want, do you drink? Kola sometimes I get her smokes or, you know, whatever, she's failing that week. Do you want me to get you something before we start? I could just, like, leave it on a table, they could think someone littered.

Yeah, actually, just, like, a flat white would be nice. Flat? Why? Is that what you drink when you rely? Yeah. Wow. You're one of those. What does that mean? She starts a move into the coffee shop. Wait, what does that mean? In the wake of that.

That's slander. Collette, you walk into the Starbucks and probably not even Ramoli, the surprise you find, Agent Hall already kind of waiting for you. Dress down, he's not dressed in a suit like you saw him last time, he looks like he's trying to blend in. The one way to always tell a cop though is always look at their shoes. They're always wearing hiking boots and shit and he's wearing fucking hiking boots. So doing a decent job up until a certain point, but you immediately spot him and walk over. He's in a booth in the back sitting, facing the door. And like as soon as he puts eyes on you, he raises the cop that he's at, he has in his hands.

He puts eyes on you, he raises the cup that he's at, he has in his hands. Yeah, I give him a little wave, and then I go get my order, which is a flat white fur bib, and then like a plain black coffee that Collette then fills with like 20 cremers before going to go sit down with agents. Okay. Collette.

Hey. What is going on? How's it going? Well, it's going. Can you explain what is happening? He's show, uh, me and some friends of mine got into some trouble because of those associations with a little company that I was contracting for. Yes, or if you see our persons of interest as they say, um, you know, did you have anything to do with this attack? No, no, no.

God, no, look at me. You think I had anything to do with the largest terrorist attack on American soil? Boy, tell you something, Collette. Not long ago, I wouldn't believe that people could leave their body behind and do all sorts of freaky shit, but that's what they're saying that these orpheus focus can do, so. All bets are off. Yeah, yeah, I get that, but it's not me. It's not anything to do with me. It wasn't even anything to do with my company. I don't know. Do you know why the febes are looking for you?

Do you know why the febes are looking for you? I don't know. I mean, my first thought was any survivors of Orpheus to get information. And I thought maybe that's what they wanted was for me to sit down and say what I knew. Do you have an idea? Because I'm scared shitless to even start a conversation with those fools.

It's gonna mean going to jail. There for me, that's where I put my money but they've compartmentalized the shit out of this behind their joint errors and task force so in the DAAA plan our only involvement is pigment. We are investigating workings. You were? Oh yeah we had a working theory that pigment was originating with them. You think Orpheus came over with pigment? I think it started there. It can't prove it.

Shit. Well, I don't think you're going to have a chance to it anymore. Sure, shit doesn't look like it. Most hope you'd be able to help me out. Well, I mean, that's still on the table, but if I'm wanted by every government body on the planet, I can't really help you out. I wanted your person's interest. They just want to talk to you. So you think that I could walk into an interview room with these guys and walk out alive. Oh

You'll live. I don't know if you'll walk out the problem with this oramin the guy The problem with a lot of folks in the government is that they This projector shit What's the old adage people fear what they don't understand nobody understands this shit? nobody They're scared to death of it that it's not a good thing to get out of the way. And I'm not sure if that is people fear what they don't understand nobody understands this shit.

Nobody. They're scared to death of it. And so they think it could be anybody. Anybody attached? Yeah, it's a, I mean, come on, you're going to look at that and tell me that wasn't at my level.

We're like shit scrapers, man, we're the bottom of the barrel. I was an artist before I was a contractor. You think they give me the keys to the kingdom? This conversation is entirely off the books. Where were you when you're group when this happened? We weren't at orfius if that's what you're asking. As exactly what I'm asking. I'm also asking where you were.

We were at a warehouse that I was renting in the city. Um, not far from campus, but it was a rental property that I was running. And, um, a piece of my past caught up to me. And my friends were helping me out. Off the job, they were helping me after hours and that's when we got the call essentially. Go ahead and roll manipulation. Plus, let's go with empathy. You fool.

You've asked for my biggest pool. Sixes and a bobs, right? Sixes and a bobs, baby. Five successes. He nods, buying it completely. All right, I believe you. My advice for what it's worth, don't stay out in the cold too long. The longer you're away, the longer you take to come in, the more suspicious they're gonna treat, you know, they're gonna view you once you finally do But you may want to come to something come with something to the table

So bring some information to them as a peace offering to obfuscate from us and obfuscate words mean things Collette when you say obfuscate I'm just saying stuff when you say obfuscate that makes me think you maybe did have something to do with it I don't have shit to do with this you heard my story just like a giveaway for me, you know This shit bird you just say it whenever you're ready look Just go with something to clear your fucking name if you're gonna go with something What's your theory?

You all are closer to this shit than I ever was. I'm just a fucking drug cop. What do you think happened? Okay, so inside job means that someone was working for someone else in Orpheus, right? Yeah. And, I mean, you know, about TNS, some guessing. I'm sure the DEA saw that too. Well, we were looking at them too. We were looking, honestly, at all the projector

firms trying to see where this pigment may come from. I mean, come on. The rumor is the word on the street is that they pump you guys full of drugs to get you out of your bodies. It would make sense that the drug that makes everybody see fucking dead people maybe originated with one of the firms. Yeah, I mean, you're probably onto something, absolutely. And if I can help you with that, I will. But just think of it this way. There were three of us, and now there's only Disney left.

Yeah. Well, Terrible Squad, by the fucking skin of their teeth made a through and next world, I mean, but you know what they're gonna say, right? Next world is all the military dudes. Of course, they fought off in its ag. I mean, they can say whatever they want. PR is, you know, professional shit.

Yeah, but that's where my money would be and I shoot from the heart. That's what my heart's telling me Hostile takeover is this they wanted a monopoly on ghosts. No get one Well, this is out of my wheel house, but I know some folks in the bureau. I know some folks are probably gonna be working this, so I'll... maybe I'll drop one. If you could, it might literally mean my life. And if I stay alive, it means a lot more for you and I finding out this stuff about pigment. One of your friends with you? Sorry?

Yeah, one of your friends with you, like, that's what they say. They say the dead ones. You can't even see them. Yeah, I got somebody close. I'm going to let you look directly up at me. That's fucking freaky. Is that, look, is that shit for real? Is that shit for real?

Yeah. Yeah. It's for real. It's life and death. And I don't think they do stuff like what they did to Orr if he is without it being something real. And I don't think they do stuff like what they did to Orr if yes without being something real. I didn't think about that way. Now that I'm never going to sleep again. Does this man have coffee on the table?

He does. That's amazing. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? I think... I think I'm just gonna spill it away from... I don't want him to like burn himself. I'm gonna spill it away. And just... Make a smiley face in the...

In the puddle on the table. He kind of looks down at it with that like... Almost... Almost comedic wide-eyed like... It's art. It's like your arc and he's like I'm leaving now. You've angered them. No, the spirits. Start rattling the windows. out. Fuck this and fuck you. Look, I've gave you my burner number. Call if you find something. Call if you hear anything about fucking pigment. I'm putting a lot of trust in you, Collette. I can't even put my finger on why. Trust me, I've heard that so many times in my life,

I can't even tell you, you sound just like my dad. So maybe I'll give you a call in a couple of days. I'll update you, you can update me. And I will do the calling, because that's how it works. And all the movies that I see. You're working for me. Yeah. As long as we got that clear.

Sure. Well, I'll do right by you. You may be working for me, but I do right by the people that help me. I appreciate it. And I promise you, if there's anything I can give you, I will. I mean, I hope this conversation tells you that much. Yeah, it does. Like, it looks like my fucking job, just by meeting with you, I will. I mean, I hope this conversation tells you that much. Yeah, it does. Like I lose my fucking job just by meeting with you. I don't tell anybody. Are you kidding me? I'm about to lose all my ghost

cred. You should hear the shit they're saying about you right now. Goodbye. Goodbye. This was a good, buzzingly nice. This was better than I thought. No shit, but today. I thought no shipper today. And he'll leave. Now, quick scene transition, we're going to go to Mia, who is wanting to meet up.

I see some swagger going on in some of these green, who is going to meet up with her majesty, Detective Layla Sornson of the Colorado Springs Police Department, Corporal Creek, one of the casinos up there. I know we're going, are we meeting, did we say the parking lot, or did we say another specific location? Good question. I don't completely remember,

but what we'll say is that she would have given you instructions to check in at the front desk And you are given a room number I I am going to try to kind of clean up my shirt My jeans is kind of tidy up as much as possible also to wipe all sweat Cumulating on his hands. They'll go to the front desk and because they're passing a gift shop,

they will probably see like some flowers. Me is going to immediately. Go ahead and, well, what should we do? What should we do? What should we do? What should we do? Bro, says, no, no, no, no, no. Lily's, Lily's, Lily's. I'm gonna channel the coa. What would the coa tell me to get?

Red ones. The red ones. There are multiple red ones. That's the prop. Okay, no, no, that's too much. I'm grabbing red ones. Okay, red ones. So I'm going, me and Graves, whatever red flowers whatever red Flowers, everybody's got roses. Yeah

Yes, and I will go to the front little after I pay for the roses sure. Yeah, we're not doing we're not shoplifters here at Cruisable 12 You are You are given a room number and you go up to the third floor, and I'm assuming you knock. Yes, not. Not knocks. It's her.

It's her head knocks and braze very deeply. It's her head knocks and braids very deeply. It's open. It's gonna unlock the door and... Lela is sitting in one of the easy chairs across from the door with her pistol drawn and pointed at you. Shut the door behind you. May it sound like we'll go ahead and nod and just close the door. It ends out to your side.

What the fuck happened, Mia? Tell me you didn't do this. This is not a five second hesitation question. You tell me right the fuck now, what did you have to do with this? I did nothing with this. Where the fuck were you when this happened? You weren't there? No.

Where were you? I was helping my team. We were on a stuck on a mission. Things were going south. My team, we were on a stuck on a mission. Things were going south. And then we came, we were trying to head back, and that's when we found out. You swear to me you had nothing to do with this.

I swear. She drops the gun and runs up to you and takes you in her arms. Oh, thank God. Yes. Me is going to definitely get, we're going to try to keep this PG 13. You'll very short, but very intense. Yeah. We don't, she doesn't say PG 13 for long.

So we can, we can say to black. Yes, there's probably a lot of stuff that's got to get worked out of the system here. There's there's a lot of emotions happening out right now. Yeah. But she will hand the roses and say these are for you. Oh yeah, no,

those roses I ain't go nowhere. Those are on the floor though say these are for you. Oh yeah, no, those roses I ain't go nowhere. Those are on the floor though, though, tell-room. And as we, jazz hands our way away from this one. As we, a brief moment, go to black. We'll go to black. Livinia. He literally went to black.

Amazing. Livinia, you are concluding your research at the library, correct? Yeah, I think last session we got through a lot of it. Remind me, Vince, I think we I reached out to one of my contacts, one of my hacker contacts, because I was trying to get more specific information about like where people live, addresses, things like that, right? Yes, I believe you were. Yeah. Okay, so it's obviously not been that long. So I'm not expecting to have media learn anything. But you were able to get a local address for Kate, for Kate Denison, a local apartment in Denver.

Now my question is, oh, go ahead. And I'm in Denver right now or no? You are in, you're still in Evergreen. You're at the Evergreen Public Library, okay, which is unoccupied, but you're dead, so you can kind of be wherever you want to be. My question for you, are there any like forum user names, are there any email, like,

like, you know, dead drop email addresses, anything that you still use to maintain contact with some of those people on the outside? You know, the Army. The Army, cool, yet folks. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm probably, you know, regularly checking in with them. And one of them, you find a message that has been left

for you from what is obviously a burner email address, it's it's just a random string of numbers and letters. But the text of it reads as Heathfield. Derov spelled B-U-R-O-V. Yep. And Heathfield, like I would expect it. Yep. Do those names trigger anything, or do I, can I start googling those names? So you would remember that Heathfield was the Chief Operations Officer for Next World.

the Chief Operations Officer for Next World. Fullers doer off and doer off his Heathfield. So then I have to figure out who doer off is. I'll probably start googling any kind of connection or. To that name. Unfortunately, there's not there's not much. There's, uh, I mean, Durov is a relatively common Russian surname. You are able to confirm it is Russian. Well, I know I need to figure out what that name pertains to. And he, maybe it's a name that he feels is using. Operations officer for next world, okay?

Do you respond to the email at all? I feel like I should. I don't know what to say though. He field is doer of, he field is chief operations officer for next world. Well, I can assume if it's an email of mine. It's somebody who knows me and They're obviously keeping their identity hidden Yeah, I mean I think Lavigne would put it in a much finer way, but I probably respond with like I Need something else. I need I need I need I need where I can find do like, I need something else, I need, I need, I need where I can find Duraav, I need a lead on Heathfield. I think I'm gonna try to probe them for more information.

You, unless you think I can roll my enigma roll to try to figure out what this puzzle means. Unless you think I can roll my enigma roll to try to figure out what this puzzle means Let's see No, I don't think it'll be recored that would be required yet because you get a response almost as soon as you get a As soon as you send that first email um And The message says this is Levinia, right?

Speaking. Find Virgil Lincoln. Sounds familiar. I've heard that name before, right? You have not. Virgil. Virgil Lincoln, Baltimore, Maryland. And what I'm piecing together is that he will probably have information on

Heathfield and this connection with Durav. There's a follow-up message that says this is your price for admission. I'll thank them and I will say that also keep the line open. I might reach out to you again. No follow-up message. Yeah. open I might reach out to you again. No fire, that's just... Yeah, no, and then I think I'm just... I'm going to start looking up this Virgil Lincoln Baltimore, Maryland. Okay, make your... Make a suitable research.

Let's do Whits plus investigation or digmas. Okay. Let's do Whits plus investigation or digmas. Okay. Probably pretty decent size pull for you. Yeah, it is. It is. And six is a success, right? It is. That is three successes.

Good enough. You're able to find that virtual link in, on a LinkedIn profile of all things, was at one point a member of next world. That's you. So he's got insider information. Well, he's a lead. He's probably the strongest lead. I imagine we've discovered so far, so I'm definitely tucking that away.

I don't even know if Livinia has to write things down. She probably has a relatively photographing memory. Yeah, I imagine her memory is about as I did it as it gets. So. I need to get to a better computer. I need to get to maybe my own personal computer. My own laptop that has. I just need to get to a computer that I can do more than just do Google searches.

So I feel like I've done all that I can and I've got to figure out how to get back with my teammates. Who do I know is in town? No one? No one. I believe that the plan was that they were going to circle back around and pick you up. Boy, I hate to wait but unless and this wouldn't this would have been probably multiple hours we're talking to expect them to be coming back soon yeah yeah I think I'll just spend the rest of my time going through the libraries puzzles that they have like for kids and adults and other people and things like that and probably solve most of them like kind of play them all out and

Get through them before folks show up. Love it. Perfect With that we will return to Mia and her majesty If if Amanda still with us Oh, no, we're coming back. We're just we're passing cigarettes. Yeah, beautiful. I love that. Okay, that's incredible. Jesus Christ. Hence the smoke. Hence the smoke. I love it. I appreciate the atmosphere and the commitment.

This is great. I love it. So in the wake of your reunion, as tender as sweet as it was, is to finally be reunited, and to be not only welcomed back, but to know that, what's that? Yeah, at least that bridge is crossed. Yeah.

Or it's like, okay. Layla. Layla. Yeah. Layla will kind of look to you and, and, and bed there and say, Mm-hmm. None of your typical bullshit. None of your typical use 18 words on two-wheeled dude, you know.

Just what happened? I know very little right now. My teammates are actually trying to figure that out. Some are, I have theories, but it's for all I know, it's bullshit until I know a little bit more. Honestly, I'm probably the weakest link right now because I'm doing the least to help the team at the moment.

But I don't care. So that's why I wanted to come talk to you first. You're not hurt, you're okay. I'm deaf. I'm kind of, a lot of things are crashing around me very fast and rapidly. And the realization that even people who I don't know, but I would see every day, are gone. And the fact that for a moment you thought I was involved in that is so upsetting, and it pisses me the fuck off. But... I'm for what it's um, I am so ready to start a future with you and eagerly so.

If you can forgive for the really bad way, just, I said I love you the first time. I was going through a lot and I didn't say it correctly. But I meant it. I love you too when you know that. Okay. I trust you. It says this is, your faces are plastered wool, ears and logons and collettes are plastered everywhere. They're saying that you maybe they didn't say you wanted. and collettes are plastered everywhere.

They're saying that you maybe, they didn't say you wanted. Like, there's not a, there's a, there is a bolo out for you guys, but not as armed and dangerous just that you're wanted for questioning. Well, it's, what I, I have this, the burner phone, I have to at least give something. So me and the group are trying to figure out any and all info and I can keep you in the loop, keep you updated. Oh, did you have something search? Yeah, I do think I realize it might be useful if what else

Levinia did was through the internet send everyone a text update with the name Virgil Lincoln Baltimore, Maryland, because me, I might be able to pass that in full on. Yeah, yeah, and when you do think to check your phone, I would have checked like just to make sure there was no 911 Yeah, yeah, no none ones, but there is a text from from you presume love in here with I will and I'll even show it like Does that name anything you

Same to me as you. I mean, you're gonna turn yourself in, right? I mean, you're gonna go talk to the Bureau. You're gonna get this cleared up, right? I want to, absolutely. I'm just afraid that it's not just I feel like there's multiple levels and I don't know if I would be entirely safe there. So I need to have some info, some insurance to guarantee that. I mean the the people isn't gonna like honey. They, my place is gone. Like people who, part-time, whatever, they're,

so I don't know where I stand on that. Do you know who did this? Look at the only one left standing. You know who did this? Look at the only one left standing. Pretty easy when you have no competition. Future world or something like that. Next world. Next world. Look, I don't wanna hear something.

It's gonna give very, very scary and very intense, both physically and beyond. That there's a lot, and we don't have a lot of time to cover. I don't want to get you to involved in this, because that puts a mark on you. So, there's, I'm giving you the, but to tell you what to do is like, talk into a wall, love you, but so I'm giving you the option to not go any further. And I will just keep you updated on my safety and anything that can give me closer to home to you.

What do you need for me? This honestly just you to keep me calm half the time, but other than that, if you can, if you can be safe or just know anything to look into that info, that can kind of help me get a starting point. But don't go too deep. Okay, do not get, please, please, I beg of you, do not just, just something I don't want to get you to, I don't want you to pop up on anyone's radar. All right, I am.

Thank you. Okay, I'll see if I can find out about this virtual guy and we'll give you, like I said, we'll give you a week, Mia. Um, that's all I can give you. And then after that, you've got to turn yourself in. That's fair. That's more than fair. That's more than fair. I will probably would want to make sure I see you before I turn myself in that. I'll go with you. Okay, that'll work too. We'll go with you, we'll go with the others.

I mean, and a fucked up way we're family now. Oh, I can't wait for you to meet Lavania. Have you, and you've talked to her about Lavania before, right? I would have given like a brief overview of everybody. Like, okay. Yeah, she, that Lavania sounds like a little piece of work. Yeah, she'd that'll have any of that sounds like a little piece of work. It's kind of like what, like think of like a hot wing.

What level would you like to go up to? It's up to you, but what kind of level you want to take her to? That's the spice level. God, I've missed you. I think God too. That's the spice level. God, I missed you. I think God too. I missed you too. I will text people a little bit of the updates,

sends anything else that it's not their business. If anyone asks. But I would say like, hey, where I can get a little info regarding this, I'll swing by soon. Logan just sends back a scissor emoji. I'm gonna send back purple devil grin. With that, speaking of Logan sending scissoring emojis, let's return to coa and just

man a Latin in the dark. Not even muted. Black tap. No, I'm not a huge insult. Yeah, you're not muted. We're keeping that in. Coa and Logan. Uh, did any questions come up in the in the interim that you, you know, thought over now you kind of digested everything or what's the plan? Since I'm still in the vision, um, I know the building collapse, but is there any structures within the building that are still up or still in some type of state, because we might want to now go into the actual building, if there are anything that we can retrieve. Yeah, you could try to get into where the data center was.

It is in deep enough that the sub basements, you do recall in your vision that the, you know, with the sub basements, you do recall in your vision that the explosives it looked like were purposely set up more in the nursery area to ensure that the ceiling collapsed on the cradles and anybody in them. But from what you can probably tell based on your vision alone, the data center and the, you know, where the servers and the computers were set up would probably still be not entirely intact, definitely not reachable by anybody, not. What about like Keats office or any other

or fire up for the apartment office? The building collapsed with a top down, like it essentially, like it almost like a controlled demolition to where they hit those load bearing columns. No thing has kind of came down, like it's like a fucking sandwich. So it's all kind of smashing on itself. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Then if there's nothing from the vision left, then I think Nicole will come back from it. And I will say, again, another little bit of a house rule that with the vitality exchange it took place Logan

You probably were able to experience a lot of this with Withcoma Yeah Yeah, I think Nicole coming back from that seeing all of that is a little Upset about it, but they're gonna kind of like shuffle through their pockets like they normally do and find a cigarette and then put it in their mouth and just start kind of smoking on it. Yeah, Logan's kind of squeezing your one hand and still yeah, I haven't like a Logan's hand. Oh no, last three years have been here at Orpheus. It's only been Orpheus and what a waste. I don't know anything about Tacker anything, but should we go down and check on the servers and shit?

I don't know, it looks like they melted everything, but... Maybe there's a recoverable server, yeah. But if we can get into some of the buildings, maybe we can find, I don't know, contingency plans, an address that Kate might have left behind that maybe we can find anything from somebody. Yeah, I mean, there's no way she just went home, right? I don't know at this point. Whatever happened here, I couldn't really see, except for this particular point, just watching everything that happened inside the building. So, marble and everything outside was like dark smoke and it's weird.

We can always see as far as we can stretch, but whatever is there is much stronger than what I am. But that's kind of a part of it. Take a life, take a soul to hurt people the way doing that leaves a little further, a little closer. You're up for it. I'm down now. Yeah, let's go to the bridge again. I'm sure. I think both of us are going to walk closer to Orpheus. Okay.

One thing that stands out to you that is unsettling as hell is the fact that with all the people that have died now at this place, that there are not more spirits walking around. And you know full well from the vision, it's because that they were specifically reapers waiting for them to kill them again, and ensure they never left. As you, and I'm guessing you descend into the ruins and the rubble. Yeah. You pass through layers of rock and concrete and steel and rebar and down into the, into this smoking crater of what was once Orpheus headquarters heading towards the general area of where you know the computer room to be where the sub-levels are. And you are able to find the server room. It is, I mean, if you were living, there would have been no way for you to have even accessed this location. But even now as a spirit, it's hard to

even figure out where you are in the grand scheme of the rest of the building and even negotiate the rubble. There's not a lot here. But we also have on this level, let me check for you, pull them up. We've got the labs themselves, you've got the sleeper bays, you've got the labs themselves. You've got the sleeper bays. You've got the labs where research and development. Some of these are in better shape than others to the point where you can still see, unfortunately, corpses down here. That haven't been crushed under the rubble

and the rims themselves haven't completely collapsed. But if you wanna tell me what you're looking for and then like if something specific that haven't been crushed under the rubble and the rims themselves haven't completely collapsed, but If you want to tell me what you're looking for and then like if something specific, then we'll I'll tell you what roll the make And you both can make separate rolls if you like. Oh look at Logan first in the direction of where those sleeper bays might be and I kind of like give them like that look of like do you want to go down there? We're doing need to we We can check out whatever you think is important. I'll follow you early Where do you go?

Where does you you're like look around Logan take a deep breath for a second, we have a moment here. You feel it, right? Just as I do, all of this, all around, you saw what I saw. It's quiet. Yes. Where do you think we need to go? Feel it.

Let those strings and tethers find you. What do you think is the best place? What ease is your mind and your heart? Arndy, there's nothing for us here besides what we can scavenge. Right? OK. is what we can scavenge, right? I'm going to go ahead. Vince, can I do a check really quick just to see if I still have a tether to my body or if it's?

Oh, yeah, absolutely. You don't even need to think about it. It's like, as your hair is still attached to your head, you know, you can still, it might be pulled, but you can still feel that connection. Your body is still safe and in fact. I think seeing all the bodies that are kind of left here Logan had like a moment of fear

that like something might have taken her body. Yeah. Once they realize it kind of pushed that back into the back of their mind. We need things that protect our vocabulary, not safe. Figure out what we can see and what we can do. So, R&D. R&D? Okay, we'll go there first. The labs on this third sub-level are a mess. They have been subject to burning to a conflagration to absolute destruction. They haven't completely caved in, but if you want to try to go through some some files, make a let's do intelligence plus investigation.

Is that for both of us? Yeah. Yeah, if you both like to sure. Just one little time. One little time. Oh, no. We yes. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. That is. Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah. How many successes do you get, Koeh?

One. Okay. So, so. Total of three dice. Yeah. Unfortunately, there's not a lot here. You can find some papers that manage to survive, even though Orpheus, as you all know,

was making a push to paperless. Some forms that are left behind with various medical workups and histories as some other Orpheus employees. Some research notes on both the sleeper and the skimmer processes, but nothing that would indicate anything deeper, unfortunately. I think I'm going to take the papers anyway. Okay. Well, that was a bust so much for my feelings and intuition.

It's a good idea. I mean, anything could help at this point. Try again. What next? Should we go? I feel like you have a place that you want to go and you're avoiding going in that direction. And I think you should flow along with it. I don't wanna go to the sleeper bay.

I don't think there's anything there for us. I think there is something there for us. I ask you this often, Logan, what are you afraid of? I don't know, I guess it's fucking happening, right? Yes. So, so why do you need to know you already know we're living it? It's here. Because I, you should know exactly what it is though. Yes, everything is happening. The world is collapsing and there are things beyond our understanding, but there's a focal point to it. There's a source to all of it. I'm trying to get you to understand that in the midst of chaos, there is strength there, and that what you're feeling is complicated, but can be

that you're feeling is complicated, but can be constructively put in a good place, but you also need to confront it. If you're not able to confront it and open yourself to it, you're not gonna let it go. How is being afraid of being alone going to flow anything? It's an acknowledgement.

You feel alone, and that's okay. It's okay to feel alone. It's okay to feel like there's no next step, but you have to see it and confront it and accept it. Because you're gonna realize that you're not really alone, that there are people who share the same feelings that you do. The problem is I know that. I know that everyone's fucked up and sad and scared and whatever else everyone is feeling. So it doesn't feel like it's gonna make a difference to say it out loud because I know everyone feels the same way.

And that's okay, but knowing and actually feeling and are two different things, Logan. We know that people have been, we know that suffering happens in the world, but you are suffering right now. I'm not the only one. There's a team here. And that's fine.

And every other person will find their peace in the long term, Logan. You matter too. Stop deflecting, stop hiding, stop worrying about other people. Worry about yourself in this moment. You are going through something. I feel it.

Confund it. Let it go. Open your heart up and let it go. You're gonna find what you really want out of this. You're gonna find what you really want out of this. I feel like if I let go of it, that's kind of the last thing I'm holding on to. And if I let go of it, then I'm just falling into the void and into nothingness. And there's nothing to grab in the void, so you're just falling endlessly. So what do you do

with that? What the fuck do like mirrored? They are sitting cross-legged on the remains of one of the workstations and the lab. What did she do? Are you going to help? Um, um, her shadow. Do, um, do we need to do? We need to do. We need to do. We need to do.

We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. We need to do. pieces of former holes. I'm everything that makes them interesting. I doubt that.

What are you doing down here? I could ask the same thing. Check your area. No, you don't have to worry about me. You've been busy. So is Viv. That's a bridge that will be crossed at a later time. They're a little more aggressive than I am. They're a Moverna shaker, yes. but we are more methodical, right? Two degrees.

You get out of this. What do I get? What I want is irrelevant. So grandmother wants. Don't start with that. Who's Grandmother? My grandmother. You don't have to bring her into that.

Oh, not your Grandmother. Oh, who's Grandmother then? Our Grandmother. Everyone's Grandmother. Those seem like two different things if I'm being completely honest. It's a relevant at this point. Why would you bring it up if it was irrelevant then? I'm totally hit a cord.

You get it. No. I'll be toiling with my meals. I'll probably go hungry then. I don't know. Seems to be having a real good effect on you. Logan. What do you want out of this not Koeh? This. I want this. I want all of this. I want Koeh to finally realize my way is the best way.

What's your way? Shedding all earthly binds, all earthly ties, surrendering to the void. I haven't gone after your family yet, not of respect. I think that's cheap. Viv will do that all day. I'll try to be a little bit more. How shall I say this? Deft in my approach. You tag along with them often? They're not my style. I do appreciate what they did to Ben though. Anyway, I just had to poke my head in. And honestly, there's not a lot for me to do when whoever's doing this, they're getting

under your skin, something awful, aren't they, Koa? Me. No. No, not yet. Can't quite be bothered. I'm curious, though, to see where the end of the rainbow goes. Care to share. Curious, though, to see where the end of the rainbow goes. Care to share?

Oh, do I care to share? Not particularly, no, but... I think Lavini is onto something. Virtual Lincoln. He might know something about Flatline. He might know something about flatline. Do you know what is flatline? Of course I do. I'll give you something else too. The ones that came after.

They weren't the ones who did this. That second group? Yeah. Target of opportunity. Do you know who did this then? Do you know who the main one was? Of course I do. Tell us, maybe. The main one was? Of course I do. Right.

Tell us, maybe. Why? Why would I tell you? You spoil this? Well, you like the void and entropy and chaos, right? Telling us, right? They're doing the Lord's work. They're doing Grandmother's work.

I'm not going to get into the way of that. They're doing Grandmother's work. I'm not gonna get into the way of that. Oh. What exactly is Grandmother? What you want? It was to say. Anyway, Tata for now.

I'll be saying you. She leaves. I'll just start walking towards the sleeper room without that just ignoring it. What the fuck was that? What do we all have? Some do we all have a... You know, just me and Vivianian out of all of us in the group their Shades again. I am a fragment of what I once was that is a fragment of my fragment

What about this? Yeah, why doesn't live any I have one? because of How live you just just became a spirit. Great, great, you told me that months ago. There's things that I definitely read that all of that information. I think with that we'll take a very brief break since we've been going for I think a pretty good bit now, but we'll come back in about what do you say 10 minutes folks and then we'll kick this shindig back off. 1.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0%

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So we just had a visit from Koa 2.0, the doppelganger Koa. And yeah, more like negative 2.0. It's a point. And what was the plan next? And, Koeh, you were making a B-line for the sleeper base, right? Yeah, because that was where we were intending to go before we got interrupted. And we should just keep pressing forward. Looking at the sleeper base, the vast majority of it has been completely collapsed.

Like there is just mounds of rubble that have kind of descended and cascaded down onto the sleeper cradles. To the point where you can't even see most of the cradles, they are just completely buried. Those that you can see looking at the protective glass covering where the bodies would lay in rest while they were projecting. You can see those that have not been otherwise crushed by rubble have been zippered for the lack of better term with bullets. And there's just that appears they've just been completely raked with automatic gunfire. Let's see, I'm told you there's nothing for us here. There was something for us here.

Let's just go to the server room. No, we went to data already. That was research and development. Yep. That was the labs. Uh, the data vault is on the, is on the fourth sub level. Uh, and I believe I may have misspoke, I think I said it was on the third, but it's actually on the fourth. Um, and going into there, you can't smell in this form, right? It's, it's tough because there's no like sensory receptors in this incorporeal form of ears.

But if you could, like you could practically imagine smelling like burnt metal and cabling and plastic because it just looks like these server racks have been completely like incinerated and melted down. completely like incinerated and melted down. It's, there's nothing recoverable in here from what you can tell. Whoever came in did a very thorough job. Three for three.

A thorough, I guess you can take away from it. The Librit is the thing that keeps coming to my mind. All of this was so deliberate. They intended to take people's lives. They intended to destroy all of this data. All of this R&D. I had to be planned. They had to know things intimately.

It doesn't, or if he's as barely recognized as a company, let alone somewhere that people would go. I'm just a whim. So, it had to be someone on the inside, I guess. Or, I don't know, you said you sensed the like others were skin-ridden and someone was inhabiting the building, so I guess maybe... Well, it was planned.

It took people from our own teens and stuff like that. The thing is, it's just... Orpheus could have been handled in so much other ways than this. If Cross had all of the power in the room, essentially, and he was choking Orpheus till it ended, what service do you get in killing people and in the way like this. It's a destruction of a mentality more than a place, but you can break a spirit so much easier when you actually have those people broken right before you, not just destroy. There's no point in destroying. Why do tyrants keep people around? to have power over them, to subjugate them to it. So they didn't want that kind of power.

They wanted annihilations, the only thing I can think of, there wasn't any power to be gained from it, or they'd already gotten what they wanted, maybe. Unless we had something that could stop all of it entirely. Of what? Any counter-attack that next world or any of them had, we had something they couldn't recreate or had made. I don't know, that's what I'm thinking. It's like, in order to do this amount of destruction,

you had to come in here with a purpose. You know, not just wanton destruction for the sake of wanton destruction. That's just not how these things kind of go. You're afraid of something then? Yes. We had it. Whatever it was. Flat wine maybe?

I don't know. What was that? Enough. The person your fragment talked about, Virgil Lincoln or something? No, it's from the... Oh, I don't have a phone. Would I have gotten the text from Levinia? Oh, I don't have my phone either.

Okay. I don't know. A name will have to cross reference with everybody once we get to that point. Okay. I think I should try and salvage any of this for Levenia. Do you think she can piece any of her back together? Is it just... I know about as much as I need to know for computers.

Not anything really like this. I mean, there's nothing we can tap into data wise they destroyed the server so even if we powered up computer here it's useless. All I need to know is if we can find any secondary locations or anything or any date or things notable in the upper management rooms that we can pull and that's that's kind of all I need to find out. I'm hoping that Kate might have like put a secondary location for her in emergency or something that would lead us to where she might be heading.

I feel like a lot of people here might have been like a little paranoid so maybe like safe or something. So that's the problem is there are no upper management floors anymore. Pretty much everything above sub-level two is gone. And the rest is kind of sporadically collapsed and under the weight of the building above it. So... Is there anything below us? You're at the bottom. Well, we know Kate's alive for sure, at least.

It's something. I must. The only thing is her apartment, maybe, might give us an idea where she might go. I mean, she's not gonna go to anything that we have protocol-wise, that would be silly. So it would be a place she would feel the most safe is. I don't know where that would be.

I might as well check her house. Well, once we regroup, yeah, once we regroup with everybody, maybe we can figure out that or maybe head there. One and a half of the money rested. We can navigate it. And with that, Collette and Viv, any discussion as you make your way back from your meeting with Agent Hall? It doesn't seem like they know much more than we do.

Yeah, I mean, he seemed pretty in the dark about all this but it seems like he's gonna help us. Are you like into this whole, I don't know, secret pigment thing? Um, I mean if it's true, it probably is true. Then, yeah, I'd like to know. I mean, that'd basically be the government feeding itself, heroin to see ghosts, which is a pretty bonkers story to begin with, but also feels a little unsafe for the rest of us here. And if I can do a good turn by giving him some information, then all the better, right? Yeah. It's not.

Orpheus was bad enough. When it came to some circumstances that came with the afterlife, I can't imagine what the private military force of ghosts is going to do with their weaponized heroine so I feel like we've got to if we can right? Yeah that's not really what I ask though. I mean, I mean, that was a clean answer. That's a group answer for the meeting. But I'm asking about you specifically.

What was it? What do you mean? I mean, I saw your face when he said pigment. It's just, you know, a hot button. I mean, it's the same face every attic makes when somebody mentions a good time, right? It's... ...scary and not something that I ever want to go back to, but it definitely strikes a nerve. Okay.

I'm not trying to, you know, I don't have any judgment. I don't, I don't, I don't not care. I just, you know, sometimes you get caught up in the work and people don't check on you. I don't have any plans on taking steps backwards. I think I've made a lot of forward momentum and I'm scared what that looks like to step back.

I just think there's something about this stuff and no one cares enough to see what it's going to do to us outside of what it can do for us. So might as well be me, and if we're going to go to war, if we're going to kill the bad guys, you know, if Leviniaia's gonna take us on our crusade, then I might as well have something to do with the team. Hmm. Yeah.

Okay. What you said earlier about being ineffectual, do you, do you, I mean, I know you can't cook eggs for shit, but is, you, that's, you believe that, too? Because... I think that there's the way that's, you believe that, too? I think that there's the way that people see you and then the way you actually are. And I think for a long time I've slid by on being that, but I've never felt like that.

I think, you know, a lot of people step on daisies. That's all I got. Yeah. Alright, Flower Job. Let's go. I'll take it. With that, where are we, for the sake of clarity? Where are we all planning on reconvening? with said phone. Logan. Yeah. Okay. I I was assume maybe there's a location

uh some kind of like a. Are we going back to Aspen? Back to the mansion? We didn't go to the Aspen house yet. Yes, so yeah, you do have you do have the uh Aspen townhome that Madame Batsu offered up to you for use which is a few hours away. I mean, you know, evergreen is in the middle of nowhere, so I mean, we could probably lay low

and you'd have to get me anyway. Yeah. I'm gonna probably text like I'm gonna go get Levinia or in whoever's closest Gum grad Levinia and then we'll meet at that location. We gotta get the other two also from Cripple Castle Cripple Creek Creek Creek yeah. Someone went to Castle

somewhere. Yeah. Is that in a route also? It's round about. We can just say if you all want to meet at like a motel in or around Evergreen, we can make that happen. Perfect. We're doing it. I think at one point before we all convene Collette does text

the other burners. I am in jail. Please help with many exclamation points. Immediately get a call from Logan. Immediately. It was bullshit, sorry. And then I... Damn it, Colette. What the fuck? What the shit out of me? Just what we need on the side. There is a left on the right. We find Crucible 12, the survivors of Crucible 12,

in a little no-tell motel, kind of motor court style motel, you know, the single story, kind of wrap around with all the rooms on the outside, and just kind of in the middle of nowhere. It's a good place to disappear, that'll take cash for the rooms and not ask a lot of questions. And you've got a room for the time being until you kind of planned your way ahead, but this is where we find all of you reconvened after your days worth of research.

And I think at this point, we're pushing late afternoon early evening hours. As much as I want to pursue the leads I've gotten about cross and some of the other folks involved, and I'll share all the names that I research and found in connection with cross and these other organizations like the Next World. I think I got an anonymous tip that might be our best bet. A man named Virgil Lincoln who lives in Baltimore, Maryland, doing a quick search. It seems like he has a former member of Next World.

Maybe he's the defector. Maybe he has knowledge about these individuals. I'm sure he knows something about Project Flatline. Logan has said too much one too many times about people's doppelgangers, so they don't say anything, but they do immediately look at Nikoa. I think we might need to assume that whoever is on our opposition knows about Virgil. As we got that info while we were at Orpheus, we didn't have access to the phones to like hours after you sent that text message, but that name was passed around by my doppelganger. Oh!

There's another one. by my doppelganger. Oh, there's another one. Well, there's one for me. All right, but I... I did. I know what I did to see mine. Oh, they come out of view anyways, but yes, I've fed it along recently. It doesn't matter, that's not the point. The point is that they might know about Virgil as well. So if he is a lead that we need

to get to, then a lead that we should pursue as soon as possible. What the time is of the essence? What is that thing have to gain by giving us information by helping us out? It's stirring the pot. It wants me to feed into my own spike. And I'm not going to. It said it might know something about flatline too. The Virgil Lincoln might know something about flatline. I think I can probably find her proper address with enough time.

So we have to decide. Do we look to Kate's home? She's probably not going to be there. We might find some information about her True, but what's more important right now the info are just getting to Kate I think I think Virgil is more important Yeah, we can't take a chance on those fuckers getting to him before we do Kiel also wasn't alone so for the time being Keatsch is a non-priority. Well, if there's something to consider before we go off to Maryland, and that's that we're

running out of time to partake in the good fortune of our government. I talked with that guy. The DEA doesn't know much. They were looking in a orifice on pigment. But apparently he's been shaking a few trees and we're running out on time. But as of right now, he doesn't believe they really truly believe we did anything, just that we might have information. So it was suggested to me that if we could show up with something to go hand in hand with sharing with them and you know giving them something to prove that we're not you know a lead for them to go off of we could get them off our

bats that way we can go in Maryland without worrying about you know the entire US government coming down on our backs. Actually speaking of things that might work for our favor. Yeah. Lavinia texted me some information earlier. Here's the thing. Kate, I asked Kate. Oh, sorry. No, no. I asked for highness. Yes, I asked her to look into it. I mean, I call it either one works. I she asked me she asked to give her a week to see if she could find anything and I figured point of order. I will say she can she can give us asked you to give her a week to find anything she said. Oh yes. You've got a week to do your own digging. Yeah, we have a time.

We got a week, but she's going to take some time to dig into it, but she's giving us a week. And what I mean by us is she's giving me a week. And on a promise that I made, I promised to go and turn myself in. Also weird. Also something to consider that turning yourselves in might confine you to this state and then you can't actually leave at all. We'll confine them, but it sounds like it's something we have to do to show that we are

the good guys. I think in the meantime, we have a week. Let's find this virtual. Let's find out as much information as we can so that we are as useful as possible. And that makes us valuable. Exactly. What I said, power's knowledge, right?

Wait, now it's just power. There you go. There you go. Niko, do you share all that you saw at the site and the whole thing about like everyone being murdered and stuff? You just kind of go in detail about it? I try to not go in too much detail, but I do explain that there was a level of destruction and carnage, as well as my theories about all of this being very

deliberate. I want to spare some of the group groups and shenanigans. But I think like when you describe like the way it's like a black hole and all that kind of stuff, I don't know it's bouncing around in my head, the vineyard's head that these people were killed maybe ritualistically, like literally to gather all of these souls or to, you know, you describe the evil. Maybe it was meant to be like a concentration of some kind. Maybe it was a, I don't know, like a form of a spell

or something to start to something. You know what I mean? That random building fell out of some of the reality. Open a rift. I mean, a lot of energy put into one place. Could the bar, like the rebar thing, just been orpheus getting catapulted somewhere else? Maybe.

You said this was the largest crime scene in the nation right now. I mean, it doesn't even...I'm just thinking like sci-fi shit. It's easy to find. You look it up on Google Maps, biggest crime scene in the nation. If they're trying to get something to a certain place, even if it's not at orfius, it's a killer meetup spot. Hard to miss. Well, unless someone has a good reason for us to split up again, I think we should all pack our bags and head to Baltimore. Oh, it takes a reason. It's a drive there. We're driving?

Yeah, I don't think any of us are getting on a plane, babe. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I Military what point did you think I was rich if I have a turn into a plane bib and fly us? No That's never been what I could do if I had a Client that had a plane it would have been more than a year ago It would just be a stealing a plane which sounds like a really bad idea. Yeah, yeah, it is Yeah, I heard that doesn't go well. Yeah, who would ever do something like that? Once you get past the air traffic controllers, they get fucking pissed unless you land the second they ask you to Is any of you that didn't know how to fly a plane? It's only we have a pilot on the team Oh It's like we have a pilot on the team, right? Oh, no. We're not a pilot. No, we're driving, but that's,

it's not like half way across. It's 26 hours. And we're taking two cars. I mean, we could take one. They're really only needs to. Oh, but this is nice. Oh my god. Okay, but that means humans got to stay up.

What is that? 12 hour shifts? 12 hour shifts? No, no, no, no. I can control that, that I can drive at some point. Yeah, it's just gonna look like, well, I guess I could manifest myself and make it look like I'm driving. Okay, it's really short, so.

It's non-stop drive. We should, uh, we should tell somebody we're going there. Um. Let's limit who. I don't think we need to tell everyone. I was just thinking about those who I was thinking. I will not give out locations but I will give out a general when I will be moving to a time zone if you will. Okay, time zone works now. I feel like that's fair, right? Time zone? Yeah. Okay.

There's four of us. We have two 12-hour shifts. Or I guess two 13-hour shifts. We can hit the... Super late bits if we're worried about people seeing us. Yeah, yeah. Okay. At least at the smallest amount of time, it'll be there and back in three days, one day to get there,

one day to invent through, one day to come back. That's half our week gone. If we stay there longer. Well, I mean, we have to ask ourselves, do we already feel like we have something to put in the FBI's court? Like, to be fair, Virgil is the only lead we have at the moment. I don't know where else we can go. I think going to Kate's will we maybe learn where she is but we're not any closer to

proving there's a bigger conspiracy here. So we've just got to put our eggs in this basket and how Virgil pays off. Yeah, we might get some more info in route. I still, there's always a shot there. Let me know if it's pretty out, baby. I am. Sorry. Radio free death. That night when we're driving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly road trip music. Stormwending known can storm wind, that's supposed to be is that the teleporting Because yes, that is just a teleporting yeah, yeah, I can do a lot of itality with that Help us get across

Let me look at the rules I suppose it'd be a lot because it's like six people. I know what's on pretty miles. Like bronkers, what storm windings can do. The maximum range is 100 feet. 100 feet, guys. So we could do that a lot in that anytime. I'm in that anytime.

20, more like 2000, but yeah, yeah, the driving's our only option so it's a pretty pretty shot. How do we get a car There we go. I don't want to take the Did we get rid of the the one we have to cover last time the stolen near the stolen pickup? We got the one with the trial just have botus. Yeah. Okay, so we got the BMW. Okay, so we all I want. All right. And we'll say it's an SUV. I mean, I probably said it was a sedan last episode, but to make it easier on you want because I still need seats. That's true. But I'm nothing if not kind and generous. So we'll upgrade to a BMW SUV. I like it. See

generous so we'll love green to the mw suv like it see we'll truncate it I won't I won't make us go through the entire uh christmold 12 road trip episode uh uh as fun as that would be but we will leave that to the fans is there any discussion is there any like what do we talk about what do we do on the ride over? Because I'm sure we're not just riding in silence. I'm here to talk. Who wants to talk? It's a talk. Yeah, fuck it. There's a great opportunity.

So the doppelganger. Yeah. Damn. Oh, we still on the doppelganger. I just have a question. Like, do they know about us? They're very aware of you. They're an extension of me. I feel like we're connected in some kind of way.

I know what shenanigans they get up to. They tell me about. They know about the things that I'm looking into. So, so question, and this is for the whole room, when I'm asleep and we got my form, do I have a doppelganger then? No. Your life.

Your life. But am I though? Yes, you are alive. You still have a physical body. You're projecting yourself out of your body. You're living body. I don't have a body. I just have fragments. Like, did you eat cream? Did you yourself? That's why you do say fragments? Did you cremated yourself? That's why you do safe fragments? I was cremated in a way, yes. Oh, in a way. So I don't actually know what they did to my body.

Oh. Yeah. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. I think I had a, that's not a topic we talk about, right? I mean, no. I mean mean unless you really want to know I Have never really I don't necessarily talk about it We yes, I did not die in the I didn't get buried in the traditional sense. Yes. Oh, no, I know that's fine I was like, but did you like go to your funeral?

Did I go to my funeral? Yeah. So a good question actually. Unfortunately, I was too far away to attend my own funeral or what my family held for me as a funeral. Okay. I feel like I just need to tell you, I died deep out at sea in the middle of a storm in a plane. That doesn't shock me. Sorry. No, I mean to see thing, I mean like the ocean,

like ocean would be involved. It's like you didn't get killed in an avalanche snow storm, you know? There was a storm, but yes, I... Yeah. It's fine it's why you like cool right it's the closest thing I can get to feeling a sense of depth yes would you like to go to the ocean one day or is that a don't know I'm not opposed to doing that, but I've been kind of landlocked for a while since Orpheus found me.

Yeah. Well, I promise you you're not going to be late tomorrow when you try to clock in. So it's time to cash in on maybe some navigation. Maybe when we get this all I'll take a trip to the sea. It would be nice to see the sea again. I've never seen the ocean. No, what you haven't seen it. Never seen it. And like pictures and like moves. I've seen it, yeah. Well, before you die second time, you have to. I agree. I think you'd like it. It's like a big lake.

It's fine. I would say a more temperamental, sometimes trashier version. There is Ocean City in Maryland. We could maybe go see the Atlantic. I don't think that's a bad idea. I'm penciling a beach trip. Or potential, let's like we're a potential future camping trip because we will succeed. Yeah, I mean we don't really have keepers anymore. As long as the government doesn't take us, it probably fits within our week.

I make sure I have seconds to look at the ocean. Yeah. I wouldn't take that long. Cool. That's good. We do a good job and we find the things we need to find. I think we deserve it. Let me go look at the ocean. Okay.

Cool. You're like a clean the apartment first before you relax. Sort of person. I get it. I was thinking about seeing the ocean before. It's cool. We can wait until after. Maybe I could do a cold stirrup.

I'm off. I can do a cold stirrup. You can do a cold stirrup. I'm off. You can do a cold stirrup. You can do a cold stirrup. I can do a cold stirrup. I can do a cold stirrup. I'm off-whip. You can do a coastal drive-up for a little bit. I don't want to spoil it. No, I want to hurt him. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him.

Jesus. Okay. Do the work. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him. Jesus.

Okay. Do the work. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him. I'm hurting him. Jesus.

Okay. Do the work. I'm hurting him ocean you guys already earned it, but I'll I assume at some point one of the ghosts is driving and I think we would remember to turn on that radio for your death. Definitely. We'll try. During, yeah, during a late night, one of your late night shifts, shall we say, driving across the country at this point. You kind of take a moment to scan through the FM and the AM

channels, which nobody uses anymore, because everybody has Bluetooth or auxiliary or something. So FM and AM are alien concepts. While we're scanning through, there's lots of static and eventually though, eventually, it's in those dead spaces in that white noise where there is nothing coming through that you eventually begin to hear a voice, a voice that you know and recognizes that of radio free death.

But the transmission, the message is garbled, it's static. It's more difficult to make out than it was originally. Where it used to be clear and concise this time, it's you're making out only phrases, if not just words at times. And there's an e-requality to it, driving along this lone highway, surrounded by maybe one or two other cars passing you in the night, very little light out here, and then just the sounds of static and then an occasional voice. For those who've watched the ghost hunting shows like a spirit box, a moving spirit box. And you catch words like next world, you catch the name Andrew Lincoln or Virgil Lincoln,

Baltimore, and then clear as day, trap. Well, everybody. crap. Hmm. Well, everybody. In another word, Zamy. Zamy. How do you spell that? Z-M-E-I. Eventually the static clears enough to where you can hear free deaths say, find Lincoln, find flatline. So it's a fucking trap, but also we have to find him to get the information.

We know that there after him as well, it's just who gets their first really. I think I screwed up. I'm so sorry, not flatline, my bad. We'll record a little bit. Find Lincoln, find Duraugh. Ah, yes, that changes things. And I think Lavigne would speak up and say, I've heard this name.

Heathfield, Heathfield is an operations officer for next world. And I received an email, part of that email, chain was explaining that Heathfield is Duraav. Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss any of them to any sort of corruption that makes sense. It's a piece to it being an inside job. Especially a massive hit job with... Yeah, even if they were. This is what it's looking to be. Let's be for real.

It's looking to be a hit job. So it is a trap, but... At least we know we're walking into it now. And then finally, before the static overtakes the rest of the transmission there's two more words or free is Find the blasphemers they know flatline The May the blasphemers Blast from us. Zamey the Blast from us. So yeah, the big takeaways we've got, Derov and Zmy,

who are linked to Lincoln and Baltimore, and then we have the Blast from us in Flatline. Blast from us sounds like something we should know about, unless we've never heard that name before, huh? That's new. Yeah, that's new. Um, if everyone in the car is okay, is everyone okay? If I send these two... Your Highness. No, go ahead, we need all the help we get. these two, your highness.

No, go ahead, we need all the help we get. I just, I didn't want to be just wanted to make sure I didn't know that. I appreciate it. Does anyone know what smi is? Is that a language in your recognizes or a surname? For you, Lavignee, make an intelligence plus. Do you have anything in linguistics?

No, unfortunately. Just make a straight intelligence role then. Okay, that's still okay. Can I lend my one die of linguistics to Lavignee? Know what, you can make a separate role in intelligence plus linguistics, yeah. Oh. I knew I took linguistics for a reason.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, only one success for me. Okay. I have two successes. Okay. It's tough. Livinia, it sounds vaguely Eastern European to you potentially Russian, but for you Collette, you definitely you definitely recognize Russian and it's a word you've heard before it to the best of your

recollection that means something like serpent or snake I'm kidding. Officially. I don't want to leave that. I'm going to surf into the snake. Yeah, that one word is snake for sure. Russian just like Darah, right? Darah is Russian too. Darah was absolutely a Russian surname.

Last name. I don't even call ever reading in my books about the other countries and their ghost productions their Ghost projects. Yeah, maybe like a KGB or fiest was working with our our guys It's just a coincidence for sure so far coincidence for sure so far. Your right say something yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you stroke out on me? Don't Google it. Oh no.

Google what? It's a lie. Don't look it up. Don't look it up. Well, now we have to. Oh. Yeah. It's like when have to. Well, oh. Yeah. It's like when you see that, then yeah, no. Oh, it's like TMI.

Mm. That's a big boy. That's a big boy. Yeah, that's a big boy. We've been playing D&D all along. We're in the initiative. I just thought, no, we're not doing that. I just didn't, I didn't mean to gasp.

But when I thought that, I was like, oh, please, oh, God, no. Oh, please, God, no. Oh, please, I know. In Sir Office, oh, no, me, I'm here. With that, I think as we drive on with these various little threads of leads kind of percolating in our collective brains. We finally arrive in Baltimore. And it is here that we will pick up next session

with Christmas 12's arrival in Baltimore at the beginning of their hunt for Virgil Lincoln. And the hopefully discovery of more leads on what exactly is going on with next world, who the fuck is Duraav? What does mean? Yeah. What's going on? Where are we starting to get some answers one way or another? So I hope you all had fun. I sure it shit did. Yeah. Very excited to see where this goes. Thank you all for joining us. And yeah,

next one is going to be a doozy. So be sure not to miss it. And if you haven't gotten caught up, pick us out on YouTube, get caught up on all the past episodes. It's going to be a good time. So until next time, take it easy, everybody. Thanks for running a great session, Vince. And we'll see you tonight, y'all.